Monday, June 13. 2005
Iranian Blogs There are two blogs which I follow for the evolving (one hopes) situation in Iran: Regime Change Iran and Student Committee for Democracy in Iran. One thing is clear, which is that Iran is neither ideologically nor culturally insulated from the rest of the world, despite the efforts of the govt.
Stock Up on Canned Goods (ie beer) 74 mph breezes. Hurricane season is already upon us, and lovers of strong weather get excited by watching tropical breezes from the African coast evolve into monster storms. It's not that storm lovers want to see people hurt, but that they find the power of nature both exhilarating and humbling. It is like feeling the hand of God. We follow the tropical patterns on the NOAA hurricane site, which provides transcriptions of the survelliance reports from NOAA's G-lV and P-3 aircraft. What a great job those pilots have. Very cool. Stormtrack is a storm enthusiast who was clearly disappointed by Arlene's half-hearted performance.
Congrats Congrats to the Bird Dog nephew Andy, whose graduation from Pittsfield (MA) High School we attended yesterday, at Tanglewood. Darn good acoustics for the fine HS band.
In DC on Tues. with nothing to do? Hey - that includes all of you politicians. An interesting conference: Libertarianism in Pop Culture. Wish I could make it. Click here: Libertarianism in Contemporary Pop Culture
New Yorkology: Visiting NYC this summer? Here: Click here: NewYorkology: A New York Travel Guide In Denial about China? From Powerline and and others. EU Unravels Further with France and Germany ganging up on the UK, in Yahoo Jazz in June: The Vision Festival in NYC: NYSUN Why Gun Rights Matter, In Zimbabwe, from Winds of Change Climate Alarmism, Murray at Tech Central Dylan Tour, May-July. How does he keep up this pace? JihadWatch: A useful website.
Friday, June 10. 2005
Termites, and Bob Dylan Absolutely no connection between the two. Just a random note from your editor (recent drawing of Bird Dog by Norman Rockwell on right): 1. Despite our name, we are not a Dylan blog, but we are very fortunate to have The Dylanologist on our highly-paid staff. We welcome his frequent or occasional thoughts on Dylan's life, work, performances, etc. Or on any other music, or any other subject. 2. Termites: This topic deserves a thoughtful essay, but not right now. We are coining, copywriting, appropriating, and otherwise using the useful term "Termites" for any person, organization, movement, concept, etc. which is, or appears to be, motivated by a desire to take a bite out of the foundations of traditional American culture, values, morals, religion, traditions, or the Constitution itself. We at Maggies aim to be part of the pesticide brigade, sprayers loaded with verbal DDT against those who would like to bring down this precious structure we have inherited and for which we Americans are blessed by having been assigned the job of custodian and steward.
Deano: Crazy, or Crazy Like a Fox? Larry Elder makes a case to call in the men in white coats, (in Town Hall), as have many others, but Dean isn't crazy. Nor is he a calculating fox, although clearly he hopes that being provocative might help with fund-raising. The truth is that he is simply miscalculating something. In the Northeast, there are millions who think and feel and speak exactly as he does. I encounter them everywhere in our Blue States, from Nantucket to Maine to Boston to Hanover to Newport to, of course, NYC. Trust me, you Red-Staters out there - his views and words are entirely ordinary, and I doubt he knows what the fuss is about, since he's right in sync with everyone he knows. His miscalculation is that you can't take that kind of self-righteous, sneering, arrogant, nasty, condescending talk and juvenile name-calling nationwide. It doesn't play in Peoria. But it plays just fine up here, I'm sorry to say.
Quotes from Janice, from Right Thinking. She is better than I thought. And more on The Deal by Pejmanesque Canada's Health System in crisis: Be grateful Hillary failed. Ankle Biter the first, I think, to pick this story up, and more from Right Thinking. Nerds are best lovers: Instapundit has link. Olasky on David Horowitz's cancer, and prayer, in Town Hall Portland, Maine Schools ban Evil, Evil Boy Scouts: The Termites are at it again, nibbling away at sanity. In Intell. Conservative Restless Leg Syndrome: It is real, fairly common, highly annoying, treatable, and may correlate with ADD and ADHD. In Science Daily Intelligent Design in the news: One by Pinkerton at Tech Central and one by Brewton at Intell. Conservative. My view on the subject? Aw, you don't care what I think. These are excellent discussions. Inequality in America. Powerline has it right - these guys are experts on the subject. Ben Stein on The New Yorker, in The American Spectator. It's about the Termites in the Press. Rule 18 of the Al Quaida Handbook: You must claim you were tortured: John Leo in Town Hall.
Thursday, June 9. 2005
Stalin Fascinating book review by Fairbanks in Claremont. I knew he was evil, but he was interesting evil.
