When I run across interesting things to link from my blog, I usually send them to my Gmail account with the best intentions of blogging about them “when I get some time.” Well, that doesn’t happen as often as it should, so I’ll clear out a few items now: 5 Lamest Charlie Brown Cartoons - 10 Zen Monkeys covers the five worst Peanuts animated specials. I can’t agree with the inclusion of Snoopy, Come Home, though. Link courtesy of TV Squad. ...
…there’s a Democratic majority in the House and Senate… Who could have predicted such a thing?!? :) Seriously, when I — who grew up Republican and liked Reagan in the Eighties — think the best news I’ve heard all week is that the Democrats won and Rumsfeld is out…well, you know you probably aren’t energizing the base to come out and vote for your party. I don’t expect too much of my government, I don’t think, but here’s what I hope happens the next two years that didn’t happen in the last six: ...
A selection of DPRK press releases, brought to us by NK News. June 15 Association of Persons of National Literature Formed KCNA Blasts Pro-U.S. Japanese Charlatans’ Shameless Anti-DPRK Moves Kim Jong Il’s Work Off Press in Finland U.S. and S. Korean Warmongers Flayed for Increasing Tension Samjiyon County Undergoes Facelift Sports Tournament of Artistes Held Title of ‘Prize of Honor for Twice Model Machine No. 26’ Instituted
Should we treat terrorists as pirates? What is needed now is a framework for an international crime of terrorism. The framework should be incorporated into the U.N. Convention on Terrorism and should call for including the crime in domestic criminal law and perhaps the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. This framework must recognize the unique threat that terrorists pose to nation-states, yet not grant them the legitimacy accorded to belligerent states. It must provide the foundation for a law that criminalizes not only terrorist acts but membership in a terrorist organization. It must define methods of punishment. ...
North Korea has a way with press releases, and the NK News site makes sure we all get to share. Some recent samples: KCNA Blasts Military Adventure of U.S. and South Korean Warmongers Agreement on Cooperation in Public Health Inked between DPRK and Zimbabwe Former Unconverted Long-term Prisoner Kim Sok Hyong Dies All Koreans Called upon to Crush For. Aggressor Forces through National Cooperation Japan’s Crime to Exterminate Korean Nation I have a personal favorite from this collection, though: ...
Well, congratulations, Bush Administration. You’ve officially made it to the point where the first question in a press conference, from veteran reporter Helen Thomas, was “Is the U.S. going to attack Iran?”
It was a good day for politics and furniture in the Democratic People’s Republic: Kim Jong Il Highly Praised by Russian Poet Koreans Will Surely Force Japan to Pay for Monstrous Crimes Committed against Them U.S. Ambassador’s Endless String of Reckless Remarks under Fire Quality Stone Furniture Produced Kim Jong Il Sends Wedding Table to Kye Sun Hui Courtesy of NK News
Let’s say you’re CIA Director Porter Goss, and you give an interview claiming that you have an “excellent idea” where Osama bin Laden is hiding. However, you then claim that America’s sense of “fair play” concerning state sovereignty is an issue when it comes to actually capturing him. So, how does that work, exactly? Saddam Hussein was such a great threat to the U.S. from 2001 on that we invaded Iraq and are still occupying the country with a sizable portion of our military, but the person who actually ordered the last major attack on our country is safe because of our respect for the nation-state system? ...
Yep, this may be our next Ambassador to the United Nations. If the lack of preparation or basic interest in diplomacy indicated in this article is true, then why is John Bolton even still employed, much less getting promoted? Link courtesy of Obsidian Wings Update: That darned Democrat Voinovich on Bolton. ;)
Capt. Mbaye Diagne, Senegal, United Nations: He gave his life that others might live. Link courtesy of Obsidian Wings