Thursday, February 8. 2007
Pro-life speaker nixed at Catholic school. With info about Margaret Sanger that will blow your mind. (h/t, Michelle)
I love this piece, on marriage. Sippican. This author is hiding his candle under a bushel by limiting his writing to a blog. Defending China's pollution. Blair. I guess their pollution is cleaner, or more socialistic, or something. Anyway, it doesn't seem to count. I blame global warming: The UK braces for major snowstorm. Times Leftists always admire, or at least make excuses for, Fidel and now Chavez (and Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, etc in the past). Why not Hitler too - he was one. The Left and totalitarianism will be forever wedded. Must be, because socialism crushes the human spirit and, eventually, people rebel. Who buys lottery tickets? Answer here. (h/t, Squaring the Boston Globe) Save the Polar Bears: Open a garbage dump. SDA New Green Crimes in the EU. Quote from Samizdata: It used to be the dream of socialists and utopians of varying degrees of malevolence or stupidity to want a world state. In a world state, pesky local regulatory differences would be obliterated and replaced by a rational grid of laws from which no escape was possible. In true 'watermelon' fashion - green on the outside, red in the core - the Greens are embracing the instruments of a pan-national state to enforce their ideas.
Nice image of the not-yet-completed USS New York, an amphibious assault ship (LPD 21) containing 24 tons of WTC steel. What would you give to drive this baby around the block a few times? 
Tuesday, February 6. 2007
 It's all about anti-capitalism. I think so, too. Polipundit. We love capitalism. It offers the freedom to pursue whatever you want in life, as best you can. As Rudy said, historically nobody emigrated to America for freebies. Freedom means a lot to people. I always am reminded that no-one emigrated to the Soviet Union or Cuba for their wonderful free stuff. Space for the human spirit to range free, take risks, and be free to fail, is what lively people want. The principle of freedom is what separates the Conservatives from the Left.
The ACLU has abandoned the First Amendment. Flopping Aces. We gave up on them years ago. Just another leftist interest group. It's a shame they get govt money. Guiliani is in. I wish I could spell his name. The use of biofuels is moving backwards, not forwards; it represents a move back towards high-carbon rather than towards high-hydrogen. Sugar cane, corn, etc. - all bad ideas. Now look what happened with palm oil. What you do on Sunday morning tells what you worship? Asst. Village Idiot. Well, it might be a clue, but it depends. Maligning the Global Warming Religion can bring threats and reprisals. One climatologist's story. Why I Turned Right. Powerline discusses the new book. These people sound like me - only smarter. Like beating a dead horse. No matter how often these things are said, it seems to make no difference. A quote from Dr. Sanity: What matters most to the minions of the political left is not truth, or reality, or even "peace" and "brotherhood"; what matters is how effective is the language used to manipulate others. Lies, distortions, ad hominem attacks; attempts to silence opposing views--all are strategies that are perfectly satisfactory if they achieve the desired effect. Ideas and reason must make way for reification of feelings; and freedom is replaced by the thought control of the compassionately totalitarian concept of political correctness.
The postmodern assault as it is used by the new totalitarian alliance of the 21st century, is a four-pronged attack to undermine
- Objective reality
- Reason and the rational debate of ideas
- Individual freedom and freedom of thought and speech
- Progress and capitalism
The strategies used in this assault are:
- The distortion of language and meaning to undermine the individual's perception of reality;
- The use of direct or threatened physical violence to suppress speech and individual freedom;
- Politically "correct" thought control and cultural relativism to undermine reason and rational debate;
- The promotion of environmental hysteria to undermine progress, industrialization and capitalism
The Iranian news service offers this gem of a news article. How dumb do they think people are?
Monday, February 5. 2007
 The Crusaders are coming to Baghdad, and they are not looking for a "sanitary fight." It's about time. This should be good, and a lot rests on its success. Meanwhile, two of our favorites, VDH and Max Boot, discuss Iraq at Contentions. We also learn that our stupid, loser soldiers who are stuck in Iraq have PhDs, making them easily smarter and better educated than Jon Cary. Iraq the Model is eager: Surge Soon Please.
If you really want to understand Iraq politics, try this Video of Iraq traffic. Hilarious. London's proposed 17-acre mosque - details and video at LGF. It would hold more people than Giant Stadium. This was not immigration - this was invasion. Nader may run. Good. The more, the merrier. Apparently he detests Hillary. They deserve eachother. Dershowitz on Jimmy Carter For Sale. Ever get the feeling that Dershowitz does not care for Jimmah? Full India update, at BBC. If they had a work ethic, they would be or will be amazing. And more on India: Internet marriages in Bangalore. Lebanon update. Excellent piece, at Totten. h/t, Instap.
The double standard: black-on-white hate crime just doesn't fit "the narrative." Ace  The Mossad will just kill 'em. There's an excellent solution. Gateway. A few more, please.
The LA Times wants to teach his bloggers how to blog. Hello? Hewitt Brit teacher fired for imagining that "most suicide bombers are Moslem." Everyone know the are mainly Mormons. Multiculturalism: What if white folks said some of this? Blue Crab Bill Roggio notes the regrouping of the Courts groups in Somalia A reader is trying to save open space around the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Go for it, y'all. The battle never ends. Yes, we know that area rather well. Royal Marines with balls. Winds of Change Please do not feed the bums. In Orlando French climate hypocrisy. What a joke. No Pasaran John Edward's blogger needs to take her medication. "Laughing all the way to the bank." Who coined that? Liberace. (h/t, Tangled Web) Adding to the blogroll: Attack Machine, Don Surber From VDH, as quoted by Dr. Sanity: We are in a rare period in American political history, in which the battlefield alone will determine the next election, perhaps not seen since 1864. The economy, scandal, social issues, domestic spending, jobs, all these usual criteria and more pale in comparison to what happens in Iraq, where a few thousand brave American soldiers will determine our collective future.
