Wednesday, February 28. 2007
Rare image, on loan from LGF. Take a left turn, and you could be killed. Funny how often "tolerance" is a one-way street. Praise for Moslem efforts to kill Dick Cheney via SC&A. It's a disease. If we killed everyone we disagreed with about something, we'd be alone on the planet. Jim Miller has some fun Al Gore links. At this point, it is just getting too easy. Your children are your responsibility. LaShawn. What a radical concept! I thought they were the village's problem. RomneyCare not working out too well. Prof B. Celebrities can fart but I can't. Celestial Junk. No, their farts are pure and beautiful. One Baghdad family likes the surge. So do we. Too bad it's a few years too late, but who had the crystal ball? The fingers of unrepentant Nazi-collaborator Soros (woops - is that a character assasination?) invading government. Pelosi hires his guy as her Counsel. Front Page. Watch out. These deep swimmers of the internationalist Left have their own agendas. Seymour Hersh gives a hand job to Egypt, says Sandmonkey. Hersh has always been a knee-jerk America-hater. What's new? Buy a lie. Alibi Network at Business Pundit Gun ownership is not about hunting, nor is it mainly about self-defence or ordinary gun games. It's about war. Shape of Days. Quite right. Which is why it is critical - it's not about recreation. What is The Tides Foundation, and what are they doing? Like so many foundations created by benevolently-minded successful capitalists, they have been hijacked by the radical Left.
Tuesday, February 27. 2007
 I just can't quit singing those unforgettable lyrics to Gorespell this snowy morning.
Why normal people avoid politics - or are driven away. P/T Pundit. And if you think that is bad, try Guatemalan politics. So now Europe wants Star Wars. Ungrateful wretches. More Clintonphobia. How come they only like rich people? Betsy. Don't they have any regular old friends? I suspect not. How birds plan ahead. Smarter than people who count on Social Security. Jihad is planning cyberwar against unfriendly websites. Why we are not McCain fans.
Monday, February 26. 2007
 This Iraq rape story is beginning to sound like Duke. Confed. Yank
Wesleyan Univ - remove from your kids' college list. A once-great school, but they drank the Kool Aid years ago. Small Dead Polar Bears IRS goes after EBay sellers. Sorry, folks. There is no escape, unless you are rich enough to know what to do. Very rich. Since we have Death Taxes, how come the Rockefellers and Kennedys and etc. still don't need jobs? But you will not be able to hand any of your hard-earned wealth down, because you cannot afford the lawyers who arrange these things. A cool political dirty trick from Long Island: Pester people with phone calls during the Super Bowl, ostensibly from your opponent. NY Sun Adding to our blogroll: Above the Law. Also, something new which I think has great promise, and aims to do what independent blogs have been trying to do: Reporters without Borders. Wonder if they have a job for me. NYC still doesn't allow dancing in bars. NYC is not exactly a Libertarian stronghold. Homeland Security Pork. Synthstuff. My guess: 70% pork. Government works for government. Is that news? Largest gun sales in the US? Walmart, of course. But they are cutting back. Alphecca. Hillary still afraid that Bill will blow it for her. Newsweek. Upset Mexicans? Too damn bad. What about our border? I am afraid that it is a two-way street. Some excellent comments on George Orwell, at Asst. Village Idiot Image: A damn good micro-brewery beer. Coddington's, from Newport, RI. Empty bottle, of course. A very pleasant gift from our RI friends. Something Dust my Broom needs to try.
Sunday, February 25. 2007
 T.E. Lawrence was one of the most fascinating people in recent history, and his Seven Pillars of Wisdom remains a masterpiece - and a page-turner. His role in the formation of the present-day Middle East is not overlooked by Moderate Voice. I doubt that Gen. Petraeus is our Lawrence. I was told second-hand via someone who met Lawrence that he was an unusually mild-mannered guy who looked and acted like Stan Laurel.
