Today's hoot (from Down Under)
Tim Blair's column in The Bulletin reveals the latest turmoil in leftoid circles in Australia:

The trial of Adelaide kangaroo boner turned Muslim mystery man David Hicks is "of fundamental importance to all Australians", according to Malcolm Fraser. Especially those many planning to join a hostile foreign power dedicated to the West's overthrow. Which, apart from certain radical members of the Muslim kangaroo-boning community, is virtually none of us.

Same here Tim, but the usual suspects have their panties tightly knotted.

I almost forgot - Tim's blog is banned at the Sydney Morning Herald. Now there's a real recommendation!

And speaking of the 9, er actually 6 dwarves
The Rev, as expected, turned out to be the category killer. Watch out for beavers, Al!

Whining Moonbat Alert!
There's the Democrat senators:

"The president's statement that Iraq was attempting to acquire African uranium was not a mistake. It was not inadvertent. It was not a slip," charged Armed Services Committee ranking member Carl Levin...

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (search) of South Dakota said the uranium flap had created such a controversy that it had "gone beyond a matter of intelligence."
...
Off Capitol Hill, Sen. Ted Kennedy (search), D-Mass., said the president's use of bad intelligence to make the case for war against Iraq had "undermined America's prestige and credibility."

Then there's the 9 dwarves (er, the 6 that showed up):

In their most unified indictment yet of the Bush administration's policies in Iraq, most of the Democratic candidates for president told the NAACP's annual convention Monday that the president misled the public to justify the war.

There's just one problem. What the President said was:

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

It was true and it still is true:

British officials admitted that the country was Niger but insisted that the intelligence behind it was genuine and had nothing to do with the fake documents. It was convincing and they were sticking with it, the officials said.

They dismissed a report from a former US diplomat who was sent to Niger to investigate the claims and rejected them. "He seems to have asked a few people if it was true and when they said 'no' he accepted it all," one official said. "We see no reason at all to change our assessment."

That plus the fact that most of the American people rightly thought Saddam was a nasty piece of work who deserved much more than he got.

As Glenn Reynolds notes:

There are lots of real issues (hey, I'm giving 'em away for free here, every day) that they could use, but they're running with this one because they hate Bush more than they care about the truth.

Shhh, Glenn. Don't tell 'em. Being kind to the clueless is one thing, but these are Democrats!

Where's the air freshener alert!
Dead Body Found Under Motel Bed

Kansas City, MO -- People check out of motels everyday but not usually because they smell a dead body. But, police say it happened Sunday morning. A customer checked out of the Capri Motel on Independence Avenue after he complained numerous times of a foul odor. Police say the Motel's cleaning crew discovered the body of an adult male underneath the bed.

Does Dick Gephardt have political Tourette's Syndrome?
A few weeks ago, Gephardt revealed that if he were president, he would overturn Supreme Court decisions with executive orders. Now according to Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner:

I paraphrase, from Dick Gephardt in Iowa today, shown on C-SPAN tonight: You know in grade school, that part of the report card where it says "plays well with others?" This president didn't get a good grade there. I did.

What a wuss! Why do I get the feeling that the other kids gave little Dick noogies and put icicles down the back of his jacket?

Here's a moneymaker!
Bus Driver Snared in Prostitution Sting:

CICERO, Ill. - A Chicago bus driver's unscheduled stop in suburban Cicero is proving very costly.

The Chicago Transit Authority had to shell out more than $1,200 to get the bus back after the driver pulled over Friday night, allegedly to connect with a woman he thought was a prostitute.

She was actually a Cicero police officer. The driver was arrested and other officers impounded the bus.

I bet they were laughing their butts off when they impounded it.

Steel cage match alert!
Well, it would be a steel cage match, but some of the Democrat presidential contenders are AWOL:

The NAACP's top leadership lashed out Saturday at several of the major Democratic candidates for president, calling their intention to skip Monday's candidate forum an ''affront'' to the nation's oldest civil rights organization.

As many as four of the nine candidates have refused to participate in the forum, expressing reluctance to appear on stage with their rivals in a debate format, NAACP officials said.

As of late Saturday, Sens. John Edwards of North Carolina and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Reps. Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Dennis Kucinich of Ohio were not expected to attend. Sen. Bob Graham of Florida was scheduled to attend, along with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry plans to go to the convention, but his campaign is pressing for a change in the debate format.

Since people who listen to the NAACP tend to march in lockstep to the polls to vote for Democrats, this must be serious!

The flap between the Democratic candidates and the leaders of one of the party's most important interest groups underscored a brewing conflict within the campaigns on the need to court critical black votes but avoid potentially risky events where the candidates cannot control the circumstances.

At other forums, including last month's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition event hosted by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the major candidates have been largely overshadowed by the more animated Sharpton.

Woohoo! They're hiding out from the Rev!

Or, as in South Carolina in May, the event was dominated by snippy exchanges between Dean and Kerry.

Hiding from Howie too? What a bunch of wimps.

The candidates recently signed an agreement with the Democratic National Committee establishing six officially sanctioned joint appearances before the primary elections begin in January.

Campaign officials argue that the agreement limits them to the six joint appearances.

Well that's really boring! And somehow, I don't think "an agreement" is going to carry much weight with the Kool-Aid drinkers. On the other hand, Al and Howie won't have anyone to kick around but each other. Should be amusing.

Pretty damn weird
(Via Geek Press whose permalinks are bloggered too) After seeing this photo, I've decided it's time to head for the lower 40 and get some exercise.

I'll be back in time for the full moon, but that reminds me - Teddy Rall started the howling early. Which begs the question, when does he stop being a whining guttersnipe and become merely an unmedicated nutcase?

Pfahhh - it's Sunday
And like swallows coming back to Capistrano, the permalinks for today are bloggered. It should clear up this afternoon.

All the usual suspects
Andres Oppenheimer in The Miami Herald - Cuba, Iran seek global Internet censorship rules:

If you are outraged by the fact that Libya has been elected president of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, get this: Cuba and Iran -- among the world's worst dictatorships -- are playing a major role in drafting new U.N.-backed rules on the worldwide use of the Internet.

Not surprisingly, these repressive regimes are proposing rules that, if adopted by an upcoming U.N. Summit on the Information Society, would not only allow but encourage widespread censorship of the Internet, as well as growing state controls of TV and radio stations.

The World Summit on the Information Society, scheduled for December in Geneva, is organized by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the International Telecommunication Union, another U.N. affiliate.

It's another UN Summit and all the totalitarians are trying on their party duds.