Tuesday, December 18. 2007
Killer Whales team up to break up the ice floe before making waves to roll their fresh seal sushi dinner into the water (h/t, Neurophilosophy):
 Green Fascism update: Tom Friedman drinks the warming Kool-aid. More on Friedman at Powerline. The Socialist legacy of Bali at Patterico. Also, Mayer Hillman says:
“When the chips are down I think democracy is a less important goal than is the protection of the planet from the death of life, the end of life on it,” he says. “This has got to be imposed on people whether they like it or not.”
to which Protein Wisdom comments: Scrape away some of the high-flown rhetoric of the acolytes of the Church of Anthropogenic Global warming and it is easy to see a coterie of fashionistas, retooled Marxists, doe-eyed relativists, unrepetant misanthropes and pragmatic authoritarians.
Geography quiz at Flares. Ruled Britannia? Kimball Iraq launches a new tanker. Surber Greedy selfish boomers will bankrupt America Is "Clinton amnesia" coerced? Classical Firearms dilemma, at Mr. Free Market: Left-handed rifles are rarer than rocking-horse sh1t.
Do Christians mind being called "barking bonkers"? Not really. I just read somewhere that 30% of Americans identify themselves as evangelical Christians. Justice done for wounded and injured soldiers. How to become a virgin. LGF  The US Army considering Israel's micro-Tavor. (photo on right)
Not dead yet? Fidel is retiring, he hints. Why do people buy individual stocks? Prof B on McArdle Is waterboarding really all that bad? Tammy
Monday, December 17. 2007
are all caused by global warming? What about earthquakes, snowstorms, headaches, and malaria? Droughts, floods and storms have been with us forever. Guess what? Food prices are rising because of the price of oil and because food crops are being displaced, at the moment, by ethanol production. Am I paranoid to think that the UN hopes to leverage global warming hysteria into money and power? "Climate change" - whatever that means - hasn't happened yet. It's a computer modeling prediction.
From a piece at LaShawn: ...you cannot, even if you lived 1,000 lifetimes, make a coherent and logically sound argument in favor of racial discrimination in the other direction. Nothing, not even the most heinous act committed against a black person by our government, justifies discriminating against other races in favor of blacks. Let me put it this way: I have yet to read or hear a coherent and logically sound argument in favor of so-called reverse discrimination. Perhaps one exists. If you’ve read or heard such an argument, do let me know.
But of course, LaShawn does know why: it's racial pandering and racial politics. For me and for LaShawn, people are just plain people. The politicization of skin, historical and at present, is a common human failing - but, sadly, so are many other human evils.
From a piece in the NYT on the malaise in Italy: Now it is essentially an exquisite corpse, trampled over by millions of tourists. If Italy does not shed its comforts for change, many say, a similar fate awaits it: blocked by past greatness, with aging tourists the questionable source of life, the Florida of Europe.
10 Tips for bloggers from an original blogger. I agree with Kate's favorite of the ten: ... if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.
I think we're OK on that score.
 A propos our recent post Is PC Fascism on the wane, falling of its own weight and self-satire?, A Slower Pace offers this (I modified slightly):
To All My Lefty Friends: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, interpersonally-sensitive, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. This wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
To All My Other Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
From a Bloomberg piece on Clinton finances: When he left the White House in 2000, Bill Clinton reported assets of more than $1 million and legal fees of more than $2.4 million. In his wife's most recent disclosure, Hillary Clinton reported that the couple now has a net worth estimated at between $17.4 million and $53.7 million. Both now claim to be uneasy about their place among the richest Americans. This "new experience,'' Hillary Clinton said during a debate Oct. 30, isn't "one that makes us very comfortable.''
I'll bet.
