Tuesday, February 28. 2006
The pup had a great morning with John's venison bones in the snow. Happy dog. Catholicism Rocks. Am. Princess. Good eats for Mardi Gras. Were the Founding Fathers Christians? I always thought of them as Deists mostly, children of the recent Enlightenment, but deeply imbued with a Christian culture and view of the world. Here's the case for that, albeit delivered in an irritable, if not hostile, manner. Prep. Heard lots of good comments about this coming-of-age book. Ordered it. 54 years old and perfect. Dinocrat. Makes the idea of turning 30 seem almost appealing. Canadian medicine going private. Despite the law. It's about time. There's no way Harper will fight this movement of doctors seeking freedom to practice medicine. This is a big deal - the first step in the unraveling of socialism for our comrades from the north. Robert Scott dies. Who? A guy who has done more for this country than any of us will every do. Washington seized by Moslems in 1977. Remember? Tim Blair does.
Earth's human population reaches 6.5 billion. 3.25 billion gals - so how come I can't get a date? Bill Clinton still looking for interns. Would you let your daughter? Admin. wants to sell off public lands. I disagree. Hope congress does too. It belongs to all of us, and we want to keep it. Taxes and Income. Who pays how much, and what has changed during Bush? AlphaPatriot goes over the FACTS. City Lights Bookstore shows its true colors - bans Fallaci. The home of Ferlinghetti, Corso, Ginsberg, etc. - but only Leftist speech please. Except for Kerouac? Class. Values. More from Moonbattery. Will Cheney retire? He might. A great guy in the wrong job. Atlas asks where the investigative reporters are? Moslem training camps in the US? Totally blanked on the crocodile thing. Haha. Ace Austistic kid sets hoop record. Neat. Calling all Moonbats. You won't believe this - unless you saw it on the blogs yesterday. The big protest in DC to overthrow the US Govt., supported by Theresa Kerry? In Canada, just like in the USA. SDA on their press' sense of entitlement. 184 Proof? Might want to add a little water to this Scotch whiskey.
Monday, February 27. 2006
Bloggers world-wide have already posted Steyn's latest on anti-Semitism. Sometimes I wonder whether 50% of the worth of blogs is to disseminate Steyn's pieces. Needing to wake up, West closes its eyes. I know some Neanderthals. So I am not sure I believe this report that there was little interbreeding with homo sapiens. And, on a related topic, proof that blond cavegirls had more fun - and why: Cave-Gentlemen Prefer Blonds. The Conservative Imagination. George Will reviews two new books on the modern conservative movement, in the NYT. Why does the Left enjoy submission? We refuse to get into the depth psychology of this, so let's just say that, while they may be closet sitzpinklers, in effect they are nihilistic and welcome anything that harms the US. Captain Ed notes that, in addition to submission, the Islamists want the Jews gone from the world. You won't read this in the New York Times. The West Point CTC report on Al Quaida's deterioration and internal dissent. Am. Thinker. And why won't you read it there? Because the NYT has already decided that the neocons are wrong about extending freedom. And they have already judged that effort, In Iraq, as a failure. Why? I don't know. It's too soon to judge, in mid-game. Fukayaama has already decided though. Will his much-quoted piece in the NYT go down in history as prescient, or blind? February 19, 2006: After Neoconservatism,By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA - a few quotes: As we approach the third anniversary of the onset of the Iraq war, it seems very unlikely that history will judge either the intervention itself or the ideas animating it kindly. By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, a training ground and an operational base for jihadist terrorists, with plenty of American targets to shoot at. The United States still has a chance of creating a Shiite-dominated democratic Iraq, but the new government will be very weak for years to come; the resulting power vacuum will invite outside influence from all of Iraq's neighbors, including Iran. There are clear benefits to the Iraqi people from the removal of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, and perhaps some positive spillover effects in Lebanon and Syria. But it is very hard to see how these developments in themselves justify the blood and treasure that the United States has spent on the project to this point. and The so-called Bush Doctrine that set the framework for the administration's first term is now in shambles. The doctrine (elaborated, among other places, in the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States) argued that, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, America would have to launch periodic preventive wars to defend itself against rogue states and terrorists with weapons of mass destruction; that it would do this alone, if necessary; and that it would work to democratize the greater Middle East as a long-term solution to the terrorist problem. But successful pre-emption depends on the ability to predict the future