authorities don't know the motive....

The U.S. military confirmed Wednesday that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq.

A spokesman for U.S. military's Central Command told The Associated Press that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul.

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Scott Rye said authorities don't know the motive for the attack, which was reported last week by Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television. Iraqi security forces were apparently targeted.

a little more here.

gas

We think they should buy it for us.

It's the gas prices

If Obama wants to connect to the working class he needs to talk seriously about gas prices. It is their central concern.

Hillary's base

No matter how hard you try you will find it impossible to under estimate the intelligence and knowledge of the average Pennsylvania voter.

More here.

Experience, Clinton style

I used to be a tugboat captain. With that experience my wife is now entitled to be a tugboat captain.

Poll (2 parts)

Pick one:

Extraterrestrial beings visit Earth because

1. They think us interesting and want to be our friends.

2. They want to eat us.

3. Watching us destroy ourselves amuses them.

Pick one:

1. There are more than one type of extraterrestrial beings, from more than one place. Some want to be our friends. Some want to eat us. Some want to eat some of us.

2. There are extraterrestrial beings but they do not visit us and do not care about us.

3. There are no extraterrestrial beings.

Tell your friends.

Obama

I liked his speech a lot, though I think it went whistling right by the wad of chuckleheads that make up this country's core. The more I see of Obama the more I like him. Yesterday, in the speech, he seemed to put it right out there as he saw it, not contrived to meet what experts advised would reach the wad.

The more I see of Hillary's campaign the more I'm reminded of Karl Rove. The Clintons are beginning to feel like a virus.

Clinton and Obama

When one seems to surge ahead I begin to like the other one.