Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
News?
Casey Sheehan was KIA in Iraq; he has this mother, whose name I do not mention anymore because she got way too much press without any help from me. His mother either does, or does not, want to have a meeting with President Bush. As last month burned away the final days of summer, you may recall we were absoutely consumed with day-to-day coverage of this woman wanting, or not wanting, to meet the President. To this day we’re mostly unclear, in spite of the relentless coverage, whether she wanted to meet the President or not.
It is pretty well established that nothing done by this woman, or any of her supporters, will ever have an impact on our presence in Iraq or on any schedule for ending that presence. Therefore, so far as anybody knows this woman is unrelated to anything that could have an impact on me, anybody I know, or anybody or anything cared about by anybody who reads news. Certainly, she has no relationship at all to a terrorist someday bringing down a passenger jet using a shoulder-fired rocket launcher. Why, then, did the saga of Hemant Lakhani pass under our collective radar, mostly un-commented-upon throughout the summer?
He was just sentenced to nearly half-a-century in prison for his attempt to smuggle in a rocket launcher, a crime for which he was convicted this past spring. I found the story buried on Page A6 of my local paper, but this isn’t my local paper’s fault. Anyplace I find this, it gets about two inches of print, maybe a whole lot less.
He was stung, which is to say, his arrest wasn’t directly related to any actual terrorists trying to buy equipment from him. Nor does he appear to have any direct connections to Al Qaeda or any other terrorist group.
But how did he get into the get-missile-launchers-for-terrorists racket?
Are there leads involved in this arrest?
What is being done to pursue those leads?
Does Al Qaeda, or any other terrorist group, have a plot going to bring down a passenger jet with a shoulder-fired missile? Outside of classified information, what can be learned about this? What’s being done about it? Do we have nothing to worry about here? Or is it so fantastically easy to get ahold of a surface-to-air missile launcher, that it’s not worth worrying about and we’re playing Russian Roulette every time we fly a plane?
If anybody has answers to this, they’re better newshounds than I am.
I know one thing for sure…speaking for myself, I’m much more interested in this than I am in some aging-hippy war-protester using her bereaved-mother status to try and get a (second) meeting with the President. Or not trying to.
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