accurately and on good intelligence, which was not forthcoming, while America's perceived unilateralism has isolated it as never before. It is not surprising that in its second term, the administration has been distancing itself from these policies and is in the process of rewriting the National Security Strategy document. and But it is the idealistic effort to use American power to promote democracy and human rights abroad that may suffer the greatest setback. Perceived failure in Iraq has restored the authority of foreign policy "realists" in the tradition of Henry Kissinger. Already there is a host of books and articles decrying America's naïve Wilsonianism and attacking the notion of trying to democratize the world. and More than any other group, it was the neoconservatives both inside and outside the Bush administration who pushed for democratizing Iraq and the broader Middle East. They are widely credited (or blamed) for being the decisive voices promoting regime change in Iraq, and yet it is their idealistic agenda that in the coming months and years will be the most directly threatened. Were the United States to retreat from the world stage, following a drawdown in Iraq, it would in my view be a huge tragedy, because American power and influence have been critical to the maintenance of an open and increasingly democratic order around the world. The problem with neoconservatism's agenda lies not in its ends, which are as American as apple pie, but rather in the overmilitarized means by which it has sought to accomplish them. What American foreign policy needs is not a return to a narrow and cynical realism, but rather the formulation of a "realistic Wilsonianism" that better matches means to ends. How did the neoconservatives end up overreaching to such an extent that they risk undermining their own goals? The Bush administration's first-term foreign policy did not flow ineluctably from the views of earlier generations of people who considered themselves neoconservatives, since those views were themselves complex and subject to differing interpretations. Four common principles or threads ran through much of this thought up through the end of the cold war: a concern with democracy, human rights and, more generally, the internal politics of states; a belief that American power can be used for moral purposes; a skepticism about the ability of international law and institutions to solve serious security problems; and finally, a view that ambitious social engineering often leads to unexpected consequences and thereby undermines its own ends. The problem was that two of these principles were in potential collision. The skeptical stance toward ambitious social engineering — which in earlier years had been applied mostly to domestic policies like affirmative action, busing and welfare — suggested a cautious approach toward remaking the world and an awareness that ambitious initiatives always have unanticipated consequences. The belief in the potential moral uses of American power, on the other hand, implied that American activism could reshape the structure of global politics. By the time of the Iraq war, the belief in the transformational uses of power had prevailed over the doubts about social engineering. Neoconservatism, whatever its complex roots, has become indelibly associated with concepts like coercive regime change, unilateralism and American hegemony. What is needed now are new ideas, neither neoconservative nor realist, for how America is to relate to the rest of the world — ideas that retain the neoconservative belief in the universality of human rights, but without its illusions about the efficacy of American power and hegemony to bring these ends about.
Sunday, February 26. 2006
 Our final pheasant hunt of the year today. A real breakfast at the lodge, fun with dogs, birds and guns for five hours, then some beer and pheasant pot pie. Maybe shoot a couple of lawyers, too. That is really living.
Dubai. Sisu takes a look at Dubai. Very wealthy mini-nation where Moslems go to break all of their rules, and party with booze and multicultural hoes. The Clockwork Orange, Revisited. The mighty mighty Dalrymple on this 20th Century grotesque pop classic. The Scooter-Plame story. "Who cares?" is right. It's just more "drip drip drip" from the Bush-haters. In any event, I remain very unhappy with the idea of nailing citizens on perjury when there is no underlying crime. They did it to Martha Stewart. Not saying that perjury is OK - just saying "No blood, no foul." Common sense. Libertarian Leanings has story. Scooter is a good kid. The Tipping Point? Dinocrat thinks we've reached the point where the greater European community realizes that radical Islam is TROUBLE. I think he is right. It is push-back time for those with any self-respect. Why are Conservatives happier people than Leftists? Many have commented on the study, but Ex-Donk does a good job with it. Red Ken's Time Out. Superb piece by Big Lizard. Who votes for this embarassing schmuck? How the PTA was co-opted by the Left (and the teacher's unions). Horsefeathers. How many mainly women-led organizations did this happen to? The YWCA, the League of Women Voters, the Junior League... what else?
