Well, Hanoi Jane is back on the anti-American campaign (as if she ever left it).

Did anyone happen to see this ad in the New York Times? Jane and her fellow comrades of The World Can't Wait are on their latest campaign to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney. Didn't you know? They are "war criminals," they openly torture innocent people and they no better than Adolf Hitler. Did you get that? Hitler. You know that a liberal campaign is off to a great start when they throw Hitler into the mix. There is absolutely no merit to the debate, no willingness to discuss ... just call it Conservative, liken it to Hitler and be done with it. You have yourself a true anti-American campaign.

Bush and Cheney are not war criminals. First of all, Cheney is not the commander and chief. Only the president has that role – get it right. And "war crimes" implies that that America violated some international law. Go ahead, Jane. Give me a cite!

Now guess who else signed on to the campaign? Why none other than our probable Green Party nominee for President, the cutest little jihadist no longer in Congress, the lovely Cynthia McKinney! We know she has a great right hook, why doesn't she just take care of the job herself?

Now here is a criminal for you. Saddam Hussein's cousin was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court yesterday. He is going to hang. And that is exactly how it should be. He helped with the killing of hundreds of thousands of Kurds and Shite Muslims. Using chemicals weapons to wipe out people based on their religion ... THAT'S a war crime. Let's see if Hamas Jane has anything to say about this guy!

Bush surrenders...to Congress?:

The Bush administration has begun exploring ways of offering Congress a compromise deal on Iraq policy to avert bruising battles in coming months, U.S. officials said.

With public support of the war dropping, President Bush has authorized an internal policy review to find a plan that could satisfy opponents without sacrificing his top goals, the officials said.

Um, Mr. President, you claim to want to win in Iraq and most of Congress (Reid, Pelosi, Murtha etc.) want to lose. Where's the wiggle room for a compromise deal?

Vlad the Impaler: America is worse than the Soviet Empire at the height of it's power:

THE history of the Soviet Union had fewer black pages in its history than certain other countries, not least the US, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in a speech."Regarding the problematic pages in our history, yes, we do have them, as does any state,'' Putin said at a social sciences conference, citing Stalin's purges during the 1930s.

Yes, like not signing Kyoto...

Vaclav Klaus: Environmentalists do not demand responsibility. Responsibility is not their idea, it is a basic, elementary aspect of human behaviour – on condition government policies do not give wrong incentives. The idea of responsibility for damage done to others is not the environmentalists’ copyright. It is a standard of human behaviour. Environmentalists – especially in the case of global warming – artificially created “a damage” (higher temperature) and made all of us responsible for it. I don’t believe in this “damage” and I am not ready to pay for it. The role of men in slightly higher global temperature (0.6°C in the last century) is only marginal, if any.

To say that “the supporters of capitalism demand that they are free to dump their waste on their neighbours lawns without consequence” has the beauty of communist propaganda I had a chance to “enjoy” during the first 48 years of my life.


Supporters of the "Gore Fix" are free to spend more money on their heating and electricity bills to power their mansions than I make in a month while demanding that stunted little proles such as myself reduce, reuse, recycle and lovingly embrace such ridiculous concepts as using one square of toilet paper (by the way, the proprietress of this intellectual tsunami has her own line of Signature Guitars) and tooling around in glorified golf carts that cost as much as a regular sized compact car or small truck whilst Gore is seen exiting a private jet and entering a Lincoln Navigator* to travel to packed concert halls to tell his audiences that they are the problem and he is the solution. Gotta love that...nice racket...


*Scroll about 3/4ths of the way down the page to see the variety of eco-friendly cars the Gorelickers used to see their savior. (HT Zombietime)

Rolling Stone will be printed on what it calls “carbon neutral paper,” because it is made through a process that the magazine claims adds no carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The paper, which is considerably thinner than what Rolling Stone uses now, is made by a Canadian mill, Catalyst Paper, that the magazine says has reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by 82 percent since 2005 and been cited by the World Wildlife Fund for its conservation efforts.

Catalyst offsets the small amount of carbon released in making the paper by planting trees that will not be harvested for more paper, but rather left standing to help cool the climate, said Lyn Brown, a vice president at Catalyst.

What neither an editor’s note in Rolling Stone nor a press release sent by the magazine mentions, however, is that the new paper has no recycled content, (Oh my god!!) which prompted a mixed review by Frank Locantore, director of the Magazine Paper Project at Co-op America, a nonprofit group that works with publishers to reduce paper use.

They'd better be coughing up big bucks for carbon offsets or I'm telling Al. When are people going to realize that you can't not have an effect on the environment? Even in death...one square people, one square...

Quote of the Day: Dennis Miller on Harry Reid (D) Nevada...

Anywhoooooo .......

JFK is is one of the country's most important, if not the country's most important international airport. Not only that, but it's located right there in New York City! So the story of a planned attack on JFK ends up where? Page 37, that's where. That's right, the Times reported the story to attack New York's main airport on page 37 in Sunday's newspaper. I think its worth noting that you had to get to the fourth paragraph of the NYT article before you found out that the terrorist wannabes were Muslims .. and there you only get a quote from an FBI official saying that the men had "fundamentalist Islamic beliefs of a violent nature."

