basil (no, not Basil, basil), of basil's blog has a disturbing late night visitor.

The telephone rang, jolting me from the most pleasant, but strangely odd, dream. The infernal chirping of the cordless phone continued as I reached over to find it. I must have knocked it off the nightstand, because I heard a small "thump" and the ringing moved down about 3 feet. I got out of bed and picked up the phone. I didn't recognize the telephone number, but answered it anyway.

"Hello?"

"Basil?" came the voice on the other end.

"It's 'basil'" I corrected.

"Yes, that's what I said," came the voice. I didn't say anything. He continued, "I'd like to talk to you about your blog."

"Why?" I asked.

"So, you are the 'Basil' of 'Basil's Blog?'" he said.

"It's 'basil' and it's 'basil's blog,'" I corrected.

"Yes, that's what I said. I'd like to talk to you about your blog," He repeated.

"You remember when I asked 'Why?' Well, what I meant by that was, 'Why?'"

"You're not that snotty on your blog," he said.

"Wait till I write about this conversation."

He tried again, "My name is Michael Moore and I'm doing a documentary on blogs and bloggers. I'm interviewing people who are running blogs. I'm also blogging my research into bloggers.

"Good for you," I said.

He continued, "I'm outside, actually. Can I come in?"

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The Guardian (among other sources) is reporting that Howard Dean has won the support of state Democratic Party leaders today in his bid to become the chairman of the Democratic Nation Committee.

Interestingly enough, Dean is also thought to be the choice of most Republican state party leaders as well.

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"The president needs to spell out a real and understandable plan for the unfinished work aheadÂ… Most of all, we need an exit strategy so that we know what victory is and how we can get there; so that we know what we need to do and so that we know when the job is done."

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I listen to a lot of talk radio.

Five nights a week I listen to a local New York host by the name of Mark Levin, who in addition to being a talk radio host, happens to be a rather astute legal mind, as a constitutional lawyer and contributor to National Review Online.

It so happens that he has just published what I think is his first book, called Men In Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America. I haven't had a chance to pick it up yet, but I've heard nothing but great things from his reviewers and feel that if you like this site, you'll probably like what Levin has to say.

Let me know what you think of it, okay?

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...And it looks good. Tigerhawk reads the America-hating lefties so you don't have too. Just be sure to take it on an empty stomach.

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As threatened, err, promised, this is your two-week warning for Valentine's Day.

Last week, I mentioned where you could find some nice stuff that she would actually like from PajamaGram, their treat-based offshoot TastyGram, and the rather famous Vermont Teddy Bear Company. For those of you who would like to get dirty looks from your wife on Valentine's Day, there was also Frederick's of Hollywood.

For those of us who enjoy a nice glass of fermented grape juice every now and again, wine.com has some nice offerings, as does similarly-named but different 800wine.com.

For those of you with a taste for fine jewelry alle' is having a Valentine's Day Sale with Free Fed-Ex Shipping. For those of us who haven't recieved their Halliburon disbursements just yet, Target.com has a nice selection as well, and currently are having a 10%-off sale on sparkly stuff.

Of course, for those of us trapped in the frozen zones of this great country, you might want to simply get away from it all and escape to somewhere warm for a few days. Orbitz can help you do that, and a trip to Bermuda right now would go a long way towards curing your frostbite.

Now back to your regularly scheduled conservative political programming.

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Despite the attacks of suicide bombers, Iraq's first free elections in decades seem to be a success. Somewhere around 60% of eligible Iraqi voters risked their lives to cast more than eight million votes. Video from Iraq shows poll workers, voters, and the police guarding them dancing in the streets. Among certain factions in America, however, the elections were met with rather less enthusiasm.

"Yea, this is going to be a great representative government with a third of the country not voting." opined Dark on the Democratic Underground message boards. Apparently he was too stoned to realize that their turnout was equal to or better than the turnout in our last national election, even though we didn't have to risk our lives when going to the polls.

"Just more crap from US-appointed Iraqi puppets," added DU poster leftchick. Yes, leftchick, the American GOP appointed all eight million Iraqi voters. Gotta love that "reality-based" intelligence.

