Monday, March 31. 2008
 Michael Yon's book is out. This is the least we can do for that good guy.
You can buy it here.
Libertarian Leanings has a good summary of yesterday's events. A turning point? Now Al Sadr rips Iran. It is a difficult thing to deal rationally with rabid barbarians.
 Surrender by Al Sadr. This kind of thing might explain why.
Global warming is making people crazy? Unbelievable. (h/t, Carnival of the Insanities) "Hillary flings dirt but it sticks to her." Sullivan. Also, "Obama didn't go to law school for nothing." neoneo/ Also, "Barack Obama: Our new appeaser." Michael Goodwin Bobby Jindal update. Blue Crab How over-rated is John Steinbeck? NY Review of Books Farm Scams. Conspiracy: Whatever you want to say about the sharpies on Wall Street, they are pikers compared to Max's and Chuck's friends down on the farm when it comes to picking the pockets of taxpayers and consumers, or concocting a system in which the farmers get all the gains while the government assumes most of the risk.
From a letter to the editor by Don Boudreaux: So I commend you on your "Earth Hour" effort. Persuading people across the globe to turn off lights for one hour supplies the perfect symbol for modern environmentalism: a collective effort to return humankind to the dark ages.
Sunday, March 30. 2008
 Could any magazine come closer to Maggie's Farm's interests? It's time for another free plug for Garden & Gun - 21st Century Southern America. One blogger snarked the magazine - until she read it.
Two candidates who missed a generation. Barone Borat is gone. Now it's Bruno, in Kansas. (h/t, Althouse). Cohen has fun with life, doesn't he? How to turn a bread basket into a basket case in ten easy steps. It's not Malthusian - it's another socialist train wreck. How to retire cash-rich. Dr. Helen. I don't want to retire cash rich: I'd rather be cash-rich now. Plus I have no intention of ever retiring. Retirement seems like a foolish goal to me, but sometimes it is forced upon one. If one has Yankee values, one turns leisure into effort anyway. Cell-phones dangerous? I don't believe it. I rarely use mine, though. I thought he hated "middle classism" Jail Camp. The new American vacation An economic stimulus policy for the inner city. SDA  Cowboy deaths, in order of descending dignity
World's second-largest oil reserves. Canada Condy on race. Powerline The Bosnia tall tale flap is a proxy for all the Clinton lies John Dean said: "Who would you rather have in charge of the defense of the United States of America, a group of people who never served a day overseas in their life, or a guy who served his country honorably and has three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star on the battlefields of Vietnam?" Driscoll notes: McCain, by the way, has been awarded the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, two Bronze Star Medals, a Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Photo: One of my wren houses. Those shrubberies are a tall variety of smooth Ilex as an unkempt wind-breaking hedge.
Saturday, March 29. 2008
 Yes, it's another Home Depot morning for me. Black Forest mulch and other stuff.
Political monoculture in the academy. Tiger FITNA is spreading virally. Larry Kudlow said today, on the radio, that the Obamas have no retirement plans or savings. They have no investments either, other than real estate, despite making well over a million a year for a while and making de minimus charitable contributions. What's up with that? The UN's farcical Human Rights Council The Chronicle of Higher Ed wondered how university presidents do compared to others: CEO of S&P 500 company—$8.5-million
NBA player—$4-million
College football coach (NCAA Division I)—$1-million
Neurosurgeon—$530,000
President of public research university—$397,000
U.S. Senator—$162,500
NASA astronaut (top pay grade)—$130,000
Reporter—$42,000
The neo-Malthusians in the environmental movement religion. I learned a new word today, in relation to that: "cornucopians." I guess I tend to be one of those - although I would guess that the human race would be better off achieving a sustained human population rather than continued growth. The checkout lines at Costco are too long as it is. Let them eat cell phones. Opie tells me that this essay pretty much captures her view of the Iraq war: Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat. The Nazis had sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys between England and America taking food and war materials. At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war. Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, who had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had few allies. France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and controlling all of Asia. Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe. America’s only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia. That was about it. All of Europe, from Norway to Italy (except Russia in the East) was already under the Nazi heel. The US was certainly not prepared for war. The US had drastically downgraded most of its military forces after WW I because of the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW II, Army units were training with broomsticks, because they didn’t have guns, and cars with “tank” painted on the doors, because they didn’t have real tanks. A huge chunk of our Navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor. Read the rest on continuation page below -
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Friday, March 28. 2008
 Last skiing trip of the year. Leaving tonight for Killington. Looks like excellent snow conditions. Will leave you with these:
Yard Sale of the Century. US Equities. The average bear market lasts 10 months. We're roughly at month 6. Exurban Existentialism for Bozos, with a nod to our friend Sippican. Brave, brave Sir Robin. No Pasaran Incomes up, inflation moderates. Here. Warren Buffet invests like a girl. h/t, Wall St. Fighter Is Mitt a good VP choice? I didn't know that being an inner-city pastor was such a good gig. White UCC pastors don't live like that. Speaking of Rev. Wright, is it racist to quote him? The will to power. Stumbling. As regular Maggie's readers know, we believe that people who want power are insane. From Betsy: Michael Medved notices that people seem to be personally content with their own situation while pessimistic about the country at large.
