Yes, our president is strong on homeland security...

"On the same day a poison-laced letter shuttered Senate offices," Bush "asked Congress to eliminate an $8.2 million research program on how to decontaminate buildings attacked by toxins," AP reports. "Buried in documents justifying Bush's 2005 budget proposal released Monday is an Environmental Protection Agency acknowledgment that his proposed cut 'represents complete elimination of homeland security building decontamination research.'"

from the Doonesbury Daily Briefing

Pakistan, our partner in peace

Also from the DDB

On Thursday, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan, "a scientist at the heart of a global nuclear trading ring, saying he would block any international probe into Pakistan's nuclear program," the Washington Times reports.

Gibson admits antisemitism of "The Passion of the Christ"

Gibson "fixes" Passion

I don't think that the proposed "solution" makes the film any more antisemitic; in fact, I would argue it makes it *more* so. But, if true, it's an interesting admission from Gibson that people *could* see the film as antisemitic, something he has vehemently denied up to now.

Of course, I think the whole article is BS that exists only in the fantasy world of the writer's imagination, so...

Rant on elections

I posted this as a reply to someone else, but I want to keep it here as well.

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