I am: A pair of AA batteries for a Walkman® When someone doesn't have an office door they can close, headphones are the next best thing.

h/t: Margi Lowry

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1 Yes, yes I see it! You are cute and you make things have power! Nice digs, BTW. Oh, and you know -- once a Munuvian, always a Munuvian -- so YAY!

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2 Thanks!

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Dubya tapped #s 41 and 42 to raise private funds for disaster relief for the Gulf Coast.

Now don't get me wrong, whatever their efforts yield is terrific for those in need. But am I the only one who gets creeped out seeing these two together. Clinton most definitely benefits from this association, and I have no doubt that he plays it up to the hilt. As I said once before in a previous post, it's like Bill is becoming the Tom Hagen of the Bush family. Yech.

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Bush chooses Roberts to succeed Rehnquist as Chief Justice!

Wow. More than unexpected, but I like this. A lot. Despite some doubts from the Right, a thorough investigation into Roberts' history has shown him to be almost a clone of William Rehnquist - and even Ann Coulter has been kind of quiet lately about his Conservative chops.

The most interesting thing now is watching how this plays out. No doubt O'Conner will stay on until another Associate Justice in confirmed - because technically her spot will now still be open. But the Bush Administration must move on this fast - two sets of confirmation hearings will give the Left too much to juggle.

Having already done the research, they should already have someone in mind.

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1 Can you imagine how ugly things are going to get? When it rains, it pours; what a time

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Fellowhip of the Ring, Book One, Chapter Two is posted.

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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court died last night at his home in Arlington, VA. While this isn't a complete surprise, it was a little unexpected. Despite suffering from thyroid cancer, the old man seemed determined to tough it out as best he could. Many thought he would retire after this session, fueling speculation that his vacancy would be the first for President Bush to fill. I count myself among those who expected him to hang up the robe.

But when asked by reporters about his possible retirement, he wryly told them, "That's for me to know, and you to find out." Well, it would seem he likely knew he had weeks to live at that point and would probably not see the next session in October. It wouldn't surprise me if he had confided this to the President, who he knew could be trusted with this information - which could have had an influence on Bush's choice of Roberts.

Rehnquist will certainly be listed among the top Chief Justices in the history of the Court. How ironic that just as he passes away, a new Associate Justice is about to be confirmed and sworn in who clerked under him.

Now Bush will have two more nominations to make - a new Chief (from the ranks of the current Associates) and a new Associate. My money is on Scalia for Chief. And I hope whoever his successor is, he keeps the golden stripes on the Chief Justice's sleeves - a tradition that Rehnquist started. But there'll be plenty of time to speculate over that. In fact the Liberal special interest groups may now attempt an eleventh-hour ramping up of their opposition to Roberts during the hearings because of this turn of events.

For now, let us honor the man who served his country so well. R.I.P.

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Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Chapter One is posted.

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"Must Love Dogs" - Critics panned it, I liked it (and so did just about everyone else I talked to who saw it)

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This is just too funny. Apparently for years now, some vertically-challenged actor has been claiming on his resume that he played on Oompa Loompa in the original "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory". The 57-year old Ezzy Dame, however, was "outed" by an actor who really did play an Oompa Loompa named Rusty Goffe.

Dame later confessed to the ruse:

“I never intended to harm anyone or my community by this little white lie. It was a little white lie that became my haunted nightmare.”

h/t: The Museum of Hoaxes

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1 On Saturday, Sept 24th of this year, RightMarch, Protest Warrior, Move America Forward,Free Republic will be Counter Protesting the left in our Nations Capitol. Answer Internatioal and ACLU lawyers will be at the event. We would love for youre group to join, as we a send a message to the left.. That they no longer own the street!!!

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2 this site sucks balls like oompaloompas!

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I don't know about you but this would be more than enough to keep me away.

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Today in the Chicago Tribune, lovable old Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) lays out "what's at stake" in the hearings on John Roberts that begin today. You know Durbin, the guy who compared our soldiers down in Gitmo to Nazis, Stalinists and the Khmer Rouge?

Anyway, he writes that his biggest concern in these hearings is to determine where Roberts stands on the commerce clause of the Constitution, specifically as it relates to things like environmental laws, civil rights laws and the Constitutionally elusive "right to privacy" established in 1965 and acknowledged by "Roe".

I found one sentence in particular, however, to be an interesting choice of words on Durbin's part:

"Does [Roberts] believe that Congress has the power to pass laws that protect the most vulnerable, no matter where they live?"

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Looky here, if you scroll down far enough on MSNBC.com you can actually find this story: U.S. Payrolls Expand, Jobless Rate Falls.

It seems the unemployment rate is now down to 4.9%, with 169,000 jobs added in August. What, no "the increase in jobs exceeded analysts expectations" commentary? If it fell short of expectations, you can bet your bottom dollar that would be part of the headline.

