Bill's Bites -- 2006.09.15
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The New Desecraters
The 9/11 conspiracy theorists (or "truthers") were out in force at Ground Zero on the 5th anniversary (see photos here, here and here). We touched on this issue in our Sept. 8th cartoon but decided to devote a cartoon to it, as well as compile more links (there are new links below plus the links from the previous post).
Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up To The Facts by David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, both editors at Popular Mechanics, is the must-read book on the subject. ...
Superfreaky:
Commenter at Ace’s says Shukrijumah tried to rent house from her
Allahpundit
Almost certainly someone having fun with us, but it’s Friday so it gets the link. Read what she has to say. Ace is trying to confirm it with the FBI in Austin. If you don’t know who Shukrijumah is, this’ll bring you up to speed.
One thing about her story that gives me pause is the fact that ...
The Oprah Winfrey-9/11 Ticket Agent Suicide Myth? (H/T)
... Earlier today the political blogosphere witnessed an interesting and fairly infrequent occurrence — a minor blogfight pitting an academic left blogger against an activist left blogger: At the Prospect’s newest blog, Horse’s Mouth, former Spinsanity co-writer Brendan Nyhan, slammed Eschaton for taking a callous shot at President Bush. Nyhan initially mistook guest poster Avedon Carol for Atrios himself, and chaos ensued. That’s interesting and all, but I’m distracted from whatever I was going to say about it because… the incident giving rise to the debate — the alleged suicide of a ticket agent who had checked in Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari on the way to crash Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade center — appears to be an urban legend, hoax or mistake ...
*** 14:59 Video: Penn charges Bush ‘devastated our democracy’, did ‘enormous damage to mankind’
... Penn also suggested Bush will bring fascism to the United States. When? After his last mid-terms when Congress might go Dem? This coming from the man who visited Iran, as we all know is not a fascist country, to “cover the elections”.
However, saying President Bush “devastated our country”, shamefully accusing him of doing “enormous damage to mankind”, and implying that Bush is a fascist, just wasn’t enough for Spicoli. He had to bash our military: ...
Now This Is Surrender
Pakistan has removed all doubt about its tenacity in fighting terrorism. The London Telegraph reports that Pervez Musharraf has released thousands of Taliban fighters caught in the five years since the US drove their government out of Afghanistan: ...
Border Barrier The New Berlin Wall: Democrats
Apparently in desperate need of a history lesson, Democrats yesterday described the border security barrier bill passed by the House yesterday "another political gimmick" and called the barrier a new Berlin Wall: ...
Since When Has Geneva Protected Our Troops?
The arguments employed by the opponents of George Bush's plan to establish specific definitions for Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions make one argument over and over again, and rarely get challenged on it. They claim that any redefinition or apparent backsliding on the Geneva Conventions will put our own troops at risk; Colin Powell made the same argument yesterday. However, they fail to explain how the GC has ever protected American troops during wartime: ...
Turkish bestseller: “Who will kill the Pope in Istanbul?”
Assassination fantasies — they’re not just for western leftists anymore! Benedict XVI is set to visit Turkey in November, for those looking to descry omens, here’s one that’s not terribly encouraging: A potboiler novel currently on bestseller lists in Turkey titled Papa’ya suikast (”Attack on the Pope”) predicts that Benedict will be assassinated.
Written by novelist Yücel Kaya, the book is subtitled, “Who will kill Benedict XVI in Istanbul?” ...
Did Think Progress blow the Air America bankruptcy story?
We can’t lose. Either TP is right and AAR is circling the drain or TP is wrong and they end up humiliated in front of the blogosphere. That’s a nice warm Friday fuzzy for you.
Brian Maloney doth protest too much, though: ...
Pope Sorry After 'Evil' Muhammad Quote
Scott Ott
(2006-09-15) -- Pope Benedict XVI today apologized for using a quotation in a recent speech that has offended Muslim leaders by implying that the religion of Muhammad has brought little good to the world, and much evil. ...
Worth Watching
Boomer thinks you'll enjoy My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Del Vecchio thinks you'll enjoy this great Audie Murphy video.
I think you'll enjoy them both. While you're in the neighborhood, check out Vietnam, America's Longest War
Anyone but McCain?
Paul Mirengoff
Don't miss Andrew McCarthy's excellent dissection of the objections raised by Republican Sen. John McCain and "his entourage" of terrorist rights advocates against President Bush's proposed terrorist trial procedures. As McCarthy notes, Sen. McCain's unwillingness or inability to see past his experiences as a prisioner of war in very different times under very different circumstances raises this question: Can the nation afford a President John McCain? (One might also ask whether, given his power and influence with respect these issues, the nation can afford a Senator McCain). ...
*** 04:25 McCain stands his ground on CIA jails
John McCain, the Republican frontrunner for the 2008 presidential election, has dramatically raised the stakes in a fight with the White House over interrogation techniques permitted for use at secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons by saying he is unwilling to back down on the issue even if it ruins his chance of becoming president. ...
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