Santa Monica Freeway - rush hour Friday.

We have received another missive from the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel at Freeway Blogger

This sign took me about an hour and a half to make, thirty seconds to post and cost less than a dollar in materials.  It stayed up for over an hour. More people should start doing this.

Wanted to let you know that things are really starting to take off now.  People are sending in signs by the hour (well, some hours anyway…) where once they were coming in by the week.  As someone who’s been helping spread the word with me on this one pretty much from the start, I thought you should know: The Word is getting Spread… Things are Starting to Happen.

Whether it happens enough and in time is anybody’s guess, but, like everything else in this bizarre new world, it’s gonna be close…

Yours, as Ever, Scarlet P.

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If only Kerry were from the Bronx

Robert Scheer in the LA Times

How I wish that John Kerry had grown up in my old neighborhood in the Bronx. It drives me crazy that he doesn’t have the street smarts to call those GOP bums out.

Bitter Shack of Resentment opines,

“And you wonder why I’m bitter

Hendrik Hertzberg, the savviest journalist in the United States, observes in this week’s New Yorker:

By persistently ignoring Bush’s record, the Kerry camp probably made a political mistake. By ruthlessly distorting Kerry’s, the Bush camp certainly made a moral mistake. Unfortunately for Kerry, moral mistakes, unlike political ones, don’t generally lose elections.

I wish he weren’t so right.”

Earth to Kerry, earth to Kerry. This is a knive fight not a tea party.

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Al Qaida ‘Duped allies into waging war’

One of al Qaida’s aims in its September 11 attacks on the US three years ago was to draw the west into military conflict on Arab soil, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s former envoy to Iraq acknowledged today.

Sir Jeremy Greenstock’s comments appeared to give some credence to the argument of critics of the Iraq War that the US and UK played into al Qaida’s hands by launching last year’s invasion.

They used the belligerent aggressiveness of the neocons to their own advantage, yes they did, and suckered them into a quaqmire. All of which was made considerably easier by the neocons belief in their inerrancy and in believing their military could not be defeated. Both beliefs, of course, have been proven by events to be delusions.  

Sir Jeremy today said the allies had “suffered the consequences” in Iraq of al Qaida’s determination to exploit the opportunities presented by a war on Arab soil.

He said that the West could not defeat bin Laden’s terror network by military means alone, but must adopt policies to reduce resentment in the Muslim world.

If the allies failed to help Iraq put an end to its current instability, they would be left “worse off than when we started”, he warned.

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