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Breaking news: the media thinks that Bush is an idiot. This is - wait, this has been the party line since he took office. Here’s just some reiteration from Yahoo! News’ Odd News section. Bush cannot use the proper grammar with schoolchildrens and an article on preventing Bushisms. In other hard hitting news Yahoo! covers the global links to terrorism between Russian crime lords, Chinese officials, North Korean scientists, renegade nuclear scientists, Iranian Revolutionary Guard members, and Venezuelan kleptocrats - wait, they don’t cover stuff like that or Iran’s lack of homosexuals either.

Maybe some of you remember the brouhaha over Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia and how it was crucial for the survival of free speech that he got a forum to air his views. Well, I guess that the View doesn’t really agree with freedom of speech either. There is talk that their new hostette, Sherri Shepherd, is going to be canned because she questions evolution. To sum it up: questioning evolution = fired; questioning the holocaust = free speech.

And what about freedom of speech for our generals? They know a heck of a lot better what is going on in Iraq then, say, any civilian in America. And guess what they say:

“If the American people are informed properly,” Lynch told reporters after he arrived home on leave, “I believe they will be supportive of the mission. But they’re not getting the right story. As a result, they’re anti the war.”

The media use a “filter” that downplays information about American successes: “All I’m seeing when I watch TV … is the bad news and not the good news.”

But guess what News Busters found out about this article in Editor & Publisher; it omitted all the good news from the original interview! The rest of his interview goes on to say this:

Enemy attacks and U.S. casualties in the 3rd ID’s West Virginia-sized battle zone south of Baghdad are “way down.”

More than 2,000 enemy have been killed or captured there in the past six months.

The enemy has lost “sanctuaries” where it makes bombs, stores munitions, trains suicide bombers and plans attacks.

“But you never see that by watching Fox, CNN and NBC,” he said.

Interesting stuff. But instead of hearing this we hear about a soldier who is going to return his medals to Rumsfeld in an anti-war stunt.

John Bolton, in the top two of UN ambassadors we’ve ever had, reacts to Ahmadinejad’s visit.

In Myanmar there are some really brave people. Their country is being ruled by a junta that prevents the most basic of human rights. Three of the protestors, who are mostly monks, have been killed. This picture tells more then anything I can write though.

From Hot Air we get news that what we heard Ahmadinejad say is actually not what he said. “What?” you say. Yep, that’s right. The real transcript from the Washington Post is different then the official Iranian transcript. Basically, in Iran there’s not even any questions about gays (totally expunged from Iran’s official transcript) and there are other changes to play to the crowd. I know free speech is great but does this really count? Probably if you hate Bush.

Isn’t it great that the United States provides health care for children that don’t have it? No, it’s not. These kids are not from poor families and, anyways, I think it’s unconstitutional and immoral for the government to take money away from productive citizens and give it to people no matter how good the cause seems. But don’t blame Bush for not adding to spending. Take a look at this graph from a post in Sweetness & Light showing the dramatic increase in spending for SCHIP.

In other news, there’s a major schism growing in the ranks of the Sunni terrorists. According to Counterterrorism Blog this is what was said in al Qaeda publications:

The audio recording released on September 14 from Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was particularly significant–especially to those who follow the very serious internal schisms opening up between Al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq. In his address, al-Baghdadi directly attacked other Sunni insurgent groups–such as the 1920 Revolution Brigades, Hamas in Iraq, and the Iraqi Islamic Resistance Front (JAAMI)–as “backstabbing” traitors who have abandoned their commitment to jihad. Needless to say, al-Baghdadi also reserved a strong dose of vitriol for the “degenerate crusader nation of Sweden”, where cartoons were recently published that were viewed as disrespectful to the Prophet Mohammed. In response, al-Baghdadi promised to launch punitive terrorist attacks by mid-October on Swedish “industrial giants” such as Volvo, Scandia, Ikea, and Ericsson–in addition to killing both the cartoon artist himself and his Swedish editor.

This is good stuff and, as the terrorists do, try and leverage this news. We need to put out our own counter-propaganda out there to knock down al Qaeda. Publishing the fact that there is a break among the ideological brethren of hate could significantly weaken recruitment drives by terrorist organizations. Why would anyone well-meaning young Muslim want to join a group that is at odds with other Islamic groups? Maybe even the main stream media - yeah, like that’ll ever happen.

Or maybe the fact that al Qaeda is targeting Muslims would dissuade young Jihadis? Yes, I know this is an old story but it comes from the Huffington Post so we should all be glad that at least they found out about it sometime.

And in other Iraq news, what is being touted as the Biden plan, which might come as a shock to Sen. Brownback who also supported the bill, passed the senate calling for a switch to a more federalized Iraq. I have said in previous posts that I think that wanting a strong and powerful national government in Iraq is probably the wrong way to go and that power should be distributed like it was even before our Revolutionary War.

This move does show that at least some in the senate still care about winning this war. This is the list from DailyKos (the list includes the names of everyone who voted against the denounce the moveon.org ad) of those that we cannot trust in the senate or the house. The list is too long to put here but if you need to know click on the above link and you will find Hillary’s name.

Unfortunately in America race matters. It matters because without it many leftist “leaders” would be left without jobs. Unfortunately this continuance of racial sensitivities is hurting Obama. Some may not vote for him because he is black but many will vote for him just because he is black. This hurts his credibility because the issue is not even about what he has to say or what he stands for. I would never vote for him but wouldn’t it be nice if his race wasn’t a factor?

Boing Boing is an extremely popular blog that sometimes shows its true liberal colors. Most of the stuff on there is great though and this article titled Scroogled in the Wall Street Journal is one of those good things. The interview, in this case, was about how Google, trying to just do good (their motto by the way) is actually doing really bad things because it is saving everyone’s information in the name of doing good. This is a problem because in the post Patriot Act world we live in (this is their liberalness coming out) the government could subpoena our search histories.

Besides the fact that the government can already subpoena our computer’s hard drive with, unless you have a program that is hardy enough to completely destroy all evidence of where you’ve been, the government can already retrieve all this information. But this is missing the point in the extreme.

The real point is that the biggest group of people that is taking control of our lives in the name of doing us good is the democrats. They want to have control over all our health information, financial information, and every single other piece of information available to aid in their control, uh, benefiting of our lives. Forget Google, I don’t want Hillary getting her hands on my private stuff.

BigT’s Linkapalooza:
Left is for Draft.
Katie flag pins are more dangerous than WMDs Couric’s news brethren have dinner with Ahmadinejad.
Lists of Conspiracy Theories from the right and the left.
Women are unhappy thanks to feminist revolution.
George Soros hates democracy, well our version anyway.
And here’s a graph from DailyKos readers saying who really frightens them.

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