Wednesday, April 16, 2003

This is a bad joke.  Washington Post:  The former privacy officer of Internet advertising giant DoubleClick will be the Department of Homeland Security's first privacy czar, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced today. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] It seems like an obvious match to me. Naturally the person in charge of violating privacy for the new American KGB will need to be someone with lots of previous experience in spying on people. 10:47:50 PM    comment () Nancy's Timeline. Schultzie has put up an absolutely astounding comparison of timelines for various operations. Example: "We took Iraq in less time than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation." Go there now. [Kim du Toit] An interesting choice for comparison. 1:30:54 PM    comment () Quote Of The Day. Via Jay Nordlinger at NRO, quoting a Dairy Queen owner: "I am asked at the restaurant whether we've renamed our French fries 'freedom fries.' My response is always, 'No, I kinda like dipping French things in boiling oil.' " Dipping the French in boiling oil... tell me that's not a... [Kim du Toit] Naive people like to say that America could never become like Nazi Germany. Obviously this is not the case--it seems like Mr. du Toit would make a good brownshirt. 12:25:50 PM    comment () Walking and chewing gum at same time. It has been a regular refrain from the anti-interventionists that there was no real connection between 9/11 and Saddam and that by overthrowing the Iraqi regime, we were diverting valuable resources from the war on terror. Well, that theory has taken a lot of hits, judging by this story. In fact, by deposing thuggish regimes such as the unlamented one in Iraq, it makes it easier, by far, for intelligence services of the West to... [Samizdata.net] The story in question being the capture of the leader of a 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship. Evidently this particular crusader is unable to distinguish between a ship hijacked in the Mediterranean in 1985 and airliners hijacked in the US in 2001. I hope he doesn't own a car. 8:49:02 AM    comment ()

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