Monday, December 19. 2005
Does politics have anything to do with why movie-going is declining? Tammy Harold Bloom thinks Bush is stupid. Neo. My opinion: Harold, stick to your knitting. Are the Sunnis working with us now? Could be. Captn Ed Why people don't like Israeli wines - they cook them. Am Thinker The Northeast is moving south. Geologically. Live Science. They'll be Red States in 1/2 million years. Was Buffy stolen from another solar system? CSM. I call it Grand Theft Planet and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. Reform Judaism goes over the edge. Charen (Aren't these the same folks who go nuts when Christians get politically involved?) More on the Ladies in White in Cuba. WSJ Katrina coverage. Instapundit Bill O'Reilly watchers are Yahoos, according to Sam Donaldson. Pol. Teen. No doubt true: I watch him sometimes, and I'm a Yahoo. Able Danger - finally getting looked at. The Religion of Peace: Cleric urges killing of infidels. LGF Is that 80% a real number? Protein
Saturday, December 17. 2005
The ongoing war of the CIA against Bush: Just One Minute Everything you need to know about Pakistan. Gates of Vienna Home for the Holidays and rocking the nest: NYT The fight at Charity Hospital (NO): Drs. vs. Administration. NYT Also, from NO - Tulane Slashes Departments. Too bad NO won't do the same.
Cool jacket: The Federal Agent's Travel Jacket at Hammacher Schlemmer. It could be good in camo. Secret pockets for your X-ray glasses, fake fingerprints, forged passports, underwater breather, pen-gun, and anything else from Q's laboratory. Required Reading: To receive your own personalized Maggie's Farm Membership Card and Official Certificate, suitable for framing, you must show written proof, signed by a parent or guardian, that you have read this , this, and this. Not that you agree with the ideas - just have read them. (There are also other secret requirements, but you just have to guess what they are, unless or until we decide to divulge them.)
A Google-AOL relationship? Intel leakers should be prosecuted. Daily Pundit. Dinocrat addresses it well. And Captain Ed covers the silly story here. Writer on trial in Turkey for discussing Armenian massacres. NYT Is there a cure for chronic procrastinators? Most people seem to agree that MADD has become a de-facto prohibitionist movement instead of a reasonable one. TCS Michelle likes the Immigration bill that passed in the House. Looks reasonable to me. A fine review and appreciation of the great, and hipper-than-hip, Dave Brubeck. Orlen at American Spectator. "Hope in Hell": Review of new book on Doctors without Borders. New Horizons. Not sexy enough for the press to cover? RWNH. Why not to get a Christmas puppy. Totally agree. Slate. God on the Internet. A review, by Jonathan Last at First Things.
Friday, December 16. 2005
Was Mona Lisa happy? Definitely. Norm found this: What are your gender traits? Try to be honest. Paul Theroux on Africa: "There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment." Read entire at NYT. Steyn on Sinatra. Is there anything that Steyn isn't an expert on?
The new Jib Jab. Krauthammer on Iranian fundamentalism and their preparation for Armageddon and the arrival of the 12th Imam. Warming trend continues. Does it mean anything? WaPo The Tobacco Nazis just won't quit. Now it's smoking at home. WFT? How can we get these busy-body jerks to Quit It and to Leave Others Alone? A 12-Step program? A mutation caused white skin. It's sort of a shame for us whitie-mutants, because it's not really a very attractive or healthy-looking skin color. It's a pasty, putty-colored blotchy skin which reveals every defect and requires tanning salons to look half-decent after age 25 and which, in the mature age group, just slumps, lumps, sags, wrinkles, goes to hell and one's face ends up looking like a bowl of dried-out pudding with a strawberry-looking nose in the middle. Being a mutant is a raw deal, even with my 1/16th redskin blood. School choice in Britain encounters the same Socialist hysteria as it does in the US. Samiz. Pottinger on why he left the WSJ to join the Marines. Nantucket Windmill update, from Morrisey. Fact is, though, windmills are catastrophically destructive to birds, and economically non-viable without subsidies. Let's face it: wind power is just a hippy-dippy feel-good thing. Nuclear is what we need: it's a free lunch, or as close as we can get to that. Tammy points out the biggest loser in yesterday's election: Move On - "The Soros Sponsored Voice of the Moonbat Left."
