Friday, September 21. 2007
 Mexican illegals flee to Canada. And France puts a halt to immigration. Raven
Ahmadinejad and ROTC at Columbia. Tigerhawk The NYT presents amazingly biased scare article about the Arctic summer ice melt, but concludes with this sentence (h/t, piece at Wizbang): Sea ice around Antarctica has seen unusual winter expansions recently, and this week is near a record high.
Hillary: "I am not a lesbian." From Insty: KATHLEEN PARKER: "The latest smack-down of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers should extinguish any remaining doubt that political correctness is the new McCarthyism."
Under-read rant of the week: The News Junkie on Big Soap, Big Tractor, etc. Image: From Theo's When it is OK to use the f word
 Greenies turn against biofuels. Right they are. EU Referendum
A new cancer treatment? This is interesting. Does AQ take courage from the defeatists? Obviously. Yes, the people who use children as human shields. Any doubt that Iraq is a proxy war with Iran? Riehl Would Mexico allow us to do this in Mexico? Some, like Jawa, hate Rudy for his past gun stands. I will forgive him that, if he repents.
Thursday, September 20. 2007
Speech Nazis shut down Larry Summers at Santa Cruz. That is from What Happens on Campus Cannot Stay on Campus, by Kesler. Just like Yale Law with the recuiters. Meanwhile, Columbia welcomes Ahmadinejad. It all makes ya wonder.
 More Vaclav Klaus on global warming. He is one of the sane people.
SISU, who appreciates a good segueway, on Roger Simon's piece linking OJ with 9-11/ Who will be the next Pavarotti? NY Sun A Jacksonian takes an in-depth look at terror in, and Middle East links to, Latin America. Vodka and pliers. Patients in the UK reduced to pulling their own teeth. Sheesh. Massive anti-war rally in DC fizzles. A funny report by a disappointed reporter in Sacramento News and Review. He does manage to explain that the lack of turnout was because anti-war sentiment is so strong...got that? (h/t, Driscoll) A jurisdictional issue? Lawmaker sues God. Yale's disgrace. Powerline
Wednesday, September 19. 2007
Can anybody survive without these two unless you live indoors (or unless you have enough gear, which is impossible)? Cabela's and Sierra Trading Post.
 Avast, me hearties:Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. (photo from Mr. Free Market)
The Terrorist's Guide to the 2008 Elections. Stillwell Syria, beloved of Nancy Pelosi and Dennis Kucinich, and the WMD The "tolerance" and "diversity" Nazis in academia and elsewhere. Villainous A Moslem tide turning against Jihad? Tiger Hawk "Norway confronts Islam...and wilts." Gates of V.
Tuesday, September 18. 2007
 The Left loves totalitarian thugs. Of course. It's the quickest way to exert power over people - for their own good, of course. That theme is just so consistent: "We must take away your freedom because we care..." and it's always implied "because we are smarter than you." Chavez threatens independent schools: Moonbattery, whence the photo on right.
Home size, 1980-today. Coyote Things you might not know about the Duke case. Minding the Campus. h/t, Insty I still cannot get over the fact that poor Americans have a higher standard of living than average Europeans. No Pasaran Rudy is all over Hillary. Surber. He is the right guy to take her on. Quick, incisive, cheerful. Oh my gosh! The US Naval Academy is run by the military! A clueless Barnard student speaks. h/t, New depths of st00pidity at Right Wing Nation) A "good college" means nothing to me. Attack Machine. He wants results. However, a fine liberal arts education is not really an investment in one's business success: it's supposed to be an investment in your soul. America is filled with multi-millionaires who never heard of Plato, and I think that is a wonderful thing (although it's their loss). Americans, on the whole, are a practical people. Immigration "reform": Ankle-Biting looks at the grim political reality. Meanwhile, Congress "quietly returns to immigration." AQ in Iraq update: are they falling apart? Protein "Sharing." Voegli
Monday, September 17. 2007
 Robbery stats from around the world.
A peek into the world of the Netroots. Never Yet Melted Banning knitting in waiting rooms? We made a joke about this a while ago, never dreaming the notion could become realized. Blue Crab. It's a miracle Rugby is still legal. Euroland is the Land of Self-Satire. Mark Steyn almost lost control of his car with laughter. It's about the Gov. of Mass: Looking for Love in all the wrong places. Have you hugged a Jihadist today? Hillary ain't talking. About much of anything. Got too much to lose. But is silence golden? NY Daily News. Maybe free medical care will distract from the Clinton Disease.
