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“Hardline Hindu and Muslim groups burned Valentine’s Day greeting cards on Tuesday and held protests across India against celebrating the festival of love, saying it was a Western import that spread immorality.”

“Pakistanis torch KFC, other building
Thousands rampaged through two Pakistani cities Tuesday, storming into a diplomatic district and setting fire to Western businesses in the country’s worst wave of violence against the Prophet Mohammad cartoons.”

And you’re worried about Iran and the possibility of their building a nuclear bomb? Pakistan and India are the ones to worry about. Both of them have bombs and neither one are members of the Non-Proliferation “club”.

And of course Cheney got the lashing he deserved…who handles public relations for him anyway? Whoever it is did everything wrong.

"Bush-Quail '06," cracked Democratic strategist Jenny Backus.

"The CIA assured Cheney that Harry Whittington was actually a pheasant," added Democratic speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum.

"The worst part is, he was aiming at the special prosecutor," contributed John Kerry spokesman David Wade.

Democratic staffers on the Hill could be heard singing a parody of Aerosmith's "Janie's Got a Gun," using the words "Cheney's got a gun." Or marveling at how "Republicans really don't like lawyers, do they?" or circulating a quote from Bush, in a 2000 interview with the Houston Chronicle, in which he hailed Cheney as "somebody who is going to shoot straight with the American people."

"The Daily Show" last night, Jon Stewart, speaking as a "concerned parent," urged viewers never to let their children go on hunting trips with the vice president. "I can't emphasize this enough," Stewart said. "I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land, or energy regulation they're trying to get lifted. . . . He'll shoot them in the face."

Likewise, David Letterman's Top 10 list was devoted to "Dick Cheney's excuses," which included that he "thought the guy was trying to go gay cowboy on me."

And this morning I read that the victim, Harry Whittington, was released from Intensive Care yesterday. That’s two days in Intensive Care for injuries that the PR people described as minor? Knowing what I do about today’s health care, there is something inheritantly fishy about that statement.