George Bush uses evidence Iraqi WMD programs as justification for invasion. No WMD found. Therefore, George Bush Lied.
Hillary Clinton says she landed in Bosnia amid sniper fire. No evidence of sniper fire found. Hillary Clinton “mis-spoke”.
Nuance
OK, Time to pay up, bitches. You knew this was coming. Because I told you about it.
Lowest Tropical Cyclone activity on record in thirty years! You don’t even have to google it.
So, then. Which is it: are hurricanes utterly and completely divorced from global warming, or is global warming bullshit? DON’T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION! ANSWER THE QUESTION!
What’s that? Fires in California? Human caused? Yep. Global warming?
Not a chance.
(h/t Instapundit for the link, Limbaugh for mentioning the story)
Unless the church wants what the leftists (or Harry Reid) want, that is.
As the pope has said, it’s a slaughter. Those are not Harry Reid ’s words or Jack Reed’s words or some Democratic operative. They are the pope. The spiritual leader of more than a million people says to everyone that’s listening to his voice and he is — he presides over more than a billion people, and many more have great respect for him. And he is saying there’s a slaughter in Iraq. Those are his words. And nothing good is coming from Iraq.
The president should understand that it’s not just the Democratic Congress that is crying out for a change in direction. It’s the pope.
I’ve noticed a massive spike in stock-spam lately. You know what I’m talking about. You’ll get a message from some nice young anonymous telling you that some stock or another is ready for an AMAZING RALLY and you’d better not miss it. Oh, and it’s a penny stock, over-the-counter. For a company you’ve never heard of. And that claims they have nothing to do with the spam.
The last time this happened was just before the big crash in 2000. I suspect it was some kind of pump-and-dump scheme, where the pumper buys a big position, spams a million people, hooks a few suckers (running the price up) and dumps his entire holding in one shot, making the stock drop like a rock.
It’s a very efficient way to transfer money from suckers to thieves. It’s also possibly a harbinger of things to come.
From Fox News story copied without permission since these things disappear or change frequently MIAMI — A federal air marshal shot and killed a 44-year-old American Airlines passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his bag and ran off of the plane, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to FOX News. The air marshal pursued and tackled the suspect, a U.S. citizen, on the jet bridge between the terminal and the Boeing 757. “The passenger … indicated he had a bomb in his bag,” Dave Adams, a federal air marshals spokesman, told FOX News in a telephone interview. “The subject was incapacitated,” Adams said. “He was subdued.” American Airlines flight 924 was arriving at Miami-Dade International Airport on Wednesday when the incident occurred. “There was an incident at the Jet Bridge involving FLT 924 departing Miami for Orlando [after arriving from Colombia]. A federal marshal was involved in the incident. No further comment,” American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said in a statement. Homeland Security officials confirmed to FOX News that this is the first time a federal air marshal has discharged his or her weapon since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Details surrounding the incident were not immediately clear, but footage showed medical personnel boarding American Airlines flight 924 with a stretcher and around 25 to 30 police vehicles on the scene. Sources told FOX News the person may have been unbalanced. One witness said the man frantically ran down the aisle and a woman, apparently his wife, said he suffered from bipolar disorder and hadn’t taken his medication. “Bipolar disorder is a treatable medical illness marked by extreme changes in mood, thought, energy and behavior,” according to the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Web site. The plane arrived from Colombia and its final destination was Orlando. The incident forced airport officials to close Concourse D but the rest of the airport remained open. The concourse has been reopened. Aviation experts postulated that the situation must have been seen as a dangerous one if the air marshal drew his gun. “The conditions [that would warrant an air marshal to fire his or her weapon] ought to be one where he has identified a threat to security” on the flight, Ron Goldman, an aviation attorney and pilot, told FOX News. Martin Gonzalez, spokesman for Colombia’s civil aviation agency, said he had no information regarding the incident. “The flight left normally with no problems,” he told The Associated Press in Bogota. He said he did not have a list of passengers who were aboard the plane. FOX News’ Catherine Herridge and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
MAY have been mentally ill. Is there any doubt? If he was an actual, y’know, terrorist, he wouldn’t be likely to divulge his intentions until just before pushing the button.
And saying “I have a bomb”, and then running from the nice men with guns whilst reaching into your bag is certainly not the best way to prolong one’s life.
I’m just sayin’
Dateline NBC (of exploding Chevy fame) may just have redeemed themselves. They decided to put their considerable resources to the task of finding a spammer
And they found him! I won’t spoil the ending. Read the whole thing.
This is the kind of old-fashioned investigative journalism that the MSM was famous for. It’s nice to see investigative reporting without an agenda, or a desired result determined in advance.
Matt Cooper and Judith Miller are going to jail, as they should.
