Oops. Sorry. I didn't know that was frowned upon.

Who are you again?

Allah is a jealous God and he used to guard his text and pictures ferociously.

I tried to clip funnies off his site all the time, but he had that thing where you can't control the text selection at all.

I cut, pasted, and edited you piece in the email I sent as (first part only):

Top Ten Changes the New Pope Will Enact to Make Christianity More Acceptable to Liberals (from www.aceofspadeshq.com)

10. "Christian fish" logos will all be certified by the EPA as dolphin-safe

9. Key lyric of Norman Greenbaum's hippie-Christian anthem, Spirit in the Sky, changed from "I've got a friend named Jesus" to less-divisive "I've got a friend named Walter"

People who cut, paste, and send work they think is worth the trouble usually do just that -- cust, paste, and send. When you post something you know darned well is good, funny, and "passable" (worth passing on), why don't you POST "(from www.aceofspadeshq.com)" in the header?! Nobody would OBJECT to having that in their copy; but most simply won't take the time. (and don't be modest -- you knew good and well that was a nice piece of work, and would be distributed by your readers, now didn't you??? )

Does this mean it's okay to steal your smart crap?

While at the water cooler yesterday, I was telling a co-worker about a chip stealing beagle that needed its toenails cut, or something like that, and the dude said, "Compos, that's not even remotely funny. You're a dumbass!" As he walked away I exclaimed, "Hey! It's not my stupid story! It's Ace of Spades'!"

Happy to give you credit every time Ace!

And all this time you were bitching about hoping for "crazy blog money" you *really* weren't joking.

Am I just slow, or was that anyone elses' impression?

Ace, the alternate scenario could be played out like this: Someone gets a blast fax with no source attributed to it, so they google it. I haven't bothered, but I'm sure you could google any one of those lines and your sited pop up. Ergo - traffic. I wouldn't start freaking out over it, any exposure is good exposure when you're tryin to get your name out.

Then again, you could be playing me for the fool and this could be a continuation of your "excitable Andy" theme, except you just forgot to change characters... ;) :P

Does this mean it's okay to steal your smart crap?

If you can find such crap, knock yourself out.

As he walked away I exclaimed, "Hey! It's not my stupid story! It's Ace of Spades'!"

Happy to give you credit every time Ace!

Thanks for having my back, man.

OT, Allah's site is still wrong on your blogroll

The 'new' site is http://allahakbar.blogspot.com/

Say, what's with all the crossed-out text?

Nevermind.

OTOH, Jason at Iraq Now links to your Top 10!

ACE - You are an effete snob and a nattering nabob of negativism ... uh, excuse me, as Spirou Agnew once said: "You are an effete snob and a nattering nabob of negativism."

And as Jack Gorsham once said: Spiro, Spiro, what a zero, with a name like that he must be a queero!

I swear, Ace, I'm not stealing your crap - it's just that, by some strange coincidence, my marriage was broken up as a result of my wife's ongoing indiscretion with a very horny duck.

Freeper

George Soros told a carefully vetted gathering of 70 likeminded millionaires and billionaires last weekend that they must be patient if they want to realize long-term political and ideological yields from an expected massive investment in "startup" progressive think tanks.

The Scottsdale, Ariz., meeting, called to start the process of building an ideas production line for liberal politicians, began what organizers hope will be a long dialogue with the "partners," many from the high-tech industry. Participants have begun to refer to themselves as the Phoenix Group.

Rob Stein, a veteran of President Bill Clinton's Commerce Department and of New York investment banking, convened the meeting of venture capitalists, left-leaning moneymen and a select few D.C. strategists on how to seed pro-Democratic think tanks, media outlets and leadership schools to compete with such entrenched conservative institutions as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the Leadership Institu ...

I thought they were behind so much of the van guard of the gay-female-black-alliance media shows.

Scary thought that guys like David Geffen and George Soros are trying to brainwash us all. Even scarier is how successful they've been so far. Even scarier still is how they've managed to muzzle free speech about anything that is not "PC" and I think that someday we'll all very much regret not doing the things we could that would've stopped them. LOL