LoL of the Day
“I think it’s an intelligence failure from all over the world,” -Pakistan’s Prime Minister Gilani, responding to charge that Pakistan secretly knew bin Laden was in Abbottabad. Thomas Ricks quips, …
Panties in a Wad Over “Big Boy Pants”
– Air Force Captain Michael Schwartz, military counsel for the defence of Walid bin Attash
During the arraignment hearings, this comment was drowned out by white noise when the court security officer thought classified information might be mentioned. However, upon review, The Pentagon office in charge of the military commission tribunals decided nothing compromising was revealed and released a transcript on Wednesday.
Schwartz’ “big boy pants” was a snide reference to Jose Rodriguez (who proudly linked it onto his book’s Facebook wall) and his 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl in which Rodriguez said,
Don’t Dive In The Shallow Water
We have joined the debate like adolescents cheering their favorite sport team. This debate of Gay Marriage has been manipulated to be a diversion, so that we forget the important issues: issues like our economy, the international failures of Obama, the acquisition of an American bank by China, the fact that we have no budget, Obama’s use of our military as political pawns, the fact that we have a corrupt and racist Justice Department.