... of what 8-hour jaunts through town won't buy...

An overwhelming percentage of people in largely Muslim Indonesia view the United States unfavorably. Even in South Korea, a key ally, more than half have a poor view of America....

....In a June poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 83 percent of Indonesians said they view the United States unfavorably, up from 60 percent a year earlier. Nearly 70 percent of those who expressed negative views blamed them on Bush, while 20 percent blamed the United States in general.
The Pew survey found similar erosion of the U.S. image in other nations that participate in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum that Bush is attending in Bangkok, Thailand.

These words are pretty good. Hickenlooper makes it emotional, and personal. He isn't committal, but he does talk about the ideas that exist to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I'm not sure they're sufficient.

The mayor points out that the shooter was just three to five feet away, which is different than what we'd thought.

The article points out that the officer is still under internal investigation.

Mike Rosen is the conservative talk show host on Colorado's biggest AM radio station, and the preferred mouthpiece for Governor Owens and Tom Tancredo and the rest of the radical right in Colorado. His column in this morning's RMN said:

When you stir up a mixture of young men and women with raging hormones in confined quarters under extraordinary stress, you have a sure-fire formula for sexual fraternization. ...

...As a result of this investigation, the Air Force Academy will effect policy changes to better integrate and accommodate female cadets in a coeducational environment. Unfortunately, that's a politically correct solution for the wrong problem.

Jurassic era? Definitely pre-neanderthal.

Box cutters and suspicious notes were found in bags left in the lavatories of two Southwest Airlines planes, officials said today.

The discovery prompted government officials to order searches of more than 7,000 aircraft in the nation's commercial fleet. (RMN today)

What terrorist forewarns like this???

This is unbelievable:

a county judge with the name - get this - Ronald E. Reagan is acting like Papillion is located somewhere south of Beijing or east of Havana.

..."It's difficult enough to learn the English language, you know," Reagan told Amador. "And if you put her in a situation where people aren't communicating in a language that she understands, that's not fair to the child."

Ah, but it wasn't Ahnuld...

The FBI met a flight from Miami at Denver International Airport on Wednesday to arrest a man accused of groping a woman while she slept on that flight.

Kolotov faces misdemeanor charges of abusive sexual contact and simple assault. If convicted, he could be imprisoned for up to six months and fined up to $5,000.

Only 8% of a Hummer anyhow.....

Hard to believe a gazillionaire carpetbagging Republican lobbyist who incites racism could beat an incumbent Democrat down South for Governor, but Haley Barbour is calilng in chits from Cheney, Bush et al and has more cash than his opponent.

He's running against unemployment, apparently, which is at about 6.3% in Mississippi.

Excuse me? How does do nothing Owens get away untarnished with the exact same performacne here in Colorado?

He's a Republican, and we let him.

Officer won't be charged in Childs shooting:

Our decision today is that we cannot go forward with the criminal prosecution" of Turney, (District Attorney) Ritter said at the news conference. "I have no reasonable belief that a jury of 12 people would convict Officer Turney."

The U.S. Attorney has said he'll review the findings.

My view? Fire the cop who shot this 15 year old three times in the abdomen. The kid was 'wielding' a knife at a significant distance from the cops. The cop who shot him had a history.

The ACLU and others are pushing for an independent investigation. If the Police Department won't discipline the cop appropriately, I'd agree.

The News has decided to try a last-minute smear job on Debra Vickrey, the Democrat's candidate for mayor of Aurora who has suddenly looked like the leader in an historically conservative city, by raising her past bankruptcies in the last couple of weeks prior to the election.

Quote of the piece:

"Once, you kind of get a free ride," said Bob LeGare, one of two other mayoral candidates. "But twice? . . . I'm not going to go after her on it, but boy, the voters have got to ask some questions."

Reason enough not to vote for him.

No, clearly every candidate at every level of government should be rich enough to buy office and serve without any financial issues.

We need more Ahnulds.

I hope the voters in Aurora will ignore this smear about past difficulties which were not illegal and which afflict tens of millions in the country ... but I'm not optimistic. She's not a Hollywood hero, she's not from the party in power, she's not rich, and she's .... a she.

The Bush Administration can't manage because Bush can't manage. Never could. His daddy-fostered career was evidence enough, but I particularly love the quote from a Prof at HBS who indicated that Bush was one of the few from the biz school whom he could never imagine hired at a F500 firm.

The Post channels Administration apologists today and tries to make Rice the emissary victim;Rice fails to repair rifts.

I can't recall a single meeting with Jack Welch at GE or any of his direct reports where that individual deferred to a subaltern to knock heads together in order to get something going.

Bush is being pinned down by his incompetence. The media should focus on that.