Friday, August 31. 2007
 Chart on right borrowed from S,C & A. What's with that DC number?
Soros' ACT fined $775,000 by FEC. The organization doesn't seem to care. Pocket change for George. The NY Sun editorializes "Calling the Founders." Accusations of corruption in pro tennis. Breibart Anti-war demonstrators are being paid? Am Thinker Making some money from Beer Pong. Betsy Barney Frank speaks up for Larry Craig. h/t, Pajamas. I wondered what he would do. 1200 tigers remain in India. 24,000 in American zoos. If Jesus makes a difference in your life, don't say it outloud in school. Be careful about what you say about Islam: Libel Tourism, at Cinnamon. A libel suit can mess up your life, even if you are in the right. Insty suggests bringing in Randy Barnett to fact-check the NYT. The "newspaper of record" is confused about what is in our Constitution.
Thursday, August 30. 2007
 I alert myself from my extended long-weekend holiday stupor to help with the blog and to note these items:
Al-sadr suspends Mahdi Army activities. About time. They are just killing each other and creating anarchy. Other than the fact that guns and bombs are fun, because they go boom, what's the damn point? Fight Club with live ammo? Get a life, morons... or get dead. Colorado school bans tag. Maybe they should do needlepoint during recess. No, those needles could put an eye out. How about a nap time? Woops - that is really asking for a lawsuit. Well, how about time in class learning about the American Constitution? No, it's not PC. Well, then just send the brats home or put them to work. Mr. Free Market is fed up with his homeland. That saddens me. He is who they need. Stand and fight - don't run. But if you want to leave, speak Spanish or wear a burkha or declare yourself a political refugee and you'll be welcome here. My advice is this: fly to Grand Cayman, deposit your life savings, then fly to Mexico (bring your Wellies and wife and laddie and gun collection), wade across the Rio Grande (remember to say "Muchas gracias, Senor border-policeman"), and hitchhike to Montana or New Hampshire. Or maybe Texas might suit you just fine. Or, if you can handle a John Deere, we might have a job of work for you on the Farm. The Theo girl? She was in my dream, but she's too young for me. In my dream, I was young too. Back in reality, the wife wants me to join her for a rollicking ride over hill and dale, which I guess I am half-game for if she will let me ride Mickey today, but after that I want nothing but book and hammock and pool. What a great country I live in, where they let me keep half of what I earn.
 Rocket-powered prosthetic arm. Neurophilosophy
Less than half of climate researchers now endorse global warming theory. h/t, Junk Science How to get rid of rampant bamboo. (thanks, reader. This has been a comment topic) The economics of opium production, in Afghanistan. We need this stuff. Who knew? Studying intuition. NYT. My gut tells me there's something to this intuition thing. A new translation of The Paradiso. In blank verse. The New Yorker. With many comments about allegory and poetry. Is modern cosmology a fairy tale? American Scientist. Of course it is. Our fairy tale of the moment, but still interesting. Science is never "settled." Katrina: the $127 billion boondoggle. Kudlow at RCP. More federal funds for N.O. rebuilding than Louisiana's total GDP.
Wednesday, August 29. 2007
1. Man, did we attract a lot of comments on the Are All Repubs Pervs? piece. Some entertaining and emotional comments in there. I hope our debaters will want to return to Maggie's - it's good sport. But do we have to post about perversion to get people excited? Hmmm...that's an idea. 2. Fine piece by Tigerhawk guesting at Jule's place, on New Orleans. I was even moved to leave a comment, which is something I rarely take (or have) the time to do. "Moral hazard": there's a new concept for me. I mean, I know all about regular everyday moral hazards but did not know the technical definition. If I didn't learn a lot from this here blogging nonsense, I would not bother. 3. The USA is already mentally, if not literally, on the long vacation weekend. I can see that in our stats. Even our News Junkie is AWOL. Not to worry about getting DTs - we are cheerfully on the job, although we may go a bit heavier on the re-posts, while saving some fresh ammo for September. It has not escaped my notice that our Barrister has been unusually busy from his shady poolside hammock, laptop on lap no doubt as he alternates between snoozing and posting. I can picture him now, waking with a start and a notion, jotting a few lines as his wife's horses whinny in the distance, taking a sip of his G&T, then heading back to dreamland, maybe after a lazy dip in the pool as the Farmington River lazily and quietly flows by and the Kingfishers call overhead. Image: An old Lightning. Spent many, many hours racing them and tooling about. Watched them turn from wood to fiberglass. Nice boats with wonderfully-effective, if possibly over-powered spinnakers, but that outboard motor ruins the whole thing: God made paddles for a reason. I fondly remember days when a squall would blow through a race and 50 Lightnings with their spinnakers up on a broad reach would capsize in a minute. What a scene: a glorious and only slightly dangerous mess assuming everyone was good at underwater swimming. It is disconcerting to have a collapsed, water-laden spinnaker on your head when you are in the drink. Been there.
