It's almost like they were mad at us to begin with

“This is not just about dishonoring the Koran, it is about disrespecting our dead and killing our children,” said Maruf Hotak, 60, a man who joined the crowd on the outskirts of Kabul, referring to an episode in Helmand Province when American Marines urinated on the dead bodies of men they described as insurgents and to a recent erroneous airstrike on civilians in Kapisa Province that killed eight young Afghans.

Thursday Dose of Sanity

IDF uncovers Iranian-made explosive device in Gaza Hamas uncovers US-made

explosive device in Israel

Department of Ho Hum

Exclusive: Feds arrest man allegedly heading to U.S. Capitol for suicide mission after sting investigation

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/17/feds-arrest-man-heading-to-us-capitol-for-suicide-mission/#ixzz1mflT7GQ2

Juan Cole of Informed Comment writes today on the use of  enriched uranium in Iran.  The piece contains this simple paragraph which the MSM does not seem to be able to grasp:

Iran is permitted by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that began being signed in the late 1960s to enrich uranium for peaceful uses such as fueling reactors, but the United States and the UN Security Council have attempted to unilaterally abrogate that right in the case of Iran. Israel is not signatory to the NPT, and has gone for broke to produce some 400 nuclear warheads. To the extent that Iraq wanted a nuclear weapon, it was impelled by competition with Israel; i.e., the Israeli bomb kicked off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Because of the reflection fallacy, the Israelis cannot imagine that Iran is not trying to do what they themselves did. But there is no good evidence for an Iranian nuclear weapons program, and the medical reactor does not point to one!

The Religious Right and fellow travelers are squealing like pigs in a bathtub re Obama's latest mandate requiring abortifacients in communion wafers.  If altar boys got pregnant they would have done this a long time ago. 

 Guano psychotic nut cases might be trying to wreck the country, but at least they are entertaining us on the way....

 Republican Rep. John Fleming cites The Onion as factual news