 Ho Hum. Another election in Iraq.
I am not the only one who is puzzled by the low-key press coverage of Iraq's election. I guess it means that peaceful, high-turnout elections for democratic governments in Iraq are now routine. Which means Mission Accomplished. And one hell of a mission, too. No-one predicted all of these lunatics streaming in to try to prevent democracy and freedom and human rights, or Syria behaving in such a hostile manner. Or the US press and the "loyal" opposition behaving in such a hostile and negative manner to our providing human rights, political freedom, and women's rights to a place where sadistic state terrorism reigned under the jackboot of a destructive, anti-American, Hitler-worshipping, megalomaniacal thug. And a greaseball scumbag, too, who truly earned the exclusive services of someone like Ramsey Clark. It is time, America, for us to give ourselves, our tough soldiers, our President, and our allies a big pat on the back for sticking with a nasty situation and creating a major opportunity for freedom and for American interests in an ugly, treacherous, and backward, but important, part of the world. Iraq has been given a great and costly gift. It is going to be up to them to hold it and keep it. I pray that they will, and that someday soon I can visit Iraq and see the great marshes of the Tigris and Euphrates, the ancient ruins of the first cities on the planet, and a free people treasuring their gift, purchased with the blood of many American, Brit, Allied, and Iraqi heroes of human dignity.
Thursday, December 15. 2005
Prices plunge; production jumps. How bad is that? Many hedge funds to blow off the SEC: Marketwatch WalMart, Ford, ATT, other major corps supporting anti-Alito activity. Why? Human Events Nobody wants to pay for health insurance. Why not require it, like car ins. or homeowners? TCS "Burn the Jews": Hizbollah Academic Symposium. Jihad Watch Why we must get rid of Bush immediately, from The World Can't Wait org. At American Future. Good grief. At first I thought it was satire.
Where are the WMDs? Syria. Oh? Big surprise - where else? Watch the anti-war crowd go spastic now, or into clinical conniptions or psychotic hysteria (or, more likely, to ignore facts). P'line found it before we did: NYSun. Ya gotta read the Sun each morning. Online, or they deliver around NYC. They are the next great newspaper, along with the CSM and the Sunday (hate to say it) NYT. Perfect for puppy house-training: LAT - suddenly no longer a national paper - and Boston Globe. But Chicago Tribune? Don't they run Mark Steyn? When the NYT decides to run Steyn and/or VDH, I will re-subscribe - it's a promise - but until then, they are just a Lefty propaganda machine to me, daily destroying our precious trees and forests, to print what? Just see the NYT headline today: "Bush's Path Has Many Ifs" while a higher % is voting in Iraq than votes in the US. Arrogant jackasses always have a "but monkey" when it's not Dems or Lefties. Need a Clinical Depression? A good Africa News source: Afrol News Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: a DVD for the youths. Not brand-new, but sounds like a good goof.