Sunday, September 16. 2007
 How about Single-payer everything? Attack Machine. We have in the past suggested single-payer car insurance and single-payer "legal care."
The EU: Increase Moslem immigration, censor the internet. Brussels Journal. Time for a revolution over there, friends. Greenspan rips the Bush Admin - for good reason. Dino A good take on "the most sanctimonious song ever written." Asst. Village Genius We mentioned yesterday how often scientific studies are wrong, whether deliberately distorted or not. Case in point:At Slate, Rigging a study to make Conservatives look stupid. h/t, Insty Cherry-picking data: How come people never talk about the South Pole? Powerline Defeatism through history (h/t, Grandaddy). From Kagan in National Review, a quote: In 1864 Lincoln changed generals, and undertook a more aggressive strategy, but the war continued to drag on. A hostile newspaper, wrote, "that perhaps it is time to agree to a peace without victory.” Like Pericles, Lincoln was assailed by attacks on his policies and by personal vituperation. At the Democratic convention in August 1864 a speaker told a crowd in the streets that Lincoln and the Union armies had "Failed! Failed!! FAILED!!! FAILED!!!!" The loss of life ‘has never been seen since the destruction of Sennacherib by the breath of the Almighty and still the monster usurper wants more men for his slaughter pens."
Photo: Another Melissa. She has nice teeth.
Saturday, September 15. 2007
 Sandy Berger, aka Sandy Burglar, is back. What exactly did he steal? RWNH. In politics, as in the mob, this is what is called "loyalty."
Mysterious weight loss. Never Yet Melted Banning religious books from prisons. Anchoress. I guess they want to get rid of the Korans, but decided to be even-handed with Christian stuff too. Another example of moral-equivalence insanity. My opinion? Fill the prison with Bibles. Joking about 9-11. The James Brolin video. there must be something wrong with that guy. Photo: For Melissa fans, I stumbled into this Melissa collection (I forget where I found the link) at the fine New England ex-blog called Ex-Donkey Blog.
Biofuels: Is the cure worse than the disease? Synthstuff Why one must take science research with a grain of salt. Dr. Helen. I want a new pastor. Mr. Free Market LaShawn on mammary breaks. "Al Qaeda is the enemy of Allah." Gateway on Abu Risha's funeral
Friday, September 14. 2007
Bush's speech last night on Iraq via Surber here. "Democratic Europe, RIP" Gates. Lance Morrow of Time quoted at Blair: The worst times, as we see, separate the civilized of the world from the uncivilized. This is the moment of clarity. Let the civilized toughen up, and let the uncivilized take their chances in the game they started.
Bullying, intolerance,guns, code language, and "peace studies": Lessons in tolerance for the Intolerant, at Classical Values. A quote: Recently, I noticed an insidious movement called "Peace Studies" which among other things redefines the word "violence" to mean opposition to socialism. Last week Andrew Sullivan called it "ideology masquerading as scholarship" and praised Bruce Bawer for "putting his finger on something": We need to make two points about this movement at the outset. First, it's opposed to every value that the West stands for -- liberty, free markets, individualism -- and it despises America, the supreme symbol and defender of those values. Second, we're talking not about a bunch of naive Quakers but about a movement of savvy, ambitious professionals that is already comfortably ensconced at the United Nations, in the European Union, and in many nongovernmental organizations. It is also waging an aggressive, under-the-media-radar campaign for a cabinet-level Peace Department in the United States. I don't think this is happening merely under the media radar. It's happening under everyone's radar.
Thursday, September 13. 2007
Brit Tories consider a ban on HDTV, along with controls on kitchen applicances, to save the earth. (h/t, Gay and Right). Meanwhile, climate scientists increasingly skeptical about global warming fears. Photo above: an "ultra-modern" American kitchen of the 1920s, which is still probably too electrically-powered for the Tories (photo via Dr. X.). Yes, the Tories. Sweden's Islamic crime wave. Free Republic. A quote: The boys explain, laughingly, that “there is a thrilling sensation in your body when you’re robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if you’ve succeeded, it simply feels good.” “It’s so easy to rob Swedes, so easy.” “We rob every single day, as often as we want to, whenever we want to.” The immigrant youth regard the Swedes as stupid and cowardly: “The Swedes don’t do anything, they just give us the stuff. They’re so wimpy.” The young robbers do not plan their crimes: “No, we just see some Swedes that look rich or have nice mobile phones and then we rob them...”
