Defending The Downtrodden

UPI Columnist Jim Bennett has an interesting thought. If it turns out that Al Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood and militias are linked (via OKC), will Chomsky et al start defending the Aryan Brotherhood and telling us that we must seek root causes for why they hate the American government and people of color?

Just wondering.

What To Call Them?

OK, I’ll admit it. The latest wave of bombings in Israel has put me in a whimsical mood. Laurence Simon aka “File13 (Amish Tech Support),” over at Charles Johnson’s site, asks what the affinitive term is for Palestinian “militants.”

We have a gaggle of geese, a crash of rhinocerous, so what do we call a group of folks who habitually lie and blow themselves (and others) up?

Mr. Simon suggests a “burst” of Palestinians.

Here are my contest entries:

An explosion of Palestinian “militants”?
A mendacity of Palestinian “militants”?

And for EU bureaucrats, who cheerfully fund this madness, an idiocy of burEaUcrats?

Or, in the spirit of a “pride of lions,” how about a shame of burEaUcrats?

“I Thought It Was Barry Commoner”

Here’s a little item in the White House Going-Out-Of-Business vandalism spree that had gone previously unnoted:

The report also, for the first time, reveals that a bust of Abraham Lincoln vanished and was found at former Vice President Al Gore’s home.

A Gore ex-staffer is quoted as saying staffers “inadvertently packed” the bust – which Gore returned on July 11, 2001.

Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera yesterday said Gore wasn’t even aware he had the bust…”

I can believe that. I doubt if he had sticky fingers–he probably didn’t even know who it was.

“I Thought It Was Barry Commoner”

Here’s a little item in the White House Going-Out-Of-Business vandalism spree that had gone previously unnoted:

The report also, for the first time, reveals that a bust of Abraham Lincoln vanished and was found at former Vice President Al Gore’s home.

A Gore ex-staffer is quoted as saying staffers “inadvertently packed” the bust – which Gore returned on July 11, 2001.

Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera yesterday said Gore wasn’t even aware he had the bust…”

I can believe that. I doubt if he had sticky fingers–he probably didn’t even know who it was.

“I Thought It Was Barry Commoner”

Here’s a little item in the White House Going-Out-Of-Business vandalism spree that had gone previously unnoted:

The report also, for the first time, reveals that a bust of Abraham Lincoln vanished and was found at former Vice President Al Gore’s home.

A Gore ex-staffer is quoted as saying staffers “inadvertently packed” the bust – which Gore returned on July 11, 2001.

Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera yesterday said Gore wasn’t even aware he had the bust…”

I can believe that. I doubt if he had sticky fingers–he probably didn’t even know who it was.

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