Ted Kennedy dies

A far-left powermonger has died. Ted Kennedy was the last of Joe Kennedy's womanizing, alcoholic sons.

Reactions around the nation

1. Distilleries are flying their flags at half mast

2. Under construction is the largest coffin ever made by the Nantucket Casket Company

3. The Kopechne family is throwing a party

4. Politicians of all types are pretending they liked and respected him

5. The Boston Golf Club is once again putting out the fragile tableware

6. The mass selloff of brewery stocks forced regulators to close the NYSE early

7. A new wing is being constructed at the Smithsonian to house Ted's liver

Howard Dean and Husseincare

I thought this Democrat nutcase was gone for good, but then I found him at the Huffington Post, ranting in his usual manner. This time he's mad about people claiming Husseincare includes a Death Panel:

Our country is in trouble. Claims like these are routinely refuted by people who know better, but they are recirculated because they are sensational, and the MSM purports to take a balanced position without a thoughtful assessment of the facts. Fox News actually has people on in support of these outrageously false claims.

In fact, these kinds of claims are lies. There is no nice way to say it. This kind of stuff is far beyond the usual politicians' tricks of shading words and imputing meanings that aren't there. To quote a famous American who began the process of ending the McCarthy era in the fifties I address the MSM: "At long last, Have you no sense of decency?"

Remember Howard Dean's reaction to the leftie press -- 85% of all media in the U.S. is liberal -- when they supported Her Idiotness Cindy Sheehan? That's right, he didn't have one. When all left-wing media were pushing the "She just wants the president to meet with her" line, they all "forgot" to mention that he had already met with her. Just by dropping the word "again", leftie news helped prop up a story they knew was false.

A search at the Huffington Post didn't turn up any of Dean's simpleton articles about the media's false treatment of the Cindy Sheehan story. Not a peep out of the biggest mouth on the left.

Clinton in North Korea

Ahhh, it's all coming together now. Kimmy Jongeeeeel announced family and tourist visits can resume between North and South Koreans. Curiously, this announcement came just after Bubba Clinton went to Kimmy on a "private" trip.

From AP:

North Korea agreed Monday to lift border restrictions with South Korea to allow reunions of separated families and restart stalled tourism ventures in its latest gesture of conciliation toward Seoul after nearly 18 months of rising tensions.

Billy Mayes offed himself with cocaine

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NPR goose-stepping for the cause

Yesterday NPR did a small story about the protests at Town Hall meetings. I recall NPR's coverage of protests during the Bush era, where every detail was revealed, right down to interviews with the protesters. The coverage was wall to wall.

So how did NPR treat the people protesting Chairman Obama? They interviewed some sort of specialist to discuss the business of hiring professional protesters -- people who are not against anything being said.

NPR should be ashamed of themselves. I should be ashamed of myself for thinking they would practice anything other than agendized journalism.

Misleading headline

The New York Liberal Times has this headline: Iraqis Freed by US Face Few Jobs and Little Hope. The suggestion behind the headline is that if the US hadn't detained them, they'd be in good shape. Here's what I think happened to these thugs: having no education and no job, they decided to pick up AK-47s and rocket launchers and use them against U.S. soldiers, and got themselves jammed up at Abu Ghraib. Now that they're out, they're in the exact same situation they could have expected if they hadn't made the error of fighting superior forces.

Lies, lies, and more lies

News stories are saying three Americans were allegedly camping on the Iraq/Iran border in the north when they were arrested by the Iranians. Does anybody actually believe they were camping? What's the thought process? "Honey, I don't want to go to Yellowstone this year. Let's go to Northwest Iran." No American citizen, even of Iraqi or Iranian descent, would ever be a tourist in that area. What a crock.

Next up: Bubba Clinton's "private" trip to North Korea

Here's what I think happened:

1. Failed-politician-turned-climate-swindler Al Gore called his surrogate father, Bubba, and appealed to him for help. The two journalists work for Gore's TV station.

2. Bubba went to Chairman Obama and got permission to go.

3. Bubba flies "privately" to the worst country on Earth, hands over a suitcase full of U.S. hundred-dollar bills, and comes back with the two journalists.

Human shields

An AP story out of LA caught my attention because it applies to so many different things. A man engaged himself in a 2.5-hour gun battle with police, and during the heat of the fight, the guy lifted up a 19-month old baby as a shield, and the baby was killed. Some people are outraged that a judge just threw out the lawsuit brought by the baby's mother against the city. AP story here.

There was the lawsuit, plus demonstrations. It's awful that the child died, for sure, but these folks need to see past their grief and anger and look at reality for a moment. If the police back down from a guy who is shooting at the police and threatening to kill his children, then every nutjob in the land will automatically have a tool with which to defeat the police. Are these people too dumb to understand that?

The same kinds of people said we should halt the war in Iraq in mid-progress because some civilians had died. This is idiocy. Saddam deliberately placed rocket launchers in civilian neighborhoods because he thought it might prevent bombing attacks on them. Now the next mass-murdering dictator who considers this cowardly strategy, will have to think again.

Precisely the same complaints, from the same kinds of screechy weirdos, are leveled against Israel for going after terrorists in the Palestinian territories. If civilians don't want to get bombed and shot, perhaps they shouldn't allow madmen to use their homes as rocket bases? Just a thought.

The overall message I'm trying to convey is that when there is collateral damage, and it will continue to happen, people have to lay blame where it belongs: In the recent LA shooting, the blame goes to the madman who used the child as a shield. In Palestinian lands, it goes to the terrorists. In Iraqi Freedom, the blame went to Saddam Hussein. Interestingly enough, in the case of Saddam, the Democrats in the USA didn't understand where the blame for war dead lies, but the Iraqis knew -- they hanged the bastard who was at fault.