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Reuters Has a Witness: Reuters
2007-09-28 12:39:00 (photo: USMC) Despite his evident zeal to report on a story where American troops allegedly opened fire on a crowd of civilians in Afghanistan , Reuters corespondent Noor Mohammad Sherzai couldn’t seem to find a witness to substantiate it. This must have been quite frustrating. Thus, he apparently was reduced to interviewing himself in third person for ... More About: General , Witness
Dan Rather May Call Bush as a Witness
2007-09-28 03:36:00 In an interview about his impending lawsuit against CBS, Rather refused to answer whether he intended to call President Bush as a witness. Relevant audio here: Ian Schwartz.com>>> Full interview here: Washington Examiner>>> Well, certainly he’s not beneath it. The indignity of this entire lawsuit is a testament to how far he’s fallen from any responsible, professional restraint. ... More About: Elections , General , Witness , Call
Save the Text
2007-09-28 01:48:00 Here is the viral video of one of the better self-promotional premises I’ve seen, for what appears to be a new media marketing agency called Bright.ly (although Steve Hall thinks it’s for Heroes for some reason). If you sit through the Bright.ly site’s presentation, it’s definitely a content marketing consultancy. Although…it’s possible that the agency ... More About: General , Text , Save
The Vile Tactics of Ronpaulism
2007-09-28 00:48:00 Lest you be misled that Ronpaulism merely finds its expression in obnoxious spam on socnets like Digg, the monsters that support his campaign are no less fierce and repellent in person. Indeed, you may have heard about how they recently attacked Rudy Giuliani in Michigan with their 9/11 denial insanity. A recap: According to one eyewitness, ... More About: Tactics , General
Grand Theft Golf Cart
2007-09-25 09:23:00 Once you start watching COPS clips it’s difficult to stop. Here a whiny Jimmy Blevins-looking kid has a history of stealing small, electrically powered vehicles. We ain’t seen the last of his candy ass. More About: Television , Golf , General , Theft , Grand
Black Box Meth
2007-09-25 08:38:00 Palm Springs police encounter a meth head. In their field test, he counts thirty seconds in about fourteen. More About: Television , California , General , Black , Drug War
Lustmord and Ahmadinejad
2007-09-25 07:39:00 (photo: Dr. Susan Block) Earlier today I’d asked April Gavaza to explain to me the motives of a perverse sexual fascination in a Jewish lesbian DailyKos diary post, that Bob Krumm had found. The leftist has apparently developed a fetish for anti-gay, anti-Semitic, Iran ian despot Ahmadinejad. Unfortunately, April’s reaction was very near my own: I was pinged ... More About: History , Germany , Films , General
Oxfords, Boots and Flats
2007-09-24 20:11:00 From Tom Harkin’s Iowa cookout, different worlds in footwear: (Tom Harkin) More About: Elections , Democrats , Bill Richardson , General
Bush Hatred as Psychosexual Death Wish
2007-09-24 18:33:00 Bob Krumm picks up a DailyKos post from Sally Kohn, that is quite simply the most insane thing you’re likely to read today: I know I?m a Jewish lesbian and he?d [Ahmadinejad ] probably have me killed. But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon? Okay, I admit it. ... More About: Iran , General , Death
The Nazis are Coming! The Nazis are Coming!
2007-09-24 16:54:00 In Aesop’s fable, the shepherd boy’s cries are eventually justified when the wolf finally does appear. But in our world, the wolf never shows up and the boy just keeps crying wolf about everything and everyone until the villagers heads are ready to split apart from the pure and constant annoyance of it. See here. More About: France , General , Nazis
GOP Candies in Michigan
2007-09-24 16:14:00 The Detroit News has some splendid photos from the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. According to the paper, the attendees went wild for Newt Gingrich, Giuliani almost hit a local chord and folks wanted brimstone from FDT (and didn’t get it). How does an albino live in Arizona? (DetNews) Pirate eyes. Protect your secretary: (DetNews) It came from the grassy knoll: (DetNews) Windowpane ... More About: Elections , Republicans , General , Michigan , Dies
The Nauseating Political Commentary in Rolling Stone
2007-09-24 15:38:00 Yes, I know Rolling Stone has always had raunchy political coverage (except for PJ….and that odd period where they tried to become a marginally less titillating rival for Maxim). But Contributing Editor and neo-gonzo columnist Matt Taibbi, has one of the more grotesque and profane hit pieces on the American voter I’ve read this side ... More About: Elections , Commentary , The Media , Political , General
Charity Case or Prime Investment?
