Tuesday, August 22. 2006
South African women prefer shopping to sex. This piece invites any number of clever comments, but I will restrain myself. The UN is a "dangerous charade," says View from 1776 There is a new domain, called "dot travel." Here's a good new one: search.travel Megayacht fans can follow the movements of their favorites. (Chris says he saw the 162' jet-drive Mystique in CT this week - one heck of a machine.) Yachtspotters.com. Only the internets could make such a fun, harmless hobby possible. Links are the thing. For a generation, Dems have sought to reduce American power, says Lib. Leanings, and I agree. But towards what purpose? A serious hurricane shortage this year. Caused by Global Warming? Or did Bush and Rove decide to turn off their secret hurricane-generating machine, which is hidden on a CIA oil rig somewhere in the West Indies or the Gulf of Mexico, before the fall elections? Bush claims Dems do not understand threats to US, as the fall campaign season approaches. I think they do - it's just that they need an issue to try to push. Dumb idea. A World Trade Center Memorial Museum. What for? Oh well, it will only cost about a billion. Another manatee visits New England for the summer. Very intelligent. Remember Chessie in 1995?
Monday, August 21. 2006
Why technology doesn't improve education: his experience. Rt Wing nation The Washington Post didn't know how to handle Juan William's new book, but they did manage to find someone to criticize it. Pitiful, when his views could actually do some real good for real people who are caught up in negativity. The ozone cure was worse than the disease: Big Lizard Great example of how some people think: at Babalu: With such wonderful additions to the world, why vilify Fidel any longer? What's a little suppression of political dissent when people can get treatment for diabetes? What are a few innocent human rights violations when people have access to locally grown produce without toxins? What's a little communism when Cuba is contributing less to global climate change than the rest of us?
What is the IQ threshold for college these days? Auster makes his view simple and clear: Islam is the problem.
However, we do not have the ability to defeat Islam.
Nor do we have the ability to democratize Islam.
Nor do we have the ability to assimilate Islam.
Therefore, the only solution is to separate ourselves from Islam.
Whole piece here. Taliban terrorist will remain at Yale afer all. I wonder how his remedial English is coming along? Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow. Cao The long tail? A quick video to bring you up to date with the latest business fad concept. Driscoll Welfare reform, ten years later. The gloom and doom was wrong. They misunderestimated people's abilities. Polipundit Race, bodegas, WalMart, immigrants, and American blacks: VDARE Historic advances in math - totally ignored by the press. YARGB The defense budget, 1945 to present. Dino A quote from Ben Stein, as quoted more fully at LFG: WHAT stands between us and the iceberg(of militant Islam)are the miraculously brave men and women of the armed forces. They're heroes and saints as far as I'm concerned. But can they do it without the rest of us? Can they do it while we're all working on our tans and trying to have our taxes lowered again? How can we leave them out there all alone to die for us when we treat the war to save civilization as something we can just wish away?
 Back from a week camping at Acadia Park. I am agreeing with Dr. Bliss - that Maine codfish stew is the best. You can keep your lobsters: they are just expensive chewing gum.
Someone has written an obituary of the conservative movement. Call it obit #3127. Some of their points are correct, however. Time for another Reagan. Bush is not Reagan. Space tourism is about to begin. I wonder whether there is a market for this. European dhimmitude. Heart-breaking. At Moonbattery, with a quote which we could almost have written here: Soon history will look back and ask how Islam could have displaced European civilization without even encountering resistance. The answer will be that this barbaric death cult is receiving a great deal of help from the liberal elite, which semiconsciously shares its goal of obliterating the West. The liberal elite establishment will see to it that thought criminals ? i.e., anyone suspected of opposing Muslims' gradual conquest ? are silenced, as we recently saw with the Brussels Journal, and as has been illustrated so appallingly in the case of Oriana Fallaci.
History note: Kortrijt and the Battle of the Spurs. Write a brief essay describing the historical effects of this famous battle, in which ten thousand French knights were defeated by ten thousand Flemish infantry. Hezbollah wore IFD uniforms in battle. NY Sun Crucifix necklace banned by Aussie school. Either the school is an idiot, or they are smart enough, like the Romans were, to recognize and fear the subversive and transformational power of the cross. That airline mutiny pleases me. Would you risk your life, just to look politically correct? If I feel creeped out, I am outta there. It's my life. Honey, would you scratch my back?
