The Stinkiest Story of the Week
Has to be this Italian nightmare with that Communist Journalist getting shot up by American troops as the strange entourage tried to speed pass the checkpoint.
Below is a just a small sampling of the documentation on this strange case. The lady works for a newspaper called Il Manifesto for God’s sakes. Yessir, the Italian Commies were trying to pull a fast one and blame it on the American military.
From Opinion Journal.com
Americans join Italians in mourning the death of Italian secret service officer Nicola Calipari, whose funeral was held in Rome on Monday. Agent Calipari died a hero last Friday, reportedly using his body to shield freed journalist/hostage Giuliana Sgrena from gunfire as their car approached American troops near Baghdad Airport. So perhaps Ms. Sgrena will also shed a tear for the Americans and Iraqis who will die because of the ransom that was paid for her release.
So far, all the world's moral anger has focused on the claim that U.S. soldiers were reckless, or even tried to "assassinate" her, as Ms. Sgrena's newspaper, the communist Il Manifesto, put it. But her claims in some interviews that her car was moving slowly and cautiously are contradicted by, well, Ms. Sgrena.
And it seems that the Italians are re-thinking their policy of paying up ransoms as demanded by the terrorists, judging by the below.
From The UK Independent
Any Italians rash enough to go walkabout in Iraq are now on their own, prime minister Silvio Berlusconi told the Senate yesterday, in his first official pronouncement on the killing of Nicola Calipari last Friday.
"The Italian government is in a position to guarantee the security only of those...who operate in close co-operation and under the protection of our military contingent," he said. "It is not possible to do so for those who venture, even for the most noble and sincere reasons, in other regions of Iraq where the presence of terrorists is still high and where the risk of attacks and abductions is greater."
But it takes a Blogger to get down to the real nitty-gitty.
From Captains Quarters Blog
This story gets fishier and fishier on every retelling. First we have a "rain of bullets" and Sgrena scooping them up by the handful off the seats, and then we see a car with two bullet holes in it, one of which went through the right front tire. Next the Italians tell us that the US had full operational knowledge of the mission when it turns out their own military leadership was possibly kept in the dark. Now Sgrena tells us that the Americans fired from behind the vehicle when they stopped at the checkpoint, the only position where US soldiers would risk hitting their own troops.
I call "shenanigans" on the Italians.
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Speaking of Bloggers …
Seems the FEC has decided that Bloggers are not exempt from the free speech clause given to The Old Media. This Grandmother Blogger will not conform to that stupid law requiring that all dissenting opinions must shut up one month before the election.
A SIMPLER TIME, A FREER COUNTRY
"Bradley Smith, a Federal Election Commission member, certainly succeeded in making news last week with his comment to CNET that bloggers faced possible federal regulation because a federal judge had thrown out their legal exemption from McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulations. . . . We used to have a simple law regulating political speech. It was called the First Amendment to the Constitution, and it stated simply that Congress shall make 'no law' abridging such speech. But the morass opened by McCain-Feingold just keeps getting deeper and muddier."
- John Fund, Political Diary, 3/11/05
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And Speaking of McCain…Get This!
From The Washington Times
A public policy group is calling for an investigation of Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, for possible violations of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform law.
The Federal Election Commission is being urged by Citizen Outreach to investigate donations to the Reform Institute, a tax-exempt organization co-founded by Mr. McCain. Citizen Outreach says Cablevision Systems Corp. donated $200,000 to the organization — at the same time that Mr. McCain was pushing for a pricing plan supported by the cable company.
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Farewell, finally, Dan Rather
The cartoon below says it all. Enough glory for Dan. May he retire in peace.
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Social Security Reform
I can’t even entertain the silly Democratic argument that there is no such thing as a problem with Social Security. It’s a bad system to begin with, it’s going broke, and when the Dems were in power Harry Reid, Bill Clinton, et al, were out screaming for social security reform. What, is there only an SS problem when the Dems are in power?
The entire issue is being turned into a political football and guess who is getting the short end of the stick? Yes, yon Ladies and Gems, Thou and I.
We have the NOW gang, the National Organization of Women, getting in on the lies to their own political end.
From Townhall.Com
First, Gandy asserts that “Women are more vulnerable to the reduction in benefits that will accompany privatization, because we have smaller benefits to begin with, and...are less likely...to have a pension or other means to supplement those reduced benefits.” Leaving aside the glaring failure to explain how women or anyone else will deal with the “reduction in benefits” from Social Security’s insolvency by failing to reform the system, her statement is flatly untrue. While there might be fewer women in the workplace, the numbers are leveling out as women become better educated. Financial and social shifts have placed women’s fortunes in their own hands.
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Political Cartoon of the Week
Titled With a Wonderfully Understated "Oops"
...This web site is chock full of amazing pictures that leave one giggling with the title in mind as the pictures are gazed. For there are lots of really, really bad "oops" moments in this life. Now they are all documented.
A neat thing about this site, the URL takes you to an intro page. At that time the browser can click on any link to view the picture. In other words you won't have to sit and wait for your computer to download a load of pictures.
OOPS!
Biden has a Thief on Staff
It passed my eyeballs that Biden had a problem with a staffer. Seems Mr. Blevins was stealing from the very honest Mr. Biden. Okay, allow me a snort. Like DOES tend to associate with like.
Hint-Clue as to what the guy did with most of the money: think of New Jersey’s former Governor who recently came out as a “Gay American”. Seems Blevins has a male love interest as well.
Oh, and we love that bit about Biden being a potential candidate for President.
From Delaware Online
U.S. District Judge Kent A. Jordan sentenced the former staffer, 34-year-old Roger D. Blevins III, of Elsmere, to three years and one month in prison for stealing more than $412,000.
At the time the thefts were discovered, Biden was still considered a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Sussex County Rocks!
Mr. Lee Returns
As Republican Chair in Sussex County. Lee recently had the Delaware Governorship stolen from him by the dead voters of Wilmington. But heeeeee’s baaaaack. Lee is also, for historical reference, the Judge who presided over the Thomas Capano case.
Let’s hope he’s not another Delaware RINO.
From a recent GOP email:
Lee to return as Sussex GOP Chair
Former Republican gubernatorial candidate William Swain Lee didn't stay out of politics long after November's election.
Mr. Lee, a retired judge from Rehoboth Beach, will likely be elected Sussex County Republican Chairman Monday night.
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I’ll Believe It When I See It
From the same GOP email, I discover that Repubs are trying to refund taxpayers the money they overpaid.
The RINOS are not very successful in this state. Not that if we overpaid in taxes we shouldn’t get it back or anything. In Delaware they try to hide excess monies in Money Market accounts.
"Each and every Delawarean who has paid income taxes in 2003 would receive a $500 tax rebate check that would be sent to their home, no strings attached," said Rep. Hocker. "For those who paid $500 or less in state taxes in 2003, they would receive 100 percent of whatever income taxes they paid."
"The Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council recently released the projected tax intake for the government and it appears our 2006 revenues will exceed budget projections by anywhere from $130 to $180 Million," said Rep. Lavelle. "That's an extra $130 Million-plus of your money, money that we took, and didn't really need."
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