And you thought it only happened in America

"Jacques Chirac Doesn't Care about Black People."

Riots in Paris Suburb caused by two teenage boys who were electricuted while running away from the police.

I Love Pols

And Polls. Go here and vote for or against the new Supreme Court Nomination. Then see how other Geoffoshpere viewers voted! (Note: after you vote, you don't need to enter an e-mail. There's a link at the bottom to skip it.)

Hugh Hewitt's Poll Link

Where's the outrage?

I know it's not US soldiers putting panties on terrorist heads, but don't you think we ought to be aware of acts like this?

"...assailants in black beheaded three teenage Christian girls."

"The victims were identified as Yarni Sambue (15) Interesia Morangke (16) and Alfita Paulina (19). The survivor has been identified as Noviana Malewa, who is currently in intensive care at a nearby hospital.

The bodies of the girls were left at the site of the attack near a cocoa plantation. The heads were found at separate locations two hours later by residents, said Adj. Comr. Rais Adam, the Central Sulawesi Police spokesman.

One of the heads was found near a church."

Where's the coverage? Where are your Senetors, now? This is the enemy! Chopping of teenage girls heads! Keep your eye on the ball. This the War on Terror.

"Hello?!" -T. Kennedy

Shouldn't this be a bigger headline than Scooter's non-espionage inditement, or Exxon profits?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a conference on Wednesday Oct. 26, 2005 in Tehran entitled 'The World without Zionism.' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Israel should be 'wiped off the map'....

This is why it's a little scary to me.

"The fact that Iran has had for years a clandestine nuclear weapons program makes the Iranian statements about eliminating Israel all that more serious," said government spokesman Dore Gold

The President of Iran! Not some guy on the street or just some far out member of the government. The President said this. If the President of Iran says this, don't you this there's something behind it? Like a next step? I do. And it scares me.

Whoa...

Here's a chilling piece from Charles Krauthammer. Here are some snippits, but you should read the whole thing (it's not long). I keep hearing about the Bird Flu. It sounds scary, but it's still hard to believe. But I recall a time when I didn't think a skyscrape could be knocked down, either...

- U.S. scientists have just created a living, killing copy of the 1918 "Spanish" flu
- The Spanish flu has not been seen on this blue planet for 85 years
-...they pulled off a microbiological Jurassic Park: the first-ever resurrection of an ancient pathogen.
- We have brought back to life an agent of near-biblical destruction.
-...its entire genome has also now been published
- ...the 1918 flu was bird flu, "the most bird-like of all mammalian flu viruses," says Jeffery Taubenberger
- We are essentially in a life-or-death race with the bird flu.
- ...resurrection of the virus and publication of its structure open the gates of hell.
-Why try to steal loose nukes in Russia? A nuke can only destroy a city. The flu virus, properly evolved, is potentially a destroyer of civilizations.

Michelle Says it All about MSM

Michelle Malkin's post about MSM coverage of yesterday's terrorist attack in Chechnya is the post I would have written had I had time to write. I heard this story on NPR yesterday AM and heard "rebels attack". I listened for the nature of the "rebels" and, about 2 min. in, I finally heard the word "Islamic".

What is MSM's reluctance to say the word "Terrorist" or to clearly state that these mass murders are linked to the word "Islam"? It is probably related to the reason President Bush had not clearly associated these words with the violence until last week. Call a spade a spade. Political correctness is a blindfold. If a white man goes on a shooting spree in a post offic, say he was a "white man". If a black man shoots up a liquor store, say he was a "black man". If islamic terrorist kill 300 men, women and children, say it was "Islamic Terrorists".

Miers

Everything you wanted to know about SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers but were afraid to ask, and should have been afraid to ask, and will probably regret ever thinking of asking, and will probably make you think seriously about ever asking for anything ever again!

Great table of Pros and Cons on the Miers nomination from many sources.

A couple examples of why I get my news from blogs

The stigma that blogs are just people's opinions and ranting is incorrect. Many blogs are purely editorial. Mind is probably quite editorial. But the blogs that I frequent for news and information are, in my opinion, news site.

Today, for example, I quickly found two stories I had not yet heard. Both at the LGF site (this site was at the forefront of exposing the Dan Rather "Fake but Accurate" memo story):

This one is a link to an editorial in an Australian newspaper and it mentions, "Five days before the slaughter in Bali, nine Islamists were arrested in Paris for reportedly plotting to attack the Metro."

And this one about the Palestinian situation. This one emphasized one of the reasons for the Israeli pull-out of the Gaza strip. Let them govern themselves (if they can). "More than three dozen Palestinian police officers broke into the parliament building in Gaza City on Monday, firing in the air to protest a lack of bullets and equipment in what they said was a humiliating confrontation with Hamas."

Sure there are comments and opinions and agendas on blogs. But once backed up by public accounts the and the free press, many of which do not make it to the "most popular" yahoo articles, blogs find their way into being sources of news and information that would otherwise be difficult to find.