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Specifically, Democratic ones, on this level:

…or, of course, this one:

I hear that Don McLean has to concentrate not to sing this version, these days.

The Saga Begins, “Weird Al” Yankovic

On a day where Steny Hoyer tells the world that the House GOP is playing Russian Roulette (with a loaded gun) with the economy and the President – look, it was his tortured and brutalized metaphor, not mine – and Harry Reid is tweeting away that Tea Partiers aren’t real Americans, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz goes Full Metal Hand-Stapled-To-Forehead and starts babbling about dictatorships because House Republicans dared to show this motivational clip* at a debt ceiling meeting.

And they wonder why every Democratic candidate for the last forty-five years has felt obligated to demonstrate at some point that he or she is not in fact a wimp.

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*Clip via Jim Geraghty, who also notes that Chuck Schumer seems determined to demonstrate with this that he’s a much better at being weak-willed and silly than Wasserman-Schultz could ever hope to be.  So Schumer gets a Shaddap, Sign:

Shaddap, Sign!

Wait.  What?

He can’t believe that he’s in this film, either.

Liam, did you lose a bet?

H/T AoSHQ.

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PS: This will be singer Rihanna’s introduction to the big screen, by the way… which seems to be a fairly cruel thing to do to the woman.

Gilly Kay C-Man (that would be his hip-hop name, I’m certain*):

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Word.

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*Go read Lepanto aloud – only in the style of The Beastie Boys – and then tell me that GK Chesterton wouldn’t be all over that.

I don’t know why Ben Smith called this “SwiftVets Revenge,” though: as far as I can tell, they didn’t have anything to do with what happened here.  Which was back in August of last year, by the way – and no, I don’t know why this was suddenly news, then.

In a highly unusual move, the Navy secretary has stripped a Silver Star awarded to a retired captain and Vietnam swift boat veteran who is serving a federal prison sentence after admitting to possessing child pornography.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus revoked the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest valor award, which was awarded nearly 20 years ago to retired Capt. Wade Sanders of San Diego.

Sanders, for those who don’t remember, was the guy that introduced John Kerry at the ’04 Democratic convention (infamously known for the ridiculous ‘reporting for duty‘ beginning and the hysterical ‘balloons‘ ending); and while Sanders went round and round with the Swift Boats people I can’t imagine that anybody actually really cares at this point about that element of the 2004 elections.  Certainly it – and the Democratic candidate – has been overshadowed by subsequent events. (more…)

Not bad: not really a grind, some good backstory, they actually created new maps, and the last battle came perilously close to being a Total Party Kill.  Any combat where I have to run around for a while being chased by the bad guy until my spells regenerate enough to bring my party back to life is pretty much by definition a challenging combat: the designers expected me to be a Leroy Jenkins*, and lo!  I was.  If I wasn’t a mage with group healing/resurrect, I’d have been hosed, hosed, hosed.

Worth the ten bucks, in other words.

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Gateway Pundit has a screenshot of the Tweet in question, just in case somebody with a triple-digit IQ wrests control of Harry Reid’s Twitter account from him:

Boehner’s plan is not a compromise. It was written for the tea party, not the American people. Ds will not vote for it…

With regard to the second sentence: the voters of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin could not be reached for comment.

Via Instapundit.

The fact that the sordid details about Operation Fast & Furious (short edition: the federal government allowed guns to be illegally resold to Mexican narco-terrorists, who then proceeded to murder people with them) are all breaking during the debt ceiling situation is either the absolute best or the absolute worst luck for the Obama administration.  On the one hand, the administration is not getting hammered with new details and demands for information every day: on the other, eventually the debt ceiling situation will be over, and when all that happens, the details will have piled up most alarmingly.

Don’t believe me?  Let me just list the stuff that we’ve learned this week.:

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Well, he thinks that House Republicans do:

You know, I still haven’t figured out why it’s only OK for Democratic politicians to use violence-themed metaphors whenever they feel like it.  Actually, that’s a lie: I know quite well.  It’s because they never get punished for it.

Ach, well, it also makes them stupid as well as vile, bless their hearts.

(Via Hot Air Headlines)

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PS: Steny Hoyer was the last Democrat that I ever voted for.  I apologize for my lapse of judgement in that regard, and I promise not to make that particular mistake in the future.

Well.

The Dreidel Song, Da Vinci’s Notebook

Dragon Age 2: Legacy.  Just what I need to de-stress myself – besides, it’s either this, or Mass Effect 2‘s Thresher Maw Grunt loyalty mission.  I hate thresher maws.

Hmm.  Only, which Hawke?  The Rogue, or the Mage?

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