People get angry if they get singled out for having their patriotism questioned, so I’m just going to go ahead and questions everyone’s patriotism. No one gets patriotism until it’s approved by me. I automatically get patriotism because I came up with the idea. So, go ahead and prove your patriotism in the comments, but if you can’t say something great about America without feeling the need to point out something bad about America or you can’t refer to the troops without patronizing them like they’re dumb little children, then NO PATRIOTISM FOR YOU! You get to die and go to traitor hell where Satan will torture you with hot pokers for all eternity while laughing his head off (but don’t you dare question his mercy).
UPDATE:
I have commenters that are so patriotic that it makes me feel sad and pathetic. You may all be patriotic, but you should feel bad for making me feel bad!
UPDATE 2:
Actually, that previous statement was too touchy-feely which isn’t very American. Thus I rescind it and would like to express that I’m a much better patriot than each and every one of you.

We are going to be facing a challenging election in 2008, but we’ve got a bit of a problem: Current Republicans kinda suck. They’re old, they move slowly, they don’t listen, and some of them kinda smell. If the Republican Party wants to succeed in the future, we need a brand new breed of Republicans. We need to give all the old Republicans a shiny new watch, say, “Thanks for your service,” and then air out their offices in time for the dynamic breed of Republicans: The Next Generation.

“You’re blabbering on like a mental patient. This is ‘So You Want to Be a Republican,’ not ‘So You Want to Be Ron Paul.'”

So, how do we find great new Republicans to run for office, one who will stay steady on the war, secure the borders, and kick ass wherever an ass needs kicking?
American Idol.
American Idol has been successful at publicly selecting new singing stars who go one to sell multi-platinum albums. Why can’t a similar format select great new Republicans who would then go on to win elections and terrorize our enemies?
First step, we need good judges to weed out the best Republicans from those who tryout. We don’t want a Sanjaya Republican to make it to later rounds, someone who seems good at first but ends up being tone deaf on core issues. My first choice for judge would be Ann Coulter. She’s not always my favorite pundit, but she’s quite frank and will tear someone apart when needed. I’d say my choice for the other two judges (you always have three judges) would be Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin… but that’s just off the top of my head. Anyway, getting the right judges will be key as I assume there will be a lot of people trying out to be Republicans and trying to impress us with their rhetoric, and we want only the best to get to the later rounds where the public will vote. So initial rounds will quiz the Republican tryouts on all the key issues and the judges will toss out all the ones who don’t measure up.
Then we make it to the final round where the Republican wannabes will tell us their plans for war and taxes and then the public will vote on their favorite at the end of each show. Each show will be different topics they’ll have to debate on as the public weeds out the weaker ones. Finally, only one will be left and he or she will be named a new Republican and automatically become the Republican’s candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives or a Senate seat. Now all the people who voted for this Republican on the show won’t be able to wait to vote for him or her for real.
This is a genius idea. I’m sure that after we do it, there will be pale weak imitations like So You Want to Be a Democrat, but there’s no way they’ll be as successful (who wants to watch an hour of people trying to out whine each other?).
So, let’s get to this. If the Republican Party wants to succeed, it needs great, new candidates, and what better way to find them than a huge public spectacle? That’s not a rhetorical question; what better way is there to find someone we know everyone will want to vote for? You can’t name one. I win.

Isn’t telling a gun owner to his face that he’s mentally deficient a display of mentally deficiency? Really, what’s the best outcome you can expect from that? Politically, it will lose you a lot of votes, but if you honestly think the person is crazy, aren’t you anticipating an even worse outcome?

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this. but someone named Ed is messing with the comments.
For instance I made a comment the other day on one of the Ronin Profile posts.
My comment:

This feature needs a graphic.

made sense, expressing what I recognized as a need of a graphic for the feature (which it lacked).
Then a few moments later, my comment was changed and said this.

This feature needs a graphic.
[So’s your FACE! Ed.]

Anybody know what’s going on? It seems to be getting worse. Furthermore, I don’t even know an Ed.

Over at the Daily Kos, they like to pretend they support the troops while only referring to them with patronizing terms such as “children,” but you barely have to scratch them to reveal they truly hate the military and anyone in it. Look at the virtual orgasm of the Kwazy Kos Kids in reaction to this post where someone calls our military “morally retarded” and refers to their “fat whining families.” The author, who used to be on SNL, even insults in the comments a mother who lost a son in Iraq. This all days after YearlyKos lost Jet Blue as a sponsor when O’Reilly labeled it a hate site because it’s… well… a site full of hate.
Apparently, this has been a bit of wake of call to Kos who, after already banning Truther talk, wants to stop the new conspiracy theories about an oncoming dictatorship (real problems are a bit too much for Kwazy Kos Kids to focus on). The questions is, if Kos gets rid of the haters and the loons, will he have anyone left?
This would all be silly entertainment if it weren’t for the fact that the Democratic presidential candidates are actually going to YearlyKos to kiss the unwiped bums of these weirdos. If someone can’t even stand up to these freaks, does he or she really have the mettle to be president?

When I say “Nuke the Moon,” I am referring only to Earth’s moon (a.k.a., the Moon). I am not referring to any other moon, as nuking them would be pointless since they aren’t as readily visible as our moon. So, don’t any of you start chanting “Nuke Frank,” because that’s not funny.
BTW, did you know that Saturn’s rings have an atmosphere? I wonder if we could live there. That would be something.

PERSON 1: So where do you live?
PERSON 2: Saturn’s rings.
PERSON 1: …
PERSON 1: Do you get mail service there?
PERSON 2: Well… every few decades they send by a probe.

Mary Katharine (Suparstar!) Ham has her best HamNation yet exposing just how terminally unserious the Democrats are. It’s hard to give it justice in words; go watch it.

I enjoyed it. Immensely.
It seemed it would be a high feat to meet the anticipation for this book, but I felt it succeeded.
There seems to be a tendency to overanalyze the series due to its huge popularity, but the fact is the seven books are good stories with no more aspirations than to be good stories. I’m sure someone could pick apart the writing and plots to death if so inclined, but that’s missing the forest for the trees. There was an entertaining plot, characters I cared about, promotion of good values everyone believe in (courage, primarily), and then the x-factor that’s the indefinable quality Rowling brought to it all.
I’m sorry to see it all end, but then again, I now have the complete series to one day read to my children. That I look forward to.