Bill's Bites -- 2006.10.05
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Attention Deficit Disorder
From CNN: U.S. warns North Korea against nuclear test. North Korea's announcement came in the form of a Foreign Ministry statement published by the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA -- the communist country's official news agency.
"The field of scientific research of the DPRK will in the future conduct a nuclear test under the condition where safety is firmly guaranteed," the statement said.
The ministry added, "The U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war and sanctions and pressure compel the DPRK to conduct a nuclear test ... as a corresponding measure for defense."
But the big headlines are: House opens page sex scandal inquiry. ...
National BDS Day reports
Michelle Malkin
I was going to head down to D.C. for the National Bush Derangement Syndrome festivities, but I've been tied up this afternoon with business and family. And the more I can avoid the Beltway cesspool, the better.
The nutballs clogged midtown Manhattan. Seattle is just warming up at its protest in--appropriately enough--Red Square. ...
Three new pages step forward
Michelle Malkin
One was interviewed by the FBI this week, reports ABC News, which said the agents had a six-page list of questions about Foley and the Internet exhchanges: "I was seventeen years old and just returned to [my home state] when Foley began to e-mail me, asking if I had ever seen my page roommates naked and how big their penises were," said the page in the 2002 class.
The former page also said Foley told him that if he happened to be in Washington, D.C., he could stay at Foley's home if he "would engage in oral sex" with Foley. ...
Amish girl told killer, “Shoot me first”
Allahpundit
If I can devote umpteen posts to John Mark Karr, I can devote one to this. Not quite the same as Fabrizio Quattrochi, but the same courage.
JPod’s got an interesting post at the Corner about the Amish telling their kids to forgive the animal who did it: ...
French cops say
Muslim housing projects are waging “civil war” against them
This is old news to regulars of the righty blogosphere, of course. Dalrymple writes about this all the time, including this piece last year after the riots and his seminal treatment of the subject in City Journal back in 2002.
Even the Guardian’s been on this for awhile. Do you know what the word “tournante” means? If not, it’s high time you learned.
Anyway. The latest report quotes one police trade union spokesman as calling it … an intifada. Police representatives told the newspaper Le Figaro that the “taboo” of attacking officers on patrol has been broken.
Instead, officers – especially those patrolling in pairs or small groups – faced attacks as soon as they tried to arrest locals…
Video: Sky News exposes China’s mobile execution buses
They’ve got a lower body count than their German counterparts, but the Chinese Einsatzgruppen are more efficient: rather than ship their victims off to the death chamber, they bring the death chamber to them.
Click the image to herald the new superpower. ...
“Stone age”-gate:
Pakistani officials say Musharraf lied about Armitage comment
It didn’t sound like something Armitage would say. And, according to several Pakistani officials who were there, it wasn’t.
Pretty bold of them to undermine Musharraf this way. But with bombs going off near his house and rockets being found near places he’s due to speak, the price of undermining him may be at an all-time low. And dropping. ...
College student slams Gawker Media
Michelle Malkin
Ashley Herzog is the Ohio University student whose photos were filched by some unknown hate-monger--still unidentified, still out there--who created a fake Flickr site with Photoshopped images of me. Those images were falsely publicized last week by UNC School of Law professor Eric Muller as authentic, and then picked up and broadcast widely by the Gawker Media smear machine. Last week, Ashley wrote both the Wonkette and Gawker editors informing them of how her photos were manipulated and requesting that they tell their readers what actually happened. Her requests, like mine, have been ignored. Today at Townhall.com, Ashley talks back to the smear machine. She asked me to publish the column here in full as well:
*** 14:28: After-the-fact hat tip: Michelle Malkin
See also several more editorial cartoons in Soft Bites (Bill's Bites, Page 2) -- 2006.10.05
Bush Signs Homeland Security Bill
President Bush on Wednesday signed a homeland security bill that includes an overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $1.2 billion for fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration.
Standing before a mountainous backdrop in Arizona, a state that has been the center of much debate over secure borders, Bush signed into law a $35 billion homeland security spending bill that could bring hundreds of miles of fencing to the busiest illegal entry point on the U.S.-Mexican border.
Mob rule at Columbia University
Michelle Malkin
Minutemen Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist spoke at Columbia University tonight. He tried to speak, that is. During his remarks, a mob of students stormed the stage and sabotaged the event. Every Columbia U. alum should be assailing the administration. Gilchrist is owed an apology. This is a disgrace.
The staff of the Blue and White, a Columbia Univ. undergrad magazine liveblogged it at "The Bwog" and took photos. Here's one:
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A bit of their report: STUDENTS WITH A BIG YELLOW SIGN JUST CAME ONTO THE STAGE. The sign says, "There are no illegals." Students rise en masse from the audience and rush the stage. The Minuteman and the students engaged in a tug of war with the banner. More people rush the stage, prompting a fist-fight. ...
There was at least two minutes of chaos between students, other students and the Minutemen. Bwog took cover. ...
Video: Columbia amnesty fascists rush stage at Minuteman speech
Allahpundit
Another black eye — literally — for the filthiest Ivy. The culture of intimidation is in full flower at last.
