Maggie's Farm

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.

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.

Classical Values found this at Google. Be very very afraid!

Those who remember recent political history know that this was done to Eisenhower (stupid), Goldwater (evil and stupid), Nixon (evil), Ford (stupid), Reagan (evil and stupid), and GW (evil and stupid). Gee, such a nuanced strategery.

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

The weathermen call this sort of weather map a "Yankee screamer" and a "major storm." At UMass, we used to joke "Stock up on smokes and beer."

We call it "snow." Lovely stuff.

Time for another. Perhaps the discussion in the world is beginning to change to something more real and less hysterical.

Nigel Calder blames Mr. Sun. So do we. He is worried about the sun returning to normal, and chilling us. Also, Flares has a fine selection of pieces on the subject: "Deniers."

The Czech President has a great interview on the subject, here. He says it straight - smart guy. Meanwhile, Moonbat enviros protest Valentine flowers.

Image: A palm which has sprung up in a park in downtown Rangeley, ME this past week.

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.

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)

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.

Leave science to the scientists. American Thinker. Of course, the UN Report hasn't been released yet - they are fiddling with the real data until May. Why? Boston Globe. (h/t, Viking)

I suspect someday we will confirm that much climate variation is based on solar radiation. Coyote. Makes sense, since the ice is melting on Mars, and Jupiter is getting more stormy. In the meantime, climate change may become a hate crime - against Eskimos!

Why is the Climate Change thing such a bandwagon for the UN and other governments, and for the Left? Because it's an excuse for a money and power grab - whether it's true or not. Pure and simple. It is only rational to be skeptical about such hysterias, because they have always proved to be wrong in the past. But, as we've said, we don't care whether it gets colder or warmer - we can cope.

I always try to remember the #1 rule of political power: Trump up a crisis, then offer to solve it. No, insist on solving it: "We can do better." Just consider: Have we ever heard (except for Reagan and Maggie Thatcher) governments offer solutions which reduce government power?

Image: Bad, bad Mr. Sun

Why won't Bush et al push nuclear energy? Forget global warming - it's the only sure and cheap path to energy independence. Piece at American.com

Blacks and Hispanics lag in educational achievement. LaShawn takes a look at immigration, self-help, culture, etc. and how these variable affect education. Links to some good stuff. A quote:

Back in the day, immigrants flocked to the United States, ready, willing, and able to become assimilated, English-speaking Americans. They prized not only America’s opportunities but what America symbolized. These immigrants didn’t just want a good job or higher standard of living. They wanted to be productive and proud Americans.

Today’s “immigrants,” mostly from Central America, have no such ambitions. They come to the U.S. for the employment opportunities and to take advantage of America’s social services. They know what suckers we are for the “disadvantaged,” and they use our own generosity and laws against us.

Not only are illegal aliens pouring across the border, they’re reproducing at higher rates than the native population. Since the federal government is uninterested in carrying out immigration law, illegal aliens are here to stay. This new wave of “immigrants” is uneducated, poor, lacks good English-speaking skills, has disproportionately higher rates of out-of-wedlock births and crime. While black Americans have the convenient white boogeyman to point to as the cause of all their troubles, illegal aliens aren’t really complaining or blaming anyone for anything. At least not yet.

Cold enuf for ya, in Yankeeland?

Heretics must be tried and burned at the stake. One Oregon Prof and the warming religion. A little intimidation of debate? Same experience that Dr. Ball had in Canada. You might figure that if people want to stifle discussion, they might not really feel so confident. But what if the heretics are right? The dissenters have been right about every other predicted environmental apocalypse in the past 30 years. No-one should be allowed to vote before passing a serious statistics course, to protect them from being duped.

MSM lies, and a little civics lesson: Calif. Yankee

Thank You, Connecticut, for re-electing Joe Lieberman. A voice of sanity. Captain Ed

India offers a model for Europe: A Shariah Court in every county. Ah, yes - it is all going according to Mohammed's plan.

Turn on the sound when you watch The Islamic Mein Kampf.

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

By averaging them out, there is much distortion. For example, the relatively small but conspicuous numbers of Wall Street types with 1-50 million incomes get lost in the averages. (average always eliminate bi-modal and tri-modal distributions). Still, these numbers probably hold in most of the country.

This is for real:

One thing I vow here and now–you motherfuckers who want to ban birth control will never sleep. I will fuck without making children day in and out and you will know it and you won’t be able to stop it. Toss and turn, you mean, jealous motherfuckers. I’m not going to be “punished” with babies. Which makes all your efforts a failure. Some non-procreating women escaped. So give up now. You’ll never catch all of us. Give up now.

Piece at Michelle. Who is she talking to? And what is her problem? And why did Edwards view her as a good choice? Sheesh. Pure Bedlam. In need of anger management?

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.

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.

Baghdad bombing update. Who is the enemy? Once a month I feel like saying "screw them all." Won't be ready for civilization for 200 years. And this will not help very much: Gateway.

But how dare I feel "fatigue"? This war hasn't changed my life one bit.

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.