who visits here often, extends thanks to all of those internet people who’ve helped him raise $2k of the $2.5k that he’s needed to come up with to get a competent attorney to argue his case against deportation.  If anyone has a case for political asylum, it’s he.  So, if you’ve got a little scratch that you can’t find something in Jeff’s Casa Armadillo list to dump on, think about

David Aaronovitch is the formerly leftist chap with the UK’s Channel 5 who recently took his former leftist colleagues to the woodshed in the documentary, “No Excuse for Terrorism,” which is, miraculously, still available through YouTube. Today, in the Times of London, he has a superb article on North Korea’s nuclear program, entitled,

According to Moody’s, the real estate bubble is a mere 4.6% in Denver. The bottom isn’t due until 2008, but it’s not like it’s going to make a major long-term impact.

Bwahahaha!  From Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake: Lieberman Throws Howard Dean Under the Bus Damn!  I can’t find the video on YouTube. Money whine: Let’s see, this week he’s already castigated the “Democratic leadership” — Pelosi and Reid – for “politicizing” the Foley matter, now he attacks the head of the DNC.  They’ve turned Gentle Uncle Joe into this:

me: “Here’s the thing, HOA covenant:  If I’m only allowed to put out the one garbage can—that is, if the waste management folks will only take what I can fit into that single, subdivision-specific plastic trash bin—then all the broken down cardboard boxes and crap-stuffed Hefty bags from our move are going to have to sit there on the side of the house until such time as we stop accumulating

You have until 2pm today to respond to University of Chicago law prof, Geoffrey R. Stone. In an article in today’s Chicago Tribune, he gives a definition of what liberals believe that requires at least two brown paper sacks to get through. Unsurprisingly, he appears to be a veritable George Lakoff Mini-Me. Example: 9. Liberals believe government must protect the safety and security of the people, for without such protection

A hacker I know was prowling around the DNC servers, and he leaked a few to me.  The final ad campaign they’re preparing is just devastating.  Here’s just one example.

On a slightly offbeat track, this latest report from MEMRI on the ongoing attempt by Islamists to drag Turkey, a secular Muslim nation with a democratic tradition, back into those halcyon days of the 7th century. It suffers from being a translation but, if you just stick with it, it gets really fascinating at the end. Apparently, the Turkish military is the major obstacle standing between the democratic Turkey envisioned

there was a very poor country ruled by a strange and evil emperor, named Kim.  Kim didn’t like it that other countries didn’t take his seriously, so he threw lots of tantrums to get attention, and spent his money on pornography as his people starved.

So the dog vomited on the $700 wool rug you were hoping to return, so what?  It’s not like you can’t unfurl it in the great room and hide that horrific brick-colored blot with a coffee table or a lamp or some such. Right?