Say goodnight, Joe.

Was that Joe Biden whistling past on his way to political oblivion? No one, and I mean no one, can sink a presidential candidacy faster than Joe Biden. Even pointy hat man David Duke and eco-nut Ralph Nader managed to stay in the race longer than Biden. Here he is on Barack Obama (see link to the Observer story above):

"Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

And I bet he's one of your best friends, too.

Dance, Hillary, Dance.

It's kind of fun watching Hillary dance around as she tries to figure out which the way wind is going to blow on the war. If she goes full tilt angry-left, she risks losing every vote that's more than 50 miles from either coast and not permanently resident on a university campus. If she backs the President, and he cocks up his last chance (something that's at least even money), BO and Edwards will outflank her on the left. If she does the "more in sadness than in anger" routine and starts voting to pull out, and there's another terrorist attack (something which also seems likely), she gets to follow John Kerry down the memory hole. I suppose there's always Option D-be a leader, just tell us what you really think and see if the people will follow you.

That of course would require a very un-Clintonian elevation of principle over ambition.

God Bless Barack Obama.

You gotta love Barack Obama. His initials are BO, his name sounds vaguely Muslim and his last name rhymes with Osama, his ears are a cartoonist's dream, he has less political experience than my cat, he's too black for the rednecks and not black enough for the race hustlers, but by Jove he's going for it. After BO announced his candidacy, Hilary looked like she swallowed something slimy. He can't win, but he can give the Angry Left somewhere to go besides Hil's place. They'll follow him off the cliff just like they followed McGovern and Humphrey and Nader and Gore and Dean and Kerry....

Heads Up, Assad

No need to link to or watch the Saddam snuff film. I looked at the official one...I truly think that he didn't believe until the floor dropped away that they'd really do it.

Cremate him and use his ashes in the butt tray at the cigar bar in the Peninsula.

Swinging Saddam

Saddam to the gallows.

The real utility of stretching the Saddamite neck is the salutary effect that it will hopefully have on Boy Assad and various other jihadist enablers. The lesson for them is that regardless of what chaos and bloodshed may follow, if you provoke us enough, you personally will be on the gibbet. Make no mistake, they're watching.

John Kerry : Idiot.

The Dems must be wishing that John Kerry would just go away or maybe start campaigning for the Republicans. Everytime he issue some lame non-apology, he digs the hole a little deeper, shoves the foot towards his larnyx.

Check outthe "apology":

I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform and I personally apologize to any service member, family memebr or American who was offended."

The problem of course is that that there wasn't any misinterpretation. The plain of meaning of his words could not have been misunderstood, and he didn't imply anything...he said directly that anyone serving in Iraq is there because they're either stupid, uneducated or lazy. Way to go Mr. Nuance.

Kerry's problem is that he lives with one foot in Zillionaireland and the other in 1970.

Bad Options and Worse Ones

North Korea's nuclear weapon leaves civilization with only bad options and worse ones. We've only ourselves to blame: 20 years of feckless American diplomacy, 20 years of Chinese encouragement and acquiesence, have brought us to this point. It's too late for a military solution and far too late for a political one. It is near inevitable that Japan will complete its own nuclear weapons program. South Korea will either follow suit or put its head even further in the sand. Having let Pyongyang build and explode a weapon, our impotence in regard to Tehran or any other third world shithole with an internet connection, two electricians, and a plumber is now obvious.

A least bad option? Call Hu Jintao and tell him that unless he puts the very hard word on Kim and backs it up--now--with action, the the United States will publically announce that it, in the current strategic environment, can no longer in good conscience object to a nuclear armed South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. What could China realistically do? For a start, Beijing could close down all North Korean connected businesses in Macau. NoKo trading and shipping companies in Macau act as Kim's defacto overseas banking and trade arm. The North Korean Embassy in Beijing should be closed. Again NoKo embassies in large part exist as smuggling operations for drugs and counterfeit currency, and Beijing has the biggest one.

Not much, but thanks to the studpidity of three successive American presidents, it's all we've got.

North Korea Tests Nuke?

Matt Drudge is reporting via AP and South Korean media that Bouffaint Boy has lit off a nuclear weapon.

Now what?

