Monday, July 31. 2006
Mr. Chavez visits Iran with Mr. Morales and If Graham Greene were writing the novel how would it end? It seems the Mid East and Asia are not the only worries for the mighty US, no me thinks I smell more than one ratoncito in Latin America. Condi and George W will need our allies to start speaking up soon. If you do not read the ATLANTIC, then I highly recommend you buy the May issue: A Castro-loving, Bolivar-worshipping, onetime baseball-player wannabe, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is perhaps the world’s most openly anti-American head of state. With Latin America in the midst of a leftward swing, how dangerous is he?
 New Orleans getting back to normal: 6 murders in one day.
A cease fire is a Hez victory. Jerusalem Post Mel Gibson? Why do we care what movie stars say, drunk or sober? But that was really bad. Atlas is covering the war from up close. An interview with Roger Scruton, one of our favorite essayists. Find out what he thinks are the two things America can do to improve itself. h/t, Weekend Pundit A pastor disowns pulpit politics. Makes sense to me, but his parishioners are not pleased.
Sunday, July 30. 2006
You are on a horse, galloping at a constant speed. On your right side is a sharp drop-off, and on your left side is an elephant traveling at the same speed as you. Directly in front of you is a galloping kangaroo and your horse is unable to overtake it. Behind you is a lion running at the same speed as you and the Kangaroo. What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?
If you do not know, see answer below................... Get your drunk ass off the merry-go-round!
 Nashville Skyline. Maggie's Farm's Dylanologist is making the big move from Yankee-land, across the Mason-Dixon line to Music City to pursue his career. We wish him the best, and ask that the Volunteer State rebels treat him well. Even though he is a Yank, he's one of the good ones, and he'll keep working for us. To commemorate this, we offer two old YouTubes of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, One Too Many Mornings and Girl from the North Country.
 And, speaking of the Southland - the Aquazone Bass Edition. Turn your monitor into a wild bass aquarium. The flag? That flag don't stand for slavery none: it stands for the never-ending rebel, anti-authoritarian, anti-smarty-pants expert, free-thinkin' American spirit. Plenty of us Yanks admire and respect that rebel heart and soul and especially - God Bless him - the great American, Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Bush made me buy property in Crawford, says Cindy Sheehan. Wizbang. This peculiar lady is an endless source of humor, but sometimes one feels sorry for her due to some emotional condition, despite being a traitor, an idiot, and a tool. The Top 100 Fly-Fishing sites. Here. Chicago shoots itself in the foot. Why not go all the way and set the minimum wage at 100/hour? Rick explains, patiently. The ACLU scam: find a sympathetic judge, then clean up with the big bucks, just like trial lawyers with juries. But, win or lose, WE PAY the bill. RWN explains. New Sisyphus is thinking that something evil is loose in the world. The Congregational Church, Town Meetings, and American democracy. Tom Brewton Juan Williams leaves the Plantation. God Bless him. YARGB
Saturday, July 29. 2006
On his way east from LA and Seattle, the Dylanologist stopped by to see his old friends at Pine Butte this week. Yes, snow in July. Great place. Photo . If you are concerned about global warming, you will support this fix. The genetics of "tameness," in NYT Science News/ I think I have enough of these genes to grow a garden, but not enough to be a good husband. Bumble bee flies 8 miles to its home. Good weekend day trip, if you are anywhere near Storm King. Always thought that was a killer name for a mountain. Those Hudson Highlands are surprising. Zero to sixty in 4 seconds - on a battery. Alphapatriot. Cheap too. Fisk - of all people - on Beirut. Many people are fond of Lebanon. Cluck, cluck. Women in the UK may be able to sell their eggs. Tangled Web. Just like Brave New World. Can you get, brown, white, organic, large and medium? Lamont: 2.8 million in 2005 income, 5000 in charity. Typical Dem - Let The Govt Do It. Just One Minute. Cannot include the Family Fund - I suspect that's a foundation with legally-required disbursement. What's wrong with English instruction? Newmark, via Betsy Cohen on survival and proportionality. Sanity. How is this? Whole thing here: "Islamic Iran will not be deprived from its obvious nuclear right, even by a resolution by an useless U.N. Security Council," Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Friday prayers in Tehran, broadcast live on state radio.
