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May 22, 2006

Sometimes interesting weekend

I was mostly preoccupied with all sorts of non-computer things this weekend ... popping on only long enough to catch up with headlines. The writing muse was lounging elsewheres while the rest of me is/was preparing for a busy week and weekend ahead. Siobhan comes home the end of the week, Eric and I have a wedding to attend, family birthdays loom in the next coming weeks and, of course, my gramma times with the twins that is a nice chunk of my weekends.

Let me draw your attention to some interesting things:

Following the money in the Duke rape case adds another wrinkle to why this case is still being pursued even as no forensic evidence is supporting the charges.

Weirdness alert as two Saudi men board a school bus and give conflicting stories. CAIR issues the usual boilerplate that it is America's fault that the men were arrested. As Jeff G. pithily observes, " ... a week in sensitivity training class and the students will know better than to trust their instincts next time, and the bus driver...well, I’m sure he can get a job delivering milk or appliances."

Allah at Hot Air is covering the case of a son-of-Murtha "America war crimes" video done by one Jessie Macbeth. Seems like this self-described "ex Army Ranger" may be as genuine as Rather's TANG memos. Fast developing story.

Almost as American as apple pie is graft and politicians, so the video tape of William Jefferson D-LA should not be more than a blip on the news radar, save for a few things. One may recall Jefferson's self-serving chutzpah when he snagged National Guardsmen engaged in Katrina rescue operations to take him to his own home and "rescue" his daughter's laptop and a suitcase". We may be forgiven now wondering about what was really in that suitcase since we now know Jefferson like keeping his bribe cash wrapped in foil in the family freezer. Cold Cash Jefferson is a great nic! Kinda puts a spike in the Rethuglican Culture of Corruption™ liturgy.

Looks like the Religion of Peace™ is at it again, firing a missile into an Israeli school. Funny, where's the outrage at the deliberate targeting of children? Oh right. Just Jews. Like Americans, Jews are held to different standards. Just ask Jhimmi Carter. Israel has no right of sovereignty, and neither do we.

Jay Tea has more on double standards and the unwillingness of the West to confront the Islamist in the living room.

Morton Kondracke nails it:

Bush-hatred has reached such intensity that CIA officers and other bureaucrats are leaking major secrets about anti-terrorism policy and communications intelligence that undermine our ability to fight Islamic extremism.

Would newspapers in the midst of World War II have printed the fact that the United States had broken German and Japanese codes, enabling the enemy to secure its communications? Or revealed how and where Nazi spies were being interrogated? Nowadays, newspapers win Pulitzer Prizes for such disclosures. [...]

Yes, Republicans tried to destroy former President Bill Clinton over sex and politics. But now Democrats want to destroy Bush so badly that they are willing to undercut national security. [...]

People also should heed the warning delivered by Princeton University professor Bernard Lewis, one of the nation's foremost scholars of Islam, before the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life here last month.

Lewis, now 90, cast the struggle with Islamic extremism in WWII terms — it is 1938, he said, and "we seem to be more in the mode of Chamberlain at Munich rather than of Churchill."


Posted by Darleen at May 22, 2006 09:32 AM

Comments

Kondrake is going overboard if you ask me.

Why does the government need millions of phone records in the first place?

Does anyone actually believe that millions of Americans are phoning people in the Middle East?

Basically Kondrake is telling us that the government has the right to examine all private communications of whatever nature anywhere at any time. Or should have such a right.

I wonder how Kondrake would feel if his number was included in those numbers harvested.

Posted by: Carl W. Goss at May 23, 2006 07:11 AM

http:www.ericblumrich.com/liberation.html
http://www.ericblumrich.com/signals.html

Posted by: blubonnet at May 25, 2006 12:48 AM

blu

nicely produced bit of propaganda ... the German American Bund would have been proud

Posted by: Darleen at May 25, 2006 06:21 AM

Reality bites. You support that horror by supporting Bush and his lying bloody war.
If you support our veterans and troops REALLY, take a look at this, if you dare.

http.www.ericblumrich.com/vets/html

Posted by: blubonnet at May 25, 2006 11:09 PM

OOps, this is the right one:

http:www.ericblumrich.com/vets.html

Posted by: blubonnet at May 25, 2006 11:11 PM

Torture, spying on citizens, unprovoked war, government propaganda, unitary power, gee, where have I known that in history before? GERMANY in the 30's AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2000-2006 and that is only thus far. Why don't you take down your American flag, and put up your beloved swastika, you anti-American Bush/Nazi sheep? Wake up and smell the tyranny unfolding, as well as FASCISM. No, I'm not extreme, I'm informed and you are oblivious if you still don't know. Only a little more than a fourth of the population are still as oblivious as you. "How fortunate for the leaders that men do not think" from Adolf Hitler