Nanny Must Be So Disappointed

Nanny Helen must be bitterly disappointed that after all work pretending that she thinks the UN is worth a rat's ass, they pass her over for Secretary General. I'm sort of bummed about it, too. At least she wouldn't have been a corrupt African quango, an unrepentant Nazi or the loser foreign minister of an Arab dictatorship. Also, if they'd picked Helen, New Zealand would have finally seen the back of her.

Asian Proliferation

If I were Hu Jintao,this would have me more than a little vexed. If North Korea does test a nuclear device, the only rational strategic response for Japan and South Korea is to do the same. On a list of things that China does not want to see in international politics, a nuclear Japan had got to come in at number 2, maybe even tied for first with an independent Taiwan.

From China's point of view North Korea must be like an ugly and unpleasant dog that the kids left behind when they went away to college. It snarls at the postman, barks all night, bites you when you pet it and shits on the carpet, but you just can't quite bring yourself to throw the damn thing into the river.

Didn't Work Then, Won't Work Now.

The Investors Business Daily has this editorial on the departure of arch-scumbag and congenital idiot Mark Foley. The Democrats have covered up, protected and preserved the careers of at least four of their number, including Bill Clinton, in the face of sex scandals as bad as or worse (in the case of Garry Studds) than Foley's. I'm sure this was intended as an October surprise. The benefit to Republicans of course is that they can point to their own condemnation, censure and probable prosecution of Foley in contrast to the Democrats' excusing their own creeps.

It's exactly like the Democrats sudden revelation of W's 30 year old DUI while the Chivas soaked Ted Kennedy remains an elder statesman. After all Ted only killed someone in his own alcoholic haze. Meanwhile Kennedy's degenerate nephew and Democratic Congressman goes racing around Washington soaked to the eyeballs in Scotch and tranquilisers. The voters smell hypocrisy a mile away...didn't work then, won't work now.

Well, I Guess That's It Then.

ViaMatt Drudge, it seems the Senate is now "in play".

Yep, a little more wishful thinking by the NYT, a few more felonies committed by Democrat supporters in the CIA or State, a few more smear jobs on George Allen (Did you ever try to put a deer head in a mailbox?), a few more psychotic episodes from Bill, and that should do it... a permanent Republican majority that is.

The hatchet job that the Wapo and the NYT are trying to pull on Allen is straight out of an old Soviet disinformation handbook. Get someone to make an outrageous statement (or just make it up), plant the story (Questions have emerged about.....), the wire services pick it up (The New York Times reported today that....)

It's sleazy, unprofessional, and so NYT. Welcome to the new Pravda.

Psychocrats

What is it with Democrat ex-Presidents and ex-almost-Presidents and loser candidates going loonier than a zoo after leaving office. As Mark Levin points out in the NRO, Bill Clinton is certifiable. Add to that Al Gore's lunatic rants, Howard Dean's primal screaming, and Jimmy Carter's paranoid fantasies, you get the picture that thorazine should be a big part of the Democrat primary process. The last Democrat to just go away and leave us alone was Lyndon Johnson, although he was about as stable as Macbeth, having taken over from the drug-addled sex addict Kennedy. OK, Nixon was no picture of mental health, but for the most part Republicans are sane to the point of boring.

Break Over.

I've been away and been busy. A lot of idiocy has occurred while I was taking a nap. John McCain turns into bizarre cross betweenNelson Rockefeller and Neville Chamberlain, Islamofascists see no irony at all for wanting to behead the Pope for suggesting that Islam might just have an anger problem, the Israeli government gets suckered by the UN one more time. On the other hand, Billy's little tantrum on Fox, the possibility that Osama may have died in his cave, paralysed, shitting himself and gasping for breath, and ever increasing signs that maybe the West is opening one eye to the new fascism help balance the ledger a little bit.

The UN Does What It Does Best..Nothing.

This would be funny if it weren't so pathetically stupid. The Secretray General, rising to ever more precious heights of obstructionism and hypocrisy says:

"It is not expected to achieve by force what must be realized through negotiation and an internal Lebanese consensus," Annan said in a report to the UN Security Council on implementation of the Aug. 11 resolution calling for an end to the Israeli-Hizbullah conflict."

Thirty years of negotiation has brought us to the point of war. Earth to Kofi:

THE WHOLE ISSUE IS THAT THERE ISN'T AND PRBOBABLY NEVER WILL BE ANY "INTERNAL LEBANESE CONSENSUS."

Security will be achieved by force or it won't be achieved at all.

