I heard a fascinating interview this morning on the Mike Gallagher show with Michael Rogers of Blogactive.com.  The basics are that he is a gay man who "outs" politicians and those that work for them that he believes are gay yet are involved in what he considers to be anti-gay actions or legislations.  He also claims that he does not want to "out" every gay person in Washington, just those who pretend to be what they are not.

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More proof that Jimmy Carter is a fool....or a tool..it's hard to decide which.

When the U.N. went about to re-establish it's Human Rights oversight in the form of a new Human Rights Council, big bad John Bolton and the Bush administration were strongly against it, claiming that it's structure involving countries that were serious human rights violators themselves would render it ineffective.  Jimmy Carter, of course was all for it.

Normblog reports on Human Rights Watch's disappointment in the new do-nothing UN-fit Council.

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I've expounded on something I found at LGF, but have tried to be a little more even-handed:

"I am concerned that every time something happens that's not good for President Bush, he plays this trump card, which is terrorism." - Howard Dean - August 1, 2004

It should be noted that Dean clarified his statement on August 3 to say that he thought Bush was holding on to 3 year-old information and then waiting until the appropriate political moment, in this case just after the Democrat National Convention, to scare people.
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"I plead guilty," Dhiran Barot, 34, said in a clear voice at Woolwich Crown Court in south London.

A British man pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to murder in a plot to bomb high-profile targets in the United States, including the New York Stock Exchange and the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington.

Prosecutors said the plot, foiled by Barot's arrest in 2004, involved targets in both Britain and the United States. Besides the stock exchange and IMF headquarters, other alleged targets included the World Bank headquarters in Washington, the Citigroup building in New York and the Prudential building in Newark, N.J. Associated Press - October 12, 2006

So the terror scare was definitely valid, although there could still be a question about the timing.
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Barot, who was arrested on Aug. 3, was also accused of possessing reconnaissance plans of the New York Stock Exchange, the Citigroup building and other offices in New York, Washington and Newark, N.J. These were the same plans as those discovered on a computer in Pakistan in July, prompting U.S. officials to issue a public terror warning on Sunday, Aug. 1. - Newsweek - August 20, 2004

Only the Shadow knows.....

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