Just got my tickets to Puerto Rico in December. Take that, Global Cooling. Or thank goodness for global warming. Or something.
John Cole started Balloon Juice early in 2002. Those who have followed along know that this has been quite the journey.
Also priceless in the Fukuyama
Also priceless in the Fukuyama speech is the litany of hypocricy on the part of the Eurocrats:
There are a number of areas where the Europeans have acted unilaterally in economic matters, and in ways that at times contravene the existing legal order. The EU resisted unfavourable decisions against them on bananas for nine years, and beef hormones for even longer. They have announced a precautionary principle with regard to genetically modified foods, which is very difficult to reconcile with the WTO
Europeans in Our Midst? Francis
Francis Fukuyama presented a speech that has been widely linked in the blogosphere. It was a balanced an interesting piece, but several parts stood out:
Robert Kagan, in a brilliant recent article in Policy Review, (3) put the current difference between the United States and Europe as follows. The Europeans are the ones who actually believe they are living at the end of history, that is, in a largely peaceful world that to an increasing degree can be governed by law, norms, and international agreements. In this world, power politics and classical realpolitik have become obsolete. Americans, by contrast, think they are still living in history, and need to use traditional power-political means to deal with threats from Iraq, al-Qaeda, and other malign forces. According to Kagan, the Europeans are half right: they have indeed created an end-of-history world for themselves within the European Union, where sovereignty has given way to supranational organisation. What they don
No more posting until Sunday,
No more posting until Sunday, most likely. I am off to another wedding.
Gov’t Seeks to Ease Airport
Gov’t Seeks to Ease Airport Hassles
They can not be serious.
Airline passengers soon may be able to board a plane without being asked whether they have kept a close watch on their bags. And starting right away, they can take drinks through security checkpoints.
I guess after failing to trip up a bunch of terrorists with those tricky interrogation techniques “Has anyone unknown to you asked you to carry an item on this flight?” and “Have any of the items you are traveling with been out of your immediate control since the time you packed them?”), they have now realized what the entire public has known since day one. These are needless hassles, not precautions. I guess mother’s will now be allowed to carry their breast milk through airports.
Will Warren is back with
I Don’t Get It New
New USA Today Gallup Poll Highlights:
– 86% believe Saddam is supporting terror groups planning to attack the USA
– 53% believe he was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
– 94% believe Saddam either has weapons of mass destruction or is developing them.
– 83% of those who say he has weapons of mass destruction believe he would use them to attack the United States.
BUT,
ONLY 53% SUPPORT INVADING IRAQ.
What the hell is wrong with the 41% of the people who think he has or is developing weapons of mass destruction but who do not want to invade?????
I hate to say this, but we are going to have to be attacked several more times before people in this country are serious. The masses are ignorant, the Democrats are just using anything they can for partisan gain, and the Republicans can not engage the loony left effectively in debate, and when they do win, their idea of terror prevention is the garbage that is happening at airports around the country.
I guess we get the leadership we deserve, and it pains me to think how many more are going to have to die before we get serious.