Her? She is one of Theo's gals. Hope to find her skiing.
Even if you are faking it for a photo op, you might have the presence of mind to get the phone right. On the other hand, maybe the younger generation doesn't know how to use a land line. (OK, maybe it's photoshopped. The truth, these days, is getting harder and harder to discern...not that it was ever easy.) 
 Obama doesn't like the "You're on your own society." But he's on his own, despite his wife's absurd complaints about their million dollar annual income. Does he think I am a child? Related: His wife thinks I am ignorant. Me?
Has religion become a political wedge issue? First Things. The Clear Channel story is becoming a good legal soap opera. Already, a Judge takes a stand. "At the consideration of our comparative insignificance." Sissy. It's about warming - and larger topics. The return of the Mercedes Benz of Peace The pressure politicians feel to "Do Something!" The Law Prof on the subprime mess. Uranium found in the hands of our Lefty South American friends. Dangerous buffoons. More evidence that Dems do not donate, Repubs do - regardless of income. Blue Crab. Exposure to Western ways makes Moslems more hateful. The corner I do not smoke pot, but criminalizing it is ridiculous and expensive. If people want to be potheads, fine. Let them be lazy bozos, but just don't make me pay their bills. My opinion on Obama's race speech: Condescending to white folks. We aren't stupid, and we aren't racist - and we are sick of "conversations about race." If black folks want to join Team America, then somebody like Obama ought to tell them how to do it, because he joined it, like so many fine black folks I know.
Thursday, March 27. 2008
E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other municipality. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address. Almost all e-mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all this type of e-mail is, is to get names and "cookie" tracking info for telemarketers and spammers to validate active e-mail accounts for their own purposes. Any time you see an e-mail that says forward this on to "10" of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck, or what ever, it has either an e-mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and e-mails of those folks you forward to, or the host sender is getting a copy. Each time it gets forwarded, then the origination is able to get lists of "active" e-mails to use in spam e-mails, or sell to others that do. (If you have been sending out the above kinds of email, now you know why you get so much spam!) More on E-petitions at Snopes.
 Elephant with camera. Wonderful stuff.
The geezer acts like a normal person. McCain. More on McCain's speech and the "league of democracies." Hillary's List of Lies. Dick Morris Moronic reporters. Even I know that Blackwater Fever is malaria. The Mahdi "Army" is back in business. How is the MSM reporting this? Pat Dollard's war on Hollywood Pregnant man. He is very happy. Chavez "endorses" Obama. Busted: Ivy League hos in trouble in NYC. 10,000 names on file - their client list could make for good entertainment. These gals aren't hos - they are courtesans. Homo antecessor in Europe 1.3 million years ago Calmly rational as always, Neoneo on autism If Dems had a good candidate, GOP would be toast. Are biofuels to blame for rising food costs? Same topic: Let them eat Ethanol. Why don't they call it alcohol? Sharper Image goes bust. Making a perfect macaroon for The Century Club Take time to grow up a little between college and grad school Leftist churches set a time bomb for the Dems Marriage in the UK, quoted in full from Insty: NO MARRIAGE, PLEASE, We're British: "The number of Britons tying the knot has collapsed to a record low, it has emerged. The proportion of men and women getting married is below any level found since figures were first kept nearly 150 years ago. . . . The evidence that marriage is withering away at an increasing pace was met with a furious response from critics of Labour's benefits system, which disregards the status of husbands and wives and pays parents extra to stay single." Well, that's certainly going to produce the ideal society.
Wednesday, March 26. 2008
 World's tallest man gets custom car.
A Dem wonders why nobody tells Hillary to quit. The Obama's tax returns. The Corner If politics is about branding, then what car are they? The joy of free markets. Coyote What feminism has descended to. A new book: Slavery, Terrorism, and Islam Can't Make This Stuff Up Department. The National White Privilege Conference Are the successful living too long? About that ice shelf. Castle Eli Lake at the NY Sun bothered to study the Saddam and Terrorism report. (h/t Anchoress). That's what we need full-time reporters for.
A reader checked out the the main real-time link that follows the Argo buoys and their data. Definitely cool.
Tuesday, March 25. 2008
 I will be wending my way after work today to Rudy's Bar & Grill under heavy sniper fire. Pray for me.
