Friday, July 8. 2005
Pejmanesque has a great collection of political cartoons re London. Quotes too. He also happens to have reviewed Chronicles of Narnia. Saved me the trouble - nice job.
From Blamebush: 37 innocent people suffered death without dignity in London today, and hundreds more were injured in a barbaric yet understandable attack by Michael Moore's Minute Men - retribution for Britain's complicity in Bush's illegal and immoral war on terror. But now is not the time for pointing fingers. In the wake of 9/11, progressives waited a good three minutes before blaming Bush, America, and Western Civilization in general, and we should be every bit as reverent now. Let the people of Great Britain mourn their fallen bretheren in peace. There will be plenty of time to exploit their grief for political gain in the weeks ahead.
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Intelligence Network
Map of all serious Islamic terrorism acts, to date, on Powerline. London transport update: getting back to normal ! The Left continues its descent into madness, on RWN Keith Thompson, at Moonbat Central: Today, there are two groups of people in the world: those who recognize the jihadists as a stark and fundamental threat to civilization; and those who reflexively seek ways to absolve the jihadists of responsibility for their murderous ways, by blaming Britain and America. The first group knows that civilization must win this battle. The second group urges caution and understanding. read entire.
Thursday, July 7. 2005
Four Thoughts First, I predict that the bombers will turn out to be "home-grown" London Moslems, linked to European Moslem groups, not terrorists who snuck into England directly from the Middle East. Hence their comment about hitting other European nations and not the US or the Aussies. They are locals, the Trojan Horse of radical Islam. See Mannes on NRO re the well-tolerated radical Islamic presence in London. Second, that Brit unsentimental, stiff-upper lip is really something, isn't it? In the US, there would be public weeping and wailing, days of mourning, mountains of candles and teddy bears, emergency prayer services, and teams of grief therapists. In contrast to the Brits, we look like a nation of over-emoting-obsessed, self-indulgent hysterics. Third, from Steyn: "the more you insist the Islamist psychosis is a rational phenomenon to be accommodated, the more you risk sounding just as nutty as the terrorists." Fourth, Churchill: "Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
 Comment from Gwynnie
Gwynnie likes Sky News: http://www.sky.com/skynews/home as she was annoyed at this mornings conclusion by BBC that the attacks were “in retribution for” Afghanistan & Iraq (like the Battle of the Bulge was “in retribution for” the Normandy landings). Perhaps the Beeb would like to withdraw from Iraq; would it pull out of Northern Ireland too? The Reuters “News” Service still can’t bring itself to use the term “terrorism”. Maybe it would like to refer to the bombings in London as caused by “insurgents”. From BBC: The organisation calls itself the Secret Organisation Group of al-Qaeda [literally the base] of Jihad Organisation in Europe. The group not previously been heard of. The website has previously carried statements purporting to be from al-Qaeda. It is not possible to verify such claims published on the web. This is the full text of the statement.
 In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate, may peace be upon the cheerful one and undaunted fighter, Prophet Muhammad, God's peace be upon him.
Nation of Islam and Arab nation: Rejoice for it is time to take revenge against the British Zionist Crusader government in retaliation for the massacres Britain is committing in Iraq and Afghanistan. The heroic mujahideen have carried out a blessed raid in London. Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters. We have repeatedly warned the British Government and people. We have fulfilled our promise and carried out our blessed military raid in Britain after our mujahideen exerted strenuous efforts over a long period of time to ensure the success of the raid. We continue to warn the governments of Denmark and Italy and all the Crusader governments that they will be punished in the same way if they do not withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. He who warns is excused. God says: "You who believe: If ye will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly." 
Final Word from Bird Dog
Along with the anger in reaction to yet another ruthless attack by the barbarians comes the anger in listening to some BBC comments, and people like Galloway and other miscellaneous leftist Islamofascist sympathizers or America-haters as are spouting off today on Democratic Underround. Truly they do not believe that these attacks are retaliation - if they are, then what were WTC #1 and #2 in retaliation for? Was that Bush's fault too? It all seems very simple to me: Radical Islam declared war on the West in 1993, and we could surrender Iraq, we could surrender Israel, we could even surrender France, and they would still keep on coming.
BBC seems to be best source of minute-to-minute updated details. From Jihad Watch one year ago: Asked if a British Muslim was allowed to carry out a "terrorist attempt" in a foreign country, Muhammad said "That is another story." He added: "We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity."
 God Bless and Protect our Brit Cousins
That's all I have to say thus far...
