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I’m trying to imagine the meeting of journalists here. Bear with me.

“We’ve got a problem. Our circulations have been dropping as fast as our stocks. What should we do to get back readers?”

“That’s a great idea!”

Remember back in April when NBC thought they would send Muslims to NASCAR races and film what intolerant rednecks NASCAR fans were?

Well, they’re at it again, except this time, it’s CBS (hat tip Ace):

Do you get nervous when you see a Muslim on an airplane? Have your opinions about Muslims changed since September 11? Do you have family or friends that get nervous around Muslims?

A NEW CBS SHOW SEEKS New York families who have traditional family values but are uneasy around Muslims.

Tell me again how intelligent these journalists are, that they think the way to reverse their declining sales it to bash Americans.

We moved from a house about ten miles out of town in the country in Indiana. You know, no neighbors really, just the people who live down the road. Needless to say, no trick-or-treaters.

We now live up on a mountain ridge, in the “furthest out” neighborhood. It’s far from huge. The exurbs, I think you’d call it. Not tons of people. But last Halloween, we got hundreds of trick-or-treaters, and ran out of candy in under an hour and had to go get some more.

This year, we hit Sam’s Club for huge bags of candy (and yes, Mr. Miller, we got Tootsie Rolls). But dinner tonight is going to be a double quarter pounder with cheese and fries from MickeyD’s, so we can eat and run back and forth to the front door.

I HEART double quarter pounders with cheese …

When you can go off the deep end looney-tunes now? DU: GOD DAMN THEM ALL: THEY ARE STEALING IT NOW! And of course there’s all the predictable nonsense about Diebold, electronic voting machines, etc., like this:

The problem is, voting machines make it possible to fraud an entire election.

Problem is, some conservatives are jumping on the “evil electronic voting machines” bandwagon. And the thing that has never made any sense about it is that boxes of paper ballots have mysteriously “appeared” in election after election (remember when Dino Rossi was ahead of Christine Gregoire in the Washington gubernatorial race until Christine Gregoire’s staff suddenly “found” those boxes of ballots sitting in a closet?) What good is a paper trail — given the ease with which politicians “find” ballots in the most fascinating places?

Folks, take your meds. All of you.

Do your homework before you open your stupid mouth (and if you have no idea what this is about, read this).

And Democrats couldn’t figure out why military and veterans didn’t support him? What kind of drugs are these people on?

Source.

Political correctness, as much as fundamentalism, is responsible for our state of absurdity, writes Umberto Eco. Hat tip to Andrew Bolt.

Give me a break. Like here. Or here.

Some people badly need to get a life.

You’d think they’d be all over this (hat tip to Pennsylvanian in Exile):

A former army officer from El Salvador who was convicted of taking part in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two other people during that country’s civil war was arrested in the United States and faces deportation, authorities said Wednesday.

The killings sparked international outrage and tarnished the image of U.S. anti-Communism efforts in the region after it was found that some of the soldiers involved had received training at the former School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga.

Federal agents acting on a tip arrested Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos, 43, on Oct. 18 at a motel near the University of California, Los Angeles. He illegally entered the country in January 2005, according to a statement from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

That chirping you hear is the sound of liberals screaming for him to be deported.

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Ali Bubba has this rather disturbing news item from Alabama:

Albertville, Ala. — Police say a Marshall County teen raped his mother to get revenge on his brother.

Police say 19-year-old Gary Helms, Jr., raped his 45-year-old mother this past weekend at Willow Terrace Trailer Park on Doyle Drive in Albertville. …

“From what we understand the rape stemmed from an argument between him and his brother. And apparently they were arguing over a girlfriend. And the rape was some sort of retaliation towards his brother,” said Sgt. Jamie Smith of the Albertville Police Department. ….

Authorities say Helms’ mother was apparently passed out drunk on the couch when the rape started.

And of course you’re wondering what this has to do with California. It’s the revenge motif. You all know I’m addicted to forensics shows, and the other day on one of them (New Detectives, I believe, one of the documentary shows, not a fiction show) there was an episode that really burned my ass.

We had a divorced woman with a toddler (just under two, IIRC) who was living with her boyfriend. Boyfriend got super pissed off because Divorced Woman spent Boyfriend’s birthday with her ex-husband (they never did explain where Boyfriend was on his birthday, or why he wasn’t with her).

So what did he do about it?

On Divorced Woman’s birthday, he decided to get revenge by murdering her toddler. That’s right. Not her. Her little boy. Boyfriend tried to drown the toddler, and when that didn’t work, he strangled him by shoving a cigarette wrapper down his throat.

Planned. Deliberate. Clear case of First Degree Murder. Of a little boy. To get revenge on the boy’s mother for spending time with her ex-husband. As clear a death penalty case as you can get.

So what did he get?

Twenty-five to life. For the planned, deliberate, murder of a helpless child, just to get revenge on the mother. And of course the difference between Alabama and California is that this sicko who raped his mother will get the book thrown at him, while California slaps this murderer on the wrist.

Oh, and of course, this was in California. So tell me, is there some reason we haven’t nuked California off the map?

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