Coolbrands is rising
....its price on the tse is rising...stilll....the p/e is 31:1, but i'm not sure if that is counting all the new revenue from the acquisition yet.

Guardian: doing its anti-american best
..yup, the americans have actually gone backwards by getting the moron brothers, uday and qusay.

right.

Saddam Hussein owes his legend to a great escape. After a failed assassination plot against Iraq's ruling general in 1959, Saddam the conspirer went into exile, escaping a manhunt by swimming the Tigris, despite a gunshot to the leg, and finding sanctuary with wandering tribes. Saddam will need all those skills and good luck besides if he is to avoid the fate of his two sons, Uday and Qusay, who were killed in a supposed safe house in the northern town of Mosul on Tuesday.

the guardian is really quite optimistic for old hussein, aren't they? galloway works there, so...who knows? maybe saddam pays them off, too.

Wow.

BERLIN, July 23 (Reuters) - Almost one in three Germans below the age of 30 believes the U.S. government may have sponsored the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, according to a poll published on Wednesday.

And about 20 percent of Germans in all age groups hold this view, a survey of 1,000 people conducted for the weekly Die Zeit said.

It also said 68 percent of all Germans felt the media had not reported the full truth behind the attacks, in which some 3,000 people were killed when hijacked planes were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

more bad news for normal westerners:

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia: The world has been sucked into a dangerous "clash of civilisations" by the West's failure to understand Muslim grievances, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in an interview here.

Speaking exclusively to AFP ahead of a visit by French President Jacques Chirac, the veteran Southeast Asian leader defended his recent vilification of Westerners as greedy warmongers aiming at dominating the world. And he stood by his call on Muslim nations to build up their military strength so as to fulfil a Qur'aanic injunction to "strike fear into the hearts of their enemies". ...

chirac later got an award from the Mad Mahathir.

Okay, now for the laughs. Berkeley announces conservatism is related to stupidity, thereby proving without a doubt, berkeley is stupidity

Here's the article.....

and here's the money quote:

Hitler, Mussolini, and former President Ronald Reagan were individuals, but all were right-wing conservatives because they preached a return to an idealized past and condoned inequality in some form.

thanks for that valid and comprehensive comparison.

Conservatives don't feel the need to jump through complex, intellectual hoops in order to understand or justify some of their positions, he said. "They are more comfortable seeing and stating things in black and white in ways that would make liberals squirm," Glaser said.

He pointed as an example to a 2001 trip to Italy, where President George W. Bush was asked to explain himself. The Republican president told assembled world leaders, "I know what I believe and I believe what I believe is right." And in 2002, Bush told a British reporter, "Look, my job isn't to nuance."

hahaha. funny, he said something dumb, thus proving their point, right? i saw condoleeza rice jump through more intellectual hoops then einstein on coke on the sunday morning talk shows a few weeks ago.

it gets better:

The researchers conceded cases of left-wing ideologues, such as Stalin, Khrushchev or Castro, who, once in power, steadfastly resisted change, allegedly in the name of egalitarianism.

Yet, they noted that some of these figures might be considered politically conservative in the context of the systems that they defended. The researchers noted that Stalin, for example, was concerned about defending and preserving the existing Soviet system.

hahahhaahhahahah...ooh..ohh...yeah...stalin...whew..conservative? hahahahha...whoa, there. that's funny stuff. i can just imagine the researchers discussing this finding:

idiot #1 "i don't know about stalin...we still defend him and all. are we proud or not of our comrade?"

idiot #2 "we don't want him in our camp..put him in the conservative camp."

#1."brilliant. let the 'conservatives' figure it out".

and what did the democrats say of note lately? let's examine:

Members of the Assembly Democrats' progressive caucus were heard making candid, if not intemperate, statements such as one by Los Angeles Assemblyman Fabian Nunez that they may want to "precipitate a crisis" over the budget this year. That might persuade voters to lower the two-thirds vote threshold needed to pass a spending plan, he reasoned.

"It seems to me if there's going to be a crisis, the crisis should be this year," Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, D-Los Angeles, said during the meeting. "What you do is you show people that you can't get to this without a 55 percent vote."

The unintentional broadcast was interrupted when someone informed the group that a microphone was on. "Oh s---," Goldberg said as the sound was cut.

or these gems:

"Come on, come over here and make me, I dare you. . . . You little fruitcake. You little fruitcake. I said you are a fruitcake."--attributed to Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark (D., Calif.)

i'm not trying to be too hard on the left, but to attempt to discredit the right by saying its stupid is like ann coulter saying the left is treasonist. sure, there are and were idiots on the right and treasonists on the left.

its all broad strokes, people. lazy, ultimately unconscionable babbling from partisan fools.