Bithead Reluctantly Visits an Old Freind for New Year’s Eve

Editor’s note: I wrote this a few years ago, possibly for the 2000 or 2001 New Year’s show, and never posted it until 2005 because other thoughts came forward. But in re-reading this one, I decided it was too good

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• YOU DIDN’T WEAR YOUR SUIT: Birthday wishes go to Rusty Shackleford. I don’t quote Rusty’s work as often as I should.  But you should be reading it, none

Many readers have been kind enough to send me bumper sticker files over the last few months and honestly, with the schedule I’ve been keeping I filed them badly for future use.  I found these while doing some cleaning, and

The envelope please…. (Drum Roll)

Now for the blog event of the year, the Bitsblog Snark of the Year.  And the winner:

How easy did these people think it was going to be when they decided to elect a man

KITV in Honolulu is reporting:

Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV.Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort.

Limbaugh’s

If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid

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• THE ILLUSION OF PEACE: Over at Politico, Mike Allen points to a statement by former vice

If a terrorist says he’s al Qaeda, he is, even if he doesn’t have a union card from Jihadi Local 632.

We’re dealing with a global Muslim movement, not a Masons’ lodge.

Ralph Peters, Lt. Colonel, United States Army(retired), New

Note the timing of the dim one’s national security speech.   Janet Napolitano makes her Tour de  Farce on the Sunday talk shows, and by Monday, Barack Obama  is in full damage control mode.

Avi Zenilman, Who Runs Government, seems

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• WHEN EVEN THE NY TIMES ADMITS IT: Bob Herbert at the Times notes that there’s more than a bit of

Well you can’t rush a good thing.   Instead of making an impromptu speech, the nation’s orator in chief waited three day to give this speech that may well  rival the Gettysburg address, video:

I can just see the Islamists plunging

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• BACKTRACKING ALA NAPLITANO:I see Janet Napolitano has spent most of today backtracking, and admitting exactly what I said as an