MELBOURNE, Australia —&nb sp; A meeting of top financial officials from around the globe opened Saturday against a backdrop of 3,000 marching protesters, some of whom turned violent, pelting police with stones, bottles and smoke grenades.

Some 3,000 protesters marched on a downtown hotel where the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers opened, but most of the violence appeared to center around a group of about 200 demonstrators dressed in white coveralls with red bandanas tied around their faces.

I wonder how many of them were part of the "peace" movement? Michael Moore's Minutemen kill 52. Does this mean Republicans are going to start playing backstabbing hardbal l like Democrats?:

Republican strategists plotting their party's comeback after it lost control of Congress have identified the "first lady" of Democrat politics as a key target in the 2008 White House campaign — even though she will not be running.Senior party operatives told The Sunday Telegraph that they are already co-ordinating plans to attack Nancy Pelosi, the liberal Californian congresswoman and Speaker-in-waiting who suffered a damaging rebuff from her own party caucus last week.The Republican strategy is not only to undermine Mrs Pelosi's control of the House but also to associate her in voters' minds with Senator Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination.

...not likely. Bill O'Reilly mortally wounded in Playstation 3 fracas.  
 
Pukefest in Italy.


They'll be divorced in 3 years, bank on it.

KGB poisons man at sushi bar.

Scotland Yard is investigating the attempted murder of a top Russian defector poisoned by political enemies in London. Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB colonel who fled the current Russian regime to claim asylum in Britain, is under armed police guard in hospital.

Could it have been the sushi?Maybe it was a Scientology Sushi Bar and he tried the Placenta.

Quote of the Day, Neal Boortz:

With George W. Bush visiting Vietnam, the media is loving comparing the war in Iraq to the Vietnam War.  But the mainstream media seems to have left their history books at home...because once again, the Vietnam War has nothing in common with the war in Iraq.  Let's break down their reasoning.

The Vietnam War lasted for decades...with its beginnings going all the way back to the 1940's and the 1950's.  We've been in Iraq just under 4 years.  The enemy in Vietnam was being supplied by a superpower...the Soviet Union.  The enemy in Iraq is being supplied by Iran and Syria and assorted Islamic thugs from various terrorist organizations.

It's just not the same.  Comparing Iraq to Vietnam would be like comparing World War II to the invasion of Panama.  There is no comparison.  But don't tell that to the media and the Democrats.  They know Vietnam is considered our greatest military failure of the 20th century.  And just like with the Vietnam War, Democrats want to cut off the funding for Iraq too.

Oh..and it goes without saying:  we lost the Vietnam War, but we won in Iraq.  The only problem in Iraq right now is getting things to the point where they are stable enough that we can leave.  However, such is the mainstream media's hatred of George Bush and the United States Military...they can't help but live out their Vietnam fantasy as much as possible.  The fact that Bush is in Vietnam itself this week only serves to feed the flames.

If Bush were a Democrat he would be hailed for going to Vietnam. Have you ever taken one of those Political Quizzes? The one where they ask you 20 questions and at the end place you on a graph in one of 4 categories, Authoritarian Left, Libertarian Left, Authoritarian Right, Libertarian Right and they would place a few historical figures on the graph to show you who in history you fall in line with? Well, I always fall firmly into the Libertarian Right Category, right next to this guy, his ideas should be required reading in school textbooks instead of Karl Marx, Che and other redistributionist drivel.

Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the past century and winner of a 1976 Nobel Prize, died on Thursday morning of heart failure at a San Francisco area hospital, a spokeswoman for his family said. He was 94. A free-market economist, Friedman preached free enterprise in the face of government regulation and advocated a monetary policy that called for steady growth in money supplies. His ideas played a pivotal role in informing the governing philosophies of world leaders like former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former U.S. President Ronald "The Benevolent" Rea gan.


Milt

Minimum Wage Debate: Why not make it $20.00 an hour?  How can you raise a family of 4 on $7.25 an hour? Let's crush small businesses so that all we're left with is giant Meglo-Mart Corporations.

Good Point Charles:

 Charles: He's not so sure that the Iraqis can keep their own country from imploding anymore.  He says mistakes were made following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but the real problem lies with the Iraqis.

"A republic, if you can keep it."-- Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, in answer to "What have we got?"

WASHINGTON -- We have given the Iraqis a republic and they do not appear able to keep it.Americans flatter themselves that they are the root of all planetary evil. Nukes in North Korea? Poverty in Bolivia? Sectarian violence in Iraq? Breasts are beaten and fingers pointed as we try to somehow locate the root cause in America.

 Does Al Gore really believe in catastrophic global warming? Since Al Gore was offered the opportunity (in person) to facilitate serious debate on the underlying science of global climate change, 10 months, 2 weeks, 21 hours, 2 minutes, and 18 seconds have elapsed.Despite milking lucrative speaking engagements and book deals with his global warming shtick he declines any such debate.Perhaps he's afraid of the Real Inconvenient Truth?

Brilliant. (HT Montana Politics)