Wednesday, March 30. 2005
Misc. Buffet to testify in AIG mess: Click here: Buffett to face questions in AIG probe - report - Insurance - Financial Services - Earnings - SEC Liberman vs. Shays: New England elected reps disagree on feeding tube: Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story Kudlow: "Writing in the New York Sun last week, George Weigel tells us that "Embracing suffering is a concept alien to us. And yet suffering embraced in obedience to God's will is at the center of Christianity....The Christ of the Gospels reaches out and embraces suffering as his destiny, his vocation-- and is vindicated in that self-sacrifice on Easter." Click here: Kudlow's Money Politic$: Terri Schiavo's Easter
The Doctor on Easter: Click here: The Doctor Is In: Three Men on a Friday
Tuesday, March 29. 2005
The Monks I have been wondering who those monks were who have been on TV all week. Thanks, reader, for forwarding this to us. Monks are a good thing. Interesting story: Click here: Tampabay: Friars at Schindlers' side felt own loss
Blogs Rebecca MacKinnon on the new relationship between information and the public - she seems to be trying to explain the new reality to journalists. What many such articles underemphasize is that professional journalists provide most of the fodder on which blogs feed. Bloggers have day jobs. The big thing that is new is distribution and diversity of opinion, not fact-finding, except in exceptional cases (eg Rathergate, Pewgate, etc.) "....this has led to a loss of sovereignty in the press. What I mean by that is simply a loss of exclusive control. Areas that once were under the domain of the journalist are now not exclusively under the domain of the journalist. You are not the boss anymore. What you say is not the law." Click here: The Nation | Article | Blogging, Journalism and Credibility | Rebecca MacKinnon
Another view, from the Crimson: Thanks for the heads up, Powerline: "Besides being disabled, Schiavo and I have something important in common, that is, someone attempted to terminate my life by removing my endotracheal tube during resuscitation in my first hour of life. This was a quality-of-life decision: I was simply taking too long to breathe on my own, and the person who pulled the tube believed I would be severely disabled if I lived, since lack of oxygen causes cerebral palsy" Read: Click here: The Harvard Crimson Online :: Opinion More Lens Lice Show Up And now Jesse Jackson weighs in, urging saving Terri...how did it take him so long?: Click here: My Way News
The Euristan Press, Dem Dirty Trix, and other topics Nice review by Boyles on how the condescending Euristanians view us: "Practically speaking, modern secularism in Europe is forced de-Christianization in favor of humanism's new convictions" Click here: Denis Boyles on EuroPress on National Review Online From Hinderaker on those "talking point memos" about Schiavo: "What, then, was the evidence for the claim that it was created and distributed by Republicans? As far as the public record shows: There is none. On the contrary, the only published report identifying the purveyors of the memo on March 17 states that they were Democrats. The New York Times reported on March 22:
As tensions festered among Republicans, Democratic aides passed out an unsigned one-page memorandum that they said had been distributed to Senate Republicans. [emphasis added]
This smells. Read entire: Click here: Fake but Accurate Again? A wise piece from the Vatican a month ago, about the limits of Medicine: "VATICAN CITY - Vatican officials on Thursday decried what they called a "religion of health" in affluent societies and held out Roman Catholic Pope John Paul's stoic suffering as an antidote to the mentality that modern medicine must cure all. " Click here: Vatican Officials Decry 'Religion of Health' Steyn one year ago, prescient as ever: "Last year, I had a long talk with a ‘senior EU official’ and I was amazed at the way, quite unprompted, he used the phrase ‘Europe’s post-Christian future’, presuming that I would agree with him that this was a condition to aspire to. Europe’s quite post-Christian enough, and most of the horrors of our time came about through the most prominent expressions of its post-Christian state, Nazism and Communism. And yet faith in secularism is indestructible." Click here: Topical Take
Monday, March 28. 2005
Pewgate "The blogosphere is under attack. For three weeks, bloggers have battled the Federal Election Commission, seeking exemption from campaign finance laws that would effectively regulate political speech on the Web. How did it come to this?" Click here: FrontPage magazine.com :: Pewgate: The Battle of the Blogosphere by Richard Poe
 Powell's new book reveals shocking steroid use in White House:
"Top Cabinet officials are up in arms about the allegations of widespread steroid use made by former Secretary of State Colin Powell in his new political tell-all Pumped." Read entire:Click here: The Onion
Misc. I'm not surprised the authorities are having trouble finding Al Quaida's web sites and email arrangements. Heck, I still can't find even Maggie's Farm blog on Google. Hunt for Zarqawi's Webmasters Always tasteless and always funny: "At this very moment, the Christian right continues their relentless assault on Roe v. Wade by praying and singing their little Jesus songs outside brave Michael's home. The line between Christian and Islamic Fundamentalism has never been more blurred than it is right now." YES! Die with Dignity! DIE! DIE!!!! How are sex offenders different from other criminals, from the standpoint of recidivism? Are they really worse? I don't know. Why not track all felons? Better idea - let's track everyone. After all, most of us are unarrested felons. FEC and blogs: Regulation of free speech is bad enough, but possible regulation of speech in blogs would be totalitarian. Prof B is on the case: Click here: ProfessorBainbridge.com: The Business of Blogging
Microjets Microjets for the middle class - I need one or two of these: "Travel in "very small jets" operating outside traditional commercial airline rules is expected to explode in coming years and is already causing congestion at some small airports." Click here: MSNBC - Affordable personal jets closer than you think
Euthanasia, more Lucette Lugano re her mother's stroke: "That is when I realized that the stroke had not robbed Edith of her charm. Or her fundamental humanity. I glimpse the same charm and the same humanity in Terri Schiavo--though the advocates of the culture of death have sought to rob her of both." Read entire: Click here: OpinionJournal - Taste
Thursday, March 24. 2005
Insurgents Hey Main-Stream Media - I know you're listening out there - quit it with this "insurgents" word. You know as well as I do that these are 90% foreigners who snuck into Iraq to defeat freedom and to humiliate America. Only the MSM and Ward Churchill believe they are noble rebels. It's quite simple - the word is TERRORISTS. Or, if you prefer, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC FOREIGN TERRORISTS. Got it?
