Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker: ”The vice president…confirms at a dinner the existence and location of a secret hidden bunker that Cheney is believed to have used after the 9/11 attacks, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.” WELL, NOW IS AS GOOD A TIME AS ANY! [End.]

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Did someone say “Kill”? You don’t have to ask twice, or even change the vowel in the word “cull” for Muslims to jump at the opportunity to kill. A slice of life, literally, from “moderate” Egypt as Muslims go hog wild on the country’s pigs:

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Senate Majority Leader Reid made three inaccurate statements during a press conference on Monday.  Aides wrote it off as a simple misunderstanding…and a strong desire to be Vice President.

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Drew Peterson pleaded not guilty to murdering his third wife.  He then added, “We ARE talking about the third one, right?”

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The new term is “progressive.”

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The greatest challenge in absorbing the Nancy Pelosi story is shelving our personal and political feelings about her.

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United in their commitment to defense of free speech against the threat of harassment by radical Islamists, speakers at today’s “Islamist Lawfare” conference, hosted in Washington D.C. by Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, debated what precisely constitutes the radical Islamist threat in the U.S. and how best to combat it.

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Related to this recent post about Obama not exactly being an “American” president is this development:

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I was a big Mel Gibson fan for a long time. Ever since seeing Road Warrior when I was 15. Gibson had “it,” that unmistakable presence that the great ones have.

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The Bama did two things this week that actually add up to one big point about how he’s governing.

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Another week, another list:

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Over the weekend, I followed a Google text ad in my Gmail inbox (the modern equivalent of “surfing the ‘net”) to a website calling itself Not Robin Hood, attacking the integrity of campaign software vendor NGP. At contention is NGP’s claim that it provides its services exclusively to Democrats, reflected by the donkey in its logo. Here is what Not Robin Hood looks like:

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Damn, this guy is good.

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Over the weekend, the pope ended his week-long trip to the Holy Land. One Israeli columnist described him as restrained and cold:

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When asked if he expects U.S. ally Israel to refrain from taking military action in the face of existential threat, he said: “No, look, I understand very clearly that Israel considers Iran an existential threat, and given some of the statements that have been made by President Ahmadinejad, you can understand why. So their calculation of costs and benefits are going to be more acute. They’re right there in range and I don’t think it’s my place to determine for the Israelis what their security needs are.”

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Yigal Palmor: “The trip went as planned. The controversies were totally predictable: A German pope with a past like he has, going to Yad Vashem. What do you expect?”

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It’s one doozy of a case of “he said, she said.”

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I have to admit to a furtive chuckle at the expense of the CIA (in between belly laughts at Nancy Pelosi’s various evasive maneuvers regarding what she knew about waterboarding).

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Many observers have suggested that Obama’s foreign policy agenda has abandoned the Bush Administration’s emphasis on promoting democracy, including human rights. Much was made of President Obama’s statement in his inaugural address: “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.” Others have pointed out, critically, that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton did not raise objections to China’s deplorable human rights record during her first visit to that country as an Obama administration official.

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(First published in the Vallejo Times-Herald) 

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The University of North Dakota has agreed to drop its “Fighting Sioux” mascot. From now on, they’ll call themselves “Fighting Sue” and tell everyone they’re named after Susan Boyle.Lawmakers have introduced a bill that would label satellite providers as “terrorists” if they carry “incendiary television stations.” The bill is meant to protect Americans from hate speech, terrorist propaganda and reruns of “Saved By The Bell.”

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Some intersting findings were published recently in the L.A. Times:

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The U.N.’s World Food Program says it needs $6.3 billion this year, up $600 million from last year.  They cite the fighting in Darfur, continuing third-world famine and Rosie O’Donnell’s inability to find work.

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The House Majority Leader is calling for hearings into what Speaker Pelosi’s claim that she didn’t know harsh interrogation techniques were being used in Iraq.  When asked to comment, the Speaker claimed that, at the time, she didn’t know she’d been elected to Congress.

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The projected budget deficit for 2009 is now four times higher than last year’s.  Officials say most of the expense came from having teleprompters installed in every room of The White House.

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According to Maxim’s Hot 100:

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President Obama has made a correct decision involving national security that will infuriate the lunatic fringe of his party. From The New York Times:

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The absolutely necessary global consumption rebalancing is occurring and US current account deficit is set to plunge despite the unfortunate slight rise in April’s U.S. trade deficit:

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Apparently, David Feherty had a tough weekend.

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Bush Derangement Syndrome has morphed into something even sicker and weirder.  It was bad enough when President Bush was in office and his enemies, opponents, and critics undermined every move he made to protect this country.  It was bad enough when, as president, they called him “war criminal,” “Hitler,”  “evil,” and “incompetent boob.”  It was bad enough when, as president, they splashed state secrets across the front pages about how he was prosecuting the war.  It was bad enough when, as president, they undercut his credibility as Commander-in-Chief.  It was bad enough when, as president, they hamstrung his ability to prosecute the war in Iraq.

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Maurice Jarre, a well-known composer of film music, recently died in Malibu at the age of 84. Jarre wrote the Academy Award winning score for Lawrence of Arabia and composed familiar music for other movies including Dr. Zhivago, Passage to India, Ghost and Dead Poet’s Society. He once said, “Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear.”

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Obama more popular than U.S. among Arabs: survey

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If one refuses to shut down one’s critical mind, one soon notes that this approach is based on shiploads of wishful thinking and may well distract attention from urgent priorities. The precept that because the United States and Russia talk up a world without nukes (a world which is indeed very far over the horizon, given the grave dangers for a nation that disarms if the other successfully hides a few nuclear bombs) this will inspire other nations to give up their bombs or nuclear ambitions, has no legs. This is even more true for the notion that if the United States and Russia reduce their stockpiles to 1,500 warheads (below the current ceiling of 2,200)—or some other such number— this too would somehow inspire other nations to pack in their nuclear ambitions.

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Social scientists have long used systems theory to point out links that are sometimes overlooked. Such a link now leads to the suggestion that to deal with the crisis in Pakistan and the mounting difficulties in Afghanistan, one should go to, of all places, India. The main reason the Pakistani army is reluctant to take on the Taliban, who threaten to overrun the country, is that the army considers India its enemy.

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