Clare Short is whinging that George Bush is undermining the UN by setting up an aid coalition for the tsunami victims. (Note that the coalition is much of the Anglosphere plus Japan…)

She missed her calling. She should have been in standup comedy:

(Sung the tune of “Blame Canada”)

This is amazing. The Vatican has blamed Israel for not providing disaster support, after they offered it and were turned down by Sri Lanka, who apparently didn’t want any help from the evil Jews. As is often the case, no good deed goes unpunished.

[Update on Friday afternoon]

Catholic World News says that it was a mistranslation and that the Vatican was actually criticizing Sri Lanka for refusing the aid.

Glad to hear it.

…blamed George Bush for the tsunamis yet?

I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. Thousands more lives are on his head.

…will be all over this story.

Any day now.

[crickets chirping]

…will be all over this story.

Any day now.

[crickets chirping]

…will be all over this story.

Any day now.

[crickets chirping]

Diane Feinstein wants to get an amendment to end the electoral college. That way, no one will have to run a national campaign–they’ll just have to do big media buys in the major cities. Fortunately, her fellow Senators will never pass it out of that chamber. This won’t be a partisan issue–it will be a large-state, small-state and urban-state, rural-state issue, and there are more small and rural ones than large and urban ones.

Diane Feinstein wants to get an amendment to end the electoral college. That way, no one will have to run a national campaign–they’ll just have to do big media buys in the major cities. Fortunately, her fellow Senators will never pass it out of that chamber. This won’t be a partisan issue–it will be a large-state, small-state and urban-state, rural-state issue, and there are more small and rural ones than large and urban ones.

Diane Feinstein wants to get an amendment to end the electoral college. That way, no one will have to run a national campaign–they’ll just have to do big media buys in the major cities. Fortunately, her fellow Senators will never pass it out of that chamber. This won’t be a partisan issue–it will be a large-state, small-state and urban-state, rural-state issue, and there are more small and rural ones than large and urban ones.

Americans are still welcome in Bastogne.

“The American veterans who have returned 60 years later to the battle site represent those who gave their lives on our soil so that today we can live free,” Bastogne Mayor Philippe Collard said in French at a memorial honoring U.S. General George S. Patton.

He added in English: “We will never forget. You are home here.”

I fervently hope that, to the degree that they do so now, the French can continue to live free, in the face of the new totalitarian threat in their midst to which they are only now awakening. They, and much of western Europe, are now on one of the front lines of the new war, whether they realize it or not.