Archives for February 2007
When Speaking English Kills
Published on 17 Feb 2007 at 12:48 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iran.
Iranian crowds chanting “Death to hypocrites!” are outraged that they are being targeted by terrorists’ bombs. Terrorism is Iran’s shtick, damn it! Meanwhile, Iran blames an English speaker for the bomb that killed 11 Quds Force members, Allah be praised.
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Another Ant-Breeding Scam Busted
Published on 17 Feb 2007 at 9:29 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under China.
Chinese man sentenced to death for bilking $385 million from more than 10,000 investors in bogus ant-breeding scheme. Seems a little harsh. After a feat like that, I’d give the guy an endowed chair at the Glorious Songun School of Juche Idea Financial Development for the Exaltation of Kim Jong Il’s Astounding Business Acumen.
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Joyous Significance Gratefully Expounded!
Published on 17 Feb 2007 at 9:24 am.
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Filed under Kim, North Korea.
Darn, I missed it on Feb. 14, the Great February Holiday, but it’s never too late to express joy and study the great advances made since the birth 65 years ago of Kim Jong Il.
Amid all the Songun ecstacy, the NKs themselves apparently forgot last week’s Glorious Shakedown of the Imperialist War Criminal Nation and its Lackeys, [...]
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Iran in Circles
Published on 17 Feb 2007 at 12:35 am.
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Filed under Iran.
Michael Ledeen of AEI, PJM fame has been in a spat with some Iranians. Everyone is making nice now, after their own fashion. Ledeen, who is against war with Iran, lays out why it is probably unavoidable:
Hoisted By Our Own Petards
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 9:23 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under warmalism.
If you’re not thinking about your gas, you’re not doing your bit. It may not be in the Kyoto Protocols, and Al Gore probably left it on the “cutting” room floor. Nobody takes flatulence seriously enough. But your gas = pending global disaster and it’s time you did something about it. Like the forward-thinking people of Australia. Via Andrew [...]
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Nothing Bound …
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 3:36 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Uncategorized.
As non-binding resolution passes 246-182. Just in time for the polls to start shifting … for the surge. Told you governing by poll … or in this case, non-governing by resolution … is a bad idea.
Underscoring the point, Sister Toldjah with some key Demo-definitions.
ROTFLMAOL
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 1:59 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Uncategorized.
It’s that funny when an enterprising pilot pulls the old “brake unexpectedly” trick on some moron hijacker.
Surge Works
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 1:28 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under Iraq.
Fascinating news from Iraq. Apparently, when you throw more troops into Baghdad and start kicking in doors, breaking heads and taking names, violence drops. AP reports this ahead of the surrender vote in Congress. Hello, anyone paying attention over there? Stop yourself before you do something stupid … I mean, something else stupid.
Bwup-Bwup-Bwaaaa!
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 1:00 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Uncategorized.
Here we go. The Associated Press, spokeswire service of the Party of Surrender, sounds the retreat. Dems Risk Image Woes over Anti-War Moves:
These Are My People
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 11:20 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Uncategorized.
Drunken South Australia man wrestles an 8-foot shark over bait, wins, brings shark home to the wife to cook for dinner. Just another reason to be insanely proud of my Australian heritage.
Vasectomy? What, Are You Crazy?
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 11:00 am.
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Filed under anthronerdism.
John Hawks points us to a disturbing study that links vasectomies and dementia. Thank God he’s not much impressed by it.
Uh oh, true tale of vasectomy-induced mental impairment, h/t GVDL
Hawks also has that important archaeological find re chimps and nut-cracking technology. Reminds me of a knuckledragger I used to work for who enjoyed cracking nuts.
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Wishful Thinking vs. Facts on the Ground
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 10:06 am.
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Filed under Iraq.
A Chicago Sun-Times column highlights this Steny Hoyer quote and comments:
The Democrats say they want, as the House proposal puts it, “to support and protect” the troops. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the smart and affable majority leader in the House, declared Wednesday that “there is not a member of this body, not one, on either side of [...]
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Not So Swift
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 9:32 am.
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Filed under pols.
Somebody needs to tell John McCain that an endorsement from former GOP Massachusetts Acting Gov. Jane Swift is not a coup vs. Romney.
Not Pro Bono
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 9:21 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Uncategorized, pols.
North Dakota legislature rejects measure to honor Bono’s yammering on Third World debt because he has no connection to North Dakota. I would have rejected it because I’m tired of listening to an insanely wealthy Irishman telling me what I should do with my money.
Just the Facts
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 9:00 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under blogs, media.
WaPo media critic Howard Kurtz’s profile of Michelle Malkin, so thorough, fair and balanced* it comes off as a rave review.
* He does let the AP get away with a Jamil dodge that it never claimed its mosque story was confirmed by Iraqi police, however. The substance of the Jamil controversy is that AP attributed its [...]
This Gun Not For Hire
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 12:07 am.
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Filed under media.
Retired Col. Ken Allard has quit his post as an NBC military analyst because NBC has retained its anti-military analyst, WaPo online hack Bill Arkin. Allard on his decision:
Good News Bad News
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 10:24 pm.
