Blogged From Christi at 09. Apr 2007 19:57 under Middle East, Politics, Israel, Freedom of Speech, America, Islam, CAIR
In an interesting show of support, Governor Ed Rendell joined Representative Joe Sestak at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-PA) first annual benefit banquet. CAIR’s leaders seemed pleased to have Rendell and Sestak’s support: CAIR-PA thanked Rep. Sestak for refusing to back out of speaking at the dinner after facing rhetorical attacks from Islamophobic Internet bloggers who [...]
http://commonsenseamerica.net/blog1/?p=1306
Blogged From Don Bistroff at 09. Apr 2007 19:22 under Politics, Elections
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, has more than a recurrence of her cancer to worry about. It appears she is frightened by the “rabid, rabid Republican” who is her next-door neighbor in North Carolina. Ms. Edwards says she has never met Monty Johnson, the 55-year-old self-described Rudy Giuliani fan, who owns a 42-acre [...]
http://www.liberallyconservative.com/?p=1822
Blogged From Erick-Woods at 09. Apr 2007 15:37 under Politics
Thanks to Sen. Thompson for his post at RedState. Something happened with that post that I think is very telling and worth further discussion. The post went up, originally, at 4:08 p.m. EDT on Saturday, March 7, 2007, a holiday weekend. Within two hours it had 69 comments. On a holiday weekend. [...]
http://www.erickerickson.org/blog/?p=4574
Blogged From RLR at 09. Apr 2007 05:58 under News, Iraq War, Politics
From NY Times By Noah Feldman On the surface, recent votes in Congress appear to signal a new Democratic determination to withdraw from Iraq. But the reality is otherwise. It is not only that the resolutions were drafted and adopted with the certain knowledge that they would be vetoed. More important, even if a future Democratic [...]
http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2007/04/08/the-undeparted/
Blogged From tng at 09. Apr 2007 04:12 under Uncategorized
So real life interferred and I did not have the time I had wanted to write for Blog Against Theocracy. In a way it doesn't even matter, because the response to this blogswarm has be so strong; just beyond my expectations. There have been so many impassioned, insightful, smart posts in support of our first freedom by both believers and non-believers I don't see how I could add anything to the conversation. But that's the most important thing to take away from this whole experience I think and why I so enthusiastically signed on to help out with Blog Against Theocracy when Blue Gal first ran the idea by me.It's the conversation. For far too long believers and nonbelievers have been sniping at each other. Meanwhile the people that are really our[...]
http://www.neuralgourmet.com:80/2007/04/09/why_blog_against_theocracy
Blogged From bill at 09. Apr 2007 02:35 under News, Iraq War, Politics
From Yahoo News By Charles J. Hanley In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation’s “shocking” mismanagement of his country — a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had “turned their backs on their would-be liberators.” “The corroded and corrupt state of [...]
http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2007/04/08/iraqi-details-shocking-us-missteps/
Blogged From Jerry at 09. Apr 2007 01:37 under Politics, Government Idiocy, Government Incompetence, Corruption
(NY Post)Â April 8, 2007 — Say this for New York’s governors and Legislatures: For all the fiscal shenanigans they’ve perpetrated since time immemorial, they’ve always been smart enough to keep their greedy little hands off of the state’s pension fund.Not so the powers that be in New Jersey - who decided about a decade ago [...]
http://commonsensewonder.com/?p=1975
Blogged From Abiola Lapite at 09. Apr 2007 01:25 under Politics, Stupidity
The voters of Tokyo show that they are more than a match for London's electorate in stupidity by re-electing the world-famous loudmouthed, bigoted, crooked geriatric called Shintaro Ishihara to yet another term in office, a man who almost (but not...
http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2007/04/four_more_years.html
Blogged From at 09. Apr 2007 00:38 under golf
Offered without comment, which would be gilding the lilly:CHICO, Calif. - Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park. Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the oldest golfer ever to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course.Because of the slope of the green, McLean and her partners couldn't see where her ball landed after she teed off."Where's my ball?" McLean asked.Her friends, Elizabeth Rake and Kathy Crowder, found it in the cup."I said, 'Oh, my Lord. It can't be true. It can't be true.' I was so excited. And the girls were absolutely overcome," McLean said.
http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-golf-sucks.html
Blogged From at 08. Apr 2007 23:21 under Object, Object
Catching one of Giuliani's stupidities, they let another one slide by:[Giluiani] casually lumped Iran with Al Qaeda. “Their movement has already displayed more aggressive tendencies by coming here and killing us,� he said. Mr. Giuliani was asked in an interview to clarify that, inasmuch as Iran had no connection to the Sept. 11 attacks. Further, most of its people are Shiites, whereas Al Qaeda is an organization of Sunnis. “They have a similar objective,� he replied, “in their anger at the modern world.� In other words, he said, they hate America.So do lots of other people - are they all collectively responsible for 9/11?And what the Times let slide by is this quote, "At a house party in New Hampshire, Mr. Giuliani suggested that it was unclear w[...]
http://backseatdriving.blogspot.com/2007/04/ny-times-not-doing-its-duty-in-showing.html