Nobody just rolls out of bed and starts being an underage-boy-chaser-seducer past the age of 50. This sordid and disgusting story is far from over, and may end up with Foley in jail.
He may avoid jail. Hell is another story.
His seat in Congress was a lock, too… Now it’s up in the air.
A woman who falsely cried rape against her former husband was facing jail yesterday after being convicted of perverting the course of justice. . . .
Lifting an order preventing her identification, Recorder David Lane, QC, said: “The public has a right to know the identity of a person who makes such allegations and who seeks to use the system of justice for her own, unscrupulous ends….”
Even worse, think about all the billion million non-rapes that already aren’t being reported! The frightening thing about Ms. Hendersoon’s arrest is that it could have a chilling effect on the probability that women who’ve had a “near rape experience” will report those fake rapes, near rapes, hypothetical rapes and unicorn rapes to the police.
In a change of pace, Zawahiri plagiarizes a Joe Biden speech. Well, not just Joe Biden. Any Democrat, really. Whines about “torture” and calls Bush a miserable failure.
“Common sense:” Australian for “profiling.”
The UN just found another opportunity to duck responsibility and cave into the demands of international rogues. In the 1990s, Kofi Annan was largely responsible for the decision not to intervene early in Rwanda and prevent the genocide. Cowardice is the rule, not the exception. But at least the Deputy Secretary General didn’t miss his opportunity to blame the US for all this.
I’ve yet to get a good look at Bush’s detainee bill that just got passed, but given the reactions from the usual suspects, I’m inclined to approve.
Of interest to Republicans, Ned Lamont is getting trounced by Joe Lieberman. It’s 49% to 39%.
That Lieberman leads with independents, Connecticut’s largest voting bloc, 50% to 36%, and with Republicans 69% to 15% shows just what a turnoff the MoveOn.org, Al Franken, Olbermann message is to those outside its dilapidated halls.
Ned’s campaign is not positive or proactive, being run on a static message consisting of, “Abandon all hope,” so it’s unlikely that he will gain ground throughout the election without something huge happening on his single issue: Iraq. Let’s say, something like the European Union entering the war in Iraq, on the side of the insurgents.
That’s not going to happen, so Ned’s not going to happen.
You know what the problem with nature is? There’s too much of it:
Scientists have run high-tech tests on harmful bacteria in local rivers and streams and found that many of the germs — and in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, a majority of them — come from wildlife dung. The strange proposition that nature is apparently polluting itself has created a serious conundrum for government officials charged with cleaning up the rivers.Part of the problem lies with the unnaturally high populations of deer, geese and raccoons living in modern suburbs and depositing their waste there. But officials say it would be nearly impossible, and wildly unpopular, to kill or relocate enough animals to make a dent in even that segment of the pollution.
That leaves scientists and environmentalists struggling with a more fundamental question: How clean should we expect nature to be? In certain cases, they say, the water standards themselves might be flawed, if they appear to forbid something as natural as wild animals leaving their dung in the woods.
“Nature is apparently polluting itself.” Shame on you, nature.
Jarvis reports from a PBS panel at Reuters on news and tabloid culture, and records the following soundbite from Carl Bernstein:
Bernstein asks the room who voted for Bush. Not a single person raises a hand. “This tells us something about we who are producing this,” he says.
It does tell us something, doesn’t it? Although it does not tell us as explicitly as Thomas Edsall or Linda Greenhouse.
According to Ahmadinejad’s translator, the Iranian President wanted to meet with Michael Moore. Sadly, effors to contact the filmmaker were unsuccessful. One can pretty much predict how their conversation would’ve gone.
Damn. Just imagine the propaganda value we could’ve wrung out of this.
From Cliff Kincaid:
In the year before the bombing, some 2,000 people had been killed in a civil war in Kosovo. A conservative estimate is that 6,000 were killed by U.S. and NATO bombs.It’s strange as well that Clinton complained to Wallace about the “neocons” attacking him when many of the same neocons in 1999 supported Clinton’s war on Yugoslavia. The war was never approved by the U.N. or the U.S. Congress, and in fact violated the War Powers Act. The main beneficiary of the intervention was a Muslim terrorist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), with links to bin Laden, who had declared war on America in 1996, bombed our embassies in Africa in 1998, and would later, of course, orchestrate 9/11.
That’s right — we went in there and saved them, and in return they rammed two airplanes into our towers.
Some thanks.
From a Sept. 25 McClatchy story on Afghanistan: “By failing to stop Taliban leaders and Osama bin Laden from escaping into Pakistan, then diverting troops and resources to Iraq before finishing the job in Afghanistan, the Bush administration left the door open to a Taliban comeback.”
