Tuesday, May 24. 2005
The Death of the Environmental Movement announced by environmentalists. In Bidinotto Blog. Does the Int. Red Cross Hate the US? In WJS The End of the Repub Revolution? It does look like it. It's tough to get much done in DC. In Intellectual Conservative. Revenge of the Sith. Fine review of the series, with great attention to detail, by Captains Quarters; another appreciative one by Shape of Days. Language and the Left. Zide suggests changing the language of the Left, to make it more innocuous. No - dont consider changing the ideas which have been unchanged since 1930. Watch for new keywords to appear.
Monday, May 23. 2005
Sex Ed in Olde Massachusetts From Right Thinking, in his usual direct, refined style: As much as I often disagree with the social conservative movement, if the facts here are as they state them, this is one of the most offensive things I’ve ever seen. Not so much because of the content, but because someone thought that this was appropriate material to distribute at a high school. These same people, of course, would go apeshit if anyone dared to mention God or Jesus in a class, but see nothing wrong with explain to teenagers how to piss on each other, and give a list of clubs where they can go for sex. This should be national news. Can you imagine the outcry from the New York Times if a teacher had given out anti-gay material in a class? This is just despicable. Sex education is one thing. This doesn’t just cross a line, it demolishes it. Will you ever find this story, if accurate, in the MSM? No, because the Left loves this stuff. You figure out why. Read the piece.
Yale Finally Boots God from Campus. View from 1776 has the story. Hey Yale, that's, like, really progressive, like, advanced, Dudes. Forget the past - Yale is really hip and cool now. Like finally catching up with Cuba. Like wow, man. I want to go to Yale - its Very Groovy. Can you dig it?
I suggest that the Chapel be converted to the Sex Ed Center. Let's fill those pews!
At the same time, we see religion returning to Brown, of all places - in NYT. Alabama Christian Coalition - Did they use gambling $ to defeat gambling initiatives? It's only fair - everyone has to reveal their sources of $. If true, shameful and embarassing. Everyone is a hypocrite but, jeez. James Watt was one of the favorite "demons" of the Reagan administration, but what Bill Moyers has done to him in his retirement is beyond shameful. When will that Moyers Generation retire? They are lost in the past. Powerline has the truth, as usual.
Saturday, May 21. 2005
Boston Radio station WRKO replaces a Newsweek program with a Pundit Review program. Via New England Repub. Dean falling flat as Dem spokesman? Party seems to be distancing themselves from the Vermont self-impressed hothead. Pardon me, Vermont. He was raised on Park Avenue and in the Hamptons. In Captains Quarters. Linda Foley is in hiding? KnoxNews has the story. As Bird Dog says, public figures have to watch what they say - it can go around the world in hours. VDH new piece - "Our Two Front Struggle." Just read it. It's tough to summarize.
Friday, May 20. 2005
Want another Pepsi? Powerline's update here. Curt Jester highlights a new Pepsi product. - for the Michael Moore Generation - thanks, Michelle. And Hugh Hewitt is staying on the story. I admit to feeling badly for Nooyi for writing a speech that she probably thought was cute and hip, but was stupid at the least. Pepsico is doubtless crossing their Frito-stained fingers and praying that this just goes away in the next news cycle. The power that blogs have acquired is mind-boggling. Public figures will take note - if you say it, be ready to defend it - if it's stupid, wrong, or propaganda, it could get noticed.
The End of Innocence The battle over the judiciary, after all of these years, represents the willingness of the Repubs to quit being loveable, and begin taking the reins. About time. Right or wrong, someone has to govern, and that means leading with authority and confidence as the other guys did for 40 years.
Oh, Canada Steyn has the story. It is about how corruption works well in politics - plus scaring the poor darn voters - plus voter apathy. A spineless country, addicted to dependency and weakness. What happened to their spirit, dignity, and self-respect? The entire country is becoming a comical Molson advertisement, eh?