Posted by: blubonnet at May 29, 2006 02:46 AM

Torture, spying on citizens, unprovoked war, government propaganda, unitary power, gee, where have I known that in history before? GERMANY in the 30's AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2000-2006 and that is only thus far. Why don't you take down your American flag, and put up your beloved swastika, you anti-American Bush/Nazi sheep? Wake up and smell the tyranny unfolding, as well as FASCISM. No, I'm not extreme, I'm informed and you are oblivious if you still don't know. Only a little more than a fourth of the population are still as oblivious as you. "How fortunate for the leaders that men do not think" from Adolf Hitler

Posted by: blubonnet at May 29, 2006 02:47 AM

blu

You're really going off into Left cultist cant -- all the buzzwords, all the unexamined liturgy.

Sheesh, Godwin's Law to boot, even as you obviously have no grasp on 20th century history or the definition of fascism.

You're under 20 aren't you?

Posted by: Darleen at May 29, 2006 08:44 AM

Abraham Lincoln: "America will never be destriyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

James Madison: "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

American Heritage Dictionary: fascism-a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging state and business leadership together with beligerant nationalism"

Islamic terrorism is based on a theocratic "principal".

Posted by: blubonnet at May 29, 2006 04:55 PM

blu

It would be nice if you actually knew history.

Nice Lincoln quote, from the only President that found it necessary to use his Article II powers to suspend habeas corpus in regards to the Democratic Party copperheads.

Nice Madison quote, from a President who found himself powerless against the British when he declared war on them (they burnt down the White House while he looked on from afar).

Both Presidents coped as best they could with the reality of the world. Should Lincoln have let the copperheads continue with sedition and allowed either the Confederacy to win or allow slavery to continue? Should Madison have allowed the British to continue to seize American merchant sailors and ships and "impress" them without reaction?

And PUH-LEEZE, get a few bits of history beyond a dictionary definition of "fascism" before pontificating that America is becoming "facist" just because you see the Tri-lateral Commission and Jews under every bed.

Fascism as a political philosophy (and regimes) began in Italy in the 1920's and has come to mean, more broadly, an ideology where the STATE rules ALL...economic, social, cultural, etc. It is NOT "rule by corporations" but rather "corporations, farms, labor, business" ruled by the state. Iran is a classic fascist regime. 20th century fascism was not only opposed to marxism and socialism, but also democracy and capitalism.

Fascism is as collectivist an ideology as the communism it ostensibily opposes.

Crack a few history books, blu.

Posted by: Darleen at May 29, 2006 07:07 PM

Hitler: "The main plank in the National Socialistic program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood."

Posted by: blubonnet at May 29, 2006 10:19 PM

Huey Long: "If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American Flag"

Posted by: blubonnet at May 29, 2006 10:21 PM

Herman Goering (2nd in command to Adolf Hitler) at Nuremberg trials: "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace-makers for their 'lack of patriotism' and 'exposing the country to danger'. It works the same in any country."

Posted by: blubonnet at May 29, 2006 10:28 PM

http://www.peace-justice.com/fascism.html

Posted by: blubonnet at May 29, 2006 10:30 PM

James Madison " All men having power ought to be mistrusted"

Posted by: blubonnet at May 30, 2006 12:02 AM

George W Bush: "Don't wave the Constitution at me,it's just a god-damned piece of paper"

Posted by: blubonnet at May 30, 2006 12:05 AM

Darleen I followed your link from RWS. Nice Blog. The Supreme Court time and time again said that Lincolns suspension of Habeas Corpus was unconstitutional, as well as his Sec. of State doing the same thing so according to the court, yes Mr. Lincoln should have. See Ex parte Milligan, and I believe Ex parte McCardle. I believe that some of this president's doings regarding Iraq will also be found unconstitutional in retrospect also.

Posted by: patricks at May 30, 2006 10:37 AM

You are okay with torture, with spying on our own citizens, attacking an innocent country knowing there was no threat, you are okay with prisoners having no rights to a lawyer, okay with government controlling the media, government serving the corporations, you are okay with our country going to hell, and you are okay with Hitler. You are supporting Bush, and these are Hitler policies. You are living in Disneyland if you aren't alarmed.

Posted by: blubonnet at May 30, 2006 12:23 PM

So, Darleen, you have made it appear as though I put up the cartoon with my statement. Well, I WILL agree with that sign. This you will find mind boggling if you dare to expand your awareness.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=26299&mode=nested&order=O

Posted by: blubonnet at May 30, 2006 09:04 PM