Good News Bad News
All news, all the time. Good, bad, otherwise:
Good news. the New York Times editorial board is no longer running the Police Action against International Crime. GWOT suspect Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi got a complimentary stay at the CIA Hilton(s).
Al-Iraqi was bad news. They think he was behind the 7/7 bombings. Validate his parking, extend his stay, gratis! Caribbean holiday? OK! Comp his Iranian pals. He could bring his erstwhile Iraqi pal, but that guy doesn’t hang around here no more. Lift a rock, all kinds of interesting things scurry out.
All the news that’s fit to punt: a conscientious AP strives to serve readers better. Moves up identification of the party of a “politically prominent” corruption conviction from graph 22 to graph 9!
Interesting news. You’d think with all that Cho-reax gun control mania out there, they might want to make an example of someone. Why not this guy? Something special about him?
Speaking of concealed weapon news, how come these people aren’t killing each other? Quick, bring on the disarming squads!
How come this isn’t news? Someone in Hollywood actually gets it. Turns out there’s this thing called al-Qaeda, it wants to kill us. In Iraq and outside Iraq. It’s all part of something called … the Global War on Terror. You’d be amazed to learn who else believes this. At least I think so. Last time I checked, Iraq was on the globe. Right there in between Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, short hop from Israel … heck of a global neighborhood!
Hold on. Edwards was for the GWOT after he was against it! Wait a minute, need to parse. He’s … uh … triangulating here, where’s my slide rule, take away sense and carry the bullshit … he’s for the Police Action and Diplomatic Offensive vs. Internationally Undesireable Behavior! I think.
Maybe we should take a closer look at how these people feel about that GWOT. Come on, Obama. Spell it out. Yeah, and where some of them stand on other things while we’re at it.
Good thing this guy’s out there trying to make them look good. So how come this terrorist has joined the chorus of terrorists cheering the Democrats on?
Old news: these guys support(ed) the GWOT (Iraq-included version), too!
Is it really news that Congress is full of short-sighted, self-serving grandstanders who pander for cheap votes and headlines without regard for the consequences? Good news, it’s only slightly more than half full. Or half empty, depending on how you look at that glasshouse.
Maybe its the Stupid Ray. Zeroed right in.
Not news: There’s at least one honest man of principle on that hill. Naturally, the “Lost” party drummed him out.
News for those who govern by poll: time to give up! Despair!
News flash: There’s two sides in that GWOT. The one that makes sense and the one that doesn’t. Dawn over Riyadh: terrorists bite the hand that feeds them.
This is news: Iran stumps for Dems. This is not: Murtha, “I’ve lost confidence in the military.”
When did you stop beating your news? All the news that’s fit to insinuate: common sense equals failure.
Some people like to have their news both ways. The armorer hammers on the issue.
No news here. Move along. Hold up, I thought Nancy had sorted this thing out.
This is man-bites-news-watchdog news.
This is man-bites-frog news.
Disturbing news. The Egyptian Sandmonkey, feeling the heat, is packing it in.
It’ll be news when this former president starts acting like an elder statesman.
News you haven’t heard the last of: unsafe sex fantasy service.
Hey, how come yesterday’s news is still relevant today? Well, even things that happened 20 years ago are news sometimes.
Stop the presses! Kyoto has failings!
I don’t know what this means either, but any time you get the words “Naked Paris Hilton Autopsied Cadaver Sculpture warns Teens of Drunk Driving” in one headline, I’m there.
Tired of all this news? Try a dream of Mexifornication.
It’s not news that they hate us. Nor that they like our stuff … the development, the democracy. Turns out they think we’re winning! Someone tell you know who.
Meanwhile, in other rodent news: rat casting call.
Welcome, Punditeers! Come on in, pull up a chair at the conference table. We’re trying to figure out how to maximize our opportunities and defend from all threats foreign and domestic. Are you being paid not to be a terrorist? Why not? Well, I hope you’ve got your tinfoil helmet on. Can’t be too careful. Make way … morons marching! Uh oh … headless goats and topless chicks! Could be trouble!
Topics: Good News Bad News
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:00 am on Saturday, April 28, 2007
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April 28th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Good news on the capture of al-Iraqi! Captain Ed has an interesting post about the lack of interest by the MSM on the fact that he was the mastermind of the London attacks. I hope al-Iraqi enjoys those Gitmo gourmet meals.