This pathetic crying from DU-poster patsified was wildly celebrated in the forum as the most eloquent of sentiments of the American far left:

"Even if all the Iraqis in the world are jumping up and down and clapping and dancing and crying for joy; even if there were really and truly 100% turnout for this election; even if the winner of this election were truly the choice to represent the majority of all Iraqis:

Was this worth destroying the United States of America? Was this worth sending our nation tumbling into the toilet? Was this worth destroying our reputation and the worth of our word in the world? Were the lies worth it? Was this worth the billions and billions of dollars emptied from our nation's treasury? Was the enrichment of Halliburton and the Carlyle Group worth it? Was this worth the bloodshed of soldiers and of innocents? Was it worth losing your arms, little Ali? Was there NO OTHER WAY to have achieved this? Am I supposed to jump up and down and clap and dance and cry for joy that MY nation has been turned into a shitpile and everyone in the world hates MY nation now? There is no democracy here in America, but I am supposed to be overwhelmed with good cheer that it exists for the Iraqis?

I can't think of a single cause outside of the borders of my country that would be worth destroying my country for. And that's what has happened, I don't care how happy the Iraqis are. I mourn what my country has become, and I am bitter because I know what she could have been. So I'm sorry if I can't join in the joy today."

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"The attractive woman strutted into the room wearing a revealing miniskirt, a bra, and a skimpy thong. The man was tied to a chair and helpless to defend himself. As she removed her bra and tossed it at him, he closed his eyes and began to pray. She touched her breasts, rubbing them against the man's back, commenting on his apparent erection. He lurched forward and cursed at her. With a smile, she pulled down her thong and sat on his lap, grinding her exposed behind against his crotch. The man screamed and began to cry like a baby."

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Once again, I can't quite get over the arrogance of Democrats who have the gall to chide Alberto Gonzales in his bid to become the next Attorney General, when the last Atttorney General they put into office, Janet Reno, was responsible for the most infamous 51 Days in American law enforcement, where 74 people, including 20 children, were killed in Waco, Texas.

Puts naked pyramids in perspective, doesn't it?

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I created this image in response to a bit of ignorance hunted up by The Museum of Left Wing Lunacy.


Once again liberals ignore the fact that Albert Gonzales had nothing to do with the criminal acts perpetrated by a handful of prison guards in Abu Ghraib, all of which (at least in the cases prosecuted so far) have been proven to be independent criminal actions with no orders from their superiors.

But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a good liberal rant? It didn't stop CBS News or the New York Times, so it certainly won't stop those with even a less tenuous grip on reality.

Too bad they can't as easily explain away the million plus dead as a result of liberal polices of inaction and apathy in Rwanda, Iraq, and Darfur.

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My wife and daughter filled up a Priority Mail box last night with an assortment of goods that might seem a little odd to some.

• Baby wipes
• Pens and pencils
• Pads and paper
• Beanie Babies
• Matchbox cars
• chocolate coins
• two letters
  
  

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Nickie Goomba of Hey, Relax....I'm Just Sayin' asks you to please watch this video.

Something tells me that despite the increasingly irrelevant rantings of leftists here at home such as Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and terrorists overseas such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (D-Jordan), that Iraq is far from a quagmire heading into their elections.

No, I think they'll do just fine.

(Hat tip: basil's blog)

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Figuratively speaking, of course.

From The Mudville Gazette (and yes, you should read the whole thing):

...Note to AP Technology Editor Frank Bajak:

Meet CPT Neil Prakash. His first hand accounts of the battle for Fallujah kick your guy's ass. He won't get a Pulitzer for his writing, but he did earn a Silver Star for his efforts. But part of the theory is correct, like the Times, I'm sure he'd credit a bulwark of experience, credibility and financial, medical, legal and logistical support for his accomplishments, and probably the guys who went in with him too. I suppose we could call them a "staff of savvy locals." Frankly, you've really got to expand your knowledge base, build credibility and respect before publishing things about web logs. wade a little deeper into the blogosphere one of these days if you get some time.

On the other hand, to give credit where due, no one covers the insurgent side of the war quite like the AP.

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Aaron at The Blue State Conservatives is reporting that Jimmy Carter might be linked to the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal.

It is unclear whether Peter Pan, Skippy, or JIF will also be implicated at this time.

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Had Ted Turner been drinking with Ted Kennedy?

Turner called Fox News a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared it to Hitler during a Q&A session at the National Association for Television Programming Executives' conference .