Ann Coulter reviews Michael Isikoff's record of getting his reportage into print, and the results are distressingly predictable: When ace reporter Michael Isikoff had the scoop of the decade, a thoroughly sourced story about the president of the United States having an affair with an intern and then pressuring her to lie about it under oath, Newsweek decided not to run the story. Matt Drudge scooped Newsweek, followed by The Washington Post. Read the rest of her examples, and you'll get the picture.
"Remove Christians from society"? Perhaps the ACLU might wish to reconsider their wording? Honestly, this is Nazi-sounding language, regardless of the merits of the case. Story from Right Thinking here. One thing Canada and the US have in common: A desperate, hysterical, berserko, lying and dying Left. From Belmont Club: What characterizes much of the Left today as exemplified by behavior from George Galloway to Paul Martin is the increasing necessity to maintain their position By Any Means Necessary. While that is dangerous and infuriating, it is a reliable indicator that they have lost control of the system. Things just aren't working the way they used to. And that, despite everything, is cause for hope. Dying but, alas, not quite dead. Sorry, Canada. You got what you wanted yesterday. Star Wars is Anti-Bush Propaganda? Lucas says yes, sort-of. Gimme a break.
Thursday, May 19. 2005
Four US Nationals Reported Jailed in Guadalajara Four American citizens were arrested by Mexican military officials yesterday after being caught crossing the border into Mexico in a remote rural area. According to military officials, the four surrendered to an armed Mexican border patrol force without resistance, and are now in the custody of Guadalajara police. According to the brief military report, the four white males claimed that they were from Minnesota, and were seeking to relocate to Mexico for "fun and sun and work" in Tijuana. They did not have American passports or Mexican work permits. Entering Mexico without proper documentation, and bypassing offical entry zones, is illegal and punishable by incarceration. It is government policy to provide strict enforcement of the national borders to prevent illegal immigration into Mexico. The four have not been permitted to communicate with the press or with attorneys. There has been no date assigned for any hearing regarding their status at this time, and the police have thus far refused to release their names or to comment on their condition. The accuracy of this report has been confimed by neither the Newsweek staff nor by Al Jazeera News Service.
Rush is Back! It has been quite a while since I listened to Rush for more than a few minutes, but while doing errands at lunchtime today I happened to spend some time with him. He is back to his inspired, wickedly hilarious self. I wondered whether it is because he has gotten past his many problems, but I suspect it is because the Left has been providing so much great material. Anyway, if you haven't heard him lately, and thought he was getting repetitive, give the big guy another chance. Highly entertaining and smart as a whip. The guy is an on-the-air blog...or are blogs off-the-air, would-be broadcasters? Hmmmm.
 Pepsi Gives the US The Finger: The Final Episode
What an embarassing episode. The speech sounds remarkably naive, oblivious to the sophistication and IQ of the audience, unintelligent, condescending, anti-American in its undertones, sophomorically full of mixed metaphors that don't add up, and plain painful to read, much less to have heard. I entirely agree with Scott in that assesment. She needs a speechwriter - fast. PepsiCo can afford it with their profits from the trash they peddle around the world. Powerline is all over the story, in a balanced way, and has posted the text. One can only feel badly for Nooryi - she isn't quite ready for prime time, and no doubt she has learned this by today. If it were a guy, you would throw tomatoes, or at least nicely give her the old hook and yank her offstage for her own good. But who is ready for prime time, except for Krauthammer? Just one question - How does Great Scott at Powerline find time for all of this? And forget boycotting PepsiCo in indignation - who eats or drinks their junk anyway? I will promise one thing: If the MSM covers the story, I will eat a (small) bag of Fritos.
Rather is gone. Uzbekistan next domino to fall? In Jane's Space weapons "may be opposed by our allies." As in who? In NYT. Mexico protests US not issuing drivers' licenses to illegals. And Fox apologizes for offending American blacks. (See Foxes and Aliens, below) From New York, Hillary looks like a winner. In The Week. Auster from 1992 on the Forbidden Topic. Click here: Still "the forbidden topic" after all these years ( the effects of large-scale immigration on a culture) Whose side is the press on? Good one in New Criterion - plus Kipling too.
