Well, it's Monday morning and I'm sitting in my cubicle waiting for network access to be granted that will allow me to do my new job. Also waiting for incorrectly revoked old access to be restored so that I can finish up old projects that I started in my old position. Consequently, I think it's time to add lots of linky love today:

And still more from Neal Boortz:

A bit later today a breathless media will be standing by to report on John Kerry's latest campaign gambit ... the "Misery Index." He's going to try to tell Americans just how horrible things are for them.

Well, let's see ....

• Inflation is low
• Interest rates are low
• Unemployment is low and new claims for jobless benefits are going down
• Jobs are being created at the greatest rate in years, and a greater proportion of these jobs are high-paid managerial positions.
• Family income is at an all-time high, and yes ... that's adjusted for inflation.
• Almost one-half of wage-earners pay no federal income taxes at all
• Home ownership levels are also at an all-time high.
• Fewer people are on welfare
• Illegitimate birth rates are down
• Record amounts are being spent on entertainment like movies, theme parks and vacations
• More and more people are rediscovering their religious faith

Yeah .. it's a miserable time to live in America, isn't it? Well, John Kerry is sure going to try to convince you that it is. Remember, good news for you is usually bad news for Democrats. Bad news for you is good news for Democrats. Democrats in general, and John Kerry in particular, thrive when you suffer. Kerry will do his best today to convince you that you are far more miserable than you really feel. Do you really want to lend your political support to a candidate and to a party that thrives on misery?

Now we know why John Kerry has such a long face. He can't help it, he's just miserable.

You can't say that! At least, not in Canada. Here's hoping that the US doesn't join in. John Leo has the scoop. Excerpt:

'Canada is a pleasantly authoritarian country," Alan Borovoy, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said a few years ago. An example of what he means is Bill C-250, a repressive, anti-free-speech measure that is on the brink of becoming law in Canada. It would add "sexual orientation" to the Canadian hate propaganda law, thus making public criticism of homosexuality a crime. It is sometimes called the "Bible as Hate Literature" bill, or simply "the chill bill." It could ban publicly expressed opposition to gay marriage or any other political goal of gay groups. The bill has a loophole for religious opposition to homosexuality, but few scholars think it will offer protection, given the strength of the gay lobby and the trend toward censorship in Canada. Law Prof. David Bernstein, in his new book "You Can't Say That!" wrote that "it has apparently become illegal in Canada to advocate traditional Christian opposition to homosexual sex." Or traditional Jewish or Muslim opposition, too.
...
In the United States, the dominance of anti-bias laws and rules limiting free speech and free exercise of religion is clear on campuses, not so clear in the real world. Still, First Amendment arguments are losing ground to antidiscrimination laws in many areas, and once stalwart free-speech groups, like the American Civil Liberties Union, have mostly gone over to the other side. An unlikely split has occurred. In the interest of fighting bias, liberal groups reliably promote laws that limit First Amendment principles. The best defenders of free speech and freedom of religion are no longer on the left. They are found on the right.

Global blarney?

A movie opens at #1 and stays there for three weeks, dropping back into the pack for the next three. Said movie then jumps back to #1 in week 7. Not surprising, though, when you consider the movie's subject and the time of year.

When otters attack! I'll bet that FOX is unhappy that reality upstaged them for once.

The Bible is a book for all people. Bob Just has the scoop.

Mark Steyn on the current situation in Iraq. Excerpt:

So how bad are things in Iraq?

Answer: not very. Fallujah is not the new Mogadishu, Muqtaba al-Sadr is not the new Ayatollah Khomeini and, despite what Ted Kennedy says, Iraq is not ''George Bush's Vietnam.'' Or even George Bush's Chappaquiddick.

Read the whole thing.

So Eleanor Clift thinks it's horrible that Condi didn't apologize during her testimony. I'll take the cow by the horns here and apologize in Rice's place: I'm sorry that you're a complete asshat, Eleanor. There. Feel better now?

It's hunting season again. Deroy Murdock wants to bag a RINO.

Shhh! Jonah Goldberg reveals what the President knew and when he knew it.

Michele has a note to the leftists out there. Excerpt:

You know what's going to happen if we don't take these bastards out?

Look here. Read these stories. That's what will happen. We will live that all over again. And some of us won't even live it. We'll be dead.

That's what you are supporting, you traitorous fools.

This is war. The insurgents and their backers are our enemies. Either put down your signs and get on the right side or head over to Iraq, strap on a suicide belt and show your real support for these goons.

Oh, it's so much easier to just chant and sing, isn't it? You are a bunch of cowards. Traitors, cowards and supporters of mass murderers and tyrants. If that's the kind of people you support then get the fuck out of here and go live with them.

And the hell with your moral equivelancy. Drop your crappy little fool's lies in the comments about how everything is our fault, how we made poor little al Sadr and all the Mullahs and Arafat and all those other henchmen hate us. I no longer consider your comments even worthy of my laughter.

I'm going now to spend Easter Sunday with my family. If you people don't want us to fight terrorism, I better go enjoy as much time with my family as I can while we're all still free to do so.

Assholes.

I think she should stop holding back and tell us what she really thinks.

When moonbats collide. Link via Michele. Warning: if you don't actually hate this country or support terrorists, the pictures are likely to make you very, very angry.

