Why the Slowdown This Weekend?

Well, let’see. Last weekend, we went out and got my wife a new SUV.
This weekend, as if in response, my beloved Astro threw up. It’s in the shop right now.

YahooAP says: “Spain Announces Five Arrests in Bombings ”

MADRID, Spain – Spain’s interior minister Saturday announced the arrest of five suspects in the Madrid bombings, including three Moroccans.

I wonder if this will end up casuing the EU

The Seattle Times reports:

“WASHINGTON – The Interior Department’s inspector general has found no basis for a claim by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that White House political advisers interfered in developing water policy in the Northwest”

In other words:

Everything I Know Is Wrong makes note of a post making the rounds of Blogdom:

“Back during the time of the terrorist bombing in Bali you publicized someone’s idea (I forgot whose) to send flowers to the Australian consulate/embassy to

Thom Galvin has some good links to local coverage on the Madrid atatcks.

AP reports:

“SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The California Supreme Court on Thursday ordered an immediate halt to gay marriages in San Francisco, delivering a victory to conservatives who have fought for a month to block the ceremonies. Meanwhile, Massachusetts

Kerry fails to back up foreign ‘endorsements’ – The Washington Times: Nation/Politics:

“Sen. John Kerry refuses to provide any information to support his assertion earlier this week that he has met with foreign leaders who beseeched him to prevail

Byron York has an interesting write-up on Susan Lindauer:

“Susan Lindauer, the former Democratic congressional aide charged with spying for Iraq, was arrested several months after meeting with an FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence agent looking to

If you’ll recall, I expressed some level of question as regards the speed with which the “outrage’ hit the airwaves about the ads the president’s been running.

For a few days I was alone in my questioning of it. But

A London based Arabic paper is reporting the existance of a letter from BinLaden claiming the bombings in Spain as the work of his group.

I had left the story alone, thikning the original ETA (Basque Speratists Movement) attribution muddy

OK, I guess I oughta to be commenting on the under-the breath comments by Kerry yesterday.

The fact is that this is decidedly not news. The reason it’s not news is it was not unexpected.

As vile as his comments

Alan Reynolds over at TOWNHALL this morning:

“If Sen. Kerry had hoped to make a big political issue out of an unemployment rate that is likely to be below 5 percent by election time, he had better start trying

Tom Galvin over at The Galvin Opinionnotes that things are not as rosy on the Democrats side as the press likes it to appear:

” Citing varying percentages of high voter “anger,” the media networks failed to note that

Boortz this morning:

“Wednesday, March 10, 2004
SPECULATION CONTINUES…WILL THE HILDABEAST RUN?

Dick Morris (who knows a thing or two about the Clintons, having
worked for them) seems to think it’s now or never for Hillary Clinton,
and suggests that

Speaking of The Captain, allow me to take Billy Beck to task a little, on a comment made about the Captain’s writings on THE PASSION.

Says the Captain, regarding the Aramaic dialogue and Subtitles:

“Unfortunately, it means that