INDY’S BACK!: “The full title of the film is “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” which has already been shortened by the Text-Message-Generation to KOCS. . . . I didn’t miss a single frame of KOCS.
“If you like car chases you will love this movie. If you love close-escape after close-escape you will love this movie. If you love people who get dunked into rivers, lakes and wells then show up in the next scene, 25 seconds later in the story, completely dry you will REALLY love this movie. If you are torn between this movie or ‘Sex in the City,’ you may not want to spend the eight bucks.”
- Rich Galen, Mullings.com, 5/22/08
HUMILIATING DEFEAT FOR TEXAS CPS
“An appellate court decision upended the custody case that sent more than 440 children from a polygamist sect’s ranch into foster care, but it’s not clear whether the children might soon return home.
“The Third Court of Appeals in Austin said the state failed to show the youngsters were in any immediate danger, the only grounds under Texas law for taking children from their parents without court action. Texas District Judge Barbara Walther now has 10 days to release the youngsters from custody, but the state could appeal to the Texas Supreme Court and keep the children from immediately going back to their parents.
“The decision Thursday in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history was a humiliating defeat for the state Child Protective Services agency.”
- Associated Press, 5/23/08
LIVING TO KILL ANOTHER DAY
“A top Taliban commander linked to the deaths of British soldiers has escaped German special forces because they were not allowed to kill him under their rules of engagement. It highlights growing fears that NATO forces in Afghanistan are not fighting to the same set of rules as each other.
“The commander who escaped is known as the Baghlan Bomber after masterminding a 2007 attack on a factory in Baghlan province which killed 79 people. German special forces recently had him in their sights in Afghanistan. But he escaped capture by the elite KSK troops and the German government will only let their soldiers fire in self-defence.”
- Military.com, 5/20/08
OVER-LAWYERING OF WAR CONTINUES
“Most NATO forces have approximately the same rules of engagement. . . . Thus, no matter who is escaping and how certain one is of the identity of the enemy, if no weapon is being brandished, no shot can be taken. The Taliban commander lives to kill U.S. or NATO warriors yet another day, and lawcraft wins again over against the proper conduct of war.”
- Herschel Smith, The Captain’s Journal, 5/21/08
GOP LAGS IN MONEY CHASE
“Five months before Election Day, Republicans up and down the ballot face a growing financial crisis. Aside from the GOP’s political disadvantages, the latest campaign-finance numbers show Democrats with a massive cash edge.”
- Reid Wilson of RealClearPolitics.com, 5/22/08
GOP MASSACRE ON HORIZON
“While Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hangs in there, locked in a tough race with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the Republican undercard is facing obliteration in the 2008 general elections for the Senate. Polling suggests that a massacre may be in the offing - and one that’s possibly even greater than the worst of previous GOP years: 1958, 1964, 1974, 1986 and 2006.
“…In the House, the incredible three Democratic bi-election victories, combined with the retirements of so many Republican incumbents, indicates that the GOP may be facing disaster there as well. This is not a good year to be a Republican.”
- Columnist Dick Morris
LP RISING
“Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia and former Democratic Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska are among those actively seeking the nomination at the Libertarian Party convention, which begins today in Denver. The fact that such well-known, former establishment figures would seek a fringe party’s presidential nomination demonstrates to many libertarians that their party has come of age. It’s also created fear in Republican ranks that a viable LP candidate could throw a close election to the Democrats.”
- Columnist Bruce Bartlett
STUPID IS AS TENNESSEE DOES
“It has come to pass that the State of Tennessee has officially invalidated the high school diplomas of thousands of home-schooled Tennessee kids, at least where it concerns their eligibility to apply for the positions of fireman, police officer, state government employee, even daycare worker — any government job or government controlled position that the state regulates is covered.
“…(O)ne has to wonder why the State of Tennessee would rather accept the least educated kids of the State to become policemen, firemen and daycare workers? Does Tennessee really want to promote the more stupid above its best and brightest? Apparently it does.”
- Blogger Warner Todd Huston, 5/21/08
THE UNION LABEL
Amazingly, the International Union of Security, Police and Fire Professionals doesn’t see a problem with allowing a man accused of stalking his girlfriend and has compared employers to terrorists to act as an official organizer in Nevada at the MGM Mirage. It does not speak well of the union to work with such a nut as Steve Maritas, but they are doing so nonetheless.
Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
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