They’re even crazy in their sleep:
A dream researcher from John F. Kennedy University in California has discovered fundamental differences between the dream worlds of people on the ideological left and the ideological right.Among his findings, Kelly Bulkeley discovered that liberals are more restless sleepers and have a higher number of bizarre, surreal dreams–including fantasy settings and a wide variety of sexual encounters. Conservatives’ dreams were, on average, far more mundane and focused on realistic people, situations and settings …
“While some of my colleagues think my research reinforces the stereotype of repressed, uptight conservatives, it also shows that many liberals may he hanging on the edge of mental well-being,” Mr. Bulkeley said. “There may be a lot of hidden distress and unpleasantness in the liberal mind.”
My dreams tend to be pretty bizarre…
Something odd is afoot in America’s elite media — increasingly, journalists are unabashed about admitting their liberal bias. Another example is Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, who talked to radio host Hugh Hewitt yesterday:
Hewitt: What [the Washington Post's Thomas] Edsall admitted, which was so damning, is that the people who drive the news are the reporters, and the reporters are, by 15-25 to 1 leftists.Alter: OK. All right. Now I’m not sure that ratio is wrong. I mean, I don’t think anybody has a good study of it, but–
Hewitt: But it feels right.
Alter: –it’s overwhelmingly, the question, though, the threshold question that you have to look at is how much does that affect their coverage? Now I think some. I think liberals who say well, that doesn’t affect their coverage at all are wrong. Obviously, people’s worldviews will affect their coverage to a certain extent.
CQ Today reported this morning that Charles Rangel “vowed to put all of President Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts — which expire in 2010 — on the chopping block.” Rangel is the top Democrat on the House tax-writing committee who would likely wield the gavel if Democrats win in November. Yesterday, National Journal’s Congress Daily PM ($) reported that “Asked whether tax increases across the income spectrum would be considered, he replied, ‘No question about it.’”
Remember how a lot of people scoffed when smokers said that banning their habit was only the beginning? Does it sound so unlikely now?
NEW YORK (AP) — Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.The city health department unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would bar cooks at any of the city’s 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain the artery-clogging substance, commonly listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil.
Well, of course the smokers were right.
Mayor Bloomberg is a Republican, but he’s also a major control freak with tendencies towards absolutist rule who thinks he knows best how you should lead your life. In other words, he’s a liberal.
Yes, fats are bad for you, but they give a lot of food their taste and texture. You know what makes that pie crust or that croissant so flaky? You know why fries have so much flavor? Ingredients with trans fats.
But what concern is it of the government about fats, anyway? This is the kind of fast food fascism that comes from stupid “documentaries” like SuperSize Me, whipping people up into a frenzy over the evil McDonalds across the street putting a gun to their head and forcing them to swallow Big Macs by the dozen.
What does this have to do with state policy? What we’ll hear is that there are public policy questions regarding the cost of healthcare and how the fatty foods are contributing to the cost of that care.
First smoking, then fois gras, and now certain kinds of fats. They might as well just ban eating. It may seem harmless, but it’s an incremental and disgusting intrusion into our lives — a needless limitation on our freedom.
When it was said that second-hand smoke was based on junk science, they replied, “it doesn’t matter, it’s a disgusting habit that should not be forced on me,” as if you personally were making them smoke. Now the tables have turned, and the beast is out of the cage, and everybody has their own idea on what to get rid of next.
How much does the consumption of alcohol cost the healthcare system every year? Let’s see them ban that.
This is what happens when you let the government be in charge of your health. Once you charge the government with the responsibility for your well being — socialized medicine — then the government suddenly has a legitimate interest in what and how much you eat, how much exercise you do, how much you watch TV — it becomes as if the entire nation has moved back into their parents’ basement: “as long as you’re living under my roof, you’re gonna follow my rules.”
Holey moley this guy is… well, see for yourself. From the Coundtown anchor’s post-Clinton-meltdown “Special Comment” posted at his MSNBC rubber room (maturely dubbed “a textbook definition of cowardice” — guess who the coward is?):
It is not important that the current President’s portable public chorus has described his predecessor’s tone as “crazed.” Our tone should be crazed. The nation’s freedoms are under assault by an administration whose policies can do us as much damage as al Qaida; the nation’s marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would’ve quit.”At least I tried,” he said of his own efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. “That’s the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They had eight months to try; they did not try. I tried.”Thus in his supposed emeritus years has Mr. Clinton taken forceful and triumphant action for honesty, and for us; action as vital and as courageous as any of his presidency; action as startling and as liberating, as any, by any one, in these last five long years.
The Bush Administration did not try to get Osama bin Laden before 9/11.
The Bush Administration ignored all the evidence gathered by its predecessors.
The Bush Administration did not understand the Daily Briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike in U.S.”
The Bush Administration did not try.
Moreover, for the last five years one month and two weeks, the current administration, and in particular the President, has been given the greatest “pass” for incompetence and malfeasance in American history!
Wow! There’s a lot more than this. Obviously someone is Cuckoo for Coco Puffs.
Republicans have launched a blistering multimillion dollar ad offensive, in the making for over a year, against Democrats in key races. Let’s hope it works.
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