Wednesday, May 18. 2005
Bare Naked. Travelwire: The agency in charge of the nation's air security expects later this year to begin using a controversial X-ray machine that will show airport screeners a clear picture of what's under passengers' clothes — whether weapons or just bare skin.Screeners plan to test the "backscatter" machines at several U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says. The refrigerator-sized machines are considered a breakthrough in scanning technology but have been labeled "a virtual strip search" by the American Civil Liberties Union. http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000038/003873-p.htm Seattle High School Blocks Army Recruiters. What is it with these people? From CSM: "They're spending $4 billion a month in Iraq, but we have to cut our race relations class, which costs $12,500," Ms. Hagopian pointed out. "That's an important class for our kids." Cannes. From My Way News: The dark underside of the United States has taken center stage in several films at Cannes this year, capped on Monday with a scathing attack of past and present racism in America by Danish director Lars von Trier. The State of Marriage around the World. Perry Anderson in The Nation: What, then, of marriage? Here, certainly, contrasts remain greatest. In speaking of "the core of romantic freedom and commitment in the modern European (and New World) family system," Therborn implies this remains specific to the West. But while the caste system or Sharia law plainly preclude extempore love, does it show no signs of spreading, as ideal or realization, in the big cities of East Asia or Latin America? The imagination of urban Japan, he shows, is already half-seized with it. Not, of course, that the decline of marriage in Western Europe, with the advent of mass cohabitation, has so far been replicated anywhere else. But here a different sort of question might be asked. Is it really the case that the negative rates of reproduction that have accompanied this pattern are as unwished-for as Therborn suggests? He relies on the discrepancy between surveys in which women explain how many children they expect and those they actually have. But this could just mean that in practice their desire for children proved weaker than for a well-paid job, a satisfying career or more than one lover at a time. Voters in the West regularly say they want better schools and healthcare, and in principle expect to pay for them, and commentators on the left often pin high hopes on such declarations. But once such citizens get to the polling booth they tend to stick to lower taxes. The same kind of self-deception could apply to children. If so, it would be difficult to say European marriage was in such good shape, since there would be no stopping place in sight for its plunge of society into an actuarial abyss.
The 1.2 Billion Dollar UN Makeover For that kind of money, surely we could built a nice lodge with hot showers for the UN, somewhere in Saskachewan or maybe Manitoba? Or, second best, have Trump do the job for half the money in half the time. The UN is a mockery of itself.
What do the jihadists want? LGF has the answer: Islam will rule the world and wipe out the Jews - from the horse's mouth. Did Pepsi Give America the Finger? Powerline has it. Good eyes. Barlett at RCP caught the similarity in the pieces in the NYT and the WSJ, both on the same upcoming Dem talking point. WSJ a shill for the Dems? Or innocent victim of press releases? Summers is a Weenie. Larry Summers submits to castration by deranged band of schoolmarms. Now being led around on a dog leash by leather-clad dominatrices. Michelle has the story. Bad News for Unions and the Dems, from American Thinker: Harold Ickes is right. The situation is very, very serious. The Democrats are losing an important source of strength, and there is nothing on the horizon to replace it.
Read entire. Dems and Christianity, from New England Republican: There is a reason why Democrats are called anti-Christian - because they are. AND now they're resorting to McCarthyism to keep the Courts in their bloody hands. For anyone who hasn't noticed -there is a culture war going on and liberals are taking no prisoners. Do Republicans have what it takes to prevent liberals from the Borking that took place in the Reagan/Bush years? I have my doubts....
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Tuesday, May 17. 2005
Angry 
primitives
with no understanding of a free press,
with no sensitive multiculturalism, who are freedom-hating and who view non-Moslems as animals. The photo (from Right Thinking) tells it all. And why can't Newsweek spell Koran? I mean Quran? I mean....
Hey, lighten up, you Islamofascists - you should see how Christianity is sometimes treated in the USA. Not that you would care. Are these people for real? This nasty, butt-ugly, wife-beater-looking, semi-tough dude needs a makeover, a new suit, a little dental work, an attitude adjustment, and a sales job for IBM. Or maybe Pepsi might feel more congenial? (I'm sure the photo is a joke - what's with the red beard? Plus who in the ME can spell "apologise"? And, for that matter, who in the US can spell it?)
