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Rising star of the Christian right, Dinesh D'Souza, gets hammered by Stephen Colbert. Go watch it, it's hilarious! Among the things I learned from the interview is that Americans should "edit" their culture (or the culture that they export) based on what the terrorists want (no gay marriages, etc.). Why anyone would listen to D'Souza is a mystery.

Today's supposed to be the midterm elections, but I'm not voting. This'll be the first time I won't be participating in an election since I was eligible to vote. There's no substantive issue discussed during the campaign period, just boring personalities trying to win votes by airing insipid commercials, silly campaign jingles, and of course, by either praising or condemning the current Arroyo regime. Let's face it, the administration is crummy but the opposition is just as vile.

My wife, on the other hand, is gung-ho about the election, if only because her uncle (a political neophyte) is seeking a mayoral seat in their hometown. We'll be going to her parents' place some time before lunch. We originally decided to stay overnight so she could volunteer as a pollwatcher for her uncle, but she later decided not to. We'll go home by early evening and wait for the result at home.

As I've blogged before, the Philippine-based communist terrorists are using landmines despite international condemnation of its use. It was just a matter of time before such devices would end up hurting civilians. Sadly, this has come to pass:

Communist rebels injure civilians with indiscriminate landmine use

At least 15 people were wounded, five of them seriously, when their minibus hit two landmines planted by communist rebels along a highway in the southern province of Surigao del Sur, Monday morning.

The packed vehicle was traveling in Tago town, 830 kilometers southeast of Manila, when it ran over a land mine in the village of Unidos, said police Chief Superintendent Geary Barias.

The New People's Army, who have been waging a protracted war for 37 years, at first said the blast was a "gift to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo," but later apologized on learning the victims were civilians.

When police arrived at the scene, they found a big crater created by the explosion, as well as electrical wires. The policemen followed the trail of the wires, which led them to a group of communist guerrillas waiting in an ambush, Barias said.

Sorry, but your apologies don't mean a thing. Your movement is not supported by the populace, your methods are brutal and merciless, and your inflexibility for change will only marginalize your cause. Go do some real work for a change, and stop extorting people and firms with your revolutionary taxes (a thief by any other name...).

Since all rightwing nutjobs sound so much alike, I had a hard time guessing who said what in this online quiz. In the end, I still got 10 of 14 correct. How about you, can you guess if the liberal bashing quotes are from Ann Coulter or Adolf Hitler? Here are two samples:

We must study this vile liberal technique of emptying garbage pails full of the vilest slanders and defamations from hundreds and hundreds of sources at once, suddenly and as if by magic, on the clean garments of honorable men, if we are fully to appreciate the entire menace represented by these scoundrels of the press.

and

The truth is another hateful "bourgeois institution."...liberals always seem to be enthusiastically defending liars. Lying is their most cherished human activity.

Coulter and Hitler, two kindred spirits. Thanks to Ed Brayton for letting us know about this quiz (he got 9 correct answers).