I guess the Swedes take their "tolerance" and "multiculturalism" seriously. Orwell Update: The EU has a "Justice and Security Officer." He is worried about what words people use. Samizdata. Want some more EU Disease this morning? This quoted at No Pasaran: The head of the Council of Europe - a mainly human rights watchdog based in Strasbourg, France and not an EU institution - branded the protesters bigots and said they were a threat to Europe's values.
"It is very important to remember that the freedom of assembly and expression can be restricted to protect the rights and freedoms of others, including the freedom of thought, conscience and religion," secretary general Terry Davis said.
Who was it who said "1984 (or was it Brave New World?) was intended as a warning, not as an instruction manual."? Is Iraq Al Quaida bait? It's a theory. Am. Thinker Good news for the planet: Earth may survive the death of the sun. Brit troops sent to Iranian border. Polipundit Denialists. Germans and 9-11. Moonbattery. The Europeans have an historical weakness for denial, don't they? The Conservative advantage in syndicated opinion columns. (h/t, Memeorandum) Totten on Ramadi today. Lots of photos. A quote from Oxford Medievalist on Hsugate: While the story is still very much alive, which is surprising since it involves Hillary, I'd point out that, if it were any other non-Clinton politician at the center of this scandal, his or her candidacy would've been sunk by now.
Yes, we have learned to have no standards for the Clintons: they have taught us well. Many Hsu links and much info at Gateway.
Wednesday, September 12. 2007
That air strike by Israel into Syria was a good story. Wish we had more details h/t, Roger Simon. How did the West secularize politics and governance? Book review by Kirsch in the NY Sun George Will: A war seeking a mission. He makes a good point: What "forced" America to go to war in 2003 -- the "gathering danger" of weapons of mass destruction -- was fictitious. That is one reason this war will not be fought, at least not by Americans, to the bitter end. The end of the war will, however, be bitter for Americans, partly because the president's decision to visit Iraq without visiting its capital confirmed the flimsiness of the fallback rationale for the war -- the creation of a unified, pluralist Iraq. After more than four years of war, two questions persist: Is there an Iraq? Are there Iraqis?
Hsugate? It is all reminscent of Bill Clinton's China connections. Scott at Powerline sums up the recent news reports. How smokers saved Iraq. Surber More on the dark side of diversity. Driscoll Was 9-11 a "failure of human understanding"? Boston Herald. Pretty to think so. The BEEB, predictably, takes it to a fully dishonest extent: It's America's fault. That sort of propagandizing and lying to kids infuriates me. Unfortunately for the world, the Islamist terrorists are driven by religious hate and nothing more.
Tuesday, September 11. 2007
 "You haven't earned the right to be war-weary." Willisms. Indeed. The only people suffering in this war are the soldiers and their families, and it's part of their dangerous profession to do so for the rest of us. It is not "suffering" to hear the news in our comfortable seats as we dine on our chips, salsa, beer and Twinkies.
The politicization of this "small war" is a damn shame, and simply gives hope to those who want to destroy a free Iraq. Like it or not, we will be there for a long time and as soon as the bad guys realize that, some of the scumbags will find something better to do - like getting married and getting a job and trying life as sane, honest, peaceable citizens. Heck, we are still in Korea, and nobody complains about that except me. Furthermore, I was a skeptic about invading Iraq and figured Bush Sr. had some very good reasons to hold back (and he did). Am I a "moron dead-ender"? I don't think so. Some things are difficult: consider curing cancer, getting rid of cockroaches from a NYC apartment, eliminating crime, weeding the garden, removing corruption from New Jersey politics, killing terrorists one at a time - but it doesn't mean you don't work at them. "Can do." Moslem Jihadists are the cockroaches of the world today, and they are going to be with us for a long time because they believe they are pleasing their god by killing infidels. If some of them want to die in Iraq, fine by me. Related to above: Attack Machine considers "Copperheads Redux." Belgium: Bring back the Duchy of Burgundy. EU Referendum Time Magazine regrets the invention of the automobile, forgets how their magazine gets delivered. Blair Obstruction of justice? Gov. Eliot Spitzer's "black car meetings." You want a burger, and the burger wants to be eaten. Consenting adults, right? LA may limit fast food in some neighborhoods. As Coyote notes, this is mini-fascism. How are the Polar Bears faring? Small Dead Cute Baby Seals The worst school in America. Front Page Is there anything good about men? An essay/speech by Prof. Roy Baumeister to the American Psychological Assoc. (h/t, Minding the Campus) One quote: Culture has plenty of tradeoffs, in which it needs people to do dangerous or risky things, and so it offers big rewards to motivate people to take those risks. Most cultures have tended to use men for these high-risk, high-payoff slots much more than women. I shall propose there are important pragmatic reasons for this. The result is that some men reap big rewards while others have their lives ruined or even cut short. Most cultures shield their women from the risk and therefore also don’t give them the big rewards. I’m not saying this is what cultures ought to do, morally, but cultures aren’t moral beings. They do what they do for pragmatic reasons driven by competition against other systems and other groups.
