Saturday, July 22. 2006
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.
Re-posted from April 4, 2005I have always felt that the purpose of secondary education is to make it possible, within their potential, for everyone to have the chance to be an informed, honorable citizen with the basic values and morals of our country and our traditions, and to be made capable of functioning in a literate world. And that the practical purpose of a college education was for those of a scholarly bent to be able to read the Sunday NYT from cover to cover and understand every detail and every reference - from the Book Review to the Arts to Business, etc. Plus the Tuesday Science Times. (Just an example - not an endorsement of the NYT's political agenda.) But I never thought that it was practical at all, or job-training - I thought it was mind-training and life-enriching. You can't really "get" the world until you've studied Geology and Locke and Bernini and Adam Smith and the glory of the calculus and Biochemistry and Statistics and Plato, and learned Shakespeare. Well, you might think you "get it," but you don't know ----. "The less you know, the smarter you think you are," as my pal Bird Dog likes to say. Fact is, you can do 99.9% of the necessary work in America without a college education - look at Bill Gates, Bob Dylan, Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Edison, many Brown University graduates, and tens of millions of honest, hard working folks, etc etc etc. But I have to accept that I may be old-fashioned and that times have changed. It appears that, for many, a college degree is now a job "credential," and we all know that there are many colleges out there which are very happy with below-average high-school-level work, as long as they can fill the seats and bring in the $. This is a pathetic, decadent development but it reflects the deterioration of standards and expectations in our society. I've spent a fortune providing education to my kids, as my Dad did for me, and as his Dad did for him. Maybe I am a bit of a snob, but I always felt that public education, in our time, was the K-Mart version of the thing. But I've been wrong before, once or twice...at most. Speaking of Locke, let's hear him on education: "Locke continues: “Having laid the foundations of virtue in a true notion of a God, such as the creed wisely teaches, as far as his age is capable, and by accustoming him to pray to Him, the next thing to be taken care of is to keep him exactly to speaking the truth, and by all the ways imaginable inclining him to be good-natured.” " Read entire, re Locke vs. Dewey: Click here: How Far Have We Fallen?
Friday, July 21. 2006
Our buddy last week, in south Texas, with a 265 lb. tusker shot with a 338 Win Mag at 85 yards. Pig goes to the local church for their summer pit barbecue. Wild pig is always in season, and no-one complains. 
What is going on in Lebanon these days? Willisms has a fine summary. And, for the moment, Bolton has it right.
Poor judgement on her part. Still, an excellent adventure.
Villa Balze, in Fiesole, last fall. It's Georgetown's Italian campus. The hills of Fiesole overlook Florence. We have concluded that staying in Fiesole, rather than downtown Firenze, is a good idea. Just hop on the bus with the nuns and the schoolkids for a 20 minute ride to town. And, yes, I am proud of this photo. 
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?
You can’t make Socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent. John Dewey
h/t, Kim du Toit
Thursday, July 20. 2006
Re-posted from July 26, 2005: Great Connecticut towns, Plus Loot from the annual super-stupendous Pequot Library Book Sale - worth a drive if you and your family like books. Photo is one of the many early 19th Century sea captain's houses in elegant Southport, the loveliest and most exclusive town in CT (with runners-up as Litchfield and Old Lyme, but not to omit the understated, historic, and noteworthy havens for tasteful and genteel Yankee gentlemen and gentleladies - da gentry, ya know - in Roxbury, Washington, Sharon, Kent, Warren, Essex, Norfolk, Salisbury, Sachem's Head, Granby, Harwinton, Farmington, Pomfret, Centerbrook, Avon, Southbury, Woodbury, Southington, Greenfield Hill (in Fairfield), and Lakeville, among a few others that do not jump to mind). The reference is to Southport's Pequot Library's famous annual used-book sale. (Last weekend of July.) Here's my loot - Christmas in July - at the request of The Dylanologist, hardcovers only: Life Magazine Photo History of WW2, The Guns of August by Tuchman, The Lost World by Crichton, The Atlas of Ancient Archeology by Jacquetta Hawkes, A Shropshire Lad by AE Housman, A Countryman's Woods by Hal Borland, Five Seasons by Yehoshua, Days of Awe by Agnon, Blue Highways by Wm Least Heat Moon, Clausewitz on War, Hotels and Country