Spengler: Putin for US President

Sabi nya:

If Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin were president of the United States, would Iran try to build a nuclear bomb? Would Pakistan provide covert aid to al-Qaeda? Would Hugo Chavez train terrorists in Venezuela? Would leftover nationalities with delusions of grandeur provoke the great powers? Just ask Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili, who now wishes he never tried to put his 4 million countrymen into strategic play.

Hmmmm....

If America wants to recover from its humiliation in the Caucasus, it might, for example, conduct an air raid against Iran's nuclear facilities, and justify it with the same sort of reasoning that Russia invoked in Georgia. Contrary to surface impressions, Moscow wouldn't mind a bit.

Hmmmm....

Obama camp finally responds to McCain's "Celeb" ad

only two weeks late.

It's like somebody made fun of you, but you didn't say a word to respond at that moment. Tameme ka. But you figured out a "snappy comeback" 2 hours after the guy had already left the building.

Either Obama's campaign didn't quite know how to respond or didn't initially think it necessary to push back against McCain's "Celebrity" rap.

But now, two weeks later, they're going on the air seeking to turn the attack around on the Republican, calling McCain "Washington's biggest celebrity."

And not even original. He responds to the mccain ad labeling him a Celebrity by calling mccain a celebrity too!

John McCain's new slogan.

Country First. aka "Bayan Muna".

London Times: "Secret deal kept British Army out of battle for Basra"

A secret deal between Britain and the notorious al-Mahdi militia prevented British Forces from coming to the aid of their US and Iraqi allies for nearly a week during the battle for Basra this year, The Times has learnt.

Four thousand British troops – including elements of the SAS and an entire mechanised brigade – watched from the sidelines for six days because of an “accommodation” with the Iranian-backed group, according to American and Iraqi officers who took part in the assault...

Under its terms, no British soldier could enter Basra without the permission of Des Browne, the Defence Secretary. By the time he gave his approval, most of the fighting was over and the damage to Britain’s reputation had already been done.

Senior British defence sources told The Times that Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, who ordered the assault, and high-ranking US military officers had become disillusioned with the British as a result of their failure to act. Another confirmed that the deal, negotiated by British Intelligence, had been a costly mistake.

You think?

How the British blew it in Basra: "You can accuse the Americans of many things, such as hamfistedness, but you can’t accuse them of not addressing a situation when it arises. While we had a strategy of evasion, the Americans just went in and addressed the problem."

As Greyhawk comments: "From the get go, they tried very hard to not be American. They succeeded." And they got great press on how much smarter than Americans they were, until things were obviously in the toilet, at which point the problem became America's fault!

'Find Out Where His Kids Go to School'

haha, this is sopranos style intimidation.

Why So Serious, Mara Reyes?

of Project Runway Philippines. What's Buggin' Ya?

I Love this House Bunny movie poster

I love Anna Faris' look.



kinda reminds me of the 40 Yr Old Virgin poster ni Steve Carell, only funnier.

Paris Hilton upset at McCain campaign for Obama comparisons

and she responds with her own video.

Six stages of grief for Arroyo-Garci defenders

ginamit ni mickey kaus sa john edwards-rielle hunter lovechild story, pero applicable rin sa mga defenders ng arroyo-garci caper.

1) Too horrible and shocking; it can't possibly be true;
2) It's not true;
3) You can't prove it's true;
4) Why are you trying to prove it's true?
5) It's disgusting that you've proved it's true;
6) What's the big deal anyway?

My add: 7) Who's the alternative?

Now it's Terry McAuliffe who's emailing me

Dear John,

If you haven't already entered the contest to have dinner with Hillary, there is still time left. This is a great chance for you and a guest to have dinner one-on-one with Hillary.

Have dinner with Hillary. Contribute today.

I would never skip a chance to sit down and chat with Hillary, and neither should you. Best of luck!

-Terry

Nobody wants to have dinner with Hillary? To retire her pesky debt?

I'm looking for Whit Stillman's film Barcelona (1994)

UPDATE: Torrent link.

i searched the torrent sites pero wala. napanood ko na ito dati, pero gusto kong panoorin ulit. It's a comedy about anti-americanism in spain at the end of the cold war. a young mira sorvino plays one of the spanish chicks.

Cuil, the new search engine

created by ex-google employees, to challenge Google. Cuil is pronounced "cool". (via)

Give it a try.