2007-09-24 13:35:00 T. Rowe Price has a new mutual fund and half of its investment is in Africa. Why? While the NGOs fret, those nefarious American capitalists have been paying attention: Loan forgiveness by Western governments has allowed Africa to cut its external debt in half. Soaring oil prices have driven annual growth as high as 8 percent ... More About: Charity , Investment , Case , Prime , Rime
The New York Times Ruins My Discount Advertising Campaign
2007-09-24 13:09:00 Well, shucks. Apparently the New York Times found some scruples just when I was closing in on a credible angle for making my business appear anti-Bush in a full-page print ad: After two weeks of denials, the New York Times acknowledged that it should not have given a discount to Move-On.org for a full-page advertisement assailing ... More About: Advertising , General , Campaign
Caustic Commentary on Chavez
2007-09-23 02:59:00 Ms. Feather’s has an awfully acute insight into sympathy for Hugo Chavez in Europe & America: And [Chavez] has the people over the first world, the international useful idiots who cheer his jokes like they just discovered a new favorite monkey in the 3rd world zoo. (CitizenFeathers) Socialist Venezuela as pet. It’s an apt metaphor, for the zoogoer ... More About: Commentary , General
The Miscalculations of the Myopic
2007-09-23 02:31:00 (photo: USMC) Since we’re plinking the Iran ian apologists today, the latest from Joshua Foust at ASHC: NATO keeps insisting it?s finding Iranian arms and saying it?s government policy, I keep wondering why they don?t think it?s the drug lords along the open border. I mean, the Iranians have NO reason to try to destabilize a friendly government ... More About: Afghanistan , General
The Southern Bulwark
2007-09-23 01:20:00 I didn’t see this report on CNN, but wish I had: Therefore, when recently the CNN Inside Africa crew went to chat with them on the streets of Cairo, their views were expected as all the respondents rejected the notion of being Africans in the first place. It must be emphasized that this same view is ... More About: Christianity , Islam , Egypt , General
Laughing at Distant Lightning
2007-09-23 00:01:00 Here’s some footage of Iran ’s “advanced” new tactical fighter the Saegheh (”lightning”), which the theocracy claims can match the American F/A-18 Hornet. They’ve recently announced full production of this little toy. (via MykSandbox) Ahem. Yes, it does indeed resemble the ancient Northrop F-5. As Lex puts it: Slap a dihedral tail on a forty year old airframe, paint ... More About: Lightning , General , Laugh , Laughing
Getting Away with Murder, Iranian Style
2007-09-22 22:26:00 (photo: Headquarters Marine Corps) It was once said that regional stability in the Middle East was impossible as long as Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq . For me, given events, this was manifestly true. Faced with the situation we acted and acted decisively. Yet as nettlesome as Iraq under the Baath was, since its fall, ... More About: Murder , Iran , Afghanistan , General
Barrett Firearms Become Impossible to Acquire
2007-09-22 12:29:00 (photo: AtlanticFirearms ) How popular are Barrett’s .50 BMG rifles these days? Ha. Try buying one new. It ain’t happening. As military, police and plain old sport shooters have been gobbling them up, I’ve been watching the waiting list times creep up in handfuls of weeks. By the time it had surpassed the wait time for a Harley ... More About: General , Impossible , Acquire , Ossi
Cars: The Next ?Big Tobacco?
