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Spokane's Bugger-In-Chief West filed a cleverly timed motion against Shannon Sullivan's recall petition, which means that the petition won't be fully approved until the State Supremes return from their summer recess, which in turn means that the petition will just barely have enough time to gather signatures.

West is no longer even pretending to be "serving the city"; he's just servicing it.

On the good side, some lawyers have finally joined Sullivan.

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The latest American Enterprise mag has a set of fine and informative articles about North Korea. One interesting point that was news to me: in the last year we've been downsizing our force in the South. Of course we're not explaining this to the world (Zenmaster Bushi never explains anything) which leaves Traitor Kerry to misread it as a sign of weakness. Both Koreas are reading it correctly, as a sign that we are clearing the decks for a more forceful attack if needed. With a large number of our own troops in the way, we were effectively restraining ourselves from attacking Pyongyang.

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Rush and other conservative commentators are listing the many connections between Saddam and al-Qaeda. This is good, but why don't we hear it from press secretary Scott McConnell? Why do "Republican" "senators" sit back and allow the Party of Treason to say nonsensical things? Comity is fine, but a little passion in defense of the country would be welcome.

The whole list is really unnecessary, though. Any time the "no connection" argument starts up, the simplest answer is "Well then, we shouldn't have wasted our blood and money fighting the Germans in WW2. Hitler had no connection at all with Pearl Harbor; he even tried to dissuade Japan from attacking America. If you think we shouldn't have taken out Saddam, you must also think we should have left Hitler in power. But if you understand that Hitler had to be destroyed because he was closely allied with Japan, then you must also understand that Saddam was on the same side as Osama."

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I'm getting to like CNN's new Headline Prime program, even though it's hopelessly weird. They spend the first 15 minutes covering The News, just like any other news channel. But then they do something so peculiar and radical that I can hardly find the vocabulary to describe it. They go to places other than Aruba and then they find -- I guess you'd call it 'events' or 'things-that-happened', and then they talk about these things-that-happened.

Obviously this isn't The News, because we all know that The News has always been and will always be about Holloways, Twittys, vanderSloots, and Kalpoes. Nevertheless, it's surprisingly interesting! Hmm.... as I discuss this, I'm getting a nagging sense that The News used to be about something else .... Nah, must be a dream, an undigested bit of potato that hasn't been fed into the Memory Hole yet.
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