Hot.

Via Mesablue and Sparkles.

Posted by: Ace at 09:21 PM | Comments (11)
Post contains 23 words, total size 1 kb.

Unbelievable. The NYPD said no but apparently the Secret Service may step in and make the little freak's dream come true.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad requested to visit Ground Zero during an upcoming trip to New York. That request was rejected Wednesday. But a source tells Eyewitness News that the decision may not stop him.

A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.

Michelle Malkin has the scoop.

So, what are you guys doing Monday morning?

Posted by: DrewM. at 09:19 PM | Comments (27)
Post contains 112 words, total size 1 kb.

"I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world," said Rudy Giuliani in London today. He then went on to name Bill and Hillary Clinton as joining him at the top of the list.

First, someone needs to remind the former mayor that smugness is off-putting. Rule number one when you're trying to convince a couple million people to do you a favor is to not act like an ass. Bragging about your popularity was unattractive when the Heathers and Barbies did it in highschool; it's even more unattractive coming from a grown man.

Second, he may be able to make an arguable case that he's among the most well known Americans involved in politics ... if we exclude famous deceased Americans like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. But most of Hollywood has him beat if we're talking about any American.

Finally, his campaign staff needs to instruct him to stop giving Clinton free publicity. It's okay to bring her up when you're criticising her policies or when she's in the news. But it's counterproductive to puff her up when you're not getting anything in return. That makes Giuliani's statement doubly wrong; he hurt himself and he may have helped her, even if only a little bit.

Giuliani, like Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney, went to London to meet Margaret Thatcher. I had the opportunity to see Thatcher speak years ago and was very impressed. I hope she's giving our candidates some good advice, but I wonder if they have the smarts to take it.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 08:54 PM | Comments (18)
Post contains 280 words, total size 2 kb.

A federal court judge has ruled that Tennessee's lethal injection procedures are cruel and unusual and are therefore prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.

The state cannot go ahead with the execution of convicted murderer Edward Jerome Harbison because lethal injection, as it is practiced in Tennessee, "presents a substantial risk of unnecessary pain" and could lead to "a terrifying, excruciating death."

The AP article notes that this is not a stay of execution or a reversal of his death sentence. Tauntingly, the judge notes that Tennessee can execute Harbison as soon as they find a humane way to do it.

Such a method may still exist: under Tennessee law, a capital defendant convicted before 1999 can chose lethal injection or death by electric chair. Harbison was convicted in 1983. So that option may still be open to the state, however, the legislature may have to make the electric chair mandatory before state officials can execute him. (I'm not sure whether the choice is required by the language of Tennessee's capital punishment statute and I'm too tired to look it up.)

I'm waiting to see the judge's opinion and how she dealt with the terms "cruel" and "unusual." As we discussed a few weeks ago (link goes to the version on my blog) there is no clear guidance from the courts as to what those terms mean or whether they are even properly treated as separate from each other.

I'm of two minds about the ruling. On the one hand, I oppose the use of the death penalty at this time and in this country. On the other, I find it hard to believe that a procedure performed daily by veterinarians across the United States is so "inhumane" when performed on a human.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 08:25 PM | Comments (48)
Post contains 308 words, total size 2 kb.

A half hour.

You bitches have until Monday to make it happen. Chop chop.

"I don't care if they call me crazy, the new time will go ahead, let them call me whatever they want," Chavez said on his weekly TV show. "I'm not to blame. I received a recommendation and said I liked the idea."

Duly noted, although I think the word was out already pal.

There was some confusion about how this all actually works, not to mention putting it on a calendar and all so the rest of the nation has a friggin clue.

In his live show, he called on his brother, the education minister, so that the two men could explain the measure. But they mistakenly told Venezuelans to move their clocks forward at midnight on Sunday, when the policy is to move them back.

Look buddy, you can't go writing them up if you goof the basics like that.

At the risk of giving them a gentle assist, (is it treasonous for me to say this?)

Spring forward dude.

Fall back.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 06:45 PM | Comments (27)
Post contains 195 words, total size 1 kb.

The Senate just voted down an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill that would have set time limits on how much time troops would have to stay home between overseas deployments. The measure offered by Jim Webb of Virginia was billed as a “support the troops measure” but would have the effect of making it nearly impossible to maintain sufficient troop levels in Iraq.

ThatÂ’s the good news, the bad news is it garnered 56 votes (it needed 60 to pass).

I know that the current troop rotations plans are putting a tremendous stress on those who serve, their families and equipment but this was just a backdoor way to surrender in Iraq. Sadly, this was just the first effort, the Democrats will be back with more throughout the week.

I do blame the President former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Congress for not increasing the size of our forces. Yes, as Rumy so eloquently put it, you go to war with the Army you have not the one youÂ’d like, but that doesnÂ’t mean you are stuck with it forever and can never improve upon it.

And while I am sure the troops would like more time at home, it seems theyÂ’d love to win this fight even more.

Regardless of whatÂ’s happening in terms of recruitment, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines already serving are reenlisting at rates that surpass all expectations, according to defense officials.

Defense Department statistics for June, released yesterday, showed the Army missed its active-duty recruiting goal for the second consecutive month. Yet retention remained high across the board, 101 percent of goal for the active Army, 119 percent for the Army Reserve, and 107 percent for the Army National Guard, Maj. Anne Edgecomb, an Army spokeswoman, told American Forces Press Service.