Friday, July 28. 2006
Convert your LP records to CDs, with an Ion Turntable. Great idea. Does it eliminate the scratches? Believe them - or don't. Moslems want to re-establish the Caliphate. They are not joking. Kidding around is not their schtick. Dems propose a bill to halt global warming. It's another feel-good thing. If it does any good, I'll let you smack me with a mackeral and call me Mildred. On same subject, more evidence that Kyoto is a scam. Env. Repub Doug Ten Napel provides a penetrating rebuttal to a comment on embryonic stem cells. Doug is like one of those guys who got Ds in college, read only comic books, and was smarter than anyone else. Nasrallah is displeased. The IDF hacked into his communications network. I heard on the radio that he ran away and is at the Beirut Sheraton. Would love to run into this guy down in the bar, trying to pick up chicks. How "assortive mating" affects social mobility. People tend to mate with those of similar income/education. Stumbling. Maybe a govt regulation against this insidious practice? The Long Tail. Am I the only one who hasn't read this book? A review Ampakines sound like good stuff. They reverse memory loss. They reverse what?
Thursday, July 27. 2006
Edith let me take her photo at the beach on Sunday, but she refused a dinner date. (Is it still Sweeps Month? But we don't do ads anyway... ) What the heck - she says she's 24 but she could be under-age anyway. Sour canteloupes? Anderson Cooper confused about what a terrorist is. Wizbang Nuclear power. The NYT can't figure it out. Jim Miller Clinton duplicity: Do as I say,... Pardon My English Cindy Sheehan's fast: Not looking any skinnier... Lee might be right about this: We need to just accept the fact that the only thing holding Iraq together was Saddam, and just like Tito’s Yugoslavia was broken into smaller states, so should Iraq.
Al Jazeera is supporting Rick Santorum's opponent. If you passed over it, go back and read yesterday's link to Brussel's Journal.
Wednesday, July 26. 2006
Hurricanes: The problem is people building and living too close to the coast. Duh. NYT At Maggie's Farm, we oppose any new Federally-subsidized flood insurance. It's stupid: we subsidize people to live in flood zones, then have to pay to rescue them from floods and hurricanes and to rebuild in the same place. Only govt could be that dumb. But it's not their money, is it? Could be some truth to this, from piece in The Guardian: Another Hizbullah leader hinted that the group had not expected such a ferocious response from Israel, as previous border incidents have usually played out in low-key fashion.
The more I think about it, the more I suspect that they wanted to create a little border scuffle as a diversion from Iran, and did not count on a strong reaction from an Israel who was feeling cornered and beseiged - and fed up with the fact that, with every concession, their enemies just move closer. I'll sign it, but. The debate about "signing statments." Opinion in the NY Sun No free lunch. Either permit drilling, or pay more for Arab and Venezuelan gas, and quit complaining. Wyoming protests new drilling on federal lands. Africa. The failure of the Doha Round means a dead end has been reached, for now. Publius. Africa needs agricultural markets, but the world doesn't want them to have them. Biodiesel in Europe. Bill Quick has some reasons to be, well, disappointed in Bush. So does Lee. Illegals get better deals with state colleges than Americans. No wonder they come. Can my kids do the same at the University of Guadalajara?
Tuesday, July 25. 2006
 This automobile-carrier is in deep trouble off Alaska.
Gwynnie asks whether GM has any submarines available. Everyone on board should hike out to starboard.
