Friday, May 9, 2008
Know Thy Enemy
Or not, at thy own risk. Reynolds weighs in with praise for the ACLU and the press, as well as FIRE, in resolving the bizarre case of PC persecution of a reading janitor at a university that has its head even farther up an inaccessible place than usual. The red-faced anti-educationists are forced to admit that at least in this case, reading is not a thought crime. Hey, what if it had been a pro-Klan history that guy was reading? Isn’t it important for an informed citizenry … at universities, of all places … to know how the enemy thinks? That’s why you read Mein Kampf, Mao’s little red book, Fars, Daily Kos, etc. What would have happened if the hapless janitor was watching the latest al-Zawahiri rant on YouTube?
Wait a minute, here’s one. What if he secretly was a Klan guy, but he had decided to inform himself about anti-Klan views? Persecute or not persecute?
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Crack of Dawn?
Hezbollah’s renewed war on Lebanon flicks on a light for a lefty scribbler, who has the passing thought the world may be an evil place. No kidding. There’s a whole axis of the stuff. Hop, skip and a jump from there to … you know. Maybe this Leb thing could be a(nother) big learning moment. (more…)
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Quit Now!
While you’ve still got a little dignity, woman! (more…)
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“He Was Just Turning His Life Around”
We’ve all seen it a thousand times on the mean streets of Any City, USA. Kid gets mixed up with the wrong crowd. Kid goes away for a while, to juvie, county jail or even prison. Kids gets out, impregnates his teenage girlfriend(s). He tells his mom he’s thinking about getting his GED. But something happens, and you hear the plaintive wail, “He was just turning his life around.”
It’s a small world after all. Crittenden at Pajamas, with a tragic tale of life and death on the mean streets of Any Jihad, Greater Umma. It’s just another story from this damned war, and maybe they’re right. Maybe we should start to treat this like a big law enforcement problem, with courts and social workers and street ministers, I mean imams, and midnight basketball games, before we tragically lose another young jihadi who was just trying to turn his life around back to the mean streets.
Related, Malkin on the war crimes of the filthy Crusader dogs.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Military Use of Cyberspace
MEMRI: Islamist Internet forums teach wannabe Muj how to make and use explosives.
Lieberman, via VOA: We shouldn’t let them do that. (more…)
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A Rove-ing Eye
On the race suggests it’s going to be Obama, and goes on to list a lot of reasons why, for Dems, it shouldn’t be. Good, cold, to the point, “warts and all” analysis on just about every relevant aspect of the race at this point also has some encouragement and caution for Repubs. WSJ.
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Favorable Indicators
That old deer-in-the-headlights mugshot probably is a relatively good likeness at this point. Al-Masri, al-Qaeda in Iraq’s Egyptian chief, reportedly nabbed in Mosul. Gateway has his history and a roundup. What it means and more details from Belmont and Roggio.
Sadr City, being emptied out in advance of stepped-up operations. May want to check under the exiting burkhas, make sure everything’s as it should be under there.
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Ambassadorable
Jenna’s tying the knot. Boston Herald’s Jill Radsken reviews the rambunctious party girl’s career to date: (more…)
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FuFu Kuku
What, no YuYu? A couple of great new characters at Hamas TV. FuFu and KuKu want to eradicate the Zionist Entity, you know the usual, but I like this part: (more…)
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The Cheeseman Departeth
The Boston mob has been a laughingstock for decades. There was the wiretapping of an Omerta ceremony in Medford. Lame-o. There was the taking down of the old school Italians by a murderous Irish upstart drug dealer/extortionist working in concert with the FBI. The murderous Irish upstart also ended up taking down the local FBI office, when it transpired that corrupt agents had in fact been working for him, overlooking, even overseeing, his murderous activities.
There was the 99 steakhouse takeout of upstart Italian punks who saw a need and thought they’d fill it. But it had been quiet for a long time. Even the morons and dolts seemed to have figured out there was no future in traditional rackets in Boston, when you’re as likely to be done in by someone else’s stupidity as your own.
Enter the Cheeseman, seen here on his way into court yesterday to plead for a super-sized toilet in his jail cell. Cruel mockery compliments of the Boston Herald’s Laurel Sweet: (more…)
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Emerging Pattern
Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Hillary’s in for the long haul. USA Today: (more…)
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Nukes in ‘09
Hey, maybe Iran will become a big campaign issue, whether Bush bombs the mullahs or not. Freedoms Zone.
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Not Dead Yet
TIME, Drudge note the media willing to declare Hillary dead. So what? I’d say this is a more relevant film clip. The only way she dies soon is if the superdelegates organize themselves to club her. Maybe I’m missing something. Don’t these people know about the eye gouging? Roundup with running updates: (more…)
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You’re Getting Warmer
It short, what this NZ commentator is saying is:
1. Miniscule, incremental, measurement-defying CO2 savings* are stupid even if you believe we can stop the world from warming up.