Â…

Of particular interest, he said, are high retention rates among troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted by: DrewM. at 03:52 PM | Comments (23)
Post contains 327 words, total size 2 kb.

Gee, I hope that doesn't mean there was undeclared money being hidden from the IRS and courts in said offshore accounts.

Posted by: Ace at 02:42 PM | Comments (7)
Post contains 47 words, total size 1 kb.

Slubbo whipped this up.

Moron Naomi Wolf has declared Andrew Meyer's brave resistance an "iconic turning point" in the history of Amerikka, "will be remembered as the moment at which America either fought back or yielded."

Myself, I thought was a whiny douchebag looking for some Daddy-Time from the cops that his actual father had never provided. But it turns out it's so much more than that.

I thought it would be a good idea to mark this great moment.

We have to understand what time it is. When the state starts to hurt people for asking questions, we can no longer operate on the leisurely time of a strong democracy -- the 'Oh gosh how awful!' kind of time. It is time to take to the streets. It is time to confront those committing crimes against the Constitution. The window has now dropped several precipitous inches and once it is closed there is no opening it without great and sorrowful upheaval.

We also need to understand from history that the temptation at a moment like this to grow more quiet -- to stay out of the line of fire -- is the wrong choice by far. History shows categorically that if citizens do not stand up now to confront and imprison the abusers, things do not get safer -- they get much more dangerous for ordinary people, activist or not.

I was scared when I wrote The End of America -- personally scared because the blueprint I was tracing in the summer of 2006 showed clearly that protesters and critics would start to be hurt within the year. When I told a dear friend that I was scared, he gently reminded me of the history I was reading. He asked, will things be scarier for you and the ones you love if you speak up now -- or if you are silent?

We don't just need to speak up now. We need to act. It is time to rebel in the name of the flag and the founders.

She was scared? Of what? Having to Jenny Craig it for the publicity tour?

What is it with these neurotic, narcissistic yentas like Naomi Wolf, Glenn Greenwald, and Andrew Sullivan having perpetual hissy-fits and frightening the children? When did we decide that public discourse could only be conducted at a 110 decibel screech?

Can you ladies please fucking butch up for like two seconds so that we can hear ourselves think?

Bonus: Can anyone explain to me how a liberal university acting to protect the dignity of a liberal Senator is somehow all the blame of the fascist Bush Administration?

This is when I'd exasperatedly use a blasphemy to convey the level of my disgust at the level of discourse we get from the left, but I'm trying not to do that anymore.

So I'll just say: For fuck's sake, you fucking morons, listen to the fucking words your stupid fucking mouths are moronically fucking drooling out.

The Anthem Of the New Resistance: You can't have a good revolution without some kickin' tunes, you know. kjm offers:

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
once you provoke her, rattling of her tail
never begins it, never, but once engaged...
never surrenders, showing the fangs of rage

don't taze me, bro!

so be it
threaten no more
to secure peace is to prepare for war
so be it
settle the score
touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore...

don't taze me, bro!

love it or live it, she with the deadly bite
quick is the blue tongue, forked as lighting strike
shining with brightness, always on surveillance
the eyes, they never close, emblem of vigilance

don't taze me, bro!

so be it
threaten no more
to secure peace is to prepare for war
so be it
settle the score
touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore...

don't taze me, bro!

so be it
threaten no more
to secure peace is to prepare for war

liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
once you provoke her, rattling on her tail

so be it
threaten no more
to secure peace is to prepare for war
so be it
settle the score
touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore...

don't taze me, bro!

Posted by: Ace at 01:33 PM | Comments (65)
Post contains 729 words, total size 4 kb.

Even Allah's riled up into threat-making mode. No ironic "Outrageously Outrageous" on this one.

I cannot really comprehend the reason to allow this cocksucker to visit Ground Zero. Perhaps he can also be allowed to visit Arlington Natonal Cemetery to spit on some of the graves of American servicement he helped kill.

Stop the ACLU notes Iran has been helping Al Qaeda for years; what's the point of the trip? So that Ahmadinejad can get an up-close Bomb Damage Assessment?

Denied? So they say now;

An advance team for the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asked earlier this month that he be allowed to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site during the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week, but the request was denied, New York City police officials said today.

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly caused considerable confusion earlier today when he suggested that the request was still pending. In fact, police officials said later, the request — made at a meeting that included the Secret Service and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — was denied for reasons of security and safety. They added that Mr. Ahmadinejad’s aides had asked that he be allowed into the pit, where construction is taking place.

Posted by: Ace at 12:36 PM | Comments (41)
Post contains 244 words, total size 2 kb.

Another one of those wildly optimistic "we will cure cancer" stories, but I've never seen anyone claim a cure was possible in so short a time period.

US researchers have been given the go-ahead to give patients transfusions of “super strength” cancer-killing cells from donors.

Dr Zheng Cui, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, has shown in laboratory experiments that immune cells from some people can be almost 50 times more effective in fighting cancer than in others.

Dr Cui, whose work is highlighted in this weekÂ’s New Scientist magazine, has previously shown cells from mice found to be immune to cancer can be used to cure ordinary mice with tumours.

The work raises the prospect of using cancer-killing immune system cells called granulocytes from donors to significantly boost a cancer patientÂ’s ability to fight their disease, and potentially cure them.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week gave Dr Cui permission to inject super-strength granulocytes into 22 patients.

Posted by: Ace at 12:27 PM | Comments (18)
Post contains 203 words, total size 2 kb.