You’ll have to read Michelle for the details. FYI, the sign they’re holding up says, “There are no illegals.” We’ll see what the NYPD has to say about that when the reports on this are filed.
Eh, they’re just cranky. ...
Foleymania! Thursday all-purpose thread
Allahpundit
Rather than scatter posts all over the place, I’ll open this thread so that Bryan, Ian, and I can add to it as developments warrant. Check back frequently. There’s no telling who’s head will have rolled or which kid’s pants we’ll have learned Foley was trying to take off by this time tomorrow.
I’ll get the ball rolling with yet another installment in the Prowler’s popular series of fake-sounding, too-good-to-be-true quotes from “Democratic aides”: ...
What’s Gay Got To Do With It?
Bruce Kesler
There’s a basic dishonesty in much of the discussions of the nature of the revealing of the Foley transgressions and about the extent of prior follow-ups.
The basic transgression against common morality is not a homosexual matter per se. Yet, the discussions are obsessed with the gay aspects. Much the same occurs with respect to heterosexual predation by those in power.
That the Foley transgressions were investigated with less than retrospective fuller knowledge would require is laid at PC avoidance of gay-bashing. Meanwhile, Democrats who arise in ire at Republicans accused of not being more diligent about homosexual predation comes from many who arise in ire at discrimination against gays. That politicized ire is, ironically, feeding gay-bashing. ...
An Authorized Excerpt from Triumph Forsaken
Contributed by Bill Faith
I'm pleased to have been authorized to post a lengthy excerpt from an excellent book I've only begun to enjoy my copy of. If you're a Viet Nam vet, or care about one, you need a copy of Triumph Forsaken, which I posted about earlier here. If you aren't and don't, but care about the direction our country's headed today and about learning from past mistakes, you still need a copy. ....
What's Good for the Goose
Contributed by Shane Briscoe
The apparently leftist publisher of The Miami Herald has resigned after receiving heat from readers over his decision to fire some reporters of its sister Spanish-language publication for accepting money from the government to provide commentary for anti-Castro broadcasts. Good riddance.
Why is it that leftist journalists (and editors and publishers) can act as the propaganda wing for the Democrat cut-and-runners by reporting only the anti-U.S. side of the story and refusing to cover pro-American, pro-Bush Administration stories, but the minute a conservative, anti-Communist reporter makes his views known it is a scandal or unethical or not up to journalistic "standards". ...
Holy Moley, Foley and Pelosi!
Contributed by The Gray Dog
Housekeeping first! While Mark Foley begins the ascent of his twelve step program, many hope that gallows await him at the peak. I can’t find any good reason to disagree with them. Mark Foley is a pervert and a disgrace, for which he should be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law, including those which he helped to draft and pass through the U.S. Congress.
A certain level of righteous outrage and indignation from the public was to be expected. A manic level of righteous outrage from Democrats, thirty days before the mid-term elections was guaranteed. But the feeding frenzy the Republicans seem intent to visit upon their own house is auguring a collapse from power disproportionate to the crime committed by a sole member of the House. Not content with the swift removal of Foley, many over-zealous Republicans can find no road to salvation that does not include tossing the baby out with the bath water. ...
The conservative outing mob
Michelle Malkin
For the past two days, a conservative blogger has ginned up publicity for his work outing a 21-year-old young man--a former congressional page and current deputy campaign manager for a heartland Republican congressman--who received sexually explicit instant messages from disgraced Florida GOP Rep. Mark Foley when he was 17 and 18 years old. I have received several e-mails from the blogger and readers flogging the post.
I refused to link to the blogger then and even though the Drudge Report has plastered screaming headlines about the blogger's scoop, I refuse to link to it now. There was absolutely no good reason to expose the former congressional page's name and identity. Seizing on ABC News' redaction failure and reporting errors (more on that in a moment) to play gotcha in a feeble attempt to avenge Foley is not a sufficient reason to obliterate the young man's privacy. The young man was the prey, not the predator.
Nobody is acting well here. ...
That Drudge headline is inaccurate
Bryan Preston
Sorry, folks. The teen in question was 17 during some of the chats and 18 during others. Go read this ABC News reprint of a couple of the IMs. The kid says in black and white a little over halfway down the page that he hasn’t reached his 18th birthday yet and wouldn’t “till feb 23.” That would make him 17. Both ages happen to be above DC’s age of consent law, so legally it would seem to me that Foley won’t be charged unless new information emerges.
Yeah, there’s a pretty strong chance of new information emerging. But not necessarily new information that places him in legal jeopardy.
Moral jeopardy is another matter. He’s in that to stay. ...
News agencies snap photos of Hastert
through the windows of his home
Hey, if he wanted privacy he’d draw the blinds, wouldn’t he?
Privacy is for Democrats, chump. Bill Clinton especially. ...
Gitmo Absurd
Mark Steyn visited Gitmo and reported on his tour in the Chicago Sun-Times: At Gitmo, detainees get La-Z-Boys, pastries. (HB List) If you're hoping to hear about the old wooden chair under a bare lightbulb swinging on its cord, here's the reality: The detaineeare interrogated on either a La-Z-Boy recliner or a luxuriously upholstered sofa -- blue plush with gold piping. ...
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