We were convinced by Brother Kesler at Democracy Project that there is a genuine legal issue about internet providers and China, and that it isn't simply a matter of commerce, but a matter of Commerce Law. He said, via email, that the law
forbids selling them the handcuffs (indeed, this is currently forbidden), the WMD technology (currently forbidden), and the other means of direct repression (Internet censoring) which is actually forbidden but Commerce has not paid attention to this "expansive" interpretation of existing law, so added interpretative legislation is needed. Otherwise, sell them food, or other items that do not further repression or further threats to West.
So will re-refer you to his two recent pieces on the subject. Scroll down and read them both.
The Loftus tapes to be released today. Should be interesting. Daily Pundit
The sickening Abu Graib tapes. I know this is 5 out of 150,000 soldiers, and I understand that they are pissed at these Jihad creeps, but this is not the American Way. Video here. What did these guys do, surrender to troops? WaPo has a piece on this.
Is Blogging done? Captain Ed looks at the numbers, and concludes that blogging is event-driven, especially election-driven. I think it's a good thing, but hardly worth the effort without thousands - at least - of daily readers...which we need here...and we will burn down a KFC shop if we don't get what we want!!! (Just kidding.)
From a piece by Max Boot on Scapegoating of the West:
The most depressing aspect of the whole cartoon affair is not the intolerance for press freedom exhibited throughout Muslim lands. It is the willingness of so many Muslims — even those who would never burn a consulate or threaten a newspaper editor — to scapegoat the West for their own failures. Muslim nations will never make any progress unless they stop focusing on the offenses, real or imagined, visited upon them by the outside world and start looking within for what ails them.
No Oil remembers the Steyn piece -well, who doesn't:
[Euro apologists] appear[] to be arguing that our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people's intolerance, which is intolerable. Thus the lop-sided valse macabre of our times: the more the Islamists step on our toes, the more we waltz them gaily round the room...
Somehow missed this one from Michelle: University of Washington student leaders:
Student senator Jill Edwards, according to minutes of the student government's meeting last week, said she "didn't believe a member of the Marine Corps was an example of the sort of person UW wanted to produce."
Ashley Miller, another senator, argued "many monuments at UW already commemorate rich white men."
Who raised these kids to be such spoiled morons?
Anti-Christian Hate. We Christians hate it. But accept it. It's been going on for two thousand years. But why is it no big deal to the media? Surely they are not all Jihadists? American Thinker.
Reason vs. Pretext for rioting and mayhem. We know it's been pretext for the Molsems. Eric makes the point well - "Another Day, Another Pretext."
Teflon causes cancer? Aw, man. I think Life causes cancer. Ya gotta die of something, right? Not gonna live forever, right?
