Street Battle in Iran

Likely one of the most compelling videos I've seen:

Battle w/ Police - Tehran, Iran - June 20th 2009
by mightier-than

Tancredo Rant

Because Tom Tancredo says that La Raza is the the Hispanic KKK, and La Raza's about the same speed as the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick ony Hispanic rather than Irish, and I guess since I attended the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick picnic in 1985 (Pete Gillen, the newly hired head coach at Xavier was there to), I, too must meet Tom Tancredo's definition of a racist.

183

How does anyone survive being waterboarded 183 times - - in one month. That's over 6 times a day, and most assuredly it wasn't with that level of consistency, I'm assuming.

I was also struck by the clinical nature of the commentary from the Bradbury report:

...where authorized, it may be used for two "sessions" per day of up to two hours. During a session, water may be applied up to six times for ten seconds or longer (but never more than 40 seconds). In a 24-hour period, a detainee may be subjected to up to twelve minutes of water appliaction....Additionally, the waterboard may be used on as many as five days during a 30-day approval period.

Thinking about those times in my life, either as a result of some foolishness underwater, or something going down the wrong pipe, experiencing just a few seconds of the panicked sensation of not being able to breathe, and then multiplying it out to the extent of what is described here is unfathomable.

Best Comment Yet on the AIG Scandal

Johnathon Turley on the Olbermann show, yesterday: "When you give billions of dollars to the Pirates of Penzance, you can hardly be suprised when they spend it on women and grog."

Things I Did Not Know

From the World Baseball Classic an interesting twist to keep things moving in the extra inning games.

Extra Innings: After 12 innings, each half inning will start with runners on first and second. - these runners will be the 8th and 9th hitters due up in that inning.

Kind of interesting. They do have pitch limits at each stages of the tournament, and mercy rule(s) as well.

Republicanistical Party

Chris Matthews lets Barney Frank top off Congressman Issa's silliness.

Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church give Baptists a Bad Name

This story on the response to Fred Phelps and the members of his questionably sane churn in Kansas City is quite inspirational, and gives hope that a new generation will reach to higher, more active level in defense tolerance.

President Obama Asks Us to Get Started...

President Obama

'Nuf Said.