Homeowner kills intruder with .50 cal muzzle loader. How did he have time to load that thing? Some fine Mary Chapin Carpenter lyrics at Villainous. Case apologizes for AOL-Time Warner merger. Good grief. Listen to these quotes re Rice's visit: "The Americans want a new Middle East devoid of jihad, resistance, liberation, martyrdom, retaliation and dignity. These are all terms that disturb the Americans. "They want to see a Middle East full of Arab presidents, monarchs and princes who serve as slaves for their American masters," Afaneh said. More in the Jerusalem Post The girl who named Pluto. h/t, Norm Neighborhoods begging for a Whole Foods. We have one, and I do not see what's so great about it. Dead IRANIAN soliders being flown home from Lebanon. Big surprise there. Why I love the Lebanese: they are party people. From those that I have known, I'd have to agree. Big Pharoah The Bronco cheerleaders cheered the troops last week. Europe doesn't want to talk about Eurabia. Why not? It is real. Augean
Monday, July 24. 2006
 Dr. Lee needs more refrigerator magnets to make this Humvee fully and properly protected and dressed. (Yes, it's for real.) Request is a shout-out via Iowahawk, but the Doc's site with his APO address is here.
I will send him one that says "Did you remember to take your Prozac today?", another with a snake that says "Repti-vite - for happy reptiles," and an AAA magnet which could come in very handy in Iraq. That's all I can spare. I will send a Ducks Unlimited sticker, but magnets is what they need for full protection.
Rove is behind Leftist anti-Semitism. LGF. Rove is not a human - he is The Devil, incarnate: a multi-tentacled evil monster. Spends a lot of his time blogging too, with one of those tentacles, under pseudonyms, in his spare time - no doubt.
Why diplomacy isn't always constructive: Ahmadinejad on Sunday: "We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you." Who? Me? (from Atlas) An Airbus whistle-blower in deep trouble in Austria. LAT Judson Laipply does the Evolution of Dance. YouTube Brits expected to welcome 45,000 criminals. That would be lovely. Tangled Web. (Isn't that what Botany Bay was for?) In other psychotic Brit news, Galloway glorifies Hezbollah. Gateway. I think they need to add Thorazine to their drinking water - or to their beer. This is not my homeland that I know and love. A conversation with Milton and Rose Friedman. This is too good. Betsy Maps of the IDF incursions into Lebanon. Belmont Ben Stein: Israel is too restrained. Repubs lag among Latinos. Why? Bolton has proven himself better than advertised. Why oppose his nomination?
Saturday, July 22. 2006
Cockroaches and Hezbollah. Shape of Days Google is going gangbusters. The guys are not going to relax. Autism - chic. It is not fun, or chic, for the parents. Spiked Thousands march in England against Israel. Mind you, this is in a country where you are not allowed to shoot burglars in your own house. Meanwhile Iran declares that it has taken control of the battle. Duh. Different kinds of taxes. Interesting to consider, but, in the end, you are going to be taxed. It's the price of civilization, but part of it is the price of imperfect democracy. I like flat tax. Doubts about Israeli damage estimates. They will need to get in there with boots and tanks. Zogby wants a political solution. Hello? Israel is preparing for a more effective solution. Who are these idiots in Lebanon who want a free ride out, courtesy of the Marines? Right Wing Nation/ See Indepundit for a really cool evacuation ship. Tough guy movies, at The Shelf Should the UN be able to tax YOU? Gimme a break. Who are they, to me? I did not elect them. Brussels Journal
Env. Repub found us some good You-Tube rock videos here and here. Department of euphemism: Partial-birth abortion now termed "women's health. Stop the ACLU Smugness alert. Ex-Donk. Smugness is a very annoying trait. There are 2000-8000 programming languages. Is this much diversity helpful? Am. Scientist Women see color differently. Cognitive Daily Big new nondenominational churches springing up in supposedly atheistic Manhattan. First Things Gay intolerance: Gay Patriot complains that Leftist gays have no tolerance for gay conservatives.
Friday, July 21. 2006
Poor judgement on her part. Still, an excellent adventure.