2. Scientists have not yet established whether they know what they are talking about, but have established that they want you to think they do.
And maybe most importantly, news to me,
3. Gaia doesn’t know she’s supposed to be warming up and isn’t cooperating.**
Also,
4. What’s the big rush?
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$$$???
While we’re all waiting to find out who takes Indiana, here’s something fun. Massachusetts Governor/Obamawannabe Deval Patrick’s pro-Obama stump speech includes a misremembered claim that his Obamism goes back to a $5,000 donation in the mid-1990s: (more…)
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Outside the Mainstream
You already knew the Rev. Jeremiah was outside the mainstream of … let’s see … America, Christianity, etc. Did you know how far he is outside the mainstream of the black American church he claims to speak for? Way out, according to Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, who do the history, the sociology, the theology, and the Wrightology at RealClearPolitics: (more…)
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No Nukes
Mohammed at Iraq the Model on Iraqi anti-nuke sentiments … they don’t like the idea of any rotten Arab or Persian regime having them. They don’t mind Israel having them. Other Arabs don’t get it. But judging by the Iraqi views expressed, they get that and a lot more: (more…)
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Frustrating Apathy
These guys are right. It’s too bad Americans aren’t more concerned about foreign policy. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: (more…)
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Cruel Mockery
Get yours from the Boston Herald’s Holbert
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Halp Us Steefn Kinge Were Stuck In A Horrer Shoe
Scary dogs, crazy sadistic writers and Langoliers loosed on NewsBuster Noel Sheppard after Stephen King goes all Shining about the criticism of his own version of “Stuck in Iraq” … remarks which frankly skirt dangerously close to plagiarizing John Kerry. (more…)
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Bleed On
Majority of Dems want what is turning out to be a wildly popular grudge match to continue. Gallup: (more…)
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Suicidal GI Meme
Keeps marching on. U.S. government shrink reports that Iraq/Afghan war vets’ suicides may outstrip the death rate. Bloomberg: (more…)
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Monday, May 5, 2008
No Regrets
Who wants to bet this charming brat of a captain of industry is enjoying all of this even more than Jeremiah Wright, even if he’s been smart enough to keep his mouth shut? Countdown to the gleeful/smug blah blah blah starts now. Here’s the gleeful/smug take in August 2001, when he was still trying to find that elusive part of the 1960s that he’s got back now. The attention part. Chicago Magazine, No Regrets. (more…)
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Iran = Hitler + Nukes, Hamas = Wall
Elder statesman Shimon Peres’ quick nuisance assessment. J Post: (more…)
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How Bad Does the U.N. Have to Get?
That’s a good question. Mull that while reading Daniel Hannan in the UK Telegraph on the challenge to Kumbayah-singing UN fans posed by the news that the UN may be encouraging elephant poaching in the Congo. I dunno, if you can stomach the mass graves and child rape … (more…)
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Great News!
NYT reports that Hezbollah is training Iraqis militias at a secret site near Tehran. You know what this means, right? (more…)
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Shark Surfing
If anyone knows why I can’t embed YouTube, I’d love to know. Meanwhile, go here and watch this guy hook a great white and surf behind it.
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Obama Who?
This Newsweek article is way too short, given the kind of answers they were getting from sources purportedly close to Oprah and close to Obama, and what it suggests about Obama’s self-doubt and self-perception.
Oprah bailed on the United Trinity Church and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright because she recognized that his fiery blather was a liability for someone seeking to transcend race and appeal to the mainstream. Also, she was more interested in running her own show. (more…)
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Birth of an Idiom
How deep is Obama in trouble? Kerry deep. Surber reaches back to the previous known example to describe the process by which dwarf stars implode. I’m beginning to think, even calculating in the hope-change axiom, and correcting for inexperience, we’re looking at grand and terrible example of Blair’s law, a sort of transcendent beclownment that alters the very fabric of the presidential campaign continuum.
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The Day the Universe Changed
I have no idea what this is about, but Maggie’s Farm is pushing it, and if it’s good enough for Maggie’s farmers, it’s good enough for me. Save me a rib at the long pork BBQ.
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How the GOP “Lost” the Military Vote
Whether they actually have and whether they will: Greyhawk, multiply deployed, posits they haven’t but could and here’s why, spinning off Blackfive’s related discussion.
In other milblog business, Badger Six is on his way home. You’ll remember that this National Guard engineer company commander extended for another 10 months when his unit went home, in order to pass on his lifesaving route-clearance knowledge where it could do the most good, in theater. Scroll down at his site to read about SF Master Sgt. Brendan O’Connor’s DSC. Also, Badger Six’s take on when enough is enough:
When you think you have done enough to support the war effort remember this - right now there is someone sitting in mud hut in Iraq, a factory in Iran, and cave in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and maybe a neighborhood in the United States who is preparing to kill you. He knows he has not done enough. Ask yourself again then if you have done enough.