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Filed under Good News Bad News.
Lots of news from and about Iraq, Iran, Waziristan, all these places. Good, bad, ugly and irrelevant. How’s it stack up? Let’s have a look:
War = Cool
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 12:23 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, warmalism.
Ha! Bravo Romeo Delta at Protein Wisdom: Pro-Iraq War = Anti-Global Warming, logic-wise. Therefore … BRD doesn’t take it quite this far, but I will … if you are opposed to global warming and think humans can do something about it, then you must be in favor of the Iraq War. Stands to reason. All chickenhawk [...]
Fun and Fodder on the Taxpayer’s Dollar
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 11:32 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, blogs.
The New York Times has hit the nail on the head. “For Liberal Bloggers, Libby Trial is Fun and Fodder.” That perfectly sums up what the Libby trial is all about. Enjoy it. That is the sole value this $2 million dollar waste of taxpayers’ money will buy you.
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View From The Ground
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 10:36 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq.
The essential Omar updates, with thoughts on al-Maliki in Karbala, and a B-1 sighting over Baghdad.
Al-Sadr-In-The-Box
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 9:52 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Iraq.
Stratfor, noodling out al-Sadr’s disappearing act, suggests he’s still in Iraq and that a complex game of chicken is underway:
Victory Caucus
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 1:59 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under blogs.
Check these guys out. High-powered crowd.
You Want It? You Got It.
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 12:24 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Australia, USA.
Here’s one of my ancestral countrywomen, Janet Albrechtsen, who draws on a couple of sources, putting very well what myself and others, notably P.J. O’Rourke, have been saying for years.
The real reason they hate us is because our … I mean, we’re … bigger than they are. It’s all bigger, and that’s what they just can’t stand it.
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Allah freakin’ Akbar!
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 12:01 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Iraq.
Vidlink of the evening compliments of Confederate Yankee. This is how much fun you can have when a suicide bomber effs up.
Bushgram for Mr. Ahmadinejad
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 10:10 pm.
8 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Iraq.
To clear up any confusion, while still keeping them guessing, Bush says Iran is supplying weapons that kill Americans, and he intends to “do something about it.”
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Feel the Love
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 10:09 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized.
Protesting Hindus and Moslems burned Valentines Day cards, and chanted “Death to Valentine’s Day” and “People who celebrate Valentine’s Day should be pelted with shoes!”
Why Use $100 million Worth of Cruise Missiles …
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 10:04 pm.
15 Comments.
Filed under Iran.
… when a batch of bad hummus will do?
As long as everyone has their shorts in a twist over Glenn Reynold’s very sensible advocacy of the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists and Hugh Hewitt’s observation that punishing the wicked can have positive effects, let me weigh in. Great idea!
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Talk Talk
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 11:37 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Uncategorized.
Winter in New England but hot wind blowing in DC. PJM commentary re resolution yada yada, by me.
Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Bunch of Guys
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 10:41 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iran.
Bus explosion kills 18 Al Quds members near the Pak border in southeastern Iran. This is the crowd blamed for running Iran’s deadly interference in Iraq, and possibly in Afghanistan, as well. Iran blames drug smugglers or Baluchi insurgents with a car bomb. The Baluchis have been active lately.
h/t Gateway, who has art of a severely [...]
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Osama Gone?
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 10:27 am.
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Filed under al qaeda.
Funny, I’d been thinking the same thing. Stratfor wonders why the radio silence out of Osama, who doesn’t even rate a mention in the Ay-man’s latest Cave Retort. Is it possible he won’t be down for felafel, or is he just moaning on his pallet in the back of the cave?
Guesxpert Advice Sought
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 10:14 am.
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Filed under Iraq, guns.
Blackfive and my personal favorite gun porn enthusiast, John of Argghhh!!!, are trying to figure out what this weird insurgent weapon is that Michael Yon found.
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Apology Botched
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 2:20 am.
15 Comments.
Filed under pols.
You know, I’m seeing everywhere news reports that insist Obama fell over himself to apologize, twice, for describing as “wasted” the lives of U.S. soldiers killed in combat to free an oppressed people and make the world a safer place.
But I have yet to see a news report that includes an actual apology.
Yeah, What He Said …
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 1:55 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized, pols.
Rep. Todd Arkin, R-MO, is getting whacked by lefty blogs for saying this:
So to say we’re going to support our troops but we’re not going to send them any reinforcements is on the face of it contradictory.
Could you picture Davy Crockett at the Alamo looking at his Blackberry getting a message from Congress? “Davy Crockett, we support [...]
Surge OK!
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 12:21 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under Iraq.
Moqtada Al-Sadr gives the surge a big vote of confidence … by packing up the wife and kids and bolting for Teheran!
Gateway’s got your closeup of Mookie’s dental work and a roundup.
In other developments, the Iraqis will be shutting down the Iranian and Syrian borders. Great moves, but I don’t get why they keep giving [...]
The Wild Colonial Brawl
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 12:19 am.
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Filed under Australia, beer.
Jimbo at Blackfive, in honor of Australians, embarks on an international pubcrawl heavy on the brawls:
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Latest from the Cave
Published on 13 Feb 2007 at 12:00 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under al qaeda.
That al-Zawahiri’s a cut up. Important news flash from al-Qaeda: Bush is “an alcoholic, liar and gambler with an addictive personality.”
Ha! I know you are, but what am I? You’re rubber, I’m glue. No wait, that’s I’m rubber, you’re glue …
Russian Charms
Published on 13 Feb 2007 at 10:38 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Russia.
Stratfor with more on Putin’s charm offensive. Russia’s goals in the Middle East. Very charming:
Here’s the Wabbit
Published on 13 Feb 2007 at 9:46 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Iraq.
I want to be fair to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, especially now that he’s all peacelovedove, and everyone’s getting nervous about the prospect of blowing his Israel-off-the-map-wiping, Holocaust-denying, terrorism-financing, chaos-spreading, U.S. soldier-murdering ass up.
Devil’s Windchime
Published on 13 Feb 2007 at 9:12 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, military.
Teflon Don at Acute Politics on the deaths of his comrades Feb. 8. They had cleared a path to a helicopter downed the day before so the bodies could be recovered, and were going back to retrieve the Marines who had been guarding the site. It was the crash site where USMC Capt. Jennifer Harris and her [...]
Springtime For A’Jad in Teheran
Published on 13 Feb 2007 at 12:05 am.
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Filed under Iran, Iraq.
Highlights of that remarkable interview with a hijab’d Diane Sawyer, linked earlier but too good not to be cherrypicked. Ahmadinejad, a lover not a fighter, says:
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Clueless Factor
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 11:42 pm.
12 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, pols.
Vid of Obama: “3,000 lives of Americans … wasted,” a phrase I suspect is going to haunt him. When I first saw the Hot Air link at Memeorandum, I could have sworn it said “Osama.” But it didn’t.
Then, he borrowed an apology from Kerry:
Speaking to a group of reporters in the kitchen of a Nashua, [...]
Weirdness Factor
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 11:00 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under pols.
The Smoking Gun cites an ultra-secret 1994 Guiliani pre-mayoral campaign document raising concerns … none of which prevented him from winning. Too Republican, not Republican enough, and then there’s the “weirdness factor.”
The report’s reference to the campaign’s expectation of a “no-holes-barred assault” is a little unsettling in light of subsequent police misdeeds that used Guiliani’s name in [...]
Nature, Less Dumb Than Originally Thought
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 10:43 pm.
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Filed under warmalism.
Bad news for the environmentalists who are opposing Cape Wind … the proposal to plant 130 wind turbines in Ted Kennedy’s picture window view of Nantucket Sound. A Danish study shows that contrary to Mass Audubon’s prediction of more than 6,000 bird deaths a year, sea birds are smart enough to avoid the blades.
Drunk boaters, [...]
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Anthronerding Survivor
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 10:36 pm.
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Filed under anthronerdism.
Survivor is the show for anthro-couch potatoes who want to study the human animal’s Machiavellian social behavior, says anthroblogger John Hawks. He is a tad apologetic about being too “anthronerdy” about all those bogus “biker skulls” with the “baseball-like” fake sutures, however.
Hawks would also like to see them using real flint and steel instead of magnesium. I’m with [...]
Al Qaeda in Japan
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 10:27 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
News reports suggest two small blasts at a US base outside Tokyo may have been rockets, and specualte about Al Qaeda in Japan. Why not? Japan is full of South Asians. Great place for unexpected flanking attack, a plave where Americans move around freely and GIs stand out like sore thumbs. Though South Asian and Middle eastern [...]
Anna Nicole and the Shortest Arab in History
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 10:21 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under celeb.
Larry Miller’s truly touching Anna Nicole memories:
Some women try to arch an eyebrow when they make an entrance, or look sullen or regal, and I don’t think I like any of those, but all she had to do to stop the show was be there. Whether you liked her or not, if there’s an “it” [...]
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Kim Win-Win
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 10:10 pm.
5 Comments.
Filed under North Korea.
Pending nuke deal with North Korea would appear to let Kim Jong Il have his cake and eat it, too. He keeps his nukes and gets a fuel and energy handout. The phased approach should provide great opportunities for a master chiseler like Kim. No details on how big the first installment in the fuel-and-energy shakedown will [...]
Above and Beyond
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 12:45 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under military.
More heroism at the Ia Drang recognized. Bruce Crandall, aka “Snakeshit” because that’s how low he liked to fly, has just been awarded the Medal of Honor, 40 years after the fact:
“That’s Why I Want to be a Marine”
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 10:38 am.
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Filed under Iraq, military.
Peter Gelzinis sat down with the parents of Marine Capt. Jennifer Harris, pilot of the Sea Knight that went down late last week.
When the honor student they described as “our Barbie doll girl, angelic but strong” told the family that she would become a Marine because the Marines were “the best of the best,” her [...]
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Arkin Gets Naked (Not Safe For Work Without an Editor*)
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 9:58 am.
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Filed under Uncategorized, media.
Speaking of prom dresses, this one’s off … like a prom dress!
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