The usual suspects all have their panties in a bunch over the snub of their lunatic press goddess, Helen Thomas. Atrios claims that this is proof that Bush is a “spoiled little child,” Kos merely mentioned it in a sort of stream of consciousness/rambling missive whose only overall themse is that Bush sucks. In another …
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Another One Down, How Many More to Go?
More good news: The Justice Department announced the arrest today of an accused financier for Al Qaeda, a Yemeni cleric who once boasted of handing Osama bin Laden $20 million in cash for use in terrorist operations in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks. The cleric, Mohammed al Hasan Al-Moayad, and a Yemeni cohort, …
This Is Scary
Is it Just me, or does the terrorist mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed look eerily familiar? Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Ron Jeremy *** Update *** Apparently, a bunch of people thought the same thing at the same time- Check out Richard Bennet’s post, which he put up at 10:12 Pm West Coast time. Amusing. *** Update #2 …
Tapped, Wrong as Usual
From today’s Tapped: Also, Mary Lynn F. Jones explains why we’re likely stuck at orange on the color-coded terror alert system for the near future. The government has put itself in a situation where none of the other colors are really an option anymore — and that renders the system just about meaningless. From the …
Gimme A Break
Alex Knapp rightly skewers Sam brownback for his anti-cloning legislation and this ludicrous op-ed in the National Review. You remember the Raelians– the cultists who are a step above Heaven’s Gate crowd– the morons who claimed to have cloned a baby- Brownback is terrified of them, and he thinks you should be too: Let’s be …
Excellent
Via TalkLeft: A 30 second tv ad will begin airing Thursday spoofing the Nick and Norm ads of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy that push the theme that marijuana funds terrorists. Here is the text of the ads: In the spoof, Nick tells Norm the marijuana trade supports violence only because …