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It's schadenfreude time! Tonight, The Huffington Post comment section is awash with 2,000 (and growing) yummy, yummy tears. The Moonbats are beside themselves at the news Obama will allow a two year extension of the current tax rates in exchange for GOP support for an additional 13 months unenjoyment extension. A small but tasty sampling of anguish... UPDATE: Looks like comments are locked at 2,182 and they’re only letting you read the first 50, now. But that will give you the gist.

Well, the Washington Post puts up a bit of a shocker in the editorial section today, via Instapundit: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012. “We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed.” It’s a rare day indeed when this Beast agrees with the WaPo, but he’s willing to bring the thought a step farther: to be a really awesome President, Obama should resign now! While we're at it, there's more on the Palace revolt in progress, also...

So I was clicking through various stories on Real Clear Politics.com, drinking coffee and gradually returning to full consciousness, when I followed a link to a story at web site for the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. This web page for this newspaper is so draped and bedecked with anti Sharon Angle banners, that when you first enter the site you have to look hard for a moment or two to identify the spot on the page where the actual news content begins. This is news site? It looks more like a popup ad to the kind of web page that...

The Beast’s fourteen year old son absolutely adores Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds”. Whenever it’s on (and it’s always on) he insists we watch it. Which is fine, the Beast enjoys it too, and there are more than enough filmmaking flourishes packed into the movie to make it worth repeated viewing, if only to discover and appreciate tiny details that were missed in previous watchings. That said, there’s a central element of the film that always bothers the Beast and last night it finally came into focus, when we watched it again for the umpteenth time. The Germans are charming, sincere,...

The Granite State held out as long as it could; a GOP stronghold in Commie New England for the past 100 years, it went Dem in 2008 and this was taken as a sign that the Dems were going to be ascendant in the Northeast until Logan’s lifestone went black. Well, it’s not to be. NH will turn out their Dems this year; they’re polling lower than Larry Flynt at the Lilith Fair. Worse, still, establishment GOP Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte (who has been all over the radio and TV – such as it is in tiny rural NH) appears...

If you or anybody else were to write a piece about the Nazis and you chose to call them “evil” (which you would, sooner or later), nobody would expect you to support that contention with a comprehensive list of all the bad stuff the Nazis did. We all (at least, those of us over 25) know the Nazis did bad stuff; lots of us saw “Schindler’s List” (or at least woke up several times and glanced at the screen while it was playing) and “Saving Private Ryan.” Indeed, the words “Nazi” and “Evil” are pretty much synonyms by now. Nazis=Evil....

Hard on the heels of Sarah Palin’s stellar speech at yesterday’s D.C. rally, Feministas Anna Holmes and Rebecca Traister have published an Op-ed in today’s New York Times bemoaning the left’s lack of a similar charismatic female leader. It is a stunning admission of political failure, or it would be if they were talking about anything other than Feminism, which hasn’t chalked up a single genuine victory since the 70′s. Palin is a political Dreadnought – she’s withstood two years of constant assault from the left and yet refuses to sink. Libs have thrown their entire arsenal at her but...

You just couldn’t help yourself. You’re the biggest, toughest creature in the swamp. None dare oppose you. You swim through the stagnant water, taking what you want, doing as you will, driving all before you. And then you catch the scent – something tempting, smelly and rank. It lures you in, you follow the trail. And you find it – dangling temptingly a scant three feet over the water: a big stinky chicken. Swinging at the end of a rope from a stout overhanging limb, lovely reeking bits dripping into the drink below, it mocks you, it beckons. If you...

It’s up on their web site today, along with seven pictures taken from the lib website”Think Progress”, which purport to prove racism within Tea Party ranks. This is itself quite odd because anybody can see the signs – while inflammatory – are not in themselves racist at all, or even outside the boundary of the kind of stuff that’s said about any political figure (white or black) by the more wild-eyed fringe types who flock to the periphery of rallies on either side of the political divide. The subtext here is one we’ve become quite familiar with over the months...

The story isn’t anyway near as good as the headline, but: A man faces charges after an unusual incident at a local library. 52-year-old Darrell Bess was taken into custody yesterday, naked, armed with knives and several pounds of stolen cheese. Bess was ordered by a judge to stay away from the Main branch of the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Public Library in downtown Cincinnati because of prior thefts.