However, Turner had no comments about the apparent collusion between CBS and the DNC in their "fake but accurate" falsified Texas Air National Guard documents story, nor Michael "Some Animals are Moore Equal" Moore and his crockumentaries.

It seems pretty obvious Turner doesn't mind propaganda, as long as it comes from his side.

I think I've heard this line before.

With Ted's comments, I think we can now make the new total 450 things.

FOX Responds: "Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network and now his mind -- we wish him well."

Personally, I don't think Turner ever psychologically recovered from getting beaten down by Vince McMahon. He just went downhill from there, like a wrestler that has been pile-drived into the mat far too many times.

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MSNBC.com is running a Doug Struck/Washington Post article today, claiming torture in Iraq is still routine, at least according to a report issued by Human Rights Watch. HRW is an organization that takes great pains to avoid mentioning that Darfur is a Arab Muslim genocide of African Muslims and Christians. So much for their objectivity, or credibility.

In any event, the article states that Iraqis are routinely beaten, hung by their wrists, and shocked with electrical wires. Struck makes sure to use a quote from an Iraqi by the name of Dhia Fawzi Shaid, claming that the the torture is "worse than Saddam's regime."

Really?

Would Dhia Fawzi Shaid come forward openly, using his full name, and complain to an international organization with full media exposure if Saddam was still in power? Only if he would like to be intimately acquainted with the inner machinations of a wood chipper. Color me skeptical, and this report less than honest.

Human Rights Watch also acknowledges that Iraq was, "in the throes of a significant insurgency" (who knew?) , but what really got under my skin was the statement in the Human Rights Watch report that:

"no government, not Saddam Hussein's, not the occupying powers and not the Iraqi Interim Government, can justify ill-treatment of persons in custody in the name of security."

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From Yahoo! News:

MIAMI - A trial opened Monday in a $3 million-plus lawsuit by 13 people who say they were injured or traumatized when federal agents seized a screaming Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives' home.

The opening witness was neighbor Maria Riera, who testified that she clutched her chest and thought she was dying when an agent doused her with tear gas during the April 22, 2000, raid to reunite the 6-year-old boy with his father in Cuba.

The 13 neighbors and protesters are seeking up to $250,000 each, claiming that agents used excessive force during the armed raid.

"I was stopped by a gentleman on my left approaching me with a shotgun," said Riera, who lived across the street from the home where the boy had lived since shortly after he was rescued from a shipwreck on Thanksgiving Day 1999.

She said a black-garbed agent wearing a mask ordered her to "stand back" or he would shoot, adding a word of profanity. She said she complied, but a second agent approached with a gas gun as she stood in her driveway and left her in a gray cloud of tear gas.

A total of 108 people sued over the raid, but U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore limited the case to people who were not on the Gonzalez family property and were beyond police barricades.

Elian, now 11, was one of three survivors of a shipwreck that killed his mother.

The raid took place after the family refused to return the boy so he could be taken back to Cuba.

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Tigerhawk quietly posted the second week of Carnival of the Communists on Sunday.

It includes a link to a lefty blogger who lionizes Osama's favorite journalist, Robert Fisk, and provides a link to the most disturbing image in human history, and I'm no talking about the suicidal rabbit, either.

Need I say more?

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The University of Oregon has banned the near ubiquitous yellow "Support the Troops" ribbons found across the country as a political statement.

Kevin McCollough has the details of this disgusting stifling of dissent popular support for our troops. Who do they think they are, Columbia?

Meanwhile, UCLA's student paper spreads terrorist propaganda. Who do they think they are? Columbia?

Stanford?

Duke?

And those are just a scant handful of universities supporting Islamofascism. I guess we're getting a clearer understanding of so-called "diversity" in ultra-liberal university cultures, aren't we?

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Senator Barbara Boxer, who attacked the integrity of Secretary of State nominee Condoleeza Rice, is now attempting to play the victim, saying she was the one attacked by Rice during the Senate Foreign Relations Commitee hearings last week.

That's funny. I specifically recall Boxer saying, "I personally believe -- this is my personal view -- that your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell this war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth."

Boxer was calling Dr. Rice a liar in no uncertain terms.

I guess this leader of the "reality-based community" is getting further from reality every day. That, or Babs might have pounded her head against the wall one time too many after Bush was certified the winner of the election. She should consider getting her PEST treated.

Captain's Quarters has more.

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