Never thought that a Hamas-loving, terrorist-apologist organization like CAIR would ever ask that I be personally cc'ed on one of their e-mail "action alert" campaigns, but that is apparently what has happened.
A true badge of honor in my book...
UPDATE: AP has picked up the story. In typical media fashion, they mistakenly refer to CAIR as a "Muslim civil liberties group" (just like HAMAS is apparently just another Palestinian political group). More objective observers know better though....
Plenty of sites now referencing the latest Cindy Sheehan ramblings that Clinton's policies "are responsible for killing more Iraqis that George Bush."
But before she spewed that particualr bit of wisdom, her interviewer admitted this interesting little tidbit -
Ronan: 'Cindy, if I may, just of the benefit of some readers who might be reading this, I want to tell you a story which illustrates the power of the American government in this country. Ten years ago, I organized a protest when President Clinton shelled Baghdad and killed an Iraqi painter called Laila Alataar--who was the leading Iraq painter of the Middle East--and all of her children. That evening, I got an invitation to the American Embassy to an exhibition of paintings including one by my son James, who'd won a Texaco art competition. I happen to be a copyright lawyer, so I saw they were in breach of copyright, thus I wrote to the American Embassy saying "Take my son's painting off exhibition" because I didn't want the name "Sheehan" to be associated with murderers. I said the reason I'm doing that is to protest the unlawful killing of Laila Alataar, something that our present Minister for Justice [Michael MacDowell] condemned in the Dáil. So they had to take the painting down because it was in breach of copyright--they hadn't got permission.'
As the above example illustrates, the concept of 'copyright' has evolved to the point where you don't even have to make a copy of anything to violate it. It also has nothing to do with "incentives" for making creative works anymore. It is simply a raw political tool to deprive people of certain modes of expression in an increasingly media driven world.
Intellectual property attorneys...the new ambulance chasers of the 21st Century.
Part XI of the Tyranny of Copyright here.
For those who missed it, Cindy Sheehan won the no-brainer nod as 2005 Idiotarian.
As if further confirmation was needed, 'Mama' Sheehan topped John Hawkins' 2005 list of Most Annoying Liberals. Hawkins provides this abbreviated synopsis:
As Sheehan's 15 minutes of fame stretched on, she rarely missed a chance to make an idiot of herself. She got into a public fight with her son's grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins who didn't agree with her views, got divorced from her husband after they had a falling out over her anti-war activities, did a Vanity Fair photo op laying on her son's grave, said America, "is not worth dying for," opposed the war in Afghanistan, suggested the war in Iraq was really about protecting Israel, said she had "no animosity for" the person who killed her son (but she's angry at Bush), claimed terrorists going into Iraq were, "freedom fighters," and referred to other moms who lost children in Iraq but disagreed with her as, "continue the murder and mayhem moms" [...][read the rest here]
Cindy Sheehan's 2005 photo of the year.
If Sheehan locked up 2005 Idiotarian, then Michael "When-is-that-b*tch-going-to-die?" Schiavo won 2005 Jerk of the Year hands down.
Next up, 2006 Idiotarian. Harry Belafonte looks like the early frontrunner.
Even Feinstein admits the Dems have no chance of rallying an Alito filibuster.
"I do not see a likelihood of a filibuster," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat and often a swing vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I don't see those kinds of egregious things emerging that would justify a filibuster."Mrs. Feinstein said a filibuster against Judge Alito would be an abuse of the parliamentary tool.
"When it comes to filibustering a Supreme Court appointment, you really have to have something out there, whether it's gross moral turpitude or something that comes to the surface," she said yesterday on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"This is a man I might disagree with," she said of Judge Alito. "That doesn't mean he shouldn't be on the court."
"We just don't have the d*mn votes!"
Let a few future Senate races swing Democrat, and you can be assured that any perception of conservatism in a nominee will once again equate to the "gross moral turpitude" necessary to warrant—nay, demand [for the well-being of the Republic]—a democratic filibuster.
(hat tip Blogs for Bush)