"Small things loom large in tiny minds."

Today's Econ 101 Chapter

"But despite self-righteous accusations leveled at foreigners by the likes of Senators Schumer and Graham, the fact remains that U.S. government indebtedness is not caused by foreigners buying Uncle Sam's bonds, but by Congress spending beyond its means. If government debt is a problem, then Congress should stop borrowing. Complaints about the trade deficit are a red herring.

We Americans have many real problems confronting us. The trade deficit isn't one of them."

INDISPUTABLE PROOF OF LUNACY: "Death to Denmark." Yes, and we need a scientific study of whether the Holocaust actually happened. By Iranian nutballs. No wonder even Chirac is reconsidering appeasement...

"The Times NYeT, however, has no interest in critiquing the performance of Democrats in Louisiana."

Well, There You Have It Then

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"But the government message to the headmen was really we cannot protect you and you will have to look out for yourselves though we will never officially admit it. As I said, I've heard this speech before but never expected to hear it spoken in the heart of Europe."

Finally, an answer to the inexplicable failure of the Rotary Club to pentrate Hamas...

Apres moi, le deluge. Mandat grand.

Are You ShrinkWrapped?

"My speculation is that the Administration knows that much of Saddam's WMD ended up in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and in the dessert in Syria. The race is on to attain regime change in Syria before the Israelis (or Americans) feel compelled to act. Finding proof of WMD in Iraq, moved to Syria prior to the invasion of Iraq, will force the West vs. Iran/Syria confrontation to ratchet upwards which is why the administration is not eager to translate all the documents found in Baghdad. The Democrats have no interest in the papers either since they have staked their party's position on "Bush lied" and the post-war intel could blow that meme to shreds along with the last vestiges of authority of the Democratic left.

At the same time, the Cartoon War is a diversionary tactic being used by the Iranians and the Syrians to keep European attention focused away from the Iranian Nuclear weapons program and the Syrian/Iraqi WMD. It is also a warning shot over the bow, letting the Europeans know that any move by Israel and/or America to deal with Syria (doubtful) or Iran (more likely) militarily will be met with violence in the streets of Europe. And, while there has been minimal mention of this in the MSM, Hezbollah on the northern Israeli frontier and Hamas, from Gaza and the West Bank, have been escalating their attacks against Israel in conjunction with their "spontaneous" riots against European embassies.

In some ways, this all looks like a high stakes game of chicken, with an explosive confrontation approaching quickly. "

"It was a battle of Kuwait, not a war of Kuwait."

"Do burqas come in sizes?"

Will the imams execute themselves? I'm guessing not...

A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHINESE VIEW FROM STRATEGY PAGE: "February 7, 2006: Chinese views, among the national leadership, are often not the same as those we attribute to them. For example, India is not perceived as a major rival, unlike Japan or the U.S., They don’t believe war with the US is likely, unless we mess with Taiwan. They believe the experience in Bosnia and Kosovo indicate America understands “political warfare” much better than China does. And they don’t seem to think we’re “bogged down” in Iraq so much as that we’re gaining valuable combat experience (maybe a million “seasoned” troops by the time it’s over) as well as learning all sorts of new tricks in how to fight insurgencies, and how to use new military technologies.

The problem is that the Chinese leadership, in self-defense, have been using nationalism, and “big-bad-America” to distract the people from the corruption and other failings of the government. Don’t confuse the propaganda and hype with what the leadership really believe, and talk about among themselves."

I'm more Chinese than I look...

"YOU NO LONGER LIVE BITCHES!"

"But then, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition. It always comes as a surprise, which, as is well known, is its main weapon."

"The Contract with Al Qaeda". That hurts... (HT Power Line)

Busted!!!! (HT Michelle)

Walid has the best update today: how the "offensive cartoons" became the "cartoon offensive". Yes. And did I forget to mention Denmark becomes the chair of the UNSC?

(Tinfoil) Apocalypse on deck?

Piglet invites you artists to get creative...

Stands without comment of course...

Ah, yes. It would be the Danes for $400 that will have the UNSC chair for the upcoming stern toothless treatment of Iran... And you thought the lunatics weren't logical?

I guess the Neo-Syndicalists will want to impeach the Supreme Court next...

Seems About Right To Me

""It is very clear: Anyone who insults the Prophet must be beheaded. Remember van Gogh?" he said, referring to the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was murdered in 2004 for his controversial film about Islam.

"Whoever did it, bless him. Islam is peace but you see there will only be peace when Islam is implemented across the world. In the Prophet's time anyone who insulted the Prophet was beheaded. The same should happen now.""

Well, assuming I was a psychotic madman that is...

Glenn points out yet more supression of free speech in the South. South Korea that is. This is truly stunning. We need to invite "Yoduk Story" to America. Count me in.

"One day the British foreign secretary will wake up and discover that, in practice, there's very little difference between living under Exquisitely Refined Multicultural Sensitivity and Sharia. As a famously sensitive Dane once put it, "To be or not to be, that is the question.""

Warren is rolling: "Democracy is not just voting. Democracy is a whole bourgeois way of life, and a method for resolving disputes peacefully. It is not essentially compatible with millenarian religious schemes. We ask, “Can Islam and democracy co-exist?” What if Hamas has given us the answer?"

And again: "What I fear may hit us in due course might be awkwardly called, “the new democratic pan-Islamism"."

You won't find me quoting Juan Williams every day but: "...I pray that I don't say anything offensive to Muslims here this morning, but I gotta say it looks to me like evidence of a very weak religion when people somehow can't stand a cartoon." Keep it up Juan. You might just join the land of the sentient yet...

"Let a few more small nations succumb and someday a United States Supreme Court Justice might cite such behavior as a precedent in a decision."