From Ace, citing the media embargo of a Rasmussen poll “finding that 61% of self-identifying Democrats either believe George Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance or are not sure if he did or not”: […] when 61% of Democrats state they believe that George Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance, or may have known of them—thus making George Bush a co-conspirator in the attacks—the media not
May 7, 2007
When good theatrical props go bad (loosely based on a dream I had about David Cassidy)
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat : “Listen, pal. Without me, you’d still be busing tables and playing a foppish cat at some godawful dinner theater. So thank your lucky stars we met, and when I tell you to go buy me a hoagie and a forty of MGD, go buy me a hoagie and a forty of MGD—or else I’ll be forced to find one of the gazillion other desperate Josephs who’ll
Democracy should be celebrated and lauded. Unless our candidate loses. In which case, RIOT!
From Expatica, “Police battle anti-Sarkozy protestors”: Riot squads fired tear gas Sunday at protestors throwing stones, bottles and, in one instance, acid at police in cities across France after right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential victory. Clashes took place at Paris’ Place de la Bastille, where about 5,000 supporters of the defeated Socialist candidate Segolene Royal had gone to await the election results and had stayed on after Sarkozy’s triumph. Up to
“curing the biosphere of the human virus will require a radical and invasive approach”
—at least, so argues “conservationist” Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, who, let me add, might better have illustrated his point had he leapt from a rooftop rather than expending the hot air necessary to cast himself in the role of public neo-Malthusian. But then, isn’t that always the way with these reformers? And Watson is not alone: as with any religion—and make no mistake, the Green movement
(Re)visionary Moment(um)
Charles Krauthammer, “Rewriting History”: One of the major myths (or, more accurately, conspiracy theories) about the Iraq war—that it was foisted upon an unsuspecting country by a small band of neo-conservatives—[…] lives blissfully detached from history. The decision to go to war was made by a war Cabinet consisting of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld. No one in that room could even remotely be
