Friday, December 30, 2005

Justice Dept. probing domestic spying leak - Boston.com

Liberals and the MSM have been decrying the Valerie Plame 'leak' for years. It's about time that they get a taste of their own medicine as the Justice Department has opened a probe into the domestic spying leak.

I look forward to the NYT getting called to the carpet and the punishment of those criminals who clearly leaked classified information that actually did hurt national security.

Schadenfreude? You betcha.

**UPDATE**

Michelle Malkin has noted that the leak leading to WaPo's story about secret CIA prisons is being investigated, too.

KnowThyNeighbor.org encouraging harassment of petition signatories

This is a spooky website of a Massachusetts pro-gay marriage organization that lists the name and address of those people who signed a petition to end gay marriage in the Bay State. The searchable database is purportedly to be used for determining whether a signature was fraudulently obtained, it also has a potential dual use of harassing those who did.

While I'm sure that this list was legally obtained, to list the address of the signatory smacks of illicit intent. Indeed, according to an article in The Globe, by week's end, Tom Lang, spokesman for KnowThyNeighbor.org, will be "post[ing] the signers' political party affiliation by weeks' end, and later, other data such as home sale prices."

That information is completely irrelevant in the determination of fraud and confirms to me that the list is nothing more than a tool similar to those used by extremist anti-abortion websites. Personally, I generally support at least civil unions with all the rights afforded to those who are married. However, I cannot support what KnowThyNeighbor is doing.

Bush Team Rethinks Its Plan for Recovery

From WaPo, the Bush team is coming around to the conclusion that optimism, flecked with straight-talk is the best course. People know that nothing and no one is perfect, but we all still aspire to lofty goals. The problem with Bush before his recent turnaround was that he painted a rosy picture and talked only about the positives. Now, he's telling people of his ideals and saying that, though the road to reach is difficult and mistakes were and are being made, we will get there. More importantly, we must get there. Most importantly, getting there means the fulfillment of ideals that should be important to every American: democracy and freedom for all.

The difference: gaining 8 percentage points in the polls, and more people are supporting the effort to finish the job in Iraq.

A nice place to visit

Come to Rafah, in the Gaza Strip where policemen stormed a Gaza-Egypt crossing to protest the death of a fellow police officer over a family feud. That forced the EU monitors to flee, which consequently closed to border under the Israeli-Palestinian agreement.

Nice place, Rafah.

Former Iraq Hostage Makes Bizzare TV Appearance - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Hey, Germany, please, please, please, next time, just leave your psycho citizens in the hands of those Islamists instead of paying ransoms, OK?

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Tomorrow

My sweetie is coming up tomorrow. Ah, romance!

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

German diplomat, family missing in Yemen

Do you think that the kidnappers of a German former government official and his family in Yemen got the idea after hearing about this?

You heard it here first, terrorists and criminals: if you want something bad enough, kidnap a German. Their government will happily give you what you want.

National Security Agency

An interesting poll by Rasmussen Reports claims that 64% of Americans think that the NSA should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States. More importantly, 51% of Democrats and 57% of independents agree with that statement. Most importantly, only 26% are so naive to think that President Bush is the first one to do such a thing.

Looks like the liberals are once again on the losing side of the national security debate.

Saving Iraqi baby a new mission for U.S. troops

Charlie Company of the Georgia National Guard is trying to save the life of Noor, an Iraqi infant born with spina bifida. They've already gotten all the necessary help, including the assistance of Dr. Roger Hudgins, chief of neurosurgery at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, who will do the operation for free.

This is the kind of news about our brave troops that we should be hearing more of, and yet is so infrequently reported on in the MSM. Instead, it's usually about how our troops are terrorizing innocent Iraqi civilians, and how everything's going wrong in Iraq.

Canada blames U.S. for gun violence

God, how pathetic is Canada, blaming their gang violence on the U.S.? And here's PM Paul Martin, trying to score political points by saying:
What we saw yesterday is a stark reminder of the challenge that governments, police forces and communities face to ensure that Canadian cities do not descend into the kind of rampant gun violence we have seen elsewhere

Emphasis mine. Like I said, pathetic. Please, call the Waahhhhmbulance.

Putin's chief economic adviser quits

The news from Russia, where Andrei Illarionov, Putin's chief economic adviser has resigned, is troubling. Illarionov is supposedly a proponent of liberal economic reform, and his resignation due to Russia's movement back to its state-controlled economic model does not bode well for the balance of power in the world.

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Fair and Balanced

Do you know what I love about the MSM? Their unflagging determination to bring a fair and balanced representation of a controversial issue, namely the recent flap over the Bush administration's wiretaps.

The article by Stewart Powell of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a good example. In it, he only gives a single point of view, referencing James Bamford, who, by his quotes, is clearly against the Bush administration's position. He also implies that the wiretaps are illegal. Powell makes no attempt to quote another 'authority' who can make an argument that the wiretaps are indeed legal. This leaves a reader with the clear impression that the wiretaps are illegal, even though the situation is hazy at best.

As I said before, fair and balanced.

Monday, December 26, 2005

A Bunch of Savages!

So, it appears that some baggage handler or the TSA, while rummaging my luggage prior to my trip home on Airtran, managed to walk away with two bottles of cologne, one of which was a gift from my brother. I hate people. A merry f-ing Christmas, you bastards.