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You are being sold, and don't know it. Product placement ads in movies and TV shows.

The Pacifist Left marches over the cliff with their grey pony-tails, with Cindy leading the way.  Haven't we all noticed, however, that the Pacifist Left always picks which side should be Pacifist, and which side is entitled to go to war (ie, whatever side opposes the evil, evil US)? Cindy, remarkably, sides with Germany in WW2. I am not sure this represents true pacifism...

And the LA Times  likewise goes over the cliff. Claude Allen steals because he's black? So what about all of the white thieves? Lots more white thieves than black thieves in the USA...guess it's cuz they're white.

A counter-protest in France. Who knew? Without Instapundit?

Trout fishing in basement, in Belgrade. Convenient, yes. Sporting? Well...

Women spend a total of two years of their lives getting ready to go out. Would it be more accurate to say that women waste two years of their husbands' lives waiting for them?

Welsh Church turns other cheek - and gets stabbed in that one too. Wake up, UK. We love ya, but you are acting like schlemiels.

Need 19,000 acres in Botswana for hunting? Mr. Free Market can tell you how.

We are close to full employment. But the French would never stoop to learn from us. They have been trained to want a free ride, not a chance to excel.

Tobacco Louges....didn't we used to call these "bars"?

From RTLC:

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (Martin Luther King, Jr., Aug. 28, 1963)

“I have a dream that my four little children will be presumed too stupid or incompetent to get into a college based on the content of their character, and will get in only after their white liberal massas judge them by the color of their skin.” (Julianne Malveaux, 2006)

Daily Pundit thinks Condi is a Rockefeller Republican. For you young 'uns out there, that means a non-conservative.

Zero-tolerance as a post-religious morality, and the loss of England

Did you know that being raped is a crime under Sharia Law? Yes, ladies - you made him do it.

Apparently this passes for thought at Yale:

"If we shut ourselves away from an understanding of Hashemi's culture and life experiences, we restrict our own agency over our identity in an increasingly complicated and connected world."

What the heck does that mean? It is not English, but if I can de-code the BS, I think it means that if we don't meet guys from the Taliban, how can we decide whether we want to be Taliban ourselves? By that logic, why not admit dogs and cats too?

Jeff Miller on truth vs. doctrine- shopping.

Who is in this new peace mini-movement? Same old people.

Pouring Water on a Drowning Man - the Brit NHS, from Tangled Web

The history of drinking and socializing and dating.

Does it make sense to throw the small ones back? Env. Econ.

Light at the end of the tunnel in Iraq? How much of the negativity is pure partisanship? YARGB has Iraq comment update.

"Limited evidentiary value." Ahhh, the press has a new phrase. Funny the way it is selectively applied. Michelle. Dan Rather never heard of that expression.

More on Saddam and Al Quaida. Cap'n Ed.

A nation on the downslide: More protests in France.

Why so many pro-Mercedes Benz symbols at Calif. peace march? Haha

A Tale of Two Fathers: Dads of soldiers. RWNH

Tee hee hee: Excuuuuuuse me! A true medical mishap.

Long Beach church victim of Kelo. So change the law, Calif.

I wish churches would stay out of politics. Render unto Caesar, etc. Plus many pastors are politically hopelessly naive and prime useful idiots for any sentimental cause, regardless of consequences. The world of manipulators, con-men, professional victims, liars and politicians is just not their domain. CSM.

Mark Roberts on the DaVinci Code: It's an opportunity.

Hey, Gals!!! College Freshman this Fall?

The guys will be ready and drooling, waiting for some fresh meat young things on campus - so  Get ready now. Remember, gals: College is all about Boys, Boobs, Basketball and Beer - The Four B's. So don't let yourself get distracted by all of the classroom stuff like Math and History etc, because you will need Straight A's in the Four B's or end up an unstreetable nobody like Charlotte Simmons with depression and anorexia and an un-cool boyfriend - a like Science Loser, instead of a hot Double-D Communications Major with medically-enhanced lips too - wow.

Enjoy college, gals! And if you want a doctorate, let's practice by playing PhD doctor.

Warmest personal regards,

Larry "Long Larry" Summers, VP, Marketing, Plastic Assets, Inc.
Former Prez, HU

Mr. Bean was on the right side of this one: Brit Christians help defeat Hate Bill.  Truthfully I cannot see why Labor would want to support this bill - blasphemy and irreverence are good fun. H/T, Burkean Canuck (Rowan Atkinson photo stolen from Atlas)

The Guardian tends to be far out, but they do a nice, irregular feature on Bad Science. The latest: Magnets for health. Did not know that Ben Franklin had tried that.

Are we ready for cyborgs? The new neuroelectronics.

