Around the world in 5 posts

Steve at No More Mister Nice Blog takes a look at America’s non liberal university faculty:

Of course, maybe Dauber hasn’t thought about this because, as Pandagon’s Jesse Taylor notes, she doesn’t even seem to know that abuse at Abu Ghraib consisted of more than panties on men’s heads, even though she’s a gen-yoo-wine Professor of Communications Studies whose “focus since September 11th has been on the performance of the media in its coverage of the war on terrorism.”

Hairy Fish Nuts wonders who the bad guys are in Iraq:

US MARINES arrested six members of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corp on suspicion of involvement in a roadside bomb attack this morning in western Iraq that wounded at least five locals, the US military said.

The Liberal Media Conspiracy reports on what it calls “more good news in the war on Human Rights:”

A key investigator in the espionage case against a Syrian-American translator at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo has been charged with raping and sodomizing children, officials said on Tuesday.

We believe they may have been using sarcasm.

SullyWatch (really) argues that O.J. Simpson was innocent after all (really.) A long read well worth your time.

Jo Fish points out US taxpayers should be asking for a refund:

Hey, I don’t want to be paying for that dumbass to campaign on my dollar…why is he allowed to get away with that shit, other than the fact that every agency with oversight probably lives in fear of it’s budgetary existance over raising red-flags over anything these criminals do.

And now it’s back to Euro2004 for us.

 

Something new, Something Old

New: Michelle Malkin has a blog.

Old: Michelle Malkin makes up shit:

Not every Somalian refugee or asylum-seeker is a terrorist, of course. But the system for screening out the well-meaning from the menaces is completely overwhelmed. Claims of “credible fear of persecution” are almost impossible to document but are rarely rejected.

2002 Statistics, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services:

Total — Refugees:

  • Applications filed: 89,726
  • Applications rejected: 71,074

    Somalia:

  • Applications filed: 24,458
  • Applications rejected: 23,922

    Total — Asylum

  • Applications filed: 58,439
  • Applications approved: 18,998

    Somalia:

  • Applications filed: 531
  • Applications approved: 364

    Please see this correction.

     
  • This is an outrage!

    No More Mister Nice Blog offers the latest White House Spin?, brought to you by Matt Drudge:

    Matt Drudge says White House officials are upset because Time revealed the location of Cheney’s secret bunker.

    One White House officials fumed Monday night: “TIME magazine would have revealed secret the location of Anne Frank, if they knew it.”

    Gee, I don’t recall those same White House officials getting upset when the New York Post revealed the same information a week ago…

    Shameless and dumb.

    Added: A reader draws our attention to this December 2001 article on Chez Dick.

    Added: More outrage fun with our brand new Flash animation (6MB.)

     

    Live to lose another day

    For a while last night it looked like Sadly, No! was about to be wiped away in a bout of Dutch revenge.

    Thanks to a 1:1 tie however, we get to live to post another day.

     

    But it’s only 15 days away, right?

    Follow along kids:

    President Bush said today that his administration was making plans to transfer custody of Saddam Hussein to the new Iraqi interim government. But he refused to be pinned down on exactly when the transfer would take place.

    Saddam Hussein must either be released from custody by June 30 or charged if the US and the new Iraqi government are to conform to international law, the International Committee of the Red Cross said last night. [link]

    Spanish Defense Minister Jose Bono said Monday that he does not think the Iraqi interim government will receive full sovereignty transfer from the US-led coalition on June 30, a date set by the newest UN resolution for Iraq’s power handover. [link]

    We also do not have to hand him over until there’s a cessation of active — cessation of active hostilities, and the repatriation doesn’t begin until after that. Hostilities, unfortunately, continue. [link]

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    Discuss.

     

    Up is down, down is up!

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    Your headlines for today:

  • Consumer Prices Are Higher Than Expected
  • Consumer Prices Surge in May
  • Stocks Set to Rise After Modest CPI Gain

    Any questions?

     
  • Bring out your freaks!

    Pete from The Dark Window introduces us to the wisdom of Wilson C. Lucom:

    If the left wing of the Democratic Party gains control through the election of a communist-aiding president and brings communism to the United States, all you Democratic and U.S. workers could have your salaries reduced by 23 to 32 times. If this happened, Communist China would control you, not John Kerry or any other Democratic president.

    Read the rest so you can be ready.

    World O’Crap has dug out Debbie O’Hara:

    Since the days of Nimrod and his infamous tower, people have been working hard toward creating an anti-God socialist world government.

    Hide the children!

    Over at The Poor Man, the increasingly shrill Editors are on a very special Star Search:

    Kaye Grogan has been pretty boring recently, so I’m shopping for replacement spokesmodels for the Right for when she hits a dry patch. All contestants will be given a rating, a Kaye Grogan quotient, which will be a measure of how Kaye Groganesque they are (1.000 is Kaye herself; Dennis Prager is 0.500; Paul Krugman is 0.000).

     

    Is John Lott working at the White House?

    Typical discount seniors can expect with the Medicare Discount Card:

  • Savings on brand-name drugs range from 16 to over 30 percent off usual retail prices
  • Savings for generic drugs are even larger, ranging between 30 to 60 percent or [sic] more.
  • Number of Medicare Discount cardholders featured yesterday in President Bush’s remarks: 4. Range of discount they received: 83 to 92 percent.

    Isn’t cherry picking wonderful?

     

    He’s got a Gore in his Bonnet

    World, meet Shane Arthur Swing:

    My brother hatched and orchestrated the brilliant scheme, threw the rock that struck the nest, and watched as the angry hornets swarmed out and unleashed their fury on me, the innocent onlooker. My brother was unharmed, and although I was in severe pain, I realized a valuable lesson that day – nobody is innocent to a provoked hornet, and, Al Gore is a nitwit.

    You think Doug Giles has a way with metaphors? Assume that Kaye Grogan provides a useful reference point for lunacy? Think again:

    On September 11, 2001, radical Muslim terrorists threw their rocks at America’s nest. President Bush responded accordingly, by attacking anybody with rocks in their hands and anybody who thought attacking America was a funny idea. I stopped laughing the moment the first hornet stung me some 26 years ago, and I guarantee that no Muslim extremist is laughing now. Bush is the bringer of consequence to mischievous believers of the stone.

    If they are laughing Shane, we bet they’re not laughing with you. At least terrorism is down, so we know Bush’s policies are working!

    Had 9/11 occurred during a Democrat administration, the honeybees would have buzzed around wildly, flown to the United Nations for some political nectar, and stung innocent Aspirin factory workers in Pakistan. The terrorists would have laughed and attacked again and again.

    Did you know that Shane has a friend? His name is Swing, Buddy Swing:

    While having lunch in a restaurant the other day, I witnessed a confrontation between two men concerning politics dejour. The first man was spouting Kennedy-like hatred towards President Bush and the second man was questionings the validity of his argument. The first man’s tongue became twisted up with irrational logic and he finished by saying, “I don’t care, I just hate the son-of-a-bitch.”

    Oh, we just know this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. [Lots of emphasis added.]

     

    There’s Flash by Dummies, and then…

    …there’s Flash by pros. This Tribute to Reagan belongs to the latter category.