Useful Fools

After several arsons by the so-called Earth Liberation Front, developer Haynes and Draper has announced a plan to use African lions to guard against arson at the construction site of their new 500 unit townhouse complex near Point Loma in San Diego.

Bravo! I think it’s about time that somebody stood up to the ELF terrorists, and it would certainly be ironic if a few ELF’s were became the food for these natural carnivores.

The Foggy Bottom folks at the State Department have at least one spokesman who gets things right. Richard Boucher:

In unusually blunt language that drew surprised gasps from reporters, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher scoffed at Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg for continuing to support the proposal that they first introduced at a mini-summit in April.

He described the April meeting as one between “four countries that got together and had a little bitty summit” and then referred to them collectively as “the chocolate makers.”

My thanks to Vox for creating a nice blog button for me:

Like myself, the folks at Zonitics are represented by Republican-In-Name-Only (RINO) McCain, who pushed through the oxymoronically named “Clean Elections Law.” Unfortunately, as also shown by Kerry, being a war hero doesn’t mean you have good sense! At least McCain didn’t become an anti-war protester or throw his medals away.

Nick summarizes some of the insane consequences of this nice sounding piece of excrement legislation, which also happens to be anti-democratic and obviously unconstitutional, to those who don’t consider the Constitution to be a “living document.”

And Nick’s even doing something about it. You can help!

Thanks to zonitics for discovering this article which gives new information and a pretty good summary about the Niger-Iraq intelligence controversy.

[RELATED UPDATES: See Niger Uranium - The French Connection and Niger Uranium - WHY the Forgeries?]

When I bemoaned the outrageous press bias (and outright lies) about the Bush Iraq-Africa-Uranium statement, my friend commented that the Republicans were handling the incident poorly. And he is right.

Why are Republicans apologizing? Bush didn’t lie. His information was not based on the bad intelligence so often mentioned (forged documents). More on this later.
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In spite of how government ministers and the press make it look, we have many friends in many countries. A long term friend of the US has been Canada, fighting with us most recently in Afghanistan, even though the current Liberal government has decreed that they will not be with us in Iraq.

To show their solidarity, many Canadians are planning a “Rally for America” for Toronto on Friday, April 4th.

I am still doing my blogging at The Command Post, a collaborative blog that keeps very up to date with war news.

Thus this blog may be updated infrequently.

Geraldo Rivera has been a cheezy lefty since his days as a New York lawyer for leftist causes.

I have come to the conclusion that after 9-11 he actually changed from a wacky lefty to a wacky non-lefty. He said that 9-11 really changed his attitudes, and I believe him. He even expressed regret tonite for his past participation in anti-war demonstrations during the Vietnam War.

I have also concluded that Geraldo is engaged in “Geraldo’s Greatest Adventure” and has been so ince the start of the Afghan War. He took quite a pay cut to join Fox and go to the war zone. He loves hanging out with the military guys and seeing action, and I love watching him do it… I can share his greatest adventure; he and I are pretty much the same age. Hey, Geraldo, need a broadcast engineer???

I watch Geraldo, and I cringe when he makes various silly statements, but I enjoy his adventures, his video and his attitude (which is now extravagantly pro-American).

[Update 3/31/03 - Various news outlets are reporting that the US Military has kicked Geraldo out of Iraq after he apparently give away too much operational information in his enthusiasm.]

As a contributor to , I will probably be putting fewer posts here for the time being.

The Command Post is a very rapidly updated collaborative blog that consolidates war news from many sources.