Monday, August 7. 2006
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan
Revisited the sculptures at Storm King Art Center yesterday, up in the Hudson Highlands. Mrs. Chairman remarked that "Isn't it funny how often, when people talk about abstract art, they tend to translate it into metaphors about representation - and when they talk about representational art, they talk in terms of line and shape and flow and abstract form and dynamics?" This is one of their Calders, about 30-40' high: 
Sunday, August 6. 2006
Hard hitting. That's Reuters. Getting to the bottom of things. By digging up from underneath, mostly. Well, rooting around down there, anyway. They're on no one's side - but their own. Well, them and the Green Helmet Guy, anyway. Reuters-They get the stories others miss --because the others don't care enough about the truth to make it up for you when you really need it.
Reuters, this time, manipulating the news. It's why we need blogs: The MSM is about propaganda, not news. This is not accidental. The Western MSM is not only anti-Israel, they are anti-Western Civilization. Why? It is a self-hatred disease - a moral, spiritual disorder probably born of decadence: too much comfort, too much wealth, too much security - and too little wisdom. Very strange. Hey, Attila. We care about your feelings. Let's be friends. We want to understand your feelings, and we know you are a nice, gentle, Socialist, loving fellow beneath that rough, macho, raping, pillaging, warlike, imperialist exterior, and are only pretending to be a meanie barbarian, probably to help your fragile self-esteem. Let's talk it over, over coffee and a muffin or two (no, not that kind of muffin - I had the orange-walnut-pumpkin muffin in mind) at Starbucks (no guns or bow and arrows, please, indoors), and relate to each-other with modern multicultural understanding. Because we care about you, and we sympathize with your grievances against evil, evil, Western Rome. We love barbarians. And you are so much in touch with nature and horsies and stuff.
A prince decides that he is ready to get married. Determined to marry a very smart woman, he sends his pages to scour the kingdom to bring him the three smartest candidates they can find. When the three are bought to him, the prince puts them to a test. Either a white hat, or a red hat, is placed on each of the ladies - but they cannot see what color their own hat is. The winner is the first to name the color of their hat. They are given one more piece of information: the prince says: "Everyone who sees one or more red hats, raise your hand." All three raise their hands. After two hours of deep pondering, one lady finally raises her hand with the correct answer. What was her answer? Answer tomorrow. This one is not as tricky as the one last week, but it does take a little bit of thought. The Dylanologist got it in three minutes. When you get it, please do not post the answer on Comments. Ignore Continuation page below -
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When they say The Commandante "will be back with us soon" , do they mean like Lenin, under glass? And where is Waldo Raul? Is he alive? Something odd is going on in Cuba. Live tropical fish trade is destroying reef life. Lamont update. We told you it was a strange campaign. Just One Minute. Now it turns out he owns Wal-Mart stock (not in a fund, either), but preaches agin 'em. Woopsie. I thought our MA Dems were kooks, but CT is winning that contest. India orders Coke and Pepsi to make their formulae public. That'll be the day. My opinion? Camel urine, plus sugar. And why are we in Iraq? Forget oil. We are there for the benefit of Big Soda - for the camel urine. The end may be near for ACLU judicial blackmail. Moonbattery Yo Dilbert. Do cubicles have a future? The inventor of them regretted it. Hez declares open war on the US. Does that mean Iran does too? Front Page Dems increasingly renounce Israel. Betsy Oysters. Dr. Bliss inspired me to check the Oyster Bar's menu. Yes, they do offer many oyster varieties! And it is never the same. I'll take one of each. New York Night Life. Chatted with an early-20s kid working in NYC this summer. I learned that the young folks do not go out for the night until 11 or 12 pm. That's when the fun starts. And they tend to end up in Alphabet City around 4 AM. Only a few years ago, you would not enter Alphabet City without a Marine Corps guard. What a city! Thank you, Rudy. Thank you, Mike. They took NY back! Back from the creeps, and back from the Dem machine creepy politicians. It proves that you need two political parties. Sad to say, the Dems were killing the world's greatest city - while claiming it was "ungovernable." Yes - ungovernable by them. Rudy and Mike are not owned by anybody. Name me a single person who doesn't wish they owned a pied a terre in NY, these days.