Speaking of Clinton lies, At least she didn't claim to be in Cambodia McCain gives good straight talk on mortgages A good example of why the Dems lept at the chance to abandon Hillary. Also, David Brooks on Hillary's Long Defeat. It's true: you can't keep your eyes off a traffic accident. Also, What's worse - racist or sexist? Classical Values A close call. Back from the brain dead. Suburbs in decline. Boston Review Separate and unequal at Harvard. Hoist on their own dumb PC petard. NYT lied, frogs died. Can't the MSM get it into their heads that there is no significant global warming? It's a model, not a fact. But lies are stubborn things. Time is ripe for the Iraqis to kill Al Sadr Want to join the Hour of Power? What next? Does Gov. Paterson have a bad case of TMI ? Our occasional commenter Mr. Snitch gets it about the Dem race. ...I think. From what I can tell, that race is over. You can be very dead long before the Doc writes the death certificate. Unbelievable. The Massachusetts-Chavez connection. h/t, Insty Photo: McSorley's Ale House, 1937
It's almost a moot point in Cuba because few can afford computers, much less internet connections, but Babalu noted the blog blockade in the People's Paradise - and now Reuters is running the story. I wonder whether they can read Maggie's in Cuba.
h/t, Theo 
"It's frightening how easily she lies." re Hillary. After years of press adoration, she is not used to being called out on her lying. Money and the America's Cup. These are not gentlemen. Moving home at age 50. Neoneo. Same theme at Dr. Helen. What housing crisis? Dino. Sounds like a normal correction to me, and a good chance for people to get into the housing market. More at Insty. Funny how markets work, isn't it? Prices drop, people buy. Prices get too high, people speculate. Big Corn and the Ethanol Hoax. Mixed feelings about living in NYC. Megan. Everybody should try it for at least a while. I know an older couple up here who moved out of the city years ago, and now just sublease an apartment for three weeks every August to get their annual dose.
Monday, March 24. 2008
The Asia Times does not care for George Bush, but they appear to dislike Obama even more. It's a tough look at "Obama's women."
 Signs out of hospital against medical advice - then sues hospital for letting him
Talk about very old news The US media are not reporting this global non-warming story How many said they were going to Easter services? 2/3 of Americans. Everybody is mentioning this LA Times piece which repeats the lie that Bush linked Saddam with the 9-11 attack Myths about American medicine. (h/t, Kevin MD) I had to look up the history of sumptuary laws. Lots of things fall under that category. Can people regenerate body parts? Scientific American (h/t, Jim Miller) Speaking of regeneration, scholars discuss the Resurrection. What does bodily resurrection mean? (h/t, News for Christians) Mick Danger explains it all to Obama Pin up courtesy of Theo
 Wolf shot in the Berkshires. I missed that story.
Those sophisticated Europeans. Am. Thinker. You need to see trees to get better. No doubt. Works for me every time. Pakistan. A turn in the road. And now they are tops in suicide bombers. How pleasant for them. We have posted about Hawaii hijinks occasionally. Here's Pajamas. Mary had a little tractor? Bring your tractor to school day! (Thanks, Dr. Merc) Is praying for Jews anti-semitic? I do not understand that. Global cooling is killing the sloes. This is not funny. The end of Britain as we know it. CSM
Saturday, March 22. 2008
Bob Brinker says the equities market "looks very, very attractive right now, if you can handle some short-term risk." He says these sorts of buying opportunities do not pass by often. Bob, like Bogle, does not believe in buying individual stocks. "We'll be out of this eventually." He likes the munis too. I have never gone wrong following his advice. Now back to yard chores to mourn my CIT.
 I am back in NYC today for a family Easter weekend, and I will be happy to worship tomorrow with them at Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Just in case anyone is online today, here are a few I found this morning:
Iranian textbooks. John Lennon: "I was a poseur." Ever had this disease? Disconnect anxiety. A symbolic form of separation anxiety, no doubt. MA casinos go down. Good. Obama did get us talking. Anchoress on racism. Freeze in the dark, then. Surber A lucky man? John McCain. "It's the Clintons, Stupid." Jules. Exactly right. Liberty and restraint. Dr. Bob takes on ye olde dilemma. There can be no liberty without a moral and civic-minded, civic-participating, and civic-volunteering population. Period. That's why Euroland is losing their liberty. How to win the energy wars. Vanderleun is sick of politics, and wants to clean his mind with better things, like Find Out Who Your Friends Are:
Friday, March 21. 2008
Russian Steel buys American mills A brief for Whitey: Buchanan At Foreign Affairs, The Unfulfilled revolution of Chavez. Name one socialist revolution that was "fulfilled." Cuba should be the Hong Kong or Singapore of Latin America. Canada.com. Used to be a great place to visit. Now it's a Commie dump - despite the wonderful Cubans. I believe they have gun control there.
This guy Pat Condel is not PC, but he doesn't care for religion. Video
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