Like something Mexicans used to say of themselves: Poor Pakistan, so close to U.S. drones, so far from “god”™.

There’ll be typhoid, dysentery, and other water-borne diseases as well as yellow fever and malaria, I should think.

What the media, especially WaPo, report is increasingly about their own limited interests. ‘Concern has grown’ should be interpeted; ‘our POV’. Other media reports are about that sneaky Taliban providing relief as the government, limited to a few cities, shows its inadequacies. A lesson from Haiti is that with disasters limiting access to the countryside, the resources already in place are all that can be used at first, until the outside world finds ways to get relief in and available.

With the Pakistani army taking the most prominent role in the government’s relief efforts, concern has grown in Washington that the flood will detract from the country’s battle against Islamic militants.

All that dying is holding up the killing. Is it no wonder the MIC just hates nature.

Good morning, pups. It’s The Pasty Little Putz and Prof. Krugman. You knew it had to happen. In “Islam in Two Americas” The Pasty Little Putz unloads his “thoughts” on the latest thing we’re all supposed to be peeing our pants about. He says two Americas, one based on religious liberty and the other on cultural assimilation, are in tension again in the debate over a mosque near ground zero. Prof. Krugman, in “Attacking Social Security,” says critics of the program claim that its future is in peril. But their math doesn’t add up, and underneath their hostility is ignorance of the realities of life for many Americans. I wonder if he ever tires of being a voice crying in the wilderness?

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and the biscuits are out of the oven. This morning while I was making my first cup of tea someone being interviewed on Never Provoke Republicans actually used the phrase “cut and run” while discussing Petraeus’ strategy for “winning” the war. He’s not going to, by the way. I’m off to bang my head against the wall.

Thanks, Marion. Two blocks away from ‘ground zero’ covers a lot of territory, wonder why no report has mentioned exactly how big a dead zone that would provide.

All I know is that my friends who live at 120 William Street (about 3 or 4 blocks from the site) don’t have their knickers in a twist.

Maybe they don’t know about the terrorist babies.

[snort] Or maybe they’re just rational people!

MoJoSho pointing out that peep shows were built without a, erm, peep near “ground zero.” Barnicle calls Newt a political pyromaniac, throwing gas on fires that don’t exist.

Newt ain’t alone.

“Winning hearts and minds” is completely removed from the counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism playbooks this country uses.

We’re constantly making things worse smacking this and that and worrying about the small things, while the really big and important things fester and brew unattended, like the real root causes of terrorism.

Newt is an opportunist, as was Hitler. Newt’s appeal is to the most vile of human emotions…….
First Amendment protections cannot be compromised to fit “situation ethics,”
Like rounding up all Japanese Americans or better yet lets re-institute slavery? I forgot, we have that in the form of a mandated “premium on life,” under fear of a coerced financial penalty? Better yet lets amend the 14th Amendment and put “CORPORATION,” where they belong!!!

With the Pakistani army taking the most prominent role in the government’s relief efforts, concern has grown in Washington that the flood will detract from the country’s battle against Islamic militants.

You have to be kidding me. I checked the Post story because I had to know who, if anyone (ha ha), this passage was attributed to. It is not even attributed to an annonymous source, it is purely the opinion of the author.

But because WaPo published it, it will be a solid fact by tomorrow.

Recently on DN (I think) there was a discussion of global warming. About the most chilling thing I heard was that the world will fall farther and farther behind in being able to respond to these kinds of devastating disasters that will continue. It is happening already. Haiti, now Pakistan. Terrible. And the Senate cannot put climate issues on the table.