Michael Jordan tried to steer away from politics

to protect his brand and image, but you can tell he is a Democrat. His statement that "Republicans buy shoes too" back in the mid-90s was an indirect admission.

Obama as Moses aka The One

I couldn't stop laughing at this (via)



yesterday he was compared to britney spears and paris hilton. now, moses.

Funny Shit from Uniffors

(source)

Lacson accuser Blanquita Pelaez recants

and says Malacanang made her do their dirty work.

This is just a reminder of how evil this administration was back then. But you wouldn't know judging from the way some of the Bishops and the likes of Bong Austero throw themselves defending Arroyo.

at the same time, this doesn't absolve ms pelaez from the lies she and this adminstration concocted to smear lacson. If I were lacson, I would sue her and start impeachment proceedings on this corrupt admin.

And what is the deal with Christine Herrera? She's the former Inquirer reporter who "broke" the story of Lacson's "secret" "billion dollar" bank accounts using Pelaez as source. The story looked fishy from the very beginning (especially if read in paragraph 13 of that same article.)

Anyway, nung lumipat si Herrera sa Manila Standard Today, the bitch was again involved with Blanquita Pelaez in another "scoop", this time about Estrada and Joelle Pelaez and money laundering. I wonder if this story is bogus too. hmmm.... let me think.

but even before the pelaez mea culpa, ricky carandang was able to dissect the pelaez story and correctly determined the charges against erap were bogus. her admission only confirms what we knew all along.

An Obama presidency would spare us this idiocy

(via) Where is the Bush administration getting these ideas? from the CBCP?

The Bush Administration has ignited a furor with a proposed definition of pregnancy that has the effect of classifying some of the most widely used methods of contraception as abortion. A draft regulation, still being revised and debated, treats most birth-control pills and intrauterine devices as abortion because they can work by preventing fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. The regulation considers that destroying "the life of a human being."

If it's Condi, then VP announcement should be at Convention

that place is gonna rock at Minnesota. She's a special lady and John McCain needs a special stage to announce her selection. and you get to stomp on obama's bounce after the stadium speech.

She is "high risk." But she is also high reward.

If it's Pawlenty, Palin or Romney, then it won't matter if sen. mccain announces it now or later. they're all bah choices. especially tim pawlenty who is a "no risk, no reward" selection.

If it's any of them, then i think it is better to announce now so they can immediately start campaigining for him all across the state.

In other news, TIME magazine reports that Obama is keeping in touch with Condi.

The article opens: "A few days before he left on his eight-country world tour, Barack Obama wanted to discuss the trip with an old contact in Washington: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Obama's phone call was in part courtesy, but over three years of occasional phone conversations, the two have quietly discussed everything from foreign aid to the Middle East and nuclear proliferation.

"The little-known Rice-Obama link is just the latest surprise in a summer of unexpected shifts in American foreign policy."

Calabresi reports that Rice is trying to "clean up" the Bush mess and that the latest diplomatic moves orchestrated by her "signal the latest triumph of realism over ideology -- and a victory for Rice and her diplomatic team over the neoconservatives led by Vice President Cheney. The moves amount to an unmistakable effort to clean up Bush's foreign policy legacy before he exits the stage."

Ken Duberstein, the former Reagan aide, tells TIME, "This is bold strategic diplomacy with an eye to the history books."

And that's why she is polling higher than most Bush admin officials.

As for Barack, sorry but you can't have her for VP. ;)

Previous: Why Mccain Condi?

UPDATE: I'm okay with all this Pawlenty or Romney VP talk supposedly from the mccain camp, IF it's meant at misdirection. Heck, the obama camp is already doing it with Tim Kaine, since they're probably eyeing bill richardson-- who has foreign policy and executive experience, plus he can draw the hispanics to obama's camp.

Do you want to have dinner with Hillary?

Here's an email i received from the Clinton campaign:

Dear John,

During the campaign, Hillary and I didn't have the chance to eat together much because we were usually on the trail in different states. Now that the campaign's over, I'm glad we can share more meals again.

Of all the people I've had the privilege to break bread with, the person I most enjoy is still Hillary.

Now you have a chance to have dinner with her. And if you contribute today to help Hillary retire that pesky campaign debt, you and a guest might be sitting down to dinner with her soon. I think you should go for it and enter today.

Join Hillary for dinner. Make a contribution today.

Trust me on this one. If you're the lucky winner, it will be a night you'll really enjoy and one to remember.

All my best,
Bill Clinton

Visitor Q: A Pointless Crass Movie

Why did i even bother?