2007-09-22 11:41:00 How does the old Martin Niemöller poem go? “When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, for I was not a Jew.” So it was when businessmen outside the tobacco industry turned a blind eye as statists in Europe and America systematically raped and ruined cigarette manufacturers, destroyed the reputations of their executives and ... More About: Business , Cars , Automobiles , General
A Fuss in the Foggy Woods
2007-09-22 11:14:00 Sometimes comments threads are better than the original post. Our friends at ASHC get themselves into an example of this, when an all-hands-on-deck comment brawl breaks out between contributors MichaelW, Joshua Foust and Lance over Blackwater, Josh’s snide snarkiness and the threat of lawsuits. OJ Simpson even gets drug into this fight. What more do ... More About: Woods , Fuss
Canadians in Syria
2007-09-22 09:25:00 Canadian energy firm Loon is making an sizable investment in the Syria n dictatorship. Worse, the price of Canada ’s conscience comes cheap: The Syrian government will receive 12.5% of production, while the rest will be split between the state-owned Syrian Oil Co. and the Canadian company at a 71-29 or 80-20 ratio, depending on the production amount. (Edmonton ... More About: General , Canadians
The Price of Lunch in Zimbabwe
2007-09-22 08:56:00 Lunch for eight people costs a diner six million Zimbabwe an dollars (about $18 US). (Daily Mail) More About: Lunch , General , Price
Confronting Mugabe
2007-09-22 08:53:00 Nancy Reyes has a source telling her that former Archbishop Pius Ncube –the key figure in Zimbabwe ’s internal opposition– may indeed stand for election against Mugabe himself: “Pius is determined to fight Mugabe on the political front. All along he has been supporting other candidates, but none of them has been able to topple Mugabe. So ... More About: Africa , United Kingdom , General , Robert Mugabe
Ronpaulist Truthers Attack
2007-09-22 03:32:00 Ronpaulist 9/11 deniers attempt to confront Fred Thompson outside a private luncheon on their signature paranoid delusion, the dreaded “North American Union” (cue Psycho shower theme). Thompson responds appropriately by turning his back on the nuttery. It also sounds like the Ronpaulists were heckling FDT outside, with their stupefyingly idiotic contheorist slogans. I guess it’s better ... More About: General , Attack , Atta , Ruth
Poland Takes a Stand Against Abortion
2007-09-22 03:07:00 (photo: Bartek Kucharczyk) Conservative Poland is causing more trouble for the European Union . This time by vetoing the EU’s plan for an “anti-death penalty day.” Were Poland’s veto of this “sacred secular” political grandstanding not offensive enough to Western European sensibilities (the moral modus there being “death for the innocent, life for the guilty”), the Polish ... More About: General , Abortion , Stand
Have You Walked Your Fish Today?
2007-09-22 02:35:00 Apparently the fish-as-pet owner may be feeling a bit left out by the owners of more mobile pets. Here’s the pitch: “fish bowl take away. to carry your fish friend with you outdoors. by the designer Michal Shabtiali from Israel made [the] product for “kids with divorced parents” (Pan-Dan) Nadejda asks: “why? why? Why?” Because people are silly and ... More About: Fish , Today
Productivity & Christianity in Africa
2007-09-22 02:16:00 We’ve often written about how radically the introduction and spread of Christianity is changing sub-Saharan Africa , culturally, politically and economically (for the better, in our opinion). Something that is almost totally ignored by Western media. But too often we tend to focus on the Protestant side of this effect. It should be said that Catholic ... More About: Islam , General , Productivity
Filner Flips Out
More articles from this author:2007-09-21 13:39:00 Democrat Representative Bob Filner, speaking as he was trying to physically force his way into an INS detention facility in 2003: ?I am a Congressman and I can do whatever I want, I want to see my constituent and I am not moving from here until I do so,? and later telling one officer to ?shut ... More About: California , General 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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