Image is from the Harrison Hot Springs Sand Sculpture Tournament of Champions. What kind of cool sand to they have there?
Monday, September 10. 2007
Mass without a priest? I did not know that the Prof was a converted Roman Catholic. The Eucharist requires a priest in Catholicism. Is Fred a lightweight? Reason Here we go again: Is Shakespeare Shakespeare? More on those "uninsured millions." Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid. Luskin consludes: Which brings us to the ultimate question: Does it make any sense to destroy a health care system that 5 out of 100 people do not have adequate access to?
A computer program to translate hieroglyphics and cuneiform. h/t, cool links from Flares. A fine meditation on Mother Theresa's "dark night of the soul." Anchoress Socialism: Is the debate over? Solim at Volokh. I thought it was done. When "carrying" was normal: Charlotte Bronte's dad, and related handgun topics.
Sunday, September 9. 2007
 Peter Breughel and kids' games: Yesterday and today. Cool.
A nice visit to Baskin-Robbins. Alphecca. Word to the wise: Do not point a weapon at anybody - even at a friendly Baskin-Robbins ice-cream scooper. The Golden Bears: Football and the soul of Berkeley. Suddenly I find myself liking college football. Why I left South Africa. Kim du Toit Hispanic immigrants account for all increases in US poverty. Coyote Have you noticed how Christian preachers, outside church, always mention God but never Jesus in public prayer? They pretend there is a generic god, to be polite. Here's what happens if they don't. h/t, News for Christians A sovereignty that no-one has taken by arms since 1066 will be handed over. EU Referendum. My opinion? Insane. Speaking of which - "Get your own damn army." Why is the USA still defending Europe? Or South Korea, for that matter? Time for them to grow up. The Inca mummy on display. More nukes is good news. Willisms. It's as close to a free lunch as this world offers. Dartmouth update: "The First Shoe Drops," at Powerline. Bad news for the Indian Uprising: the Indians have stone-age weapons, and the bad guys have cannon. Photo: One of Theo's gals to remind us that it is getting time to get the guns out. Hunting season is just around the corner.
Saturday, September 8. 2007
 What is missing, and what is wrong on this agenda? A prominent Brit leftist on what a nation is for. The Left is totalitarian at its core, regardless of what our friend Uncle Norm says. He is surely not, as an individual - but the movement is.
Federer beats Roddick, and other US Open updates from the NY Sun Re Madeleine L'Engle: Our brief post did not mention to what extent she was a Christ-inspired author and a long-time presence at St. John the Divine in NYC. I heard an interview with her recently. Very impressive lady. Brit mosques are becoming a metastatic cancer in Brit society. More on the Deobandi sect at Dino. Psychologists are overwhelmingly Dems. Driscoll. I have no idea what that means. Osama and the Dems: Perfect Together. Ace. Bin Laden can tell useful idiots when he sees them, and, despite his apparently minimal knowledge of the Vietnam era, he picked up one useful fact: get the surrenderist Left as allies by humoring and flattering them. Photo Editor note: We were recently introduced to this old-time Italian summer squash, (which goes by many names including Zucchetta and Serpent of Sicily) which I am told grows like crazy and resists bugs. There is an old joke: If you park your car in a suburban neighborhood in August, be sure to lock it. If you don't, someone will put zucchini in it. Same goes for this squash.
Friday, September 7. 2007
 The US government has the Bin Laden tape. Sounds like people are hoping he looks ill. Too many chicks and too much booze and blow down in the fleshpots of Dubai? Too many hours of Beer Pong with Mullah Omar and the hos and goats?