What is this Aliyah Diary all about? Click the category on the left and find out. 8-3-0 6 Kiryat Shemona: The Home Front. Arriving in Kiryat Shemona with my Hyundai Getz, a reformulated Yugo, I both feel the car shudder and hear the dull thud; I think briefly that I have hit a small animal I did not see -- a horse perhaps, or a gazelle. By the third boom, I recognize rockets. Within the hour, I learn the difference in sounds between incoming (bad) and outgoing (better, maybe even good). Incoming, first the whoosh, then the boom as it hits; Outgoing, boom, and maybe a whoosh. Later, I realize that I really don't hear whooshes before. Also, with incoming we are supposed to get a warning twenty seconds before, to get into shelter. The warning sounds have been debated in Kiryat Shemona (It's a Jewish town after all; how could they just agree on one warning?). The standard viuuu-viuuu is loud, discrete, recognizable; some argue that it causes more panic than needed. Therefore this morning, we hear the alternative, a kind of bling-blong, followed by a polite, announcer-like baritone requesting that we descend to shelter. I finished my coffee. Such a polite voice, does not raise urgency in me; more like an announcement before the symphony to please turn off your cellphones (which some still ignore). All street lights blink yellow, streets are abandoned by pedestrians, save for the building for soldiers called up: joyfully painted tour buses await them. Inside, the windows are hung with drying towels, shirts on hangers, like guys off for a college trip. Out of uniform, most wear flip-flops, shorts, T's. Only the M16 slung diagonally over shoulder, rifle usually on the back, occassionally pointing downwards off the left hip,identifies that they are not off to camp. How they all top 5 foot 11 inches still amazes me, these Jewish soldiers. Chana Mann, the chief psychologist for Safed Hospital lives in Kiryat Shemona, the largest, most northern town in Israel. (Metulla, abutting Lebanon, is the village futher north.) She's invited me to help out with trauma cases.
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 First Christ takes us as we are.
He blesses us.
Then He breaks us.
And gives us to the world to bless.
Fr. Henry Nouwen (h/t for quote from Anchoress)
Saturday, August 5. 2006
After ten years, we still stumble on old tiny Lego pieces around the house. Some guy has done Escher's Relativity. Dang, that is cool. And I thought the Lego Volvo was the best.
I cannot pull quotes out of this delightful piece by Allan Armitage, so, my fellow gardening hobbyists, just read it, here.
Friday, August 4. 2006
 VDH's latest on the War, in NRO -a quote:
... it is still surreal to reread the fantasies of Chamberlain, Daladier, and Pope Pius, or the stump speeches by Charles Lindbergh (“Their [the Jews’] greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government”) or Father Coughlin (“Many people are beginning to wonder whom they should fear most — the Roosevelt-Churchill combination or the Hitler-Mussolini combination.”) — and baffling to consider that such men ever had any influence.
Not any longer.
Our present generation too is on the brink of moral insanity. That has never been more evident than in the last three weeks, as the West has proven utterly unable to distinguish between an attacked democracy that seeks to strike back at terrorist combatants, and terrorist aggressors who seek to kill civilians.
It is now nearly five years since jihadists from the Arab world left a crater in Manhattan and ignited the Pentagon. Apart from the frontline in Iraq, the United States and NATO have troops battling the Islamic fascists in Afghanistan. European police scramble daily to avoid another London or Madrid train bombing. The French, Dutch, and Danish governments are worried that a sizable number of Muslim immigrants inside their countries are not assimilating, and, more worrisome, are starting to demand that their hosts alter their liberal values to accommodate radical Islam. It is apparently not safe for Australians in Bali, and a Jew alone in any Arab nation would have to be discreet — and perhaps now in France or Sweden as well. Canadians’ past opposition to the Iraq war, and their empathy for the Palestinians, earned no reprieve, if we can believe that Islamists were caught plotting to behead their prime minister. Russians have been blown up by Muslim Chechnyans from Moscow to Beslan. India is routinely attacked by Islamic terrorists. An elected Lebanese minister must keep in mind that a Hezbollah or Syrian terrorist — not an Israeli bomb — might kill him if he utters a wrong word. The only mystery here in the United States is which target the jihadists want to destroy first: the Holland Tunnel in New York or the Sears Tower in Chicago.
One of my fave grandaughters is hopping on the plane and headed for the FOCUS camp on Martha's Vineyard this morning. It's her third time, and she loves the program as much as she loved Rockbrook, where girls learn to shoot, rock-climb, white-water kayak, and other good stuff in a "traditional" atmosphere (God, the Flag, and shaving-cream wars all welcomed) in the glorious Smoky Mountains. If you are a Christian, consider sending your kids to the FOCUS camps. They only let you do the schooner week once in your life, though. Too bad. That was a truly unique week of God and adventure, climbing the masts to set the sails, swimming a mile to shore even if you think you can't, and obeying the Captain and the Mate - with a jump and without question. I saw the photos and heard the stories. The squall story said it all, and taught the kids something with true authority: Life is Real, and Things Matter, and Life is not a Rehearsal.
 Argument: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
Reply: "But my uncle Angus likes sugar with his porridge."
Rebuttal: "Ah yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
In disputation, the No True Scotsman fallacy is most often used to try to discredit an expert opinion, or to silence an opponent. Remember, all a Fallacy is is a flawed premise, or a conclusion which is not supported by the premise(s). Otherwise known as tricks. The reason politicians are the least-respected job category in America is because verbal tricks and rhetorical disingenuousness are their stock in trade. In other words, they are manipulators. It's a flaw of democracy, and a worse flaw of the alternatives. Example: If an atmospheric scientist doubts that Global Warming is caused by man, then he must be a shill for Big Oil. Example: If an atmospheric scientist believes that warming is caused by man, then he must be pursuing grant money by saying the PC thing to ingratiate himself with the grant committee. It is a close relative of the Consensus Fallacy, ie, "if most people think it, then it must be so." Which is patently baloney, even though journalists often use polls as if they provided a guide to reality: more often, they serve as a reminder of human ignorance. Science never has settled truths: it tries to find facts with which to build theories, which are subject to endless disputation until replaced, or until the arguments run out for a while. Pretty much all theories die, eventually, and enter history as quaint ideas of the past. It was only ten years ago that the NYT was warning about the coming Ice Age (which probably is coming, but not tomorrow). And not all that long ago when everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Our theories are our illusions, constructed for our comfort, and to keep science guys off the unemployment lines. Capital "T" Truth is a matter of religion, not science. Joe over at Evangelical Outpost applies the No True Scotsman critique to the Warming issue and the embryonic stem cell issue, along with some good comments on how scientists work. No true Scot wears anything under his kilt. That is a fact.
Argument and disputation. Best basic intro to clear thinking and effective argument-building that I have come across thus far: Attacking Faulty Reasoning by T. Edward Damer. He also makes a strong case for the idea that moral positions are as amenable to logical inquiry as anything else. Our Maggie's Farm Barrister made me read it. A college course for $15 ain't bad. Is China engaged in organ-harvesting? From the phone calls quoted here, it sure sounds like it. We forget - because we want to forget - that people in the East have a different view of the value of the individual human life from that of us in the West. It's a multicultural thing, ya know? "Jews distrust the wrong Christians." Kesler The heat wave in Yankeeland broke last night. It was fun, while it lasted. Surgeons find odd collection of stuff in Serbian guy's stomach. That's Serbia for you. Anthill Socialism. Don't you want to sacrifice for the Greater Good? Don't you want your kids to learn how? People's Cube AOL: They emailed their new strategery today. Free AOL. Precisely what it's worth. A blog, called Get Rich Slowly. h/t, Synthstuff. But who wants to get rich slowly? I want MINE, NOW. OK. This is funny. Preppy Rap: Tea Partay at Youtube (fixed it) "I hate foreigners." Better not say that in Britain. The Thought Police siren will be getting closer every second. This is exactly like the Stasi or the Gestapo - and it is evil. Hey Brit coppers - I hate foreigners. I hate foreigners. I hate foreigners. Ha ha. Well, maybe I don't, but I can say it all I want. More on churches in disarray, self-doubt, and general wackiness. Hey, preachers! It's very simple: Come to Jesus, or get another job. A quote from Maxed Out Mama's piece: And another thing - it was after women started to be ordained as ministers within the Episcopalian church that it drove right off the rails. I predict that the next generation of Catholics are going to be a lot more conservative in their opinions. I laughed in the early 80's when Episcopalian women started holding conferences and talking about the "godess Sophia". But I cried when the diocese of Pennsylvania had "alternate liturgies" posted on its website that were clearly Wiccan in 2004, and conflicted ministers who could not decide whether they wanted to be Druids or Episcopalians most in 2005. And I wasn't even surprised when the Episcopalian conference refused a resolution suggesting the road to salvation lay through Jesus this year. They're now quite proud to claim that they cannot offer a "definitive road to salvation".
If they cannot offer that, then why the heck should I go to church when I could sleep in with the girlfriend du jour? (see photo)
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. Ronald Reagan
Thursday, August 3. 2006
Nicholas Lemann, Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, takes on the new medium of the internets in The New Yorker. Yes, he does discuss Glenn Reynold's book. While terming blogs "amateur hour," (surely there is truth in that), he also notes the long history of such sorts of publications. A quote: The “new media” of later Stuart Britain were pamphlets and periodicals, made possible not only by the advent of the printing press but by the relaxation of government censorship and licensing regimes, by political unrest, and by urbanization (which created audiences for public debate). Today, the best known of the periodicals is Addison and Steele’s Spectator, but it was one of dozens that proliferated almost explosively in the early seventeen-hundreds, including The Tatler, The Post Boy, The Medley, and The British Apollo. The most famous of the pamphleteers was Daniel Defoe, but there were hundreds of others, including Thomas Sprat, the author of “A True Account and Declaration of the Horrid Conspiracy Against the Late King” (1685), and Charles Leslie, the author of “The Wolf Stript of His Shepherd’s Cloathing” (1704). These voices entered a public conversation that had been narrowly restricted, mainly to holders of official positions in church and state. They were the bloggers and citizen journalists of their day, and their influence was far greater (though their audiences were far smaller) than what anybody on the Internet has yet achieved.
Read the entire interesting piece. My opinion? No blog, or blog cartel, can put out the material of the Sunday NYT. Bloggers are people who like to write and think but who have day jobs, and they are often people who find their views under-represented, or non-represented, in the MSM, and want to spread them around as best they can. If Murdoch bought the NYT, 50% of the blogs would wither on the vine, and Captain Ed might have a new job in New York.
 Ahmadinejad claims today that destroying Israel is the only solution. Solution to what? Oh, I get it. It's the Final Solution, brought to you by the Religion of Death.
But I thought they said "We kill the Saturday people first, then the Sunday people." I guess these sure sound like reasonable people who can sit down and negotiate in good faith. The French, and John Kerry, say they can get along with them just fine. And the rest of the Left too. Hey - that's mighty encouraging - as long as you aren't an Israeli, or a Jew, or a Christian. Maybe they'll leave us alone if we give them Austria and Poland Israel and Lebanon?
Standing on the waters casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing.
Distant ships sailing into the mist,
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.
So swiftly the sun sets in the sky,
You rise up and say goodbye to no one.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,
Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don't show one.
Shedding off one more layer of skin,
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within. (Rest of lyrics below: for a Youtube video of the song, here. For the original recorded version, which is remarkable, here)
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 Wal-Mart 101: A primer on why cities should want Wal-Marts around. It's called jobs, and affordable shopping. The NY Sun explains how dumb the Chicago aldermen were to keep Wal-Mart in the suburbs and out of the city. On the other hand, Wal-Mart's growth has been disappointing in Europe. Reason discusses why they aren't charmed by it - it's cultural.