Photo from Drudge: 
Big Vote in Iraq today. What a beautiful thing to see. What an irony that politics is so dirty and nasty, while voting is such a fine expression of human dignity. Their turnout will be better than ours. Michelle has updated details - she has the time. This is what "Victory" looks like: it must warm the hearts of all of the nations who participated in bringing freedom to a very sad place. 94% of Americans believe there is a God. Ex-Donk. So sorry, Marxists, Leftists, and the ACLU - the more you confront people and make them think, the more they find their beliefs in their hearts and souls. Chicago to ban retired police officers from carrying handguns. WTF? Aren't those the good guys (and gals) we want carrying guns? Alphecca Fooled ya! After all those years of eating bland, disgusting fiber, turns out it doesn't matter for cancer. It probably was all a plot of evil Big Fiber. Why did the NYT go with the forged ballots story? Conf. Yank. And Michelle asks "Which side is the NYT on?" Is secret US diplomacy bringing Sunnis on board in Iraq? Hope so - and it is clear today that something has changed. Debka Canada has second-largest oil deposits in the world. Make Alberta the 51st state? The Prof. A really neat idea: occupy Alberta. Send in the Marines. It's all about oil, right? DNA says North America originally settled by only 70 Asians? Gee whiz, and they talk about inbreeding in Appalachia! No wonder we Indians didn't have wheels and guns and philosophy and Botticelli and like, you know, stuff. US stealing doctors from around the world. NYT Is China eating our lunch? The trade deficit. We need to get smarter.
Wednesday, December 14. 2005
Inexpensive, good stocking stuffers: Vt. Country Store. Don't forget their "Tired Old Ass Soak." Also, I like Loolo Scarves. From Candanandada. And an adult stocking stuffer - a necessary handy Breathalyzer - when to call a cab and when to let your "over-served" friend drive you home from Archie's so you don't get the ticket. The cops don't always agree with us when we tink tank we cn driv perfkly perfckly wll wall wull. Buy one for everyone you care about who likes to celebrate in a hearty manner. Another adult stocking stuffer - yuk - as essential as the above - the famous Hammacher-Schlemmer Nose Hair Trimmer - the best in the business. And one important note: In the midst of holiday chaos, be careful of your dogs. Finally - A Merry Christmas, and a Happy Holidays, from Opie! To make the most of it all, see my instructions below:
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Boot compares Boot Camp to torture. Col. Kline on Iraq. John at Pline. Bush speaking on the war today. Put him out there - he's no slick great communicator, but he's got heart and he's got the responsibility. Academia in wartime. NYSun - H/T, Pline.
Will Dunkin Donuts go upscale? Let's hope not. We like them just the way they are: predictably downscale with coffee that tastes very good, with enough sugar and milk. Story in Slate. St. Francis created the first creche in Grecio, according to Curt Jester, to keep lawyers busy in the future. Never realized that he was the Patron Saint of ACLU attorneys. Is the paperless office finally happening? CSM A cool gift to our readers: How to actually reach a human being at a number of major companies. The IVR Cheat Sheet by Paul English. Georgetown and Harvard accept 20 million dollar bribes from Saudi. "For understanding." I think we already understand enough. NYT . For me, the real question is "Do the moslems understand us yet?"
Tuesday, December 13. 2005
At Maggie's, we are all a bit too busy during December, with hunting, Christmas stuff and events, kids, end of year business things, etc. to do the amount of writing we like to do. But we can compensate by continuing to locate cool stuff by better writers than we are. Visiting NYC? Don't forget Old Bars. Tookie the Ducky Beats the Rap. Iowahawk. Blame Bush can't resist the topic either: Schwarzenegger to Terminate Beloved Children's Author Do not forget The Ladies in White, in Fidel's human rights hellhole. Paxety Dec. 14, 1902. A big snow. The Brooklyn Eagle. Is NO ready for human habitation? No, never was, either. The env. issues at Environmental Econ. The new trophy wife. She's a bit older, makes a lot of money and can be hard to handle, but she keeps life interesting. That's the point of this piece, anyway, in Psychology Today.