The latest on Mugabe, from Normblog. Another fine essay on Hayek, from Ocean State Blogger. Targeting Byrd in WV., from Front Page Dean: the latest Tape. You could laugh, but it isn't really funny. The Feral Hog Story, in FLA. Beginning of the end of Europe's Nightmare: Acton Inst.Click here: Commentary: Europe’s Statist Nightmare — Beginning of the End? Pedicures for wife-beaters: From your State Dept, on Town Hall Steyn on Africa: (from Country Store) The issue in Africa in every one of its crises - from economic liberty to Aids - is government. Until the do-gooders get serious about that, their efforts will remain a silly distraction.
Stop the ACLU: thank you, reader, for forwarding this Yahoo discussion group Grizzly Eats Girl: in Daily Pundit - Click here: Daily Pundit Individual Archive New Aircraft Carrier: In Jane's - Click here: US Navy to press ahead with new aircraft carrier Hillary's Polls Stink, says RWN China requires website registration, with 30,000 internet thought police. Gee, all so they dont read Maggie's. In Science Daily - Click here: China forces Web site registrations
Wednesday, June 8. 2005
Federal Program to Help Tell White Christians Apart at Polls: Dean asked for this one from Scrapple-Man. - when he said yesterday that the white Christians just keep voting repeatedly because poll workers can't tell them apart. Seriously said that. Learning to Walk - Literally. At Cognitive Daily. Immigration Alert, from The American Thinker: In fact, the total immigrant population of the United States now stands at 33 million, or 11% of the entire population, which, according to The Center for Immigration Studies, is significantly higher than at any time in history.At this rate, immigration will swell the population of the United States to 400 million in 50 years. (This includes all immigrants, legal and illegal.) Consider that we have 10.3 million illegals here now, with at least 800,000 more entering every year. In twenty years we will have 26.3 million illegals, plus any children they may have. The population of the United States when it was founded was only 3 million. This is over 8 times that number, and these people have all entered this country illegally. In fact, there are over 3 million children born in the United States to families headed by illegals. The Population Reference Bureau, furthermore, shows that the overwhelming number of illegals are men between 18 and 39 (43%) followed by Women between 18 and 39 (29%) with 17% being children. The age breakdown is important; it means that the bulk of the population is at prime childbearing age, or will be in a number of years. We are about to have a baby boom of children of illegal immigrants. I'm Sick of these money problems Excepted from The Onion: Hola, amigos. What's goin' on? I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya, but it's like life keeps raining shit down on me and I don't have a shit shovel big enough to clear it all away. My ride is giving me grief. The muffler is coming loose, so it's making a lot of noise. The car might sound badass if it were, like, a Thunderbird or something. But it's a Festiva, so it sounds like a souped-up lawn mower. I took a tin can and some muffler tape and patched the pipe up, but my repair job isn't going to last for long.
Last Day of Sale From our Department of Free Advertising for the Worthy: Today is the final Sale Day at Wayside Nurseries.
 Harvard's PC
We Yalies always enjoy winning in football, but now the crimson has pooped in its pants in public, and you almost have to feel sorry for them. Our team here has done the "Larry is a weenie" bit endlessly over recent weeks, but Powerline has taken the story a bit beyond name-calling (not that it isn't entirely justified). Scott has also quoted our favorite and most essential essay of all time - Politics and the English Language. Watch a once-grand institution try to commit slow suicide on the altar of PC: Here.
Sewage in our Rivers, from DC to us. The Fed EPA wants to lower sewage standards. While such things are state and local issues, the EPA sets the minimum. Bad idea. Science Daily. Lefties in Charge of 9-11 Memorial. You won't believe this. In Dons Attic - thanks LGF. The beginning of the end of the Euro. Prins: This remarkable week has put onto the agenda a development that was previously unthinkable but which may materialise rather quicker than the elites expect: the unpicking of the euro. Read entire excellent analysis of the European runaway brides. Hodgson: Conservative Blogs Poison Political Atmosphere. Yup, blame it all on Maggie's Farm. Free speech is a big problem, isn't it? The Klein Book: The pre-emptive strike against the book has begun. The book will have no impact on anything, sorry to say. Hope I am wrong about that. Rip Currents: A timely piece, and excellent, in the NYT. I always believed that you just let it carry you, and that seems to be the case.
