Category: Networks

— The president reiterated the Bush Doctrine as he prepared to meet with Crown Prince Abdullah at the ranch next week:

“In the Middle East, where acts of terror have triggered mounting violence, all parties have a choice to make,” the president said. “Every leader, every state must choose between two separate paths: the path of peace or the path of terror.”

Given the Saudis’ role in greasing the skids of Wahabbist terrorism for lo these many years, that’s going to be an interesting meeting, even without pork ribs and hound dogs.

— Rally in S.F. supports Israel

Israeli and American flags filled Justin Herman Plaza in downtown San Francisco on Sunday afternoon as several thousand people rallied to show support for Israel and call for peace in the region.

That’s good.

— My plan for world domination progresses apace, as I have once again become the most famous Richard Bennett in the world (according to Google), but I remain behind two others as only the third most famous Bennett. Bennett College and Sen. Bob Bennett (R, Utah) are more linked than I, sadly. While I might take solace in being more famous than William Bennett and Tony Bennett, I cannot rest until these interlopers are vanquished. Now if only I could induce the Professor, the Postrel, and the ReadJacobs to link me, I might achieve my goal. Will someone tell me what Reynolds likes to drink or smoke? If it’s all about intellectual acumen, I’m in trouble. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming (in Python.)

— Don’t you just hate it when people argue and fight like cats and dogs? Jonah Goldberg misbehaves today, lashing out at dear, sweet, Cynthia McKinney (D. Ga):

Well, just let me just say that I am not aware of any evidence that Ms. McKinney has murdered several children or that she personally profited from sleeping with the entire defensive squad of the Atlanta Falcons. However, a complete investigation might reveal that to be the case.

Meanwhile, while we await the findings of that long-overdue investigation, I can add that there is ample evidence that Ms. McKinney is dumber than rock salt and more repugnant than Yasser Arafat’s three-week-old underwear.

It appears that McKinney belongs to the Rebecca Blood Conspiracy-of-the-Month club.

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— I love living in California.

— One way to terrorize people in America, when there aren’t any widows to kick around and you need to beat-up on somebody, is with frivolous lawsuits. Check this by one of the targets of war profiteer Rall’s random rage (FREE DIRTY DANNY!)

And I was just one of many who were appalled by this specious hatchet job. When Russ Smith, the publisher of the New York Press wrote an editorial criticizing Rall’s Voice feature, I was overjoyed to contribute the accompanying illustration, which depicted Rall as a small dog urinating on a bronze statue of the Pulitzer Prize-winning MAUS author. In hindsight, I wish I’d let that illustration be the final expression of my disgust with Rall’s anti-Spiegelman slam-piece, but I let my strong feelings about the Voice feature get the better of me.

Rall brags in one of the articles that a year doesn’t go by when he’s not taking someone to court. He’s a great national treasure (of Iraq, maybe.)

— Ken Layne notes Tom Tomorrow says that “leftists and feminists were among the few voices criticizing the Taliban before Sept. 11.” While there was some weak Taliban-bashing from these quarters, I personally compared the author of a bill eliminating pre-nuptial waivers of alimony to the Taliban in a letter to the California legislature in March of 2001. The author I complained about, Sheila Kuehl, is a leftist and a feminist, which made the comparison all the more appropriate. Paternalism is where you find it, and it’s more common among the feminist left than anywhere else in American life.

— With all this absurd whining from the anti-American left about warbloggers being war profiteers (spectacularly dissected by James Lileks), it seems appropriate to look behind the smokescreen and see who’s actually profiting from the war on terror. One fine pair of war profiteers appeared on the soon-to-be-shitcanned TV program, Politically Incorrect, Wednesday night: egomaniacal cartoonist (and cartoon editorialist) Ted Rall, and his buddy Bill Maher. This pair were touting their new book,
To Afghanistan and Back, an alleged account of Rall’s death-defying trip to Afghanistan. Now I wouldn’t normally tout a Rall product, but given the absurd claim that we warbloggers are rolling in warbucks, it deserves mention solely for the purpose of underscoring the hypocrisy of the idiot Rall, best known for his vicious attack on Daniel Pearl’s widow (who doesn’t happen to be eligible for WTC compensation, as far as I know.)

I didn’t hear a thing about donating the proceeds of this book to help the millions of Afghanis we’ve allegedly carpet-bombed into another dimension. Not a word about helping Palestinians with their funeral expenses, or even anything on the homeless cats and dogs which are probably the sole extent of Maher’s concern about the WTC destruction. And of course, this book certainly would not be possible without the escort provided Rall by the American Armed Forces, at taxpayer expense.

As far as I can tell, Rall and Maher intend to spend the proceeds of this bit of anti-American sensationalism entertaining bimbos they picked up at the Playboy mansion on Hefner’s 76th birthday. So who’s the war profiteer, and who’s going to buy their book? Not this blogger.

— Judge Refuses Gov’t on Detainee Case:

Last week, U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds said the Justice Department improperly barred the media and public from immigration hearings for Rabih Haddad, the co-founder of Global Relief Foundation. She ruled that transcripts of the hearings must be made public.

This judge wants the government to turn sensitive intelligence info over to the terrorists. I’m amazed.

— The idictment of evil attorney Lynne Stewart for terrorist conspiracy drew the predictable response from the trial lawyers:

Attorney Accused of Passing Terrorist Messages (washingtonpost.com) — “As a defense lawyer now, you basically cannot talk to your clients in prison. If you have a securities fraud case . . . then you’re probably safe. If you’re in the Southern District of New York and there are people under indictment for these kind of [terrorism] cases, then you’re probably being watched,” he said. “It bodes terribly ill for our defense system.”

With spokesmen like this, trial lawyers need no enemies. It’s always been illegal for attorneys to join criminal conspiracies with their clients, it just wasn’t prosecuted before. You can tell how serious Ashcroft is about this case by his appearance on David Letterman last night.