 Our News Junkie is away this week. I will try to hold the fort, with the help of our readers. He's in Rhode Island again, messing with boats.
I'm sure you already read about this Hillary contribution scam. Speaking of Hillary, Shiver at Am. Thinker takes a pointed look at her use of the word "unscrupulous." England is Vanishing. Cal Thomas at RCP. Why doctors are always late. DB says it's about money. Only partly, I think: how does one schedule for the unpredictable? Best bet is to get the first or second appt. of the morning before the schedule predictably unravels. Prefers stress of Iraq to stress of Wall Street. Insty How is this for a use of American jails? NYM. Sheesh. Fred the Flirt. I am tiring of Fred. John likes him but isn't overly-impressed with his intensity. Almost everyone I know wants a new Reagan to reinvigorate the conservative message. The conservative message doesn't work unless it is delivered in an inspiring way because it is in opposition to a powerfully appealing delusion: that government is your caring parent (rather than a collection of crooked and half-crooked egomaniacs and oily opportunists, most of whom could never make it in the real world, who want to use my income to buy their jobs). Not for President, but I know I'd like him as a neighbor. Great photo. h/t, Tiger Hawk Which is worse? Read and vote. Classical Values. And quit tapping your damn feet.
Tuesday, August 28. 2007
 All your children are belong to us. The Brit Big Brother child registry. How soon before they stick a GPS monitoring device in each one of them?
Keep your kid out of kindergarten: At NRO Lots of good guest bloggers at Jules this week. Hello, Sailor. It's about Napoleon Mother Theresa's struggles with faith (plus a word about Princess Diana). More thoughts on her "blessing of struggle" at S,C and A. Is Middle Eastern Studies an academic discipline or a political movement? Winfield Myers (h/t, a piece at Augean Stables) Do you have a Melissa Theuriau obsession? Apparently, many do. She is cute for sure, but lacks the edgy, reckless dangerousness one might prefer in fantasy females. Johns Hopkins is rethinking sex assignment surgery. Small Dead Pangolins. Glad to hear it. I like the quote from Dr. McHugh. Why some Dems are completely wrong about subprime loan remedies. Reason The Borderline Sociopathic Book for Boys. Sippican Illegals moving out. Polipundit. It isn't really very complicated. How black law students can get screwed by affirmative action. Ace Think you are horny? Meet Lurch: get a load of this beast. It's about the feedback loop. Climate, by Coyote, our reality-checker. Tell me again - what is Hillary Clinton's experience? Wizbang. In my opinion, she is a press-invented celeb candidate, and nothing more. Crafty? Yes. Wise? I don't see it. Healthy fear. It is healthy and normal to fear Moslems, says Dr. Sanity How do snakes live 6 months without food? They can keep growing too.
Monday, August 27. 2007
 Britain in meltdown. Theo, at Jules
Real America: The Grange Fair Government-driven urbanization in China. Amazing. Dino Excellent handgun ID chart. h/t, Theo Iraq gov't agrees to benchmarks. That's a good start. De-fund the mullahs. Barone on Iran, in the NY Sun Can Western aid help African poverty? I doubt it. What we call poverty is often the subsistence way of life they have lived forever. They need trade, home-grown industry, and sane, stable governments if they wish to enter the modern world, and that entails a major cultural change. Good debate on the subject at the CSM. Hitler was a socialist, by John Ray. Indeed. "Nazi" was short for the National Socialist German Worker's Party, but the American Left never warmed up to him the way they did to Stalin. Interesting read. h/t, Reader. Also - a comment on Ray's essay by Lifson at American Thinker. Re Vick and the photo below: I am a dog guy, but I believe that any dog owner is free to put down their own dog for any reason, assuming they do it in a humane manner (and obey the law). It is commonplace, I am told, for hunting dog breeders to put a bullet in their hound pups who don't show enough "hunt," and I see nothing wrong with that. We must be humane, but also not fall for the pathetic fallacy.