What is with this story about Jesus' coffin? Some thoughts about it from Anchoress. If those are Christ's bones, then I will give you my piece of Noah's Ark for free - and throw in my splinter of the True Cross. Was Washington a Deist or a Christian? Michael Novak considers GW's statements at First Things CO2 shortage in South Africa. haha. Can't they just take it out of the air, or something? Why does the Left give a pass to Fundie Islam but no pass to Fundie Christianity? Wizbang. Aw, you already know the answer. The Watchers highlighted the Schulman piece on Nazi-collaborator George Soros Granddaddy found some nice Dylan Youtubes. I especially like the version of My Back Pages, of course. Virginia apologizes for slavery. What utter BS. What is this "mea culpa" fad? Dr. Bliss, any ideas? Since there can be no such thing as collective guilt, much less collective historical guilt (unless you are neurotic as heck), this must be pure pandering. I guess that's obvious. Hollywood applauds Jihad. If Hollywood loves Castro and Jihad, what are Americans supposed to think?
Saturday, February 24. 2007
Classical Values looks at "equality" and the genetics of IQ and ability. Giuliani gains on the Prom Queen. But what do such numbers mean now? Other than signs of Hillary's vulnerability? That's what Peggy Noonan thinks. How to tell a lib from a Leftist. No Pasaran Modern medicine meets Islam. What happened to Islamic Civilization? The Advanced Geometry of Islamic Art How secure are home networks? I just assume nothing on the internet is very secure.
Friday, February 23. 2007
Hollywood loves Cuba. Moonbattery. What should that tell all of us? Seriously, not as a rhetorical question. If someone defends or idealizes Fidel, doesn't that mean that they would like a Fidel here in the US? And is it not odd that someone would actually say that, in public? Is envy really such a bad thing? Augean Stables Another look at what the New Deal did to destroy America - and the thinking behind it. View from 1776. Totalitarianism always comes in the disguise of benevolence, or with the excuse of dealing with a "crisis." The guy or gal always "loves the people" but hates their freedom, which exposes their hidden contempt and arrogance. The power-hungry - not the money-hungry - are the enemies of freedom. Everybody wants some money, but few of us desire power over others: it is a disease. The strategery behind the surge. Austin Bay Illegal immigration will drive down skill and IQ levels, says ETS Why Brit women aren't getting married. Stumbling and Mumbling. Those may be the economic reasons, but aren't the real reasons that they do not like sex, and prefer dogs, horses, and shooting, to romance? What's a bigger kick to shoot than a 50 cal? See the video Canadians admit: We didn't mean it when we signed Kyoto The right time to quit smoking? How they treat "internet addicts" in China. Is Hillary's real enemy Ralph Nader? NY Sun From Gov. Mark Sanford, in a piece at WaPo: When George W. Bush, The Post and the insurance giant Lloyd's of London agree on something, it's obvious a new wind is blowing. The climate change debate is here to stay, and as America warms to the idea of environmental conservation on a grander scale, it's vital that conservatives change the debate before government regulation expands yet again and personal freedom is pushed closer toward extinction. The fact is, I'm a conservative and a conservationist -- and that's okay.
Yes it is: he is mostly on the same page as Maggie's Farm - except we don't take warming seriously. And, if real, we welcome it.
Thursday, February 22. 2007
 Civilization. A Sid Meier update at Drezner. Meier says he cannot win at his game.
Greedy Geezers want more of our money. Viking. Of course they do - everyone wants to separate me from my money. Honestly, they don't give a damn about me. Why don't they get a job? How does Europe put up with the EU? Now the EU wants to re-write history to glorify themselves. Is this a would-be Empire? Israel's oldest kibbutz goes private. How about an LBO? (h/t, Samizdata) The strange story that refuses to go away. Why? Because you have to wonder who is protecting Berger - and why. If I walked out of the National Archives with national security documents in my underwear, would that be OK? Or an absent-minded mistake, because I usually put all of my documents in my underpants. More thoughts at RWNH and Blue Crab. Women in politics, at Gates of Vienna. A quote: The silence of the professional feminists in the face of the barbarities of Islam regarding women has long been a source of wonder — if not disgust — for regular folks. We keep waiting for them to speak out on behalf of women who suffer slave status in Muslim theocracies. There has been only silence…or even worse, a disturbing preoccupation with trivialities like the Vagina Monologues or the rage against those who dare to disagree with their victim whingeing. The decades-old complaint about gender inequity has been transformed into a full-fledged deep hatred of men that makes these upper middle-class women look like spoiled, overprivileged narcissists.
The elected women in Congress are a good example this narrow self-absorption, the kind that follows in the wake of setting oneself up as a victim…in this case, of course, women are the victims of patriarchy. Yawn.
