It was translated and Busby replied: "Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you can all help. You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help." Bilbray said at worst, Busby was encouraging someone to vote illegally. At best, she was encouraging someone who is illegally in the country to work on her campaign. "She's soliciting illegal aliens to campaign for her and it's on tape - this isn't exactly what you call the pinnacle of ethical campaign strategy," Bilbray said. "I don't know how she shows her face."

So what is it that Beinart really wants from antiwar liberals? .... we need to engage more energetically with the war on terror and criticize illiberal regimes more harshly. ....I think Beinart is exactly right. For example, should I be more vocal in denouncing Iran? Sure. ..... Of course I should speak out against them. ...I know perfectly well that criticism of Iran is not just criticism of Iran. ..... it also provides support for the Bush administration's determined and deliberate effort to whip up enthusiasm for a military strike. .. So what to do? For the most part, I end up saying very little. And Beinart is right: there's a sense in which that betrays my own liberal ideals. But he's also wrong, because like it or not, my words -- and those of other liberals -- would end up being used to advance George Bush's distinctly illiberal ends. And I'm simply not willing to be a pawn in the Bush administration's latest marketing campaign.

The government will demand an apology and compensation, the spokesman said.

Translation. The government knows we are right but must do something to save face.

It isn't about the safety of the country, but about politics.

The chain of events began two years ago, sparked by local teenagers roving through Internet sites, reading and espousing anti-Western sentiments and vowing to attack at home, in the name of oppressed Muslims here and abroad.

Toward the end, a man in the audience asked in Spanish: "I want to help, but I don't have papers." Now, it's not even clear what the man meant,

....but I don't have papers."

...I know perfectly well that criticism of Iran is not just criticism of Iran. ..... it also provides support for the Bush administration's determined and deliberate effort to whip up enthusiasm for a military strike. ..

It's simply amazing how the entire left side of the blogosphere is studiously ignoring the news about the terror raids - London and Toronto, with links to people in Georgia.

NASHVILLE -- FBI hazardous material experts searched a home where police found pipe bombs and a jar containing the potentially deadly poison ricin, federal agents said Friday.

His suggestions for securing the U.S.-Mexico border went beyond walls to include moats, fiery moats and fiery moats with fire-proof crocodiles. He added that the border with Canada also has to be secure so Canadians cannot bring their "skunky beer" into the country. He backed English as the official language of the United States -- "God wrote (the Bible) in English for a reason: So it could be taught in our public schools."

   Who is crazy enough to increase their dollar-holdings when most analysts are predicting a loss in value?

Perhaps because the left rarely engages in speculation, thereby allowing law enforcement to do their job

Sky-Ho and Squeaky - Which one of you guys actually served???

You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help."

Come on Dadler, you're better than what the Left is doing to you.

For some strange reason, a relatively full text of important speeches given by world leaders is almost never provided to the public by any US media in English. I doubt there are even a handful of speeches easily accessible in English by Spanish President Zapatero, e.g. I cannot entirely explain this strange phenomenon, of the coccooned and almost deliberately ignorant approach to the world of the US corporate media and their audience. The odd thing is that the American public pays tax dollars so that the Open Source Center of the USG can translate such primary texts. They are, however, not made freely available,

Hope you have some good fishing.

"The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans 'humiliating and degrading treatment,' according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards. [...]

SWEETIE. Some of it would drive you melancholy mad. It only got me into trouble: it did. The chaplain asked me what I was in for. Spoiling the Egyptians, I says; and heres chapter and verse for it. He went and reported me, the swine; and I lost seven days remission for it. THE SERGEANT. Serve you right! I dont hold with spoiling the Egyptians. Before the war, spoiling the Egyptians was something holy. Now I see plainly it's nothing but thieving. SWEETIE [shocked] Oh, you shouldnt say that. But what I say is, if Moses might do it why maynt I? THE SERGEANT. If thats the effect it had on your mind, it's a bad effect. Some of this scripture is all right. Do justice; love mercy; and walk humbly before your God. That appeals to a man if only it could be set out in plain army regulations. But all this thieving, and slaughtering your enemies without giving quarter, and offering up human sacrifices, and thinking you can do what you like to other people because youre the chosen people of God, and you are in the right and everyone else is in the wrong: how does that look when you have had four years of the real thing instead of merely reading about it. No: damn it, we're civilized men; and though it may have gone down with those old Jews it isnt religion. And, if it isnt, where are we? Thats what I want to know.

I heard O'Reilly talk about Malmedy and what he actually said was something like: " You can bet some Germans were shot rather than taken prisoner after Malmedy"

It was translated and Busby replied: "Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you can all help. You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help."

I heard him on the radio and I am positive he was talking about retaliation for Malmedy.

Incredibly, according to this synopsis of a book on Malmedy, the man who pushed for the vindication of the Nazis was an anti-semite who, as a Southerner, identified with and felt sympathy for the humiliation the defeated Nazis suffered. Communists murdered the last Nazi implicated in the massacre. The "plight" of the Nazis, so similar to the "plight" of the white South in 1865. O'Reilly knew exactly what he was tapping into. Boy, did he ever.