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December 28, 2005

New Feature: Top Headines

Scan down in the sidebar until after the comments.

I realize that sidebar is getting hella-long, but when I put up the two-sidebar templates the content will be more evenly divided between them. I'll have comments near the top of one and top headlines near the top of the other.

Just one headline so far. I'll add more.

Like I've said, the headline-based format of this blog means that I can't really just put up a naked link. I have to say something myeself if I put up a headline (I make exceptions for stories of such interest where I know commenters will want a place to comment, but I don't really have anything to add myself). This has resulted in me not posting 60% of the interesting stories I run accross, whether from tips or my own reading (yes, I do read the news), and keeping 50+ windows open on my computer containing stories I think are interesting but for which haven't yet thought of a take or comment or gag.

Just having the Top Headlines feature will allow me to at least post these stories. I don't have to say anything about them; I just have to provide the link for those who may be interested.

I've wanted this for over a year, since I first saw it on American Digest. I'm so happy that blog-daddy Pixy Misa allowed me to do this, and web-head extraordinaire Emily Starr implemented the code.

One drawback to this format is that there won't be comment space for individual stories. I'll get into the habit of opening a Top Headlines post every day, for those who may wish to comment on stories for which there is no specific blog entry. If there's a whole lot of interest in one particular story, I'll change the post so that it's dedicated particularly to the hot debate, and then start another Top Headlines thread for everything else.

posted by Ace at 01:22 PM

Comments

I work for the Ace o Spades.

So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies in the other threads.

Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.

But trust me.... You don't.

I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.

This is how bad info gets passed around.

If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do.

Cuz some AoSHQs belive anything they hear.

Posted by: on December 28, 2005 01:24 PM

Thanks for the input, Dude!

Posted by: ace on December 28, 2005 01:34 PM

Jeez, I hate memes.

Posted by: Slublog on December 28, 2005 01:36 PM

> Jeez, I hate Memes

Trust me Sluie, memes aren't too fond of ya either.

-- meme

Posted by: meme on December 28, 2005 01:45 PM

Did you know that the USA Beard Team has their own blog? Well now you do.

Posted by: Hirsute Amish on December 28, 2005 01:46 PM

OT: The Inevitable Brokeback Mountain Parody

Posted by: V the K on December 28, 2005 01:48 PM

Jeez, I hate memes.

Yeah, that one was never very funny. Guess you had to be there when it started.

Posted by: geoff on December 28, 2005 02:10 PM

Is that post going around the blogosphere? Just something liberals drop in to write?

Posted by: ace on December 28, 2005 02:16 PM

Infant Masturbation Often Misdiagnosed as Disease (H/T: Allah)

Now if that doesn't sum up a whole lot...

Posted by: on December 28, 2005 02:23 PM

if you say it is ace, that's good enough for me.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on December 28, 2005 02:24 PM

if you say it is ace, that's good enough for me.

Okay...it is ace.

Good enough for you?

Posted by: Slublog on December 28, 2005 02:32 PM

Does the news that Chris Klein won't be getting a baby gift for Katie Holmes deserve a headline? I think we can all agree he's got his principles.

Posted by: Trevor on December 28, 2005 02:32 PM

I work for the Ace o Spades under his Road to Recovery Program, and my job is to sound like a smart person who is intelligent.

So I am really getting out of most of these other replies in the threads of kick.

Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. Others just sound like me.

But trust me.... You don't. And neither do You. Or You - You too. And You in the back - you're a big dum dum who does not sound smart to me.

I think you just want to know what you are talking about, when in reality you just want to make yourself sound smart.

This is how bad info gets passed around - please take notes.

If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do...Because then I might get confused and forget that you are dumb.

Cuz some AoSHQs belive anything they hear. And they might believe You are not dumb, because they do not have the magic in their eyes that lets them see through your lies like I do.

Posted by: on December 28, 2005 02:51 PM

Considering that most of those tips are from the Big A, you should just call that section "Allah's Linkblog."

Posted by: Slublog on December 28, 2005 03:05 PM

I trust that no one will accuse me of attempting to sound smart. I think I've earned that.

Posted by: Michael on December 28, 2005 07:59 PM

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Top Headlines

Funniest thing I've read about the Virginia mess. Back when they were hustling the referendum through the assembly both Senators, Warner and Kaine, advised them to go slow and play by the rules. Louise Lucas said she respected them but didn't need advice from the "cuck chair" in the corner. The gerrymandering was overturned and Louise is heading for the big house. Edward G. Robinson voice "where's your cuck now?"
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I posted his post on twitter and it's gotten 25K views so far. Thanks, Smell the Glove

Chris
@chriswithans

"Ahhhhh ahh I put my career on the line for Louise Lucas and Jay Jones thinking they'd vault me into presidential contention and we ended up costing Democrats 20 House seats and unleashing a Reverse Dobbs ahhhhh ahhh"

Forgotten 80s Mystery Click That Sums Up the Democrat Communist Party Today
Something is wrong as I hold you near
Somebody else holds your heart, yeah
You turn to me with your icy tears
And then it's raining, feels like it's raining

TJM wonders about world building in stories, mostly The Hunger Games

"It's f**king f**ked."
-- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source"
Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat

🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

Only a cult does this.

Now they've lost 84%.

Annunziata Rees-Mogg
@zatzi
If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

The British Patriot
@TheBritLad

🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.<
br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges

Reform are basically wiping Labour out in the North. It's not a defeat. It's not even a rout. Labour are simply ceasing to exist.

Nick Lowles
@lowles_nick

Tonight’s results are calamitous for Labour. Not just for Keir Starmer's leadership, but for the very future of the party

STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98.
Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years.
Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour
Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45
Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens.
REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.

Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that.
People claim that while Labour has adopted the Sharia Agenda to appeal to the million Muslims it allowed to migrate to the country, those voters are ditching Labour to vote for the Muslim Independent Party or the Greens. Delicious. This shadenfreude is going straight to my thighs.
Oh, and if Starmer loses about as badly as expected, Labour will toss him out of a window Braveheart style and replace him. He will announce he is resigning to spend more time with his Gay Ukrainian Male Prostitutes.

Media bias and senationalism are as old as, well, the media:

That was written by Denny O'Neill and illustrated by, get this, Frank Miller. Editor to the Stars Jim Shooter was in charge at the time.
I always thought the gag was original to the comic book, but in fact the "Threat or Menace" headline was a satirical joke about media bias and sensationalism for a long while. The Harvard Lampoon used it in a parody of Life magazine: "Flying Saucers: Threat or Menace?"

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