Dick Morris disputes Hillary's version of events in an open letter in The National Review. The most charming quote is said to be from the future First Lady's own lips after the future POTUS wrestles Morris to the kitchen floor and threatens to punch him.
"He only does that to people he loves."
Feel the love Dick.
a wink to Sanity's Edge
Thanks to Andrea I discovered that "foolish' in Spanish is tonto. That amuses me to no end.
and this one:
Vous devriez poursuivre votre tailleur en justice. [You should sue your tailor]
Insultmonger's SWEARSAURUS ::: How to swear in 107 languages!
Try it ...you'll be hooked.
Why is it that Liberals hold on to a failed orthodoxy in spite of evidence to the contrary? Nowhere is this more apparent than in education:
It also results in the school district foregoing as much as $10 million annually in state revenues that are based on attendance figures, as well as substantial sums that would be paid by the state to reimburse the district for enforcement expenses, the report said.
Matthews said the grand jury concluded that the San Francisco Unified School District didn't enforce truancy laws in all schools because "they didn't want to stigmatize certain socio-economic groups, but the result is poor academic achievement and perpetuating a permanent underclass."
He added, "I assume their intent was good, but they've missed the point" and the results are bad.
The report also finds that of the city's 18,000 high school students, 5,000 regularly miss at least one day of school every week and another 5,000 consistently show up late. Which is apalling, but this graf from the SF Chron clearly expresses the reporter's disinterest in the story:
Ho-hum, too bad...next. Where is the indignation?
An interesting footnote is that the first excerpt is from the NBC affiliate. I saw the story on the late news and made a mental note to refer to the Chron for a pull quote for posting. Much to my surprise the Chronicle omitted the crux of the problem "they didn't want to stigmatize certain socio-economic groups" so they did nothing.
Seems a tad disengenious not to include a key reason offered by the School Board as part of their failure to supervise the schools. Pro-NEA bias? Sloppy reporting/editing? You decide?
This story is exactly why the country is moving away from the left. We are tired of psycho-babble and excuses.
Lileks nails it again:
The top-of-the-hour radio news played today's news just as you’d expect - everything shoved through the tit-for-tat template. Israel attempts to take out a terror leader; Hamas “responds” with a bombing. As if they’re equal. As if targeting the car that ferries around some murderous SOB is the same as sending a blissed-out teenager to blow nails and screws through the flesh of afternoon commuters so he can bury himself in the heaving bosom of the heavenly whorehouse. Cycle of violence, don't you know.
They don’t have helicopters, we're told, so they use suicide bombers. If they had helicopters, they would have strafed the bus and everyone waiting at the corner. Give them a nation where Hamas runs unchecked, and they’ll have helicopters. They won't be Apaches. The bill of sale will be calculated in Euros and the manual written in French. By then the excuse for the terror won't be oppression; it'll be "the legacy of oppression." Sometimes I swear the mainstream media won't take a look at the Palestinian's horrid death-cult subculture until we learn that a suicide bomber played "Doom" at an Internet cafe for five minutes. And then they'll blame Intel.
More Meryl on the escalation of violence in Israel and the risk of a dirty bomb or nuclear device detonated in Tel Aviv by Arab extremists...a nightmare scenario that unfortunately sounds all too plausible, to wit:
The violence will happen here in the U.S., too. There are large populations of Arab and Muslim immigrants in major cities that also have large Jewish populations. You'll see Crown Heights on fire, and the suburbs of Chicago, where Jewish and Arab communities live side by side. Paterson, NJ's Arab population will riot in Teaneck and Fairlawn and other towns with high Jewish populations in Bergen County. Northern Virginia's mosques are funded by Wahhabi money; count on violence near or in our nation's capital. Synagogues will be torched; Orthodox Jews will be mobbed and beaten on sight (any man in a dark hat and long coat will be at risk of being beaten); Jewish schools will be attacked and destroyed, Jewish-owned businesses smashed, burned, and looted.
What you say? No way? Just a lot of Zionist scaremongering. In 1965, 1967-8 and 1992 our inner cities ignited in a frenzy of hatred, it could happen again.
Meryl pointed to a new blog Sanity's Edge...good stuff. This warmed the cockles of my Francophile-baiting heart.
There's much more...sardonic, sharply written with tongue planted firmly in cheek...which earns Paul a position on the ole blogroll.
Carnival of the Vanities is up at Overtaken by Events! Matt demonstrates how to defend yourselves against anyone who attacks you armed with a piece of fresh fruit and offers the usual rubbish from Hamrag Yatlerot.
Why a mask icon for CoTV postings I hear you ask?
Persona, "the mask," is related to personality, the self or ego we reveal to the world. Masks have the ability to conceal, change, or transform the "person" behind the image into something or someone else. This metaphoric "else," this "as if" quality of masks makes them both playful and powerful, and relates them to ritual, religion, and myth. Masks allow us to pretend, and much more.
(Excerpt from LORE Magazine )
As do blogs.
New transatlantic row looms over war crimes court
The resolution might face opposition from European Union member states and could cause a new transatlantic row, according to the Washington Post
In a confidential note to EU governments, the Bush administration threatened last week to complicate the United States' relations with its European allies over the issue.
"This will undercut all our efforts to repair and rebuild the transatlantic relationship just as we are taking a turn for the better after a number of difficult months," said the note obtained by the Washington Post.
Of course the weasel twins, Germany and France, believe that the United States is actively seeking to undermine the power of the court.
It's hardly surprising that EUObserver.com edited the source article to fit their point of view...they're EU toadies. However, one wonders why they didn't publish the money graf?