Mississippi vs. State Farm: What does this sound like to you? It's about flood insurance. It sounds like tyranny to me. Theft of services, too. Gotta like this quote from Maliki (piece at Flopping): Iraqiya state television showed Maliki, a Shi'ite Islamist leader, talking to an Iraqi soldier near an armored vehicle in central Baghdad. The soldier pointed to an area from where he said insurgents had been firing at security forces.
"Don't just fire back, crush the place where the fire came from," Maliki replied. "Don't treat them with leniency. This is an armored vehicle here, use it."
Would you call this stalking and this attack a hate crime? Quotes from a nice, tolerant Dem at Michelle. Not being big TV people, we never posted this obit. But it's interesting to see that the guy wasn't a TV-watcher. I often agree with Hewitt, but on this one, I am with Balloon Juice. No need to "go Lamont". Most boring legal case of the year: Libby update at Lib Leanings. Tell me, what did he supposedly do wrong, again? The myth of the shrinking middle class. Env. Repub Dems fight like girls. Atlas. Ouch. IBD, via Attack Machine: New Orleans: Nearly a year and a half after Katrina, most of the Gulf Coast is recovering nicely — with one major exception. So who is to blame for that?
Wednesday, February 21. 2007
 Hornet problem? Blame Bush. In fact, blame American global warming for all the weather that happens until there is a Dem in the White House. If fact, blame him for anything. Why stick to weather? I have ants in the kitchen this year... Or, for example, Fitzgerald today.
Reconstruction teams in Iraq. Dem Project. Sounds like a big piece of the puzzle. An enemy is not a friend. SC&A. Amazing that we are so far gone that this needs to be said. Long overdue. Adding to blogroll - Good old Mr. Smash at Indepundit Gore may get honorary doctorate in climatology. I say - why not a free real doctorate? After all, he discovered the Gore Effect. Another multicultural death. It should be a daily feature. Ghosts. This brief recollection of a Mom at YARGB is moving and disturbing. Clown awards. He should make it a weekly feature. Everybody needs their ideas challenged, but not by psychotic sociopaths. No Pasaran CAIR update, at Powerline There will always be an England: Hedgehog Rescue. How about a Culture Rescue? Do women make an informed "choice"? Villainous says no. Your eggs do get old, ladies, and your bodies do not make fresh ones. Did these idiots deserve rescue on my nickel? No, but the dog did. Lucianne. What would it cost to put up a sign saying "Climb mountain at your own risk", for the morons who think that Mt. Hood is a Disney Experience?
Tuesday, February 20. 2007
 Rodham Clinton takes offence at Rebel flag. To us, it symbolizes the American rebel spirit, states' rights, and Federalism. Has nothing to do with promoting slavery. We oppose slavery, except for our own slaves (who work on this blog, and are mainly of the sort-of whitish persuasion, but with some Indian and Spanish and Italian mixed in), and God knows we believe skin color to be a big, irrelevant nothing. We happily discriminate on the basis of behavior - never on skin color or race or any of that BS.
Long may that proud flag wave for the positive things it represented... just like the Federal flag, which once flew over a slave nation, an Indian-abusing nation, an imperialist nation, etc. etc. blah blah blah evil country blah blah blah. Woops. Did I just say that Israel was the greatest threat to world peace? Giant mosque blocked in London. Tiny houses the new fad? I doubt it. Althouse found the article in the NYT. Didn't we call these cabins? Momentum shifting? Indepundit thinks so. Multiculturalism fails again. Egypt and Abdel Karim. Can't they just be tolerant? It's nice to finally see a little judicial understanding somewhere. Cow farts a major threat to planet. I suggest free Beano for all cattle and other ungulates. And let's kill all the Aurochs. Oh, we already did? Great. Then let's kill all the buffalo. Oh, we already did that too? Gee, great. 10% of EU households contain no-one who works. Cool, dude. Very progressive. How do we get to 100%? Cool blog: World Climate Report. Will add to our Science blogroll. Legal persons and limited liability. Bainbridge Murtha in command. Novak. I hate to ask it, but is he in command of his senses? NYT terms illegal immigrant critics Klansmen. That's one way to sell a newspaper: insult the intelligence of all of your readers. Hey - is there a FREE Spanish edition? New Orleans murders. Cops blame the schools. Nice try, cops.
