Headlines - Thursday

I'm off to Alaska for a couple of weeks, and am hoping if he has time, Dick will take over the blog until I return.

 

Talk amongst yourselves.

 

And keep your fingers crossed that I run into this woman:

 

 

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A Tengrain photoshop

Today marks a sad day for us, a turning point, really, where the US started down a slippery slope. You see, it was on this date in 2001, while on one of his many, many vacations that Chimpy received the briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack US" (or words to that effect). The rest is history.

This image was taken on that day, and might actually be Harriet Miers giving Chimpy the memo (that was part of her job).

Please reflect for a moment on this.

Simple little words, that if understood and acted upon could have saved our souls and thousands (millions?) of others.

While there are those who say our national tragedy began with the stolen 2000 election (and I will not argue that point), I would say our fate was sealed on this day, eight long years ago.

If ever there is a day of rememberence for the Iraq War, this should be it.

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This is one of Jed's finest works. Townhalls gone wild.

 

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William Jefferson, the former Congressman from New Orleans, who gained infamy for having $90,000 in his freezer, was found guilty today on 11 of the 16 counts against him.

 

Good.

 

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Oily Taint

 

And the rest of them. Our pal Maru:

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Remember when the news used to give you something called… let's see now, what was it… uh, facts? All we get now is variations on shit like Senator, your republican opponent says your bill calls for the mercy killings of thousands. Why do you hate freedom, you murderer? Even formerly-dignified wonk shows are featuring loonytoon haters such as Michelle Malkin and that Orly Taintz Borat character. I'm so bleeping disgusted I could puke. 

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h/t Dick

 

More than 1,100 have died worldwide from the swine flu.

 

The good news is that there is a vaccine. It's still in clinical trials, and won't get to 'governments' until sometime in September "dependant on capacity and yield".  And pray how long will it then take to get to the Wayne County Health Center...and me?  The "second half of 2009 and early 2010"?  Depending on capacity and yield?  And depending on the governments' well established reputation for efficiency at distribution?  And depending on the number and size of high-priority groups deemed by the CDC to be more 'at risk' than mine?  After that I have to wait for at least five weeks after my first vaccination for immunity, if the vaccine proves to be effective, and if the virus, by that time, hasn't mutated to resist the vaccine?

 

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Hypocrisy much? 

 

The headline of Greenwald's latest:

Hillary Clinton demands accountability for war crimes

Dear Mrs. Clinton,

I love ya, I really do. I like you a lot more than I like your husband. That said, my dear, I think it might be wise to refrain from calling for war crimes trials in other countries until we decide to prosecute our own criminals. As long as those who criminally lied us into two wars, detained innocents without cause, tortured others, and killed thousands, American and Iraqi alike, remain free, we are in no position to point fingers at, or lecture, anyone else.

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We need to teach those Kenyans that if they don't prosecute their criminals in high office, then they'll perpetuate their "culture of impunity," and that would be awful. Those Kenyans apparently fail to understand that if you immunize high political officials when they commit crimes, that creates a "culture of impunity" -- I love that phrase -- which ensures future rampant criminality in the political class. How can those Kenyans not realize this?

Clinton's sentiments echoed what Obama told Africans when he spoke in Ghana last month, when he demanded that they apply "the rule of law, which ensures the equal administration of justice" and vowed that "we will stand behind efforts to hold war criminals accountable" -- meaning African war criminals. As we send murderous, crusading civilian units around the world to accompany our invading armies -- while ushering a regime of torture wherever we go -- and then announce we will only Look to the Future, Not the Past, when their crimes are exposed (despite our best efforts to keep them concealed), do we actually expect anyone to take these sermons seriously? [em in orig]

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Other than that, I hope all is well with you and the family. Remember to kick Bill in the nuts once or twice a month, just to remind him who's boss.

Regards,

Fixer

 

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Via Talking Points Memo, this uplifting tale of wingnut fervor:

Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) will not be hosting any town hall events this August — instead, he's making himself available to constituents for one-on-one meetings about health care reform — and at least part of the reason is this: His offices have received threatening phone calls, including at least one direct threat against his life.

