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Would Early Primaries Allow More Donations?
Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot believes that candidates will benefit if primaries and caucuses get pushed into 2007. A loophole in campaign finance regulation appears to allow an extra $2,300 per donor for candidates if those elections are held this year. Be sure to check out Jim's analysis, and the surprising candidate that may benefit the most.
When Tom Met Jeralyn
One of the interesting aspects of politics is finding out that opponents are people, too. Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft met Rep. Tom Tancredo backstage at NBC's studios, and found him more likable than she had anticipated. Perhaps it was their mutual interest in Dog, The Bounty Hunter ...
Joe Lieberman A Right-Wing Nut?
That's what CAIR says, according to Joe Kaufman. He has a link to a CAIR official's blog post that calls Lieberman, along with John Bolton, former CIA director James Woolsey, and the Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes as "extremists". Affad Shaikh also calls Dick Cheney a "fat bastard of a liar," apparently not meant as a pop-culture reference to the Austin Powers movies. (via Let Freedom Ring)
Broadband Homelessness
The Japanese have made homelessness more efficient, and more Net-friendly, too. Their Internet cafés have become homeless shelters for the struggling manual-labor sector. The problem has grown into such a problem that government intervention will shortly become a political priority.
Found My Law Firm
Power Line links twice to this story regarding an attorney at Faegre & Benson who refused to become a victim and helped capture a very dangerous man. Keith Radtke is a partner in the firm as is Power Line's John Hinderaker. Radtke is listed in satisfactory condition after getting shot in the back, but that didn't keep him from locking up his attacker in a wrestling grip until police could arrive. I don't know about you, but that's the kind of man I'd want as my counsel ....
Don't Click That YouTube E-mail
The latest in spam seems to be redirections from YouTube links in e-mail to IP addresses without domain names. They attempt to entice people by making it seem that they have been inadvertently YouTubed. I'm sure most people can see through this scam, but just in case, you've been warned ....
Rick Moran Escapes The Floods
Rick Moran has kept us up to date on his travails along the Algonquin River. Yesterday, the police showed up to get him evacuated before the river flooded his home -- but today, Rick finds that a minor miracle has taken place, and that his house survives ... at least for now. Keep Rick in your prayers, and keep checking in at Right Wing Nut House for updates.
Rule 1: Drag The Corpse On Over First
If I've learned anything in four years of blogging, don't try to be out in front of the death rumors, especially with the villains of the world. Saddam died a hundred deaths before we caught him alive in his spider hole, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi almost as many before his demise last year. Osama may or may not be alive, but everyone's avoided speculating on his fate for a while now. Maybe Val at Babalu Blog will get luckier with his "Castro Is Dead" story. We all hope so. I'll wait for the announcement ....
Hobbs Choice
Volunteer Voters is holding its annual "Best of Nashville" on-line polls, and one of the categories is for the best political writer. Our friend Bill Hobbs, now posting at Newsbusters, and he'd like his on-line fans to cast their votes. Drop by and put one in for Bill if you get a chance!
Murtha Getting Backlogged On Apologies
Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring sees another case collapsing on the Haditha charges. He's called for Murtha to apologize earlier, and adds another reason to the tally.
No Such Thing As 'Moderate' Islam?
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan told a television interviewer that he finds the label "moderate Islam" offensive. Shrink Wrapped has a lot more on this, but at least in the same interview Erdogan acknowledged that "radical Islam" exists, and that it's been a catastrophe. Be sure to read the whole post.
MS-NBC Gets Punk'd
Power Line has a great post on a lack of journalistic effort on the part of MS-NBC. In covering the Michael Vick story, they reported on what they thought was Al Sharpton's website proclaiming Vick's innocence. I guess Alex Johnson and two other MS-NBC reporters couldn't bother to read the title bar of the site, which proudly proclaims it as a "parody site".
New Instapundit Podcast On Pharmaceuticals
I just caught this e-mail from Glenn Reynolds about his new podcast with Richard Epstein, the author of Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the topic is important enough to make sure I carve out time for it tomorrow. Get their first and tell me what I'm missing ....
Fed Trying A 'Stealth Easing'?
The Federal Reserve seems to have conducted a quiet campaign to steady markets that started spinning out of control, according to King Banaian at SCSU Scholars. He thinks that the Fed has conducted a "stealth easing". Be sure to read his explanation and follow his lnks.
A Shameless Bit Of Sel-Promotion
Gateway Pundit and Val at Babalu Blog note a crass PR move by Hugo Chavez. Venezuela has responded to Peru's eathquake disaster with food shipments -- and with Hugo's smiling picture on the cans. He also uses the tuna-can label to undermine President Garcia of Peru, who narrowly defeated Chavez' pal Ollanto Humalla, whom the labels extol for his "solidarity" with Chavez.
Tacky beyond belief.