"Newsweek lied; People died." Michele Malkin is on top of this story at least as effectively as many other excellent bloggers. Like the Rather story, and the Eason Jordan story, this is a perfect blog story because it exposes the MSM once again - exposes its arrogance, its political agenda, its greedy and power-hungry self. That's why we need blogs. 8 million of them. Someone needs to get the news out.
"Very Unfortunate." Indeed, Condi. Fine summary of Toiletgate at Austin Bay. Iowahawk does the NYT. The diseases of the Chavez revolution. Dr. Bob on the "theocracy" propaganda. An excellent piece. A sample: I’m an optimist by nature–but optimism is the opiate of fools, they say, and this time I think they’re right. The danger lies in the use of anti-religious fervor for political advantage. Like the blacksmith’s bellows, the left is superheating the political dialog by feeding oxygen to baser instincts. As high heat changes the structure of metal, this rhetorical inferno against the religious right will harden those so disposed to create an indelible association between faith, intolerance and hatred. Fanning religious hatred for political gain is a dangerous game; just ask the Jews. Read entire. Paul sounds a similar theme on Powerline.
Toiletgate, Anti-Americanism, and God I have listed below several articles reviewing the heinous article by Newsweek which led to riots and death in the Middle East. Is there no end to the Main stream Media's bias? There are plenty of papers and blogs and radio stations queuing up to defend the fiasco as a journalistic faux pas. Oh, That Liberal Media :Why did L.A. Times editors hide information about the satellite recording from their readers -- while repeating the Koran-in-the-toilet story without any caveats about the shaky sourcing of the report? It's certainly true that, once the riots occurred, the Newsweek reports were news whether they were true or not. But if L.A. Times editors were truly suspicious of stories based on anonymous government sources, surely they would have warned readers that the Newsweek report was based upon unnamed sources, and lacked corroboration. Paul Marshall on Newsweek & Koran on National Review Online :It would be charitable to think that if Newsweek had known how explosive the story was it may have held off until it had more confirmation. If this is true, it is an indication that the media’s widespread failure to pay careful attention to the complexities of religion not only misleads us about domestic and international affairs but also gets people killed. Ace of Spades HQ: If a quote or purported fact portrays Republicans, the military, or America generally in a positive light, they check it to death to make sure they're not spreading propaganda.But... if the quote or purpoted fact portrays those in a negative light, it pretty much gets into print with only the most cursory once-over by the editors. If it agrees with their basic world-view -- if it feels "right" in their gut -- then in runs. Examining the Real Agenda of the Religious Far Right - a Conference :Reuters AlertNet - White House bashes Newsweek report on Koran The comments continue and there is no end in sight. Like the Muslims who are up in arms over the desecration of the Koran, the Christians in this country are having their say too. The Left Lane of America has started a crusade and it is time to offer some direction, some understanding that the Christians here in America are not seeking for ways to destroy the American Way of Life or the politicians in Washington. Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of
God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy,
joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The
Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you
freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve
everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who
has shown you such grace. Thus, it is just as impossible to
separate faith and works as it is to separate heat and light from
fire! Therefore, watch out for your own false ideas and guard
against good-for-nothing gossips, who think they're smart enough
to define faith and works, but really are the greatest of fools.
Ask God to work faith in you, or you will remain forever without
faith, no matter what you wish, say or can do.
Theology can be human and harmonious with seeking God. The distance between faith and culture should narrow in order for mankind to resist the temptation that the physicist is the high priest of civilization. The significance of the Tillich message lies in a reminder to heartfelt seekers of a lost spiritual element. The emptiness of a tech world cannot be fulfilled without an admission that we need the essentiality of a spiritual nature. Faith reinforces that the order found in scientific discoveries is not an accident. Tillich inspires, where the non-believer fosters desperation. The existential model endures the test of scrutiny and unites the lacking component. His popular attraction is the result of a public urgency. HOPE exists, if you know where to find it . . .Paul Tillich: the 'Apostle to the Intellectuals' | When theists are gone, | 
| | then there is no need for atheists |
Click here: Religious Meaning as the Art of the Existential Experience: Atheists and agnostics alike, pride themselves on intelligence; their reason. Church goers study their Bible verses, Torah pronouncements and Koran passages. The skeptic often rebuffs these teachings since doctrine is perceived to be the work of men, and not confirmed to be from THE Supreme Being. The post modern world would have you accept that it doesn’t matter what you believe, life is now and will be over shortly. Popular culture regards deep reflection as fruitless, since it is futile to explain the universe. Live for today, in the way you want. That’s the message that dominates the media perception of the world.
