Ummmmmm…

Giant calamari:

If cut up for calamari, the stories said, the squid would produce rings the size of tractor tires. As word got out that the catch had actually been recorded on video, Bennett found himself in the middle of an international bidding war.

Boy, you’d need a pretty big bowl for the dipping sauce.

The New Euphemism

I see that this is the new Democrat mantra:

“bring our involvement in that civil war to a conclusion.”

Is there a civil war in Iraq? Sure.

Is that all that is going on there? Really?

There will be no negative consequences to either the region, or our own security, to allow the “civil” war to get worse, or for the Sunni countries in the region (most of whom are at best indifferent to Al Qaeda and their goals, and often supportive) to continue to reinforce their agents of chaos there, and allow Anbar and other areas to become uninhibited breeding and training grounds for terrorism, as Afghanistan was under the Taliban?

It would be nice if we could have a real debate over this war, instead of disingenuousness from appeasers.

Fitzgerald’s Disgrace

Rich Lowry:

The jarring spectacle of jurors expressing support for, or at least indifference toward, an executive act to wipe away the conviction that they just handed down is a damning statement about Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. It means that he had sufficient evidence to convince a handful of people drawn from Washington, D.C.

Fitzgerald’s Disgrace

Rich Lowry:

The jarring spectacle of jurors expressing support for, or at least indifference toward, an executive act to wipe away the conviction that they just handed down is a damning statement about Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. It means that he had sufficient evidence to convince a handful of people drawn from Washington, D.C.

Fitzgerald’s Disgrace

Rich Lowry:

The jarring spectacle of jurors expressing support for, or at least indifference toward, an executive act to wipe away the conviction that they just handed down is a damning statement about Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. It means that he had sufficient evidence to convince a handful of people drawn from Washington, D.C.

Testing Key Technologies

Tariq Malik has an article on the Orbital Express satellites, launched as part of the payload on last night’s successful Atlas V launch. (By the way, that launch success is good news for both Lockheed Martin and Bigelow–a failure would have been a major setback in their stated plans to use the vehicle to deliver passengers to orbit).

During its planned 91-day mission, the Orbital Express vehicles are expected to go through a two-week checkout period, and then test initial refueling and equipment replacement techniques — while still mated to one another — using ASTRO

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