Tuesday, June 7. 2005
Prayers for Iowahawk: The most droll, the most wise, the most adolescent, the most...well, you know - we love the Hawk. He needs your prayers. We have been worried about him. Steyn: Hillary is Dems only hope. Repubs know it, too. How did it get to this point? Who is she and what has she done? Krauthammer on US grovelmania Ferderalist 45 and Pot: I agree with Right Thinking. What are these folks thinking on the SC? "Why would the Times publish this article?" Turner nails it but good on Tech Central. Saving Hemingway's House in Havana., in CSM. Faith of the Framers: And yet more on this recently-reawakened story. Border Patrol Catch and Release: What am I missing here? Oh, I get it - both parties are closing their eyes. From RWN. Columbia Drug Wars - A good summary in Reason A Note to Repubs in DC from the News Junkie: Earth to Repubs - you won. Act like it.
Monday, June 6. 2005
Too Funny - Clinton gives advice to Chirac - on Drudge. Just cannot keep themselves out of the news, can they? Lens Lice, those Clintons. How do you pry their suction-cupped fingers off the cameras? What are they, when they are alone? Empty shells hoping to be filled? The Analyst might know, but she wouldn't say. There is a sickness there, I suspect.
Bad Bad Books Human Events online has compiled a list of the ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries, with The Communist Manifesto easily grabbing first place. The runner-up list provides comprehensiveness, but I'm sure there are a few more works which readers could add (or some which they feel don't belong on the list). Any ideas?
Why is Condi Still Single? A wise group of deep thinkers by poolside Sunday afternoon concluded that it is her STUPID HAIRCUT, maybe by the same guy who cuts John Edward's hair. Because she is otherwise perfect.
Piling On Dean: Well, who cares? But everyone likes to pile on when a bozo like this is making a fool of himself. Biden and Edwards, at the moment. From my standpoint - GO DEAN - The True Un-Nuanced Voice of the Vermont and Massachusetts Dems. Keep him in the DNC and at least he won't be practicing medicine any more, which seems like an excellent idea: he seems a bit impetuous.
Darfur. Why is no-one doing anything? Has the entire world decided that Africa is a lost cause? If you want a waking nightmare, put yourself in the shoes of these folks for about ten seconds. But the question is serious: Why?
"Larry is a Weenie, Larry is a weenie." Heather McDonald: Even Harvard’s bottomless resources cannot buy a miracle, however. So instead of a magician, the university has brought forth the next best thing: a report on “diversity” that, like all such products, possesses the power of shutting down every critical faculty in seemingly intelligent people. For connoisseurs of diversity claptrap, Harvard’s just released “Report of the Task Force on Women Faculty” is a thing of beauty, a peerless example of the destruction of higher learning by identity politics. Because the report will undoubtedly serve as the template for future diversity scams in colleges across the country, it’s worth studying. Read entire in City JOurnal. Vote won't affect EU: No, they will just keep on doing what they do, regardless: CSM They have created a kingdom of bureaucrats. NPR: There must be something sick and perverse in me that enjoys some of the NPR stuff. With only 2% of their income now coming from the govt=us, time to quit that 2% and let them do their thing. What the heck. Piece in Intell. Conservative. Hayek is of course the hero of modern conservatism and a fountain of wisdom. View from 1776 is always referring to him. A good piece on Hayek from Ocean State. Koran. Will post nothing re this trivial silly non-issue. Not worth the virtual ink and I am fresh out of virtual urine. But I will quote LaShawn: Despite what they may say, Muslims are and have always been on a mission to conquer and kill infidels. They’ve been doing it for centuries and will continue until we’re all dead, or they’re all dead, or the world ends, whichever comes first. We need to get over ourselves and focus on stopping the spread of Islamofacism. Period. Save civility and Koran “handling” for less perilous times. Gun Nut. The real thing in NJ, the kind of idiot that makes responsible gun owners look bad. Shame on this old fool (82 years old). The Dutch EU Vote has been sort of ignored by the MSM. Nice summary in Squaring the Boston Globe - quotes from the voters are great. Christian-Hating Dems: Why, why, why? Someone please explain to me why the Dems hate Christians. Harkin, in this case, but it might as well be Dean. Hillary too smart to say stuff like this, whatever she thinks - and that you will NEVER know. Captains Quarters.
Friday, June 3. 2005
Last chance to email the FEC Today is the last day the FEC will be taking public comments on their plans to regulate campaign-related speech and advertising on the internet, including blogs. Reportedly, the FEC has been disappointed by the low volume of comment. Please refer to yesterday's post here, and send the FEC a polite email, not a rant, about how you use or view blogs and how that relates to your opinion on political campaign speech-regulation on the Internet, esp in the "Blogosphere". Make sure you include your name and address - they don't read anonymous.
 Downtown Wellfleet, MA, on Cape Cod - last summer, of course - note the Olympics sign. Rain and/or fog, as usual. And blueberry or cranberry pancakes. Cranberry is the best.
Live Aid, Band Aid, etc. Bob Geldorf is back with another version of his save-the-world rock concerts. Chrenkoff has the real story about how these well-meaning but naive efforts misfired.
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