They call this new technology: houses made from living trees and vines. I call it stone-age technology. What do you think? Israel admits mistake with Qana. More honor there than you will see in ten centuries of Jihad. Andy Card: keep up with his three-part interview at Newsmax. He asserts media did harm security. We posted Melanie Phillip's Londonistan recently. The otherwise fine, huge, and worthy Brooklyn Public Library has decided not to buy it. Scared of the Moslems. That is sick. They aren't afraid of offending anyone else, for sure. Can it be bought in Londonistan, I wonder? Wonder what the Unitarians are up to these days? It's a bit hard to understand. Cramer. Sounds like they believe in nothing, and accept everything..or something. Ledeen, quoted in Powerline, re the Dem's war against Bush - he gets it exactly right: No one can doubt that this is a willful disinformation campaign, aimed at paralyzing and then destroying the president. I do not think people in the White House have ever fully appreciated their peril.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison (h/t, neoneo)
Wednesday, August 2. 2006
Ned gets jiggy with the poverty pimps and the net nutjobs. Michelle. I suspect that they have no idea who Ned is or what he is about. And do not care, if they can own him. Did he have to pay ("donate") to these people to show up? Can someone please find out? If these folks had power, what would they do to the the rest of us?, asks Captain Ed. Supporters of Lamont have now put Lieberman in minstrel show blackface - no joke - image on right. I have no doubt that the blacks of Bridgeport will come out in droves to support a rich, white Greenwich prep school country clubber heir of multi-millions who probably doesn't have a single Dem golf buddy. Could these folks even be caddies at his club, or could Maxine Waters get a job as a waitress there? To make things more ridiculous, to please the teacher's union, Ned has come out opposing charter schools. Come on, Ned. Your kids went to the most exclusive private school in the USA. Why shouldn't everyone have a choice like Ned did? And, BTW, black voters support school choice. Is it all about, for these people (not Ned, tho), get the Jew? You have to wonder. Politics makes strange bedfellows, but this is ridiculous. Whatever he had to "donate" to them to come to the wilds of wealthy, suburban CT, he will owe them, big-time. Honestly, I think Ned is a good, well-intentioned, innocent fellow with peculiar Socialist family politics which he inherited along with his J P Morgan $, but this is getting WIERDER and WIERDER. CT voters are not racist (Lieberman is strongly supported by instate black politicians), but they aren't Al Sharpton and Maxine Waters fans. My opinion? Ned has gone over the edge, partly because of inexperience, and partly out of naivete. The support of the Lefty blogs, extortionist Jesse Jackson, and con-man Al Sharpton, is the kiss of death: Lieberman wins, either way. Update: To his credit, Lamont had that blackface image removed. Or, I should say, "scrubbed." Update: Ex-Donk sees it the same way.
 Yes, the UCC is one of the bees that is always in my bonnet.
Before our most recent post on the mainline churches even disappeared from our front page, we get this nonsense (h/t, Israpundit) - a quote from an exchange with UCC Canada: All this to say, Mr. Weiner, that Israel is being so greedy and greedy in such a nasty and murderous way that we find ourselves very sympathetic to the Palestinian complaints about such behaviour. Please read our press statement. We are also working for the survival of Israel in peace and security with internationally recognized borders as much as for the same future for a Palestinian state. Israel, however, seems bent upon a brutal acquisitional policy that offends Palestinians and the whole Arab world. If we do nothing, we can expect the growth of terrorist cells here in Canada and everywhere else. Why should we be immune to this horror when we disregard the horror that Israeli policies visit upon Palestinians every day of their lives. I can witness to that and so can many others. You challenged us, Mr. Weiner, but now it’s your turn. We are sick and tired of the pro-Israeli government lobby in Canada telling us what to understand about the ’security’ issues of Israel. We are fed up with the biased press that focusses on one abducted Israel soldier and not on the numerous unreported assassinations and abductions of Palestinian citizens whose human rights are daily violated. Israel is out of control.
I am not ready to claim that the UCC, and their friends, are anti-Semitic, but they sure don't have any sympathy for Israel. And they have more sympathy for Jihadists and the like than they do for our Christian president who took an oath on the Holy Bible to protect us from their attacks. I just think they stick to the Leftist line of the day. As I have said here before, helping individuals with their relationship with God through Christ ought to be a plenty big enough job for preachers. Understanding world affairs is the opposite of what their job is, and they tend to be a wierd combination of naive and innocent while angry and judgemental. As Laura would say, "Shut up and Sing". The whole exchange of letters is posted at Israpundit here. Our church is SO HAPPY to have broken with the UCC. We are Congregationalists, and we make up our own minds, thank you.