It’s an attitude that asks a lot of people of whom much has been asked, particularly when Americans are free to sit it out. Six is in a position to talk.
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Sons of Iraq
Ardolino at Long War Journal on Baghdad’s Shia Awakening, some Sadr City neighbors who aren’t crazy about the Mahdi Army. (more…)
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Viral Insurgencies
Canadian Army Capt. Nils French, currently at Ft. Leonard Wood, at Small Wars Journal on the epidemiology of counterinsurgency: “tipping points” and how ideas, message and behaviors spread like viruses, and can be fought the way viruses are fought. (more…)
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Politically Incorrect Usage
Greek Lesbians sue to prevent Greek lesbians from misappropriating the word “lesbian.” Reuters via Andrew Bolt: (more…)
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Aussie Jihad!
The Australian on Saudi efforts to spread hardline Islam Down Under notes $90 billion in petrodollars invested in expanding the Umma worldwide. Sometimes accompanied by assaults on traditional western freedoms, as in this case in Boston, for example.
Malkin with more on Wahhab-vangelism.
Hyscience: For America to ignore what the Saudis are doing around the world to foster and support radical Islam, is inviting the end of life and freedom as we now know it.
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
I Kill to Eat
I had asparagus tonight. It went quietly. Maybe because I steamed it death under a lid. So even if I wasn’t half deaf, I couldn’t hear it.* Actually I just did it that way because it works better, but if it means I don’t have to listen to it scream, so much the better. (more…)
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Great American Slaughterers Through the Ages
An Iraqi TV channel, apparently unhappy that the United States ended the three-decade reign of one of the modern era’s marquee mass murderers, takes a ramble through U.S. history to highlight great American “slaughterers” who have occupied the White House. A little fact-challenged, and considering all the death and destruction we get pinned with, not a very impressive effort, but here goes. MEMRI: (more…)
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Attention Called
I’m guessing the Wall Street Journal op-ed editor’s goal in publishing a narcissistic piece by depression-plagued Ivy League literary phenom/dingbat Elizabeth Wurtzel admonishing us to ignore a presidential candidate’s disturbing pattern of friendships, was to call more attention to a disturbing pattern of friendships that we should be paying attention to. (more…)
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Friday, May 2, 2008
Elitist, Pointy-Headed Type
Doth protest a bit much. NYT’s Caucus: (more…)
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Peace Partnership
Iran says talks in Tehran will help end Iraq clashes. Sure, why not? Reuters: (more…)
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Mental Health Issues Raised
By a Baptist minister who apparently has some. Wackjob Obama/Biden supporter asks McCain about a spat with his wife. Des Moines Register: (more…)
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Too Late
Horse gone. Spike Lee wants Jeremiah Wright to do the right thing, STFU. He’s a little behind that curve. But he suspects it’s not so much just that Wright’s an uncontrollable egomaniacal bigot, but that he’s a corrupt one. Sounds like a vast leftwing conspiracy theory. Guardian: (more…)
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Good Turn Returned
A Boy Scout’s good deed returning a wallet with $800 in it brings his own missing wallet back to him. Sounds like a Saturday Evening Post cover, but it’s true. Grand Rapids Press: (more…)
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Bin Laden Concerns
Peace ambassador/Frank Zappa look-alike Omar bin Laden has been denied British residency, and his tattooed cougar of a wife is irked about it. Gulf Times: (more…)
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Concern to be Expressed
By Iraqi government team in Tehran. NYT: (more…)
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Hill’s Dream Date, a Republican
People maggie’s irony-packed interview with Clinton, previewed at ABC’s Political Radar: (more…)
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Dino Poo
Gets $960 at auction. An Ohio poo professional scored at the Bonhams New York auction. I think they could have got a lot more for it on eBay.* Akron Beacon-Journal: (more…)
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Laura Bush Derangement Syndrome
Looks like a lot like bulimia as sexist SF Chron lefty Mark Morford brings up a lukewarm puddle of half-digested feminist junkfood cliches in this slam on Laura Bush: “Docile doormat … prim, sexless, nearly useless.” (more…)
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Latest Insidious Rovian Plot
Our Dark Lord Rove is putting it out there that John McCain is a man of high moral character and courage, the like of which is rarely seen in American politics, and that this may actually be an important factor for voters to be aware of. (more…)
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Non-Lethal COIN
Examined by Capt. Gorkowski, operations officer for 25th ID’s 3BCT special troops battalion at Small Wars Journal: (more…)
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