You changed everything.

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But the military has been through a lot because of John Kerry: the insistence by the media that his purple hearts were for significant injuries, the continual reference to him as a "war hero." The glossing over his role in Winter Soldier. I know of one former Army LRRP (Vietnam era) who stuck by the Democratic Party during the 1990s despite the torrid affair it was having with gun control, but John Kerry broke him, and he voted for Bush in the last election.

I'm not exactly sure what Kerry expected when he went to Iraq, but it probably wasn't this. Reality must have been a bit of a shock.

More here.

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I should read the rest of his books; they're very witty.

Maybe too witty.

The dimwits in my writers' groups would say that I have a competitive vibe going with "Mr. Repartee-Bloodbath."

But they'd be flattering me.

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. . . has a beautiful Christmas post up, featuring three different clips from A Charlie Brown Christmas.

It's possible that a couple of these excerpts were edited just a little. Possible.

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I just felt overwhelmed. I even called my mother and told her to drop by later than we'd said—I wanted to see if a nap would help. It did, a little.

God bless my mother: she's not one of those moms. I don't come from a really domestic line, praise the Lord and pass the convenience foods.

Mom came over and told me she wanted to open presents soon, and then maybe we ought to go out for dinner. She even offered to take the turkey home with her, and roast it herself tomorrow! more...

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Though not quite this warm. I didn't take a picture; my hair's dirty.

Attila the Hub's close friend called from Ohio; he used to live nearby in the San Fernando Valley.
"How are you doin', Honey?" he asked me.
"Pretty good," I told him. "It feels like Christmas."
"Like Christmas? What is it there?—seventy degrees?"
"That's just about exactly right," I told him. "We have the sliders open. Why?"
"It's forty here," he explains. "And we're grateful it's that warm."

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. . . to you!

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M. Simon has 'em here.

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Mr. Osmami.

Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with dead Talibans. And dead AQs.

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. . . channels Joseph Rago in a "rough draft" of the latter's diatribe against the blogosphere for the Wall Street Journal.

It is, as always, magnificent.

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"The Night Before Kwanzaa" revealed the disturbing history of this rather silly made-up holiday.

Kathy's usual 'hood: Relapsed Catholic.

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. . . has some lovely pictures from the world's great libraries. It's amazing stuff.

H/t: Photon Courier.

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. . . over at All Things Beautiful asks if things have changed since last year, when she wrote about "the war on Christmas."

I think it's a real phenomenon, but I believe it peaked last year and has eased up slightly since then.

Thoughts?

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. . . is money! Remember: only you can help me purchase the additional memory that will allow me to publish photos here in 2007 (and post over 10 lines at a time). And only you can send me to CPAC in early March!

Your contributions aren't tax-deductible in any way. Though I suppose you could lie on your tax returns and say you sent the dough to Attila Girl Enterprises, a Nonprofit Corporation. And it will be used to feed a starving blogger . . . but in Washington, D.C. in late winter.

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. . . I mean, MY PET JAWA, Ragner takes the high road.

They're pretty funny over there, for homophobes.

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In case you haven't seen it, this is the alternate scenario regarding Sandy Berger's theft/destruction of classified documents, detailing how the media would have reacted if Condi Rice had done the deed instead.

I'd especially like to see reactions from my liberal/dem readers on this situation. Do you agree that the media are handling Berger with kid gloves? Do you agree that temporarily suspending his access to the classified documents at the National Archives (for only three years) is an obscenity?

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What knocks me out is that there are two Bear Flag League (California-based) bloggers on this list (Tammy Bruce, and me), and a total of four "Tiara Media" (Cotillion) sites, including Mary Katherine Ham's, The Anchoress', SondraK's, and the one you're reading now.

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. . . was not 100% successful as an astronaut.

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. . . saluted over at Ace's digs.

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And I'm not talking about soybeans.

Powerline has a mini-roundup on the Battle of the Bulge.

Merry Christmas, 101st. And thank you.

Via Insty.

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