Omar has a creepy post which makes me wonder whether anyone in the West understands these people. Iraq the Model Neckties: Are they coming back, or going out? CSM Clinton will campaign for Lieberman. As you may recall, Gore declined to support him: a bad idea, if he was your vice-presidential candidate. According to Duke faculty, the lacrosse players are guilty anyway, as one prof is quoted in a piece at HNN: "Regardless of the 'truth' established in whatever period of time about the incident at the house on N. Buchanan Blvd.," she mused, "the engine of outcry in this moment has been fueled by the difficult and mundane reality that pre-existed this incident." To Lubiano, the "members of the team are almost perfect offenders in the sense that [critical race theorist Kimberle] Crenshaw writes about," since they are "the exemplars of the upper end of the class hierarchy, the politically dominant race and ethnicity, the dominant gender, the dominant sexuality, and the dominant social group on campus."
It's always about "Whose truth?", like Pilate. How about The Truth? Yes - that same old cliched faculty-speak, which makes it clear that white males are always guilty. Further comments at Coyote The dangerous fantasy of peaceful Arab intent: Seattle Times Headlines you won't see: House Committee hears testimony debunking the hockey stick climate graph. Redstate Who knew that you could buy an entire edition of a Law Review? Cramer. Shameful, stupid, whorish, embarassing. The NYT spins it as a good thing that Lamont cannot raise $ in CT against Joe Lieberman. Nice try, NYT. What it obviously means is that he has minimal financial support in the state - but he is doing well in the polls. We were going to comment on the VDH piece on the weariness with fighting Jihad, but Dinocrat beat us to it. A cool resource: Middle East bloggers round-up, at Truth Laid Bear. Toilet-training, Adorno, Barry Goldwater, and John Dean: Classic rambling blogging by Classical Values. I still believe there is a basic confusion existing out there: It's the Left and the Progressives who want to control our lives - not the Conservatives. Or am I missing something?
Thursday, July 20. 2006
How should Bill Gates spend that 60 billion? The Copenhagen Consensus has some ideas. TCS Marry your cousin? No problem, says Stossel at Town Hall Taranto has mixed feelings about Bush's stem cell veto. I think it's probably a good thing, because it injects the moral dimension into the science. How do we want to regard human embryos? I don't know, but it's a question. How illegals damage the American economy. Malanga at City Journal. His point: A few get cheap labor, while the rest of us pay the bills. Papa Duck, Roland Remmel dies at 88. Remmel was the grand old man of Ducks Unlimited. Camus' wartime journalism. Plus plenty of things I did not know about him. TNR
Wednesday, July 19. 2006
Walmart wins, unions lose. Env Repub. Apparently there is a relevant law. Is it now the Left that doesn't want change - or is that just an artifact of having Repubs in control of congress? Driscoll The Duke group of 88 - who are these people? Dino found out. They are, umm, not "regular folks." Doubtless smarter than the rest of us. "Why Stephen Harper is my hero." At YARGB Leaving people to die on Everest usually makes sense. Big Lizard explains. Dying is a basic part of the sport. Like the military, don't do it if you aren't willing to die doing it. I have two friends who have lost relatives on mountains. The risk and challenge is the deal. You can chose to sit home and watch TV. Someone else who wonders why an Israel cease-fire would be a good idea: Bolton. As the Wash. Times commentary puts it: As Ben Stein recently put it, "God bless Eretz Israel. God bless Israel for having the [courage] to stand up for herself." But supporters of freedom and democracy must also say a prayer for President Bush, who has steadfastly stood up for Israel. He outright refuses to publicly ask Israel to stand down.
As expected, France, Spain and Italy have responded to recent events with pacifist posturing. In the smoking rooms of Western Europe and around the coffee tables of the United Nations, we hear more lofty calls for restraint. But the terrorist groups that started this fight have shown no restraint. Rather than pull back, Israel should move forward, cleaning out all the terrorist sanctuaries, training camps, weapons caches and missile systems it can find.