Another fraudulent document? Power Line is tracking those "talking points" about the Schiavo case. If it's a trick - let's find out. Go Powerline ! Click here: Power Line: March 2005 Archives
Wednesday, March 23. 2005
More on Euristan I seem to be chasing our Barrister in posting on this issue today. Pete Du Pont here echoes what Steyn has been saying. Title says it all: Will EU chose collectivism over individualism? Will we? "But now (Czech) President Klaus sees an unsettling new challenge: the zeal of Old Europe--France, Germany, Brussels--to impose collective choices on New Europe--Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Ireland. "Ten years ago," Mr. Klaus writes, "the dominant slogan was: 'deregulate, liberalize, privatize.' Now the slogan is different; 'regulate . . . get rid of your sovereignty and put it in the hands of international institutions and organizations.' " Read entire: Click here: OpinionJournal - Outside the Box These folks will live to regret that they ever conceived of an EU.
Adventure Travel Adventure travel is all the rage, right? Here's the real thing. How about another tsunami in the Pacific and Indian Ocean? Click here: http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000033/003387-p.htm Or, if you prefer death by bullets instead of by water, terrorism in elegant Qatar: Click here: http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000033/003389-p.htm
In response to The Chairman's frustration expressed yesterday re illegal immigration, here is a somewhat calmer and maybe more realistic view. After all, those 10 million are not going to be bussed home: Click here: The Hedgehog Blog: Illegal Immigration: The Issue The GOP Simply Must Get Right
Tuesday, March 22. 2005
Pick a country - any country. The CIA's country Fact Book is online. You can learn, for example, that Uganda now has 70% literacy, universal suffrage, uses an English Common Law legal system, a population growth rate of 2.9%, and lots more. Click here: Foreign Policy: Country Intelligence
Christmas now, in Beirut, from the NY Sun: "Above a busy shopping street where a bomb blew out the front walls of a building Friday night, injuring nine people, there now stretches a long row of glittering lights. Local authorities have rekindled the decorations left over from Christmas. "They want to show the bombers that they are building," a policeman guarding the site said." Click here: In the Media I like reading the great Andrew Sullivan (the only other "greats" I use in my lexicon apply to Krauthammer and Mark Steyn), but only sometimes agree with him. He predicts "The Great Conservative Crack-up"...wishful thinking, perhaps? "Beneath the surface, however, American conservatism is in increasing trouble. The Republican coalition, always fragile, now depends as much on the haplessness of the Democrats as on its own internal logic. On foreign and domestic policy alike the American right is splintering. With no obvious successor to George W Bush that splintering will deepen." Click here: Comment: Andrew Sullivan: Bush’s triumph conceals the great conservative crack-up - Sunday Times - Times Online
Freezer packed full of game? Cook it before it all gets freezer-burned and useless. Don't dishonor the wild game. Click here: Wild Game Recipes from Rumela's Web Had a fine venison stew last night from Rumela at a pal's "27th" birthday party.
Snarks for the snarky: Funny, critical piece re Maureen Dowd, "The Queen of Mean" :Click here: Maureen, Queen of Mean by Kay S. Hymowitz
We have been following this story. It's a major scoop for the NY Post. The truth about campaign finance "reform." Cute title - The Stench from Pew: Click here: New York Post Online Edition: postopinion Do not try to hold your breath until the NYT and LAT cover this story.
Monday, March 21. 2005
Sent this piece Click here: Attention Deficit Disorder ADD and ADDH and Ritalin - Consider the Alternatives to Doc Higgins, who sent it back with these comments: I do not endorse this kind of "alternative medicine" website. However, stimulants are over-used. I read somewhere that one exclusive private boy's school in New York has 60% of its kids on stimulants. I know that the good Lord did not build boys to sit in classrooms, but c'mon! The fact is that these things help everyone concentrate better. I'm skeptical about a lot of these ADD diagnoses, but not about ADHD, which is a real diagnosis and a brain-wiring problem, I suspect.
Private organizations can restrict speech and create speech codes. Still, this kind of PC thing reeks of Mao and Stalin and Castro: Click here: FIRE - Student Files Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Occidental College After College Censored Speech and Dis
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