“But how can you say that - they are protecting the First Amendment!”
Wrong. I am protecting the rule of law. No man can stand above the law, and nobody should appreciate that more than the mainstream media.
What has essentially happened here, is the same people bleating over how Cooper and Miller should be lionized for not revelaing the sources of the “leak” of Valerie Plame are the same ones who want investigations, convictions, impeachments, and/or imprisonment for whomever the leaker is.
Problem is there are three people who know who the leaker are, and they aren’t talking. How is anyone supposed to get to the truth if the only people that KNOW the truth are deliberately obscuring it.
What we see here is that Cooper and Miller are willing to go to prison NOT to protect anonymous sources, but to defend the liberal agenda of destroying the president. I suspect that the leaker is NOT in the administration at all, because if it was, there is no way the media would keep it quiet. As long as the left can keep the identity of the leaker hidden, they can put forth all kinds of conspiracy theories about it being Rove, or Cheney, etc.
I suspect the truth is far more disgusting, and it is someone either in the CIA (looking to sabotage yet another president), or Joseph Wilson (of getting Rove “frog-marched out of the White House” fame).
There is simply no reasonable justification for the administration to “out” Plame.
Austin Bay (by way of Instapundit) categorizes the latest “template-based journalism” scam, this time by Newsweek. As Glenn is wont to say, read the whole thing.
If you had any doubts that the media are biased against this administration, this ought to erase that. Newsweek was so willing to believe anything that makes the U.S. Military look bad, that they went to press with a story that should have made them think twice. They didn’t, and now at least fifteen people are no longer among the living.
What I think is needed here is an object lesson in taking responsibility for one’s actions. We know that Islamists will riot at the drop of a hat. Newsweek has to know that as well. What they (Michael Isikoff, mostly) did was nothing less than incitement. At the very least, Isikoff had to know that pissing off muslims will get a bad reaction.
If there is any possible way, Michael Isikoff (and maybe his bosses at Newsweek that accepted this poorly sourced story for publication) should be facing charges of negligent manslaughter. Maybe a dose of reality will teach the press to check their facts a little better instead of rushing to get a scoop on the latest template hit piece.
How deranged do you have to be to decide that it’s appropriate to stab an 8 year old in the eyes? That’s what Jerry Hobbs did to his daughter and her 9 year old friend.
Why? Because she was supposed to be grounded, but mommy let her go play.
And this piece of shit is on suicide watch. Why? Just let the motherfucker kill himself and save the people the time, effort and expense of trying him, housing him, and listening to him try to justify stabbing two little girls to death.
He claims that he did it in self-defense, because the friend pulled a knife on him. He also claims that he did the deed with that same knife.
Hey asshole - if you disarm your opponent, and they are no physical match for you otherwise, you win. Walk the fuck away.
Hopefully some kind soul in the prison system will stab him in the neck on principle. I would.
Since everyone else is getting in on the story, what the hell. I might as well throw in my two cents.
The idiots are in full bloom. I’m not going to link to any of them, because I don’t want them climbing the rankings at Google. You can find them yourselves. It’s come to my attention that Fred Phelps (the one that blames everything on gays) has decided to comment on the tsunami. No doubt he is convinced that it was the hand of God come to smite the sodomites. As if. God don’t do things that small.
The moonbats, predictably, are blaming everything from capitalism, to western civilization, to the SUV (and it’s thirst for oil), to George Bush’s environmental policies. Hell, one moonbat theory even says that we have damaged the “skeleton” of the Earth with all our naught nuke tests, and the poor old gal gan’t take it. Right.
Some people have no sense of perspective.
The deepest oil wells are maybe 3 miles down. The planet is roughly 3900 miles from surface to center. You do the math.
There are two separate problems here. The earthquake/tsunami, and the aftermath. The aftermath was mostly predictable and preventable. Human failings didn’t cause the tsunami, but they caused an awful lot of people to die needlessly. The human tendency to focus on the short term leads to us not coming up with ways to protect ourselves from the next cataclysmic event. We know that earthquakes happen in California and Japan with astonishing regularity, so we build structures to survive them. However, in New England, we haven’t had a major earthquake in centuries. It could happen, but it is considered remote. A 5 or 6 Richter quake would level most of Manhattan. We aren’t prepared for that eventuality. And there’s no way to predict a quake.
But there is a way to predict the aftermath of one. We can detect an earthquake anywhere on the globe within minutes of it happening. It should have been a foregone conclusion that a wall of water was gonna hit something. But a lack of sensors and communications gear led to precisely no warnings being given.
Of course, that’s all moot now. Right now, there are people hurting and suffering. And there are people trying to help. And there are people trying to take credit for that help. Try to be a member of that second group.