Genetics of Autism advances. BBC. A cure? Never. But, like Down's, will it be a new reason for abortion? No doubt. A piece of the HIV virus seems stable enough to base a vaccine on. Good news for gays who hate condoms.
What was wrong with that UNICEF Report that slammed the US? Shrinkwrapped takes a look at the report's assumptions. And speaking of income inequalities, Sowell looked at the extremely high pays of some CEOs in January, in NRO "Good freaking luck" to Harvard's new pres, says Coyote. Scott admires Smokey Robinson as he turns 67. Love the guy. Is Russia ready for democracy? Siberian Light quotes a guy who says No. Democracy is not the answer to Russia’s problems, actually in today’s environment it may add to them. Would Russia would be better if it were democratic is like asking if you prefer peace to war - the answer is axiomatic. However, democracy is not about voting and the right to vote. That is purely the symbol. Real democracy can only happen when rights and responsibilities are balanced. Russia is not there yet.
It's always interesting to ponder the cultural, economic, educational and psychological/characterological requirements for political freedom.
Monday, February 19. 2007
 76,000 Loonies to find out "you are too American."
Scroll down here for info on the new weight loss meds. Steve Jobs beats up on teacher's unions. Fine, we know it's a scam. But I blame the parents first. Grade school teachers want to do their job well, like everyone else. But I do agree that unionization of a profession removes it from the "profession" category. Today in Brooklyn, 1902. Gun control doubles gun murders in the UK. Duh. You don't get Yankee Magazine? Why not? (free advt) It is true about the Brits. Iran's obsession with the the Jews. The history of this nutty thing. For women: A sex health quiz. The Blackwater live eagle cam is up. The eagles have two eggs already. Ospreys not back north yet, of course. Left rooting for defeat? They always do. We have said it many times. Wizbang says it better. Why do they hate this fine country, still with more freedom and more opportunity than anywhere else in the world? Is it a disease, or something? A touching gift for the angry divorcee. Empathy for Britney, from RWNH. I agree with him. Life is tough enough, and staying centered is an endless challenge, but celebrity can be a real killer unless your head is screwed on straight. If you like old cars, do not miss this link from us, the other day. Drool with envy. Image: A southern New England coast, yesterday
Sunday, February 18. 2007
 Filling in for the News Junkie today...
"The government is endogenous." A profound comment by Prof Bainbridge. We've been inching towards this kind of clarity, but the Prof arrived. The point being this: Why should govt be the problem solver, when it is no more rational, or even less rational, than the public? We would argue, far dumber, much more amoral - and power-hungry arrogant schmucks. I'd like to spend some time in Mozambique. Looks good to me: Samizdata. Beautiful women, beautiful, exotic place. I am ready to go. Should be no problem for my G5 bumbling along at 50,000 feet. Ten Step Plan to becoming a dictator. (H/t, Reader). This guy figured it out. The truce is over. Belmont Club. What truce? The Left has been pushing surrender forever. Surrender to what? To whatever. Melanie Phillips takes a look at Iran's 27-year war on the west. Does Russia want to re-start the Cold War? NY Sun. I doubt it. But they do want to be players on the world stage. It's such a dump of a country, I guess they need something to feel good about. The surge has been a success, thus far. But the bad guys are just hiding under rocks, waiting. Even the NYT, after a bit of Bush-bashing, wonders whether Murtha et all are crackpots. The stupidity of crowds. No Pasaran takes on the Greenie-Lefties. Our opinion: the Greenies are the "useful idiots" of the Left. Adding to blogroll: Siberian Light, Granddaddy Long Legs, Foo Bar and Grill Catholic women's college obsessed with vaginas and sex. Is this "higher education"? Sounds like lower education to me. Hate to quote Instapundit because everyone reads him anyway, but this blurb was too good. It captures a ton of insight: IN THE MAIL: Michael Burleigh's Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror. Looks quite interesting. From the blurb: "Covering a vast canvas, Michael Burleigh examines the many secular religions the twentieth century produced, analyzing how successive totalitarian leaders coveted and mimicked the hierarchy, rites and ritual of the churches in the desire to return to the day when ruler and deity were one."
