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Any country that could have this…

Any country that could have this as a viable title of a “news” report:

has lost its bearings. This is particularly true when one considers we probably gave Rezwan Ferdaus the idea.

All terror, all the time. You gotta even fear the toys (I’m kind of surprised these haven’t been implicated yet…).

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The Illegal Assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki

Anwar Al-Awlaki may be a bad dude. He could have been planning to murder thousands of Americans and deserves to die.  However, it isn’t a complicated question:

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising [...]

I’m with Paul…

Apparently Paul Krugman is taking a lot of heat for words like these on 9/11:

The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.

I’m not saying that he couldn’t have said it more eloquently, and unfortunately I don’t think that [...]

We are so stupid…

From The Christian Science Monitor:

In the moments before the F-16 fighter jets were summoned, the crew of Frontier Airlines Flight 623 feared that a passenger’s frequent and unusually long trips to the aircraft lavatory on Sept. 11 were a sign that a potential terrorist plot was underway.

Later, when the plane had landed in [...]

Worse than doing nothing at all…

From Reuters:

President Barack Obama unexpectedly asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to withdraw a plan to limit smog pollution, handing a big win to business and Republicans who have argued the initiative was a job killer in uncertain times.

So, basically through this move the president has shown two things:

He’s as wishy-washy [...]

Cognative dissonance…

Google news:

Yahoo! news:

I guess it’s all in how you spin it…

The Parable of the High Rise…

The parable of the high rise:

There once was a high rise. It had crappy apartments on the bottom, respectable living toward the middle, ritzy condos toward the top, and like many, a penthouse on the roof.

A fire started. Some claimed it started at the bottom and some claimed it started at the top. [...]

I’ll give credit…

While lately I’m hard on this administration, I’ll give credit where credit is due:

AP Report – Government sues to block AT&T, T-Mobile merger

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday to block AT&T’s $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA on grounds that it would raise prices for consumers.

This is exactly the [...]

“innovators” and “entrepreneurs”…

Just a little venting here as I’m getting tired of this latest “fashion” in politics:

Personally I’d like to “dope slap” anyone who uses the terms “innovator” or “entrepreneur” in normal conversation. It’s all code for, “I’m selfish, but great, and you’re a lazy worthless asshole”.

Problem is, they need all of us “lazy worthless [...]

Krugman gets his alien invasion…

Her name is Irene.

UPDATE:

For those of you who don’t get the joke.

UPDATE 2:

Or maybe not. Gawd, when did we become the stupidest f-ing country in the world?