Bush!

Can the Jets still get Reggie Bush? This is what it would take:

• Jets lose vs Bills
• Texans win vs 49ers
• Packers win vs Seahawks in a game Seattle doesn't need
• Saints win vs Buccs in a game Tampa needs

Right now the Jets have the 3rd pick in the draft, but it's still possible!

More like Robert Dork

Judge Alito, 2nd Circuit Science Bowl champion (Washington Post)

In a scathing 1985 opinion arguing for overturning Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote, "I am a huge nerd!"

Mayor Mike

Bloomberg takes limo to BK Heights, walks over bridge (AP)

"Roger Toussaint and the board have sought to portray the strike as a fight for working people," [Bloomberg] said at a news conference. "That argument doesn't hold any water. Working people are the ones that are being hurt. Busboys are getting hurt, garment industry workers are getting hurt, owners of mom-and-pop businesses are being hurt." (NY Times)

I think commuters should unionize and kick the transit workers' asses.

Peace in Our Time!

In a riveting review of Speilberg's new movie Munich, the American Thinker writes:

Steven Spielberg describes his movie as a “prayer for peace.” Although he defines the enemy as “intransigence,” he refers to the “implacable resolve” of the agents who hunted down the PLO assassins. According to Webster, “implacable” means “incapacity for appeasement.” Is Spielberg hinting that it is Israel’s incapacity for appeasement that drives the Jihad? Is he implying that if only Golda Meir had appeased the terrorists this one time in 1972 – like Chamberlain appeased Hitler at Munich in 1938—there would be no modern-day conflict? Is he suggesting that Israel’s vengeance triggered the 3rd act of the 1400-year old Jihad? Is he stating that America – like Israel – is to be reviled for affirming the sanctity of life? Or is he condoning that America and Israel are to be hated for defending freedom?

The piece is long but worth the read. It provides a great refresher on the links between The Final Solution and 21^st century Jihad while it speaks to the overall problem of moral relativism and the ongoing debate between Churchillists and Chamberlainists so to speak.

Preemptive Strike

With the Transit Workers Union set to cripple the City in 8 hours, I am wondering why I foolishly bought a new $76 monthly pass on Monday, when I could have gotten one of the special reduced-fare holiday passes. Yes, with the imminent threat of total shutdown of the MTA system, the MTA decided to use its $1 billion surplus to reduced holiday fares. I appreciate the gesture (especially given the delays, overcrowding, and line closings we straphangers deal with), but what good will my reduced fare do if the trains and buses aren't running?

Nobody in this city drives to work, so this strike will cost economic activity in New York City $400 million per day--a drop of nearly a third. I support the right to unionize, but public employees upon whom the vitality of the city depends simply cannot be allowed to strand 8.1 million people and over 1 million daily commuters without transportation.

The city has threatened to levy $25,000 per day fines against individual strikes, which is totally unenforceable. What is to be done? Arrest the strikers? Suggestions welcome--this disaster must be averted.

SECRET PRISONS!

Which headline is more disturbing to you:

"Al Queda Terrorists Cross Mexican Border; still at large."

or

"Al Queda Figures Held in Secret Prisons."

Though the first headline is a real threat and the scarier of the two, the second headline is an ABC exclusive, and it has liberals (and probably the people trying to protect these prisons and our nation) up in arms.

I pose a question to the Harry Reids of the world: imagine you were on the side of the terrorists. Would you be doing or saying anything different than you are now (short of outright treason)?

George Bush Kills Mentally Ill Air Passenger

In a callous act of indiscriminate violence, Führer Bush had one of his air marshals (SS) murder a mentally ill passenger. His excuse? The man claimed he had a bomb. When will it stop?