It took a few years for authorities to admit this, but late summer off the Cape beaches isn’t just for leathery 80 year old Kebbekers in neon speedoes anymore. It’s also Great White Shark season. Starting around 2006-07, White Shark sightings have become more and more common, beginning in late July and peaking around early September. Last year five whites were tagged over the course of a few days, several in the surf line, just off the beach. Now it appears they’re headed back, according to the Boston Herald.

“Comprehensive” Immigration Reform is now officially dead. That’s not a big surprise, considering the events of the past few weeks, but what is amazing is that it was ever considered a winning issue to begin with. Perhaps if you’re a Baby Duck, living in the eternal now, you might be unaware of how well the last effort worked out for GW Bush and John McCain, but if you actually enjoy a fair measure of sentience you must realize the American People are against it. The Arizona Illegal Immigrant law, despite massive, relentless demonization, characterized by willful lies and misrepresentation on...

Wow, are Maine girls that stupid? Via the Portland Herald:PORTLAND – About two dozen women marched topless from Longfellow Square to Tommy's Park this afternoon in an effort to erase what they see as a double standard on male and female nudity. Ty McDowell, who organized the march, said she was "enraged" by the turnout of men attracted to the demonstration. The purpose, she said, was for society to have the same reaction to a woman walking around topless as it does to men without shirts on.

Real Clear Politics is a daily read for the Beast - he never misses it. Apart from the fact that it features the best commentary, a nice mix from both left and right, the Beast particularly enjoys the way they set opposite opinion pieces in tandem. Today, for example, we see: Blame the Childish, Ignorant American Public - Jacob Weisberg, Slate Followed by Why Are Liberals So Condescending? - Gerard Alexander, Washington Post How wonderful is that? Point - counterpoint! The Beast has long marveled at the cognitive dissonance at work in a leftist ethos that postures itself as the...

Isn’t it odd that whenever you get a bunch of Greenpeace types together in a group, bloody violence ensues? But nobody ever makes the connection. If violence on this scale had occurred at a Conservative rally, don’t you think the left would be making political hay out of it? “Now we see the violence inherent in the movement! Census Takers will dangle from every tree. Rush will be proclaimed Chancellor of the Republic and Glen Beck will roam the streets with his mob bashing in the windows at every Health Food store.” But when the streets swarm green and the...

New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt says today that Climategate is "...a story, not a three-alarm story." Hoyt's conclusion is based on conversations the Times has had with the climate science community, who conclude that the Emails look bad, but don't cast material doubt on the overall volume of evidence that carbon based Global Warming is real, still happening, and caused by human beings. This is actually kind of funny; polling global warming scientists on whether a scandal casts doubt on global warming science is like polling the foxes on whether the henhouse is secure enough. What do you...

WHITE pointers caused terror on opposite sides of Australia yesterday as a giant shark lunged at kayakers off Sydney and a Perth diver was taken feared dead. Brian Guest, 51, was diving for crabs with his son at their local beach near Rockingham, 30km south of Perth, when he disappeared about 7am. His son, Daniel, 24, swam ashore and raised the alarm. Witnesses saw fins and blood in the water. ''Something very traumatic and pretty violent has happened there and we are treating it as a probable shark attack ,'' acting police inspector Mark Valentine said. The three emergency service...

The Beast’s predictions from Friday of a dead heat in the RCP.com average and +2 McCain by Wednesday are looking pretty feasible. The race has shrunk to +.08 Obama in overall polls at RCP.com, which is a 6 point shift in as many days. Expect it to continue on this way a little more as McCain’s convention sleigh coasts to a stop at the bottom of the hill. On Gallup (McCain +3): This is the most, but not all of convention bounce - expect it to maybe even tick up a point or two then drop back down somewhat. By...

Last year two severed size-12 right feet washed ashore on Gabriola and Jedediah islands in British Columbia. The feet were still in their running shoes. A third foot was found on the beach in February on Valdez Island. Police were mystified. In late may Another right foot wearing a sock and sneaker was discovered washed ashore near Vancouver. It was wearing a sock and a running shoe. This past weekend a shoe with a human foot inside it washed up on a beach near Port Angeles, WA. The shoe is an Everest brand, size 11. The sock is a Levi’s...

The Beast had to have one, so he ordered it just now with a $25 donation. The link isn't up at the McCain site so he had to call the NH office and they forwarded it in an email. Click the picture on the right to order yours. This will be a fun keepsake decades from now when he is old and gray and grumpy...