ACTIVISTS LAUNCH HACK ATTACKS ON IRAN REGIME.
And yes, I’ve taken the site “green” for a day as a small show of support for the protesters in Iran. No, it won’t make much of a difference, but nothing I do will make much of a difference. And if it causes John Cole to sneer, well, that’s nothing new around here, anyway . . . .
UPDATE: Lots of Iran news and video over at the Berman Post.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Michael Moynihan: From the Streets of Tehran.
DAVID LETTERMAN APOLOGIZES TO SARAH PALIN AGAIN. And this time it’s kinda real.
I credit the righteous anger of AlfonZo Rachel. Or maybe Dr. Socks.
So now Will Bill Maher apologize, too?
And Cynthia Yockey says, “Too little, too late — fire David Letterman.”
FEMINIST LAW PROFESSORS: DOMA Is Not Neutral, Mr. President. “DOMA takes a clear side in the marriage debate. Now in supporting DOMA, President Obama has taken a side — the side he previously called ‘abhorrent.'” Why doesn’t Obama ask Congress to repeal it? Surely he’s got the votes, if he really cares. Or has he just changed his mind?
FEH, THIS IS NOTHING NEW FOR YGLESIAS. Years ago he was calling me a Nazi, based on an (imagined) campaign to get readers to deface New York Times paperboxes. (Here’s the post that inspired that flight of fantasy.) Perhaps Andrew Sullivan can give him a Malkin award, or something.
Then there’s the highly mature “Fuck you, Glenn,” post. But he was young, then.
SPEED OF IRAN VOTE COUNT called suspicious. “How do you count almost 40 million handwritten paper ballots in a matter of hours and declare a winner? That’s a key question in Iran’s disputed presidential election. International polling experts and Iran analysts said the speed of the vote count, coupled with a lack of detailed election data normally released by officials, was fueling suspicion around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide victory.”
PRAISE FOR ANDREW SULLIVAN: Reader John Lynch writes: ‘He’s doing a good job on the Iranian uprising. This is a big story and Sully is on the right side of it.” That’s true. I understand that he had a DDOS attack today, too, which is surely a sign that the mullahs don’t like it.
ANOTHER NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM THAT DOESN’T WORK: PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care needs unmet.
CROW AGENCY, Mont. – Ta’Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.
When Stephanie Little Light took her daughter to the Indian Health Service clinic in this wind-swept and remote corner of Montana, they told her the 5-year-old was depressed.
Ta’Shon’s pain rapidly worsened and she visited the clinic about 10 more times over several months before her lung collapsed and she was airlifted to a children’s hospital in Denver. There she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, confirming the suspicions of family members. . . . On some reservations, the oft-quoted refrain is “don’t get sick after June,” when the federal dollars run out.
This is what Obama wants for your family — or, at least, it’s what he’ll deliver in the end. Fix this — and Medicare — first!
UPDATE: Reader Col. Douglas Mortimer writes: “I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, everything on an Indian reservation is run by a government – either tribal or federal. And everything there is pretty much always a f*cking disaster.”
Prophetic words from a brave man. Like the song says, They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.
IN AN UPDATE, SOME ADVICE TO REPUBLICANS FROM STACY MCCAIN:
Go back to that Frank Rich column I ignored Sunday morning. Everybody in the news business gets e-mails from cranks. Shep Smith reaches a television viewership of a million or so, and gets crank e-mails, whiich he mentions in relation to the Holocaust Museum shooting. This, says Frank Rich, is the smoking gun proving that Republican “Obama haters” have blood on their hands.
Well, no, it doesn’t. Here’s a little clue for the clueless: The Holocaust Museum shooter used to send crazy letters and e-mails to The Washington Times when I worked there. He probably sent the same kind of crap to lots of publications. That’s what crackpots do. It has nothing to do with the Republican Party.
In the current political climate, the liberal media have some kind of Bush = Nixon = Hitler formulation in their minds that justifies them saying anything they want about Republicans. And do you know who I blame for that? Republicans.
The GOP’s media operations are third-rate. Cynthia Yockey is running a one-woman campaign against Letterman. Where are the Republican Party media operatives lending her assistance and support? Nowhere.
Read the whole thing.
CLARENDON: America Sleeps While Iranians Confront Evil.
MICHAEL TOTTEN: “The Obama Administration wants to negotiate with whomever emerges the winner in Iran’s tumultuous internal struggle. I frankly doubt anything good will come from such talks, but I certainly understand why confrontation makes the president flinch. . . . Confrontation of some kind, though, is looking more likely no matter what the administration may wish. . . . It takes two to negotiate, and not once since the 1979 revolution has the Iranian regime been willing to begin serious negotiations with the United States. The Obama Administration might want to consider a backup plan right about now.”
He’s blogging the Iranian elections over at Commentary — go here and keep scrolling.
MICKEY KAUS: Let the Boomers Die, II.
“HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS” protest Ahmadinejad in Tehran.
UPDATE: State Department refuses to condemn Iranian crackdown. “You’ll also be pleased to know that, according to no less than the New York Times, Obama didn’t bother holding any meetings or conference calls about this yesterday. Remember: Health care is a ‘crisis.’ This is but a ‘situation.'”
ROBERT SAMUELSON: “It’s hard to know whether President Obama’s health-care ‘reform’ is naive, hypocritical or simply dishonest. Probably all three. The president keeps saying it’s imperative to control runaway health spending. He’s right. The trouble is that what’s being promoted as health-care ‘reform’ almost certainly won’t suppress spending and, quite probably, will do the opposite.” How about fixing Medicare first?
A BUNCH OF INTERESTING food-related links.
G.E. PERFORMANCE TELEVISION: No wonder they need a bailout now . . . .
TEA PARTIES: What comes next?
MARTIN PERETZ: Dennis Ross, Out As Special Envoy To Iran; Was He Ousted Because He’s A Jew Or A Bit Hawkish On Nukes? “To have crumbled precisely while the regime of the ayatollahs is facing a real crisis of confidence at home and something of a challenge to its legitimacy abroad is, well, just that: crumbling. It certainly does not testify to American resilience, even diplomatically.”
POLITICO: 600 Protest Pelosi in Houston. From the comments: “A solitary Cindy Sheehan shows up and is outnumbered 300 to one by reporters. 600 show up to protest Pelosi and outside of [a] few venues the media ignores it.” Credit Politico for not doing so. Video at the link.
DAVID BERNSTEIN: “I’ve always wondered how the Ivy elite went so quickly from a bastion of self-confident, privileged WASP elitism to the opposite extreme of celebrating victimhood. Regardless, it’s a unique way to run a foreign policy.”
SHOULD WE RECRUIT LAW PROFESSORS with plastic-surgery incentives? Many students would probably say “yes, please!” Best line from the story: “The incentive, Mr. Schweitzer added, had proven to be far more popular than the free German lessons.”
ROGER SIMON IS HARSH: Iran: NYT’s Roger Cohen is the new Walter Duranty.
SHOULD WE BE WORRYING ABOUT INFLATION? With a troubling chart of money-supply growth.
UPDATE: Foreign demand for US financial assets falls.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s a claim that there’s no need to worry about inflation in spite of the above. Hope that’s right.
MIND-READING may not be far off.
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