* I had to meet with some European human rights lawyers today for a project at work. Y’know… if you are purporting to represent the interest of universal human rights, wearing a keffiyah, the symbol of the PLO, probably doesn’t do a whole lot to convince others that you take the notion of *universal* human rights seriously. That, and it’s about as affected and generally stupid looking as a pot smoking long hair college sophomore wearing a Che T-shirt. Laaaaammmme.

* Vladi Putin (we have it on good authority that his soul has been visually inspected, and it’s o-tay) says the U.S. foreign policy is just like the Third Reich’s foreign policy. Why? Has Condi Rice secretly agreed with Vladi that we’ll split Poland? You see, this is the problem with the lefties calling everybody they disagree with “Hitler” and “fascist.” We should be shocked that Putin characterized the U.S. in that manner, but as Hannah Arendt noted, when you overuse terms like that, they lose their meaning.

* I see those degenerate bastards Opie and Anthony had a guy on their ’shock’ radio show today joking about how much fun it would be to rape Condoleeza Rice. I guess “nappy headed ho’s” is beyond the pale, so to speak, but joking about raping conservative women is alright. Cool and funny even. For what it’s worth, I swore off drinking Sam Adams a few years ago as a result of Opie and Anthony’s sex-in-church stunt, which was underwritten by Sam Adams’ advertising money. I worked it out at the time… I used to buy roughly $250 or $300 worth of Sam every year, a six pack every couple weeks plus a few cases here and there for parties. That money now goes to Sierra Nevada, or to my local importer of quality Belgian brews, or maybe Dogfish Head or Magic Hat. That happened in 2002. *That* stunt has cost Sam Adams between $1250 and $1500 in lost business over the last 5 years. And funny enough, I’m in the market for a new car right now, and had been considering getting XM satellite radio. If this is what I would be paying for… then screw that. I can live with CD’s and local broadcast channels for now. They don’t need my money. Nice guys… you just cost your sponsor around $400 up front, plus subscription fees for the 5 years I would have owned the car, which would have amounted to another $800. You just cost your company $1300. Ha ha ha! Funny! Ha ha ha! Hope my little $1300 practical joke on you really tickles your ribs the way your rapin’ Condi jokes tickled mine, you coarse left wing bastards. No, I don’t want them fired. I don’t want XM to do anything. Wouldn’t want to chill free speech, you know. I’ll just take my business elsewhere, thanks.

* Hey, it’s good to see the New Jersey Jihadists are already throwing around the entrapment defense. With the Department of Justice treating them like ordinary criminal defendants, the Democrats weren’t going to have anything to hang their hats on to stick up for this particular group of pre-empted terrorists. Fortunately, they are floating a narrative the Dems can latch onto… entrapment. Generally speaking, entrapment isn’t available as a defense if the suspect was predisposed. When the wanna-Jihadis went to the shooting range and fired ‘em up, shouting “Allahu Akhbar” (PBUH), prior to ever getting onto the radar of the video clerk, well, the sort of showed predisposition. Of course if the entrapment defense fails, the Dems (and CAIR, don’t forget them) can always bash the guy who called the FBI, for turning the U.S. into a McCarthyite bastion of fear mongering and Arab hatred. Yep, when a bunch of good ol’ (Muslim extremist) boys going to the range, firing AK-47’s while screaming “Allahu Akhbar” (PBUH) is enough to trigger suspicions… well, then we’ve really lost something in this country, and there’s a dark cloud, a cold chill, and uncomfortable goose bumps moving across this great land of ours. Yep, I’m not sure if I want to live in a country where clerks feel free to turn in violent Islamic Extremists… It’s like living in a fascist theocracy, really. Etc.

* Wow. I guess we really shouldn’t say anything about the Scientologists. ‘Cuz if they don’t like it, they’ll have us arrested. ‘Cuz, y’know, nobody should ever make fun of somebody else’s recently made up religion that appears to have been a joke by a hideously low quality sci fi novelist. But hey, Mitt Romney loves the Scientologists’ bible, so it can’t be all bad, right? Right? The sad thing here, is the Scientologists just opened a dossier on my for saying this, and put me on the Enemy List.

* I’m a little sad to see Tony Blair go. Granted, his creeping (nay, galloping) statism has damaged British society greatly. On the other side of the coin, the Good Friday Accords he negotiated, and his adherence to economic Thatcherism, created the conditions for peace in Northern Ireland and the initiation this week of a power sharing government there. Yes, there is hope for continued peace after The Troubles. Blair is also clear eyed about the threat of violent Islamic extremism, and has been an unstinting ally of the United States. So long as British culture recovers from the soft rot of the increasing socialism he inflicted on portions of the culture, history will judge him kindly, I believe. I’m not looking to Olde Labor attempting to reassert itself, or for that matter to the ascendancy of that feckless, short-sighted anti-American twit David Cameron. He is the Dan Quayle of British politics, if Dan was mean, and as stupid as a lot of people insist he is.