Sunday, August 26. 2007
 Who "owns" the "Vietnam narrative"? Classical Values. My Vietnam narrative is as follows: We were there as part of a world power chess game. We were slowly winning the game, but the "Amerika must lose" Left knocked our King off the board. Why does it matter now? It matters because it's a legacy of defeatism, which is not encouraging to our allies and which is encouraging to those who wish to harm us. Was it wise to be there in the first place? I don't know, but once you decide to do something, you have to stick with it.
Iraqis protest terror at Saudi Embassy. Good. How is this as an invitation for a discrimination lawsuit? Riehl A housing bailout? What sense does this make? Michelle Fruits and vegetables don't do anything for your health. Surber. Yes, we do know that. They taste good though, when you're in the mood for them. The Gospel according to my dog. Wizbang Slavery made illegal in Mauretania. Atlas It would be a dull world without people like Fisk. However, I am sick of conspiracy theorists of all sorts. They are insane, 99.9% of the time. It's that .1% that gets ya to entertain their psychoses. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but you get no points for being right if you are a malevolent nutjob like Robert Fisk. Plus he has never been right about anything - he just tries to feed public psychosis. Bible banned in schools. Moonbattery. Indeed, the Bible does contain dangerous, spiritually-subversive teachings. I guess the ACLU recognizes the power of that book. Journalism, pomo style: Write your story first, then try to collect some quotes. Flopping. I always thought that grousing and griping was part of being a soldier at war: it is not a comfortable life style. They do the discomfort for the rest of us. More on spinning troop morale at Burkean. From Pam, via Right Wing Prof: The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post "Thou Shall Not Steal, "Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery", and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
There's a hole in it. The universe. Does it leak? Record poppy crop in Afghanistan this year. Does anything else grow there? Probably nothing as profitable. Poppies are their oil, I guess.
Saturday, August 25. 2007
 Photo on right: Vanessa Dobos, from Women in Combat at Reasoned Audacity (the photo comes and goes - I don't know why but you can see her at the link).
Lt. Pitts visits an Iraqi home. Totten. Man, that tea is dark. Multiculturalism in St. Paul. LGF. Some cultures just don't give a damn how they treat women, but we are supposed to be understanding, aren't we? Middlebrow with Ruskin on art and seeing, with a charming example. Moros y Cristianos. Yum. Babalu, who notes elsewhere that rumors of Castro's demise are premature: at this point, it hardly matters. Tu-95s over Guam. Just stopping by to say hello. Putin is flexing his muscles, but that is what Russians do. I think it's harmless. 100 million blogs? It's remarkable that we have so many readers. Talk about competition... h/t, Insty More on Sacco and Vanzetti, at Attack Machine Tony Blair's legacy: 10,000 rules and regulations. Kim. How can anyone remember all of this crap? Looks like they found the Grunion. Blue Crab "The poor" as pawns of the Left. Dr. Sanity on Thomas Sowell O'Sullivan's First Law, and Amnesty International update. EU Referendum Hurt feelings on campus. Dust my Broom. These kids aren't sensitive: they are manipulators. From Prof Pat, What I saw in Europe. Far outside the cities, the Old Europe persists, with the old values and the old ways. If you screw the American pharmaceutical companies, who in the world will come up with new meds? The Post Office? Dr. Helen If I lived in Zimbabwe, I would grab my spears and my family and head for the jungle for the duration. Update at Captain Ed. Or, if I had the nerve and a few machine guns, form a rebellion. Torture and abuse at Parris Island? Gimme a break. And Rightly So. No drill sergeant is going to be 1/1000th the threat of a bad guy trying to kill you. Toughen up, weenies. Repubs are racists, says Krugman. Moderate Voice. I guess it's proof that you have no argument when you resort to name-calling. I had no idea that Horsefeathers was a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. He considers the low value placed on the ability to use words. I suppose he is right: the talent to use words is widely-distributed, just as is the talent to make music. Market forces: wordsmiths and musicians are generally not paid well. You must list the race of your employees? This is nuts. Just put me down as a Samoan: I share lots of DNA with them. A little basic education for the AP on the difference between a cartridge and a bullet. Funny video, via Mr. Free Market Jim Webb (D-VA) blames Dems for Vietnam genocide. He's right. Some people conveniently forget the real story. The Martyrs of Otranto. Gay Patriot.
