Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog)

There has been a backlash over a Chocolate Jesus that was going to be put on display at a gallery in midtown Manhattan. Catholics raised a stink and the exhibit was cancelled. The art gallery owner screamed racism:

He [Matthew Semler, artistic director of the gallery] does not consider the piece irreverent and said he would look for another venue to display it. “I saw it as meditation on all those issues: the fact that it’s chocolate, the fact that it’s nude, that the chocolate is black,” Semler said.

He quit his job,

So we’ve a big naked Jesus, made out of chocolate, all over the MSM. (I’ve no problem with a naked depiction of Jesus on the Cross if it is done reverentially. After all, He had no loin cloth when He was nailed there; it was the winnings in a game of dice.)

Michelle Malkin asks: How would the MSM cover “Chocolate Mohammed” at Ramadan?

With a loin cloth.

For Sunday, April 1, 2007

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert is continuing the “bipartisan dialogue” about those fired U.S. attorneys. His guests will be, from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Pat Leahy, the syrup Senator, and past Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah.

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden, candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination about those fired U.S. attorneys and whatnot.. Then he talks to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will discuss those fired US attorneys with Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman Chuckie Schumer of New York. Then he talks to Presidential advisor Dan Bartlett.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to famed Nazi hunter Dick Durbin about those fired U.S. attorneys; Presidential advisor Dan Bartlett; and former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson about Tommy Thompson ‘08.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer will talk to Senators Kit Bond (R-Missouri) and Diane Feinstein (R-Caleefornia) about Pelosi-Murtha; Al Sharpton; and a bunch of journalists and analysts.
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Those fired U.S. attorneys.

The review of these shows will be up at RedState.com on Sunday afternoon.

Okinawa Jack wants to introduce conscription.

President Bush spoke on Wednesday:

I want to share with you how two Iraqi bloggers — they have bloggers in Baghdad, just like we’ve got here — (laughter) — “Displaced families are returning home, marketplaces are seeing more activity, stores that were long shuttered are now reopening. We feel safer about moving in the city now. Our people want to see this effort succeed. We hope the governments in Baghdad and America do not lose their resolve.”

These bloggers, those to whom the President referred, are Mohammed and Omar Fadhil of Iraq the Model. They had an Op/Ed printed in the Wall Street Journal earlier this month:

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Senator Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota) suffered a brain hemorrhage last December, and he is now said to be recovering. The people of South Dakota have not been told of their Senator’s condition, but we do know that Senator Johnson voted by proxy in the Senate Appropriations Committee Last Thursday.

While absent from the chamber, Johnson is not allowed to vote on the Senate floor or even to vote to move a bill out of the Senate Appropriations Committee, on which he sits. But he is allowed to vote “by proxy” on amendments to committee bills.

Johnson approved the use of his proxy - as senators often do - when the committee considered a war spending bill Thursday. It turned out that his vote was only needed once, on an amendment to boost Medicaid funding. Johnson supported the amendment.

How did he approve this proxy? This is important, as these matters are important and it gives the appearance of possible impropriety if Chairman Bobby Byrd is given an extra vote on committee by someone not present and who, evidently, has not at least acknowledged to ranking Republican Thad Cochran his desire to give the proxy.

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Senate Democrats, with the help of Republicans Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Oregon’s Gordon Smith, have passed their version of the Pelosi-Murtha QUAGMIRE, QUAGMIRE, VIETNAM bill:

The Senate narrowly approved a war-spending bill today that calls for most American combat troops to be out of Iraq by March 31, 2008, and in so doing defied a veto threat by President Bush.

The 51-to-47 vote endorsed a $122 billion spending package, most of which would go to the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, although some domestic spending is included.

It’s a political pose. The President has promised a veto.

We’ve been told quagmire, quagmire, Vietnam, get out now, making things worse, failure, etc. — all from a balcony at the Palestine Hotel. Or from the Saddamist stringers, who just might not exist.

Well, RedState.com got an invite from, we we’re sending Jeff Emanuel and Victoria Coates. (V is the smartest lady in the civilized world and Jeff is special ops., so we’re cool.)

From Erick’s post:

To send RedState to Iraq, we need to raise $7500.00. This presents a challenge to us now, that it did not present last year. As you probably know, RedState is now owned by Eagle Publishing, Inc. A lot of you are probably asking why they don’t just fork over the money. Well, frankly, there just isn’t money budgeted for something like this right now, but the experience presents such an invaluable opportunity, we really want to do it. We need your help. Eagle is going to commit the first $2500.00 to the trip, which, given all the data the Pentagon has given us, will cost $10,000.00 total.

We need $7,500.

We want to make it worth your time and money, so here’s the deal. If you will contribute $50.00, we’ll make sure you get Victoria and Jeff’s posts before everyone else — from their videos to their writings. If you contribute $100.00 or more, we’ll put you on an email list with Victoria and Jeff to correspond with them, ask questions, etc. while they are in Iraq.

Yes, this includes us.

If you want to be in on this, check out Erick’s post at RedState.com.

Over at Huffington Post, left coast radio talker Chuck Karel Bouley writes:

I admit my bias shows with these stories. I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you. Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot? I know, it’s terrible. I admit it. I don’t wish anyone harm, even Tony Snow. And I do hope he recovers or at least does what he feels is best and surrounds himself with friends and family for his journey. But in the back of my head there’s Justin Timberlake’s “What goes around, goes around, comes around, comes all the way back around, ya..”

That is a vile mindset to be certain, and by his own rationale, he deserves a slow and painful death. After all, he’s detracting from the discourse of civilization with an excruciatingly evil rant. That being said, he doesn’t mean it. He has no clue. He’s the fat white man calling little children of color unspeakable names though he’s never met one.

Look, he’s a craven punk who can wish people ill while sitting behind his keyboard, not having to worry about real issues of right and wrong, life and death. Perhaps the rot might make the rotters rolling around in their collective muck and tune in his radio show. And he gets the money.

Consider him to be a vacuous Howard Stern with a pound of broken glass lodged between his buttocks.

Well, with though Mitt was a flip-flopper.

No, McCain’s site was hacked. A message he had on the sidebar was replaced with:

“Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage…particularly marriage between passionate females.”

Hahahahahaha. Right?

He wasn’t hacked by the lefty freaks or by a Howard Stern groupie; rather, he stole several things from someone, including bandwidth. And his site was not hacked; rather, he site was altered from somewhere else entirely.

Oh, it’s easier than all that. Here’s the illustrated explanation.

The new Miss USA is a former Miss Teen USA, Rachel Smith, who hails from Fred Thompson’s Tennessee.

What do I know about Rachel? She’s a cute kid, which comes first with the Donald Trump boyz, and she graduated with honors from Tennessee’s Belmont University. She wants to be a journalist, and she says her background is in print.

She interned with Oprah.

She has a boyfriend.

She is 5′10″ tall.

She describes Trump as, “My boss.” And we can nod and wink at that.

She’s going to dedicate her life to talking about breast and ovarian cancers.

The pageant was evidently on television Saturday night.

I still like Shandi. Great name, that, and she’s a retro gameshow babe.