Comments (8)
Posted by NeoconNews.com | August 15, 2007 3:26 PM
Oh don't be so hard on them; haven't you ever seen those hollywood comedies? Kidnapping is hard... and wacky.
Posted by Kentucky Packrat | August 15, 2007 4:05 PM
It looks like Google never got a chance to index the document. I wouldn't mind reading it, to see how best to counter the procedures proposed. (Of course, permanent "condition yellow" helps a lot, and a firearm never hurts...)
Without seeing the details, I suspect that rule #1 to surviving the brethren is: don't go peacefully. Number 1 Son and Little Miss have been told in no uncertain terms to never go peacefully. They are to run first, and then if that's not possible to fight back, even if threatened with death. There are worse things in this life than dying.
The namby-pamby "Don't fight back" stuff just gets you the Daniel Pearl treatment with this crew.
Posted by docjim505 | August 15, 2007 4:21 PM
Kentucky Packrat is right. It's a hard thing to say, and I don't know whether I'd have the guts to go out like a man on my feet or whether I'd cower on my knees like a Frenchman, but I know which course I SHOULD take if, God forbid, it ever happens.
I wonder how CAIR and their liberal pals would react if somebody wrote and published "The Excellent Summary of the Rules of the Art of Avoiding Being Kidnapped and Murdered by Islamic Terrorists" or "The Excellent Summary of the Rules of the Art of Taking As Many Islamic Terrorists With You As You Can"?
And, yes, a firearm certainly doesn't hurt.
Posted by filistro | August 15, 2007 5:17 PM
The neocons have to make a choice here.
These guys can be justly mocked as the swaggering, dimwitted, wannabe terrorists they generally appear to be... or the free world can spend all its time cowering in fear and tailoring foreign policy to cope with the dire and dastardly threat posed by them.
Alas, though... not BOTH.
Posted by pk | August 15, 2007 5:39 PM
i didn't see anything about the hazards of kidnapping children in the united states of america.
about how they take it quite seriously there.
about how if they are successful they might wind up with grandmothers drawing and quartering them with ford 250 pickup trucks.
keep in mind that there alwayse will be a father, uncle, grandfather that can take osama wannabes with head shots at 1300 yards.
or that serial child killers have been caught in neighborhoods running screaming to police patrol cars for protection even though they knew they faced the death penalty.
or it might turn into one of those times where a policeman/patrolman pulls them over for something stupid and it gets bloody fast.
maybe the first sentence should be: Don't try this in America. They'll bury you half alive out by the hog trough."
C
Posted by NahnCee | August 15, 2007 8:10 PM
Kidnapping is an old and valued method making money in the Middle East. Until recently, there were fairly strict rules on who could be kidnapped, and how the exchange for filthy lucre would be handled. ANd not only in the sandboxes of the birthplace of humanity, but we see it happening in Nigeria and the rest of Africa, as well as in France and other countries of Yurp, and most definitely throughout South America and Mexico.
In fact, citizens of most of the world would read these excellent instructions with a great deal of interest (1) if they could read, (2) if they had electricity, (3) if they had an internet connection, and (4) if they had a car to pile their victim into.
I wonder why kidnapping catches on as an "in thing" to do in some countries and not in others. Must have something to do with the success ratio and how hard the cops and/or survivors come down on you after you've done it.
I do love the title, though. I wonder if that's an accurate translation.
Posted by docjim505 | August 16, 2007 5:33 AM
fillistro,
Just because the person who wants to kill you may be a moron doesn't mean that you're not in grave danger and shouldn't take precautions... even while you laugh at him. If I understand the research correctly, the average criminal has below average intelligence, yet we pay quite a lot of money for police, courts, home security systems, etc. to keep us safe from such swaggering idiots.
Americans during World War II yucked it up at the movies watching Bugs Bunny or the Three Stooges lampoon the Germans and the Japanese even while they were working in arms plants or sending their brothers, sons and fathers off to fight desperate battles against those same Germans and Japanese.
As I and others have often written, if somebody had told us on 9-10-01 that a bunch of thugs were going to use box cutters to hijack jets, crash them into buildings and kill 3000 Americans, I'd have rolled my eyes and told them that they'd been watching too many Steven Seagal movies. When I read about Atta and his weird aversion to women, he seems an object of ridicule... until I remember what he did.
Posted by filistro | August 16, 2007 10:34 AM
doc, I completely agree. We certainly should take precautions.
That means skilled international police action: surveillance, infiltration, interdiction, disruption, fund tracking, arrests, punishment. It doesn't mean conventional warfare. Tanks and troops are not an intelligent precaution against a scattered, amorphous enemy without any national affiliation.
Besides, to mock what you fear is childish bravado. To fear what you mock is cognitive dissonance.
(OR cynical manipulation of a gullible electorate.... but that's a whole other debate :-)