Friday, August 24. 2007
Maliki: Scapegoat of the week? I would not want his job: herding cats. Willisms said it first, but I was getting ready to note that when Bill Clinton wags his finger, it means he is lying. Calif. Yank has the same thought. Beating a dead horse. It's sadistic fun to beat up on Edwards. Bainbridge pitches in. "Two wops who got in a jam." Sacco and Vanzetti, revisited once again. The Battle of Britain. Great photo. "Black men have abandoned their children." LaShawn More on gun control in the UK. Why not control the criminals? Guns are harmless. Gen Bui Tin, on Vietnam Iraq
Thursday, August 23. 2007
 Where was that line-dancing photo taken on the right? You guessed wrong. That would be France. Story at No Pasaran
Neoneo has been avoiding the climate change subject, but she finally takes it on in When Research and Politics interface - watch out A Pakistani Single Malt? Yup. It wins prizes too. Synthstuff. I'd love to try it. Maybe a reader can fetch me some? America's Top Ten and Bottom Ten party schools. h/t, Education Wonks Change the test! Hatemonger makes some suggestions for a truly multicultural teachers' exam. Ten sites for free legal music downloads. h/t, Flares' link collection. Now "America's downtrodden" are homeowners!?! Lib. Leanings. Sometimes it's difficult to keep The Marxist Narrative going in such a prosperous country. And speaking of The Narrative, there's a movie, What Black Men Think. Somehow the simple facts get twisted around to blame "society," of course, the contemptuous - and wrong - implication being that that black guys cannot be real men. That is true racism. Another guilty Brit liberal loses his innocence. Burkean These invisible people are Americans too! Iowahawk's Bonneville Diaries
Wednesday, August 22. 2007
Tips for teachers, from Right Wing Prof John Leo interviews VDH on Why Study War, at Minding the Campus A threatening school drawing? New Yet Melted. Man, they should see the bloody stuff we drew in grammar school. Especially shooting Japs and shooting down Jap planes. Infantile America, re subprime loans: View from 1776 How come the press hasn't mentioned this cold August we have been having in the Northeast? I have a sweater on at this moment, and we have been using the heat all week. That was just a rhetorical question: this weather doesn't fit The Narrative, I know. If it were a heat wave instead of a cold snap, it would be front page news.
 I have always been a big booster of Lebanon and the Lebanese on these pages. It used to be a fun place, and could be again. There are two places which are now dangerous but which I would like to see before I get old: Lebanon, and Mespotamia - especially to see the ancient ruins of Sumer and Babylon.
Twisted logic on illegal immigration, via Wizbang. How does that make sense? Sex tips for women of a certain age. Want to interrupt your morning serenity with a nice anger attack? Multiculturalism in education, via Moderate Voice We have done our best to publicize The Death of the Grown-Up, and so is Scott at Powerline. Surber on the bi-partisan backtracking on the Feb. stances towards Iraq. Sammy Davis, Richard Nixon, and Jesse Jackson. Powerline. Jackson has been a shake-down artist for a long time. He is a pro, and I suspect his admirers admire this expertise. Cancer survival rates. Worstall. Clearly they just let them die right away, in the UK. Cheaper, for sure. And speaking of illness, a Winnipeg company will ship you to Cuba for treatment. Small Dead Koalas. Not a pleasant reflection on Canadian medicine. Of course, you cannot see a private doc anywhere in Canada - it's illegal. Simple thinking and male auto-castration. Dr. Helen Eleanor Roosevelt's commune experiment in W VA. Coyote Photo: Yup, another Theo beauty. We need to quit this photo stealing from Theo, but I just can't help myself: I guess I am hetero, even tho it is out of fashion these days. Or maybe I am just defending against my latent homo?
