Thursday, October 25. 2007
A bear (looks like a Griz or a Brown Bear but a brown-colored Black Bear garbage hound, I believe) was walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy 40 at Donner Summit, Truckee) on Saturday when two cars also crossing the bridge scared the bear into clambering over the edge of the bridge. Somehow the bear caught the ledge and was able to pull itself to safety. Authorities decided that nothing could be done to help Saturday night so they returned Sunday morning to find the bear sound asleep on the ledge. After securing a net under the bridge the bear was tranquilized, fell into the net, lowered, then woke up and walked out of the net. The first photo: 
The rest of the photos of the successful rescue below on continuation page:
Continue reading "A Dramatic Bear Rescue"
Wednesday, October 24. 2007
Beauchamp wanted to be the next Hemingway. Don't we all? Suburban counterterrorist Shannen Rosmiller Sorry, Northeast - the South has Risen. Am Thinker Thompson talks tough on illegal immigration The truth about Jena, via Powerline via Goldberg. Belgium update. Moslem immigration is turning it upside down. Atlas
From NASA, showing the Santa Ana wind blowing the smoke west. 
 Time for another Boston Tea Party? And, related, how much is America taxing its rich?
Serious pumpkin-carving. Coyote Why the California fires? CSM. Fire suppression is one of the factors. Ethanol: Neither renewable nor reliable A "successful blog"? TechCrunch brings in $250,000 per month in ads. That sort of blog income might cause even Maggie's Farm to reconsider taking ads: it would help cover our bar tabs at Rudy's. Who endangers Europe more? Islamists or Islamophobes? Augean This sounds like Mao's China: Touch your toes Thoreau was a knucklehead. Sippican Pat Buchanan on global warming: Like the panics of bygone eras, this one has the aspect of yet another re-enactment of the Big Con. The huckster arrives in town, tells all the rubes that disaster impends for them and their families, but says there may be one last chance they can be saved — but it will take a lot of money. And the folks should go about collecting it, right now.
More at Moonbattery
Tuesday, October 23. 2007
Why Chomsky's logic is "non-viable." NormPelosi plans a PR blitz to protect the House. The Hill Thompson talks about his daughter who died. The myth of the Latino voting bloc. Polipundit Why Hillary is the GOP's dream opposition. LA Times Fair and balanced book reviews at the NYT. TigerHawk
This came in over the transom: We need to tell you that there was some damage to the statue of the American Bison in front of the house in Big Sky. We did attempt to prevent the damage, throwing stones at, and hitting, the attacker. The attacker could not be dissuaded, and kept up his assault for several hours and fortunately the attack was photographed - see below. The incident even caused a traffic situation in front of the house, The damage consisted of: 1) The loss of about two inches from the left horn. The broken piece is on the work bench in the garage. 2) Hoof scratches on the side of the Bison. 3) Some chips in the right rear hoof. 4) Blood stains behind the Bison. The statue was also moved eight inches forward. We attempted to center the statue on the pedestal, but to no avail. 
 Thomas Jefferson was a geek with the ladies.
Thompson: I will campaign the way I want to. Violence in Iraq drops 70%. Ace. Also, The surge is only the first step, by Jeff Emmanuel at Am. Thinker. And Bin Laden gives Iraq terrorists a pep talk. Also, What's the next challenge in Iraq? by Ignatius at WaPo. Advice for the Indians of Manitoba. Black Rod. #1 - No Excuses. h/t, SDA The UK's NHS has made dentists obsolete. John Fund on Louisiana's Boy Wonder "He knew what he was fighting for." The Congressional Medal of Honor, with video. A push to legalize internet gambling. Today's speaker line-up for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. Did you miss The Barrister's Yankee Code during our technical problems over the weekend?