"Everybody knows" that Iraq is a disaster. I call that wishful thinking on the part of those who cannot abide a Republican success. Not only do the insurgents spike up the volume before elections in Iraq - so do the Lefty commentators at home. Elections in Iraq belie all of the propaganda. Aaronovitch at TimesOnline asks "A disaster, compared to what?" Here. US Federal Deficit: It's ugly. We should have had a temporary War Tax. The SOHO spacecraft: Didn't know it existed. Extremely cool. ScienceTimes
Monday, December 12. 2005
Why Bush's "guest worker" immigration plan won't work - because it doesn't address the size of the invasion. It's up to us voters to decide who moves here, and when, and why. Period. It's our country. Antle at Intell. Cons. A Christmas request from Marine Corps Moms - link at Confed. Yank. Laffey Vs. Chafee: Another reason to check out Rhode Island's Anchor Rising NY Appellate court rejects judicial activism regarding gay marriage - and gives the trial court a lecture, followed by a spanking. No Oil We are in the "low-level insurgency phase" in Iraq, says Maj. Gen Huck. Thought so. Bill Roggio in Iraq.
Strange Cosmos labelled this a "Redneck Snowplow." I'd call it a damn fine and useful vee-hicle. But hey, wait a minute...That's My Car! 
A bit more on Gene McCarthy: TNR has a series of essays by McCarthy in this week's edition, including How Artificial Turf is Ruining Baseball. Mary Mapes is back with her book, this time. Scott Johnson addresses her flagrant lies and distortions. How does she get away with this? Daily Std. Real Hard Cash: A fine essay on Johnny Cash's career and life by Moore. One quote: The prison imagery seemed real to Cash because, for him, it was real. He knew what it was like to be enslaved, enslaved to celebrity, to power, to drugs, to liquor, and to the breaking of his marriage vows. He was subject to, and submissive to, all the temptations the recording industry can parade before a man. He was a prisoner indeed, but to a penitentiary of his own soul. There was no corpse in Reno, but there was the very real guilt of a lifetime of the self-destructive idolatry of the ego. It was through the quiet friendships of men such as Billy Graham that Cash found an alternative to the vanity of shifting celebrity. He found freedom from guilt and the authenticity of the truth in a crucified and resurrected Christ. And he immediately identified with another self-obsessed celebrity of another era: Saul of Tarsus. He even authored a surprisingly good biography of the apostle, with the insight of one who knows what it is like to see the grace of Jesus through one’s own guilt as a “chief of sinners.”
Read entire at Touchstone.
Iraq Shiites are still torturing Sunnis in Iraqi prisons. The ABC poll of Iraqis reveals optimism, but ongoing Shiite-Sunni-Kurdish differences. No surprise there. Checkerboard discusses the poll. This week's election could/should be a turning point: NE Repub. - they seem to be getting the idea.
Wolcott defends bloggers against the condescending and arrogant press. Will Israel attack Iran's nuclear facilities? Tammy thinks so. The Prof. hopes so. I can picture it. What Condi thinks about the Middle East. Am. Future A recoiless rifle? Aussies say they made one. Ace. Might come in handy in Cronulla. (H/T HH) How did Bill Clinton suddenly become pro-Kyoto, just when the rest of the world is moving beyond it? View from 1776
The Habits of Highly Defective People: How to screw up your life. Doug Giles Iran defends holocaust-denial statements, and statements about eliminating Israel. Ca. Yank Wal-Mart to open medical clinics. Am. Thinker. The religious zealots of the Left. Prager
Sunday, December 11. 2005
Up in the northern US, you have to rely 
on people like this: Burger's Smokehouse. And all of our dear Brit readers probably don't even know about attic-aged ham. They need to learn about how ham is cured right, for a year, in the southern US. I don't know whether I prefer the pulled pork, or the attic hams, or the second-cut bacon, or the whole slabs of bacon, or the spiral cut hams, or the smoked turkey, or everything else they do. (Yes, it's yet another Maggie's free advt. in support of commerce, free enterprise, and capitalism. But feel free to send me an aged ham, you guys at Burgers, if you want to. We'll eat more, easily. We will not be corrupted by filthy lucre, but by good pork - always. Please try to corrupt us with aged southern ham. Everyone has their price - right?)
Saturday, December 10. 2005
London raises a pint to the passing of the Routemaster: Telegraph A book for the youth: Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
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