France Says 35-hour Week is Failing

A Daily Telegraph article being re-run in the Chicago Sun-Times reports that France is suffering under it’s socialism… they’ve just not figred that out yet. In this case;

Unemployment, says the report is now just under 10%.

Do you suppose they’ll ever figure out socialism doesn’t work?

Dizzy Girl: The War Hits Home…

Go drop a note to Gennie.

Ed over at the Captain’s Quarters has a serious breakout of the Defense Dept find on Sarin gas in that IED of the other day. I’ve been holding back on commenting because I get the idea that it’s not all in just yet… but Ed’s collection of links and facts are as good as I’ve seen on this subject.

Well, I’m stoked.
I’m a longtime reader of Miller’s Time, nearly every day, but I confess it’s never caught my eye in his sidebar, until tonight… he’s got BitsBlog listed as “Required Reading”. I take this as high praise from a Blogger I admire.

Miller’s Time is worth your daily visit.

Now, Pardon me… it’s time I celebrated…. with a Miller, of course.

CFRA out of Ottawareports :

(shrug)
Here’s a pic of Randall and wife Heather just last year.
Let’s see. Long respected acting career. Rich. well-Liked. Two kids by his current wife, who, let’s be fair, ain’t hard to look at… and he waits to cash in his chips until age 84? 

I liked the guy.. I even met him once…. but, please…Forgive me if I fail to mourn… he did OK for himself. A celebration of his life would be more appropriate, but mourning his passing? Ehhhh… Perhaps not.

C’ya, Tony. Nice knowing ya.

Dennis Prager discusses the topic in this week’s BIT- Unequal news coverage, particualrly as regards Nick Berg.

Paul Crespo follows up with the angle on Prison abuse.

remember, both of these were covered in this week’s BIT

The Mobile Register says today:

Edward Kennedy ought to resign from the U.S. Senate. Likewise, Sen. Kennedy’s protegé John Kerry ought to publicly disassociate himself from, and denounce in no uncertain terms, his mentor’s latest inflammatory remarks. His remarks on the Senate floor were so obnoxious, so inexcusable, that no apology can make amends for them. In them, Sen. Kennedy had the gall to assert a moral equivalence between the routine brutality of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the humiliating, but exceptional, treatment of some Iraqi prisoners by their American guards

Belmont Club is a blog I’ve linked to previously. Today they’re running a fine bit on something I’ve been watching for some time; the use of the press as a weapon. I have been of the idea for weeks that this is in fact what’s been happening in Iraq; the press is a weapon being used against us… by both the Islamofacists, and our own unwitting left.  Blemont Club takes fleshes this out a bit for us;

“It was during the Vietnam War that the Left first discovered the potential war-winning ability of media coverage. The concept itself is merely an extension of the blitzkrieg notion that the enemy command structure, not his troop masses, are the true center of gravity on the battlefield. During the campaign of 1940, Heinz Guderian’s panzers bypassed many French formations, leaving them unfought, knowing that if their command structure were severed, the whole musclebound mass would fall to the ground headless. What the Left gradually discovered during the course of the Vietnam war was that Guderian had not been bold enough. Guderian still felt it necessary to win on the battlefield. He had not realized that it was possible to ignore the battlefield altogether because it was the enemy political structure, not his military capability, that was the true center of gravity of an entire campaign. It was General Giap during the Vietnam War who first planned a military operation entirely around its possible media effect. The Tet offensive was a last desperate attempt to gain the upper hand in a war he was losing.”

Read the whole thing.

MediaGuardian is reporting:

“Piers Morgan was last night sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror as the newspaper apologised ‘unreservedly’ for publishing photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse that were faked”

The report goes on to report:

“The Daily Mirror said in a statement that it would be inappropriate for Morgan to continue as editor and acknowledged the damage it had done to the reputation of the British army”

It should be pointed out that there’s a leftist fringe running things in the press in the UK, as well. But, give the Brits this; They oust their idiots when they go over the line.

One wonders when we might expect such action from the Boston Globe.

See also, “hell”,”snowball”

The AP and the local NBC outnet in Portland report that

Here’s two people that should never be allowed to work in radio again.

But of course the usual idiots over at Moonbat Central started wailing about how this was all in response to pressure from the White House over ‘decency’.

I guess there’s no limits to the depths of leftist idiocy.

Hat tip to Billy Beck who apparently found other sources for this story.

UPDATE: Lest you think this situation is unique, it appears all the usual leftists are having a yukfest over this one. Gary Trudeau’s Donesbury is the latest to cross this line.

And these idiots are all John Kerry supporters.
Which oughta tell you somehting about the quality of the one they’re supporting.

FOXNews.com – Top Stories – Sarin Gas Released by Iraq Roadside Bomb

Sarin?
I thought that stuff didn’t exist.
Wasn’t that the anti-war crowd’s claim?

Hmmm..

The Telegraph:

Well, now! I can see a whole BIT in this one paragraph, can’t you?
Kinda puts the Democrats cries of ‘scandal’ into perspective, doesn’t it?

Neal Boortz is interesting as usual, today:

I’ve not had the chance to verify what he’s talking about here, but I will. And anyway, he’s always been on the money on such matters in the past, which is why he’s on my BlogRoll… One of the few commercial operations to be there. If you’re not a blogger who is running out of the love of doing it, you’d better be damned good to end up on my roll. Boortz is. And to add to the reasons why, Boortz goes on:

Read the whole thing.

Roger L. Simon has the definition of torture.

I won’t comment, because Roger does an excellent job of it.

I’m considering adding Roger to my blogroll.

The New BIT is up, called Signs of desperation on the Left

Comment here.