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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?

Wall Street got $1.2 trillion and all I got was this lousy recession…

From this Bloomberg piece:

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s unprecedented effort to keep the economy from plunging into depression included lending banks and other companies as much as $1.2 trillion of public money…

however, don’t dismay, we made money on the deal:

The Fed has said it had “no credit losses” on any of the [...]