Has Anarchy lost its mojo? Seavey says yes.

Joe on Soul Mates and Manly Men. Really a fine piece. H/T, HH.

The proof everyone wanted: Saddam and Al Quaida.

Pentagon plans Cyber-insect Army. All-volunteer, no doubt. Talk about stinging butterflies.

Third Annual Nigerian Email Conference.

Student violence in France continues. What is wrong with that country? And Confed. Yank quotes one of the students, re work: "You've got to do every single thing they ask you to do or you'll get sacked." Gee wiz, wow - that just ain't fair! These students are about as mature as the Moslem rioters were.

Department of Dumb Criminals: Man caught with Billion Dollar bills. What do you say at the mini-mart when you buy a 6-pack, a pack of Marlboros, a pack of condoms and two Snickers bars? "Sorry, it's the only cash I have on me - can you make change?"

The $100 computer for the world's poor. Not bad. But Bill Gates doesn't like it.

Newspapers in error 20% of the time in medical articles. Be glad they aren't doctors.

Polymorphous perversity in Holland. Yeah, be open-minded? Who is really hurt by necrophilia? Melanie Phillips. Oh, and more from Holland - the govt tries to bring Dutch gays and Moslems together. Ace. Only a govt could have an idea this dumb.

From MassBackwards:

Ordering a pizza in 2010. Very clever, even if paid for by the ACLU.

Is spousal death as distressing as had been thought? Maybe not.

Line item veto. Trying again.

Calabasas, CA bans outdoor smoking. WFT? May I assume that applies to tobacco, but not weed?

The night I became an American. Lee Harris

Does the Welfare State prevent the pursuit of Happiness? Tony Snow

There are only about 100 of them, but the Florida Panther is beginning to annoy people. Sorry, folks. The Panther was there first. If you want to live with real animals, move to Miami.

Neo-neo takes the time to go over some internal Saddam documents. The MSM will not do this, will they? Not even the NYT.

Our Fark link was bringing Maggie's Farm over 50,000 visits per day. That Fark is one popular site, and all of the visits gave our Chris a fun challenge to keep us in operation. Thanks, Chris. We hope lots of those people will return.

SENIOR DRIVING As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on Interstate 77. Please be careful!"
"Hell,"said Herman, "It's not just one car. It's hundreds of them!"

We are trying to blog lightly today, due to our traffic-control issue, but John Hinderaker really gets it about Ginsberg and the Supremes. Hello, Justice G! Can you remember your Job Description? It is what we pay you for with our hard-earned dollars. (It is not to play God, nor to be a Founding Father, nor to be an original thinker - you do not get paid for those jobs.) Your job is to read the US Constitution while we go to work. If you forgot, be impeached or go home and water your house plants. Hinderaker has a brilliant, brief piece on the subject.

(News image of Justice Ginsburg asleep on bench.)

Dr. Bob encounters a shrill, angry Leftist who can shout empty slogans but is ignorant of history, and reflects on the experience.

Ed Koch asks the NYT to apologies for the "Bush Lied"  nonsense. Don't hold your breath.

The Princess addresses the Dem agenda? in response to Pelosi's speech on Tuesday. As usual, the Left in America has trouble articulating an agenda which will appeal to voters. They have one, but they don't dare to say it outloud because it is too extreme and too statist for American taste.

Pejman says more about the growing Iranian leadership problems. Come on, Iranians. Return to the civilized world. We love Iranians, but their current leader, albeit elected, is a dangerous kook, like a Hitler on acid, and he gives the wrong impression of what Iran is like.

Looks like an interesting book on the history of corporate America: The Prof

Dinocrat says Sharia creates an economically and intellectually backward society.

Get your own Border Initiative coffee mug here.

How Chavez is helping the Colombian economy by destroying his own: Publius

The War amongs the Pacifists: I always believed that the Leftist Pacifists have the goal of being subjugated by anybody, in the hope that things would be better, somehow. Neo-Neo

A nice cheerful rant against teacher's unions.

Hitchens does Flashman: Part James Bond, part Bertie Wooster: Good stuff.

The You Can't Make This Up Department: Graffiti at DePaul leads to prayer session. What idiots.

A few blogs I have come to enjoy lately:

Rantings of a Sandmonkey - entertaining Egyptian rants from a smart   
and clearly highly immature Sandmonkey

Always good for a laugh, even if a laugh of despair for the Commonwealth: MassBackwards

Legal Beagles: Overlawyered is worth a regular read. Orin Kerr has a new blog - a spin-off from Volokh.

From her blog:

Londonistan

Ahmadinejad seems like a nut, but the conflicts he provokes with the West strengthen his standing with his constituency. But wiser heads are slowly leaving his side. We have to remember that Iran has a history of western ties, and westernization. It's not an Iraq.

