The most disturbing aspect of this latestrevelation is the possibility that there are articles in the National Archives that may have spent time in Sandy Berger’s pants.

Please make your way to one of the officially designated Free Speech Zones. Security will be searching bags. Alcoholic bevarages, weapons and wirecutters expressly forbidden.

Courtesy: Democratic National Convention
hat tip = Drudgereport

Sometimes, one has to stand back in awe at the eloquence that defines statesmanship.

Yes, I think there should be less violence and less sex. And when I talked about the heart and soul, I’m talking about the artistic expression. I’m talking about sort of the, I mean, I believe in the arts. I think that there’s a great expression in it, and there’s always this struggle. You know, does life imitate art or art imitate life? Which comes first? It’s a little of both.
I do think we have a responsibility, as leaders, to stand up. I think there were people at that, at that concert we had in New York who stepped over the line. I’ve said that. They don’t speak for me. They speak for themselves. I will stand up and struggle, as others have, to try to get that right balance between violence, and sex, and things.

Crossposted at Shotgun

You remember Joe Wilson, don’t you?

“If they were referring to Niger when they were referring to uranium sales from Africa to Iraq, … that information was erroneous and … they knew about it well ahead of both the publication of the British white paper and the president’s State of the Union address,”

In the same report of CIA failures over WMD intelligence in Iraq monopolizing the airwaves in the past few hours, there exists this virtually unreported tidbit. Via Instapundit;

WASHINGTON – A Senate report criticizing false CIA claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction at the same time provides support for an assertion the White House repudiated: that Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa.
A Friday report from the Senate Intelligence Committee offers new details supporting the claim.
French and British intelligence separately told the United States about possible Iraqi attempts to buy uranium in the African nation of Niger, the report said. The report from France is significant not only because Paris opposed the Iraq war but also because Niger is a former French colony and French companies control uranium production there.
Joseph Wilson, a retired U.S. diplomat the CIA sent to investigate the Niger story, also found evidence of Iraqi contacts with Nigerien officials, the report said.[emphasis mine – ed]

WaPo

Former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, dispatched by the CIA in February 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq sought to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program with uranium from Africa, was specifically recommended for the mission by his wife, a CIA employee, contrary to what he has said publicly.

The same Joe Wilson who was just a few months ago, cruising the talk show circuit, gracing the cover of Vanity Fair and penning op-eds, after Robert Novak publicized his wife’s name in what has become known as the “Plame Affair”.

When a reporter noted that Edwards was being described as “charming, engaging, a nimble campaigner, a populist and even sexy” and then asked “How does he stack up against Dick Cheney?” the president immediately responded, “Dick Cheney�can be president. Next?”

Now, check out how Associated Press reporter Tom Raum spins the exchange;

President Bush on Wednesday curtly dismissed freshman Sen. John Edwards’ credentials to be vice president while Democratic challenger John Kerry and his running mate rallied voters in battleground states. “Dick Cheney can be president,” Bush declared, and Kerry suggested that was part of the problem.

hat tip- Vodkapundit

Personally, I rather like the idea of turning him over to the Iraqi courts. After all, they have reinstated the death penalty. What better end for the lowest of the low?
No, I’m not talking about Saddam.

Globe and Mail, June 17th;

A mother who pleaded guilty to locking her two adopted sons in cages for 13 years when they were not in school and forcing them to wear diapers as teenagers begged for leniency yesterday.
“Please have mercy on us,” she asked in a letter to the judge who is to sentence her and her husband.
“I’m so very sorry, as is my husband,” says the letter, read out in court by her lawyer, Alexander Sosna.
[…]
The horrors they endured at the couple’s farmhouse in Blackstock, near Port Perry, were uncovered when three family members contacted the children’s aid society. Police and child-welfare workers descended on the family home on June 4, 2001.
They found a 15-year-old boy curled up in a cage fashioned from a baby’s crib. The cage was strapped to the wall and padlocked.
His brother, then 14, walked out from a room that contained a second cage.
The boys told a horrific story of being beaten, forced to sleep in the cages, often given only buttered bread for dinner, of eating their feces to avoid being punished for having an accident and of drinking their urine when deprived of water.

