Tag: misc

…I’d have twelve years on today, with eight to go.

Thomas Friedman in the Times:

Saudi donors today still constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide — not to mention the fundamentalist mosques, charities and schools that spawn the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan. So basically our oil payments are cycled through Saudi Arabia and end up funding the very militants whom our soldiers are fighting.
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America lacks leverage in the Middle East because we are addicted to oil. We are the addicts and they are the pushers, and addicts never tell the truth to their pushers

Moskos on Moskos. The old man would have loved this one!

Thank you, veterans. You all have chosen to do something I am not willing to do. That doesn’t reflect well on me.

(Though I do wish we had fewer wars and fewer veterans.)

Carolee Bildsten, 56, of the 5300 block of David Court, allegedly assaulted the officer on Tuesday evening with what Gurnee Police Cmdr. Jay Patrick called “a rigid feminine pleasure device.”

So says the the Trib.

[Thanks to Hephestos, my Koumbaros.]

Because the Chicago Police Department isn’t providing cash payments to settle out of court. Once that incentive goes away…