Slog - Comments on The Morning News

Comment by tsm

tsm — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:14:11 -0800

Why has no one brought up Richard Conlin's proposal to legalize pygmy goats in the city limits? I'd have thought ECB would already have penned two posts ranting about how YOUR GOAT DOES NOT BELONG IN THE CITY LIMITS already.

Comment by Original Andrew

Original Andrew — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:37:07 -0800

Someone's killing all the Republicans:

"Ohio Rep. Paul Gillmor, a Republican whose political career covered four decades, has died, party officials said.

'His sudden passing is a shock to us all...,' Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted said in a statement."

Isn't "sudden passing" Republican code for "he died from heavy assf**king?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_go_co/ohio_congressman;_ylt=A9G_RzsR9t5GSTEBHg.s0NUE

Comment by ECB

ECB — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:02:08 -0800

Hey No. 1: It gets a mention in my column this week. Personally, I like goats, but I'd rather have chickens.

Comment by butterw

butterw — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:01:37 -0800

Of course March is "about right" for troop reductions. This allows Bush to wrap up
the Iraq war just before the election, knocking out the legs of any Democrat campaign based largely on the Iraq issue.
See Nixon-McGovern 1972.

If Bush got out now:

nobody would remember by Nov 2008;

Haliburton et al would lose precious revenue.

Comment by Original Andrew

Original Andrew — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:18:00 -0800

butterw @ 4,

The whole "troop reduction" ploy is just another propagandist red herring that they announce every six months.

Note that Petraeus and Bush said the reductions could (but won't) occur in March 2008, exactly one Friedman Unit.

Comment by Cascadian

Cascadian — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:22:19 -0800

I'm not normally one to be alarmed by the EU bureaucracy, but this comment from the BBC article bothers me:

"The understanding and the readiness with which the vast majority of our citizens have accepted this measure and the inconvenience it brings are the best proof that they consider it to be adequate and necessary," EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot said.

So, institute an alarmist measure that people can't complain about in airports without getting hassled and possibly arrested, and then use the lack of complaints to claim the policy is a success? It's almost Kafkaesque.