Saturday, February 25. 2006
 What are your House Guns? MassBackwards shows you his. I prefer a short-barreled pump 12 ga. The ominous "ka-chunk" of a pump gun chambering a cartridge in the dark ought to be sufficient for all but the most crazed bad guys to run for the hills.
Bremer wanted more troops in Iraq, says Gen. Sanchez did too: Review of Bremer's new book. The White House mess: Podhoretz echoes our complaints. The Harriet Myers thing was the first sign of big problems. Burchill in Haaretz on Brits being paralyzed by manners and suicidal political correctness (H/T, LGF). A quote: Anyway, from now on I think I'll get just a few less accusations of racism when I point out that Muslims can be a bit, well, narrow-minded. Mind you, it's a long hard struggle trying to make bleeding-heart liberals see sense. Especially when you live in a country where a sizable part of the print and broadcasting media are such guilt-ridden cretins when it comes to Islam that if they saw Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein sexually sharing their own grandmother, they'd swear the poor old lady asked for it.
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Friday, February 24. 2006
 Backlash at Harvard: Let's hope so. Dershowitz slams the PC Cops: NE Repub. Also, Ruth Wisse of Harvard, in the WSJ, as passed on via Protein Wisdom.
Dhimmitude on Parade. In Malaysia - a prohibition on comments about the cartoon issue. The curtain of silence falls. Did they learn this from the American press? Michelle. How about prohibiting comments on the prohibition of comments on the cartoons? Sitzpinkler. Captain Ed would like us all to take up this word. Will take it under serious consideration. ... OK, we'll use it. Sitzpinklers in the American press. We have noted several times that the press seems to have no fear of the demonic Dick Cheney, but acts terrified of the peaceful and cuddly but misunderstood Jihadists. Daily Pundit addresses the craven press. Our hero, VDH, is back from Iraq. Quote from his piece in NRO: It is an odd war, because the side that I think is losing garners all the press, whether by blowing up the great golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, or blowing up an American each day. Yet we hear nothing of the other side that is ever so slowly, shrewdly undermining the enemy.
 The Vatican Speaks on reciprocity: Excellent point from the Vatican. Dinocrat, Democracy Project, and LGF got on that report right away.
China's media censorship on the rise. CSM Why the Left should hate Chavez: Vargas Llosa at RCP Al Quaida's benefits package: Austin Bay at TCS.
"What's their co-pay?" Which Ad won the Superbowl? Using functional MRI to observe brain response. Very cool and very creepy. Edge. Includes link to the ads, if you missed them. Not Lincoln-Douglas: Lieberman and Dodd debate Iraq. Calif. Yank.
Thursday, February 23. 2006
If you didn't read it, yesterday's post on Dem. Strategy is a must-read. Scroll down a tad. A normal female (if a blogger can be normal) happily straightens it out for you: the looniness of sexual harassment extremism. One quote from And Rightly So: It seems to me that women who file these charges have an ISSUE with themselves; they have little self confidence and take that out on others. They use their “status” of being a woman to punish men. For being men. Men look. They like to be around us. They are social creatures too, who thrive on attention and conversation. If a man is paying attention to a woman she should take that as the ultimate compliment and accept it for what it is: Human nature. Not turn it into something unnatural and negative and phoney. Women should be proud of what and who they are, the power they do indeed have over men, instead of using it against them.
Quit or Stay?, from Orson Card: Well, dumb-guy Bush and his team have been leading us in the best-run war in American history -- not a flawless war, but one with far fewer and less costly mistakes than the norm. (Dear Furious Letter Writers: Don't even bother arguing this point with me until you've studied the mistakes made in all our other wars so you have some kind of perspective.)
I agree with everything he says. Saved us a lot of writing by doing it for us. A Hitchen rant on why the world isn't lining up with the Danes. Via Daily Pundit The sane go to jail. Mr. Momani and Mr. Assadi - true journalistic heroes. Captain's Quarters. Boston has a long and proud history of corruption, once you get outside Chestnut Hill and Cambridge. But the Bulgar Brother's story is hard to believe. Wizbang has a nice summary, and link to the new book. Not just a slick news/blog update, but the pictures are amazing. Cotillion.