Ike Turner died last week, as you all know. This 1951 version of Rocket 88, sung by Jackie Brenston with Ike Turner on guitar, is widely considered to have been the first Rock and Roll song (h/t, Grow a Brain):
Coyote wrote this in Feb, 2005: I resisted the call by a number of web sites at the beginning of the year to make predictions for 2005. However, now I will make one: We will soon see calls to bring a tighter licensing or credentialing system for journalists, similar to what we see for lawyers, doctors, teachers, and, god help us, for beauticians. The proposals will be nominally justified by improving ethics or similar laudable things, but, like most credentialing systems, will be aimed not at those on the inside but those on the outside. At one time or another, teachers, massage therapists, and hairdressers have all used licensing or credentialing as a way to fight competition from upstart competitors, often ones with new business models who don't have the same trade-specific educational degrees the insiders have.... Such credentialing can provide a powerful comeback for industry insiders under attack. Teachers, for example, use it every chance they get to attack home schooling and private schools, despite the fact that uncertified teachers in both these latter environments do better than the average certified teacher (for example, kids home schooled by moms who dropped out of high school performed at the 83rd percentile). So, next time the MSM is under attack from the blogosphere, rather than address the issues, they can say that that guy in Tennessee is just a college professor and isn't even a licensed journalist.
Read the rest of his current piece. Subject also at Moonbattery.
What went wrong with Hillary's campaign? Rick Moran
 Mitt on Meet the Press. Althouse
The violence at Princton. NY Sun. The Sun doesn't mention the rumors that this might be a hoax. A kinder gentler Hillary? Blue Crab Bali and the media. Dino Media were equally biased against Reagan. Willisms The poor farmers and the Farm Bill. Driscoll Hamas: Jews creating earthquakes. Video at LGF Al Gore's unpleasant habit of denouncing the US when overseas. Moonbattery
Free Death, and other Yale courses, online
What unravelled the New Deal coalition in 1968? No Left Turns Bill and Hillary's Hippie Daze. Vanderleun
Sunday, December 16. 2007
 Yes, we do have a very fine storm today, and the natural snow is piling up at my local ski area - Jiminy Peak.
Jesus wasn't homeless. Steyn on demographics of aging, 30 year-old Italian Romeos living with Mom and Dad, and the "don't have kids to save the planet" silliness. Good stuff. h/t, Lucianne Six major bogus stories from the MSM within six weeks. Gateway. How are our readers doing with that simple geometry problem? It's good fun, unless you're a serious math whiz. Same old Russia. Putin incarcerating dissidents in psychiatric wards. Republicanophobia. Mrs. Edwards is "scared." She would not be so scared if she met me. Guns don't kill people - Christians do. I was going to ignore the newspaper endorsements, since everyone else is linking them, but Jules has a good take on them. Cherry-picking data points to create alarm about an income gap. View from 1776. Dishonestly fueling envy for political purposes is low. Somebody needs to tell the NYT that 1) We Americans aren't Commies and 2) Who cares what other people make? I don't want their money - I want to do what I chose to do. The 10 Economic Media Myths of 2007: Dem. Project Today's Hillary Quote: "You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being." - Hillary Clinton, from the book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton" by Peggy Noonan, p. 55
We have our first significant nor'easter of the year today here in Yankeeland. A collision of an arctic jet stream with warmer, moist air. Sleet and snow, and that tell-tale howling, blustery gale coming out of the nor'east. Wonderful. Why does the wind blow from the north-east for a type of storn which tends to travel in a north-eastern direction? It's because the center of the counter-clockwise spinning cyclone tends to settle off-shore, feeding off of the Gulf Stream, leaving us with the western side of the storm. (The off-shore winds, for those on ships and boats, would be blowing from the south). Here's Wikipedia on nor'easters.
 Matthew 11:2-11
When John heard in prison what Christ was doing, he sent his disciples to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?" Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me." As John's disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings' palaces. Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is the one about whom it is written:
" 'I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way
before you.' I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Image: Fra Angelico's John baptising Christ
Saturday, December 15. 2007
A good example of what might be happening to Hillary Clinton. The more people see of her, the less they think of her. h/t, Balloon Juice. Also, Wm. Kristol - Time to Move On...from the Clintons.
"We were forced to cut the lion's willy off with the aid of a computer." h/t, An Englishman's Castle. Why not just cut every guy's willy off and be done with it?
Free carbon offsets! Do it to show you care! Be sure to check the FAQs.(h/t, reader)
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