Monday, May 16. 2005
Late to the Party, but check out Huffington's Toast. Is satire flattery? How did they do that so fast?
Moslem Women in Germany who chose Western life styles could be in big trouble with male relatives. This subject has been reported before, but Der Spiegel has the full story. Thanks, NRO. Confederate Yankee is upfront with his take on Islam - not the religion of peace.
Toiletgate American Thinker has a great idea. Sue Newsweek!
Newsweek: Beyond Shame and deep into the danger zone: The MSM blew it again ! Isikoff's turn to get blog-swarmed. The disgusting Koran-toilet story explored and corrected by RWN. and Captains Quarters. and many others. Facts never intefere with the anti-American fanatics, but in this case, people have died and will die, and the ME will never believe Newsweek's apology. If I were a real reporter these days, I would be scared. Error is punished. The motives of the terrorists in Iraq are confusing to the NYT, probably because they do not fit the leftist rebellion model. John at Powerline de-mystifies the issue. Are we certain that democratization in the ME is a good idea? Another point of view, from View from the Right. The Radical Disease at Harvard Law. Time to copy the Pine Tree Revolution? Details by Brewton. Somethings Happening Here, What it is aint exactly clear: Canadian politics. Ideological Purity vs. Political Reality. Radioblogger has Kudlow discussing new trade quotas. We will soon see similar practicality at work with the base closings.
Friday, May 13. 2005
Harvard debates "gender" - a rational discussion emerges from the Summers hysteria. Audio and video versions. But I still don't get it - what the heck is "gender"? Running out of suicide bombers: In Iraq, they are using the mentally ill, and tricking their own people into becoming involuntary suicide bombers - they ask them to transport some bombs from A to B, then remote-detonate them. Surprise! And then comes the really big surprise: There was a slight error in transcription. Instead of 70 virgins in Paradise, you get one 70 year-old virgin. Dang! Condi supports gun rights. "Air Force Academy "Chaplain" Morton’s complaints about too much religion at the military academy is creating waves, and earned her hero status in a report in the New York Times Thursday." In Newsmax New family of rodent discovered for sale in Laotian meat market. Brussels official claims rejection of EU Constitution would be comparable to supporting Nazism. How can these countries willingly sacrifice their autonomy to wacko unelected bureaucrats?
Taranto yesterday on why the Dems "clients" don't vote for them: Every time the Democrats lose an election, they make a big show of asking questions like these. Then, the next time they lose an election, they once again wonder why the "working class" has forsaken them. Maybe it's as simple as: because they were listening. Read entire. Tut died of gangrene. Stop whining about your medical bills - you have better medical care than Pharoah. Click here: Print Story: Tutankhamun died of gangrene on Yahoo! News The Union-Leader shrewd on filibuster: "PRESIDENT BUSH and U.S. Senate Republicans have the far better case in the matter of Democrats refusing to allow judges to be voted on in a straightforward, up-or-down fashion. The problem is that Republicans aren't very good at public relations "spin" — and the Democrats have a ready ally in much of Big Media. But if the Republicans don't wise up and have the guts to stop the Democrats' current misuse of the filibuster, they will find that a President Hillary Clinton and her pals will have no such problem in suddenly "discovering" that the Founding Fathers never intended judges or other Presidential appointments to be blocked in this manner." Read entire editorial. Meanwhile GOP pulls even in the PR war. It's live ammo - remember that. The UAL pension mess explained. Thanks, Prof. Bainbridge.
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