Wednesday, February 22. 2006
Jesus cartoons all over, but no riots. And has Google blocked searches for Mohammed cartoons? (No, reports a careful reader) Blogcritics "Hands are OK" - US grammar school art class bans kids drawing human images. LGF. WFT? Summary of the Ilan Halimi horror story in France: NY Sun
The Port Operations story: The Admin. wants to positively engage a moderate Islamic nation - friends and allies - for a task which has nothing to do with port security. The UAE are not Jihadists. What's the issue? Fear-mongering Repubs, and Dems grabbing any opportunity to erase their image as weak-kneed appeasers. Ridiculous. YARGB discusses. Confed. Yank also. Bush is right with this one: Don't smear all of Islam with the same brush for demagogic purposes. Amazing rock and roll stuff found in Bill Graham's basement: Synthstuff The Press Corps wants to bring Bush down. Good piece by Buchanan at RCP. (H/t, Soxblog and Anchoress). I am deeply offended by this: Larry Summers goes down for thought crime. Comments from Driscoll. Comment summary at New England Repub. These academics are as bad as the Jihadists. Or the Inquisition. Is this America??? SISU addresses the fascism of the Left - a favorite topic here at Maggie's. This is one serious black eye for Harvard, and one more confirmation of everything Horowitz has been saying. Harvard alums should let the Corporation know that they have gone off the deep end. New Zealand Christians offended by free speech. Of course they're offended. RTLC. Everybody should be offended occasionally by free speech. Since when is hurting someone's feelings a crime? Or am I old-fashioned? Lots of speech is rude, crude, unkind and insensitive. Too bad. I can take it. Come to think of it, if you really want to see Hate Speech On Parade, try the Daily Kos.
Tuesday, February 21. 2006
More on Summers and Harvard. NY Sun. Is he so traumatized by being mau-maued by the feminists that he cannot defend himself? More from Horsefeathers. A tougher Summers: Christina Hoff Summers on Crying Wolf over Sexual Harassment. NRO. Some surprising facts re male vs. female abuse Killer freakin' robots! Ace Three arrested in Toledo for terrorism Why Sharia Law is uncivilized. From the highly multiculturally-sensitive Wizbang. Newspapers are still making $ - and moving onto the web to do so. IBD The F-14 Tomcat is retired. One Hand Clapping
Q: How do I protect my cockatoo or canary from bird flu?
A: If you keep a cockatoo or canary as a pet, slaughter it immediately. The proper way to do this is to grab its body in your fist, walk it into the kitchen, place it on the cutting board, and lop its head off with a knife. Pretty much any knife will do. Bird necks are about as tough as celery. Read the rest here.
Hey, New York Times: More on the Russians moving Saddam's WMDs Who's organizing all the the loony tunes riots? Moonbattery figgered it out - and it's not Rove - but it's funny. A spineless Sweden slowly collapses. Michelle. Two generations of decadent socialism has broken this nation's spirit. Maoism at Harvard: We must all study diligently Correct Mao Thought. Am. Thinker on the latest Larry Summers ridiculousness. Veritas?
Monday, February 20. 2006
Who knew that Dr. Seuss was a political cartoonist? Volokh As predicted, media ignores story of Iraq's enriched uranium. I guess it's not a Dem talking-point, is it? Newsmax Minnesota Dems go over the edge: their efforts to block pro-war advts. What about diversity of opinions? Why acting so fascist? Powerline insists it's a prototypical story about the Left's fear of debate, and their capture by their extreme wing. Could be.