Philosophy in a New Key: The classic is on Norm's list, with an essay.

How could anyone be this stupid and insensitive ? Someone should riot and burn an embassy or two.

Raising Boys that Feminists will Hate. Giles.

We are not "running out of oil."

Government cannot give you love. Rev. Sirico in Detroit News

Mugabe: All you need to know about this friend of Fidel. Front Page

Teacher: Blame the Student. Everything Dan says in this thoughtful piece seems right to me.

Is swimming in syrup slower or faster than swimming in water?

Is the White House staff burned out?

Oriana Fallaci, Swiss speech codes, and European dhimmitude: Atlas

The US moves against Iran. CA Yank

Stuck in Lodi Again? Zawahiri has been in the US

Clooney's lies about McCarthy, etc. the Prof. Can we say that McCarthy was wrong, but right? Truthiness?

Driven to a life of crime. What a nutjob. Moonbattery. What do you call a movement of one?

Greenwich, CT is not a Yankee town with dominant Yankee values. It's a NYC suburb which nowadays partakes more of NYC bling than Connecticut country modesty. But even Greenwich has limits. Mr. Jacobs is getting into problems with his 38,000 sq. foot house. Image from the NYT article:

Sopranos: Wonderful television, although the trip through the sewer always leaves a bad taste. When Tony started singing in the kitchen, we knew trouble was coming.

Bravo, Harper. Harper visits his troops in Afghanistan.

Two from Cap'n Ed:  A good reason to fire an employee, and France's latest kindergarten  student rebellion:

This reaction shows exactly why France will not reform its socialist economy -- too many people have invested themselves into the notion that government force should dictate terms of employment. Under these conditions, foreign investment will be more difficult to procure, as corporations will not want to subject themselves to funding a nanny state where workers cannot be terminated regardless of their work habits. The students who protest against high unemployment have kneecapped themselves and all but guaranteed that their problems will only worsen.

De Villepin had the right idea, or at least the right start to the right idea. His modest proposal would have allowed French firms to take chances on younger workers, usually less reliable than those with more responsibilities. With so many looking for work, these employers do not want to waste a position on someone lacking a track record of reliability, especially since they can't get rid of an employee once hired. Why should employers take risks like that with students and new graduates, especially with their attitude of entitlement as expressed in the protests at the Sorbonne?

Steyn: How Liberal Britain let Hate Flourish. The same Steyn who is no longer writing for any Brit newspaper...

Meathead provides a perfect case study of how the worst of liberal politics works.

More on the Roe v. Wade For Men.

Need a good travel company for this summer? Club ABC wins Maggie's Seal of Approval.

Mardi Gras in Iraq. Nice.

Tom Friedman lives in a world of his own.

Tom Fox was tortured before he was shot. Was he a Christ-like man, or a foolish tool? Something tells me that this sort of behavior makes no positive impression on Jihadists. Doesn't that organization know that the Jihad hates Christians as much as Jews.

And on a similiar note, the pious and feckless Jimmy Carter is subjected to some harsh criticism here.

Everyone is talking about Dr. Sultan, the LA psychiatrist who gave the Jihadists a tongue-lashing on Al Jazeera, and is now the recipient of death threats.

The mess in Darfur, summarized in the CSM. How does anyone help people so determined to create mayhem, and so lacking in what we rightly term "civilization"?

Is Google chosing evil over good? Clockwork Google.

LGF noted that The Telegraph removed this article on Moslems in Britain from their website.

In praise of The Sopranos. The final season.

Whatever happened to the people of Easter Island? New theory.

Good debate on the economics of medical care. TCS. It seems that the wealthier a nation is, the more they spend on education and medical treatment - if given the choice to do so. Maybe we should trust folks to make their own decisions? Those are rational adult choices. (And, by the way, when people talk about the "uninsured" they never tell you how many of those are temporarily uninsured, or illegals, do they? Government power grabs always create a "crisis" to justify it.)

Tom Wolfe praises America. Hey, intellectuals aren't supposed to do that.

Billary in bed with evil evil Wall-Mart.

The $20 million bedbugs. Woops. A little problem with their case. Remember the bumper-sticker: "Please hit me. I need the money."?  I heard this con-gal on the radio. "I was sooooooo upset. Bug bites all over me, blood..." etc etc. "Booo-hoooo." Throw these grifters out of court, and ban them from the Nevele.

If women don't have to bear a child they don't want, why should men have to support a child they don't want? Fun is for fun, and Fair is fair.

We'd need to invent her for humor, except she provides it herself. The ongoing Cindy Sheehan comic strip.

All of the sheep issues, combined. Paxety.

The press and the Left has wanted Iraq to = Vietnam. That silliness should be over now. I hope our pal Dinocrat doesn't mind if we quote at length from his excellent piece on Muslim bias in the MSM:

When the story was just about Iraq, the MSM could set the following template: the Bush administration is responsible for the deaths of many innocent Iraqi citizens because of its incompetent planning and execution of the war. Moreover, US soldiers are known to have been involved in abuse and torture, and in any event, the terrorists were not in Iraq until the lying Bush and his WMD talk bungled America into the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s all Bush’s fault. Hmmmm, the MSM perhaps sound like the leading figures of one of our two great political parties, do they not? Those themes ran through 2003, the MSM and Democrat campaign of 2004, and right up to Jack Murtha in 2005. Almost every newscast, a new bombing, a new body count, and the subtext that it was all Bush’s fault. Then something changed. The MSM lost control of the template.

The template fell apart in stages. First there was the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, a man who made clear his intentions to wipe Israel off the map and to make Jihad a global goal, well beyond anything having to do with Iraq. Next came the election of Hamas in Palestine, a crystalline moment when political power shifted to the leading group manufacturing suicide bombers, and whose charter and raison d’etre was the destruction of the Jewish state — again, nothing to do with Iraq. The final straw came with the cartoon riots. The cartoon riots not only destroyed the old media template (”Iraq is Vietnam”), but it created a new one (”Muslims are totally out of control”). Previously, the MSM had no problem whatsoever showing car bombings and suicide attacks in Iraq — such violence was the mainstay of Iraqi coverage. Despite the MSM’s senstivitiy to Islamic issues in their precious refusal to show the cartoons, they could hardly refuse to show the riots in Damascus and Beirut and in Pakistan and Indonesia and elsewhere, and the torching of embassies — these things were not only news, they were well within the scope of previous reporting. Only now the context was entirely different.

Who pays attention to the Poles? Capn Ed does. They are tired of the EU.

UN=US? Who wants to invade Darfur? Nobody wants to. What a mess. Austin Bay

The Ivy League faculty Hates You. And they are better than you, too:

Yale's behavior illustrates how bankrupt academic liberalism has become. Other than deeply-rooted anti-Americanism, I can think of no coherent theory that would justify admitting a former Taliban official as a Yale student while not permitting the U.S. military to talk to Yale students on campus.

A day in the life of a Chinese internet officer.

Do not mess with Voltaire in France. Moslems trying to, but they are making themselves highly unwelcome, all across the globe. France seems to believe in two things: Easy life, and the Prophet Voltaire. Time for the Moslems to begin learning to understand other cultures.

The MSM continues to campaign for the Dems. Why isn't it required that such MSM reporting be a campaing contribution? Distortion of facts is politics, not reporting.

Warren Buffet says you're paying too much for financial advice.

No diversity of opinion at Duke. Students plan to shut down Horowitz. Why so fearful of ideas?

Berkeley High Schools finally find something easy to teach.

What will the world do with Iran? Iran threatens US with pain and harm. Why can't we all just get along?

Autumn of the Humanities. Kriegel at TCS:

"We have recently witnessed something of a debate on the "science gap" between American universities and the rest of the world. We did not witness, however, any debate on the state of humanities in American universities. This is not because "all is well" in the world of the humanities. On the contrary, they are in a much sorrier state than anything imaginable in the sciences. It is just that the humanities have been satisfied with the status quo, and their decline has remained opaque to themselves."

Media Refuses to Report Moslem Violent Events. So thoughtful of them to protect us from truth. Blankley at RCP

If the Jihadists win:

Where does the money come from? Blue is Dem, Red is Repub. As Will points out in the piece from which this graph is borrowed, it helps explain why the blue party is out of touch with the country.

A Canadian newspaper which is "too sensitive"
to publish Mohammed
cartoons: SDA. This is right out of Orwell.

The Encyclopedia of American Conservatism.

More on Space Tourism. $20 million. I guess nobody considers that the Earth is already in space. Earth is already a Space Tourism destination. I recommend Turkey, Scotland, and Cape Cod as fine destinations on this outer space Life Planet of Solar System #CD-397-4007-29D-300705T.

A tourism boycott of South Dakota? : A law banning nearly all abortions without exception for cases of rape or incest in South Dakota was signed Monday by Governor Mike Rounds prompting women’s groups to call for a tourism boycott of the state. http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000078/007821-p.htm

12 million illegals in US.

As Canada begins to undo its socialized medicine, California proposes marching boldly into the past.

Hamas opens kiddie website to encourage child martyrs.

The Pope's new iPod.

The new battle for the soul money of the Dem Party.

Brit Marxists attack Islam. H/T, Protein Wisdom

Showing your Ass at the NAACP.