Day: May 10, 2006

Contrary to public reports, rumor has it that Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones may never play guitar again.

Doctors fear the worse for the Rolling Stones guitarist who underwent a second brain operation last night (05/09/06) following his dramatic 15ft fall from a coconut tree.

A source revealed to Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “Everyone is worried sick. This is serious.”

Doctors carried out emergency surgery remove a piece of skull after the rocker suffered what medical experts described as a “complete midline shift”, meaning one part of his brain was collapsing on the other, causing dangerous swelling.

Wife Patti Hansen has been anxiously waiting by the star’s bedside in Auckland, New Zealand, with his two children by Anita Pallenburg, Marlon and Angela.

Last week, doctors drilled a hole into the 62-year-old’s skull to relieve a brain haemorrhage caused by the fall which took place during his holiday at Fiji’s exclusive Wakaya Club resort.

Initial reports suggested Richards was recovering well but he soon started suffering from blackouts and now medics fear he may be brain damaged or partly paralysed putting an end to his rock ‘n’ roll performing days.

A spokesman said: “The band are very concerned. It is obvious he is going to need a lot of time to recover.”

The rockers were scheduled to perform in Barcelona on May 27 but bandmates Mike Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts have decided to postpone the show until June.

Here’s hopin’ that things turn around and Keith recovers. After all, how can a man who has spent 40+ years ingesting every chemical substance known the world over while drinking fifth after fifth of Absolut really be silenced from something as innocuous as a coconut tree?

I mean come on! Look at him. This man is gonna live forever!

h/t FemaleFirst

UPDATE: Good news. Richards reportedly discharged from hospital. Will remain in Wellington as an outpatient.

The blogosphere is up in arms over an article published yesterday in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin about the U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman Patrols. The story, if completely true, is disturbing. It demands further investigation. It demands a response by the president. Hopefully, all this will happen soon and questions will be answered. I’m going to refrain from making up my mind on the whole thing pending further information. I’m not going to go where other bloggers have gone. La Shawn Barber asks “Should George Bush Be Impeached?”, and she’s gone so far as to draft articles of impeachment. Confederate Yankee echoes the call. Bill Quick turned on Bush long before the Daily Bulletin story came out.

Democrats and most modern day liberals, still smarting from the impeachment of Bill Clinton, have been calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush ever since he was elected in 2000. By associating the word impeachment with every allegation made against this president and his administration, the left has cheapened the act. Our founding fathers ensured that the process would be extremely difficult, so as to prevent the removal of a leader for being accused of nothing more than trivial matters of disagreement. Unfortunately, bloggers on the right are now tossing around the word as recklessly as their counterparts on the left. Perhaps their clarion call is nothing more than a competitive attempt to increase their Site Meter stats? In all seriousness, I’m calling for all right sided bloggers to restrain themselves (for now). Let’s get the facts straight before we summon the hangman. 

Calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush right now, today, is irresponsible and wrong. It’s premature. Conservatives have plenty of valid reasons to be upset with the president, his administration and the GOP majority. Let’s discuss those issues and press for answers. But let’s not join arm in arm with the left and carelessly call for the head of our president. Impeachment is too great a consequence to be taken so lightly.

MORE: Malkin

A broken bureaucracy with a human rights council made up of thugs ushers in their newest member, Cuba, that shining city upon a hill whose beacon of light guides freedom-loving people everywhere.

Actually, I like Publius Pundit’s characterization.

Cuba is the biggest human rights violator in the hemisphere. It is one of the few tyrannies in the world that refuses its citizens the right to leave, effectively turning it into an island prison. It has one of the world’s highest suicide rates. Its locals without party connections get no health care, and in fact are denied education if their parents are dissidents. Its residents are not allowed to keep dollar remittances sent by relatives, and instead must accept vile Cuban pesos at rates determined by Castro. Its dissidents are tortured, imprisoned and beaten. It is one of the most horrible places on the face of the earth. Its residents brave shark-infested waters to reach someplace, any place, where they can at long last breathe free air.

The United Nations is a joke.

Did you know that Saddam Hussein is a victim of ‘Sectarian Persecution’? His moonbat lawyer, former U.S. attorney general under Lyndon Johnson Ramsey Clark says so, and is calling for the abolition of the tribunal hearing the case.

Riiiiiight…

“The U.S. is using the Iraqi Special Tribunal to vindicate its invasion and validate its occupation,” said Clark. “The trial is clearly the planned continuation of the essentially unilateral war of aggression waged by the Bush administration against Iraq.

“The trial of President Saddam Hussein and other officials of his administration and political party by the Iraq Special Tribunal is a direct threat to international law, the United Nations, universal human rights and world peace,” Clark added.

Clark’s opinion wasn’t changed by his discussions with Saddam. Nope, he’s been an anti-war leftist for a long, long time.

And the man is clearly insane, along with his buddy Saddam. What a perfect match.