Tuesday, August 21. 2007
 W. F. Deedes died. He was an inspiration to all of us reporters, and an inspiration, supposedly, for Scoop which, as Barone notes, is the best novel about reporting. I refuse to use the word "journalist" - we reporters are mere scoop-artists, snoops, voyeurs, and the highly-curious but flawed by a passive temperament - like academics are. Good reporting should be ego-free. I contribute to Maggie's as my outlet for my own thinking - such as it is, and keep my own opinions out of my paid work. We reporters aren't special. But everything written by Evelyn Waugh is special.
Dhimmitude, personified. They would offend a Christian or a Jew in a second without a second thought. Fred Barnes on Immigration Overkill. His political scheming may be correct, but there is a principle here. As Surber says, You want to be Mexican, stay in Mexico. You want to be an American, fill out the paperwork, pay the money and walk in through the front door.
The burdens of Petraeus, by VDH. h/t, Dinocrat. How can you help people who are so hell-bent on killing each other? Clearly, many of them find doing that to be more fun and satisfying than getting a job and doing something useful for their community. Murdering idiots, who need to be shot. Heartbreaking photo. Hope it worked out for them in the end. Flood insurance. I say no more issuing of government subsidized flood insurance. It's a rip-off of the taxpayer, and a subsidy for developers. No sane person would live in a flood zone without that subsidized and govt-guaranteed insurance. Why should I pay for that? Thank you for not voting. Prelutsky. I agree. If you are ignorant of, or indifferent to, the issues - stay home. Blackballing in Academia. Finally, the right word for it. Cinnamon What happened to church and state in NYC? Atlas What happened to church and state in San Francisco? Rhymes with Right. Ireland's population. I'd say a good place to invest in real estate. But good-bye to the Ireland of yore. Belgium is disintegrating. Of course. It isn't a nation, and never was one. I am in favor of a separate third-world Waloonistan in the south, and let the EU take a flying flip at a whole-wheat donut. Maybe Jon Bovi or Bon Jovi or whoever could help Walloonistan. Exactly right. The Peace Racket, at Insty. And, speaking of rackets, the Eco-Millionaires.
Monday, August 20. 2007
Immigrants for the jobs that Swedes won't do? Gates. And in Norway, go to jail - but only if you want to show up. Do conservatives write blog comments as wacky and angry as these at Crooks and Liars? Cavemen are people too. S,C&A The banning fad just won't quit. Betsy. I am in favor of banning banning. Leave us alone. This illegal Mexican immigrant definitely doing a job Americans wont do. Profits of moonbat-inspired movies vs. normal movies, compared. Right Wing Nation. Thanks to him for taking the time. The Press Hall of Shame. Am. Thinker A fine rant from Jules about stay-at home fathers. First rant I've seen from Jules - he's finally getting into the blogging thing now. He is loosening up. Mugged by reality at The Guardian, from Protein. A quote: In the end I reached the conclusion that 11 September had already brutally confirmed: there were other forces, far more malign than America, that lay in wait in the world. But having faced up to the basic issue of comparative international threats, could I stop the political reassessment there? If I had been wrong about the relative danger of America, could I be wrong about all the other things I previously held to be true? I tried hard to suppress this thought, to ring-fence the global situation, grant it exceptional status and keep it in a separate part of my mind. I had too much vested in my image of myself as a ‘liberal’. I had bought into the idea, for instance, that all social ills stemmed from inequality and racism. I knew that crime was solely a function of poverty. That to be British was cause for shame, never pride. And to be white was to bear an unshakable burden of guilt. I held the view, or at least was unprepared to challenge it, that it was wrong to single out any culture for censure, except, of course, Western culture, which should be admonished at every opportunity.
Whole thing here.
Sunday, August 19. 2007
 A dumb blond. Cute photo from Theo, but if her fingers are on the triggers then she had better intend to fire those things. There is one right way, and there are many wrong ways, to display a handgun. Scary-dumb, even if she had the brains to check the chambers - unless they are squirt guns. She can hold my squirt gun any way she wants.