This morning they were sentenced to 9 months. Under Canada’s system, convicted serve no more than two thirds, so they’ll be out in six.
BobTarantino:

Nine months. Lock children in cages, beat them, subject them to anal probes, instill them with such terror that they need to eat their own discharge and the worst that will happen to you is a nine month sentence. Oh, and the judge will admonish you for having “failed” as parents; sort of like not having signed them up for, I don’t know, piano lessons.

Theresa Zolner, at Heart of Canada is rethinking Miram Bedard;

CTV – Police in Nova Scotia have discovered 83 kilograms of cocaine on a ship that is owned by Prime Minister Paul Martin’s sons and named after Martin’s wife. […]

Michel Proulx of the Canada Border Services Agency says the drug seizure is a remarkable find and adds that organized crime groups often exploit legitimate companies to transport illegal goods.

This has Michael Moore documentary written all over it, don’t you think? I mean, I’m just asking the question.
Parked at OTB.

Tim Blair notices;

Produced in association with SBS Independent and CBC Newsworld. Produced with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry. Produced with the financial participation of The Government of Canada, Canadian Film or Video, Production Tax Credit Program And with the assistance of The Government of Ontario, The Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit. Developed in association with Film Australia and the Australian Film Commission. Developed and produced with the assistance from The New South Wales Film and Television Office.

That’s right, folks. Our tax dollars are at work funding Australian documentaries about anti-war activists.
Nominated for the Palm D’moron.

Canadian Crime Safety Tips:
Tip #5 : Safety in numbers – to protect oneself from risk, always travel in groups.

It’s a poorly kept secret that the left-wing, labour oriented New Democrats governing Saskatchewan are hostile to the United States.
They parrot the “friends and most important trading partner” line, but they really don’t believe it. The NDP are socialists to the core – suspicious and antagonistic towards the US. Nor are they afraid to sacrifice the economic interests of residents of border constituencies to make their point. After all, it’s not like the southern rural areas are NDP strongholds.
What evidence is there for this? As I do nearly every year, over the past few weeks I’ve made road trips to North Dakota and Montana. Despite the fact that these border states are as sparsely populated as our own province, particularly near the Canada-US border, the American roads are well maintained – this is typical.

It must come as a shock to American residents when they cross into Canada.

This is what the last 50 miles looks like on those highways on the Saskatchewan side of the border leading to the ports of Northgate, Monchy and Climax. With broken pavement, huge potholes (never ignore a red hiway surface warning marker in this province) and eroding shoulders, these highways are in dangerous condition. According to border agents, there are American tourists who turn around after a few miles. Who can blame them?

What they don’t know is that all of these highways improve dramatically, for no identifiable reason, around 50 miles into the province.

Via my my favorite blog in the world this little story on environmental protection run amuck…

[T]he LeSatzes aren’t able to build their own riding arena. The only decent site on their property in southeastern Wyoming lies within 300 feet of Chugwater Creek, and building there is far too expensive because of Endangered Species Act restrictions intended to protect the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse.
“The mouse that doesn’t exist,” Amy LeSatz noted drily.
After six years of regulations and restrictions that have cost builders, local governments and landowners on the western fringe of the Great Plains as much as $100 million by some estimates, new research suggests the Preble’s mouse in fact never existed. It instead seems to be genetically identical to one of its cousins, the Bear Lodge meadow jumping mouse, which is considered common enough not to need protection.

Flashback Saskatchewan Highways fined for fishless habitat destruction.

Via Drudgereport;

Two Australian men may be prosecuted after they chewed live mice and bit off their tails as part of a pub competition to win a holiday.
The RSPCA called the incident “outrageous” and said it would seek the maximum penalty against the men.
RSPCA chief inspector Byron Hall said they could face two years in prison and fines of A$75,000 (US$52,050).

Mr. Hall added that the RSPCA is also tracking down unconfirmed reports of mouse-chewing involving cats.