Inns in Italy, The Fatal Shore by Hughes, English Verse: Longfellow to Rupert Brooke, Restoration Poets: Milton to Goldsmith, A Travel Guide to Scotland and the Islands, The Great Gardens of Britain, The Master Sniper by Hunter, An Illustrated History of Firearms by Hogg, The Oxford Annotated Bible, Life in the Castle in Medieval England by Burke, The Encyclopedia of Rock Music (1994), The Atlas of Early Man by Jacquetta Hawkes, English Weapons and Warfare 449-1660, The American Heritage History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton, The Founding Fish by McPhee, The Complete Works of Paul Klee, Atlas of the Epic Land Battles of History, and about ten Robert Parkers. Plus about ten other misc. paperbacks. Could not find an excellent book on the identification of eastern trees, but I know most of them anyway. Total under $100. If I had been around on Saturday instead of late Sunday afternoon, it would have been more. This book sale keeps me safely and harmlessly occupied for months. Remembered when I got home that I had already read the Hughes and the Tuchman - I guess I liked them. The Housman was a replacement for an overly-used and disintegrating paperback. And no need to travel if you can read travel guides - a return to the amazing and hospitable Turkey is next on my list, but maybe after Provence. Then Scotland again for grouse-shooting and scotch-tasting - absolutely no golf - golf is for strivers and the Japanese - then Tuscany again. That's the long-range plan, not including routine hunting trips to Manitoba and New Brunswick or Maine. Photo: One of the many fine 19th Century sea-captain's homes in Southport, CT Editor's note: Hope the Dylanologist is home from Montana this weekend to take a drive to Southport.
With the Dylanologist on vacation, covering the fruited plains of the USA from NY to DC to Nashville to LA, I will fill in with my selection for the Thursday Dylan lyrics, Idiot Wind, from the masterpiece Blood on the Tracks: Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me better than that
Sweet lady.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars
After losin' every battle.
I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
Blood on your saddle.
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top
You're on the bottom.
I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes
don't look into mine.
The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the building
burned.
I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime
turned Slowly into autumn.
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory
And all your ragin' glory.
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
And it makes me feel so sorry.
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
We're idiots, babe.
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
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"What's good is bad, what's bad is good. You'll find out, when you reach the top. You're on the bottom." (Dylan, from Idiot Wind)From Fisk himself, in the Guardian. One quote: Terrorist, terrorist, terrorist. There is something perverse about all this, the slaughter and massive destruction and the self-righteous, constant, cancerous use of the word "terrorist".
Perhaps "knuckle-dragging Jihadist blood-thirsty power-mad fascist idiots" would capture the concept more accurately? Whole piece here. h/t, neoneo
 Maggie's Farm readers know how fond we are of Box Turtles and Wood Turtles - two woodland species which can be found in New England, and both under extreme population pressure in these parts - essentially endangered.
When we see them, we tend to see the Box in the shady woods, and the Wood Turtle in the streams, but our pup finds the Wood Turtle in the wet pasture too. We train our dogs to bark at them, but to never pick them up. The first time they find one, we give them heck with the shock collar and they learn that these turtles are radioactive. My introduction to the charming Box Turtle was at the Massachusetts Audubon Society sanctuary in Wellfleet as a kid. Cape Cod was full of Box Turtles then. Many fewer now, due to cars and dogs and coyotes - and the northward march of raccoons. Why does the subject come up? Tuesday night, with lightning flashing all around and rumbling thunder in the distance, I took an evening stroll with the flashlight, and stumbled on a Box Turtle digging a hole for her eggs in a sandy patch surrounded by oaks, not far from the marsh. Slow and steady. I have never seen this before. My first thought was "Wish I had my camera," but my second thought was "Why photograph everything?" It makes it no more real, and this is a special sight, a real gift from nature. So I turned my light away, and left her alone to her arduous task. Image of a box turtle digging a nest hole, in daylight, from Univ of Ga.
