Saturday, October 15. 2005
Voting In Iraq It's the news story of the day, if not of the year. We use Iraq the Model to follow the inside story in Iraq, as do many others. Update: here. Thanks Instap.
Happy Birthday, Maggy (Thatcher), with quotes: Right nation Commerce Clause, by an amateur: Protein Classical Music has 3% of the internet music market. Not bad, really, considering our junk culture. MR More fake TV news: Owner's Manual Lock 'n load in Alabama: Pennywit. I always figger that the sound of a pump gun chambering a shell in the dark would make anyone run like hell. Now airguns? See where gun control leads? Ridiculous. FMFT. When will they outlaw pea-shooters? 4000 year-old noodles. Yum. Norm
Friday, October 14. 2005
Pinter? Schwartz: "Pinter is an exhausted English playwright whose sole and obvious current qualification for the prize is his strident participation in the America-baiting, Israel-hating protests against the liberation of Iraq." Harsh negativity also from Ace of Spades, Guardian naturally more positive. AP more neutral. North Country - A Bowl of Cliches - LLBS Dutch ban burquas: maybe they are getting smart. LGF Brady Campaign Against Guns tries to freak out Florida travelers, here: Click here: http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000061/006111-p.htm More on the wetlands litigation: Click here: Supreme Court Takes Up 2 Cases Challenging Powers of U.S. Regulators to Protect Wetlands - New York Times Journalism and poverty: Buzzmachine. What is this idea that it is somehow noble not to make a decent living? California touts its ghosts to tourists. Very lame. Ducks Unlimited and Katrina restoration, here.
Thursday, October 13. 2005
"Insurgent" We looked up “insurgent” in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, which defines it as “a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government; especially : a rebel not recognized as a belligerent.” The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines “insurgent” as “someone who is fighting against the government in their own country.” We query the use of the term “insurgent” in Iraq, where it is pretty clear (to all but the mainstream media) that the terrorists or jihadists or Islamofascists, or whatever one chooses to call those pigs, are not Iraqis. They are not revolting (in the military sense); they are attacking and they certainly are “recognized as belligerent”; they are not in their own country and are not rebelling against their own government. They cannot therefore be “insurgents”. We also note that the pigs who bombed the subways in London were legally resident in England, and therefore were truly “insurgents”, but are referred to by the mainstream media as “terrorists” (which was also appropriate). It seems to us that we should henceforth reverse the terminology. Perhaps the mainstream media themselves are “insurgents” – they seem with great vigor to be “fighting against the government in their own country. As an aside, we are also deeply disappointed in the Cambridge’s mixing the singular “someone” with the plural “their own”!
Was Jesus a Marxist? Huh? View from the Right Cheese-eating surrender monkeys. RWRH Stevie Wonder back at work. Pennywit. A new James Bond? This guy looks like Putin. Ex-Donk. Remember the Cole. Michelle
Wednesday, October 12. 2005
 Rick Moran on the Pennant Race and the Series, here. Rick is a multi-talented fellow.
And two from neo-neocon. I am very fond of her, and believe she should have Maureen Dowd's job, but for some reason this good lady ignores our emails. But we must not be thin-skinned, and she has two recent pieces to recommend: first, her piece on how New England Yankees delay turning on the heat as winter approaches, here, and second, a wise piece on originalism and the Constitution, here. Re the first, my first fire in the fireplace will be tonight, but I'm not sure about turning on the heat just yet. Need a bit more time to appreciate and enjoy God's good air-conditioning blowing in through open windows. We have no A/C in our old Connecticut farmhouse and consider it decadent, so October is a delight. Too much comfort and ease soften the character and weaken the spirit, do they not? As does too much time. (Photo is the fireplace at the hunting lodge in Canada. Yes, an old log cabin, but spacious.)
Zawahiri's letter to Zarqawi It's remarkable that the US intercepted this highly revealing letter, which discusses terrorist strategy, tactics, and goals, including their manipulation of the media and, implicitly, their manipulation of the anti-war crowd. Powerline has a bit of it, with discussion.
The Baltimore Sun ran this photo of 
the first airlift of dogs from New Orleans, on a flight chartered by T. Boone Pickens.