As for Murtha: who is he to talk about “lost confidence”? ‘Tis the pot calling the kettle black.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:54 am
I’ve got a feeling that if we could get the naked-Paris-Hilton-Autopsy-sculpture up to the hill, we could have made fat Teddy miss the Iraq funding vote.
Probably would need to bring Patches, you know, for the drunk driving warning.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:02 am
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April 28th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Link to an MSM story about something.
Complain that the MSM isn’t covering the story.
Watch the brains explode.
April 28th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Apologies, but I should have linked to Captain Ed’s post.
Captain Ed best says it here:
“How many people died in London? Over 50? One might think that should lead a news article that reports his capture — and yet the American press simply either didn’t know or didn’t care about their subject.
“For instance, Dafna Linzer has the only Washington Post report on the capture, and the word “London” doesn’t appear once in it. What captures Linzer’s keen reportorial eye? Readers find out that the US held him in secret detention centers before transferring him to Guantanamo Bay…”
More outrage over Gitmo and secret detention centers than the 52 dead in London.
Yep, there’s no bias here, move along, nothing to see, folks!
April 28th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Huh! The link didn’t come through! Here’s the raw URL:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/009814.php
April 28th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
About 150,000 people die every single day, Jeff.
Many of them could be saved for a tiny fraction of what we’re spending on the GWOT.
You could make a reasonable argument that deaths due to terrorism are over-reported.
April 28th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
THE ALPHTARD responds! THE ALPHTARD states an obvious fact: People die every day! Thousands of them!
In doing so, THE ALPHTARD conflates MURDER with natural causes, disease, suicide, old age, and accidents! Murders that might be prevented through GWOT, or rephrased, “Many of them could be saved!”
THE ALPHTARD thus engages in blatant moral equivilence, not caring if terrorists murder civilians!
THE ALPHTARD CONTINUES HIS FIGHT AGAINST THE REPRESSIVE REGIME OF EMPEROR CHIMPY DUBYA McBUSHALIBURTON!!! ROCK ON, DUDE!!!!
April 28th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Well, Jeff,
If you were given the mission of saving as many people as possible and were given a budget of $200,000,000,000 a year to do it…sending a buncha soldiers into Iraq wouldnt be a very effective plan.
Just one f the reason’s the pro war crowd’s circus is collapsing.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Alphtard, I just figured out your problem!
April 28th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
alphie:
Well alphie, if the left would stop pandering to mass murderers lots of lives could be saved too. I remember when Saddam turned a humanitarian aid program into his personal slush funds, the left did not care. When the thieves in the international community looked the other way while hundreds of billions went to corruption instead of helping the poor I don’t remember any outcry. The truth is that the socalled left has allowed far more money to end up in swiss bank accounts of the wealthy and corrupt than has been used to liberate Iraq. So spare me the lectures in morality and clean up your own room.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
As for the pro war world collapsin, I guess that means the pro terrorists world is growing. Is that your world alphie or are you just a preachy little hypocrite who really does not have a world?
April 28th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I don’t look at it that way, terrye.
Terrorism will always be a problem. One set of leaders had a shot to fight it and failed.
Now we’ll get a new group who will be handling it, along with all the other problems America faces.
Beats living in a monarchy or a dictatorship.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
it’s difficult to have a discussion with ‘alphie’ because he doesn’t make sense.
“One set of leaders had a shot to fight it and failed.” ??? No, they haven’t failed. They have adopted different tactics in Iraq, with a continuing aim of building a local government strong enough to withstand the nasty bullies in the neighbourhood. In the meantime, they are extremely busy in other places like Mali, as they have been for the past 5 years since 9/11. This is called, “living in the real world.”
When you live in a world of half hour TV shows, it is a huge disappointment when there is not ending at the end of 30 minutes.
Iraq would be as interesting as is Zimbabwe to our leaders, if our entire civilization were not running on oil. As I mentioned to a relative, right now we spend something less than 10% of our income on food. Watch the Middle East collapse into chaos and war, and that cost - even to ‘alphie’ - will climb to at least 50% of our income. But who cares about that, when you’re REALLY UNHAPPY that the world is not a half hour TV show!
April 28th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Oil was selling for about $18 a barrel before we invaded Iraq, Heather.
Now its selling for over $65 a barrel.
How nice for Texas.
You might also want to check out how much of America’s oil production is being burnt up by the U.S. military while they’re busy jacking up the price of oil the rest of us pay.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
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