Happy 60th Birthday to Larry Kudlow (yesterday) And Chuck Berry turns 80. God bless him. There's no cure for stupid. VT school to heat with trees. Polls on affirmative action depend on how the question is worded. Duh. I happen to believe that affirmative action is an expression of contempt for the abilities and self-determination of "people of color." The folly of light rail. Synthstuff. Sometimes governments need to subsidize public amenities - but it should only be done where there is strong demand. The new light rail from downtown NYC to JFK airport is a fine thing, and long-overdue. Brit private schools do a better job than Brit public schools. So, for equality's sake, let's punish the successful. Worstall Also, stab-proof school uniforms for the UK. Maybe they should issue them to tourists too. Knife street crime soaring in the UK. Is Brussels part of the Caliphate now? Michelle Poof. No more insurgents. Video at Theo. Appeasement finds a home in the academy. Stillwell in Am. Thinker. It's nothing new: they have been like that for a long time. Life can kill you. Betsy. No... it will kill you, it's just a matter of when. A science-impaired press got hysterical about the breaking of the speed of light - but it didn't happen. Getting on the apology bandwagon. "I'm sorry we ate your missionaries." Yeah, I'll bet they are sorry. It is said that grilled human tastes like barbecued pork, hence the cannibal term for it: "long pig." Recipes to follow. Race and education. LaShawn. It's about culture, not race or money. White House to propose gradual troop reductions. NYT The Big Bang: Myth, Theory, or what? American Scientist. I would just consider it to be the "cosmos du jour." Shut up and send money. Mr. Free Market on Mugabe Coulter, the She-Devil. Gateway. I think she just likes the publicity, plus she has some fun with saying what she thinks. She's not stupid. Man, did our post on The Diversity Cult attract a lot of comments. I think quite a bit of them came via the Salon link. We are hurt by the accusations of racism. If anyone knew us, they would know how untrue that is. We are simply free to think straight by being unencumbered by White Guilt. I have plenty of guilt, but it's about my own past actions only. Historical guilt is BS. And I do not give a damn what color anybody is.
Saturday, August 18. 2007
 Sorry about those Viking raids! Hey - I'm sorry to the Romans for the unkindess we Celts showed them when they immigrated to invaded Britain.
A bad case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Powerline. What's the cure? There is none known yet to medical science. The Queen of New York City. Bill Buckley on Brooke Astor. Does that include installation? Viking Rebuilding New Orleans is ridiculous. Surber. I agree. Let it be a little tourist place that will disappear at any moment - which it will. It is Gatorville, masquerading as human habitation. Since when can you build on wetlands anyway? Is vitality a central value? One Cosmos Fred to Go Bold. RWNH . It will be interesting. I still like Rudy, but I like 'em all. Fred looks old for his age. Reagan was much older, but looked and acted vigorous. Image: La Tene era Celtic warriors
Friday, August 17. 2007
 Kudlow on why the Fed should ease rates today. No, it's not to rescue the hedgies. h/t, Driscoll. And voila - they did. Is Kudlow God?
The toll of tolerance in Iraq. The Globe, via Viking Why I am having doubts about Fred: The Hammock Campaign Beefcake Photo of the Day. If five put him to sleep, is he a real man? Hey Hollywood! Take your next vacation in Venezuela! Saved by a salesman. Synthstuff James Hansen goes stupid. Worstall Very cool: The fall of Rome and the US Comptroller. h/t Jules
Thursday, August 16. 2007
 I see that Sean Wasson has changed the name of his blog to The News Junkie. Lots of news junkies in this world, because we are all escapists from reality.
I am offended by your t-shirt. Hess at NRO. Amphibians dying from fungal spores. 94% of Americans are satisfied with their lives. (via Drudge). However obtained, that's an impressive number up with which to come (can't end sentence with a prep, right?). People in the northeast are unhappy, though. Not me. Will Imus go to New York's WABC? I hope not. He would displace Curtis Sliwa (founder of the Guardian Angels) and radical lawyer Ron Kubie - two witty and enjoyable radio amateurs. We receive 50,000-watt WABC well in western MA. Al Quaida in Iraq is getting slaughtered. If Fred runs, he will do it his way. Schools of education are propaganda mills. Stocks valued too highly? Mankiw. Giuliani on immigration. Good. John Leo on post-modern news, via Betsy. And neoneo on how facts just get in the way when you are trying to tell a story. St. Nietzsche? Religion and politics by the great Scruton, via Done with Mirrors. John Howard: In trouble, down under? Heck of a good bloke. No protests against Islamization allowed. Moonbattery. It might upset the barbarians.
