U.N. Peacekeeping (i.e. rape and pillage) Dept. in deep shit:
The United Nations confirmed yesterday the U.S. Attorney's Office is investigating suspected wrongdoing in the office that handles procurement for U.N. peacekeeping operations.
I n a further blow to the troubled peacekeeping department, a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to be delivered to Congress today describes the procurement office as understaffed, poorly trained and badly lacking the oversight that would uncover corruption, fraud and waste.
E ight senior staff members were suspended with pay earlier this year, after an inquiry by the U.N. inspector general's office uncovered lax management and possible corruption.
...deservedly so I might add. Nothing to see here, move along:
By any measurement, except for the continued terrorist attacks, the war in Iraq has been a success. While the Democrats continue to criticize President Bush for what they say are his failures in Iraq, and disgruntled retired Army officers who were passed over for promotion call for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation, the fact remains that a free, independent and democratic Iraqi government remains on track. It isn’t getting the attention it deserves in the news media, but this past weekend’s vote in the newly-elected Iraqi parliament for a new consensus choice prime minister - supported by Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites alike - and the installation of a permanent government is historic and a landmark in Iraq’s future as an anti-terrorist sovereign nation aligned with the West and, most importantly, with the United States.
This is what all of our sacrifices in blood and treasure have produced and it is a huge geopolitically strategic victory for our brave military forces, the Iraqi people, and for President Bush’s policy to plant democracy in the middle of the world’s terrorist breeding grounds. That has given the Iraqis a taste of freedom, but it has also pushed the boundaries of terrorism back significantly and made the U.S. safer (not safe, but safer, than it was before September 11, 2001).No matter what the terrorists may do in the future, there is no turning back now in Iraq. The al Qaeda killers have failed to stop democracy from taking root there.
Crashing the Gate are we? Airhead America plunging toiletward, whilst the great, powerful and mighty Kos' new book (debuting to much fanfare), only sells 3,600 copies in a month.
Left-leaning new media has hit turbulence at the marketplace, newly released stats show.
A book hyped by major media as documenting a progressive revolution of "blogs" and political power, DAILY KOS 'CRASHING THE GATE,' has sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to NIELSEN's BOOKSCAN.
Sound and Fury....
Thomas Sowell, a man of good sense:
If there is anything worse than partisan demagoguery, it is bipartisan demagoguery. Republican leaders have now joined the Democrats in blaming the oil companies for the fact that prices rise when demand expands more than supply. Prices have been rising under these conditions for thousands of years, long before there were any oil companies. This has happened with everything from food to furs and it has happened among people in every part of the world. What has also happened in recent times has been that higher gasoline prices bring outraged charges of "gouging" by Big Oil. Some of the most emotionally powerful political words and phrases are wholly undefined -- "exploitation," "greed," "social justice" and the perennial favorite, "gouging."
A point I made just the other day:
No matter how big American oil companies are, there are other oil companies around the world and the price of oil is determined in international markets. As for investigating Big Oil, that has been done time and again already, with nothing to show for it.
Prices are a symptom of an underlying reality. Politicians can seize on the symptom and even pass laws dealing with it, without changing the underlying reality.
DNC Sock Puppet Neil Young: Oh! I'm so cutting edge. Let's examine some stanzas from his conceptual album, "Living with War":
Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
Nanci Pelosi, Howard Dean, Dick Dubin, Kos, DU and Harry Reid should be in touch with an entertainment attorney. I think Neil has lifted what has become their intellectual property, their mantra. Maybe they collaborated with him.
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
Again, more intellectual property of the DNC. Neil Young should be impeached for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, for generations of bleeding eardrums and defining music down to where some washed up 60's pus colored, off key pissant yodeler who can barely play the guitar and write lyrics can swindle millions of people out of millions of dollars, hammering out cliched flower power bullshit "prose" passing it off as deep, thoughtful social commentary. Talk about obscene profits. They should have Senate hearings into "musical gouging."
One of America's biggest criminals is a NIMBY Dickhead!
As record oil prices turn attention to the need for renewable fuels, momentum is building in Congress to buck Senator Edward M. Kennedy's bid to block the proposed Cape Cod wind energy project, potentially reviving efforts to construct the sprawling windmill farm in Nantucket Sound.
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