This time, our good friend Michelle Malkin means it!
Feel free to leave the profanity-free putdown you would have used on Leahy. (And for those who have been dying to leave one of these for me, go ahead if it gets you through the day.)
So what are you waiting for?
Before our switch to Movable Type, we had written about an eBay user who tended to leave peculiar responses to his feedback. Today, we turn our attention to feedback he leaves for others:
More here.
In yet another round of electricity in Iraq related news:
[Nick] Horne, for his part, was a computer consultant attracted by the idea of working in Iraq. He took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad and landed a job as the CPA’s senior adviser for electricity. He said he found himself briefing Bremer on the country’s critical electricity grid, which he didn’t yet understand. [Emphasis added]
In other related news:
Despite promises by the Coalition Provision Authority (CPA) to rebuild and expand Iraq’s infrastructure, Iraq is still not producing as much electricity or as much oil on a sustained basis as it was just before the war, according to the report which blames a combination of sabotage by insurgents and incompetence and profiteering by big U.S. companies like Halliburton that captured virtually all of the reconstruction contracts to the exclusion of more-experienced Iraqi firms.
Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for a correction (or even a reply to our email.)
No More Mister Nice Blog has the ultimate shorter version of Dick Morris’ latest column. We’ll just note that this sentence by Dick really caught our, uh, eye:
And [Clinton] cannot resist mounting the platform when it is erected every four years.
It’s always about the Clenis.
Sadly, we must take an early leave from the duties of Sadly, No! today Oskar is really bummed out about yesterday’s football game, and we promised we’d go out looking for junk mail together.) The good news however is that we’ve decided to post this week’s Flash Friday a day early. (Which means Flash Friday has, for all practical purposes, never actually been posted on a Friday. But we digress.)
Last week, we told you that our latest effort was totally awesome. (And no besides that were involved!) Well, this week’s animation makes last week’s look like a piece of crap. We kid you not. Sadly, No Love! will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will show you that when you get right down to it, and all appearances to the contrary, the good people of Sadly, No! truly are romantics at heart. Vicious, petty, mean-spirited, hateful, kick-a-man-when-he’s-down, wouldn’t-spit-on-his-hair-if-it-was-on-fire romantics. So sit back, put away your beverages, and enjoy Sadly, No Love!
Technical Notes: Animation is, yet again, a healthy 6MB, with every megabyte better than the next. Or something.
Credits: Were it not for Pete M. from The Dark Window, these things would consist of 3 pictures and 1 quote, circling around for 4 minutes. So we thank him once again for his essential, and invaluable, assistance. Fellow freedom-hater Blair also provided valuable feedback. [In other Pete M. related news, he has the latest on Wilson C. Lucom. Read it now before the authorities find out about it.]
[Removed some unrelated links.]
Steve at No More Mister Nice Blog and TBOGG review some Clinton book reviews.
* We miss SPY magazine.
The Washington Post reports:
The Bush administration has decided to take the unusual step of bestowing on its own troops and personnel immunity from prosecution by Iraqi courts for killing Iraqis or destroying local property after the occupation ends and political power is transferred to an interim Iraqi government, U.S.
officials said.The administration plans to accomplish that step — which would bypass the most contentious remaining issue before the transfer of power — by extending an order that has been in place during the year-long occupation of Iraq. Order 17 gives all foreign personnel in the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority immunity from “local criminal, civil and administrative jurisdiction and from any form of arrest or detention other than by persons acting on behalf of their parent states.”
U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer is expected to extend Order 17 as one of his last acts before shutting down the occupation next week, U.S. officials said. The order is expected to last an additional six or seven months, until the first national elections are held. [Emphasis added]
Thanks to Blair for the link.
Roger Ailes points out what a real Saddam-lover looks like. His name? Jude Wanniski. His article? Saddam Suddenly Looks Innocent:
I’m only suggesting you go back to your law books and, for your own good, get a good grip on why Saddam Hussein is behind bars when it now turns out he doesn’t seem to have done anything wrong. You might then be in a better position to advise the President on how to proceed in the best way to avoid further Bigtime Boo-Boos.
Now that is some seriously fucked up shit:
As an associate editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1972 to 1978, Jude Wanniski repopularized the classical theories of supply-side economics.
Come back next week, when Jude will write on the following topics:
Add your own suggestions in the comments for a Suddenly Jude? topic. Pete M. from The Dark Window will perform an exorcism free of charge for [though not necessarily on] the author of the funniest entry.
[Fixed typo — thanks Blair! Fixed another typo — no thanks to Blair.]
