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To: LindyBill who wrote (75353)	10/6/2004 9:56:37 PM
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It's come to this. Allah Joe Scarborough of MSNBC wrinkled up and discarded Dan Rather's poll. The host of "After Hours" announced that there were two post-debate polls of reaction to the vice-presidential debate, one from ABC and another from CBS. CBS had done a poll of "uncommitted" voters which seemed to conflict with the general consensus of who won the debate. . . . Scarborough announced that he had the poll, "But since it's from CBS, we're not going to bother you with the results." As he said this he wrinkled up a paper and threw it on the floor. And speaking of crumpling shit up and throwing it on the floor: I state, as a peer reviewer of this paper, that his paper demonstrates a remarkable amount of poor scientific methodology, and ultimately in no way supports the hypothesis that these documents were typed on a physical typewriter that was in existence in 1972. I've got a funny feeling I know who the first defense witness will be in Utah State University v. Aylward. Assuming it happens. Which I hope it doesn't. In other Rathergate news, the founder of BoycottCBS.com claims to have gotten a very nice e-mail from Black Rock today. The word "putz" figures prominently. Posted by Allah at 08:52 PM \| Comments (2) \| TrackBack (0) Crunch time in Afghanistan for the mujahedeen, who tried their best today to crap in the punchbowl. Too late, says the Daily Telegraph: Three years after the Taliban were chased out, Kabul has returned to the real world. The streets are jammed with cars, the shops are full of goods. Last year Afghanistan's economy grew by 30 per cent. The weirdest thing about Kabul under the Taliban used to be its unnatural silence. Now it's as noisy as anywhere on earth. . . . The fact is that even if the streets of the city erupt with explosions this coming week, it will be too late. Barring the worst of disasters, the presidential election now seems unstoppable. The process of voter registration has been a remarkable success: so good, it may be that at least a million voters have registered more than once. "This is Afghanistan, after all,' one Western ambassador says, indulgently. Forty per cent of the registered voters are women: another major success. So although there have been problems in the south and west of the country - the Pashtu-speaking areas, where the Taliban have traditionally had their support - the election should be an important stage on Afghanistan's road to recovery. . . . This is not Baghdad. The Americans and their allies are not unpopular here - except in the east and south of the country, where there has been fighting - and they are regarded as guarantors of Afghanistan's stability. The West is seen as essentially benign. At the international donors' conference in Berlin last April, $8 billion in aid and investment was pledged over the next three years: about as much as the Afghan economy can absorb. There is no equivalent here of the stories you hear every day in Iraq, about people being insulted or mistreated by American soldiers; no suburbs, towns or cities are attacked with the latest American weaponry. If Afghanistan gets safely through this week, it will be a remarkable success story. It should be noted that John Simpson, the author of the article, doesn't work for the Daily Telegraph. To find out which rabidly pro-American Chimp-puppet news source he does work for, you'll have to click the link and scroll down to the bottom. Almost five thousand U.S. troops are being transferred from Iraq to Afghanistan to help secure polling places this weekend. Chances are good a few bombs will go off before all's said and done. Take a moment to click here and wish 'em luck. allahpundit.com