 Wow. It is quite wonderful, in a way, in Yankeeland. 103 in our CT valley.
Enjoy it, luxuriate in it. Complaining is for babies. Pretend to be a wisteria vine, reaching for the sun, or one of those giant patches of happy, heat-intoxicated crabgrass in my lawn. Watch those Beefsteak tomatoes in the garden turn redder by the day. In January, you will pay good money to travel to such temperatures and blue skies. We'll only have this kind of astonishing heat for a couple of more days. If I didn't have a case coming up, I'd call this a pool, book, nap, and gin and tonic day. Throw a few of those giant ice blocks in the pool, and float on them like a Polar Bear. Got the grandkids coming this weekend, so the iceman cometh. And, to all of you greenies - please turn off your a/c in your cars, homes, and workplaces. You are destroying the planet. If you turn it on, you are a fraud and a hypocrite. Do not tell me, like Al Gore, that he needs his but you can't have yours. I promise you that his house on his tobacco farm in Tennessee has a/c. And if your workplace refuses, stand out front today with signs and protest that your workplace is killing Gaia with its wasteful a/c. It'll be a big hit: you will be popular and folks will thank you for having the courage to stand up for Gaia. Be a hero, and try it!
 To a Fat Lady Seen From the Train
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?
O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
When the grass is soft as the breast of doves
And shivering sweet to the touch?
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?
Frances Cornford wrote that - the charming form is called a triolet. Our editor asked me to comment on Dr. Helen's piece on fat people. As a doctor, I tend to be a "Do as I say, not as I do" sort of guy. I smoke cigars and I am pleasantly, or some might say prosperously, or some might say, grandfatherly, well-fed. When patients of mine are seriously overweight, I tell them straight out. The word fat does not bother me. I have a model in the waiting room of five pounds of adipose tissue designed to get a reaction. It is disgusting. As someone who did my share of general surgery earlier in my career, I can tell you that fishing through gallons of yellow adiposity, getting your gloves so greasy you cannot hold the scalpel, is no damn fun. If you are fat, and saw what you look like under the skin, you would be horrified. Another complication recently published is that obesity makes it more difficult to make a diagnosis. It's called "study or exam limited by body habitus." However, I also understand that the flesh is weak, and that staying in youthful shape after 45 is no mean feat. It takes work and discipline, and the evidence that it leads to longevity or health is minimal. However, being in good shape adds a lot to quality of life. On the other hand, being obsessed with health is for the crazies. Plus there is the vanity factor: few guys will look at a fat girl, and no gals will look at a fat guy - unless he is rich or powerful. But, at some point, unless we are narcissists, we accept reality and don't care all that much. Final word: If you are too fat, I will say that. And, if you care, I will tell you how to deal with it. But your life choices are not my problem, beyond that: your doctor is not your Momma, nor is he/she responsible for your health. Your health is in your hands, and God's, and nature's. My only responsibility is to give you advice as your friend, and to try to help you when you get sick.
 Wish I owned some of the private equity in YouTube. It's a great site, and a great service, and has already overtaken MySpace. Watch out, eBay. Wonder if Google will try to buy them before the $ gets higher.
Slacker males: Not the greatest generation. Viking Stick with Babalu for Castro death watch #2713. New work on the genetics of autism. Science Daily A little tour through hell: Not with Vergil - Maxed Out Mama visits the Dem blogs. Not a pretty sight. Getting it straight: Terrorists don't have to follow the rules. The West has to. I agree with that thesis, as long as we kill the terrorists. Dem Project gets a bit upset about the double standard. Who doesn't? Happy to say that Israel is moving in with adequate ground troops. And Hezbollywood may turn out to be the scam story of the year: people believe what they want to believe. No work ethic in Europe. They subscribe to the "Vacation Ethic." But what about people who want to work hard, and do things, and not laze about like cows in a field? Tangled Rick reviews the decline of chivalry in warfare. Part of the world is still in the "try to be chivalrous" mode, and the rest doesn't give a damn. Media Lies: This time, the Detroit News. Israpundit SPP and NASCO: The most under-reported major story of the year. RWH
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