Not sure what to make of this result. Found over at Annika's place:

congratulations. you are the kiss my ass happy
bunny. You don't care about anyone or anything.
You must be so proud

which happy bunny are you?
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Harvey posts some things that make a woman look sexy. I agree about smiles being sexy. Everytime my wife smiles at me I just melt. Yes, I'm her lapdog. More to the point, I like it that way.

John Cole has the latest excerpt in his ongoing series of posts filed under what he calls "Democratic Stupidity". Lifted in its entirety:

The memo has been released, and if you had any doubts that the left had any desire to do anything but to politicize 9/11, check out the Calpundit's rhetoric:

Look, I know there's a perfectly good case to be made that the PDB merely states generalities and doesn't warn of a specific, impending attack. That's fine as far as it goes, and it's the spin I'd expect the White House to put on it.

It's all spin in the weird world of Democrats. How about it is the truth?

Asparagirl turned 25 today. I'm surrounded by children in the blogosphere! Anyway, stop by and wish her a happy one. And read the stuff the she and her husband write. Top notch stuff, including this post and this one. Note: the second post contains links to extra geeky humor. Having read it all before only underscores my geek quotient. And I love the title of the post: "That's What We Call An ID 10 T Problem." One excerpt from the first link:

I'm an apatheist. The question is no longer interesting, and the answer no longer matters.

Den Beste bids farewell to his latest blogroll graduates and welcomes a new group into the fold. He also links to this response by George Turner in a comment thread over at the Emperor's place. Here's the response in its entirety:

I am the very model of a modern left wing democrat.
I vent my spleen and prattle in forums on the internet.
I canÂ’t hold long a single thought. I need to take my Ritalin.
Now what was that you asked of me? Did I just take my vitamin?
I cannot lose an argument, so why donÂ’t you get used to it.
I wonÂ’t concede a single point, even if thereÂ’s no truth in it.
No matter what you say to me, IÂ’ll post back an ad-homenim.
Regardless of the things you do, youÂ’re all BushHitlerÂ’s supermen
They call me Post-It NoteÂ’s bleat boy, and I post crap like it was true.
On all the countless websites that my drivel is cross-posted to.

Chorus:
We call him Post-It NoteÂ’s bleat boy, and he posts crap like it was true.
On all the countless weblogs that his drivel is cross-posted to.
On all the countless weblogs that his drivel is cross-posted to.

Your weblog I will litter with my often posted snivelling
And you all have to pay the bill, supporting all my drivelling.
My posts sum up in six bad lines of mindless dreck and scribbling,
But lots of carps and doodoo too, plump out my posts with twiddling.
Impossible to penetrate much less on which to cogitate
I donÂ’t see how you can relate, to my simplistic mental state.
I will flame you with invective till you yield to my perspective.
Of socialist utopia when we join the big collective.
My whole outlook is progressive my belief is so obsessive
All your taxes are regressive cause with stuff we are possessive.

Chorus:
His whole outlook is progressive his belief is so obsessive
All our taxes are regressive cause with stuff they are possessive.
All our taxes are regressive cause with stuff they are possessive.

IÂ’m ignorant of simple facts, both social and historical.
So donÂ’t confuse me with your lies, just argue metaphorical.
No matter what you say to me, IÂ’ll argue opposite you see.
If provably you show IÂ’m wrong IÂ’ll change the question joyfully.
My facts are bad, conclusions too, my arguments erroneous,
You’ll be crying oh “boo hoo”, cause I’m so sanctimonious.
My learning is extensive but is nothing more than Chomskyia,
Designed to fan my hatred of the Empire called Amerika,
Your ruler soon is coming down, we'll crush him like a big ass clown
John Kerry soon will wear the crown, so I don't care if you all drown.
I am the very model of a left wing personality.
I intersperse mendacity with vacuous opacity.

Chorus:
He is the very model of a left wing personality.
HeÂ’ll intersperse mendacity with vacuous opacity.
HeÂ’ll intersperse mendacity with vacuous opacity.

So Kelley's ailment was finally diagnosed: benign MS. Not surprisingly, she shows the same rock-solid determination and good humor that we've come to expect from her. Go by and wish her well.

Spoons continues his search for the "Diogenes For The Blogosphere." Excerpt:

Are there no honest, decent liberals in the blogosphere? None at all?

Josh Marshall long ago removed the mask, and few now cite him as an example. Kos is a raving hate-filled lunatic, shunned even by left politicians. Now the erstwhile Calpundit, Kevin Drum, so esteemed that the Washington Monthly put him in charge of their entire web operation, reveals himself to be yet another dishonest hack.

The commenters came up with 3(that's right, only 3) such: Roger Simon, Jennifer Larson amd Michael Totten. I added Jeff Jarvis.

Speaking of Jarvis, he has the best line that I've seen about the box office rankings from this last weekend:

: Jesus beats Hellboy.

Spoons keeps talking about This Just In. I'm gonna have to check it out. Excerpt:

How many more days of this 9/11 Commission are we gonna have to wade through? Everybody's trying to figure out who's responsible. Let me save you some time and money. ARABS!

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Newspaper Headline: Panel Concludes Al Qaeda Could Have Prevented 9/11

Enough for now. I actually have some work to do. Really. Okay, stop laughing. Now!

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