"We had no town hall events scheduled for the August recess anyway, but in light of everything that's happened — we have received a threatening phone call in the D.C. office, there have been calls to the Raleigh office," said Miller communications director LuAnn Canipe, in an interview with TPM.

"The call to the D.C. office was, 'Miller could lose his life over this,'" said Canipe. "Our staffer took it so seriously, he confirmed what the guy was saying. He said, 'Sir is that a threat?" and at that time our staffer was getting the phone number off caller ID and turning it over to the Capitol Police."

Canipe explained that Miller had no plans for a town hall before and won't be holding any now, due to this event and the examples he's already seem from the around the country: "Our point is, we're not gonna be bullied into having a town hall so it can then be interrupted by the fake grassroots folks."

"We don't want to people to think we're shutting out our constituents," Canipe added.. "We're meeting with them one on one to discuss health care reform."

And this: freshman democratic lawmaker physically assaulted at a local event by activists.

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Global warming denier Senator Jim Inhofe calls Sotomayor a racist, but says Strom Thurmond was a 'great American.'

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/05/inhofe-sotomayor-racist/

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Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler hurted himself at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, plunging from the Buffalo Chip stage and possibly injuring some part of his body. Rapid City Journal

And this: Meghan McCain Now Threatening To Run Away With Trashy Sturgis Bikers, and She Definitely Should Do This! http://wonkette.com/410329/meghan-mccain-now-threatening-to-run-away-with-trashy-sturgis-bikers-and-she-definitely-should-do-this

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The World According to John Bolton

We take a break from teabaggers in near-riot, people who believe Barack Obama is an illegal alien who hates white people, and the GOP alternative to health care reform to consider journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling. After accidentally crossing the border between China and North Korea (or, perhaps, after being tricked into crossing it), they found themselves in the custody of what few would argue wasn't the most totalitarian state in the world. Charged with being in North Korea to launch a "smear campaign" against the regime, the two journalists were sentenced to twelve years of hard labor. You'd imagine that a North Korean labor camp would make a Stalinist gulag look like Club Med -- this was a virtual death sentence.
http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2009/08/world-according-to-john-bolton.html

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Obama's Commie Mama

Andrew Walden
Commie Hunter

Dear Mr. Walden,

I avoided reading your "Barack Obama: Red Diaper Baby" article in American Thinker until now, because I assumed from the title of your publication, that it might be one of those elitist, pro-thinking blogs. Thankfully, one of my friends, Vallor, corrected me and convinced me to give it a look.

I'm glad he did. As far as investigative journalism goes, your piece ranks up there with the very best reports on the Klinton murders, secret Muslim messages in Mattel dolls, and Obama birth certificates. Indeed, it's almost like you were channeling Orly Taitz.

Your research certainly convinced me that Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Szlz Obama, was as red as a Palin voter's face after detox. How could it not with evidence like this:

According to former classmate Chip Wall, she caught foreign films at Seattle's only art-house theater, the Ridgemont, and trekked to University District coffee shops like the Encore to talk about jazz, the value of learning from other cultures and the "very dull Eisenhower-ness of our parents."

I bet she saw some of those movies you have to read, the ones with guys in hip European eyeglasses and trombone-playing clowns marching in small circles like some kind of sick circus orgy thrown by a tractor factory collective.

And the coffee--coffee in the Seattle Socialist Republic no less, a city where it's easier to score a dainty cup of French-pressed espresso than a good, American soda pop in a Big Gulp cup.

And Jazz? well, it's not proper music for a young white girl--that's what you were getting at, right? It's not uplifting like, say, Webb Pierce's There Stands the Glass or Conway Twitty's Pop a Top. More importantly, it's gotta be commie music. I bet Breshnev was a jazz fiend. I can imagine him slowly swaying to the cool sounds of Miles Davis as he and Suzlov riffed on dialectical materialism in between great proletarian tokes of righteous Bolshevik Bud.

I hope you continue to write pieces like this. We just don't hear people calling Obama a communist and a socialist as much as we should.

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot