Thursday, August 31. 2006
Some of our international readers may not know that Labor 
Day, this Monday, is the counterpart of Memorial Day - the official book-ends of summertime, but with both holidays having solemn and important meaning. Labor Day, of course, was designed to celebrate the trade union movement, which succeeded in raising the American blue-collar worker to the middle class. A very worthy accomplishment, but perhaps not a reason for a national holiday. So we ignore its meaning and make a long weekend out of it, which many seem to be beginning today. Image: a 1920s worker's lunch bucket, made by Thermos, no doubt designed to contain a loving wife's preparing of a thermos of coffee, a sandwich, an apple, and a hunk of cheese or something, and maybe a piece of chocolate for her hard-working man. Fresh truffles, out of season, from Australia. A good thing. US incomes rising. That's another good thing. Class and politics. Fabrizio wonders whether the poor are tired of being politically exploited, when they could work - and shop - at WalMart. Am Spectator Chavez taking golf courses for housing projects. So much for private property. Rule #1 of the Left: Make the "little people" dependent on you, no matter what. A propos of Labor Day, Maxed Out Mama takes on Marxism - and wins! Are manatees dumb? Maybe so. NYT Science News Legal bill-padding. What's OK, and what isn't. the Prof Stephen Schneider - MIT's inconvenient scientist. More on the ethanol scam. Synthstuff. Many would be happier if they just called it corn alcohol and gave it away free.
Wednesday, August 30. 2006
 Move-On's "Jew Lieberman"? Is something creepy going on here that I am missing? Israpundit. Sounds like the Dems are going after the anti-semitic vote, big-time.
Never mind. Hyped storm fizzles. American Moslems increasingly huddle together. Bad idea. Daily Pundit. Join the club, or go away. More at LGF: "I don't have to assimilate." Rethinking birthright citizenship. Yes, it's about time to do that. h/t, HH It's the Koran, stupid. Afraid so. View from the Right "Artist" running con job? Kincaid's stuff is popular schlock. h/t Lucianne Never wrote a bit about Valerie Plame. Never believed it was worth the virtual ink. Was right, for once. Hitchins at Slate. A book: The Life of the Mind, by Georgetown's Schall The US-Canada passport mess. This is not good for Canada: fewer than a quarter of Americans have passports. Aren't Commissions great? The Commission on Higher Education cannot say what colleges do. There's a start. Dem. Project. The cow? The Holstein, of course. German. The cow of the northeast dairy business for over 100 years.
Tuesday, August 29. 2006
 Belgium, going down the tubes, with eyes wide open. Opinion Journal. Very sad. And free speech in the UK takes a major hit. Samizdata. Who do these government people think they are?
Alito: "It's sort of surreal." Althouse That was no missile, any more than the missile that hit the Red Cross truck. The press will buy anything if it seems anti-Israel. P'line And for more media bias. the open-border bias: Michelle. The real crime of WalMart? It does more for poor people than the government does. Dino The true secrecy in Washington - how they spend our money to buy votes. Captain Ed. The RICO laws should apply. New Hampshire is supposed to be a loony-free zone, but AVI found one. Mary K. Ham to the MSM: Why we don't believe you. What's going on with the Mexico election? Bad stuff, dangerous, too. Calif Yank The cow? That's a Brown Swiss. The prettiest coat of all dairy cattle, and a good milker, from Switzerland, of course. Only 155 of them were brought to the US before foot and mouth disease halted cow importing in the 1800s. It's about time for some cows on the blog.
Like many of our posts, this one came out of a dinner conversation. Thanks to N for putting this together for us:
In 2004 petroleum products contribute about 40.2 percent of the energy used in the United States. This is a larger share than any other energy source including natural gas with a 23 percent share, coal with about a 22 percent share, and the combination of nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal and other sources comprising the remaining 14 percent share. 
Petroleum products fall into three major categories: fuels such as motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil (diesel fuel); finished nonfuel products such as solvents and lubricating oils; and feedstocks for the petrochemical industry such as naphtha and various refinery gases. Petroleum products, especially motor gasoline, distillate (diesel) fuel, and jet fuel, provide virtually all of the energy consumed in the transportation sector. Transportation is the greatest single use of petroleum, accounting for an estimated 67 percent of all U.S. petroleum consumed in 2004. The industrial sector is the second largest petroleum consuming sector and accounts for about 23 percent of all petroleum consumption in the U.S. Residential/Commercial and the electric utility sectors account for the remaining 8 percent of petroleum consumption. Fuel products account for nearly 9 out of every 10 barrels of petroleum used in the United States. Demand for motor gasoline alone accounts for more than 44 percent of the total demand for petroleum products. Other petroleum fuels include distillate fuel oil (diesel fuel and heating oil), liquefied petroleum gases (LPG's) (including propane and butane), jet fuel, residual fuel oil, kerosene, aviation gasoline, and petroleum coke. Liquefied petroleum gases (LPG's), such as Propane, Butane and Ethane rank third in usage among petroleum products. They are primarily used as inputs, or ‘feedstock’, for petrochemical production processes. LPG's are also used as fuel for domestic heating and cooking, farming operations, and as an alternative to gasoline for use in internal combustion engines. Electric utilities use residual fuel to generate electricity and depend on petroleum for about 5 percent of its total energy requirements. Nonfuel use of petroleum is small compared with fuel use, but petroleum products account for about 89 percent of the Nation's total energy consumption for nonfuel uses. Examples of these uses are: Solvents such as those used in paints, lacquers, and printing inks, Lubricating oils and greases for automobile engines and other machinery, petroleum (or paraffin) wax used in candy making, packaging, candles, matches, and polishes, petrolatum (petroleum jelly) sometimes blended with paraffin wax in medical products and toiletries, asphalt used to pave roads and airfields, to surface canals and reservoirs, and to make roofing materials and floor coverings, pettroleum coke used as a raw material for many carbon and graphite products, including furnace electrodes and liners, and the anodes used in the production of aluminum, petroleum "feedstocks" used as chemical feedstock derived from petroleum principally for the manufacture of chemicals, synthetic rubber, and a variety of plastics. Industry data show that the chemical industry uses nearly 1.5 million barrels per day of natural gas liquids and liquefied refinery gases as petrochemical feedstocks and plant fuel. Petrochemical feedstocks are converted to basic chemical building blocks and intermediates used to produce plastics, synthetic rubber, synthetic fibers, drugs, and detergents. Petrochemical feedstocks also include products recovered from natural gas, and refinery gases (ethane, propane, and butane). Still other feedstocks include ethylene, propylene, normal- and iso-butylenes, butadiene, and aromatics such as benzene, toluene, and xylene.
 A reader clues us in that gold is back in fashion, that there are only a few more shopping days until Christmas, and that Neiman Marcus has good stuff ("Neims," the gals call it.)
The US Open began yesterday. It's about time. For me, it's the only worthy spectator sport of the year. Black babies exterminated in the US, by liberals. Ten Napel. Religion of peace executes 16 year-old girl. LGF Record number of major black candidates this year. That's good, but we hate counting colors, ever since kindergarten. Speaking of color, how about fiber-optic clothing? 129 kids sent home for poor clothing. Makes sense to me. Dress like a kid, act like one. A change in thinking in the UK re multiculturalism? Wizbang
Monday, August 28. 2006
 Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman fails to show up to receive his Fields Medal. His Wikipedia entry reveals him to be an unusual fellow. A heavy dose of IQs can do that to a fellow. Thankful I was only blessed with a modest number of them.
Remembering the remarkable Rahsaan Roland Kirk. NY Sun Humanism and sub-humanism. Gagdad Bob says the Left cannot do vertical. It's an interesting point, but I still think he misses the point - honest communication is not their thing. They say "by all means necessary." Phila. more dangerous than Iraq. Time to re-deploy from Phila? UN aided Hez with military data. Being raised on the sanctity of the UN, we are all slow to get the message.
Sunday, August 27. 2006
 Cold and wet today in Yankee-land, in August. Good day for the first fire in the fireplace, but we are still awaiting the chimney-sweep. Where is all of that warming we keep hearing about? Perfect weather for putting in all of the wierd new hostas that the Mrs. Bird Dog has been finding via the Hosta Society. (Never plant hostas in the sun.)
A few end-of summer, goin' back to school notes: 1. We have added (or are in process of adding, due to some technical glitches) a bunch of new sites to our blogroll - read 'em, if you don't. Here's just a sample of our additions: Sister Toldjah
Solomonia
Jerusalem Post Blog Central
Dust My Broom "Dust my broom," as our literate readers surely know, is a line from a Robert Johnson song. 2. Last chance for the Yankee Farmer: As soon as technically do-able, we are going to blend him into our archives. 3. Food and Drink: Considering a new Category. Dr. Bliss seems like she'd rather write about food than shrinkology: maybe she needs a break from deep thought. Our rule is this: Write about whatever you want. 4. News Junkie: Since so many of us all check at leat a number of blogs and new sites daily, we are urging the NJ to focus on obscure stuff. He won't, because he never does what he is told to do, but we assume everyone checks Drudge, Powerline, and Instapundit daily, without our help. 5. We wonder where blogging is headed. Maybe nowhere, but it's an interesting ride for us. Like magazines, there are too many interesting ones to have time to read, but I find the blog collectors, like Pajama's fine site, a bit dull to look at. I think we will stay independent, and maybe mediocre, and just a strange brew, for now. The eccentric, Yankee way: we do what we want, and if you don't like it, you can leave us alone. None of us has the time for intense writing or reporting, but our readership is growing steadily, which is gratifying. Time, intelligence, and creativity are our limiting factors. For some reason, we don't have the commenting culture here that I would enjoy, but the handful we get are pretty intelligent - and we do not mind criticism, no matter how harsh - if it responds to points - because we know we are far from perfect, and sometimes lazy. Money? We do not want money from the internets, unless it's Big Money. Small money is of no interest to us. We all get that from our day jobs. Why the cheesecake? Many email about that. The female, like a flower, is art. Period. We love art, with or without frames. We also love cold weather - the colder, the better, which is why we are happy to hear about the new global cooling data.
"I'm tired and I want to go home." Max Mayfield to retire. "Stem Cell hustle." Are they really that important, anyway? Town Hall/ Scientists always follow the money, because they live on grants. Is Israel's deterrence damaged? Radlauer in JP Blog Glaciers expanding....due to warming? When reality doesn't fit your narrative... distort reality, of course. Ace via HH Slightly peeved with the UN. Rick Moran What is Cuba really like, these days? Babalu Marrying a career woman seems like a bad idea. SDA Anchoress likes men.
Saturday, August 26. 2006
Goin' back to school? Writing for Maggie's Farm? How to structure your basic essay. Nagin? Big-time loser tries to rebuild image by knocking down others. Very lame. How good is Mark Steyn? Extremely good. Mark on one of our favorites, Alaistair Cookie Cook.(thanks, reader.) Travel with your pets. A growing trend. But I would say - leave them behind. Vacation is for humans. Every day is a vacation for a pet. A day late with the morning after pill. Woops. Yesterday's news. Are the details confusing from the Duke "rape" case? The NYT thinks so. I do not know. Murtha lied. But everyone already knows that. Lib. Leanings. Luttwak on why not to bomb Iran....yet. Not persuasive, in my opinion. Commentary
Friday, August 25. 2006
My  Dear Generale Bird Dog, Kudos for an excellent blog. I read it twice daily, before I brush my teeth in the morning, and before I go to bed with my most recent proletarian sex slave comrade, (carefully selected by Raul from our political prisons Happy Thinking Centers, well-fed, smelling sweet, and cleaned up nice almost like a chiquita South Beach gal with Victoria's Secret thong, etc., just for poor little ol' me). Yes, the girls cheer me up. How would you like a visit from Hugo or Raul on your death bed? Would that cheer you up? No. Or old Mrs. Castro? With her old lady smell? And her Bible and rosary? God forbid! You raise the level of discussion of the entire blogosphere, with wit, intelligence, and cultivation. And you keep my kind of people thinking, instead of stultifying in the coffin of dead ideas and dead theories. We leaders must be stimulated, but, alas, we cannot allow the People to get confused! Keep up the good work. You capitalists have such humor! I wish we could afford it. But please, amigo - just three minor criticisms: Too many Jesus pictures - it reminds me of my blessed mother, God rest her soul. More babes instead, please, to distract us from the subject of age and death. And how come no baseball commentary? And, lastly, how come no stock tips? You Yanquis know the score, but my Swiss bankers were behind the S&P last year, not even including fees! And my hedge funds did great, but after fees, and after your terrible US short-term capital gains taxes, I hardly kept up with inflation! Sheesh. Thanks a ton, Hugo, Thesesa, Cindy, and Hillary, for the necessary introductions to your hedgie friends - I might as well have had a proletarian Vanguard tax-exempt fund! And my "pal" Georgie Soros can ---- me for his after-tax gains! He is a burro and a closet capitalist pig, masquerading as an internationalist socialist! With warmest personal socialist regards from beautiful Cuba, (where the sunshine is from Fidel, the hurricanes are from Bush, the cigars are great, freedom is just a bourgeois indulgence, and the money is from, wait, where? Oh, there isn't any for them, but why do the People need money if they're happy? Free medical care from aging experienced Russia-trained doctors!!! Free rice!!! Free beans!!! Beano from your Miami relatives!!! No more revolution, and no more confusion!!!) Your amigo, Fidel Castro Fidelito PS. Still waiting for that next Viagra shipment from the States, the large WalMart package. I have left orders to leave it all in my coffin, just in case. Not to worry - Raul will send you the cigars via Mexico. Haha. Like Freud? Sometimes a good one is worth a Cuban cigar? Viva WalMart. The price is right. PPS: Are you sure you can sneak me into Sloan-Kettering if I need to go? You have a certain connection? Are you sure they have priests there? It doesn't matter to me, but it matters to my beloved countrymen. I think I might need a good Jewish doctor, and all we have are these glorifed Russian nurses that call themselves "Dr.," and shake so much they give you the creeps. Rum and tequila. If they drink rum at breakfast, they settle down and seem OK, but it's not exactly New York medicine, and Raul says they are 40 years out of date, but what does he know? Their medicines expired in 1972, but its free! Heck, it's good enough for The Little People! But they are ignorant! Thank God! If they got the internets, we'd be SCREWED!
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Thursday, August 24. 2006
 Should the West decide that Iran has won? And then work from there? I don't know. What I do know is that fighting, while trying to "win hearts and minds," and trying to please the "international community" - whatever that is - does not work. You fight, and maybe make up after, but not during.
Or will Israel decide to take on Iran, mano a mano? Jerusalem Post What do Canadian unions want? They want to try socialism again. It's "progressive"! Dust my broom. On the other hand, those who want to work and to do things - like doctors - have energy and drive and want to work and want more private opportunity. (aka freedom, h/t, Instap.) The Lebanon ambulance hoax - exposed. Michelle The end of easy credit. It's a good thing. First mortgages, then credit cards democratized credit, which had once been a preserve of the privileged. Viking Auster smacks down Heather MacDonald, re God. Right - God is not to be confused with Santa Claus. It's a tempest in a teapot, of course, because who cares about Heather's religious beliefs? She's a fine essayist. A quote from Auster: I’m glad she’s gone public with her views, revealing to the public her uninformed understanding of the Christian and Jewish God, and giving more people the chance to reply. I myself pointed out to her at length that this is not what Christianity says. For example, I noted that the phrase “Thy will be done on earth” in the Lord’s Prayer suggests that in the ordinary course of things, God’s will is not done on earth. I also said that the main point of God’s relationship with man is not that God doles out good material things to man like the government, but that man (through God’s grace) strives to live his life in accord with God’s will. I made many other arguments, including Augustine’s great explanation of evil. None of this made any impression on her. She is basically saying that if Christianity fails to live up to her liberal, secular, and materialist expectations of what Christianity ought to be, then it is a false religion.
What do European Moslems believe? Who feeds them this crap? It's dangerous. Natural selection at work. This is painful. FMFT CT took pride is its Yankee lack of an income tax, until Weicker decided they needed one. It was a short-term fix, but a long term disaster. Zero growth since the tax. Florida Commissioner says "get a gun." Some scream in horror, but it makes sense to me. Fire a shotgun over some bad guys' heads - or into their butts - and they run like hell and soil themselves in the process. They will not come back. They will bother unarmed persons in the future. Maryland's Steele is giving the Dems fits. Blacks are supposed to say "Yowsa, Massa," and never think for themselves. And if they run off the plantation, Donna Brazile, their Simon Legree, will run them down with the baying hounds of the Party and bring them back, dead or in chains. Capn Ed
Good fun. Never heard his voice before. The guy is a natural for radio.
Another Duccio (b. 1255) Don't believe Human Rights Watch any more. They have other agendas. Sowell warns of Islamic fanatics with nukes. What is the world supposed to do about it? The sale at Filson's ends soon. Focus on the Family launching its Truth Project. (h/t, News for Christians) Let Bush be Bush? Scott at Powerline. As further proof that politicization of medical treatment has poor results, see the AIDS industry sucking up all the dollars (piece in Am Spectator): No matter that even the current AIDS budget swamps spending on malaria and tuberculosis, which together kill about twice as many people annually as does AIDS. Antiretroviral therapy for AIDS cures no one and while it costs relatively little in the Third World -- $300-$1,200 per year -- compared to North America, TB can be cured with $65 of medicine. Malaria in Africa and Asia can be prevented for a pittance by spraying DDT, yet environmental activists and the European Union have essentially blocked its use in those areas that need it most.
Alas for these victims, they don't have a politically correct disease. And for that they must die.
Of all people, the LA Times defends WalMart against Dem demagoguery. Everybody likes WalMart. It's a dumb choice of scapegoat. Maxed out Mama on the subject of men. A quote: The best thing a mother raising a daughter can do in this society is to teach her to be virtuous, and to make demands of herself to do the right thing towards others. Then, and only then, will the daughter become an adult woman who is capable of recognizing and appreciating a fine man. Because decency is hard. Decency is a struggle! Trying to live a decent life is an epic adventure much more praiseworthy and admirable than climbing Mount Everest. Anyone who tries it will find that out, and in light of the knowledge of her own failures to live up to her own standards will then be able to appreciate the attempt in a man.
Read the whole thing - worth it.
Wednesday, August 23. 2006
Why Duccio today? I was in a Duccio mood. Never, never jest in airports. No matter how droll you may be. Full of humorless SOBs. Liberals do not reproduce, statistically. I could come up with all sorts of hypotheses to explain why, but I won't. But it makes a difference in voting projections. Opinion Journal Government employee pensions. This will not be pleasing to tax-payers, and it explains why the toll-takers smile despite the crappy job they hold. Ankle Biter Buchanan's book on immigration is # 1. What do liberals mean when they say they want "progressive reforms"? Mickey Kaus responds to Josh Marshall, via Viking Pundit When an armed person breaks into your house and is taking your kids and your stuff, the UN suggests phoning "the appropriate diplomatic channels," to file a complaint. Good essay by Betsy on "How Dionne went wrong" in trying to understand why liberal is a dirty word these days. "Does govt stupidity know any bounds?" No, of course not. That's why we aren't progressive/socialists. Excellent examples at Volokh: they will ruin your day, because we pay for this crap. Update on Dr. Bob's ongoing photo-essay of the construction of the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Good stuff. Mandatory voting? Horrible idea. Will never happen. Who wants people voting who don't know and don't care anyway? Ornstein proposes mandatory voting.
Tuesday, August 22. 2006
 New York has their own Lamont, but nobody discusses it. And the moonbattery isn't supporting. Wonder why? (h/t, Instapundit)
Browning will continue to produce Winchester models, now that Winchester is defunct. That is pretty good news. Alphecca. The psychology of fame-seeking. NYT Science News (h/t, Marginal Revolution) 14% of Brits favor immigration. Is anyone listening? Sounds like the US. Tangled Web A fresh look at Mother Courage and Brecht. Horsefeathers. How Islamic terrorists bugger the media, while the media enjoys the experience. Mowbray at RCP (h/t, SDA) Greenland may be turning green again. It was, during Viking times. Cramer looks at the Greenland data. Everybody wants their color in the history books. How mature is that? I call it feel-good history, for babies. Ten Napel. Turns out they use fake wheelchair kids, too. Moonbattery demonstrates their diversity quotas - it's a world of non-history, same as in the Soviet Union: History as You Wished It. Easy to laugh, but it is insidious and destructive as heck. Buddhist monks battle peacenik loonie Tamil Tiger supporters. What a world! David Warren Jihad and the battle of the womb. View from the Right Hey, babe, let's do one for Allah. Cassandra at Villainous Company finds some reason for hope in the essay of an America-appreciating Brit. Did you read Shelby Steele's op-ed piece today? Our readers ought never miss a latest Steele, here, via Conspiracy
Galaxies collide, separating dark from "normal" matter. Science Daily
South African women prefer shopping to sex. This piece invites any number of clever comments, but I will restrain myself. The UN is a "dangerous charade," says View from 1776 There is a new domain, called "dot travel." Here's a good new one: search.travel Megayacht fans can follow the movements of their favorites. (Chris says he saw the 162' jet-drive Mystique in CT this week - one heck of a machine.) Yachtspotters.com. Only the internets could make such a fun, harmless hobby possible. Links are the thing. For a generation, Dems have sought to reduce American power, says Lib. Leanings, and I agree. But towards what purpose? A serious hurricane shortage this year. Caused by Global Warming? Or did Bush and Rove decide to turn off their secret hurricane-generating machine, which is hidden on a CIA oil rig somewhere in the West Indies or the Gulf of Mexico, before the fall elections? Bush claims Dems do not understand threats to US, as the fall campaign season approaches. I think they do - it's just that they need an issue to try to push. Dumb idea. A World Trade Center Memorial Museum. What for? Oh well, it will only cost about a billion. Another manatee visits New England for the summer. Very intelligent. Remember Chessie in 1995?
Monday, August 21. 2006
Why technology doesn't improve education: his experience. Rt Wing nation The Washington Post didn't know how to handle Juan William's new book, but they did manage to find someone to criticize it. Pitiful, when his views could actually do some real good for real people who are caught up in negativity. The ozone cure was worse than the disease: Big Lizard Great example of how some people think: at Babalu: With such wonderful additions to the world, why vilify Fidel any longer? What's a little suppression of political dissent when people can get treatment for diabetes? What are a few innocent human rights violations when people have access to locally grown produce without toxins? What's a little communism when Cuba is contributing less to global climate change than the rest of us?
What is the IQ threshold for college these days? Auster makes his view simple and clear: Islam is the problem.
However, we do not have the ability to defeat Islam.
Nor do we have the ability to democratize Islam.
Nor do we have the ability to assimilate Islam.
Therefore, the only solution is to separate ourselves from Islam.
Whole piece here. Taliban terrorist will remain at Yale afer all. I wonder how his remedial English is coming along? Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow. Cao The long tail? A quick video to bring you up to date with the latest business fad concept. Driscoll Welfare reform, ten years later. The gloom and doom was wrong. They misunderestimated people's abilities. Polipundit Race, bodegas, WalMart, immigrants, and American blacks: VDARE Historic advances in math - totally ignored by the press. YARGB The defense budget, 1945 to present. Dino A quote from Ben Stein, as quoted more fully at LFG: WHAT stands between us and the iceberg(of militant Islam)are the miraculously brave men and women of the armed forces. They're heroes and saints as far as I'm concerned. But can they do it without the rest of us? Can they do it while we're all working on our tans and trying to have our taxes lowered again? How can we leave them out there all alone to die for us when we treat the war to save civilization as something we can just wish away?
Back from a week camping at Acadia Park. I am agreeing with Dr. Bliss - that Maine codfish stew is the best. You can keep your lobsters: they are just expensive chewing gum. Someone has written an obituary of the conservative movement. Call it obit #3127. Some of their points are correct, however. Time for another Reagan. Bush is not Reagan. Space tourism is about to begin. I wonder whether there is a market for this. European dhimmitude. Heart-breaking. At Moonbattery, with a quote which we could almost have written here: Soon history will look back and ask how Islam could have displaced European civilization without even encountering resistance. The answer will be that this barbaric death cult is receiving a great deal of help from the liberal elite, which semiconsciously shares its goal of obliterating the West. The liberal elite establishment will see to it that thought criminals ? i.e., anyone suspected of opposing Muslims' gradual conquest ? are silenced, as we recently saw with the Brussels Journal, and as has been illustrated so appallingly in the case of Oriana Fallaci.
History note: Kortrijt and the Battle of the Spurs. Write a brief essay describing the historical effects of this famous battle, in which ten thousand French knights were defeated by ten thousand Flemish infantry. Hezbollah wore IFD uniforms in battle. NY Sun Crucifix necklace banned by Aussie school. Either the school is an idiot, or they are smart enough, like the Romans were, to recognize and fear the subversive and transformational power of the cross. That airline mutiny pleases me. Would you risk your life, just to look politically correct? If I feel creeped out, I am outta there. It's my life. Honey, would you scratch my back?
Friday, August 18. 2006
Very poor form: Jimmy Carter continues attacks on Bush Mayor Bloomberg really hates smoking. He does have strong nanny-state impulses, but I'd rather see him as gov of NY than run for Pres. Baleen whales once had teeth. Libertarian Leanings takes on George Will and John Kerry. My opinion? If in office, the Dems would do pretty much the same as Bush has done. What was Israel's goal in Lebanon? Dino Dems declare war on Walmart. They will fight them until they no longer? pose a threat to the American Way of Life. Very brave, the Dems. (I think noone told the limo-liberal snobs how much working class people love Walmart.) Captain Ed Interview with Uri Lubrani on Iran. Gateway
Thursday, August 17. 2006
The Fair Tax. Now some liberals support the idea. No lawyers, no accountants - sounds worth thinking about. Defeated Moonbat in Mexico seems to be almost threatening the government. This does not bode well for Mexico. One miracle: nobody blamed the US yet. Empty suit, or Leisure suit? Middlebrow, like many others, demonstrate's Lamont's lighter-than-air platitudes. Free Market health care? Go to India for cheaper surgeries. Why not? For several generations, the prosperous of the world have come to NYC for top medical care. Why not both ways? The secret is that Hezbollah is the government of Southern Lebanon. The NYT loves Hezbollah. And, by the way, do you know what a "hudna" is? I didn't. It is a sort of Moslem rope-a-dope. The application of markets to LSU academic departments. Interesting unintended consequences. Marg. Rev With a whimper. Cubans view Fidel as slowly fading out.
Wednesday, August 16. 2006
 Global warming is a hoax.
Lamont-Lieberman. Not many people care. Bernard Goldberg on Mike Wallace. Soros says "war on terror" is no more than a lousy metaphor. (I agree - it's a war against Islamic imperialism.) Ankle Biting. More thoughts on Soros' foreign policy views at View from 1776. You have to wonder who named Soros an expert on anything other than currency trading? Bishop of Rochester blames multiculturalism for Brit Jihadism. I don't know whether he is right, but he makes good points. YARGB Rates up, housing values down. What will be the effect on spending? Daily Pundit A chat with Bibi Netanyahu: Am Thinker A propos of our post on the Red Fox this week, I see that the killing has begun at Free Market Towers, now that the pheasant poults have arrived. Fat? Blame yourself. The world now has more obesity than hunger. Put that on your plate and eat it, Mr. Malthus. Obama delivers anti-pollution speech, then hops into his SUV. How many times have I told you that this is all about politics and power: no-one really believes this stuff. Lebanon. A bit of backlash against Hizbollah, but of course always some anger at Bush!
Tuesday, August 15. 2006
"A pic of the Global Hawk UAV that returned from the war zone on Monday under its own power. (Iraq to Edwards AFB in CA) - Not transported via C5 or C17..... Notice the mission paintings on the fuselage. It's actually over 250 missions.... (and I would suppose 25 air medals). That's a long way for a remotely-piloted aircraft. Think of the technology (and the required quality of the data link to fly it remotely). Not only that but the pilot controlled it from a nice warm control panel at Edwards AFB. It has really long legs- can stay up for almost 2 days at altitudes above 60k.
They flew it via satellite control to Australia, and we flew missions during OT&E that went from Eddy to upper Alaska and back non-stop.
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