Mid-Morning Report
I see that Teresa Heinz Scary is back in the news again. Apparently she's yet to resign herself to the fact that she's not in the White House. Here's her latest via Drudge wherein she claims that voting machines were hacked to alter the results for Bush:
"Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Heinz Kerry said. She identified both as "hard-right" Republicans. She argued that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."
Who are these "brothers"? Smothers? Allman? Doobie? I had no idea that two brothers held the fate of us all literally in the palm of their hacking little hands. Just one question, though. Are these "hard-right" machines the same ones that counted votes in favor of Barbara Boxer, Patrick Leahy, Charles Schumer, Barbara Mikulski, etc.? Maybe Teresa could give us some more information on this emerging scandal? Let's check the story:
Heinz Kerry did not offer any specific evidence that votes on the machines were altered.
Doh! I think this story is specific evidence that Teresa's brain may have been altered.
Taking a look at the tragic U.S. friendly fire shooting of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari, it's safe to say that world reaction has been typical. While Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a strong Bush ally, has indicated his belief that the incident was a tragic mistake, the freed hostage in the incident, Giuliana Sgrena, disagrees:
Sgrena, 56, has worked for the Communist newspaper Il Manifesto for 17 years. She raised eyebrows when she suggested that she might have been targeted deliberately because of U.S. disapproval of Italy's willingness to negotiate with kidnappers.
"Everyone knows the Americans are dead set against any negotiations for the release of hostages and that they will do anything to stop those who are trying to save the lives of hostages," Sgrena told an Italian TV interviewer Sunday.
On Monday, she told the leading newspaper Corriere della Sera:"I believe, but it's only a hypothesis, that the happy ending to the negotiations must have been irksome. The Americans are against this type of operation. For them, war is war, human life doesn't count for much."
Does this not make your blood boil? What's especially irritating about this is that most Europeans, rather than scoffing at such a ridiculous statement, would nod in sneering agreement to this tripe.
Ms. Sgrena failed to explain why American forces, upon approaching the vehicle after the shooting and offering vehement apologies, not to mention medical aid to Sgrena, didn't instead proceed to take her from the vehicle and put a bullet in her brain execution style. You'd think that would have been the policy in the American "Human Life Doesn't Count For Much Handbook", right? Actually, being a Communist, you'd think Ms. Sgrena would have appreciated such tactics since they were/ are carried out with regularity by the heroes of her treacherous ethos.
Hearing a Communist speak of the United States as a cold-hearted killer is a little like hearing O.J. Simpson call Pat Tillman a murderer. It summons the urge in one to put up one's dukes.
In other news, I see that New York Press Editor Jeff Koyen has been forced to resign after running the tasteless, classless, unfunny “52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope” as the paper's cover story. Rumor has it he is with a new publication now and contemplating running these various stories:
"10 Funniest Things About Drowning Puppies"
"15 Funniest Things About Watching Old People Suffer From Alzheimers"
"10 Funniest Things About Mentally Retarded Children"
"38 Funniest Things About The Crucifixion Of Christ"
We'll keep you posted.
"Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Heinz Kerry said. She identified both as "hard-right" Republicans. She argued that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."
Who are these "brothers"? Smothers? Allman? Doobie? I had no idea that two brothers held the fate of us all literally in the palm of their hacking little hands. Just one question, though. Are these "hard-right" machines the same ones that counted votes in favor of Barbara Boxer, Patrick Leahy, Charles Schumer, Barbara Mikulski, etc.? Maybe Teresa could give us some more information on this emerging scandal? Let's check the story:
Heinz Kerry did not offer any specific evidence that votes on the machines were altered.
Doh! I think this story is specific evidence that Teresa's brain may have been altered.
Taking a look at the tragic U.S. friendly fire shooting of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari, it's safe to say that world reaction has been typical. While Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a strong Bush ally, has indicated his belief that the incident was a tragic mistake, the freed hostage in the incident, Giuliana Sgrena, disagrees:
Sgrena, 56, has worked for the Communist newspaper Il Manifesto for 17 years. She raised eyebrows when she suggested that she might have been targeted deliberately because of U.S. disapproval of Italy's willingness to negotiate with kidnappers.
"Everyone knows the Americans are dead set against any negotiations for the release of hostages and that they will do anything to stop those who are trying to save the lives of hostages," Sgrena told an Italian TV interviewer Sunday.
On Monday, she told the leading newspaper Corriere della Sera:"I believe, but it's only a hypothesis, that the happy ending to the negotiations must have been irksome. The Americans are against this type of operation. For them, war is war, human life doesn't count for much."
Does this not make your blood boil? What's especially irritating about this is that most Europeans, rather than scoffing at such a ridiculous statement, would nod in sneering agreement to this tripe.
Ms. Sgrena failed to explain why American forces, upon approaching the vehicle after the shooting and offering vehement apologies, not to mention medical aid to Sgrena, didn't instead proceed to take her from the vehicle and put a bullet in her brain execution style. You'd think that would have been the policy in the American "Human Life Doesn't Count For Much Handbook", right? Actually, being a Communist, you'd think Ms. Sgrena would have appreciated such tactics since they were/ are carried out with regularity by the heroes of her treacherous ethos.
Hearing a Communist speak of the United States as a cold-hearted killer is a little like hearing O.J. Simpson call Pat Tillman a murderer. It summons the urge in one to put up one's dukes.
In other news, I see that New York Press Editor Jeff Koyen has been forced to resign after running the tasteless, classless, unfunny “52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope” as the paper's cover story. Rumor has it he is with a new publication now and contemplating running these various stories:
"10 Funniest Things About Drowning Puppies"
"15 Funniest Things About Watching Old People Suffer From Alzheimers"
"10 Funniest Things About Mentally Retarded Children"
"38 Funniest Things About The Crucifixion Of Christ"
We'll keep you posted.
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4 Comments:
Truly, the death of the Italian agent is a real tragedy. He knew he was in a dangerous line of work but I have to believe that "friendly fire" is not in the forefront of risks he knew he was taking on. The idea that Ms. Sgrena was deliberately targeted requires the believer to take a number of illogicals for granted:
1) As President Bush has clearly stated his position that he will not negotiate with terrorists, he also decided that no one else will either.
2) He knew the exact time of the release, the nature of the negotiations(ransom)and the exact route the fleeing Italians were taking to the airport.
3) His order to prevent Ms. Sgrena from reaching freedom filtered rapidly through an undetermined number of levels.
4) At each of those levels, not one person said, this doesn't seem right (right down to the soldiers manning the barricade).
5) Positioning those manning the barricade right out in the open to be easily and promptly identified as American forces.
All because why? She wandered into the spider web and now should pay with her life for getting caught? To prevent her from reporting what? That war is bad? That Bush is evil? Not exactly original concepts, never beofre reported.
It should be obvious that this is a tragic, unintended consequence of war. Should be, but isn't to the BusHitler conspiracy theorists.
- Dirtbiker for W
The believer must also assume that our soldiers missed! If they were targeting her and didn't mind collateral damage, why didn't they just blow the vehicle sky high? Maybe even blame it on an "insurgent?"
DB, you said it much better than I. No reasonable, thinking person, who has not been inundated with anti-americanism their whole life would even think that this incident was intentional with respect to these individuals.
CIV, I don't think the issue is whether or not the U.S. intended to kill both persons in the vehicle. I think they obviously did. However, had they known who the driver and passenger were, they would never have fired upon it.
Oh. I had heard a report that the troops fired into the vehicle's engine to stop it and that the death and injuries were not intentional.
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