Ambassador William Burns, Nazi stooge
-Bush's Nazi Appeasement Continues-
Fresh off yesterday's news that a Bush administration official would meet with Iran, news comes out that the Bush policy of Nazi appeasement continues apace.
According to the report, "The US plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years as part of a remarkable turnaround in policy by President George Bush." That's right, in a move that's not at all hypocritical, Neville Bush plans an embassy right in the heart of Berlin -- I mean, Tehran.
Following the announcement of a meeting between US ambassador William Burns and the Islamofascist Iranians in equally appeasey Switzerland, this news must send chills down the spine of free Europe.
Seriously Poland, watch your back. (The Guardian)
-Headline of the day-
"GOP Asks Net For Advice, Paulites Answer the Call ... and Answer, and Answer."
It was only last week that the GOP opened the Republican National Committee's 2008 party platform to the public for input. The Republican party is, after all, the people's party and if you want your issue right up there next to corporate giveaways and giving fetuses Social Security numbers, then you ought to go ahead and do it.
What they didn't expect is that backers of a Republican candidate who wasn't John McCain might take them up on it and try to make that candidate's positions part of the official GOP stand on issues, but backers of this particular candidate are both obsessive and persistent.
According to the report, "Ron Paul supporters have made themselves at home on the the GOP platform site, sounding many of the themes that turned the Texas congressman's doomed run for the Republican presidential nod into an internet cause célèbre."
We're told that "pages and pages" of comments suggest the Federal Reserve be abolished, that the US return to the gold standard, and even a change in the party's position on same-sex marriage.
The problem for the GOP is, of course, that this opening of the Republican platform for public input was always bullshit. Dig a little deeper and you see that it's an attempt to avoid a platform fight at the national convention, in which devotees of the late Jesse Helms threaten to protest that the Republican platform isn't crazy, hateful, or downright mean enough.
So, sorry Paulistas, this ain't going anywhere. They'll pick the planks they were going to choose anyway and thank everyone for their input. They might even pretend it was all the "people's" idea.
But no gold and silver, no abolition of the Federal bank, no gay-friendly party positions. Nice try, though. (Wired)
-What's Japanese for "idiot?"-
It's "bakka." Japanese police are holding Ichiro Shimozaki and Kyoko Fujii for selling glowing "lucky charms" that stood a good chance of coming with a curse. According to the report, "The pair were based in Hiroshima, site of the world's first atomic attack, where they sold cellphone straps containing tritium, a radioactive substance that can be used in nuclear weapons." Why were these supposed to be lucky? They were "said to glow for more than a decade."
Of course, you've got to use an insane amount of the stuff to make a nuke -- more than Shimozaki and Fujii could possibly supplied, but the straps "contained 27 times more tritium than is allowed under the law, police said."
You'd think a couple of people from freakin' Hiroshima would be a little more leary of radiation. (AFP)