Friday, August 18. 2006
Very poor form: Jimmy Carter continues attacks on Bush Mayor Bloomberg really hates smoking. He does have strong nanny-state impulses, but I'd rather see him as gov of NY than run for Pres. Baleen whales once had teeth. Libertarian Leanings takes on George Will and John Kerry. My opinion? If in office, the Dems would do pretty much the same as Bush has done. What was Israel's goal in Lebanon? Dino Dems declare war on Walmart. They will fight them until they no longer? pose a threat to the American Way of Life. Very brave, the Dems. (I think noone told the limo-liberal snobs how much working class people love Walmart.) Captain Ed Interview with Uri Lubrani on Iran. Gateway
Thursday, August 17. 2006
The Fair Tax. Now some liberals support the idea. No lawyers, no accountants - sounds worth thinking about. Defeated Moonbat in Mexico seems to be almost threatening the government. This does not bode well for Mexico. One miracle: nobody blamed the US yet. Empty suit, or Leisure suit? Middlebrow, like many others, demonstrate's Lamont's lighter-than-air platitudes. Free Market health care? Go to India for cheaper surgeries. Why not? For several generations, the prosperous of the world have come to NYC for top medical care. Why not both ways? The secret is that Hezbollah is the government of Southern Lebanon. The NYT loves Hezbollah. And, by the way, do you know what a "hudna" is? I didn't. It is a sort of Moslem rope-a-dope. The application of markets to LSU academic departments. Interesting unintended consequences. Marg. Rev With a whimper. Cubans view Fidel as slowly fading out.
Wednesday, August 16. 2006
 Global warming is a hoax.
Lamont-Lieberman. Not many people care. Bernard Goldberg on Mike Wallace. Soros says "war on terror" is no more than a lousy metaphor. (I agree - it's a war against Islamic imperialism.) Ankle Biting. More thoughts on Soros' foreign policy views at View from 1776. You have to wonder who named Soros an expert on anything other than currency trading? Bishop of Rochester blames multiculturalism for Brit Jihadism. I don't know whether he is right, but he makes good points. YARGB Rates up, housing values down. What will be the effect on spending? Daily Pundit A chat with Bibi Netanyahu: Am Thinker A propos of our post on the Red Fox this week, I see that the killing has begun at Free Market Towers, now that the pheasant poults have arrived. Fat? Blame yourself. The world now has more obesity than hunger. Put that on your plate and eat it, Mr. Malthus. Obama delivers anti-pollution speech, then hops into his SUV. How many times have I told you that this is all about politics and power: no-one really believes this stuff. Lebanon. A bit of backlash against Hizbollah, but of course always some anger at Bush!
Tuesday, August 15. 2006
"A pic of the Global Hawk UAV that returned from the war zone on Monday under its own power. (Iraq to Edwards AFB in CA) - Not transported via C5 or C17..... Notice the mission paintings on the fuselage. It's actually over 250 missions.... (and I would suppose 25 air medals). That's a long way for a remotely-piloted aircraft. Think of the technology (and the required quality of the data link to fly it remotely). Not only that but the pilot controlled it from a nice warm control panel at Edwards AFB. It has really long legs- can stay up for almost 2 days at altitudes above 60k.
They flew it via satellite control to Australia, and we flew missions during OT&E that went from Eddy to upper Alaska and back non-stop.
 It was Iran that humbled Israel. Plus Olmert, who did not want any casualties. Long-term, Israel cannot survive that way.
At that rate, they will all have to move to Arizona, and let the Moslems turn Israel into the useless, backwards dump they have done everywhere else. Moslems respect force, and nothing else. Now Olmert is in trouble. He was not ready for prime time, nor was the army ready for anti-tank missiles. No more angels and baby Jesuses, but the US will have this "Christmas" stamp this year, FYI. Reserve yours now! And Happy Kwanzaa, too! BTW, a mere 131 shopping days 'til Christmas. (Am I allowed to say that evil word?)
 Racial profiling begins in the UK. It's about time. If my sort of people were blowing things up, I would not mind a bit - it keeps everyone safer, including honest Moslems. Ace
Resurrecting the Wooly Mammoth. Always wanted a pet mammoth. And they would be the green way to get to work, except that the nether end of their GI tract probably produces more greenhouse gasses than the average Hummer. Darn those Indians for killing them off. Gunther Grass admits his membership in the Waffen SS. "...before anti-semitism was fashionable," notes Glenn. "Diversity" and the illiberal academy: good stuff. Protein. A quote: True diversity, of course, is to be celebrated:
Monday, August 14. 2006
 That was a huge billboard, many years ago, as you approached NYC from Yankeeland, via the Bruckner Blvd. Levy's rye bread. Good bread, with the whole flavorful caraway seeds in it. The perfect bread, for us gentiles, for ham and swiss cheese, with plenty of mustard!