Remember, Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon and Gaza. Later, when terrorist gangs kidnapped Israeli soldiers, Israel appropriately fought back. That is what sovereign nations do, and Israel's recent military actions deserve our unyielding support. Israel has the right to put the terrorist armies of Hezbollah and Hamas out of business.
Krauthammer agrees. So does Gingrich: Not the time for restraint. But, on the other hard, David Clark in The Guardian wants Israel to give up even more land...probably all of it. They will not: It's high time western governments grasped the fundamental truth that Israel is pursuing an agenda that conflicts directly with their own. In the context of the fight against terrorism and the need to promote international cooperation, the west's interest must be to remove the Palestinian question as a source of grievance among mainstream Muslims in a way that guarantees justice for the Palestinians and security for Israel. A settlement of this kind is perfectly feasible and has been outlined in countless documents and initiatives over the years, most recently in the Geneva accords. But the main reason it has proved illusive is that Israel is not, and never has been, prepared to make the territorial compromises required. It still believes that it is entitled to the victor's spoils by annexing large tracts of Palestinian land.
That's a perfect example of a guy who preaches appeasement, and would be pleased to see Israel an Arab nation - but who is too naive, (maybe) to acknowledge that these people would just find another scapegoat for their mess.
Tuesday, July 18. 2006
New State Slogans. Two samples: West Virginia
One Big Happy Family...Really! The District of Columbia
The Work-Free Drug Place
Read the rest at Dr. Sanity NYT reduced to begging for readers. Am Thinker How Liberal is Joe Lieberman? Very. And I see Lamont cannot raise $ in CT. Calif Yank What's wrong with "social justice?" FIRE Who wants a cease fire? What for? Finish it, first. RWN An important point reinforced at S, C and A: Being elected does give you some legitimacy, but it doesn't make you right. From a new piece by Steyn, re Canada - and multi-cult in general: That's how nations die -- not by war or conquest, but by a thousand trivial concessions, until one day you wake up and you don't need to sign a formal instrument of surrender because you did it piecemeal. How many Muslims in Toronto sympathize with the aims of those arrested last week? Maybe we could use a book on the subject. But which Canadian house would publish it? And would the faint-hearts at Indigo-Chapters carry it?
 Our author of the Aliyah Diary just sent this in:
I am fine. Things tense here. Last night dinner with a psychoanalyst from Brazil, Dr. E (and a guest who spoke Yiddish). Dr. E's son heard a rumor that the army is moving MLRS (multiple launch rockets) from Golan to Leb border; today, my realtor had to leave early to get ready for his call-up tonight - tanks being moved to Leb border. MLRS have never been used by Israel: they rain steel. The Air Force dropped pamphlets over areas of southern Lebanon warning citizens to leave certain areas as these will be bombed. M. said that MLRS is a serious move towards war.
In Tel aviv today to meet with realtor and seller about apt in Jer. We were on the 16th floor, watching the horizon. Hezbollah had threatened to hit Azraeli towers at dusk (when radar doesn't work as well). An empty threat.
I feel safe, but unsettled. I sent you (I think) my account of the walk with D. before his deployment north. These Arabs are not worth the death of a single Jew.
The shelters have been opened here. I rather do not want to be cooped up with the people in the merkaz klita.
I've been asked to go north tomorrow to work with olim hadashim in safed and such; not sure this will take place. tomorrow evening, have been asked to run group meeting for oilim in Ra'anana.
Ironically, Jerusalem is one of the safer places to be -- for a change.
Hope to have my soldier book off to press by end of month (I have minor surgery July 28). Meeting with the artist, I hope, on thursday. Look forward to starting the Jacob and Joseph book. Also have a paper on dreams and another paper that I have left sitting for some time.
I don't think this war will last too long: the Israelis are doing too well and the U.N. doesn't tolerate that.