Deval changed his mind. Sorry, MA. Now he wants more of your money. I guess he changed his mind... Should the word "scrotum" appear in kids' library books? Why not? I thought they were already teaching the little ones gay and transexual pleasuring techniques in our progressive government schools. Scrotum definitely a sensitive area. "Fusionism" is the notion of the merging of Libertariansim and Conservatism. Is it possible? I think so, as long as folks don't feel the compulsion to be completely consistent in their politics - but who is? TCS takes a look.  More on the subject of "We're all Welfare Queens" now. How pathetic have we become as a nation? Help used to be for the folks in trouble, but now it's for everybody, including the "greedy geezers," with the predictable weakening of the human spirit and the rise of whining as a life style and a voting style. There is no way back to good old study Manhood and Womanhood, once a majority is on the dole in some way - or expects to be.
Are we raising a generation of the dependent, passive, and spineless, like Europe? Not only a serf mentality, but a surrenderist mentality. I do not wish to imagine where this sort of future takes my descendants. People who won't take up a challenge, but collapse and give up? That ain't the American Way, nor is it the Anglo-Saxon way. Nor is it the Pilgrim way, where freedom under God was every family's goal, in the face of death. Pull up your socks and get to it and give it the old college try - come what will. And pray. That's our approach. Whether it works or not, fine. We will get by. Can't beat Touch of Gray. It has got it all over Woody's sappy "This land is your land..." Touch of Gray is the American middle-aged Song, and man, could that guy play a sweet guitar? Although we do have a natural weakness for the Maggie's Farm attitude - good for all ages. The depressing graph is from a piece at Villainous.
Saturday, February 17. 2007
Joe Lieberman said this (piece at YARGB): From all of the research my staff and I have done, including asking the Library of Congress to do, we have found no case in American history where Congress has done what this resolution does. That is, in a non-binding resolution, oppose a plan that our military is implementing right now. Congress has expressed non-binding resolutions of disapproval before a plan of military action has been carried out. Congress has taken much more direct steps, authorized to do so by the Constitution, to cut off funds for military action or a war in progress.
But never before has the Congress of the United States passed a non-binding resolution of disapproval of a military plan that is already being carried out by American military personnel.
The paragliding story - just incredible. My nightmare. How Edward Said made it impossible to speak the truth about Islam and the Middle East. New York Sun Sissy shares our views of PC and threats to free speech. Womens' work spaces dirtier than toilet seats. Sheesh. Good advice, for bloggers and for everyone, from Wizbang: Never say anything you would not be willing to repeat under oath. Never say anything you would not want to see plastered across the front page of the newspaper. Never write when you can speak. Never speak when you can nod. Never nod when you can wink.
Friday, February 16. 2007
 What do black votes cost? Ask Hillary
Clayton Cramer's new book. Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie Iran's economic house of cards. Shulman at American Future A parrot with a 1000 word vocabulary. BBC Castle Doctrine spreading - now to TX The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming Warming is our friend. Tyrrell at Am Spectator Antarctica defies warming fears. Still quite cold down there. Bangkok Street Dogs. There's a site for everything. William and Mary, No to cross, yes to hos. Not my America. Sign a petition. Powerline
He decided to cancel the tour. Turns out there isn't any warming.
Thursday, February 15. 2007
 "They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment, the moose went up with them. They noticed excess tension in the lines and went searching for the problem. He was still alive when they lowered him to the ground. He was a huge 60 inch bull and slightly peeved !"
 Hey Al! It's 14 degrees this morning up here, and a Wooly Mammoth is stalking me. I can just barely see him through the trees. I am going inside to start a fire and meditate on Aussie nude surfing babes since I was without a girlfriend on St. Valentine's day - as usual. Summer down there, isn't it?