But wait. The article sets the tone for next month, when the job growth numbers will undoubtably slow because of Katrina. And you just know the MSM will be ALL.OVER.THAT. And guess whose gonna get the blame? Hmm. Let me think...

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Interesting headline, huh? Lefty actor/director George Clooney tells the British News/Telegraph that television news in the U.S. should be viewed with a critical eye - something Conservatives have said for...well for as long as there's been television.

What's this? Has Clooney stopped drinking the kool-aid? It can't be!

It isn't. Here's the actual quote:

Now, with the onset of cable television and "130 different channels", the quality of news was "fractured", with each network, like Fox, playing to audiences with "specific belief patterns".

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Arthur Chrenkoff has a round-up of the worst quotes about Hurricane Katrina uttered by the American Left, European scoundrels and jihadist savages.

I think the worst ones are from Moonbat bloggers whose typing fingers seem to be disconnected from their brains (not to mention their hearts). A-holes.

h/t: Conservative Grapevine

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"Yeah, in WWII some crazy bitch used to camp outside Hyde Park and root for the Nazis. I put two bullets right between her eyes from 200 yards and I'm still a damn good shot, if you catch my meaning, Mr. President..."

See more good captions at Caption This!

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Freakin' Sweet!!

h/t: Groovy Vic

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It didn't take long. Now the infamous Mrs. Sheehan is reportedly set to protest the Blue Angel air show in Maine.

"Bruce Gagnon of Maine Veterans for Peace says Cindy Sheehan will be the featured guest at a protest outside the Brunswick Naval Air Station on September tenth."

Oh, and she's also saying that she plans to spend every August in Crawford doing the same schtick. Lovely.

hat tips to: Best of the Web and Drudge

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Major Dad brought this program sponsored by Soldiers' Angels to my attention. Project Valour-IT (Voice Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops) provides voice-controlled software and laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand and arm injuries or amputations.

I have permalinked it under a section of links called SUPPORT THE TROOPS! in the sidebar. You can also check it out here.

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In the month of August, Fox News Channel scored its highest ratings to date according to Nielsen Media Research. Fox beat the competition again in prime time - with 11 of the 12 top shows in cable news and continues to pull viewership away from CNN and MSNBC in the industries most coveted audience.

"In the news demographic of adults 25-54, Fox News ruled again, with 541,000 viewers, up 12%, while CNN lost 9% to 236,000 and MSNBC was mostly flat at 145,000. Headline News averaged 160,000, up 111.%"

Of course, the Franken crowd will undoubtably point to this as further evidence that the "evil liars" at Fox are fooling even more of the unwashed masses with their GOP propaganda. The screeds should be coming shortly.

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...to the new Ex-Donkey Blog. Feel free to look around. I've just finished setting up all the furniture.

Don't forget to update your links and bookmarks. Tomorrow we'll start business as usual. But right now, since I've finally got the kids in bed, I need to go and set up my new flat screen TV.

Hey, a guy's gotta have priorities.

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Over time, I got comfortable and really had no reason to make a change. Sure the server went down from time to time and I had lost a post or two before I could save it, but I got over it. I was even used to the fact that having the word 'blogspot' in your URL can be perceived by many as a kind of cyberspace training wheels. Don't get me wrong, there are many excellent blogs hosted by blogspot, but they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Just keep clicking on "next blog" in the upper right corner and you're just as likely to hit a "clog" (advertisement page) as you would a decent site.

Recently, I was contacted by Steve the Llama Butcher. He called me down to his private office to "make an offer I can't refuse". I entered the dimly lit room and Steve motioned for me to take a seat. After I kissed his ring out of respect, I sat down. Steve leaned back in his leather chair, put both feet up on his mahogany desk and asked if I would like to make a move. He was inviting me to join the "family" of Mu.Nu. Of course the "Commission" needed to formally approve his nomination of me, but he assured me that it was not much more than a formality because they were familiar with his standards and his endorsement carried much weight.

I was intrigued. I really had little knowledge of this strange place known as Munuviana. Explaining to Steve that I was the cheapest sumbitch East of the Hudson River, I inquired what it would cost me. Steve simply chuckled as he scratched behind the ears of the cat seated on his lap. "Nothing", he said, "It's absolutely free." I was more intrigued.

Then I asked him how difficult it would be as opposed to the very user-friendly Blogger. I embarrassingly admitted that I'm as comfortable using HTML as a one-legged man is jumping on a trampoline. He described the ease and greater versatility of the Movable Type publishing format and before long I was hooked. Then he muttered something unintelligible like one day I may be called upon to perform a service for him but that such a day might never come...yadda, yadda, yadda. I couldn't concentrate. I was too excited.

So there you have it. I have just finished loading up the moving van and effective tomorrow, the new Ex-Donkey Blog will officially launch. I expect to leave this old site up indefinitely (at least a stripped down version of it, anyway). Until then, this is "goodbye" to Blogger. It's been real.

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