check-out lady: “Need anything else? Stamps, ice…?” CJ: “Well, a little less defeatism from our national Democrats would be welcome.” check-out lady: “If you say so — though they’d probably counter that a little more realism from bloodthirsty warmongers might be nice. Paper or plastic?” CJ: “Plastic.” CJ: “– And you know what? Triple-bag that shit, too. Freakin’ Hippie.”

AJ Strata: Six years ago the US saw the cheers of Palestinians at the destruction of 9-11. We saw the smiles of Saddam and his butchers and we heard the gloating of Bin Laden. Six years later Saddam is gone and Bin Laden is still running from justice. But now Iraqis are chanting “al-Qaeda is the enemy of Allah”. This is a stunning turn around, and it is all due

Via Middle East Online: Al-Qaeda will release a third video marking the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, this time showing its top leader in Afghanistan, US monitoring groups said Wednesday. After releasing two videos featuring Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in recent days, the terror network will now show a video “presenting reasons and motives for the attacks on New York and Washington,” the SITE Intelligence Group said

From the FEC’s “Campaign Guide for Nonconnected Committees”, under the subhead “discounts”: If a corporation or labor organization sells goods or services to a political committee at a price below the usual or normal charge, a prohibited contribution results in the amount of the discount. 100.52(d). A reduced price is not considered a contribution, however, if it is offered by the vendor in the ordinary course of business and at

Seems General Betray Us managed to overcome the Democratic Congressional / true conservative “mandate” to bring the troops home now! The new center, it won’t be happy about this. No sir. I expect additional purges. Physics tells us, after all, that the center simply cannot hold when there are so many pro-Petraeus centrists gumming up the works and pulling the unified narrative apart like so much string cheese. The answer?

In western diplomatic circles, this isn’t called capitulation. It’s called flexibility. From Reuters: Six years after the September 11 attacks, a few cautious voices are beginning to suggest the unthinkable — maybe it is time to consider talking to al Qaeda. The idea will revolt some people and raises obvious questions — through what channels could such a dialogue take place and what would there be to negotiate? But proponents

“Confirmed: NYT gave MoveOn almost two-thirds off on ‘Betray Us’ ad”: The New York Times dramatically slashed its normal rates for a full-page advertisement for MoveOn.org’s ad questioning the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. Headlined “Cooking the Books for the White House,” the ad which ran in Monday’s Times says Petraeus is “a military man constantly at war with the facts” and concluded

— Which means that it’s quite possible bin Laden is dead as a boot — and that my theory about the CIA using Ron Silver with beard extensions as a bin Laden stand in is still very much in play. Advantage: protein wisdom. **** See also, LGF, Ace, and STACLU