Monday, October 22. 2007
 It's Islamofascism Awareness Week. Some of the speakers here at Gateway. Photo from No Pasaran
NYC has a private school crisis! NY Sun Unsexy businesses are the best. Coyote Ivory Tower hypoxia at the NYT Apple Cider Pot Roast. This looks good to me. Barone: The election picture has changed since last year. A photo visit to Auschwitz. h/t, Grow A Brain The Clintons and their pets. Can you judge people by how they handle their animals? Sounds like disposable stage props to me. Chissano on What Africa Needs. S,C&A. When work becomes a video game. The Carnival of Education at Education Wonks
Sunday, October 21. 2007
I am back from my Adirondack hunt. Great fun, of course. I missed quite a few grouse, but I knocked down a few too. Plenty of woodcock around, but I am always ambivalent about shooting them. Glad I missed the technical problems on the blog: it comes of using rustic servers made of wood and baling wire. Saw a fine shooting star, too, and made a wish. Photo is the West Branch of the Ausable River, in Whiteface. 
Daniel Botkin: Global warming doesn't matter. Blue Crab Jindal's election. A good thing. So that is supposed to prove what, Paul? Classical Basic difference between libs and conservatives. Captain Ed Bonfire of the Moral Vanities. Dr. Sanity Clintonistas rip "cheating Rudy." Is that a wise approach? ABC spins the funny Limbaugh smear story. Confed. Yank Gun-free zones and an unarmed citizenry. Wash. Times. Bad guys love gun control. Who can understand the modern UK? Dust my Broom Sex criminals vs. fun gals. TigerHawk Dopamine and mussel glue? Neurophilosophy Has Harry Reid gone too far to be re-elected? Betsy. I think so. Does half of America hate Hillary? I don't find her very likeable, but I don't hate her. Just another arrogant, power-hungry pol, who has some wrong assumptions about life and human nature, who wants to use the fruits of my labor to build power, and who thinks she's smarter than she is. Good news for the Cod? h/t, Flares "I caused the market crash of 1987." Conspiracy The EU will not have Free Speech. Gates. The Mandarins will not tolerate it. Related: The Enemy in Brussels. Liberals are a puzzlement to me, by Bert Prelutsky. A quote: Why is it that liberals seem to believe that recycling cans is an important issue, but defeating terrorism isn’t? Why do they put so much stock in the blathering of Al Gore and Michael Moore? Why do they regard secondhand smoke as a bigger menace than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? What is wrong with these people? Why will the same folks who’d call a cop if someone set foot in their front yard be so unconcerned about 20 million illegal aliens setting up camp in their country? And why will the same saps who work themselves into a tizzy if some small town sets up a Christmas tree in the public square defend a church’s right to provide a sanctuary for foreign nationals who have no business being in our country?
Friday, October 19. 2007
 More on Pakistan's war against Waziristan, at Rick's Place. This could be good. I guess you could call it a "civil war." I don't think there will be anything civil about it, now that they have Ms. Bhutto on board. The Pakistanis are good folks, and should not be "misunderestimated".
Celebrate Diversity Sameness. "Classical" music does not exist as an entity. Montiverdi and Ravel are not in the same category - it's just a dumb convenient category for lousy record shops that make their money selling pop schlock to teens. Nevertheless, it sells online. Do real "record shops" even exist anymore? I used to enjoy them very much. Half a billion of the UN's tsumami money went to fraud. In my opinion, the UN is just another virtuous-sounding, feel-good fraud, and Betsy agrees. Heck, if countries want to talk to eachother nowadays, they can just pick up the phone and give them a jingle. I think all those people just like a nice excuse to get out of their shitholes and spend time in wonderful NYC and America, on their country's nickel. No News Here. None. MLK had a house full of guns. Classical Values. Who knew? Good for him. I did not agree with much of his politics, but he was a good-hearted, flawed Christian fellow with a highly worthy mission. I am sorry he wasn't carrying the day he was shot, because he might have been able to save himself if he was quick. The real Ann Coulter. TigerHawk. She has always enjoyed being provocative. People should not get upset with her - she's just a typical cantankerous Yankee character, but female, blond, photogenic, and on the TV. (We have tons of folks who think like her up here, but not ready for TV.) More on Ann, and Bad Advice, at Dr. Bob (I left a comment). Was going to link a piece at Blue Crab, but he has so many good ones up that I'll just send you over there to nose around. I missed this great, little story from Iraq. One more murderous bad guy killed, by a 72 year-old. Photo: Robert Frost's New Hampshire farmhouse.
