vs Best of the Web, Army and Michelle Malkin.
See the pictures that started it all.
Moveon loses.

Spain is selling 12 military planes to Chavez. via Barcepundit and Stratfor.

(I hadn’t heard of Stratfor before, but apparently they are “experienced executive team of intelligence experts and seasoned business leaders.” Interestingly in their story they mention Bush’s “bandwidth” 3 times. New term?)

End of tangent…..what is Spain looking to do here? Increase influence in SA by working with a guy who basically only has influence in Venezuela? I’m not thinking this makes much sense unless they see the wind shifting. I don’t believe it is, though others have disagreed with me. Good luck with that, Spain.

Talisman Gate with a post on a not so funny cartoon from the Washington Post.

On London, the Olympics, taxes a lot of things.

Also this quote which should have gone along with yesterday’s post in regards to Kyoto.

“Canada remains fully committed to its obligation to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by six per cent of its 1990 figure by 2008.

That’s great to know, isn’t it? So how’s it going so far?

Well, by the end of 2003, Canada’s greenhouse-gas emissions were up 24.2 per cent.

Meanwhile, how are things looking in the United States? As you’ll recall, in a typically “pig-headed and blinkered” (Independent) act that could lead to the entire planet becoming “uninhabitable” (Michael Meacher), “Polluter Bush” (Daily Express), “this ignorant, short-sighted and blinkered politician” (Friends of the Earth), rejected the Kyoto treaty. Yet somehow the “Toxic Texan” (everybody) has managed to outperform Canada on almost every measure of eco-virtue.”

My hero. Joe Lieberman.

“I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood–unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn”

Most people don’t have a clue how our government works. In Montreal right now, is the UN Climate Control Conference where apparently the first hours were spent dissing Bush for not signing Kyoto. via Yahoo News.
1) Clinton may have signed but Congress never did so it didn’t count anyway.
2) Bush didn’t sign because a) he knew congress wouldn’t and b) because “Economists from the Clinton White House now concede that complying with Kyoto’s mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases would be difficult – and more expensive to American consumers than they thought when they were in charge.” This change in tune from the Clintonites is part of the reason that Bush decided to reject Kyoto.

In the meantime, greenhouse gas numbers are going down in the US due to things like offshoring of industry, and new diesel emission rules implemented by Bush. (Imagine if the offshoring were due to the fact that we DID sign this treaty.)
Yet, New Zealand gets fined according to the rules of Kyoto. And it’s suggested that they even build a big dam for clean energy consumption!

The treaty is flawed, so we didn’t sign it.

Logic Times has taken the number of civilian casualties in Iraq and added some statistical analysis to come up with some amazing figures.
(via Barcepundit) Our military is incredible. I thought that before and these numbers only enhance that thought.

Excellant.

From Amarji:

“Far from being a success for Syrian diplomacy and brinksmanship, the decision reflects the helplessness of the Syrian regime and the increasing desperation of its leaders.”

Will it ever be over? David Horowitz regrets his protest years and wishes more people would have spoken up to say he needed an arse kicking.

From A Soldier’s Perspective. You have to appreciate the clarity! lol
(h/t The Right Place)