That old sign was up there for 15 years or more. As a kid, it seemed exotic: I never had met a Jewish person. Later, they ran ads like the one on the right, in the newspapers. A sort-of precursor of Benetton. You do not have to be Jewish to find Nathan's Aliyah Diary interesting. Check it out, if you haven't. Israel is serious about citizenship: it is not a right - it is a hard-earned privilege. Requiring a Jewish doctor/professor from America to work in the persimmon orchards, and to clean the horse stalls, says it all. Would your doctor do that? What would you or I be willing to do to become an American citizen? It just happens that Maggie's Farm has no Jewish staff (except for our guest author Nathan, who posts willy-nilly from various points in Israel). However, we support Israel - not as a US puppet - but as a democratic, free, civilized, peace-loving state which has become the scapegoat of the Middle East, and their favorite hate-object with which they maintain power.
I will pitch in and give Bird Dog a hand with some
Hello. Good morning. The Left is anti-Semitic. End of rant. Read it yourself "Nazi Kikes out of Lebanon." And the Left doesn't want to believe in Jihad. Why? Because they don't know what to do. And one more rant/thought: Why is war a "crisis"? War is not crisis. It is war. Jihadists throughout Brit universities. Very nice. Aren't those Brits "nice." Very MULTICULTURAL! But they caught the head of Al Quaida in Britistan. Also, Brit Moslems urge Blair to "stop violence." Huh? Scoop? Good fun. "I was raised in the Hebrew faith, but I converted to narcissism."
Sunday, August 13. 2006
Ths is good - touches all of the bases. Watch it, and see anti-Israel propaganda at work, live. Fake, but accurate? http://www.aish.com/movies/PhotoFraud.asp
 Editor Bird Dog feels like a one-armed paper-hanger around the Farm right now, with the News Junkie in Mt. Desert Island, the Chairman at Northeast Harbor, The Barrister preoccupied with his grandkids, and Gwynnie at her California mountain retreat. With the help of some Summertime Re-posts, we shall persevere.
The Doryman's Reflection: A Fisherman's Life. This looks good. Bookslut And speaking of dory fishing, here's a good link about it. 51% of Dems want Bush to fail. There is something deeply wrong about that attitude towards one's country. Polipundit When you flush in NYC, where does it go? Sierra Blanca, Texas. Remind me to never go there. Does masturbation make you blind? Furedi at Spiked makes the case that the Masturbation Movement's agenda is to make people blind to love and passion. Brave New World: Biology. From a piece in The Atlantic: Inside the Billionaire Service Industry: "A comparable level of exclusivity is available to the well-heeled patient wanting insulation from the American health-care system. For initiation fees of $1,000 to $15,000 and annual dues of between $2,500 and $50,000 (six levels of membership are available), a company called PinnacleCare assigns “advocates” who will manage a client’s health care—investigating specialists and medical research, securing access to top doctors, and juggling appointments. (The cost of the treatment itself is separate.) Nearly all of the advocates are women, and they exude a motherly efficiency, cooing to their clients and sweet-talking the surgeons. But one suspects that their claws come out when necessary. Having an advocate present during a hospital stay, one client said, is like having an extremely knowledgeable relative on hand for hours a day, exerting relentless pressure to get whatever the patient needs."
Saturday, August 12. 2006
Guys dancing on treadmills. Very clever You Tube The Fantasy World of International Law. Rabkin in Weekly Standard. h/t, Powerline The Eurosoviet Union? Free speech in the EU under threat. Classical Values NYT tries to understand terrorist "grievances." It's very simple, folks: The world isn't dominated by mullahs yet. That's the grievance. The Times is so Left that they cannot contemplate religious/spiritual motives: everything is material, and only the US is evil. And here is an example of what mullahs do to women. Betsy takes a look at Reuters' anti-Israel and anti-USA bias. A nuclear power website. h/t, Synthstuff It's time to profile terrorists. Duh. Examiner Al Gore: hypocrite.
Friday, August 11. 2006
If these bombers were indeed second- and third-generation Brits of Pakistani origin, and therefore reasonably assimilated, then their plot and organization falls into the same category as all of the others: Jihad is what it's about, pure and simple. Hatred of the infidels. Here are some life details about one of them, at Jihad Watch. Thanks are due to the Brits, the NSA, and the Pakistan govt, for coordinating on this. What terror threat? RWN Charles Johnson has made it to the big time, again. CSM American Exceptionalism and the current Dem party. Betsy Trained rats locate land mines in Africa. Video Reducing the g-load for affirmative action. LaShawn. What it says is that blacks are not as intelligent as others: is that what Affirmative Action supporters really believe? I do not believe that, but I do believe that Affirmative Action is a political scam. U-Haul: Does anyone have any idea why U-Haul will not permit trailing with Ford Explorers? Apparently Taurus is fine with them - even Mustangs, but not Explorers. Strange.