When Dalrymple talks about criminality and addiction, you have to listen. He is an ex prison psychiatrist. He makes the case that opiate addiction is not a "disease," which therefore requires "treatment." Is any great harm done by pretending that opiate addiction is a disease like any other? After all, a portion of mankind will always resort to mind- altering drugs to obscure the existential problems that confront us all. Certainly methadone when prescribed carelessly — as it is in Britain — is a dangerous drug, and can cause nearly as many deaths as heroin itself. There is a more intangible harm, however, to the pretence: the existence of drug clinics sends a message to addicts that they are ill and in need of treatment rather than they have chosen a disastrous path in life. It conceals from people their responsibility for their own lives, a responsibility we all find irksome at times, but acceptance of which is the only basis of a meaningful life.
Although AA tends to term addiction a "disease," they approach it as a problem with the soul and the spirit, as does Dalrymple. Read the whole thing, which runs contrary to the usual pieties and victim mongering. Comment from Dr. Bliss: I like Dalrymple very much. And I don't care whether you call addiction a disease or not - the concept has been so degraded that they call acne and PMS diseases these days. The implication that addicts are real, or latent, born criminals is not born out by my experience. Some are, some aren't. "Help" for them? Some require detox - that's a medical function. After that, AA is the best bet, unless they have other psychiatric problems. AA is the exact opposite of a government program.
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
I can make more generals, but horses cost money. Abraham Lincoln
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.
Ah, the way the other half lives... Villainous
It's been a while since we posted from 
Sam Pepys' diary. Here is the excellent Diary link> He would have been a blogger. A viall is proably like a viol da gamba - like a viola. In those days, you had to make your own music. I think Sam had a thing for Bagwell's wife, but he always notes his feelings about the ladies. He was fond of his own wife, too. - Friday 17 July 1663
- Up, and after doing some business at my office, Creed came to me, and I took him to my viall maker’s, and there I heard the famous Mr. Stefkins play admirably well, and yet I found it as it is always, I over expected. I took him to the tavern and found him a temperate sober man, at least he seems so to me. I commit the direction of my viall to him. Thence to the Change, and so home, Creed and I to dinner, and after dinner Sir W. Warren came to me, and he and I in my closet about his last night’s contract, and from thence to discourse of measuring of timber, wherein I made him see that I could understand the matter well, and did both learn of and teach him something. Creed being gone through my staying talking to him so long, I went alone by water down to Redriffe, and so to sit and talk with Sir W. Pen, where I did speak very plainly concerning my thoughts of Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes. So as it may cost me some trouble if he should tell them again, but he said as much or more to me concerning them both, which I may remember if ever it should come forth, and nothing but what is true and my real opinion of them, that they neither do understand to this day Creed’s accounts, nor do deserve to be employed in their places without better care, but that the King had better give them greater salaries to stand still and do nothing. Thence coming home I was saluted by Bagwell and his wife (the woman I have a kindness for), and they would have me into their little house, which I was willing enough to, and did salute his wife. They had got wine for me, and I perceive live prettily, and I believe the woman a virtuous modest woman. Her husband walked through to Redriffe with me, telling me things that I asked of in the yard, and so by water home, it being likely to rain again to-night, which God forbid. To supper and to bed.
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. 
Is mass migration needed, now that women have quit having kids? A quote from Brussels Journal: “Europe and Japan are now facing a population problem that is unprecedented in human history,” said Bill Butz, president of the Population Reference Bureau. Countries have lost people because of wars, disease and natural disasters but never because women stopped having enough children. Japan announced that its population had shrunk in 2005 for the first time, and that it was now the world’s most elderly nation. Italy was second. On average, women must have 2.1 children in their lifetimes for a society to replenish itself, accounting for infant mortality and other factors. Only one country in Europe – Muslim Albania – has a fertility rate above 2. Russia’s fertility rate is 1.28. Writer Spengler in the Asia Times Online commented that demography is destiny: “Never in recorded history have prosperous and peaceful nations chosen to disappear from the face of the earth. Yet that is what the Europeans have chosen to do. Back in 1348 Europe suffered the Black Death.” “The plague reduced the estimated European population by about a third. In the next 50 years, Europe’s population will relive – in slow motion – that plague demography, losing about a fifth of its population by 2050.”
Read the whole thing.
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
Ya gotta watch this video. I would You-tube it, but I don't know how. Rapid download, definitely worth it. life_as_a_guy.asf
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