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When the Freeperati praise things like this piece of vicious hate-filled drivel, why on earth should anyone take them seriously? Apparently the War Party now believe that if Bush doesn’t win in 2004, the terrorists will have won.

Jeanne D’Arc’s Body and Soul, a blog I should really read more often, suggests that the Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson style of religions right is waning. While this might sound like a good thing, she suggests that the replacement is something much worse.

Excellent post by Matthew Yglesias in which he suggests that those neocon commentators who think that the bombing of the UN in Baghdad was a good thing because it ‘shows the bad guys are getting desperate’ are taking a Leninist view of things.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have heard about the huge power blackout across the eastern US and parts of Canada. Scott tells how it affected him, and how he achieved a lifetimes ambition.

Now the dust has settled and we finally know something approaching the truth of what happened. David Aaronovich in The Guardian writes on how the director of the museum himself exaggerated and lied to the much of the world’s media, and was widely believed. Not just by us outraged liberals, but by the philistine freeperoids too.

The right wing of the Blogosphere will probably use this as an excuse to crow, and indulge in yet another spiteful orgy of liberal bashing. But the right wing of the Blogosphere doesn’t really come out of this with any credit. After all, they too fell for exactly the same lies.

In their posts and and-hominem attacks in the comments sections on some liberal blogs they showed us just how philistine, viscious and mean-spirited some of these guys really are.

Update: Making Light has plenty more to say, and says it much better than I even could.

Much of the right wing of the blogosphere have been praising this article by the Telegraph’s Mark Steyn. Meanwhile the left wing collective blog PolitX finds it so over-the-top it’s side-splittingly funny. I found his account of post-war Iraq is so rose-tinted, I could only come up with this conclusion:

Mark Steyn is the anti-Robert Fisk.

Pray that they never meet. As every good Trekkie knows, when two opposite particles meet, there will be the mother of all explosions, enough to take out the whole of the middle east.

A weapon of mass destruction indeed.

Some good news. According to Times Online, the looting of the National Museum of Baghdad was not quite as bad as originally feared.

The investigators, made up of US customs agents working with coalition troops, refused to give a detailed inventory of the recovered items.

They would not say if the artefacts included any of the 38 high-value items that had been confirmed missing by the museum’s curators.

More than 39,400 ancient manuscripts have been found, but officials conceded that “certain high-value pieces” had been stolen from the vaults.

We might never know the full story, of course. Unfortunately the crowing rightwingers are using this as another platform to display their visceral hatred of all liberals, and are demanding apologies from anyone who’s only ‘crime’ was to take news reports at face value.

My anger when I originally posted this was prompted not so much by the looting itself, but by Donald Rumsfelds casual dismissal, and by the savage attacks by some rightwing blowhards in the comments section at Making Light.

When is any Anarcho-Fascist warblogger ever going to apologise for any of the hatred and venom spewed from their sites? Until they do (which they won’t), I have nothing to retract or apologise for.

Channel 4′s 100 Worst Britons, as selected by a poll of viewers, has nominated our Prime Minister as the worst Briton.

The criteria for the poll were that the people had to be alive, and neither in jail or awaiting trial, which, as Channel 4 pointed out, excludes Jeffrey Archer.

Naturally with polls of this type there was a surfeit of flavour-of-month celebrities, such as Jordan at #2 and Big Brother’s Jade Goody at #4, and several Spice Girls. Also listed were several members of the Royal family, most notably The Queen (10), and Prince Charles (24).

Tory leader Iain Duncan Who will be disappointed by only coming in a 99, between Craig David and Atomic Kitten. Not quite sure what this proves.

Salam Pax’s Where is Raed ? is back online! For those who have been living under a rock for the past two months (or don’t read blogs other than this one), Salem Pax is a blogger from Baghdad. A lot of the blogosphere have been worried about his fate since his blog stopped being updated once the Iraqi phone network went down. Here you can read his account of the fall of Baghdad (and the subsequent looting) from the point of view of an ordinary Iraqi.

From BBC News, an Israeli policeman responding to complaints about a noisy party got more than he bargained for.

The rowdy women had ordered a male stripper dressed as a policeman and, thinking the stripper had arrived, began trying to undress and caress him, ignoring his protestations.