Daily Roundup
The Empire of Lies is a long article that covers in some depth the reasons why China will not be the hyperpower set to challenge the US for hedgemony.
Another example of government stupidity and law lagging behind the environmental movement.
Telling you to read the latest at Villanous Company is getting to be a daily feature. From now on, go there before you come here. (Guarenteed to drive their webtraffic up by 0). This one, deals with Tenet's retconning of the Iraq war run up.
More on Tenet's imagination here.
One of the lynchpins of the 9/11 tinfoil hat crowd is that fire doesn't melt steel. Jet fuel couldn't possibly have weakened the curtain wall or structural steel of the Towers. Fire doesn't melt steel. Except when it does.
Rudy took a some brick bats for comments that we'd be on the defensive if a Democrat is elected president in '08. Democrats predictably whined and then proved him right. Liberals don't like military action unless it is seen to be for altrustic reasons and no US interests are involved. Even then, it has to be very limited engagement. If we can lob some cruise missles from offshore all the better. They'd rather spend their time on domestic policy especially the kind that lets them spend other people's money. Conservatives don't shirk from war but don't like domestic matters because it often requires spending other people's money and dealing with social behaviors that they believe are best left to social pressures.
The headline screams: "No Mercy for the Taliban". Well, no. It is a war you see. The Taliban aren't particularly big on mercy either.
News flash: The French are self-loathing. Also breaking: Water is wet and sun to rise in East tomorrow.
This land is you land, this land is my land.
Ace breaks the snark-o-meter with the mortality offset credits we've earned in Afghanistan.
Calling BS on immigration. As only Penn & Teller can.
Another example of government stupidity and law lagging behind the environmental movement.
Telling you to read the latest at Villanous Company is getting to be a daily feature. From now on, go there before you come here. (Guarenteed to drive their webtraffic up by 0). This one, deals with Tenet's retconning of the Iraq war run up.
More on Tenet's imagination here.
One of the lynchpins of the 9/11 tinfoil hat crowd is that fire doesn't melt steel. Jet fuel couldn't possibly have weakened the curtain wall or structural steel of the Towers. Fire doesn't melt steel. Except when it does.
Rudy took a some brick bats for comments that we'd be on the defensive if a Democrat is elected president in '08. Democrats predictably whined and then proved him right. Liberals don't like military action unless it is seen to be for altrustic reasons and no US interests are involved. Even then, it has to be very limited engagement. If we can lob some cruise missles from offshore all the better. They'd rather spend their time on domestic policy especially the kind that lets them spend other people's money. Conservatives don't shirk from war but don't like domestic matters because it often requires spending other people's money and dealing with social behaviors that they believe are best left to social pressures.
The headline screams: "No Mercy for the Taliban". Well, no. It is a war you see. The Taliban aren't particularly big on mercy either.
News flash: The French are self-loathing. Also breaking: Water is wet and sun to rise in East tomorrow.
This land is you land, this land is my land.
Ace breaks the snark-o-meter with the mortality offset credits we've earned in Afghanistan.
Calling BS on immigration. As only Penn & Teller can.
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Yeah, right.