Did you miss our piece on The Dems' Valentine's Day Manifesto last week? If so, read it. Covers a lot of ground. Scroll down - it was posted on the 15th. Our Chickensh-t Press: If our Leftist press portrays Cheney as the devil incarnate, how come they aren't afraid of him? And if the Jihadists are just misunderstood peaceful folk, how come they are so afraid of them? The press is supposedly giving the Jihadists a pass on the cartoons, etc, because of "sensitivity"!!! Huh? The press isn't sensitive to anyone except Hillary Clinton. "Sensitivity" is just a euphemism for "scared." They are pure chickensh-t. Captain Ed gives them hell, here. Help Wanted! Apply now! Iranian men and women sign up to be suicide bombers. BKP. That's the Religion of Peace, folks. They can't wait to spatter you with their shrapnel and their guts. Did Russians move Saddams WMDs? I want to know why the CIA seems to be keeping a distance from these new reports about WMDs. Atlas discusses the Russian angle. Rick Moran, Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Right Wing Nut House, keeps getting better as an essayist. I say that enviously. He's ready for the big-time. Next thing you know, he will change the whimsical name of his blog. An excerpt from his reply to Simon Jenkins' critique of the Iraq war: For at bottom, the “alternative strategy” being pushed by Jenkins and most of those on the left is one of reaction – waiting for the terrorists to strike before committing ourselves to countering them. In an era where weapons of mass destruction are becoming more widespread and easier to manufacture and/or acquire, this policy is not only suicidal, but morally reprehensible. It condemns hundreds perhaps thousands of innocent people to death all in the name of a simpering kind of internationalism, a belief that most countries are on the same page when it comes to combating terrorism. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are many countries – Russia and China come to mind immediately – that would not be averse to seeing a catastrophic attack on America. Mr. Jenkins and his reactive strategy would make such an attack more likely by several degrees of magnitude. I daresay that Beijing especially wouldn’t mind seeing America severely weakened as it would probably mean affecting our ability to block their designs on Taiwan and establishing economic hegemony over the rest of East Asia. Read his whole piece.
***The Loony Tunes Story, contd. An excellent review of the cartoon issue by Anne Applebaum in the WaPo. She points out what we have been observing: The more we learn about Moslem culture, the less we trust them and the less we want their alien values in our countries. One quote from her piece: Of course, some good may come out of this story, even in this country. If nothing else, this controversy should bring an end to that naive, charming and sadly incorrect American theory of international relations that "the more we all learn about one another, the less we will fight." Gradually, the Islamic world is learning that we don't respect religion in the same manner they do. Slowly, we are learning that they feel differently about the printed word, and the printed picture, from us. And somehow, I've got a feeling that this new knowledge will be not the beginning of understanding but the inspiration for more violence. *** means this is a must-read.
Sunday, February 19. 2006
Stones play for 1 million in Rio. Video clip here. Jingjing and Chacha are watching you: 1984 on the internet in China. Fin. Times More on Sarkozy, who will probably be next French President. Interesting fellow. Weekly Standard The theory of the Just War, considered by No Oil Congress punts on the NSA oversight issue. They don't want the responsibility. Captain Ed. Do the Loftus Tapes confirm that Saddam had a uranium enrichment program? If so, why isn't it front page news?
Saturday, February 18. 2006
A bit late with the links this morning - was "overserved" last night at Rudy's. Not my fault. Psiphon. Psiphon will break down the Great Internet Wall of China. small dead animals. Good. We want their traffic! Brits move abroad for a better life. The Independent. And the population replaced by....Moslems. Hey, Brits. Lower your taxes, encourage free enterprise, protect your traditions, place some sane limits on immigration, and folks will want to stay. Just watch Canada under Harper. Laffey attacks Chafee. Many Yanks would love to see Laffey win in RI. Laffey's column here. Religion of Peace: Where is this photo? NYC!!! WTF? And why are these people here, if not for freedom? Just for $? Piece at our pal Pamela's place: Atlas. They obviously have no clue what America is all about, or its history, or what it stands for, or what its soldiers have died for. Disgusting, shameful. We'll buy you a plane ticket home - today. We do not welcome, or want, your values. We prefer our own. Build the Caliphate in France or, better yet, just go home. Dealing with our own Lefty-Fascists is enough work. Dealing with this kind of stupid BS is just...ridiculous! And if these kinds of jerks frighten the American press, the American press is worthless. These folks are unready for Western Civilization if freedom and civility are not their priorities. One question: How would the media react if these were Christians? 
Shooting one lawyer is an accident.
Shooting them all is a movement! Link via Confed. Yank. (What's a Perazzi? Here.)