We have much to be proud of. At dinner last night, the yiddish-speaking guest described his father's activites in the concentration camps; I thought of my father's sad attempts to smuggle food and an occassional bullet into the ghetto. Jews need to be strong first. And forever. Editor's note: Sounds like it's all going as predicted by our news here in the US. And it's nice to have most of the Islamic nations on Israel's side, for once. Perhaps sanity is sinking in? Someone has to take out the garbage. Including Ahmadinejad, whose lovely comments today are here and here.
We have no idea why Al Gore refused to use this image in his movie. It graphs itself. 
They have taken away Winston's cigar. Tangled Web Why dealing with Islam is different from dealing with Marxism: Samiz Tree dweller enviro will not come out of tree. Moonbattery Brit Moslems approve of beheading. LGF  NYC stands with Israel. Atlas. So do we - whatever they want is OK with us. "Left-wingers" in Israel protest self-defence. Why is it always "Left wingers"? We always thought that self-defence was a good thing, compared to suicide. Is it some special chemical they put in Starbucks coffee when a limo, or a time-warped jerk with a pony-tail, pulls up? Also - Appeasement- Iran needed a diversion: Town Hall/ The Left in the western world supports terror. Period. Because they hate themselves. It is a disease.
Camp checklist: Bugspray - and your pills!!! NYT Democracy Alliance outed. The multi-millionaire Limo Liberals, who cannot relate to the aspiring working guy like me, are up to their old tricks. The Prof. Is it some chemical in Starbucks, or does it just come with tax-protected money? The Soros-types never even talk to regular Americans - they leave that to their servants. Ted Kennedy damns Lieberman as a "JFK Liberal." Perfect. Scrappledude See the review of Dion at Powerline? The Dangerous Book for Boys is on semi-permanent hold in the US, depite being a best-seller in Europe. I could have written this. Where to live in the USA? anywhere is good, and don't fall for the old geographical cure - but take the test. Ahminejajbajbaj has had it with Israel's "terrorism". Ummm. HH The Bombay bombings. Jihadists take "credit." Gateway. Also - they were funded by Brit "businessmen" - no ethnic identity noted. Highland Calvinists, no doubt, in kilts, with their single-malt whiskey wealth. France's joie de vivre - where did it go? CSM/ Confiscatory taxes, and a total lack of work ethic, do not help. Nor does their "solidarity tax": Cafe Hayek. Solidarity with whom? Chirac? Or here: France Head-butts entrepreneurs. More NYT in bed with the enemy. What amoral morons. Michelle. "Yo' momma never taught you right from wrong.." Also, more at Villainous Way to go, Dan. Dan Quayle walks out on Mellencamp. More on Dems trying to harvest the "religious" voters. Got religion? I suggest that they lean hard on the "render unto Caesar" line. That'll get 'em. Bush will speak to NAACP. Good. He should bring a friend.
Monday, July 17. 2006
Good source of Israel war links at HH, and piece on the Iran Connection. Somebody really HATES Kenny G: Synthstuff Megachurches and the Repub party ATLA wants to change their name. Lipstick on a pig. The real names of rock stars. Ace. Bet you didn't know that Paul Revere and the Raiders real name was Paul Revere. The CBS Egg story - too dumb. Diversity is not strength in Lebanon. VDARE Stop test-driving your girlfriend: A Christian view of wife selection/ h/t, Evangelical Outpost Eager Dhimmis in Sweden. Unbelievable. I guess they hate themselves. Culture wars and the Evangelical Christians. Middlebrow is right - they aren't trying to take over - they are fighting a holding action for traditional western civilization. Hey teacher, leave them kids alone. 7years hard time for her. I guess it's against the law.
Sunday, July 16. 2006
 Even a half-man would hit the jerk on the head with their camera and leave their brains on the floor. Or, at least, not return from this photo-op alive - but with honor intact.
These guys are a source of shame for all Americans, today - and every day. What would you - or I - do? I would GPS the address and call in air support - before I got there, of course. Lose a photo - save a life. This is The End, for the NYT. Full story, with details on Pinch "Let the American die" Sulzberger, and photos here.
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