Thursday, October 18. 2007
 I, your News Junkie, am leaving for a three-day bird hunt tonight, but I am leaving our readers with these:
Keep your $5 million. Joe Torre is gone. Sad about it. It's the end of the Torre Era in New York. If you don't know what a "Hudna" is, you'd better learn. h/t, Jules Pakistan finally getting serious. This looks like the real deal. Brown hands UK sovereignty to Brussels. The Last British Government "Everything and its opposite is prima facie evidence of a US conspiracy." No Pasaran The Garden State will be left with nothing but weeds. Ankle Biting Voters vote with their gut. Pajamas (h/t, Blue Crab's comments on the subject) A poll of the Right blogosphere. We are centrist, which is surely why Mr. Hawkins did not poll us. The Barrister referred to obesity earlier today. Mr. Free Market asks "Who ate all the pies?" Opie sent us the Thelonious Monk download site. Thanks, Opie Is the value of wine fully reflected in its price? Prof B The backlash against Gore and globalistical warmening begins Will Massachusetts be the first state to legalize marriage with robots?
The history of curing ham. The Dems on education, before they were in the Teachers Union's pocket. Geographical history of world religion in 90 seconds. Schools and the sexualization of children. Moonbattery Rudy on Hillary: "Honestly, I don't know Hillary's experience. She's never run a city. She's never run a state. She's never run a business. She's never met a payroll. She's never been responsible for the safety and security of millions of people... So I'm trying to figure out where the experience is."
Rudy is telling us - showing us - that he has what it takes to take on the Dems. That is more important to me than whether I agree with everything he has ever said. After all, the only person who is always perfectly right about everything, and with whom I always agree, is me - and I do not want a political job.
Wednesday, October 17. 2007
Bloomberg reports that it was Morgan Stanley who dumped the NYT stock today, in a block trade. Who else will dump? And, speaking of Morgan Stanley, Tyler Cowen on Morgan Stanley in the 70s, vs. now.
 The Microsofting of Google. Opinion Journal
Major shareholder bails out of Times How is the Chinese government doing? The NYT takes a look at dentistry, finds an unmet need which only government can solve. (Yes, the NYT is shocked that dentists work for the money.) Further discussion, including how it's done in the UK, at Gates Opie wonders whether this cool exercise machine does any good. Hammacher Schlemmer
Pig Daddy's. Read the update by Ric. Can lack of sleep affect your kids' cognitive ability? The New Republic claims Osama has won the war. Wishful thinking, TNR. Speaking of which, How to find the bad news in a pile of good news. First Boomer. Welfare for the prosperous. I agree with neoneo: The only reason to blast Turkey for what was done in 1917 is to undermine the fight for Iraq. It's not stupid - it's malevolent.
Tuesday, October 16. 2007
As we have said here, free-riders (parasites) on our medical care amount to 3% of the total funds. Mankiw. So what's the big deal? The death of the record industry. TimesOnline "It's too bad they can't make hysteria illegal." Classical Values "You can't be too careful," so finish your wine. Indoctrination vs. Instruction in Iowa "Wars have been fought over less than what the ACLU is doing to this country." Moonbattery Google top-ranked video: Hillary scandals The schools that Katrina built. A hurricane is what it takes to change the schools. h/t, Viking "News you can use." Where are the most libertine women?
Monday, October 15. 2007
There is little in this piece in American Thinker about Soros that we have not mentioned here before, except we did not know that he was born Gyorgy Schwartz before he changed his name. Why would he do that? And how pleasant it must be to be guilt-free. I wish I knew that trick.
 Suspended for picture of Jesus. Daily Mail. If you can't hang pin-ups anymore, and you can't hang a picture of Jesus or a cartoon of Mohammed, what can you decorate with? Thomas Kincaids?