"Until Proven Innocent." The new book about the Duke disgrace, with comments. Never Yet melted. Horrors! Military recruiters in NYC schools! Rhymes with Right. Which is the greater evil in NYC: The military, the Boy Scouts, or Christians? All are evil counter-revolutionaries. Fallujah, Revisited. INDC Journal Al Gore caught with his pants down. Drudge. What a phony. I'm supposed to think he's worried? All he wants is attention. A day at the range, Theo Style What are you having for dinner? I am now smoking a pork butt with some locally-grown Black Cherry wood for some friends. Beer and an Oregon Pinot Noir, home-made cole slaw, tomato salad from the garden, and some Italian-style potato salad (garlic, parsley, white vinegar and olive oil). Western North Carolina-style sauce for the pulled pork, on cheap burger rolls. Splurged on a bottle of Dewars, too. For dessert, vanilla ice cream with powder-ground good coffee sprinkled on top, then a splash of Scotch over it: believe it or not, I am told that's Italian too. Go figure. Finally adding to Blogroll: Dissident Frogman (recently returned to the internet swamp) and Oxford Medievalist (A Jules talent discovery who we forgot to add a while ago)
We were alive during one of the handful of milestones of human history. Sippican What does 1+1=2 mean? Evangelical Outpost NY Sun opinion: Fred Thompson can win. Medical care in the US is already half-socialized. TCS (h/t, Insty)
Thursday, September 6. 2007
Luciano Pavarotti: RIP. We have YouTubed him recently, so will not do it today - everyone else is anyway. We'll miss the big guy. And about Fred: Let's see how he does. He surely is a likeable, seemingly-straight-forward fellow. Greenies: Airplanes for us, man-driven treadle pumps for you. Moonbattery. Related: Global warming and ocean saltiness. Did you grow up poor in America? You probably did if you are over 35, by today's definitions. I did, and I am under 35. Never thought I was poor, though: plenty of food, plenty of sports, and plenty of books. Duke, Ham, and PC: SISU, the Queen of the Segueway (if that is how it is spelled). Will the NAACP ever resume working to lift up and inspire their constituents? Viking wonders. So do I. Ethanol for cars: One more strike against that dumb idea: It's depleting water supplies.
It was interesting to see the various major linkers to that (surprisingly) controversial piece on Multiculturalism and Arabs we posted the other day because I had only been vaguely aware of one of the sites, and unaware of the others.  The most productive of blog visitors was reddit. That link- collector gets huge traffic, judging by the number of visit they sent over here: over 15 thousand. No comparison with what FARK can send, but powerful still.
We had thousands of visitors via linkswarm, another link-aggregator which seems to have a vast and loyal readership. We also had thousands from a site which our pure and chaste selves had never seen - Ernie's House of Whoopass. Ernie provides general links plus hard-core p*rn links which make visiting Theo feel like going to church. This photo is the most modest image I could find at Ernie's place. Also on the list is This Modern World, which posed an interesting, if sarcastic, contrast between the essay and the famous The America I Have Seen, by Sayyid Qutd (who I believe was the inspiration for Al Quaida and The Moslem Brotherhood). Clicked, an MSNBC blog, was late to the party but provided a few thousand visitors. Will Femia links stuff he finds interesting. A good gig. There have even been many hundreds of visitors via dirty.ru, a Russian blog (in Cyrillic). Cool. We hope we have gleaned a few new Maggie's fans from this spike in visitors. I do know that we made a lot of folks angry.
Wednesday, September 5. 2007
 More Brit health fascism: Dust my Broom, whence the image on the right. Our question at hand is whether they would plan to refuse treatment to those with lung cancer, AIDS, weight-related diabetes, sports injuries, elective abortions, and addictions -- all behavior-related problems.
Looking back at the journalistic malpractice of Katrina. Driscoll The EU is worried about the collective. Hey, I thought the Commies lost the Cold War. Maybe the fall of the hostile foreign Commies provided space for the home grown ones? Excellent review of current state of casualties in Iraq, at Back Talk. h/t Gateway, who has further comments. The purported reason you won't be seeing The Path to 9-11. Fear. George Soros: Enforcer and terrorist of Democrats Immigration and poverty stats: Opinion Journal. The real cause of global warming: Israel
Is America losing its work ethic? Am Thinker Why I quit teaching. Pajamas Surrender. How societies commit suicide. Dalrymple in City Journal. I missed that one. Stuff like this keeps happening. One nation, under therapy. SC&A on ambulance-chasing trauma counselors. Sounds like a scam to me. Similarly, from Dr. X: Are our kids over-diagnosed and over-medicated yet? Emotional. Some big-time emotional reaction to our Multiculturalism link about Middle-Eastern culture. A simple essay from Rants and Raves from a year ago - some reaction! Our apologies to R&R - we didn't know where the essay was from until late in the day. Creeps me out. The proposed Brit DNA registry - and for tourists too? Gender and the workplace. Econlog. Statistically, men work harder and longer.
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