What Is Flig?

Now, normally, I stay out of politics. Politics involves a lot of thinking and talking, and things that aren't either Good or Evil, and don't respond well to a Mighty Application of Physical Force. But this year is different.

Ya see, back about three years ago, America's alarm clock went off, and told us it was Time to Fight Evil. Now, this wasn't the first time it had rung, but before, America hit the Snooze Bar of Ignorance, or we stuck our heads under the Pillow of Apathy. But President Bush jumped in the shower, and ran out to fight Evil without even making a pot of coffee.

He knew that when Evil knocks on your door, you don't invite it in for tea. That'll just get your apartment all messy and probably smelling like feet. No, you slam the door in its face, then you follow it home and try to knock some sense into it, and let its apartment smell like feet. It probably did before you got there, anyway.

And while you're pummeling Evil, you keep pummeling, until it gives up and decides that it has better things to do than Be Evil. Because it knows where you live, and it could come knocking any day now. And you just cleaned your living room and you don't even like tea.

So vote for President Bush, and keep the Rug of Freedom vaccumed, and the knick-knack shelves of Liberty well-dusted.

Update:

N.Z. Bear has posted the Heroes for Bush Blogburst roundup.

From Al-Guardian via Stephen Green:

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Iran is unlikely to accept European incentives aimed at getting it to suspend uranium enrichment, diplomats said Thursday, raising the prospect of a showdown next month between Tehran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency.

Envoys from Britain, France and Germany offered civilian nuclear technology and a trade deal to the Iranians in a private meeting at the French mission to international organizations in Vienna. But Western diplomats said they doubt Iran will back down easily.

Iran did not immediately respond to the incentives, which included the promise of lucrative trade, a light-water nuclear research reactor and the chance to buy nuclear fuel from the West.

Which gives me an idea so crazy It Just Might Work!

1. First! We raise 2 Billion Dollars - One for me, One for you.

2. Second! We hire the worst nuclear physicists in the hemisphere! (I'd start by looking at the French.)

3. Third! We open our nuclear reactor - The EU gives us billions to stop.

4. Fourth! We close our nuclear reactor, and retire to RIO!

Whaddayasay? Are you in?

Update:

Roger L. Simon has more.

One of the reasons I haven't done the promised PSM roundup is because the Conference and its aftermath were depressingly predictable:

• The conference refused to condemn terrorism or suicide bombing.

• Protests were mostly peaceful, although a bomb threat was called in on the Bryan Center (the Student Union.)

• Israeli policy was equated with apartheid.

I doubt many minds were changed on either side or in the middle.

A few other links: Offical Duke site.

JPost Article

And finally, Isreallycool has owned the story of the most notable thing to come out of the conference, a nasty, anti-semitic, and annoyingly whiny) op-ed in the Chronicle. Scroll up for his back-and-forth with the author.

Had an exhausting day today - Mitchell was being extra-two-years-old. I'll have a PSM roundup tomorrow, in the meantime, here's an article from the Jerusalem Post, courtesy of my sister.