But God talks to bush, isn't that more than enough to scare Hillary?

Hillary is friend to all children!

With our blood, with our sould, we will defend you Hillary! Rodham!

Funny! Great post.

What is so hard about understanding the fact that if you run from the cops, they may shoot you? It was tragic, and unfortunate, but shit happens.

A classical Prometheus reference!

You rock, dude. Totally, fer sure. Prometheus gave us, what, beer, wasn't it?

Well, not just running away from cops,

But in a place that is arguably more alert notched up than the Sunni triangle, wearing suspicious lookin clothes, running away from a cop who's yelling at you.

I've traveled overseas. Been places where I didn't speak the language. If a cop started yelling at me, and I didn't understand a goddam word he was saying, I would do everything in my power to make him understand I am no threat, and I'm gonna do EXACTLY what he tells me, just as soon as I figure out what it is!

Yea verily, Hillary gave us implausible deniability: what man can not now smile at his woman and boldly claim, "Bill did, but did not; I did, but did not."

Hillary did not seek to deceive us with cookies; Hillary doth not bake. Hillary giveth, and Hillary taketh away.

Hillary giveth good student government, squirrel-cheeks, a myriad of unsatisfactory hairstyles; Hillary giveth subtle political triangulation.

Yea, Hillary, whose ways are mysterious and whose foes are legion; she suffereth them not.

Gun-Toting Liberal had it right:

It was tragic, and unfortunate, but shit happens.

When you fight a defensive war and treat counter-terrorism as a policing activity, who suffers? The people suffer, as their daily lives and commerce are disrupted by bag searches, their privacy is invaded by "security" cameras, and their heads are invaded by cops' bullets. That poor Brazilian immigrant had to die so we could be nice to the Saudi Wahhabis who funded the mosques that recruited the terrorists for whom the police mistook him. Those who think that man's death is all in a day's work in the War on Terror are thinking just a shade less pacifistically than the bien pensant intellectuals who insist the war is all in our heads.

Arafel

To be fair to the Brazilian, the cops were plain-clothes. If they didn't identify themselves clearly (I'm not saying that happened, I'm only saying if), or if he didn't understand them, I can't blame him for running from the men brandishing automatic weapons.

Just to clarify: Assuming the cops did identify themselves properly, I think they did the right thing in difficult circumstances. Shit happens.

jeff, no, cuz the other guy talks to Hillary.

;-)

Prometheus gave us fire, and thereby, cooking.

*Dionysus* gave us beer.

Well, wine.

The ancient greeks didn't drink beer.

railwriter,
Let's not forget that Hillary! also gave us pantsuits! Imagine how horrid the world would be without those pantsuits!

Wait a minute. The ancient Greeks drank wine but not beer?

That explains a lot. Especially the tot-buggery. Remember that the next time the waiter suggests the Pinot. He's probably wanting to bugger you or your kids or something.

I've traveled overseas. Been places where I didn't speak the language. If a cop started yelling at me, and I didn't understand a goddam word he was saying, I would do everything in my power to make him understand I am no threat, and I'm gonna do EXACTLY what he tells me, just as soon as I figure out what it is!

Yup. When we visited Russia one summer, we were stopped by customs and they weren't going to let us in the country with our luggage and some medical supplies we were taking in.

It was pretty easy to figure out what they wanted, despite our terrible Russian. $200 cash, American, got us through customs with no questions asked.

If a suspect draws a gun and appears to endanger a bystander, the police are justified in shooting the suspect, even if it later turns out the gun was not loaded and the actions were not as they appeared.

The Brazilian was a suspect that appeared to have the characterists of a bomber and endangering bystanders. In context of recent events he was simply a victim of his own stupidity and the elevated threat level.

A Song for Hillary

The whole world will be dancing in the street when Hillary Rodham Clinton
takes her Senate seat.
No carpetbagger is she; she's a human Statue of Liberty.

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary!

We're so glad for the joy that she will bring.
We can always count on her to do the right thing.
She's faithful and honest, too.
Thank God she's happened to me and you.

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary!

No matter what the voices of deception say,
Vote Hillary Clinton on Election Day.
No matter the problems, big or small, she will tackle and solve them all.
The whole world will be dancing in the street when Hillary Rodham Clinton
takes her Senate seat.
No carpetbagger is she; she's a human Statue of Liberty.

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary!

~ from a leaflet handed out by Hillary operatives outside her birthday bash at the Roseland ballroom

*This is no ordinary campaign ditty. It more closely resembles the sort of totalitarian anthem that the Young Pioneers used to chant while strewing roses at Stalin’s feet.*

From:
A Dispatch from Occupied New York
By Richard Poe
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 9, 2000