Another Drive-By
Don't have a whole lot of time, as our church's AWANA year kicks off tonight, so here's some more of the bullet-points you've grown to love so much.
***If Captain Chirps ever fully manifests itself, the World Health Organization (gotta love that acronym - I know Abbott & Costello would have) estimates that it would cost the global economy over $2 trillion. That's a significant upward revision from six months ago (by a factor of 2.5).
Will it be the next planetary scourge, or the next Legionnaires' disease? Maybe the History Channel needs to run another terrifying special to refresh our anxiety.
***France has pulled another customary el foldo, this time on requiring Iran to halt uranium enrichment processing before negotiations on ending Tehran's nuclear program can begin, as well as ruling out economic sanctions entirely. This puts the fading regime of Black Jacque Chirac on the same page as Russia and Red China, both of whom, for their own respective reasons, have been protecting the mullahgarchy every step of the way.
As Cap'n Ed observes, this is a carbon copy reprise of Chirac's perfidious actions leading up to the invasion of Iraq. Unlike Mr. Morrissey, however, I don't see it leading to any American adoption of a hard line against the French or the UN. If we're bowing at the throne of Kofi Annan vis-a-vie Iran after the way we were buggered by the denizens of Turtle Bay on Iraq, I don't see where this revived, frosty skepticism is going to come from.
***Human Rights Watch - not exactly a bastion of "neocon" fervor - has publicly condemned the UN Human Rights Council (which is TOTALLY DIFFERENT from the old UN Human Rights COMMISSION) for its not exactly disguised anti-Semitism.
That's the punchline to the joke, "The UN Human Rights Council (which is ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY SEPARATE AND DISTINCT from the old UN Human Rights COMMISSION) is so anti-Semitic - HOW ANTI-SEMITIC IS IT?....
***Reason magazine applies the toe-tag to the Jack Abramoff scandal. Which is an odd metaphor, come to think of it, for something that was stillborn to begin with.
***One more reason to hate the McCain Mutineers' guts:
***Late last week the Marxist robber baron George Soros called George W. Bush a Nazi AND a communist. That ante-upping must be why Venezuelan Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez called Bush the Devil at the UN this morning. Which is a little odd, since I thought Marxists were atheists and thus didn't believe in supernatural entities, even metaphorically.
Other than themselves, of course.
***I'm noticing a trend:
Remember how the Red Army assigned political commissars to each unit to ensure loyalty to the communist party? Seems like the fever swamps are doing the functional equivalent to each Democrat candidate - and probably with the same eventual big picture result.
***Mac Owens sums up the state of the Iraq project:
We can only lose Iraq if we choose to. Question is, will we?
***If Captain Chirps ever fully manifests itself, the World Health Organization (gotta love that acronym - I know Abbott & Costello would have) estimates that it would cost the global economy over $2 trillion. That's a significant upward revision from six months ago (by a factor of 2.5).
Will it be the next planetary scourge, or the next Legionnaires' disease? Maybe the History Channel needs to run another terrifying special to refresh our anxiety.
***France has pulled another customary el foldo, this time on requiring Iran to halt uranium enrichment processing before negotiations on ending Tehran's nuclear program can begin, as well as ruling out economic sanctions entirely. This puts the fading regime of Black Jacque Chirac on the same page as Russia and Red China, both of whom, for their own respective reasons, have been protecting the mullahgarchy every step of the way.
As Cap'n Ed observes, this is a carbon copy reprise of Chirac's perfidious actions leading up to the invasion of Iraq. Unlike Mr. Morrissey, however, I don't see it leading to any American adoption of a hard line against the French or the UN. If we're bowing at the throne of Kofi Annan vis-a-vie Iran after the way we were buggered by the denizens of Turtle Bay on Iraq, I don't see where this revived, frosty skepticism is going to come from.
***Human Rights Watch - not exactly a bastion of "neocon" fervor - has publicly condemned the UN Human Rights Council (which is TOTALLY DIFFERENT from the old UN Human Rights COMMISSION) for its not exactly disguised anti-Semitism.
That's the punchline to the joke, "The UN Human Rights Council (which is ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY SEPARATE AND DISTINCT from the old UN Human Rights COMMISSION) is so anti-Semitic - HOW ANTI-SEMITIC IS IT?....
***Reason magazine applies the toe-tag to the Jack Abramoff scandal. Which is an odd metaphor, come to think of it, for something that was stillborn to begin with.
***One more reason to hate the McCain Mutineers' guts:
After the White House produced a letter signed by the leaders of the Pentagon's lawyers supporting a clarification of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, the Republican Senators opposed to the effort accused the Bush Administration of coercing the statement. The New York Times [!!!] reports today that the signatories did not get forced into signing anything.RINOs using the Donks' character assassination tactics in lieu of an argument they can't win on the merits. Man, I'd like to kick Lindsey Graham right in his sleazy, dishonorable nuts.
***Late last week the Marxist robber baron George Soros called George W. Bush a Nazi AND a communist. That ante-upping must be why Venezuelan Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez called Bush the Devil at the UN this morning. Which is a little odd, since I thought Marxists were atheists and thus didn't believe in supernatural entities, even metaphorically.
Other than themselves, of course.
***I'm noticing a trend:
No big surprise that the campaign aide to Representative Ben Cardin, who is challenging Lieutenant-Governor Michael Steele for the open Maryland Senate seat, who published racist and anti-Semitic remarks on a blog, was steered to Cardin through MoveOn.org and the Democrat National Committee, says a state Democratic operative.
Cardin's senior staff on Sunday mulled putting out a story that the woman, who joined the campaign about a month ago, was believed to be a Republican plant. But after reviewing notes of the woman's hiring, they discovered that she was a Democrat Party operative.
Remember how the Red Army assigned political commissars to each unit to ensure loyalty to the communist party? Seems like the fever swamps are doing the functional equivalent to each Democrat candidate - and probably with the same eventual big picture result.
***Mac Owens sums up the state of the Iraq project:
The likelihood of success in Iraq has been improved in direct proportion to the recognition that what is happening in that country is a classical insurgency and that the correct response is the proper application of counterinsurgency techniques and operational approaches. But as was the case with Vietnam, success in Iraq will also depend on the vicissitudes of American domestic politics. [emphasis added]
We can only lose Iraq if we choose to. Question is, will we?
posted by JASmius at 5:10 PM
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