Thursday, August 10. 2006
 The bomb plots are the big news. Details at Drudge. More here at the BEEB. Gee, I sure hope they didn't trace any terrorist phone calls to catch these guys, don't you? How long will it take for someone to blame the US for this? My message: Yo, Brits - You have injected yourself with cancer cells, while pretending that all kinds of cells are "just cells." Yes, they are "cells" - terrorist cells. Now you have a big problem: metastatic cancer.
Getting to know you. We will learn more about Ned Lamont over the next few months. Kesler reviews his political heritage: A red diaper baby. Funny. Admadinejad on "the hook-nosed Jew." Bloomberg rushes to support Lieberman. CT happens to be a state with more Independents than either Rs or Ds. (Foolish of them, for sure, because they cannot vote in the primaries. You have a larger voice by registering, picking your candidate first, and then voting for whomever you wish.) Mike Wallace "impressed" by Ahmadinejad. Umm, what does this say about Mike Wallace? I recall that Joe Kennedy thought Hitler was a fine, earnest fellow who loved dogs (but neither of them were overly fond of Jews). Evil and danger rarely come with labels on them, but this guy has labelled himself. Image: Fine art from Australian Nude Surfing. They know how to have a good time. I like the wholesome, focused attitude of this gal: it appeals to me very much.
Wednesday, August 9. 2006
"Wrong and Weak": GOP already making the most of the Lamont win. (h/t, Townhall) Words and Pictures: Our team member Roger made the point earlier in the week, but here is a prime example of the increasingly shrill and desperate emanations from the Left-wing MSM: Globe slanders Iraq amputee vet - Gateway Iranians claim to have cloned a sheep? Any relation to my post on goat genitals? Perhaps their women dislike scratchy beards, but the goats and sheep are used to it. So DO IT, already. Olmert still hanging fire. He wants a war where no-one gets hurt. Wrong guy at the wrong time. Goodwin in NY Daily news: a snippet: This is fantasy. And that's what Lamont's victory is based on. That somehow we can pull out of Iraq, tell the terrorists they win - and we and our allies will not suffer any consequences. And if those Islamists misbehave, well, we'll just scoot back over there with our police force and arrest those naughty fellows. I believe that Islamic terrorists will stop at nothing in their mad quest to rule the globe. As a result, World War III has started, whether we like it or not. It will continue, whether we fight back or not. But if we think we can win by not fighting, then we're not just wrong. We're nuts. As in nutmeg.
Worker's Paradise news. Also, hey! Is Fidel dead yet? Haha - he is dancing here. Few hurricanes this year. Thank Bush. Yes, it was inevitable. The return of The Green Helmet Guy. h/t, SDA.
Many thought he was the mortician, but he's a Director of Press Relations for Hezbollah! A stew of related topics: Victimhood, Fake but Accurate, and "Greater Truths" - at Sisu. A good example of a blog post: engaging, many links, many sources, and a stew of ideas.
ACLU in LA opposes Katrina cross memorial on private land with private funds. You get the idea that, like the devil, a cross is death to them. And more: Alaska ACLU attacks church property tax exemptions. Special K may be a quick-acting antidepressant. Like heroin? Globe What will be the impact of the MySpace-Google alliance? TG Daily Great example of fauxtography: Michelle Bernard Lewis warns about the 22nd of August. (Drudge) Moslem woman-only beaches - in Italy! Will they take their burkhas off? What do they wear underneath? God forbid they have to associate with Italians, with all of those guys staring at their bella figura.
Tuesday, August 8. 2006
 Lieberman website and email hacked and shut down. Breitbart. Here is where his site was, until last night. I see a federal case. Lannie Davis will not be surprised.
Hotties in the IDF. h/t, Tim Blair Pollsters surprised by Hillary negatives. Why? Tort scams, and Vioxx. The latest. Is it true that over 50% of tort cases are scams? The view from my alley in Baghdad. Iraq the Model Cover your goats' genitals or face death - In Iraq. For whom, may I ask, are goat genitals arousing? Is that a Moslem thing, or what? Blogs will rebel against political speech. Yes - we all will. And we will not vote for McCain, either. Kim Half of US skeptical about media propaganda. Only half? Dixie Chicks cancelling tour dates. Sold a million of their newest, though.
Monday, August 7. 2006
 It's August - but the news will not quit. Reutersgate update, at Pajamas. Another Reuters scam. God knows how many times this same distraught lady has lost a home in Lebanon? Ynet notes that the Qana thing was staged, and by now everyone knows about the ubiquitous Mr. Green Helmet.