Ed Koch: "For me, the single most important issue the world faced in 2001 and now, trumping all other issues, is international terrorism. President Bush’s willingness in the face of all the attacks, so many unfair and ad hominen, to continue to stand up and exhort the world to continue the ongoing battle against international terrorism is why I admire and respect him so much." Read entire. Miers: No Oil says she's not good enough. But Dunn at American Thinker feels conservatives are getting too rigidly doctrinaire. Steyn on Bush, religion, and the self-hating Left: "We hear endlessly about "systemic racism" in British institutions, but the really rampant contagion seems to be systemic auto-racism, a psychologically unhealthy predisposition to believe the worst only about one's own culture. And the trouble with the Anne Owers school of pre-emptive misinterpretation is that the perpetually aggrieved interpret it all too accurately. Thus, Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, already feels Ms Owers's ban is insufficient. The cross of St George, he explains, is offensive to Muslims because it was carried by English crusaders in the 11th century. Hmm. Would that be the 11th century that ended nine and a bit centuries ago? When a fellow's got hang-ups about things that happened a millennium ago, there's no point trying to assuage them; he'll only unearth some earlier grievance, demanding the Natural History Museum be dismantled because some stegosaurus was disrespectful to Muslims back in the Jurassic era." and "Why is George W. Bush's utterly unremarkable evangelical Christianity so self-evidently risible but complaints from British Muslims hung up over the 11th century are perfectly reasonable and something we should seek to accommodate? Where is the secular Left's "insensitivity" when you need it? " Read entire.
Tuesday, October 11. 2005
Freeh on Clinton, with video, at Atlas LBJ ordering a pair of custom pants - audio here. Thanks, Patterico, for this important piece of American history Antisemitism of the Left. Moonbat Central Proof of intelligent design, plus comments on the Nobel, from Shape of Days: "I mean, s--t. Take one look at this and tell me that Intelligent Design has no place in schools." Teach for America is useless. Nyhan. Taking lawyer jokes seriously, here. Churchill and the "Anglosphere" Am. Thinker Flat Tax debate at Town Hall Harriet's job application. Iowahawk Does high oil mean the death of the suburbs? The Commons
Monday, October 10. 2005
Al Quaida moving into Gaza. Powerline Why to support Miers. Mirengoff. Rick Moran on the risks of the Miers appointment. Why a Federal appointment is more than a hassle: WSJ Wallace and Gromit history is on fire. Guardian FEMA contracting was a mess. Who picks up the bodies? WaPo Europe bans Turkish birds. Guardian
National Novel Writing Month - write one this November. Paxety Star of David banned in Norway. LGF Cabdriver stories from US immigrants. Anatomy of a Photograph - Press bias and distortion via a photo. Zombietime. George Will praises Tancredo. Town Hall Calvin and Hobbes: An appreciation, and a New Collection
Friday, September 30. 2005
Streisand Interview News from Mars at Paxety
Sloppy News Live news requires special care, and needs to be done by calm, skeptical people. But does that sell soap? Rick considers the hysterical, unprofessional, and deeply flawed Katrina coverage, which has been taken to task many times. Sad thing is - that dopey and plain wrong coverage went world-wide and made LA, and the US, look like idiots. No-one reads the corrections - the first impressions stick, however wrong they may have been.
Leftists in the CIA It's more about where their loyalties lie, than their politics. Front Page: Click here: FrontPage magazine.com :: CIA Renegades by Steven Plaut And speaking of Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture, he's running a Restoration Weekend at The Breakers at the end of Oct. Looks good. Wish I could go.
Wild cards: Baseball headed for an interesting weekend. Canada's military "woefully unprepared" for terror - or anything. SDA Teaching in Inner City Schools - not fun. Edn Wonks How to beat your wife: Instructions on how, by a Spanish Imam. LGF More on fisheries, and the success of IFQs. Env. Economics Supreme Court will take on spending limits. Lonely Centrist Polygamy in the Netherlands. Ah yes, the Vanguard of Societal Evolution, eh? Zarquawi: "This war sucks." Iowahawk How do we get around without getting lost? Cognitive Daily The War on Israel is just the Lesser Jihad. Jihad Watch Conservatives getting fed up with Bush. Nyhan Samuelson: Are capitalism and democracy really so perfectly compatible? Click here: Capitalism vs. Democracy - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com Exodus, freedom, truth, and Dylan. Real Meal Ministries Olasky on Katrina winners and losers. Click here: Townhall.com :: Columns :: Three winners, three losers by Marvin Olasky Eric takes on the 10 Commandments: Graven Images? NYT Letters to the Editor: Stix does a little study. Click here: Bush League: Letters Page Politics at the New York Times
Thursday, September 29. 2005
The Int'l Freedom Center On our blog, we are sometimes so far ahead of the news cycle that it can look like we're behind it. We wrote the death certificate for the IFC a week ago, when Hillary opposed it. FYI, here is/was their website. What the site will not tell you is what they really wanted to do.
