Moron or Democratic Shill..it's so difficult to choose

Instead, Dan Rather runs with what amounts to an unpaid ad for the Kerry-Edwards ticket.

Is he a moron, incapable of learning anything from the forged-memo fiasco?

Or just a Democratic shill?

On reflection, what difference does it make?

Dan Does It Again

It's about time they stopped taking us for granted

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson joined the campaign of Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday as a poll showed support for the presidential candidate slipping among black Americans, a critical Democratic constituency.

Jesse Jackson joins Kerry campaign

How can anyone suffer from tax cuts?

Why John Kerry will lose

I find it hard to believe any politician could say this: Kerry said America's middle classes had suffered from the huge tax cuts that Bush had presided over and which Democrats say mainly benefit the most wealthy. "He doesn't care, he's...

This is a great article

From Banagor.

Europe's Bush Problem

In today's San Francisco Chronicle, there is an article by Vivienne Walt on how Europe wants Bush to just "go away". No surprise there. In the last two years, the great divide in the Atlantic has come to the forefront of what was once regarded as essentially a "different, but still ...

Bomb Alert

Bomb alert forces plane to divert

Olympic Airlines flight 411 was on route from Athens to New York when a Greek newspaper received anonymous telephone calls saying there was a bomb on board.

RAF jets were scrambled and escorted the airliner to Stansted in Essex.

All 301 passengers and crew have left the plane and a search of the aircraft has so far found nothing suspicious.

The Useless UN

Thank God the U.S. does not have to depend on the UN for our security.

Confronted with the murder of 50,000 in Sudan, we eschewed all that nasty old unilateralism, all that hegemonic, imperialist, go-it-alone, neocon, empire, coalition-of-the-coerced stuff. Our response to this crisis would be so exquisitely multilateral, meticulously consultative, collegially cooperative and ally-friendly that it would make John Kerry swoon and a million editorialists nod in sage approval.

And so we Americans mustered our outrage at the massacres in Darfur and went to the United Nations. And calls were issued and exhortations were made and platitudes spread like béarnaise. The great hum of diplomacy signaled that the global community was whirring into action.

Meanwhile helicopter gunships were strafing children in Darfur.

We did everything basically right. The president was involved, the secretary of state was bold and clearheaded, the U.N. ambassador was eloquent, and the Congress was united. And, following the strictures of international law, we had the debate that, of course, is going to be the top priority while planes are bombing villages.

Another Triumph for the U.N.

The Anti-War Turn is a Loser for Kerry

In his current incarnation as a dove, Kerry dares not dissent too sharply from the views of the U.N. leader. Bush can develop a key campaign issue over whether it is legal for the United States to act in its own self-defense without obtaining Security Council approval. Ratification by an assemblage of nations bribed through the Oil-for-Food program should not be a prerequisite for American action.

Read the whole thing.

Good article from Belmont Club

Who Goes There? Most visitors to the US know that...

Who Goes There?

But now men traveling first-class in bespoke business suits know that neither wealth nor fame nor that immigration lawyer's telephone number can keep F-16s from popping out of the dark and escorting their flight to Bangor, Maine, from where the Mexicans might be allowed to continue, but not them. While Mr. Islam is certainly entitled to pursue legal action and may in the end be vindicated, the incident shows more clearly than any other that it's not September 10 any more. America is at war in a way that it never was in Vietnam. This one is for keeps.

This idea is not going to fly

I don't think so. Worry about your own country's elections and let citizens of the US worry about ours.

So perhaps it's time to make a modest proposal. If everyone in the world will be affected by this election, shouldn't everyone in the world have a vote? Despite Bob Dole, shouldn't the men who want to be president win the support of Liverpool and Leipzig as well as Louisville and Lexington?

Still no votes in Leipzig

I don't see people here in the U.S. sticking their noses into who wins elections in other countries. I would even go so far as to say that most people here don't care who wins elections overseas.

Muslim seething

The Muslims need to get over themselves.

A Christian teacher has gone into hiding in the northern Nigerian city of Kano after offending her Muslim pupils.
During an economics class, the teacher reprimanded a teenage girl for not concentrating and threw the book she was reading onto the floor.

This outraged students as it was a part of the Koran, Islam's most holy book. Police arrived to calm their protests after all the school's teachers fled.

Earlier this year Kano was the scene of bloody anti-Christian riots.

Nigerian teacher flees Koran row

Islamic Reform

From MEMRI.

"Twelve Nepalese citizens are slaughtered – Islam. A metro station is bombed – Islam. Civilian aircraft crash – Islam. A school is taken and the souls of 50 children [are lost] for the soul of [each] terrorist – Islam. A bus is bombed here, a railway train there, and before that there were hospitals and theaters, etc … all of them Islamic acts. [Behind] the color green are exposed rivers red with blood, flowing in the streets and public squares. And Muslims everywhere.

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Another Beheading

Brought to you by the Religion of Peace (tm).

The militant group lead by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi posted a gruesome video on a Web site Monday showing the decapitation of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong and said a second hostage — either an American or a Briton — would be killed in 24 hours.

Web Video Shows Beheading of U.S. Hostage

Guess Who's On the Catwalk

Goats!

Thirty goats were selected according to age and gender. Abdul Aziz Al-Khalaf, one of the five judges for the “Most Beautiful Goat” competition, explained that the winners are chosen on the basis of a combination of factors and overall appearance, not simply by their color. Particular points taken into consideration are the head, nose, mouth, ears, breast and eyes. The most important factor is the size of the head and the whiteness of the eye.

Beauty Pageant

Religion of Peace(tm)?

I don't think so.

Freed hostage Alla Gadieyeva, mother of a pupil at the school, told Britain's Sky News that the Islamic fanatics, who wore long hair and beards, made the hostages kneel on the gym floor with hands over their heads and confiscated and smashed all cellphones.

She recalled that the terrorists laughed as the stifling heat began to build and children began to faint from heat and dehydration. The terrorists told their captives that if they were thirsty, they should drink their own urine, she said.

"We were in complete fear," Gadieyeva said. "People were praying all the time and those that didn't know how to pray, we taught them."

The fighting continued well into the night as three terrorists, including a man Russian media identified as Chechen military commander Magomet Yevloyev — the mastermind of the evil takeover — blockaded themselves in the basement. They reportedly held several hostages, including children.

More than 300 killed half of them children

I was late for work today

Because of these idiots!

At Grand Central Station as thousands of commuters were arriving in the city for the work day, protesters from AIDS activist groups ACT UP and Housing Works released two banners and colorful balloons in the high-ceilinged main concourse. The banners said "America has AIDS" and "Cure AIDS." Then 200 protesters strode into the building chanting "Fight AIDS, not war" and other slogans.

Anti-Bush Protesters Held, NY Courts Clogged

Do they think that making people late for work and pissing them off is going to convince anyone of the righteousness of their position?

Don't they have jobs?

The wave of confrontations - which included a brawl with the police at the New York Public Library, marauding crowds cursing at delegates in Midtown and the detention of hundreds of protesters near ground zero - created a day of disorder in a convention week already marked by sustained protests against the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.

At Least 900 Arrested in City as Protesters Clash With Police