Showing posts with label the corner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the corner. Show all posts
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Michael Ledeen is not deterred by his announcement in January that rocked the world (in laughter because it wasn't true) that...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, is dead.
Michael Ledeen has more information he needs to share with us, so please don't laugh. Funny, each bit of information he shares are justification for actions to be taken against Iran. Today in the Corner, we learn new things about Iran. It ties them to 9/11. Apparently, even though Osama Bin Laden is a radical Sunni, hatred for the red, white, and blue is just too powerful an emotion to let a 1000+ year old religious feud stand in the way of in his quest for vengeance.
I've been told for some time now that April 9th—tomorrow—is a green-letter day in the Middle East, because the Iranians have planned some sort of nuclear announcement or demonstration (Ahmadinezhad is going to Natanz, it seems) and are also sponsoring what their leaders refer to in private as "a new intifada in Iraq."
I don't know if it's true, but it certainly fits; the Iranians love "disappeared" leaders. Their messianic leader is the "vanished Imam;" they "disappeared" bin Laden after he was routed from Afghanistan (he hasn't even made a virtual appearance for nearly three years, if you're keeping track) ; and Moqtada has been "disappeared" of late, which would put him in perfect position, Iranian-style, to lead an insurrection.
Don't overlook the change in terrorist strategy: the attempt to terrify and thus enlist the Iraqi people against the Iraqi government and coalition forces seems to have become counterproductive. Otherwise, why suddenly put the population off limits? That seems important to me.
So, we have a trifecta here. I am honored. Osama Bin Laden is the guest of the Iranians, who are going to do something nuclear tomorrow, and it's all in conjunction with Al-Sadr, who when not busy ordering his people to blow up Sunnis, is plotting with Sunni Osama Bin Laden.
Michael Ledeen only knows the half of it though I am afraid. There are three other key facts that make me believe that the Iranian or shall I say "green peril" is much more widespread than even Ledeen imagines.
1. Ahmadinezhad is the guy who greenlighted 'According To Jim' on ABC.
2. If you play the Iranian National Anthem backwards it says Paul will be dead. We declare jihad on him.
3. The city of Tehran has banned baseball, mothers, apple pie, and Chevrolet.
This can not stand. I wonder if Michael Ledeen has any idea what we should ever do with such damaging information? I know. He wants us to engage Iran in diplomacy to work out our differences. That must be it surely.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Cuban President Fidel Castro has strongly criticised the use of biofuels by the US, in his first article since undergoing surgery last year.
He said George W Bush's support for the use of food crops in fuel production would cause 3bn deaths from hunger.
The old dictator has a point believe it or not. The use of corn products in ethanol is devastating right now to poor people in Latin America. The cost of corn meal and products such as tortillas have escalated quickly because of increased demand for these products to produce ethanol.
It is the law of unintended consequences. Let me also say that perhaps President Bush's favorite idea of switchgrass, he seems to just like saying that word, might be a better choice. Let me put this in a way Joe Six-pack can understand.
What if cheap domestic beer was found as the best alternative fuel for cars, and corporations kept buying so much of it that demand was excessive, and now you had to pay $15.85 for a six pack of Budweiser. You would be bumming wouldn't you?
Tortillas and masa are near and dear to Mexican's hearts in the same way.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Occasionally, I look at National Review's 'The Corner' to get my fresh set of GOP talking points. Byron York, who incidentally has excellent hair, has some great sources for GOP boilerplate. Whatever bullshit the GOP is trying to spin, people like him have the faxes or email points down cold and the denizens of the Corner spread this stuff like manure.
So yesterday when news broke that Monica Goodling from the Justice Department planned to plead the fifth, I was interested to see how the Corner rats would spin the story.
Noted Duran Duran anthologer Kathryn Jean Lopez did report the news at 4:36 PM with a link to the AP report. She didn't leave any comments. Perhaps it was because she was digesting (the report) and wasn't prepared to speak to it yet.
15 minutes passed, and a new blog post came up. Wow. The spin room at the White House must work quickly. Awww rats, it was a post about immigration bills.
So I waited for the good GOP spin that I knew would soothe my soul. I didn't have long. Four minutes later at 4:55 a new post came. Oh crap, it's picking on Rosie O'Donnell time again. False alarm.
I waited and waited and waited. Were they taking long dinners? Was there a DC event that all the cool kids went to last night? If so, how did Jonah Goldberg get tickets? Right before bed, once more I checked and there was a blog post at 10:55. It was a link to Brit blogs covering the Iranian's holding the 15 UK sailors.
At that point, I gave up. But first thing this morning, I checked while rubbing my eyes and saw that there was a post at midnight about Rich Lawry discussing YouTube politics, and John Miller at 6am complaining that 24 has jumped the shark.
This can not go on unchallenged. They will be discussing Mork & Mindy pretty soon if Karl Rove does not hand out the proper phrases that will prove once and for all that a Justice Department official taking the fifth is a good thing for Republicans and proof of how evil democrats are when they persecute innocent people.
There are multiple people writing for the Corner. There is Mario Loyola, K-Lo, Jonah Goldberg, Kate O'Beirne, Byron York, John Miller, Larry Kudlow, Iain Murray, Stephen Spruiell,Mark Krikorian, Ramesh Ponnuru, Andrew Stuttaford, Peter Suderman and several others. It's not like my one man blog. It has now been 15 hours since this story broke. It says something to me that there is nothing but silence on this story which is leading every newscast, and was the top story last night.
