I just saw a rather interesting comment at antiwar.com.

Grossman and Woolsey are selling weapons. James was part of the Mossad mailing Anthrax with Hanan Serfaty and Legum Yochai IIBR etc. You know who worked against the Israeli group in South Africa? Steven Hatfill. He was AWB and also Selous Scouts in Rhodesia. And so who did they try to set up by following his where abouts with anthrax hoax letters? Hatfill. And no it was Ivins following him around it was Mossad and Sayins.

Check the link at my sig for context and more URLs. (I am assuming Glenn is up to his ears in other issues, so maybe some regulars here can help follow this up? Or let me know if it's nothing new?)

@Glennzilla

Glenn, it is kind of frustrating how you are really setting the pace now on multiple fronts (FISA, anthrax, and now these protests, just for starters) and yet this Salon blog format force everybody to trawl through hundreds of comments just to stay abreast (and despite all the trolls and wankers, there are some high quality contributors here IMHO). And then after a certain time the comments close down, not that anyone reads them any more (I know, it's a curse of the short-term-memory blogosphere).

Also, I very much appreciate that you are not so aloof from your readers as other bloggers, and happily wade into the comments every day. So...

Would Salon maybe look at a different format, where there are threads staying alive for various topics under discussion? Or could you just post blank threads every day for major "live" topics, so people wanting to contribute info don't have to keep going off-topic?

Finally, do you have a P.A.? Maybe you need a team of interns, like Josh?

:-)

The "liberal media bias" is classic Karl Rove tactics: take your biggest weaknesses, spin them 180 degrees, and then use them to attack. So it is that the vote-stealers sack attorneys over voting "scandals" that never happened, and the biggest Fascists on the planet label their foes "Islamofascists" (and even "Blogofascists"), etc etc.

As for Palin, it's interesting that she has gone to AIPAC for the smell test before she even talks to the media. And she passed with flying colours (link at sig):

Block also praised the Democratic ticket.

“Now that both the Democrats and the Republicans have determined their respective tickets, AIPAC is pleased that both parties have selected four pro-Israel candidates,” he said. “In so doing, they have reaffirmed the broad bipartisan support that exists in our country for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship.”

Wasn't is a former Israeli PM who boasted after 911 that Israel controlled the USA? Seven years later, nothing has changed...

A few bloggers have noted that intrade and others have opened the books on a Palin withdrawal, and the odds keep shortening.

But this is also worth noting:

The odds, based on wagers made online with Paddy Power and William Hill Plc and in their betting shops, also suggest that McCain is less likely to win the White House because of his vice-presidential running-mate choice, announced Aug. 29. Both gambling houses, along with rival Ladbrokes Plc, place Democrat Barack Obama, 47, as the favorite to triumph in the contest.

``Ever since he appointed her, people have stopped betting on McCain,'' said David Williams of Ladbrokes in London. ``He went down like a sack of potatoes as far as the punters are concerned.''

Link at my sig.

(Oh, and if I sign off with a "shalom" does that mean I can attack anyone who criticizes me as an anti-Semite?)

Certainly, the media has not looked into his background.

I love how he describes Palin as a "neophyte" - basically it means she is a novice, but the word also has religious overtones (as in a new convert to a religion). And then there's the obvious link with the word "neocon", which has become something of a faith-based ideology in itself.

Froomkin says "Palin’s selection has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with governance" and "anyone suggesting that Palin was selected for anything other than political reasons should be considered presumptively a liar from this point on". Exactly right!

Of course we all know the Bush administration has been spin-driven from the start, which is why they haven't been able to accomplish anything REAL in eight long years. The Iraq War, for example, has primarily been a war of spin targeting the US public as the real "enemy": the thinking was that as long as the US public maintained support for the war, there was no way the US military could lose. And of course Hurricane Katrina also did a heckuva job of exposing the limits of this PR approach!

But to me, the selection of Palin really suggests something more sinister: the people in power today do not actually WANT someone who is going to govern the USA. They want someone to front the cameras and drive the spin. Or, as a certain former Yale cheerleader once put it, to "catapult the propaganda".

This begs the question: if the GOP wins in November (and more especially if McCain dies in office), who will really be in control of Washington?

When the National Enquirer ran a story about John Edwards having an affair, the GOP was all over it.

Now the National Enquirer is running a story about Palin having an affair with her husband's business partner.

HuffPo link at my sig.

Could this be an "out" for McCain? If Palin needs a good excuse to step down, this could be it. And I'm sure Joe Lieberman would be ready to step in!