AP's Evasions

Here's the story from AP on the persons whose assets have been frozen by the bank of England in connection with the plot to commit mass murder in the sky. At the end, AP notesthat "many of the subjects had Muslim names". Of course that's not quite accurate. ALL of them, as in 100 per cent, had Muslim names. All right, there are a few non-Muslims with Muslim names, but I'll wager George Soros' dividend cheque that none of these lads went to mass yesterday. Here's the list: not a Seamus, Billy Bob, Juan or Sven among them. What could possibly be the point in pretending any further that this is not a Muslim problem?

1.ALI, Abdula, Ahmed

2. ALI, Cossor

3. ALI, Shazad, Khuram

4. HUSSAIN, Nabeel

5. HUSSAIN, Tanvir

6. HUSSAIN, Umair

7. ISLAM, Umar

8. KAYANI, Waseem

9. KHAN, Assan, Abdullah

10. KHAN, Waheed, Arafat

11. KHATIB, Osman, Adam

12. PATEL, Abdul, Muneem

13. RAUF, Tayib

14. SADDIQUE, Muhammed, Usman

15. SARWAR, Assad

16. SAVANT, Ibrahim

17. TARIQ, Amin, Asmin

18. UDDIN, Shamin, Mohammed

19. ZAMAN, Waheed

"We are at war with Islamic fascism"

W has uttered the truth at last. There is no war with some amorphous thing called terrorism. There is a war with the murderous proponents of an ideological movement, its state sponsors and its enablers. Islam in these terms is not a religion. It's an expressly political enterprise, an ideology and one that's practiced by an indentifiable group of people who can be located and dealt with as required.

When the names of the arrested are known, the list won't contain any Muellers, Mulligans, McDonalds, Matsumotos, Mas, Munoz's or Moskowitzs. There will be a number of Mohammads. They won't be of of Swedish, Burmese, Korean, Ugandan or Jamaican origin. They will be from Pakistan, Bangladesh or some other country that has Islam as a state ideology.

The next step is to demand that Muslims who want to live and let live disown the fascists among them.

A good question.

As noted first by Cartoon Nazi, there were 29 US senators who voted with the White House on the war. Only one of them is Jewish. Only one of them was particularly singled out by the moonbat left for defeat. Why not any one of the other 28?

Good news, but sad news.

Joe Lieberman's loss in the Connecticut primary and Cynthia McKinney's melt-down in Georgia are both good news. McKinney was barking mad and a racist at that, so good riddance whether a Democrat or a Republican ultimately takes her seat. Lieberman's demolition by the angry left is sign of the Democratic Party's further marginalization. Remember that this is the man who saved Bill Clinton's presidency, and who was deemed worthy to carry the party's banner as a vice-presidential candidate. Now the Democrats' moonbat wing has forced him from the party in what can be fairly described as a purge. As a conservative, I must admit that the spectacle of the party of FDR and John Kennedy turing into the party of wealthy eccentrics like Al Gore and Michael Moore, dimbulbs and dilettantes like John Kerry, Chivas-soaked has-beens like Ted Kennedy, and nutcases like Cindy Sheehan engenders a bit of schadenfreude. But as an American, I find it sad. The Democrats are headed for schism, and the Republicans will be the stronger for it, but politics in America will be the poorer. In a way this reflects the end of a Cold War consensus on national security that perhaps should have ended with the Cold War. Perhaps it will lead to ideological realignment similar to the UK's Tories and New Labour, but the road to a new stability where ideological differences end where existential threats to the nation begin will be a long and unpleasant one.

Gone Troppo in Reuterville

In Reuterville, everything is a sign of global warming. Fromthis article:"SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rare, mother-of-pearl colored clouds caused by extreme weather conditions above Antarctica are a possible indication of global warming, Australian scientists said on Tuesday."

Then later in the same article:
"Nacreous clouds can only form in temperatures lower than minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 Fahrenheit).

Meteorologist Renae Baker said a weather balloon in the vicinity of the clouds in the stratosphere about 20 km (12 miles) above the Earth's surface measured temperatures as low as minus 87 Centigrade (minus 124.6 F).

"That's about as cold as the lowest temperatures ever recorded on the surface of the Earth," Baker, who photographed the clouds, said in a statement.

This is, what's the word, STUPID, even for global warming cultists, even in Reuterville.