Friday, February 17. 2006
Annan wants US military help in Darfur to support any NATO efforts. What about the rest of the world? The US will only end up being hated if we go in there. Religion of Peace. You already saw this probably, but the imams have put a price on the heads of cartoonists. Michelle. Freakin' idiots. You can insult my God all you want. Neither He, nor I, will feel harmed. Canada turning warmer towards US. Great. Am. Thinker. It also looks as if they will dismantle their huge expensive and equally ineffective gun registration bureaucracy. Captain Ed. That's even better. I guess it was time for a change up there. What the heck is going on with young teens at My Space? NY Sun The Common Man in NH. Eaten there several times. Good for after skiing. Wizbang shows the true NH heart in the face of nagging Feds. So sensitive: (from Chronicle of Higher Edn) College students in Arizona may be able to opt out of required reading assignments they consider personally offensive, under a bill approved on Wednesday by the State Senate's Higher Education Committee. The measure would allow students to decline assignments that "conflict with the student's beliefs or practices in sex, morality, or religion."
Gee, that about covers everything, doesn't it?
It could turn out that Loftus over-hyped his tapes for publicity reasons. Rick Moran has it right in his piece in which he quotes Lori Byrd thus: If the tapes are authentic, the discussion of efforts to deceive the inspectors and to be ready to quickly resume WMD production is huge news, but it obviously will not be reported that way. As I said yesterday, it is going to take a heck of a lot to convince the media, and those on the left, that Bush didn’t lie about Saddam’s WMD. Scratch that. They already know he didn’t lie about it. It will take a heck of a lot to convince them to admit that Bush didn’t lie about it.
 We were convinced by Brother Kesler at Democracy Project that there is a genuine legal issue about internet providers and China, and that it isn't simply a matter of commerce, but a matter of Commerce Law. He said, via email, that the law
forbids selling them the handcuffs (indeed, this is currently forbidden), the WMD technology (currently forbidden), and the other means of direct repression (Internet censoring) which is actually forbidden but Commerce has not paid attention to this "expansive" interpretation of existing law, so added interpretative legislation is needed. Otherwise, sell them food, or other items that do not further repression or further threats to West.
So will re-refer you to his two recent pieces on the subject. Scroll down and read them both. The Loftus tapes to be released today. Should be interesting. Daily Pundit The sickening Abu Graib tapes. I know this is 5 out of 150,000 soldiers, and I understand that they are pissed at these Jihad creeps, but this is not the American Way. Video here. What did these guys do, surrender to troops? WaPo has a piece on this. Is Blogging done? Captain Ed looks at the numbers, and concludes that blogging is event-driven, especially election-driven. I think it's a good thing, but hardly worth the effort without thousands - at least - of daily readers...which we need here...and we will burn down a KFC shop if we don't get what we want!!! (Just kidding.) From a piece by Max Boot on Scapegoating of the West: The most depressing aspect of the whole cartoon affair is not the intolerance for press freedom exhibited throughout Muslim lands. It is the willingness of so many Muslims — even those who would never burn a consulate or threaten a newspaper editor — to scapegoat the West for their own failures. Muslim nations will never make any progress unless they stop focusing on the offenses, real or imagined, visited upon them by the outside world and start looking within for what ails them.
No Oil remembers the Steyn piece -well, who doesn't: [Euro apologists] appear[] to be arguing that our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people's intolerance, which is intolerable. Thus the lop-sided valse macabre of our times: the more the Islamists step on our toes, the more we waltz them gaily round the room...
Somehow missed this one from Michelle: University of Washington student leaders: Student senator Jill Edwards, according to minutes of the student government's meeting last week, said she "didn't believe a member of the Marine Corps was an example of the sort of person UW wanted to produce." Ashley Miller, another senator, argued "many monuments at UW already commemorate rich white men."
Who raised these kids to be such spoiled morons? Anti-Christian Hate. We Christians hate it. But accept it. It's been going on for two thousand years. But why is it no big deal to the media? Surely they are not all Jihadists? American Thinker. Reason vs. Pretext for rioting and mayhem. We know it's been pretext for the Molsems. Eric makes the point well - "Another Day, Another Pretext." Teflon causes cancer? Aw, man. I think Life causes cancer. Ya gotta die of something, right? Not gonna live forever, right?
