Soccer Dad: Submitted 04/11/2007

April 12, 2007

Submitted 04/11/2007

This week was an excellent week for the Watcher's Council.

In Securing the Food Supply III, pet owner the Glittering Eye uses the recent contamination of the as part of a continuing examination of the safety of the human food supply. He finds the relevant government agencies lacking and is not at all assured that a determined terrorist would find it difficult to wreak havoc by sabotaging the food supply. It's a jungle out there.

In Strangers, Eternity Road wonders what differences - be they political or religious - are bridgeable and which aren't. He also examines which believers may be subject to cooperation with other, possibly incompatible believers.

In Who'd a thunk it, Done with Mirrors goes into another funhouse with distorted mirrors as is his habit and discovers a world where the unexpected occurs. In this case it is Democrats, not Republicans who are corrupted by big business.

Colossus of Rhodey.Hube once again turns to the world of entertainment to entertain us with considersations of Minority Superheroes and the political purposes they serve.

In Heart Rending Stories, Bookworm Room considers what we learn about descriptions of people who are affected by war, and the political purposes those descriptions serve.

In Hypocrite Alert, Education Wonks departs his usual musing about classroom issues and goes hunting Romneys - Mitt Romney that is - over his not likely hunting career. By the way he complains about the outsize influence small states such as New Hamshire and Iowa (used to) have on the election process.

Don't Know Your Enemy finds Cheet Seeking Missiles criticizing Speaker Pelosi for seeking peace, love and understanding in all the wrong places.

JoshuaPundit's Black Flag Flying ... is a pessimistic reading of the recent Arab + 1 summit. He argues that the Bush administration's bet on a Sunni counterweight to Shi'ite mischief failed and now both are aligned against us.

Big Lizards' Al-Qaeda in Iraq Committing Institutional Suicide is an optimistic view that the insurgency in Iraq has overplayed its hand and gotten Sunni and Shi'a alike to align with us against them.

Rhymes with Right offers some Thoughts on Mockingbird and its importance even if, as literature, it's not perfect.

Finally Right Wing Nuthouse skewers some falsely hopeful reporting in AP Hopes for More Iran �Compromises.� and That Unicorns Are Real. In general his point is: why is compromise with someone intent on doing you harm considered a good thing in many "sophisticated" quarters considered a good thing?

Please read these and be enlightened as I am every week. I had hoped that writing out summaries would help me decide ... Hmmm. Meanwhile Cheat Seeking Missiles who listed the Council Entries offered a link fest of the posts he considered for his non-council nomination.

And by the way, I entered Why does Jewish come for Democrat? in a criticism of the NJDC. I probably wouldn't have written it if all the NJDC had done was whitewash Speaker Pelosi, but it faulted the administration for criticizing her. Given that she hurt the positions of the two governments she said she was trying to help, the NJDC's outrage is more partisan than sincere.

Other summaries are at JoshuaPundit and the Glittering Eye.

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