Napster may be for sale again. LA Mayor scared into apologizing to Moslems for his sympathy for Israel. What a pussy schmuck. What is wrong with "world opinion"? Everything. Rightly So Farewell to Susan Butcher. The only Iditerod driver whose name I knew, either. Do you vote with your amygdala or your prefrontal cortex (I use my hand, personally.) Russia drifting backwards, but without the Commie excuse this time. Publius PC. A healthy essay on the insidious topic. Linknzona The problem with universal suffrage. Uncle Felzer, at Moonbattery. Unbelievable hypocrisy from Kofi Annan. Is anyone surprised? Over-privileged kids. Is it any favor for them? Conspiracy Doublespeak in the Middle East. From our pal at Grandaddy Iran and U-238. Where are the headlines? Where have all the flowers gone? Will the Pete Seeger pacifist Left ever learn? Captain Ed Move On determined to crush Lieberman. Lamont probably will - but what kind of victory is defeating your own party? Is that worth a celebration? And did everyone already read Peretz' piece in Opinion Journal? Moslem London big wig copper blames Brit Moslem rage on Islamophobia. Has he been chatting with Al Sharpton? An excellent - if slanted - review of Lebanon, and the role of Hez in their politics, appearing in this coming Sunday's NYT Magazine. One quote: Hezbollah’s crowning moment came in May 2000, when Israeli forces withdrew from Lebanon after a 22-year presence. Refusing to accept the U.N.’s judgment that the withdrawal was complete, Hezbollah vowed to continue its ‘‘resistance.’’ While Hezbollah never quite made clear whether its resistance was ‘‘Lebanese’’ or ‘‘Islamic’’ in spirit (both terms were used interchangeably), this ambiguity went to the heart of the matter. Hezbollah simultaneously represented radical religious militancy and a peculiar sort of Lebanese patriotism, based on an existential struggle against Israel and the convenient ignoring of Syrian domination.
Whole thing here.
WWW turned 15 yesterday. Synthstuff The beauty premium. Yes, if you look good, you tend to get paid more. Did Feminism destroy "real men"? Daily Mail Mine is bigger than yours. The average new American house was 1600 sq. ft in 1975, and it was 2400 sq ft in 2005. Did Steinbeck create the myth of the Okies and the Dust Bowl? New Criterion says yes. Why do I love Beirut? Rantings of a Sandmonkey. Sissy has a couple of photo reasons, also. Is Nasrallah the new Arafat? Big Pharoah Square watermelons? I do not like these. Alphecca
Sunday, August 6. 2006
Hard hitting. That's Reuters. Getting to the bottom of things. By digging up from underneath, mostly. Well, rooting around down there, anyway. They're on no one's side - but their own. Well, them and the Green Helmet Guy, anyway. Reuters-They get the stories others miss --because the others don't care enough about the truth to make it up for you when you really need it.
When they say The Commandante "will be back with us soon" , do they mean like Lenin, under glass? And where is Waldo Raul? Is he alive? Something odd is going on in Cuba. Live tropical fish trade is destroying reef life. Lamont update. We told you it was a strange campaign. Just One Minute. Now it turns out he owns Wal-Mart stock (not in a fund, either), but preaches agin 'em. Woopsie. I thought our MA Dems were kooks, but CT is winning that contest. India orders Coke and Pepsi to make their formulae public. That'll be the day. My opinion? Camel urine, plus sugar. And why are we in Iraq? Forget oil. We are there for the benefit of Big Soda - for the camel urine. The end may be near for ACLU judicial blackmail. Moonbattery Yo Dilbert. Do cubicles have a future? The inventor of them regretted it. Hez declares open war on the US. Does that mean Iran does too? Front Page Dems increasingly renounce Israel. Betsy Oysters. Dr. Bliss inspired me to check the Oyster Bar's menu. Yes, they do offer many oyster varieties! And it is never the same. I'll take one of each. New York Night Life. Chatted with an early-20s kid working in NYC this summer. I learned that the young folks do not go out for the night until 11 or 12 pm. That's when the fun starts. And they tend to end up in Alphabet City around 4 AM. Only a few years ago, you would not enter Alphabet City without a Marine Corps guard. What a city! Thank you, Rudy. Thank you, Mike. They took NY back! Back from the creeps, and back from the Dem machine creepy politicians. It proves that you need two political parties. Sad to say, the Dems were killing the world's greatest city - while claiming it was "ungovernable." Yes - ungovernable by them. Rudy and Mike are not owned by anybody. Name me a single person who doesn't wish they owned a pied a terre in NY, these days.
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