Principles? Bwahahahahaha! Right.
Who fired up the Wayback Machine?
According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, The European Parliament is hosting an exhibition entitled "The New Doors of Jerusalem: Apartheid Israel".
In a letter to the President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's International Liaison Director, Dr. Shimon Samuels, noted that, "Not only does the display focus on so-called 'Israeli colonialism', the 'sociocide' of the Palestinian people, 'coerced' land sales to Jewish settlers, it also includes personal attacks on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and features Jews through racial and religious stereotypes."
Samuels continued, "The timing of this exhibition, when Israel has accepted 'the Roadmap' and its Prime Minister has demonstrated his willingness to take immeasurable risks for peace, is politically and morally repugnant." The Center demanded "the immediate removal of this exhibit and the public condemnation and disciplining of whoever authorized it."
Email Pat Cox, the President of the European Parliament at pcox@europarl.eu.int
(via Broker Tov, Boulder!)
Who Are We Arming Now?
Here's a clue:
"The president is concerned that this strike will undermine efforts by Palestinian authorities to bring an end to terrorist attacks, and it does not contribute to the security Israel."
The two big weekend media stories demonstrate that smart women can make very stupid choices. Martha Stewart and Hillary Clinton...two sides of the same coin…a naked ambition that subsumes all else…the uncanny similarity of their willingness to submit to public humiliation to achieve their ends.
The Hillary interviews and resulting media dog & pony show, the forced cheer, syrupy sincerity, the sheer contrivance and falseness of it all just seemed sad. I can’t even work up a mild case of indignation over the careful parsing of language...the lie-by-omission...the enabling...it has become a Clinton M.O. We expect no less and no more.
The media demanded that Hillary wrestle the infidelity python in a glass tank before a slavering, boorish audience and she obliged, for a price. What does that say about her? Can you imagine living Hillary’s life? Hers is not a story to be admired, to provide inspiration… it is a bad bargain that must be lived through, endured.
One can't help but wonder what Hillary thinks of the choices she made and if she had foreknowledge, would she choose differently?
Would you?
UPDATE: Warning: may cause acute nausea...Slate plants lips firmly on HRC's ample rump.
UPDATE: Laurie and Lance Morrow dish it cold.
Does this title sound familiar?
I would love to write this off as paranoia on my part… but as they say, being paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Republicans have shown a deep understanding of subtle ways to embed statements supportive of the most extreme elements of their party in the most innocent-looking ways. And in fact, the Christian Identity movement would see an American military occupation of the Middle East as no less than the return of True Israel to the Holy Land. Combine that with the fact that most of the current band of liars were officials of some sort in the earlier Bush administration, and well…
The Loony Left has taken a long walk off a short pier...do they really expect reasonable people to buy into their paranoia? What next? Reading of chicken entrails as proof of Neocon wickedness?
Get a grip man, and a mainstream candidate with a modicum of backbone and an agenda that the majority of Americans can agree upon...until then you might enjoy this little hate filled screed against The New World Order...it's right up your alley.
[A hat tip and hangover remedy to Marduk]
As the Liberal wing of the Dems meet to rescue the party from the centerist moderates it occurs to me to have a look at the two national party web sites side-by-side.
Therein lies the tale and the problem the Dems face in 2004
The difference in tone jumps off the pages. Click through to the Spanish language pages and the difference is startling. If these two pages were in print format on a table across the room...which layout would catch your eye first?
Part of the problem is that the Dems don't have a candidate yet to build around, the incumbent advantage is always an uphill climb for the challenger...but the DNC 's site is lifeless. Odd given that the Dems hold sway over most of the creative community...or do they?
Much like talk radio, the RNC seems to get the web interface while the DNC doesn't. The Internet is going to be a key component in the dissemination of information to voters and activists in the election.
It will be interesting to see who uses it most effectively.
As much as I admire HST's fine political sensibilities...this rant misses the mark:
...the corrupt little shyster and his slimy government is selling the Brits down the Meuse to those who invented pimping.
This mental image is just so wrong.
"I don't want to freedom kiss my wife," says Woody Allen in a new ad spot. "I want to French kiss her."
Eew, eewww, eeewww.
French tourism is down an estimated $500 milllion so far this summer due to anti-Semitism and Chirac's back stabbing in the UN.
Mon Dieu! What to do? Zee 'otels, zay are eemptee!
What else? Hire a famous Jewish-American comedian to do a très chic commercial and when all else fails play the race card. Que?
Jean-David Levitte, France's ambassador to the United States whines:"It goes beyond calls for French products," Levitte said. "When you insult the French people, simply because they are French, then it's a kind of racist campaign."
M'excuser! I know the French think their Merde pas l'odeur, but when did Gaelic become a racial category?
Silly me, all this time I thought they were shallow white people with poor hygiene, questionable toilet habits, tacky comedic taste and an inability to parallel park.
This proves beyond a doubt that the French have
a) no taste,
b) no clue,
c) are over.
What a difference a week makes...whilst I was off pursuing foolish fun much has happened that many predicted would come to pass. Can things get much worse for the left?
Howell Raines resigns from the NYT.
The Guardian begins a massive climb down from the Wolfowitz story.
Martha does the perp walk.
Hillary doesn't drop the other shoe or dime on Bill, contradicts Blumenthal's version of events.
Arafat misses fork in the roadmap.
Chris Muir take down Dowd.
Pontifex notices something rather odd about Salam's blog title.
Finally the best story of the day and a fitting end to my list: Monica is to SUVs as chrome to a '48 Buick.
