Don Surber is gain hosting this week’s Hillbilly Carnival.
More Good News
I am not sure this is the type of regional stability we want to encourage, either:
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolvahed Musavi Lari, his counterpart from Iraq Bayan Baqir Jabr and the Syrian Minister of Interior Ghazi Kanan here on Wednesday called for tripartite cooperation on regional issues.
During a meeting, the three ministers discussed the procedure for implementing 20-point final statement issued by Iraqi neighboring states on Tuesday.
The ministers also examined ways of preventing illegal trafficking through the borders of the three countries.
The statement, issued at the end of the second session of Iraqi neighboring states in Istanbul on July 18-19, called for implementing UN Resolution 1546 on the legal procedure of formation of a government in Iraq and complete withdrawal of the occupying forces from the country.
The statement condemns global arrogance and terrorism in Iraq under any condition and calls upon the member states to assist the Iraqi government to establish security and tranquility in the country.
Although if all Iran, Syria, and Iraq are doing is issuing impotent statements condemning ‘global arrogance,’ it shouldn’t be a problem. Maybe this is their way of lobbying France for EU membership…
Blender Problems
I just bought this brand new spiffy Black ‘n Decker blender last month, and it already died on me. I thought $45.00 was a reasonable amount to spend on a blender (my last one was much cheaper and lasted 8 years), but apparently I was wrong.
What types do you guys have, and are they durable. Do I need to spend more than $50.00? Can I find something that will work for longer than just a month?
More Plame Fall-out
This time in the form of a federal ‘shield law:’
Under fire for presidential adviser Karl Rove’s role in the leak of an undercover CIA agent’s identity, the Bush administration on Wednesday labeled as “bad public policy” legislation to protect reporters from being jailed when they refuse to reveal their sources.
Deputy Attorney General James Comey canceled his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee just before a hearing on this issue was to commence Wednesday morning. In prepared remarks already submitted to the panel, Comey said the measure would “create serious impediments” to the Justice Department’s ability “to effectively enforce the law and fight terrorism.”
“The bill is bad public policy primarily because it would bar the government from obtaining information about media sources _ even in the most urgent of circumstances affecting the public’s health or safety or national security,” Comey’s prepared remarks said.
“If that is so,” said Sen. Christopher Dodd, “then wouldn’t we expect to see great threats to public safety in those states that have shield laws which are at least as protective as the shield laws that we propose?” Dodd, D-Conn., is a consponsor of the Senate bill.
Although, to cynics on the left, no shield law is necessary:
All day long, administration leakers jerked the media’s chain. “It’s Judge Edith 1,” they whispered, on double super duper background. Then: “No, it’s Judge Edith 2!” If the day had been longer, no doubt the Bushies would have tossed even more red herrings to the clapping seals. The Washington press corps, nanoseconds after being forced to admit how humiliatingly it had been spun by Turd Blossom, just lapped it all up. Leak on me again, they begged their sweet sources. Hit me with another scoop, Scottie, hard! The media show all the signs of domestic abuse pathology: they’ve been repeatedly battered and lied to, yet they just can’t bring themselves to flee the lethally dysfunctional relationship. They don’t need a shield law; they need a 12 Step program.
Heh.
Million Dollar Baby
Just saw Million Dollar Baby. About as heartbreaking and gut-wrenching as it gets.
On a lighter note, I have decided I could listen to Morgan Freeman recite the dictionary, I like his voice so much.
Rino Sightings
Andy at the World Wide Rant is holding the latest RINO sightings.
Something You Probably Did Not Know
So I was reading this:
Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Craig Wilson was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with a fractured left pinky.
Wilson, who has had just 96 at-bats this season, was hit on the hand by a pitch from Chicago Cubs starter Greg Maddux in the first inning of Saturday’s 3-0 victory and left the game.
And for no particular reason, I found the appearance of the word ‘pinky’ in a news report amusing. Then I realized I did not know why the little finger is called the pinky. Google to the rescue:
Actually, pinkie `little finger’ comes from an early Dutch word which meant `small;’ that word was pinck. The Dutch word is also the source of English pink `pale red,’ because pinck was what the Dutch called a flower of the species Dianthus, which has small, often pink flowers with pinked edges.
Interesting.