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The best part about our Torture Offsets is that they alleviate leftist guilt about what’s being done to all the poor Johnny Jihads down in Gitmo while not actually doing anything to free them.  Added bonus: by contributing to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, they also drain away money that may have gone to more viable Democrat candidates.

Well, this is stupid:

The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.

I just got an email from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying this is a great idea, but why stop with the candles? What, he asks, about the “people” that are lighting those Hanukkah candles? Thanks to the recent NIE, calculated as it was to neuter any hard liner approach with the Iranians, his wish for less Kosher carbon is probably considerably closer.

UPDATE at 9:59pm, 12/11/07: First they came for the candles. Then they came for the babies. (h/t LGF)

UPDATE at 11:17pm, 12/16/07: First they came for the candles, then they came for the babies.

We really shouldn’t be surprised that democracy is next. (h/t Instapundit and Mark Steyn)

UPDATE on 10/25/07 at 9:00pm: Took this one down for a bit after it was posted yesterday — wasn’t sure if it was appropriate to be making reference to the wildfires given all the homes people lost in California, and that the fires are still burning. Especially since the strip uncharitably plays on the assumption that the Left will default to old favorites (e.g., environmental neopaganism and conspiracy theories) in the face of tragedy.

On the other hand, our Democrat masters have decided it’s okay to use the fires to grind their favorite axes. (See Harry Reid on the global warming root cause of the fire here; Barbara Boxer on how Iraq damages our ability fight fires here; some guy claiming to be California’s Democrat Lt. Governor saying a Bush visit will hurt firefighting efforts here.) So has the MSM (CNN using the fires to push their “Planet in Peril” series here, but also told not to come off as too shrill on global warming). So I guess it isn’t too soon after all.

Post-Katrina, we all know the script. If the sensationalism is blunted this time around — and the inevitable political and economic concessions that would follow — it’s only because it’ll be harder for the MSM to get away with it this time.

Mark Steyn’s thoughts on how illegals are plaguing American society — most recently by murdering three college-age kids in Newark, New Jersey — can be found here. Meanwhile, Power Line notes the MSM reluctance to ask where certain felons hail from.

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