Tuesday, April 5. 2005
Allergy Allergy, like depression, is taken seriously mainly by those who have had it. And by the docs and researchers who deal with it. A truly effective treatment would be a blessing not only for the very few with life-threatening food or bee-sting allergies, but to all of the asthmatics, the dog- and cat-allergics, and the hay-fever snifflers. A new treatment may be in store, if you can hang on for a few more years: Click here: The New York Times > Health > A Therapy for Cat Allergies, Thanks to Mice Socialized Medicine I am agin' it. If you think Canada is bad, look at England. At least England allows private medicine. This piece grossly understates the real issue, which is that bureaucrats run the system: "The UK is good at developing new medical technologies, but bad at making them available to patients, a draft version of a government report says. The study blamed the centralised way the NHS was run for failing to make the most of breakthroughs in areas such as scanners and ventilators." Read entire and be glad that you're in America: Click here: BBC NEWS | Health | NHS 'not making most of progress'
Poor Paulie He showed so much promise at first. Oh Paulie, you did not listen to Maggie's last post, did you? Psychiatrists around the country are thinking, discussing and will soon provide your family with recommendations for hospitalization. It will be as soon as they figure out the degree of your insanity. I believe you may have offended quite a number of scientists, professors, philosophers, doctors and just about anyone with a brain. Either you are smoking some strange stuff or you have lost your mind. To read the entire column click here but you have been warned: Click here: The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: An Academic Question The Best (?) The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. Oh goody, now we know who is the best poet, journalist, critic and author of the year. Quick get thee to the local newsstand and book store lest you be left with nothing to discuss on the way to work or at the water fountain that is if there still is a water fountain. Can't wait to find out who will be the best blogger. Click here: The Pulitzer Prizes
 Boo Hoo Red-blooded males across America are in despair. Laura Ingraham was engaged on Saturday. Francistan, Still Nuts Public acknowledgement of the Pope's death has drawn fury from the French Left: "Lowering of flags on all state buildings was "totally out of place and at the limit of legality." Click here: Reuters AlertNet - French flag tribute to Pope sparks left-wing anger Remote-Control Hunting This sounds like a Scrapple-Face piece: Click here: Hunting by remote control draws fire from all quarters | csmonitor.com As a hunter, I feel that this is a funny story, but disgusting. An African Pope Drudge and others are on this story. My opinion? Great. Or Asian or Hispanic or anything. What is this obsession with color, anyway? Does God care about color, or about souls? Click here: News Berger Cartoon
Monday, April 4. 2005
Voting, Supremes, and The Conservative Crack Up Just in case you were beginning to feel good about this beautiful day, here's 2 pieces to raise your blood pressure. Guess what party she belongs to: Click here: Governor vetoes bill requiring all voters to show identification | The Arizona Daily Star ® But out of kindness to our readers, this one will raise your spirits back up. Whatever drugs Steyn takes, I need some. Re people lining up to oppose Bolton:
"But that goes double when the 59 panjandrums lined up against you are Princeton Monteagle Jr., President Nixon's ambassador to the Spurgeon Islands; Spurgeon Monkfish III, President Ford's ambassador to the Lyman Islands; Dartmouth Monticello IV, President Johnson's personal emissary to His Serene Highness the Monteagle of Keeny; Columbia Long-Playing-Album, the first diplomat to be named by President Carter to the State Department's Name Control Agency; and Vasser Peachy-Keeny, the first woman to be named Vasser Peachy-Keeny. One sees their point, of course: Let a fellow called "John" Bolton become ambassador and next thing you know Earl and Bud will want the gig." Click here: GOP crack-up? Pardon my guffaw
The Euristan Union The News Junkie made a good point today when he wondered why any nation would voluntarily join an Empire and sacrifice their autonomy and uniqueness and freedom. Aren't those things more valuable than anything that could be gained? The Big Trunk has an absurd but real example about the EU wanting to change place names in Scotland: Click here: Power Line: April 2005 Archives
Loss of A Great Christian Thank you Fred Barnes: "EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS loved Pope John Paul II. Many felt more in harmony with him than with the leaders of their own denomination. I attend an Episcopal church and I certainly preferred the Pope. He was the world's greatest defender of orthodox, Bible-based Christianity. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and possibly a majority of its bishops are among the great diluters of classical Christianity. "Click here: A Great Christian US vs Grokster Re "file-sharing," (ie stealing): "One of the people on the sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court building to demonstrate against Grokster's free-for-the-taking world was Lamont Dozier. When Lamont Dozier speaks, I listen. Mr. Dozier wrote Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get a Witness," ergo he must have a clue. In a royalty-free Grokster world, says Mr. Dozier, he'd have spent his most creative years on the floor of a Detroit auto factory rather than writing Motown masterpieces." Click here: OpinionJournal - Wonder Land Add me to the list of the pro-Motown crew. Pop music without Motown would have been a very sad thing. 