I'm a subscriber to the "New York Times Digest," a PDF format condensation of the newspaper. In the digest the JFK story appeared as a sidebar on page three (out of 6 pages) and there was no reference at all to their Islamist backgrounds.

The placement of this story merely illustrates how New York Times has abandoned responsible journalism for partisan electioneering. Their reasoning is simple. If the Times reports the story on page one people might take it seriously. If people take this story seriously then they must admit that this country actually is threatened by Islamic terrorists .. and this would make John Edwards' statement that the war on terror is just a "bumper sticker, nothing more" sound patently ridiculous. The Times will go out of its way to avoid making any front-running Democrat candidate look like a fool, such is their dedication to the cause of putting a Democrat into the White House. In short ... the Times will downplay news of Islamic terrorist threats against the U.S. in order to support Democrat politicians.

While the Times is busy burying stories of Islamic terrorist plots, they're very much up front in their protection of Hillary Rodham. Drudge is reporting that the Times is preparing a very critical review of a book written by Times reporters ... a book critical of Hillary. Here's a link to Drudge's story.

It was interesting to watch the Democrats flog themselves trying to figure whether or not there is even a war on terror, so in touch they are...

 

....they would rather appease glaciers and concentrate on America's real enemies, the wealthy, Wal Mart, SUVs, styrofoam cups, brutal tax cuts,  people who use more than one square of toilet paper....

They were among 2,000 men and women who participated in a series of four nude group photos in the city in the early hours of the morning as part of the latest project of U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick.

The first and largest composition was in a decidedly prosaic location: a parking garage on the outer ring of the city.

But what the location lacked in romance, it made up for in style. Participants lined the railings of the garage's twin circular towers, creating a pattern of multicolor stripes against the white building and an overcast sky.

The women on bikes were selected from the larger group and posed with their chins pointed triumphantly upward toward the sky.

Other compositions included a group of men posing together near the parking garage and a mixed group of men and women on another bridge.

In the video clip shown on state television, and four photographs of his two-hour meeting with Nong Duc Manh published Sunday in the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde, Castro appeared to be wearing the same red track suit with black and white trim that he wore in some of the past images released by the government.

The Cuban Health care system (the best on Earth), seems to have pulled him through. In reality, he's probably been dead for 6 months...

In one photograph, the pair is seen sitting on rattan chairs and chatting, and in the other three they are standing, including one that shows them embracing.

The 80-year-old Castro has not been seen in public since he announced on July 31 that he had undergone emergency intestinal surgery and was temporarily ceding power to his brother Raul, the Defense Minister, who turns 76 on Sunday.

Everyone knows Castro's brother's name is Dennis...sheesh!

Castro's exact ailment and condition remain state secrets, but he is largely believed to suffer from diverticular disease, which forms sacs in the colon that can become inflamed and bleed.


Photo of Maximum Leader Fidel Castro
with one of his inflamed sacs.

Good thing he wasn't at the Dutch photo shoot, that could've been messy, inflamed sacs running loose amongst the general populace on grisly errands known only to them...

 Maybe Bush has reversed course on Climate Change to prove a point:

NEW DELHI, June 3 (Reuters) - India, one of the world's top polluters, will not accept equal responsibility to cut emissions and combat climate change despite U.S. President George W. Bush's proposal for a deal among top emitters, officials said on Sunday. Bush, under fire for resisting tough action on global warming, last week called on 15 influential countries -- led by the United States, China, Russia and India -- to agree by the end of 2008 on a long-term goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

I doubt it, but you never know... Quote of the Day: Christopher Hitchens on Jimmy Carter:

In the Carter years, the United States was an international laughingstock. This was not just because of the prevalence of his ghastly kin: the beer-sodden brother Billy, doing deals with Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi, and the grisly matriarch, Miz Lillian. It was not just because of the president's dire lectures on morality and salvation and his weird encounters with lethal rabbits and UFOs. It was not just because of the risible White House "Bible study" sessions run by Bert Lance and his other open-palmed Elmer Gantry pals from Georgia. It was because, whether in Afghanistan, Iran, or Iraq—still the source of so many of our woes—the Carter administration could not tell a friend from an enemy. His combination of naivete and cynicism—from open-mouthed shock at Leonid Brezhnev's occupation of Afghanistan to underhanded support for Saddam in his unsleeping campaign of megalomania—had terrible consequences that are with us still. It's hardly an exaggeration to say that every administration since has had to deal with the chaotic legacy of Carter's mind-boggling cowardice and incompetence.

The quotation with which I began comes from an interview that he gave last week to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He also went on the British Broadcasting Corporation to make spiteful and cheap remarks on the retirement of Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling him "loyal, blind, apparently subservient." Yes, that's right, Mr. Carter. Just the way to make friends and assert "America's basic values." Show us your peanut envy. Heap insults on a guest in Washington: a thrice-elected prime minister who was the first and strongest ally of the United States on the most awful day in its recent history. A man who was prepared to risk his own career to be counted as a friend. A man who was warning against the Taliban, against Slobodan Milosevic, and against Saddam Hussein when George Bush was only the governor of Texas. Leaders like that deserve a little respect even when they are wrong—but don't expect any generosity or courtesy from the purse-mouthed preacher man from Plains, who just purely knows he was right all along, and who, when that fails, can always point to the numberless godly victories that he won over the forces of evil.

(HT Rabid Sanity)