The Ethanol Scam: It requires more fossil fuel to produce ethanol from corn, than there is energy in the ethanol. Fact is, the ethanol program is a farm subsidy and nothing more, under false pretenses. Wind Farms indeed are hugely destructive to migratory birds. Shut 'em down - what a dumb experiment. Digital Cameras - the latest update, in CSM Africa - Roger Simon sums it up, here. Iran - Hitchens does Iran in Vanity Fair Steyn's Requiem for Sunny Jim (the UK's Carter), and the 1970's in England Kennewick Man will be studied. 9000 years old - a very early American - will be studied before being re-buried. Sounds OK to me. What is hotdish? "On your visit to Minnesota, you will sooner or later come face to face with Minnesota's most popular native food, HOTDISH ... A traditional main course, hotdish is cooked and served hot in a single baking dish and commonly appears at family reunions and church suppers. Hotdish is constructed on a base of canned cream of mushroom soup and canned vegetables. The other ingredients are as varied as the Minnesota landscape. If you sit down to something that doesn't look like anything you've ever seen before, it's probably hotdish." - Howard Mohr
How to Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's Guide
Penguin, 1 Here are some examples: Click here: Cooks.com - Recipes - Hotdish
Wednesday, July 6. 2005
Sympathy for the Devil: The Left and Terrorists, on Brainster The Angry Left finds religion, um, well...Opinion Journal: Click here: OpinionJournal - Taste Global Warming Junk Science: Gun Culture - Click here: Gun Culture Cosby under attack - guess his thinking needs a political adjustment. Town Hall: Click here: Brent Bozell: Cosby under fire Berkeley's Contract for America: This will go far. Right Thinking
Tuesday, July 5. 2005
Lock and Load: The Dems have their strategy, regardless of the nominee: Patterico Everybody Must Get Stoned: Moslem politicians in New Zealand. In LGF A Bullet hitting a bullet: That's how difficult it was to hit that comet, but they did. Video here - thanks, Instapundit. Cap'n Ed reviews Goldberg's new book: Sounds like fun
Bush's Biggest Failure: Managing the press and public opinion - I agree with the Prof. Thomas Sowell turned 75 and reviews the travails of those years. The US-India Defence Pact: Under-reported important event, in Winds of Change: Click here: Winds of Change.NET: The Alliance: U.S. & India Sign Major 10-Year Defense Pact The top 2% in income pay over 50% of the total US taxes. But some folks, like the Kerry's pay far less than their share. Why? Probably tax-free munis, right? Click here: Brainster's Blog The Red Tide recedes. Good. Why did New London need this Eminent Domain? (and why does Fox News keep calling it Imminent Domain?) Brewton in View from 1776: “Cities like Utica and New London, Connecticut, the subject of the Supreme Court decision, are in trouble, not because of lack of urban planning, but because of high taxes, excessive regulation, and a generally anti-business, socialistic public policy. What they need is fewer labor unions and fewer liberal-socialist citizens who have become addicted to massive, and ferociously expensive, public welfare programs that run the gamut from money thrown unaccountably down the rat hole of public education (read teachers’ union perks), to mandatory, all-inclusive insurance benefits to workers. In short, ongoing operating costs are just as important in determining business locations as their land costs. Indeed. Just like Africa. The politicians create the mess, and then call for help. The Kennedy Quagmire: Man, does he hope it's a quagmire. In my opinion, it's what you call "difficult." Lots of things in life are difficult, but being a politician isn't one of them. Sinecures for the brain-dead. Gelertner explains why Kennedy talk is so destructive to the country. "Hail Seizers." The NYT hails the government land-grabbers, with one astonishing quote: " a setback to the 'property rights' movement." Huh? Sullum at Town Hall. Replacing Sandra Dee: The blogs and news are full of speculation and tea-leaf-reading, so we will not add to the fog. It's all filler until we know what POTUS wants to do. Concept Albums: Vodkapundit reviews the concept and lists the 5 best...but unaccountably omits Blonde on Blonde and Sargent Pepper. The lovely, witty, but doubtless scary-to-date Ann Coulter explains how porn and religion have switched places in our culture, or at least in our legal culture. News=Propaganda, In Minneapolis - Capt's Quarters
Saturday, July 2. 2005
 This long weekend, we at Maggie's Farm will be blogging lightly, but we invite you to click on some of our Categories on the upper left column, to explore what we've been up to for the last five months on the Farm. Some good stuff is buried in there. Pick a category - any category.
And we all wish you a fine weekend of yard work, fishing, sailing, swimming, sunning without weenie sunblock, napping, ice-cream, watermelon, cold beer, relaxation and good times with plenty of American flags and fireworks in the good old beautiful summertime USA. We do love our Brits, but we'd rather have them as cousins than to be their children - many innocent, brave but terrified Yankee farm boys with slow-loading Kentucky flintlocks risked their lives or lost their lives to face tough Hessian lines of fire to make it so - and speaking of cousins... As Cousin Brucie (the great DJ Bruce Morrow) used to say on WABC in the summer, "If you're alone, go out and find someone to love. Because someone is out there looking for you, too." (Yes, of course that is Cape Cod - can you name that light?)...Listening to: Son House: Empire State Express.
Friday, July 1. 2005
Vermont Blogs We've been looking for interesting Vermont blogs - and found one - Alphecca. He labels himself as a gay Libertarian gun nut in Vermont. Unique? A sample piece of his on the rise in gun crimes in the UK. If anyone knows of a blog that addresses specifically or mainly Vermont politics and issues from a rational standpoint, please let us know. Same goes for Maine - we can't find a single one. Hey, Middletown, NY You folks ought to be all over your local newspaper - read about the Big Lie in Confed. Yankee's handsome new website. Derbyshire imagines the International Freedom Center Funny, but what he imagines is pretty close to what I imagined - lefty, America-hating cliches, I guess. In NRO.
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