They got nothing.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Valerie Plame Wilson complained that Dick Cheney — the elected vice president of the United States — made an "unprecedented number of visits" to the CIA in the run-up to the Iraq war. She's right. It's shocking. Evidently, Cheney actually listened to the CIA.
Anybody who has turned on a tv news the last few years, who still has a pulse knows that JPOD is proving once again that nepotism is a very bad thing. Cheney didn't listen to the CIA. He went to the CIA to pressure them into giving him intel that "proved" Iraq was responsible for everything that bad that has happened in the world. Ironically, it turns out everything evil in history was perpetrated by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed per his confession. Podhoretz's employers, The National Review, believe Mohammed's confession. This has encouraged me to write to them about some money I have in Nigeria, and need their help and a finder's fee in retrieving.
The National Review believes the left is obsessing on Mohammed's statement that he was tortured. Actually we are not, we already have known about that for years. We are too busy making fun of his ludicrous confession, and writing bad jokes about how he is the real father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby. I wonder which "left" the dim witted step-children of Bill Buckley are observing.
Kahlid Sheik Mohammed forced me to write this post. Well, I really haven't addressed if Jpod is just being evil and doesn't mean it. There is no evidence to support that theory. The man is very fucking stupid.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Cliff May just may be picking lice out of K-Lo's hair soon and grunting if this level of intellectual power keeps going on like in the following.
The trope that conservatives seeking a pardon for Libby are hypocritical (Chris Wallace raised it with Brit Hume this morning, and Brit essentially conceded the point) deserves further consideration.
Bill Clinton lied to a grand jury. As a result, he did not lose his job, did not go to jail and soon thereafter became a multi-millionaire, lionized and celebrated in his party and around the world. If that’s the fate in store for Libby, by all means, bring it on.
Ok, Bill Clinton had his law licence suspended for lying about getting a hummer as part of an investigation into a land deal that costed more than $70 million by some estimates. He lied under oath about getting a blow job. Because we couldn't get to the truth about the land deal, unless we first found out about Monica Lewinsky's dietary habits.
Cliff May grunts further...
One more point: Valerie Plame is getting $2.5 million for “her story.” How much did New York publishers and Hollywood producers pay for the stories of Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick?
Let's see. We have a beautiful sophisticated, world traveling CIA agent, who ran a front company for a spy agency, who was outed as an operative by a cabal in the White House including the President's top aide, and the Vice President, and his top aide.
Paula Jones said Bill Clinton showed her his wee-wee. NY publishers really don't know what an important book is do they? Those bastards. Cliff May will be making his next appearance at the Columbus Zoo with Jack Hannah next week. Ask him what he thinks about flinging versus tossing excrement while you were there. He has written a pamphlet. Sadly, NY publishers have rejected it.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
The president and Senate Democrats are pushing to expand the Visa Waiver Program to even more countries that feel we owe it to them to admit their citizens without scrutiny just because they've sent a few uniformed truck drivers to help us in Iraq.
That was Mark Krikorian today in the National Review. I am sure this will fire countries up to help out in Dick's Bogus Journey to Iran. But, I see it through National Review's eyes as well. They have been making sacrifices by shopping with some of the tax cuts they have received. It's not like driving a truck through Ramadi is that big of a deal anyways. Have you tried to find a parking spot on Rodeo Drive at 2PM? That requires serious driving.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Over at National Review's The Corner, Andy McCarthy backhandedly commends the NY Times for not discussing Dick Cheney's role as the successor to Darth Cheney in light of the assasination attempt upon him by the Taliban in Afghanistan yesterday.
Whaddya know, no mention today of Cheney's "well-known penchant for secrecy." Apparently even the Times now grasps that the Veep had pretty good reasons to be discrete. Maybe Cheney's not nuts! Maybe the Taliban and al Qaeda really do want us dead after all. Who knows — maybe tomorrow the Gray Lady will even acknowledge that the Patriot Act and the NSA program are not sinister power grabs but modest, sensible precautions against people who are hellbent on killing us. Naaaaaaahhhhh.Yes, the fact that the Taliban attempted to kill Cheney does convince me that we need to waterboard, stick wires to people's genitals, put foreign object into their anuses, listen into everybody's phone calls. Thank goodness this event happened. Otherwise, I might have continued assuming that Cheney was a dirtbag who enjoys urinating on the constitution during his morning constitutional, and that his actions have made the world a more dangerous place.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Byron York has a little blog post up on Mitt Romney, what York says about Romney isn't that original but what fascinates me more is how this post reflects the cynical opportunism that Mr. York endorses as a political philosophy. He acknowledges the fact that Mitt Romney is flipping hard to the right to pander for votes. This does not disturb him at all. It's the fact that Romney can't come up with a better "narrative" for his campaign, which is leading people to notice the fact that Romney is pandering like a whore to get votes in the GOP primary.
I thought I was cynical. Yet, it still warms my heart over when candidates actually mean what they say on the big moral issues. I even give passes to people who disagree on some things as long as they are being honest agents. Byron York apparently just wants to be pandered to by non-believers just as long as they are skilled enough to pull it off. Conservatives wondering why you have gone adrift, look no further than Byron York.
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