Please don't link Islam to terrorism say officials US govt officials at the National Counterterrorism Center.

It implies that a religion or a race is terrorist and that is not the impression the US wants to spread around the world.

Says the The Washington Times

"Avoid labeling everything 'Muslim.' It reinforces the 'U.S. vs. Islam' framework that al Qaeda promotes," according to "Words that Work and Words that Don't: A Guide for Counter-Terrorism Communication," produced last month by the center.

"You have a large percentage of the world' s population that subscribes to this religion," the former official said. "Unintentionally alienating them is not a judicious move."

Ya think?

Funny if they had said this four years ago, they would have been called terrorist sympathizers by their own newspaper.

Is it already too late to rename the war on terrorism as the "Great Clash of Civilizations", to something a little nicer sounding, like 'death cult' or 'violent cultists.' Just think these people get paid to think this stuff through.

Part of the reason Burma doesn't want to accept US aid from the UN is because they see warships off their coast with helicopters to deliver food. The problem is they don't trust the US to ever leave the country.

(It's OK if you are a republican)

Today Cindy McCain was on the Today show and was asked when she was going to release her tax returns. Her reply: "Never!"

Who remembers 4 years ago when most the nations media and conservative blogging community demanded that Theresa Heinz Kerry release her tax returns. btw - Theresa did release her returns.

Why is it now OK for Cindy to say "go suck eggs"? I'll tell you why. IOKIYAAR!

I was just over reading the comments of the folks at Taylor Marsh's site. I feel dirty.

I was pretty appalled by the Talk Left Hillery Youth/ObamaHaters. Taylor's crew are way way worse.

I didn't see anyone who wasn't on board completely. No discussion of any preceived mis-steps of her campaign, only that of hating Barack.

Kool Aide drinkers. I don't really like conservatives who are Kool Aide Drinkers. It's really repugnant when I see it on Democrats.

Mutualist author Kevin Carson has an interesting review of a book about evolutionary economics or something.

In any case it's an interesting read for those of you not too familiar with his work. He makes the standard argument that truly free markets are nothing like what the media and government means when they talk about "free markets".