400,000 Just learned that Daily Kos gets over 400,000 hits/day. Holy Mackerel. Are there that many p-offed people out there? Guess so. They should all chill, and read Maggie instead. On the other hand, I was mildly p-offed at the news when we had Clinton to kick around. But we had Rush for therapy....Hey Bird Dog - if you want that kind of world-class volume, fire us (please - the pay stinks anyway) and become an Angry Left Wing anti-American Christian-hating wacko Commie pacifist Saddam-excusing, Castro-loving, Bush-bashing blog. I will not soil Maggie's Farm by providing the link to Kos - find it yourself. The Next Pope Isn't this the way the world is? It seems in very bad taste but you can be certain millions are thinking about who the next Pope should be and will be. Right Wing Nuthouse, of all people, sounds like he has inside info: Click here: Right Wing Nut House » WHO WILL WEAR THE “SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN?”: Politics served up with a smile... And a still Euristan The French may very well not approve the EU Constitution, which essentially means that the EU vision would die. Which would be good for those folks, if national identity and soverighty and national freedom mean anything to those countries. Who would willingly JOIN an empire? You're supposed to be conquered first - right? (The US has no skin in this game - these countries are in a mess anyway with their socialism, their chronically taking the wrong, submissive side of history in international affairs, their immigration debacle, and sadly they are in decline. Very pretty on the outside - rotten on the inside. And they know it, but are too proud to admit it, which is understandable.) The French seem to have imagined that it would create a Mega-France. Not so: "...At the same time, the French have begun to realize that in the enlarged EU, which took in ten new members, mostly from Eastern Europe, last year, Paris can no longer call the shots." : Click here: Unlikely threat to EU charter? The French. | csmonitor.com White Male Blogosphere I guess we have another crisis with white males dominating the blogosphere. Let's worry about it - that will do a lot of good. Talk about a small "d" democratic medium - this is the ultimate. A big welcome to anyone of any of the 3 genders, million colors and languages, etc. Jump right in - it's a big pool and the water's warm: Click here: MSNBC - Blogging Beyond the Men's Club
Saturday, April 2. 2005
The Pope The world owes a debt of gratitude to Pope JP II for his moral challenge to people, and to himself. A true Rock. And a heck of a skier, I've heard, in his younger days. A humble bearer of The Word who you could easily imagine having a Sam Adams with on the slopes, maybe at Mad River Glen, but surely not Deer Valley. What a fine send-off he is receiving from around the world.
Crazy Things Compulsive bloggers and web surfers have surely book-marked Al Jazeera already, as they probably have Daily Kos too - if only for amusement. Of course it is good to see how other folks view the world, even if we may find it despicable or out of reality. One aspect I find enlightening about Al Jazeera is the extent to which militant Islam seems to feel allied with the pacifist Left. Strange bedfellows indeed. How long can that charming romance last?
Friday, April 1. 2005
Syria and Lebanon Today in the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer writes about the true Evil Axis affecting the Democratic campaign in the Middle East. America's focus needs to redirected to Syria where a true dagger in the Terrorist heart can be inflicted. Harsh words to use but "when in Rome......" Syria and the New Axis of Evil (washingtonpost.com) "As Iraq, in fits and starts, begins finding its way to self-rule, the center of gravity of the Bush Doctrine and the American democratization project shifts to Lebanon/Syria. The rapid evacuation and collapse of the Syrian position in Lebanon is crucial not just because of what it will do for Lebanon but because of the weakening effect it will have on the Assad dictatorship. We need, therefore, to be relentless in insisting on a full (and as humiliating as possible) evacuation of Syria from Lebanon, followed by a campaign of economic, political and military pressure on the Assad regime. We must push now and push hard." letters@charleskrauthammer.com Then read the article by Victor Davis Hanson, the blogger no one should miss, who writes "The Noose Tightens" clearly pointing out why Assad's demise is in everyone's best interest. VDH's Private Papers::The Noose TightensAnd finally, one last entry worth perusing is "Lebanese Politics for Beginners" by
The New Mexican-American War Sounds like the wild wild west down on the border. These new Minutemen aren't armed, but maybe they should be: "Mexican Military on Standby in Response to Minutemen Mexico's President Vicente Fox is preparing to respond militarily to a group of U.S volunteers who plan to patrol the U.S.-Mexican border starting tomorrow, positioning more than a thousand troops nearby, according to an Arizona TV station. "The Mexican military is on standby," reports NBC's Tucson affiliate KVOA. "One unit has about a thousand soldiers. They're located just across the border." Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story "There is no Marshall Earp to keep order when the Minutemen boys tangle up with the ACLU crew riding into town this time. Only the feds.....God help us. Tomorrow the CNN, the MSNBC, the FOX, and assorted other elements of the media will descend on this sleepy little place. The residents will not have to concern themselves about one group though....Mexicans....there isn't an illegal within a hundred miles of this place for the time being. Don't worry about about this area. Tombstone is reacting to this latest little dust up the same way it has for over a hundred years.....business as usual." Read entire: Click here: TOMBSTONE - The Calm Before the
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