Exploding sausage

A woman diner was left with horrific burns after a Portuguese sausage dish exploded in her face.

The woman, who spent two weeks in hospital and has since undergone two skin graft operations, said it was like being hit by a "flame-thrower".

- thisislondon

Welcome to America

Anyone in Syria--from the worst terrorists at Islamic Jihad, HAMAS, and assorted other terrorist groups headquartered in Syria--can claim to be a "refugee" from Iraq. And we have no way to stop them from claiming that status or keeping them from entering the country. Mohammed Atta Bin Allah can claim he is Ahmed from Baghdad, and the Citizenship and Immigration Services employee must accept that claim at face value. Welcome--up to 7,000 (or more) Islamic terrorists--to America! Welcome!

The only thing that is being done is a taking of fingerprints--fingerprints which will only be connected to whatever name and claim the fingerprintee gives the Arabic translator.

- Debbie Schlussel

Ticket to power

Turn to the Washington Post and read about Sen. Joe Biden contradicting the administration and the military's claims that the "surge" in Iraq is producing dividends. Don't be misled, chides Biden. Don't dare focus on any good news coming out of Iraq that doesn't fit into our anti-Bush, anti-war template. Talk all you want about increased security in Baghdad, but the chaos on the city's periphery more than outweighs any gains we've made. The surge, says Biden, is doomed to fail.

Is it too harsh to infer that Biden and his ilk are rooting for failure in Iraq? If bad news doesn't immediately jump out at them, they redouble their efforts to find it, because bad news is their currency. It is their ticket to political power.

- David Limbaugh

You can be outraged, but you cannot be surprised.

Democrats have always sought ways to create bad news, and then exploit it.

Employment rights

But since the [Largo] City Commission's two votes to fire him in February and March, [Steve] Stanton has been recruited to join a national fight for transsexual employment rights.

Stanton, who is married and has a teenage son, has said he is beginning the process of legally changing his name to Susan.

- AP/Miami Herald

The next Joey Harrington?

Brady Quinn already has taken a down-and-out football team and turned it around. He figures he can do it again.

That's why the Notre Dame quarterback believes he is highly qualified to immediately help a troubled NFL franchise - and why he should be the first Fighting Irish player taken with the opening pick in the NFL draft in 35 years.

NFL draft history is littered with failed college quarterbacks, such as Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, Todd Marinovich, Rick Mirer, Joey Harrington and others.

- AP/Miami Herald

If Brady Quinn turns out to be in the same list as Ryan Leaf and Rick Mirer, it is going to be painful to watch.

The Religion of Peace

More than 90 years ago, when Turkey was still part of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish nationalists launched an extermination campaign there that killed 1.5 million Armenians. It was the 20th century’s first genocide.

Turkey has long tried to deny the Armenian genocide.

- NY Times editorial

Ex-Wisconsin congressman Jim Moody was a long-time denier of the Armenian genocide.

Biden gets hawkish

Delaware's Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a Democratic presidential candidate, called Wednesday for the use of military force to end the suffering in Darfur.

- delawareonline

So while the Democrats are complaining non-stop about the fact that we haven't surrendered in Iraq yet, about overstretch of the military, about how we can't win because it's a civil war, Joe Biden wants to start a new ground war in Sudan.

- RWN

RWN has a lot more to say about it here.