We don’t pay for it.
Want to reform health care? Fix that.
A Party of Thugs
And a thug enabler running for Senate in Massachusetts.
[Update a few minute later]
Here’s a first-hand report from the thugeeassault victim (who was given similar treatment by Scozzafava’s entourage in New York when they called the cops on him).
[Afternoon update]
Meehan has apologized to McCormack.
An Interview With Christopher Hitchens
By Michael Totten. Parts I and II:
Hitchens: It’s not “the regime” or “the theocracy.” It’s now very clear that the Revolutionary Guards have committed a coup in all but name–well, I name it, but it hasn’t yet been named generally. They didn’t rig an election. They didn’t even hold one.
MJT: They never counted the votes. There’s no “recount” to be done.
Hitchens: The seizure of power by a paramilitary gang that just so happens to be the guardian and the guarantor and the incubator of the internationally illegal weapons program. If that doesn’t concentrate one’s mind, I don’t know what will.
MJT: If the Obama Administration calls you up and says, “Christopher, we need you to come in here, we need your advice.” What would you tell them?
Hitchens: I would say, as I did with Saddam Hussein–albeit belatedly, I tried to avoid this conclusion–that any fight you’re going to have eventually, have now. Don’t wait until they’re more equally matched. It doesn’t make any sense at all.
The existence of theocratic regimes that have illegally acquired weapons of mass destruction, that are war with their own people, that are exporting their violence to neighboring countries, sending death squads as far away as Argentina to kill other people as well as dissident members of their own nationality–the existence of such regimes is incompatible with us. If there is going to be a confrontation, we should pick the time, not them.
We’re saying, “Let’s give them time to get ready. Then we’ll be more justified in hitting them.” That’s honestly what they’re saying. When we have total proof, when we can see them coming for us, we’ll feel okay about resisting.
Read all, and hit Michael’s tip jar.
Davy Jones Locker
…is full of oil?
I’ve never bought the peak oil theory, at least not as having any near-term relevance. If production slows down, it’s only because we’ve quit looking, or haven’t been allowed to by idiot politicians.
An Anti-Human Religion
Has James Cameron started one?
You Want Torture?
This is torture.
[Wednesday morning update]
Jack Cafferty isn’t a big fan.
As Wolf says, tell us how you really feel about her.
Yo, Comments Spammers
If you’re going to try to slip through a generic comments post saying that “I never expected to see this on a Friday night,” or “Wednesday,” it would behoove you to actually post it at the time that you didn’t expect to see it. Not that the very premise isn’t stupid.
I mean, what does the day (or night) of the week have to to with the contents of the post?
Idiots.
Thankfully, it makes filtering the morons easier.
A Golden Oldie
What with the overblown Harry Reid thing (Democrats are hyper race conscious? I’m shocked, shocked), I thought I’d replay a little spoof I wrote back in the Trent Lott days.
And for the record, yes, I do think that what Lott said was worse than what Reid did. Of course, I saw it as a good excuse to get rid of a dud of a majority leader. And I want Reid to stay and continue to do damage to his party, to ultimately minimize the damage that it does to the country.
The Proersecution Continues
Apparently frustrated with the light sentence on the first conviction, the federal prosecutor has indicted Courtney Stadd on new charges.
Resurrection
Lee Valentine is reactivating the moribund Space Studies Institute, recently moved from its original home in Princeton to Mojave. I wonder where the conference will be this fall? All previous ones have been in Princeton (and have always been known as the “Princeton Conferences”).