Al Qaida crippled? WaPo. They decided to make their stand in Iraq, and counted on the anti-war movement to aid in their success. Wrong. It will be discouraging for their recruitment efforts. More Art for Art's Sake. Daily Mail. Can you hear me now? The New Yorker used to have little bits titled "There will always be an England." If they still had that, they would have printed this squirrely story. Big Mako. 844 lbs. Celebrity phones. Gore slammed by prominent meteorologist. My pheasant-shooting woes. The sad tale at Mr. Free Market. That's why shooting preserves in the Eastern US put birds out and shoot them a half hour later. Admittedly not very sporting, since they have never been outside a pen. That's why we call them "flying mattresses," and try to give them plenty of distance. 80 million years without sex. BBC Science. It does feel that way sometimes. Photo: Big bunny. Patrick Pleul, EPA / Corbis - German Giants: Breeder Karl Szmolinsky, here in January, breeds rabbits like this one weighing more than 20 pounds at his farm in Eberswalde.
Sunday, October 14. 2007
 John Wayne to the rescue. "One sneeze and you're a dead man." Good job, dude. 12 ga. is what you want for home defence.
The new cure for TMJ. Ace Warmening killing off all the Europeans. Not Americans or Aussies, however. I guess we get to the hospital, in our SUVs, where our docs are our friends, and do not view us as expense items. The Daring Book for Girls. Dr. Helen About the famous "long telegram," by Steyn, via Blue Crab The Single Man's Diet. Hog Read Colbert filling in for Maureen Dowd yet? CIA hijinks. Most unique horse farm. Coyote Defining poverty upwards. Driscoll. Get everyone on the dole and/or the government payroll that you possibly can, and they might vote for you, forever. The "poor" are already in the bag. Next, the middle class. And, speaking of which, more on Hillary's million ideas at Oxford Insanities Time again. Dr. Pat often finds our insanities to be quite insane. Speaking of insanities, Vermont Pot? Good grief. Can't a government employee afford the good stuff? Photo: A Theo lovely. It's Art for Art's Sake, for Pete's sake.
Saturday, October 13. 2007
Vaclav Klaus "surprised" by Gore Nobel, wonders what Gore has done for peace. Where our Homeland Security money is going. And, even dumber, The Gumball Threat. The Family Cloth. Sheesh. I do not want to be that Green. h/t, Thompson Secrets of the Knights Templar. AOL News Jewish Elders lift 6000 year-old ban on ham! Onion The rest of the story: What the MSM omitted from the Sanchez speech. Draft Al Gore! Not likely, I think. Is said to despise the Clintons, but is fearful of them. Did you know that the environmental movement was a moral "struggle"? And that I am, apparently, morally bankrupt? At least I have no debt, and I only lie to girls. White lies. From Flopping: On Wednesday, Hillary said: "I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all."
Hillary's just getting started. In another year this figure could be quadrupled. See the background material here.
Gee, that's funny, because I have a million ideas too, and all of them are about reducing the power and scope of the federal government for the freedom and benefit of the citizens.
Friday, October 12. 2007
This is rough, from an editorial piece in The Telegraph: The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the most sanctimonious lardbutt Yank on the planet. Can you imagine what he'll be like now that the Norwegian Nobel committee has given him the prize?
I don't know what bothers me about him most - his condescension or his lying and hypocrisy. But I could care less about his weight: I'd bet that the Gores have a very good chef. All of this will seem very silly, though, when we hit the next crisis of global cooling, in which case Al will be well-insulated.
Has the political atmosphere shifted back to redistributionism? Be careful. It's easy to kill the goose. Kiss my ass, Empire State Building, says Ace Moronic Islamists go after Buddha again. They hate Buddha as much as they hate Jews. Also, how the Islamists attempt to influence Western elections. Banning knives in the UK Burning food for cars is stupid. Coyote. We agree. We have 500 years worth of oil in North America. Let's use it, while we build nuke plants. Sarkozy: “If you think 53 makes you old enough to retire, then fine, go ahead and retire. But don’t expect the state to pay for it.” Rudy's to lose. Cafe Hayek. I agree. Imperfect as he is, I think he's my guy. I was hoping for Thompson, but he seems half-asleep.
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