Monday, February 23, 2004 |
09:12 - Did I miss anything?
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So let's see... what happened in the world while I was up in the mountains getting blizzarded in the face at 30 mph?
Bush met with a Nashville blogger (and a few others) in Washington to talk turkey about the economy, and didn't invite the big press. Cute. And the blogger in question described the meeting in great, revealing detail. Memo to John Kerry: This is what a populist does. Take notes.
(Oh, and following the WaPO's whining about getting scooped by a blogger, check out how said blogger twists the knife.)
The Pentagon commissioned a report describing a science-fiction-esque hypothetical worst-case scenario, climatologically speaking, in which atmospheric conditions change so much-- in ways most climatologists think are nigh-impossible, but they want to know how bad it could conceivably get, so they can develop contingencies-- that whole zones of the Earth become uninhabitable, famines and floods abound, wars break out and cause nuclear winter, and so on. And, as Tim Blair has covered, The Guardian in London has found the report and-- like a kid finding one of those chocolate gold coins and thinking he's struck it rich-- concluded that it's a secret, "suppressed" Pentagon forecast for what it know is going to happen. The Guardian Observer then freaks out, screeching about how humiliating this is for the Bush administration and how this is America's just desserts for not ratifying the Kyoto treaty, only now the whole world has to pay for Bush's deep-rooted evil and unbelievable incompetence. We've got 'im now, lads! Uh, yeah, but you guys just fell for a War of the Worlds. Way to go!
We've apparently got Osama bin Laden boxed in, or something. The man's sleeping out in the cold in the mountains, without a dialysis machine. Has anybody confirmed whether he's alive, or if his followers are just carting around an extremely tall corpse on donkeyback?
Ralph Nadir has joined the Presidential race, which is both good and bad. Good because he'll be a spoiler just like before. Bad because now when Bush wins, the Left will blame it on Nader again, claim that if it weren't for him Bush would have been defeated, and then rally for the rules to be changed after the fact so we bow to their wishes when they stamp their little feet and wail about stolen elections and popular votes and electoral colleges and dimpled chads. We know it'll happen. Couldn't we have just had a nice, clean two-sided race for once?
And the Palestinians blew up another bus full of schoolchildren in an act of what, er, can only be considered "legitimate defense against oppression". Immediately followed by Noam Chomsky joining the New York Times, with an op-ed column describing Israel's security wall-- the last and only real option for defending against suicide bombers without actually going and killing anybody, and if I'm wrong about that I'd love to know what could possibly be a more humane solution-- as a "weapon" of aggression and apartheid. In other words, Israel, stop fuckin' defending yourself. Even the non-violent kind of defense is more defense than you Jews deserve. Suicide bombers? Suck it up, or abandon Israel and disperse back to the corners of the globe, like before WWII, like the Palestinians demand. I get it.
Just another weekend in Paradise, I see.
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