Who knows. But I am inspired enough after McCain’s announcement yesterday to seriously consider it.

Today doesn’t appear to be a very good one for your average terrorist.

A-f’n-men.

I told Greg they would do something like this based on “emotion”, even though I had started to believe maybe I was wrong after the West Wing episode that aired on April 2nd.

The reversal of fortune for Matt Santos — the Democratic nominee, played by Jimmy Smits, who was the victor — had nothing to do with any shift in opinion among voters or a liberal ideology of the show’s writers and producers….

At the time of Spencer’s death, the plot for Sunday night’s episode had been set: The election was to be won by Alan Alda’s Arnold Vinick, a maverick Republican (modeled a bit on Sen. John McCain), whom many Democrats (including the Democrats who write the show) could learn to love.

But after Spencer died, O’Donnell said in a recent interview, he and his colleagues began to confront a creative dilemma: Would viewers be saddened to see Smits’ character lose both his running mate and the election? The writers decided that such an outcome would prove too lopsided, in terms of taxing viewers’ emotions, NYT reporter Jacques Steinberg will claim on Monday.

Translation? They already have PEST. They are already suffering from BDS. Why add insult to injury?

Funny how they had to come out the night it aired and proclaim the change in story “had nothing to do with any shift in opinion among voters or a liberal ideology of the show’s writers and producers.”

Bullsh*t * Cough * Bullsh*t * Cough. You believe Screamin’ Larry O’Donnell, right? He is such the trusthworthy sort.

And, I guess, who can blame them? If I had BDS, PEST, and tin-foil-hat syndrome, I’d want a win, no matter how small or make-believe, just to make me feel better too.

(Via Drudge)

I posted this in the comments section at Towle Road in response to being called an “Uncle Tom” by one of the visitors to that site. It may seem silly, but the point needs to be made.

I am 35 and have been out since I was 20. Was does it say to you that in 15 years the most intolerant and hateful things that have ever been said to me did not come from Republicans speaking about the fact that I was gay but from Democrats speaking about the fact I am a Republican?

What does it say to you that my Republican parents and Republican sisters and their Republican husbands flew half-way across the country to spend Christmas with their Republican son/brother and his Republican partner and his Republican parents after never having met them or any person that I have ever dated?

What does it say to you that my Republican father, the same man that 15 years ago said I was mentally ill and needed help and that he would never accept his gay son hugged my partner at the airport when we dropped them off and said, “next year is at our house” and left me a note saying “We had a GREAT time”?

It says to me that people like Jimmyboyo (see comments section) haven’t got the first clue what true acceptance, tolerance and diversity really mean and that they are angy - angry at those that refuse to accept them and angy at those they percieve to be the cause.

“They will never accept you” - True, some will not, no more than people like Jimmyboyo will accept the opinion of a gay Republican. But the people that truly matter in my life already have and maybe, in the end, that is what is missing from the lives of people so appalled with those of us that refuse to simply toe the party line because we’re gay and it is expected.

To them I say get the mirror out and take a good, long look. Your problem isn’t with gay Republicans, the religious right, or anyone else; the problem lies in the image staring back at you in that mirror.

Please welcome Associate Justice Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court. Someone get Kennedy some smelling salts.

Drudge is blaring the the GOP is forcing a vote on pulling out from Iraq, essentially putting the Democrats in the position of backing our troops FIGHTING A WAR or the anti-war left.

GOP Pulls Fast One…
Tells Dems: Pull Troops Now? Okay, then let’s vote!!!!!
Tonight. 7 p.m.
Ultimate showdown

If this vote actually happens, it could essentially deal a death-blow to the anti-war “movement.”

**UPDATE**

It appears the vote is going to happen, in the House, tonight. I’d hate to be Hillary right about now.

[W]hile we should always seek to take significant international actions on a multilateral rather than a unilateral basis whenever that is possible, if in the final analysis we face what we truly believe to be a grave threat to the well-being of our Nation or the entire world and it cannot be removed peacefully, we must have the courage to do what we believe is right and wise.

Read for yourself.

(h/t Michelle Malkin)

C’mon Janice Rogers Brown! I am laughing my butt off that People For the American Way uses this as an argument AGAINST her.

DUBYA! What are ya waitin’ for???

**UPDATE**

[P]rivate property, already an endangered species in California, is now entirely extinct in San Francisco…I would find the HCO [San Francisco Residential Hotel Unit Conversion and Demolition Ordinance] preempted by the Ellis Act and facially unconstitutional. …Theft is theft even when the government approves of the thievery. Turning a democracy into a kleptocracy does not enhance the stature of the thieves; it only diminishes the legitimacy of the government. …The right to express one’s individuality and essential human dignity through the free use of property is just as important as the right to do so through speech, the press, or the free exercise of religion.

You got that right, sister!