A Rational Canadian Editorial A defense of the USA, and a critique of Canada, From The Ottowa Citizen, via View from 1776, re NO: The great majority of those not evacuated lived in assisted housing and receive food stamps, prescription medicine and government support through many other programs. Many have, all their lives, expected someone to lift them to safety, without input from themselves. And the demagogic mayor they elected left, quite literally, hundreds of transit and school buses that could have driven them out of town parked in rows, to be lost in the flood. Yes, that was insensitive. But it is also the truth... Read entire.
VT needs a Repub to run against Sanders for Senate: Am. Spectator DeLay's statement, here. Anglican leadership in Iraq slaughtered. Why I am still a Republican, by Robert George Is Cindy a media whore, a star-f-er, or just a "liar," as McCain says Real reason NO Police Chief resigned? RRWH has info. (Who would live there?) At No Oil, A Marine comments on the peaceniks. Propaganda in the classroom. Protein Wisdom Calif - important referendum on union dues and politics. CSM FEMA's Brown testifies, gets roasted by congresspeople trying to evade their own resp. Junior Gotti out on bail - Curtis Sliwa watchful Dick Morris: Hillary doesn't know which way to turn. How Zarquawi hijacked the insurgency. Austin Bay Downward mobility tough on male health.
Wednesday, September 28. 2005
Two problems with Airplanes News Flash: airplanes linked to global warming. I guess we never thought of that one before: Citing the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, Reuters said aviation causes 3.5 percent of “man-made global warming.” This figure is forecast to spike to 15 percent by 2050.Click here: http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000059/005938-p.htm
Dymphna on Air Safety: "It's all for show". Read this before your next flight. My links aren't working: Click here: Gates of Vienna: It’s All for Show
Tuesday, September 27. 2005
Media Whore gets herself Arrested Yup, Cindy finally did it. Wow, what a hero! Saw her happy face on Drudge this AM, but the photo is taken down now.
A Plan for Fisheries Reasonableness finally enters the subject of preserving fisheries, and the Bush admin. is on the right side. The Commons.
Gimme Some Money, Part 2 Katrina's flood waters woke the poverty pimps from their dormancy, but now the heavy hitters are getting on board - massive pork projects for LA. Quoted from Washington Times at The Corner: Louisiana Sens. David Vitter (R) and Mary Landrieu (D) tucked the request into their $250 billion Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief and Economic Recovery Act, the state's opening salvo in the scramble for federal dollars. The bill, unveiled last week, would create a powerful "Pelican Commission" controlled by Louisiana residents that would decide which Corps projects to fund, and ordered the commission to consider several controversial navigation projects that have nothing to do with flood protection. The Corps section of the Louisiana bill, which was supported by the entire state delegation, was based on recommendations from a "working group" dominated by lobbyists for ports, shipping firms, energy companies and other corporate interests. The bill would exempt any Corps projects approved by the commission from provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. It would also waive the usual Corps cost-sharing requirements, ensuring that federal taxpayers would pay every dime.
Monday, September 26. 2005
Katrina, Environmentalists, The Corps of Engineers, and Money Powerline highlighted this piece in the WSJ. Good. A sample: "...the Corps hardly has a record of rationality. It claims that Katrina produced surges higher than the levees that Congress funded it to build. But Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center found that "the flooding of most of New Orleans" came from breaches of floodwalls on canals adjoining Lake Pontchartrain; Katrina's surges did not pour over the levees but breached them because the Corps' floodwalls were shoddy. The barrier stopped by the lawsuit was designed to keep storm surges out of the lake, so it would have reduced the pressure on these floodwalls. And now, as we have seen, Hurricane Rita drove new surges into the lake. The Corps actually contributed to increased pressure from the surges on Lake Pontchartrain by building the little-used Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a 76-mile long canal that destroyed 20,000 acres of wetlands. The Corps causes floods across the country by destroying wetlands and channeling rivers. Meanwhile, the federal government encourages construction in flood plains by providing flood insurance."
Canada's GunScam, at Captain Ed Killer Dolphins Missing? At Ex-Donk. Howler reports on Ed Decker. Who he? Find out, and watch Howler rip the poor soul a new one.
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