The Devil Went Down to Australia

Clashes have broken out on the streets of Sydney between police and anti-war campaigners protesting against the visit of US Vice-President Dick Cheney.

It’s nice to see that Americans aren’t the only ones who disapprove of the Puppet-master.

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Meet the Press for Idiots

Hilarious clip from last Thursday’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Check it out.

Forget Cartoons…

…It’s Saturday morning and the Senate is in session. Time for some C-SPAN lovin’, I love C-SPAN, it has drama, action, suspense, and comedy; this is my soap opera.

Hutchinson needs to brush up on her history. She claims that this is the first time we’ve fought an enemy that was willing to blow themselves up in order to harm U.S. soldiers. Hmm…I seem to remember in high school learning about Japanese kamikaze pilots and booby trapped Vietcong.

Schumer gave a good speech saying that this is not the end but, the beginning. If anyone from New York should be running for President, it’s Schumer. He was followed by Biden, who basically echoed his sentiments. I support Edwards for President but, I think Biden is dead-on when it comes to Iraq. The country needs to be split up into three states. It’s the only way that any magnitude of stability will ever be brought to that region. I’ll be in Heaven if the Democratic ticket for ’08 is Edwards/Biden.

Byrd was also fun to watch. He scares me when he gets fired up. I thought he was going have a heart-attack at one point. I used to think the people of West Virginia were a bit loony for keeping him in office but, he has a certain “je ne sais quoi” old schooliness to him. It’s a shame that age is getting the better of him.

I wish people would stop saying that this resolution will embolden the enemy and destroy the moral of U.S. troops. It’s simply not the case, in my mind. I don’t think Iraqi insurgents put that much stock into what the U.S. Congress does. If anything is going to embolden them, it’s plopping 20,000 additional targets down in front of them. As for the destroying the moral of U.S. troops, give me a break. Give the troops some credit here, they aren’t stupid, don’t treat them as such. Their moral won’t be decimated by a debate on the floor of Congress.

In case you missed it, the House yesterday passed their nonbinding resolution at 246-182. The Senate is currently voting on whether to move to vote. Hopefully they cut to the chase and get on with the vote.

Happy Birthday Krazy Kim!

The Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army is a whopping 66 years old today. Just think, if you start dismantling your nuclear weapons program now, by this time next year you’ll be able to celebrate your 67th birthday with all those Western luxury goods you love so much.

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Waking Up In The Bushes

For the second day in a row, I woke up to sweet sound of President Bush’s voice blaring out of my television. While he wasn’t as humorous as yesterday but, he was more informative. He opened by talking about how all humans are equal and deserve to live in peace (he forgot to mention his “unless of course they’re homosexual” view). Mostly, though, he talked about Afghanistan, which is nice to hear. I think people tend to forget that we have forces over there, as that theatre is usually overshadowed by the Iraqi theatre. He touted many of the successes of the Afghan War but, neglected to mention any of the failures. I guess he really doesn’t need to point out the failures, that’s why we have the media.

Key things that he brought up were:

• Increasing funding of the war in Afghanistan by $11.8 billion over the next two years
• Extending the tours of 3,200 US troops by four months and keeping troop levels escalated
• Increasing the size of the Afghan army to 70,000 strong

It is also worthy to note that Britian is planning to deploy 5,000 troops to southern Afghanistan. All in all, it seems like the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is going a lot better than the war in Iraq.