Via Talk Left: By e-mail we’re told that in an attempt to limit John Kerry’s message, the Republicans will release a 12 minute video to embarass Kerry tonight, and that it will be all over the news tomorrow and this weekend. Anyone know if this is true? What’s the appropriate response if it is true? …
Archives for July 2004
Another One Down
Score one for the good guys: Pakistan has arrested a senior al Qaeda figure with a bounty of up to $25 million on his head, Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat told CNN television Thursday. He said the suspect had been captured during a raid in central Pakistan a few days ago. He did not …
International Justice 0, UN Apologists 1
European ‘Justice’: A U.N. war crimes tribunal Thursday ordered a Bosnian Croat commander’s early release from prison after clearing him of responsibility in a 1993 massacre, a decision that could make it harder to convict high-ranking officials accused of masterminding ethnic violence in the Balkans. Overturning a ruling by a lower chamber, the five-member panel …
Blog changes
Starting in a couple of weeks, I am going to really have to begin finishing a project that is several years old and long overdue. Therefore my blogging tie is going to be limited, and I will be unable to post at the same rate as normal. Fear not- I am not going anywhere. I …
Hope in One Hand
When I was in the army, my platoon sergeant had a particular saying he liked to use whenever someone started a sentence with “I hope…” His gruff response was always: “Hope in one hand, and then shit in the other. Tell me which one fills up first.” At any rate, John Edwards promises that “Hope …
Grasping At Straws
Dear Kos, Please look up post hoc ergo propter hoc. Then get back to your regularly scheduled cheerleading for the deaths of Americans.
Just a Flesh Wound
One minor oversight in the rush to gay marriage in canada. They forgot to set provisions for gay divorce. The women, identified only as MM and JH, wed on 18 June 2003, a week after the province legalised same-sex unions, the Toronto Star reports. The couple, who had been together for five years, separated five …