Thursday, February 16. 2006
Very funny. My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has the video. She says it's the Islamic Numa Numa, and offers that old video too, just for fun - if you missed it. (And yes, Maggie's Farm will make fun of anyone and anything we want, including our own religion and our own world view. Whenever we feel like it - and even if it's juvenile. We will not even try to compete with Powerline for brains. We are simple God-fearin' New England Country Folk.)
What is Al Gore's price to sell out his nation? $250,000. for his speech. Jeez, I'll rant for an hour for free...but never like that. I guess Humility is still knockin' on his door. Still crazy, notes Powerline. Isn't he the permanent Garfunkel of Simon and Garfunkel? Lost in the ozone of Ego, disappointment, moral confusion, and too much good pot in Vietnam? Shark attacks decline as people fight back - with their fists! Wash. Times. Punch that killer shark in the nose! Hey, European friends - there's a moral to that story. Italy stands up to intimidation. Good for them. Gateway Steichen photo goes for 2.9 million at auction. Well, it is a pretty picture. Scalia terms ideological foes "idiots." C'mon, Scalia. Even if they are, how about a little dignified behavior. Pictures of Mohammed in many art museums. Is this really true about Islam forbidding pictures? The China-Internet debate. Not sure what the right side is on this one. Kesler considers the law and the issues at Democracy Project. Wedded bliss lasts one year. Amazed those researchers have the balls to go home after announcing that one. Art Therapy for the Middle East. From Dissident Frogman: So everybody is going at it and having fun, from The Amazing Retecool to Draw Mohammad.com (hat tip: Blonde Sagacity) all the way to Iran's mullahcrats who launched a goat spanking worldwide "Draw me a Joo" contest: Iran's biggest-selling newspaper has chosen to tackle the West's ideals of "freedom of expression" by launching a competition to find the 12 "best" cartoons about the Holocaust, (...) See? No need to get all red faced under the turban and all sweaty-shaky in the burnoose, you can have a go at freedom of speech too.
Just put down the torches, grab a 2B pencil, and let your inner self roam free. We, in the West, will call it Free Speech while the rest of you in Tehran, Indonesia, Kabul and California will call it Art Therapy.
Wednesday, February 15. 2006
A Moslem Brokeback Mountain? Oh, man. This will make the sparks really fly. Coming soon to a theater near Mecca you. Ya gotta laugh. If you are a regular reader of Maggie's, you would have known about these Loftus tapes two weeks ago. Is there a smoking gun? Not clear. Do the tapes prove that Saddam was fixated on WMDs? Yes. New York Times: Give Hamas a chance....for what? To kill more Jews? Didn't the American Left want to give Hitler more time to be reasonable... until he invaded their beloved Stalinist Russia? Ronald McDonald, inflatable Mohammeds with 7-inch wieners, etc: Classical Values - with pictures. The Moslem cyberwarfare. Michelle. A Danish view: the US and Brits pissed on us. Europundits. Gopnik on Shaker furniture, in The New Yorker. Scientists prove what everyone knows: illness in a spouse causes the other to go downhill too. Science Daily Pakistan goes postal. What's the matter with these people? Don't they have jobs? Or is it just Party Time, Middle-East style? NY Sun Darfur: Who is going to fix it? NATO? The UN? Or the USA? CSM. Why not France this time? It's your turn, France. You pull this little metal thing, and then the bullet goes out of the end of that metal tube-thingy. Low-fat diet? More evidence that it's useless. NYTimes Science Times. Great news for carnivores who like their steaks burnt on the outside and rare on the inside, with a mountain of buttery mashed potatoes...hey, what's for supper? A White House on Quaaludes. Cheney finally spoke today, honestly and graciously. Copped to the whole thing, although from what I heard it was a true accident and not an error. He should have spoken sooner. The White House has been doing lots of important things, but, in managing the loony shark-infested waters of the press, they are a bust. Fire the jerk whose job is press and micro-crisis management. Email me...I can do a better job.
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