That crazy Pope

Just in case you were confused, it's celibate gay priests that are the problem, not pedophiles.

British food bad, silicone breasts good!

The American Food and Drug Administration has recalled operational rations (MREs) donated by Britain to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The majority of the 400,000 rations donated by Britian, at a cost of millions of pounds, are set to be destroyed at a plant in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Note that these are the same NATO approved MREs that British soldiers are feasting on in Basra...and the USDA did the same thing to the Germans

Meanwhile, the same FDA has decided that silicone breast implants are just dandy...

Let me get this straight

So the Coalition can't pull out of Iraq until they train all the police. But then the Basra police get into a turf battle with the local militia, even though they share some personnel.

Two British SAS officers go undercover posing as insurgents, get captured and promptly delivered from the police to the militia. Then the Brits call in the calvary and stomp the whole jail, thus sparking riots throughout Basra, a "relatively safe place."

Meanwhile, the seemingly oblivious U.S. Military is claiming progress by using the same, faulty body count methodology that didn't work in Vietnam.

Can someone (besides Hitchens, who merely thinks we're not trying hard enough) explain just what exactly the f*ck is going on over there?

Do you have to go potty, Mr. President?

Photograph shows note scrawled by President Bush requesting a bathroom break during a U.N. meeting.

I guess he is just like us after all...

Say, that 'minds me...

Terminal patients euthanized in New Orleans?

Something about this story just reads like a tabloid.

With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive.

One emergency official, William 'Forest' McQueen, said: "Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die."

So when the pharmacy was under lockdown, the morphine was reserved mainly for lethal doses? When the whole hospital was becoming submerged, the terminal patients were moved to "a dark place" to die? When a patently outrageous story has been out 2 days and no MSM is covering it (not even FOXnews!) it pretty much screams hoax.

You're free to go (as soon as we win the war on evil)

Now that a Federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. can indefinitely detain citizens (without charges) in wartime, who will be next?

The United States Supreme Court declared on June 28, 2004, that "a state of war is not a blank check for the president" and that those deemed enemy combatants by the Bush administration had to be given the chance to challenge their detentions before a judge or other neutral decision-maker. -NYT 9/9/2005

The ruling by a three-judge panel limits the President's power to detain Padilla to the duration of hostilities against al Qaeda, but the Bush administration has said that war could go on indefinitely. -WP 9/9/2005

Sounds pretty close to a blank check...or at least guilty until proven innocent

No Sympathy for the Devil

"If 9/11 was Bush's Woodstock, Katrina is his Altamont -- the place where his ability to unite people behind a flurry of flag-waving came to look like the hollow sham it always was." - Tina Brown

So long little buddy

Bush takes heat on global warming, breaks wind on New Orleans

If you find the whole "global warming directly affected Katrina" argument a bit too specious, try this one:

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.