Did everyone have a nice Easter? I got to eat some ham and green bean casserole and some chocolate, so I was pretty happy with mine. A slightly less happy Easter was probably had by six members of the “Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War”, a fun and sexy group of young protesters who disrupted the start of Easter mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago by decrying the Iraq War and squirting themselves (and some worshippers) with stage blood in the aisle of the church.

Mike Harding, a friend of the protesters, described them as a group of students and local activists who do good deeds for their community, such as teach classes, plant gardens and distribute food to the poor. If the demonstrators’ actions ruined some people’s Easter, then perhaps they’ll have more empathy for Iraqi citizens who have seen their holiest days marred by violence, said Harding, 21.

I have two distinct thoughts about this. Let’s discuss.

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John McCain is still abroad this weekend. He spent a few days gallivanting around the Middle East, trying to get captured by Islamofascists so he could tell us more stories about how getting tortured is hard. Now, he and his family are in Great Britain. In the past, McCain has claimed that he is descended both from Robert the Bruce, who was in the movie Braveheart, and Charlemagne, who was French. This however, is probably not true.

Let’s set aside the issue that John Kerry wasn’t allowed to seem even a little bit French, while Vieil Homme Confus™ is promenading around claiming he’s a French emperor at the same time that the French call him Sénateur Tête Brûlée, or Senator Hothead.
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Here’s a new way to make public housing that doesn’t suck. Let the poor people live in nicer neighborhoods with people who actually make money. This housing “Grand Experiment” is happening in D.C. This sounds like a good idea for either someone’s imaginary fairyland, or a new season of the Wire (the Greatest Show on Television).

Bucking national trends and citing what they call “a moral goal,” District of Columbia officials have pledged to preserve and even expand low-income housing, replacing dangerous projects with new communities that keep both poor and “work force” residents — firefighters, teachers and laborers — in the mix.

Anyway, I thought there was a whole point in working toward the American Dream. Once you make a little bit of cash, you shouldn’t have to live with the poors anymore, unless they’re your butler. Even the working class shouldn’t have to live with the real poors, especially if they’re going to be ingrateful about it.

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The “liberal hawks” over at Slate are having a wankfest about how wrong they were on the Iraq War. Each has written a little missive entitled “How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?” - and as you’d expect, they suck. A smattering:

“How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? I believed the groupthink and contributed to it,” by Jacob Weisberg.

“How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? I seriously misjudged Bush’s sense of morality,” by Andrew Sullivan.

“How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? I didn’t realize how incompetent the Bush administration could be,” by Jeffrey Goldberg.

“How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? Rather than bore you with the answer, here are lessons from the experience,” by Lord William Saletan.

“How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? I thought we had a chance to stabilize an unstable region, and—I admit it—I wanted to strike back,” by Richard Cohen.

“How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? I didn’t,” by Christopher Hitchens.

Commentary after the jump.

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The Gathering of Eagles, the boisterous men-club of hero wannabees that worships the Iraq war is sending out emails complaining they’re going broke and begging for money because people, er, ah, like their message so much. The incoherence in communications is pretty much par for the course for these face-biting lunatics. Check out the conclusion to their latest solicitation:
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The video below is of Rev. Rod Parlsey. John McCain considers Parsley to be his spiritual adviser.* Watch as he accuses the United States government of funding a genocide targeted against blacks through Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood, an organization that prevents god knows how many white-suburban teenagers from having to answer really uncomfortable questions from their parents,** was founded by a woman who “detested” black people, Parsley argues, was a believer in Eugenics, and wanted to wipe out the entire race. Will there be outrage over this craziness? Noo, of course not. This kind of head-explodingly ridiculous wingnuttery is practically mainstream. Oh, and also he’s white. So that helps.

Anyone want to offer up some ideas about how Parsley might react if approached on the street at night by a group of four “precious baby boys,” as he calls them, aged 25 or so?

*Hilarious sentence when read out of context.
**In some states.

George W. Bush says the Iraq war is going just dandy.  The Dark Lord says The Surge^TM is working just fine thank you, and he doesn’t give a flying fuck if a majority of Americans think otherwise.  Given this, you probably don’t need proof that the exact opposite it true, but here it is anyway:

In an investigation carried out by GuardianFilms for Channel 4, we uncover how thousands of Iraqis employed at $10 a day by the US to take on al-Qaida are threatening to go on strike because they say they have been used by the ‘Americans to do their dirty work’ and haven’t been paid.

You’ll recall that the real reason the violence was reduced is because we basically paid our enemies not to shoot at us.  Now that we’ve armed them and then pissed them off, everything should work out real well. 

Oh, and the Mahdi Army has started shooting at us again.  Heckuva job Bushie!

80,000 Angry Men: Is the US Surge Collapsing? [The Guardian via Crooks and Liars]

If Hillary Clinton’s campaign wants to clear up the appearance that it acquired information about Sen. Barrack Obama’s travel history through mercenary cyberthieves, now the focus of a cyberstalking investigation in which his passport data was breached by State Department functionaries, it is going to have to explain how it was able to claim it knew that Obama had only gone to one NATO country and never traveled to Latin America in its campaign literature this month.

Right now, Hillary Clinton, America needs to believe one of its leading presidential candidates isn’t capable of this kind of perfidy.

If you aren’t. Or if, perhaps, you’ve been compromised - by a third-party data broker in the employ of the RNC - by accepting data of tainted provenance to scandalize the Obama campaign, only to have yours come into the crossfire when the ‘news’ breaks.

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MSM outlets were fronting explanations yesterday evening that three U.S. State Department functionaries were scanning Sen. Barrack Obama’s passport travel records out of “imprudent curiosity,” a lurid misrepresentation of what is likely part of a much more expansive plot, given the criminal abuse of power exhibited by the outlaw Bush Administration in the last eight years. Though there’s no discounting the perfidies that the bloody-eyed ruthlessness of the Hillary “Vote Experience - Vote McCain!” Clinton campaign could inspire. Let’s scan the record of the Boy Fuhrer’s administration first, before we reveal a stunning correlation made by commentator SanFranciscoLefty about Hilbot 9000’s motivations: Read the rest of this entry »