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It has become increasingly clear that one of the bad guys to keep an eye on in Iraq is Ayatollah Sayyid Muqtada Al-Sadr, a young hotheaded cleric who has rejected the authority of the new governing council, and is trying to stir up trouble between rival Shite factions. Tactitus thinks his latest attempt to create dissension has failed.

posted by Jerry Bowles 8:28 PM

Sunday Punch... LBJ and Lady Bird crypto-Jews???

Who knew that Lyndon and Lady Bird were members of the tribe? With the "roadmap to peace" needing a new superhighway built by Brown & Root, that's the skinny on Mr. "tilt to Israel" for those who embrace the veracity of the files the LDS church keeps on "all of us"... after all it was only 50 years ago that most Miami Beach hotels were still 'restricted' (a kinder way of saying 'no Jews allowed') and public restrooms said 'whites' and 'colored' and folks were seated in the back of the bus before they got thrown under the bus. Encouraged by actor John Garfield, Jewish US war veterans began traveling to Miami Beach in their military uniforms and started to break down the "restricted" barriers. The pinnacle was the Kenilworth, in Bal Harbour, where tv celebrity Arthur Godfrey was a 5% owner. Don't think that Henry Kissinger or Rebbe Poyle ever slept there. But then they weren't crypto-Jews like LBJ and Lady Bird...

posted by Groom 1:57 PM

Another Reason to Love the French

The French Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of the phrase "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon. CNN, July 20, 2003

That's one way to get rid of le spam.

posted by Jerry Bowles 12:21 PM

And out in la-la land...

One of the reasons we bumble into the Iraqs and Afghanistans is because our “free press” is self-righteous enough to believe that these nations are mirror images of our “democracy” and support the meathead policies of an election-jacking cult like the Shrub Club.

Ditto Latin America, where, in Venezuela, the age-old sport of intimidating journalists today came onto the radar screen of the editorial writers of the Los Angeles Times. To read the editorial you must register .

Venezuela, like California, is facing a political and economic crisis and is preparing for a constitutional referendum later this year on how their government should be structured. Populist leader Hugo Chavez, who has been hanging with Fidel and Brasil's populist leader "Lula" da Silva as of late, is now a fuggin commo in the eyes of the Shrub Club. That makes him the latest bete-noir of asst. secretary of state for Latin American affairs Otto Johan Reich, a mestizophobe Cuban elitist. Gauleiter Reich ran the Contras propaganda operation for Reaganite thugs Elliot Abrams and Larry "Ollie" North.

“... (Venezuelan president) Chavez knows that the law, wrongly, gives the state the authority to judge the truth and fairness of the news and to impose sanctions. Even worse than actual action would be self-censorship by Venezuelan broadcasters and other journalists fearful of getting hit with unrestrained exercise of government power...oh, please, which is really desirable- complacent respect for the autocratic or a robust democracy that permits the airing of views by all...” LA Times

Sure sounds a lot like livin’ in Patriot Act Amerika to me.

And this coming from a newspaper that bent over for the Patriot Act and sat on the sidelines while its readers got ripped by the Enron scandal, a city that gave us Rodney King and the legacy of the Darryl Gates police force, and a state that for lack of political talent will soon feature Terminator III as governor. Like Madam Chiang-Kai Shek used to say, you gotta wonder what the cooks have been putting in their take-out boxes.

posted by Groom 10:31 AM