Speaking of which, Nor'easter road rage is good! Valentine's Day flowers - in Egypt? How many Moslems does it take to screw up a country? Ace. And speaking of those sneaky jihad Moslems, take a look at how Jihad-apologist CAIR is trying to insinuate itself into the mainstream. Atlas. Via PBS, of course. FARK shut down our "Prayers for Global Warming" piece, so it didn't even appear on Total Fark, which almost everything does. A bit humorless over there at Fark, when it comes to Planet Catastrophe? Bird Dog thought they might enjoy it. I did. Truly bad taste. Do not look. Free Market Fairy Tales French plan lovefest for Fidel. Hmmm. I thought they were proud of murdering their King. Maybe they prefer Commie Kings? Difficult to understand French psychology. But why bother? They have sexy babes, and that's what is important. Adding to blogroll: Calculated Risk, and Reference Frame from Harvard. Did you know that Bush was the first president to fund embryonic stem cell research? Willisms. I guess it doesn't fit the narrative. Giant squid blind their prey with light. Cool. Old? Get out of our way. Brit national health Where's Mookie? On vacation, of course. Michelle. Terrorists need vacations. Just like Osama. Seen him lately? No, he's at Sandals in Jamaica, which is full of virgins. Don't send my boy to Harvard. Horsefeathers. Bunch of Kool-Aid drinkers over there. Cleopatra needed a nose job? AOL news We are all on welfare now. Who did this to us? Viking. This is not the proud Yankee way of life. But isn't co-dependency a lovely thing? We all care so much about each other. Kumbaya, man. Crikey. A game: Name that Party! Surber A fine MSM update. Driscoll Dems work hard to plan our Iraq defeat. RWNH. May I ask why they do this? Is it perhaps political? Naw, they'd never do that. Or would they? AP admits Dems undermining war. Do many Dems hate America and the freedom and opportunity and can-do spirit and independence it stands for? No doubt. And it's a shame: it didn't used to be that way. There is a cancer in this country, eating its soul and spirit, which is I why I take the time to post with my friends at Maggie's Farm. Taliban copying the Palestinians, and using children as shields. Singleton. Heroic freedom fighters. Al Gore and global coldening. Blair. Quit it, Al. I am freezing. Obama is famous because he's black. SDA. Hillary is famous because she has female genitalia (supposedly), and was married to a President. Where would these two be if they were white men? Fairly average-bright nobodies, like all the rest of us guys. Brit Anglican moonbats try to salvage the Anglican Church. It won't work, because everyone knows they are Moonbats.
Wednesday, February 14. 2007
 The Surge. Details at America's North Shore Journal (h/t, Daily Pundit). Photo from the site.
Weenies. Yes, we have snow and sleet in Yankeeland. What's the big deal? What do you expect in February? Go outside and enjoy it before Bush makes it melt and kills all of the Polar Bears. Bent Skovmand died. You don't know who he was, but he did a great thing. He created the Weed Bank. The future will be grateful to him - seriously. Could be a QQQ. Giuliani: "In the business world, if two weeks were spent on a nonbinding resolution, it would be considered nonproductive," Giuliani told the lunch crowd, setting off a burst of laughter. Quote from a Norwegian, in a piece at No Pasaran - about Americans: "Because by speaking negatively about them, we elevate ourselves. It confirms that we are the opposite. We Europeans have refinement, culture, and intellectual life. To think this way raises our image of ourselves."
Roosevelt Admin nixed visas for Anne Frank. NYSun As we predicted, it's the Incredible Disappearing Rape Case at Duke. In this case, an alleged rape by a person of no ethnicity upon another person of no ethnicity. Victim female, though, apparently. Duke profs silent. A war on Toyota-ists? Don Surber. Too damn bad, Michigan. If you build it, they will come. When a cigar is not just a cigar: Ellison calls the cops. What a schmuck. But, I ask you, how come congressmen can smoke in their offices, and I cannot? Do any laws apply to them? More on Mr. Sun and cosmic rays. Gates of V.
Tuesday, February 13. 2007
 Another Duke rape case, but by a suspect of no ethnicity. LaShawn
Deficit falls. MSM doesn't notice. Gateway. Why I won't leave Amerikkka, even though I hate it. Moonbattery. Very transparent excuse, if you ask me: they are here for the freedom, but won't admit it. Wizbang takes a look at Bush's health care ideas, and likes them What's in a grouper? Could be an Asian Catfish The crazy Marcotte story, fully summarized by Michelle Grow your own (implants) Image: Borrowed from SDA
Monday, February 12. 2007
 I am a pod, and I don't know how to act with people. But I found a solution. Humgbug
Let's remember: Nifong is innocent until proven guilty. Durham in Wonderland. A comment by LGF: There you have the modern Democrat Party: they want to talk with our worst enemies, and pick fights with our best friends.
