Perhaps I am just being dimwitted (surprise), but I can not think of a reason for Saddam loyalists to blow up the UN.
Archives for August 2003
Poindexter’s Revenge
Where is the outrage? Why aren’t leftwing bloggers and know-nothing Senators screetching at the top of their lungs? Why has no one punished the vile outlaws who would examnine and speculate about such a thing? What am I talking about? Just this:
The UK has been ranked 10th in the world for its vulnerability to a terrorist attack.
Britain’s close relationship with the US, its role in the Iraq war and a “sophisticated militant Islamic network”, were key reasons cited by the study.It also highlights the UK’s high number of symbolic targets such as the Houses of Parliament.
In the study, by risk assessment group the World Markets Research Centre, the UK was ahead of Russia, Liberia, Yemen and Lebanon as a country most likely to be targeted.
Colombia, Israel and Pakistan head the Global Terrorism Index for 2003-04, with the USA in fourth place.
Risk assessments for terrorism were carried out in 186 sovereign states and against countries’ overseas interests for the next 12 months.
Countries were given points out of 10 for five risk criteria – the motivation, capabilities and presence of terrorist groups, the potential scale of the damage and the effectiveness of counter-terrorism forces.
Why- someone could make money off this information!!!
I hope Poindexter is at home giving all of the critics of the Terrorism Futures Market the finger. They deserve it.
Fratricide in California
Via Calpundit, I note that Bill Simon is beginning to air commercials attacking… Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon (search) will run the first radio ads directly attacking GOP front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger (search) by focusing on the issue his economic advisor raised by suggesting Californians might need to pay higher property taxes.
The radio spots have been cut and may begin airing on California talk radio stations as early as Sunday night, Simon spokesman K.B. Forbes told Fox News early Sunday.
Forbes would not say how much the campaign spent on the radio adds or which stations would carry them, but did say the anti-Schwarzenegger spots would run “on major talk radio stations up and down the state.”
There is a reason California is dominated by Democrats- the California GOP is fundamentally unfit to lead. If you can not learn from your past mistakes, can not learn to run a palatable candidate and have both wings of the party come together, you simply do not have the presence to run anything more complicated than a lemonade stand.
More Sniper News
More news on the WV Sniper as details begin to slowly trickle forward (login required, use ‘test/test/’):
Police speculated Friday that a large, white male driving a black pickup with an extended cab may be responsible for Thursday night
Figures
As any good Steeler fan will tell you, there is nothing good about Cleveland. It just figures that those bums were reponsible for the blackout, as well:
A failure to contain problems with three transmission lines in northern Ohio just south of Cleveland was the likely trigger of the nation’s biggest power blackout, a leading investigator said Saturday.
Alarm systems that might have alerted engineers to the failed lines were broken, according to FirstEnergy Corp., the Akron, Ohio-based utility that officials said owned at least two of the three lines.
It was not immediately clear whether that impeded efforts to isolate the local line disruptions, some of which occurred an hour before power system shutdowns cascaded Thursday from Michigan to New York City and into Canada.
“We are fairly certain at this time that the disturbance started in Ohio,” Michehl Gent, head of the North American Electric Reliability Council, said in a statement. “We are now trying to determine why the situation was not brought under control after three transmission lines went out of service.'”
Typical.
Rot In Hell
Rot in Hell, Idi Amin. I am sure Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, and some gun control enthusiasts are upset, but the rest of the world will look at your cold, lifeless carcass with profound glee. My only regret is that your death was from natural causes, rather than the result of due process. I guess you will have to get yours in the afterlife.
Smartasses
The Iraq’s want to offer some help regarding the NY Black-Out:
“Let them taste what we have tasted,” said Ali Abdul Hussein, selling “Keep Cold” brand ice chests on a sidewalk. “Let them sit outside drinking tea and smoking cigarettes waiting for the power to come back, just like the Iraqis.”
Here are some tips from the streets of Baghdad:
_ SLEEP ON THE ROOF. Without power