All I can say is Thank God for Thierry Henry--there is now something else for the talking heads to get excited about.

The link to that visit-X vid was splendid. FYI: the sex depicted (and includes full nudity and penetration) was consensual. The bratwurst and sauerkraut shot was sehr gut!

Rammstein is one of my favorites.

what a brilliant strategy for recruiting fundamentalist nut-jobs who strap explosives to their chests.

Terrorism, my friends, begins at home.

I tried posting this at NYT--comments closed after receiving 27...is that how a nationally syndicated column should operate?

Is that what a journalist should do? He just pulled this out of his ass, and is afraid to respond to any of the 27 comments. Come on David, what would Churchill do? Churchill would have gotten out of Afganistan six months ago.

Why can't you evolve? War! War! War! this is so 1991/2001. Move on.

What about these reasons:

11: Where would we get the raw material for those yummy unborn fetus snacks that all the salon readers enjoy so much?

12: (most important) Because it's fun!

regime change, my friend, begins at home.

You may want Obama out because of some whacko "socialism," "unborn fetus muching" or whatever...

There are many followers of GG who might want him out should he continue the march to endless/stupid wars started by Bush.

Maybe we can work together? On second thought, that wouldn't be a good idea...

begins at home. Where do I sign up to have our local McD's shut?

I would be sending a big F-off to these hollywood (and even further away) rejects/has-beens/wingnuts interfering in my local politics.

I thought the GOP was for local grass-roots kinds of politics?

What was I thinking?

Please see The Afghanistan Impasse by Ahmed Rashid (link in the siggy).

This "war" in Afghanistan is actually a microcosm of a much larger struggle, one that has been going on for almost 40 years. The struggle is regional across most of the continent of SC Asia and has roots in the colonial era. One aspect can be boiled down to Pakistan itself not have a legitimate or stable government--instead it has the equivalent of the Afghan Karzi government--a tribal and corrupt regime propped up by US aid (economic and military).

The article illustrates the perils of intervention, even just economic intervention, in situations with the following characteristics: A centrally controlled far away government with few or no ties to local communities or law enforcement; long-standing tribal divisions; corrupt and inept local, regional and national government.

In these situations any intervention, no matter how well thought out or intentioned, turns into a destabilizing act, where one side inevitably gains power over the other.

The Pakistani state of Balochistan comprises some 48% of Pakistani territory yet is historically exploited and neglected by the largely Pashtun government. Is it any surprise then that the bulk of the Pakistani Taliban finds safe haven here and that this is the training and rebuilding area used by the Afghan Talib?

Pakistan military operations are underway to "clear" Waziristan, so soon the magnitude of the Pakistani problem can be assessed. My prediction is that the operations in Waziristan will fail, leaving the US to finish the job. The US has no options, since Pakistan is nuclear armed, but to "co-operate," in this case, exacerbating the polarization/instability that is the Pakistan government.

Please read the article and the books reviewed. Simple notions of power, military or otherwise, don't apply.

Bush == lying sac, elected impusively, ran on a platform of lies, distortions and emotions. Not qualified for govornor of Texico much less preznit.

Obama == big diappointment, someone who acknowledged all the above failures, yet did nothing to correct them. Campaigned on a legitimate platform which included correcting Bush errors, yet did nothing of the sort once in office.

Who's the bigger failure then? What are the long-term implications for US politics? Liberal v Conservative? Progressive v Opressive?

If you ask me a big change is needed. Nation building, my fiends, begins at home.

Pls see the Sadly, No! on this (link in my siggy)

Shorter Michelle Malkin

The bogus death statistic that won’t die

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does Bush Bimbaugh hate America so much?

equates to going stupid.

These documents, far from justifying anything, made a very strong point that the current system of separation of powers is inadequate.

The legal basis for these memos is, in a word, embarrassing. Absolutely free reign was given by OLC to CIA to do anything and everything they asked. Once the initial torture memo was leaked in 2004 then subsequent OLC memos got even more bizarre and twisted saying things that amounted to ignoring laws passed by Congress because the preznit says so.

For Cheney to reference these memos is like Himmler using Mein Kampf as a legal justification for the Holocaust, only less original.

The article in the New York Review is a good one, if you want more ammunition....

• http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23114#

calls the President a Muslim and uses fear to intimidate and prevent legal investigations. Right. This man makes me sick.

This says a lot more about the dick than it does about anyone else.

I guess they will have to revise the DSM again--have to add an addendum for "paranoid psychopath's who get too much power."

Sexual libertines, from the Marquis de Sade to radical gay activists, have sought to pervert society by acting out on their own perversions. What motivates them most of all is a pathological hatred of Christianity.

hatred? Christianity? it seems those words go together for Mr. D.

does reading this not make us stoopid?