Wednesday, August 15. 2007
 Multicultural issues do not exist in Minnesota. Powerline. All must respect barbarian inferior degenerate other cultural traditions.
It's like a Carnival of Kitchen Knives at Insty Hillary's White House records will be locked up until after the election. Very shrewd. Time and Newsweek race each other to be first down the drain. Driscoll. Until they both turned left, I always kinda enjoyed those mags. They were comfortably middlebrow, like me. The Chinese Toy Boss: Execution or suicide? Dino noticed it too - the NYT is providing cover for a Dem shift on Iraq. Fred's campaign is a mess. Something is wrong there. He doesn't really want it, maybe. We agree: Rove's legacy is similar to past close political advisors. Rove made some good guesses - and some terrible guesses. Nitrogen in the air: A new crisis? Moonbattery Even Der Spiegel is hedging its bets on Iraq. Photo: That's a wooden 1972 Concordia custom 62' schooner.
Tuesday, August 14. 2007
Thanks to all who cared about the condition of my cracked olecranon (aka elbow). It's less sore today, and I have had a bandage on it - mainly so I remember not to bump it into anything. I've survived worse! French winemakers hope for global warming. For tax revenue, no capital gains tax might raise the most taxes. Conspiracy explains. But who wants to raise more tax revenue? What for? The NYT's garbled view of Iraq. Crittenden. What do they want, and why? Rush thinks the MSM is trying to provide cover for a confusing Dem Iraq message. As Captain Ed says, "Congress will find it very difficult to retreat from Iraq while we're succeeding." How difficult is it to enforce our current immigration laws? Easy. And is immigration really an American ideal? Not according to the founding fathers. Thank God Stanislav Schmulvitch is in jail. America is surely safer because of that. Two fingers means "Give me a banana." h/t, Flares Where is Gaza headed? The Corner. It's their own damn fault: nobody is stopping them from becoming a world-class resort and banking center if they wanted to. I missed that story about the $10 million cheeseburger while I was away. Joke of the Day: Synthstuff Even our friend at The Moderate Voice gets irrational when it comes to the Dark Lord Rove: From the sliming of John McCain in the 2000 primaries to the outing of Valerie Plame and the firing of the U.S. Attorneys for not being political enough, Rove’s fingerprints have been all over every unethical, immoral and illegal move of the Bush Administration.
What did Rove have to do with outing Valerie Plame? Nothing. Rove was nothing more than Bush's Paul Begala. And if Rove were really an evil genius, he would have done a better job.
Monday, August 13. 2007
It is all explained here. h/t, American Digest
10 most erroneous predictions of the future. Reason, h/t Driscoll The northern half of the UK is on the dole. Tangled Margaret Drabble hates cheeseburgers. Dinocrat. So, don't eat them. Macon Mayor loves Chavez? MA gun laws. Quote from No Looking Backwards: Edward Arsenault, 70, of Fairhaven, was turned down for his license renewal earlier this year because he had been convicted in juvenile court of stealing a chicken from a chicken coop when he was 9 years old, in 1946.
Reminds me of Alice's Restaurant, for which the un-embeddable Youtube is here.
Slipped on a wet deck in the rain on Friday and cracked my olecranon, which took some of the fun out of our sailing trip. The problem with sailboats is that everything topsides is hard - nothing soft. And it always seems to hurt more when it's wet. I never saw Merv Griffin on TV, but thanks to the late Merv for inventing Jeopardy. Who would imagine that such a nerdy show would be so popular for so long. I've always loved it. Organic food produces more CO2. Not that I care. The latest Reuters fakery. Funny What does "life expectancy" really measure? Powerline Dr. Sanity's Carnival was good yesterday. Are taxpayers subsidizing low-wage employers like WalMart? In a way, yes. Depends on how you look at it. On the subject of subsidies, look at the new Farm Bill. Disgusting. Dems are demagoguing against free trade, but do they really mean it? Betsy Fatherless: Much of what is bad and sad about America is a consequence of single-parent - or no parent - families. Malanga on the Newark murderers. In the same vein, look at how much this nice family in Boston costs the taxpayer. "Comparative Dictatorship 101." Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin, via No Pasaran, in The Economist NPR Science Writer likes Moslem science. Ace
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