Via Reuters:
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Thursday harshly criticized his own country and other wealthy states for being stingy with foreign aid and said in rich countries “We really don’t give a damn.”
Oooh…he said the “D” word!
Day: April 16, 2005
Random Thought of the Day
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
Blatant Headline Manipulation
Via LGF: How’s this for ‘shaping’ the news?
“U.S. Has No Exit Strategy for Iraq, Rumsfeld Says”
That’s what screams in 32 point type from the Bloomberg website. In reality, this is what Rumsfeld said.
“We don’t have an exit strategy, we have a victory strategy,” Rumsfeld told soldiers during a surprise visit to Baghdad, according to a pooled broadcast report from the capital. “The goal is to help the Iraqi Forces develop the skills and the capacity to provide their own security.”
The editor who chose to run this story using this headline should be fired.
Posted Placard
Gotta go pick up the kids today and do other ‘Saturday’ stuff. I’ll be back later.
In Denmark (of all places)
They ‘get it’.
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark said: “We are being challenged by Islam these years – globally as well as locally. It is a challenge we have to take seriously. We have let this issue float about for too long because we are tolerant and lazy.
“We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance.”
“And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.”