Wow, this really sucks

No, I mean literally.

New York City, bloodsucker capital. And here I thought it was Washington, D.C.

Another WTF? Moment

Um, so someone writes a “news” story claiming that 1/3 of the French don’t speak English.

They would be French. Oddly enough, they have a language of their very own. To paraphrase Steve Martin, they have a different word for almost everything…..

This is news? I’m guess that a much higher percentage of English speakers don’t speak French…… Frankly, I would have turned this around and reported that almost 2/3 of the French speak at least some English. That’s actually a remarkable statistic.

This is amusing

The Kelo decision was a travesty, in my humble opinion. It is a gross misuse of the power of eminent domain to take private property and give it to other private individuals. It seems fitting that one of the authors of that decision is now the target of an eminent domain land grab.

I rather doubt it will succeed, but maybe it will gather enough attention to this judicial abuse to get it overturned.

Groucho would be proud

The inmate who escaped by using the “Jailbreak Diet” has been recaptured.

The funniest part:

He was recaptured in a Sydney shopping mall Saturday disguised with a beard
drawn on his face with a pen, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

Grouch Marx made an entire career out of a drawn on mustache. But that was in the movies, not real life!

There be pirates, matey

For those who thought piracy was found only in history, here’s an item that shows it is alive and well today.

I knew it was still going on, but the press seldom reports on it these days. It’s interesting that there have been no stories up until now.

Equal opportunity scandal

I’ve posted on this before. I really think it would be wise for the Democrats to back off on the Abramoff scandal before they get caught in their own nets.

A lot of semantic gymnastics on the left will not change the fact that Democrats took tainted money directed to them by Abramoff.

Yes, they did not take direct contributions from him, which is not surprising as he was a Republican backer. But he directed his client tribes as to who to contribute to and how much. Those contributions went to Democrats (including Reid) as well as Republicans.

Worse than the scandal, though, is the left’s response as evidenced in the attacks on Deborah Howell for daring to print the truth. Their derangement will lead to damage to their own party and they cannot even see it. Willful blindness will lead to even more erosion of support for the Democrats by moderate voters.

Both parties need to clean up the lobbying mess. But the Dems are, yet again, falling into their self-made trap of grossly over-playing their hand. Led by the extreme left-wing, they are rushing, lemming-like toward another cliff. This issue will burn them again and lead to even more disillusionment among moderates.

More abuse from the NYT

Cathy Seipp has a post that explains a lot of what is wrong with the NYT and reporting in general these days. The behavior of the reporters in question shows how completely out of control the NYT is.