Anti-whaling insanity. Tim Blair. I oppose whaling too, but come on. Segolene Royal wants more freebies for the people. Blue Crab. Why not just eliminate work entirely? Some good weather coming to Yankee land. Bring it on. Are we the only part of the country which regards what other parts of the country term "bad weather" as fun weather? Bird Dog News. World's largest hunting dog magazine, online and off.
Sunday, February 11. 2007
 Nobody's at home on Park Avenue. Envious? You bet. Lots of houses.
Can we please let these guys off the hook? Truly ridiculous. More on Saddam-Osama links. Flopping From Yon, at Powerline: America has asked David Petraeus to walk into a burning barn and perform brain surgery on a dying patient. If it can be done, David Petraeus is our man. The odds are against him.
Something else for Canada to fear: Another Trudeau The 2006 Darwin Awards are out. (h/t, Blue Crab) Small local newspapers are making plenty of money. So are some online newspapers: Bainbridge I missed this quote from Ayatollah Khomeini, which surely stretches my sensitive, tolerant, multicultural nature: A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. If he penetrates and the child is harmed then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however would not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister.
Re Giuliani, this seems right, at TownHall: So Rudy's campaign is essentially about arguing over which question voters should use as the criteria for making their decision. If he wins that argument, the question of whom to vote for starts to favor him a bit. In politics, the question is more important than the answer.
Image: a couple of Maggie's Farmers and friends at the end of grouse season. Now the trick is to stay alive until the next one.
Saturday, February 10. 2007
Could not resist borrowing todays' Chris Muir, above. We owe him for the use, which is only fair. Meanwhile, tell your local newspaper to add Day By Day to their cartoon list. Very odd that the basis for the need for sleep has yet to be understood. But rest does help you replace old brain cells. But is it worth it, since you miss out on so much when sleeping? Al Quaida in Iraq? Surber Women prefer Mr. Average. BBC. Maybe that's my problem. Adding to blogroll, under Education: Campus Watch. Melanie Phillips, via Instapundit, in a Steyn piece at The Corner: Watch this respectful Sky News interview (via LGF) with the ranting Islamist Anjem Choudary and last night’s morally eviscerated Question Time on BBC TV to see how Britain is ever more eagerly stretching out its neck for the cultural knife.
Find the best possible candidate, instead of hoping for perfection. Powerline George Will, on the MSM, warming, and news crusading. I hope this is not new news to Will. Al Gore urged to run. Great. There are many "Anybody but Hillary" folks amongst the Dems. They dislike her, and fear her. I think she is just a mean George McGovern, in pants. The UN Report will backtrack on prior hysterical predictions. Opinion Journal The Stature Gap: Gay Patriot (h/t, Wizbang)
Friday, February 9. 2007
 Highly comical Groucho Marx story. Althouse.
Send NY State Sen. Kruger an email. Be nice, or they won't take you seriously. Bainbridge ACLU attorney: "I looked up and I saw Leviticus." ACLU attacks a library. Too bad he didn't read the Leviticus... Blame Christmas cheer, and blame the government: Brits see record number of abortions in January Rough justice. But how rough? Classical Values Faux fur is often not faux. It's coondog. A forbidden assignment in Mecca. NY Sun Something not rotten in Denmark: "Multiculturalism has gone too far." Gates of Vienna "Multiculturalism is really blossoming in Britain these days. It's enough to warm a progressive's heart." Moonbattery. "Kids who attend the Saudi-funded King Fahd Academy in Acton can learn from their textbooks that Christians are "apes" and Jews are "pigs."" Why is Western Europe anti-American? No Pasaran. Honestly, I don't really care why or whether, but I guess it's a bit of a puzzle, since we've saved their asses several times, and even today save them the trouble of maintaining serious militaries. I have a thought of my own, a basic thought about human nature: The given-to always resent the giver, just as recipients of charity must always hate the charitable. It's a matter of maintaining pride, or, you might say, vanity. Charity is a joy for the giver, but a humiliation for the recipient. Pelosi's Tahoe breaks Maggie's Rule of Global Warming. Blue Crab offers Princess Pelosi an airplane solution. How long does it take for these idiots to forget who they work for, and who pays their bills? Dr. Sanity wrote once about "Acquired narcissism." Image: I call this birthday photo "Honey, don't forget the limes." Is that Maggie? We're not telling.
Thursday, February 8. 2007
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