4-5-2009

Jack Kelley: Other Western intelligence services regard the Obama administration with contempt and rising concern, an officer of the DGSE, France’s military intelligence agency, told my friend Jack Wheeler (the real life IndianaJones) last week. “All of us in our little community are worried — us, our friends in Berlin, London, Tel Aviv,” the DGSE officer told Jack. “It is not like the barbarians at the gates. It is every barbarian horde in the world being told there are no gates.”

Gird your loins: The government in Islamabad told Swat residents to flee, and more than 500,000 refugees may descend on the capital as the Army prepares to dislodge the extremists after an ill-advised truce allowed them to seize control and initiative…Pakistanis are terrified at the speed at which this government has appeared to collapse

Confederate Yankee: Apparently an Administration willing to release classified interrogation photos that will be used for terrorist recruiting and inciting attacks against deployed soldiers can’t bring itself to release photos of a public event for fear of causing President Obama some indirect personal embarrassment.

Peter King (R-NY): “…I would be interested in knowing why this lexicon mentioning left-wing extremist groups was deemed inappropriate by DHS and recalled, yet a similar report focusing on veterans, antiabortion activists and anti-illegal immigration activists was fit for distribution and sent out by DHS to law enforcement agencies across the country,”

TigerHawk: How on earth can sugar be “carbon free”? The damned stuff is made of carbon! Could there be more powerful, profit-motivated evidence that there’s good money to be parted from Al Gore’s core audience? And if it is not deceptive, fraudulent, and wrong to sell “carbon free” sugar — crack open your chemistry books, people — what would be wrong with selling “carbon free” gasoline?

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