Saturday, February 3. 2007
 Put down the duckie and other Sesame Street favorites from the good old days. Anchoress
Climate change? Live with it. I agree with this piece entirely, at Blue Crab Brainwashing the kiddie-poos in the UK. I knew Gore had thousands of copies of his DVD he couldn't get rid of. Guess he dumped them on the Brits. The End of the World is at hand! Blair Another Texas Deputy in trouble for defending himself against illegals. Message: leave the illegals alone. Moonbattery The Goldilocks Economy continues, even better. Not a peep about it in the news. Glenn thanks Nancy for the great economy Culver City introduces government-censored internet service. Creepy. Coyote France decrees more siesta time for workers. Tammy. Now that is a country that is going places. Imam's opening prayer at DNC meeting. Hot Air. Are Dems comfortable with that prayer? Hamas promises hands-off Dem candidates. What does that tell you? Classical Values. Are Jewish voters comfortable with this? A triumph for "choice." School vouchers in Utah.
Everyone has been posting the Herouxville Manifesto. Sleeper cells in the US and Canada. Am Thinker A question for the MSM: Do Hillary and Bill live together? Just curious. Iowahawk debates the Arkin Controversy John Leo summarizes a year of speech police on campuses. City Journal (H/T, Viking) We like to beat up on George Soros. So does Shulman of A Moderate Voice, at Am. Future. He calls him a Nazi sympathizer. Brit anti-bias laws will damage gay-only tourism. Gee, isn't government smart? Two new Bach books. Quote from the review at Bookforum: ...we have the advantage over Bach's original audiences of a far closer acquaintance with his musical language—and of guidance such as both these admirable books provide. Transcendence is here, in how, as time proceeds, eternity is always present—how, in that gorgeous aria from Cantata no. 115, the shadow of a fall reappears again and again; how, in the D Minor Chaconne, the keynote is forever being revisited, with whatever feelings of homecoming or hopeless inevitability; and how, in the Goldberg Variations, the opening dance is there again at the end, "as if nothing has happened" (Geck) or as if it had been present all along, beneath and upholding "a world of sound unfamiliar and unrepeatable" (Williams).
A note sounds. Then it sounds again. But everything has changed.
Friday, February 2. 2007
 Daylight Savings Time comes early this year.
Grievance Training at ASU. One student complains, and gets into trouble. LGF. His grievance doesn't work! The irony is just too much. I bet he's one of those sub-human white heterosexuals whose grievances don't count, because he has the wrong skin color. Imam: Italy will be a Moslem state. Gateway They call this a college education. Durham in Wonderland Shrinkwrapped looks at Samuelson's piece on Universal Health Care How come nobody talks about the sun. Well, they do, but it's the wrong "narrative". Classical Values. The correct narrative is "Western Civilization is evil." The importance of amateurs. American.com. Heck, at Maggie's Farm, Amateurs Is Us. The Moslems will be watching this party: Clinton and Edwards vye for pro-Israel money Immigration Fees, from the WaPo: Under the plan, announced yesterday by Emilio Gonzalez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the government would charge $905 -- up from $325 -- to apply for a green card or to adjust residency status. Immigrants with green cards would have to pay $595 to become naturalized citizens, a $265 increase. The cost of bringing a foreign fiance to the United States would more than double, to $455.Increased Immigration Fees Denounced - washingtonpost.com "This drastic increase will price the American dream out of reach for qualified immigrants wanting to be citizens of our country," Kennedy said. He called on Congress to appropriate more money to USCIS, which depends on fees for 99 percent of its budget. "We are a nation of immigrants, and Congress should recognize its responsibility to support the vital work of immigration services by appropriating the necessary funds," he said.
Image: Stop clicking that thing - you might hurt your finger. You know we don't do p*rn here.
Thursday, February 1. 2007
 Re that thing about California changing its lightbulbs, Althouse has a better idea: ban air conditioning. Naw, they'd never do that. Tokenism is the thing. Plus a/c cools things off, right?
Meanwhile, SDA notes that no-one in Canada really believes in the man-made global cooling warming hypothesis. Goldstein explains, in the Toronto Sun, while noting that any warming would be much to the advantage of Russia and Canada. In other weather-related news, Joe Malchow illustrates the high intellectual and factual level on which global climate debates occur. (h/t, Viking). Blue Crab unveils the newest weather and climate predicting supercomputer. And those nice folks at the UN have decided that, if they can't scare the adults, maybe they can give the kiddy-poos nightmares. Since the UN totally sucks at preventing war and creating peace, maybe they are switching their marketing plan for world governance to the climate angle. Image: Scientists' consensus of the appearance of a Nome, Alaska, beachside resort in 2010. Make your reservations now, and save!
 You know, if I was the dumbest person in the world, I'd offer a service where all the people in the world who have some sort of effect on the opinions of others can broadcast their thoughts and feelings all over this great globe of ours, and then I'd piss those people off as profoundly as possible by wrecking their webpages and holing up behind a help page with no contact information, and no help on the page. The two smartest people in the world are that dumb. Think how dumb dumb people are.
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