Archives for September 2007
Field Notes
Published on 30 Sep 2007 at 10:13 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, blogs, military.
Teflon Don and Desert Flier on coming home. Badger Six on mission and command, and staying.
Hollywood at War
Published on 30 Sep 2007 at 9:48 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Hollywood, Iraq, military.
Thank God the foreign policy geniuses of Hollywood aren’t in charge of national security. The first line of defense would be a psych ward. Crit at PJM on Hollywood’s 1-yard stare.
Speaking of psych wards, has Dr. Sanity got a straightjacket for you!
Over 19,000 Served
Published on 30 Sep 2007 at 9:43 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq.
That’s the total of dead “militants”* in Iraq since 2003. USA Today:
Nation of Stupid
Published on 30 Sep 2007 at 8:19 am.
17 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, media.
Tom Friedman: “9/11 has made us stupid.”
Week That Was
Published on 29 Sep 2007 at 11:18 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under blogs.
Relive it with Surber.
Diggers vs. Taliban
Published on 29 Sep 2007 at 9:17 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan.
Diggers win, neutralizing positions that were causing them trouble:
Global Warming Will Eat Your Brain
Published on 29 Sep 2007 at 8:16 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under science.
Warmth-loving, waterborne bacteria enters through your nose, feeds on your brain.
Read ‘Global Warming Will Eat Your Brain’
Jihadhi Is as Jihadi Does
Published on 29 Sep 2007 at 12:31 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
I seem to recall these two Goose Creek guys were another one of those trumped-up bumbler breathing-while-Islamic cases that proves Bush has been fear-mongering at home while encouraging the spread of terrorism abroad and trampling civil rights everywhere, or something like that. So what’s up with this?
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Redistribution of Wealth
Published on 28 Sep 2007 at 10:00 pm.
14 Comments.
Filed under commies, pols.
Good ideas never get old.
USSR, 1928:
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Unknown Unknowns
Published on 28 Sep 2007 at 4:40 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iran.
A conservative Iranian newspaper close to Khamenei hints that the United States cannot harm Iran’s nuke program because it only knows what Iran wants it to know. MEMRI:
Bum’s Rush
Published on 28 Sep 2007 at 1:25 pm.
13 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, military.
… on Limbaugh, who made a stupid remark calling anti-war active duty soldiers “phony soldiers.”
Who Are You Voting For?
Published on 28 Sep 2007 at 12:44 pm.
8 Comments.
Filed under pols.
According to this, I’m most likely to vote for Rudy Giuliani, followed by John McCain, though the pair of them differ significantly on a number of issues. This survey’s findings in my case may or may not be true.
It asks your opinion on a long list of issues, some of which I don’t particularly care [...]
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Inform Please
Published on 27 Sep 2007 at 11:17 pm.
17 Comments.
Filed under Bush, Iraq, pols.
Juan Cole of Informed Comment makes the uninformed remark that the Bush-Aznar exchange about the possibility of Saddam going into exile in Saudi with “$1 billion and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction” is an impeachable statement, because it indicates war could have been avoided:
Cutting Room Floor
Published on 27 Sep 2007 at 9:39 am.
17 Comments.
Filed under Bush, Hollywood.
Tigerhawk informs us Robert Redford is planning a blockbuster on Richard Clarke’s “Against All Enemies,” and wonders what manner of Gore won’t be included in this tragic epic of Bush lied people died.*
Speaking of the Gore that was and the Gore that is, Driscoll proposes a compromise.
* Help Bob! Alternate titles encouraged in comments.
Saffron Line
Published on 27 Sep 2007 at 9:18 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under asia.
Reports of four to eight beaten or shot to death in Burma, including several monks and a Japanese national, and raids on monasteries. AFP:
Lost in Translation
Published on 27 Sep 2007 at 8:21 am.
34 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, pols.
Lefty mouthpieces excited about Spanish text of February 2003 conversation between Bush and former Spanish PM Aznar. The machine translation at Editor & Publisher,* while difficult in places to make sense of, doesn’t appear to tell us anything we didn’t already know, but is being seized on as smoking gun evidence that Bush lied, people died, [...]
Judicial Issues
Published on 27 Sep 2007 at 12:56 am.
Comments Off.
Filed under law & order.
Boston Herald continues its reporting on libel-suit judge* here and here.
He Surged Before Surge Was Cool
Published on 26 Sep 2007 at 11:04 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, military.
2005, dude. That’s when Georgia Nat’l Guard* Cav Troop CO John Alderman surged.
Read ‘He Surged Before Surge Was Cool’
Dhimmbat
Published on 26 Sep 2007 at 10:38 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
It is with great sadness that I must report that not only has Katie Couric failed to transcend dingbatitude, she has embraced dhimmitude.
Katie went to Iraq, listened, and briefly made sense. I even dubbed her, too optimistically, the Anti-Cronkite. For a minute there, maybe one broadcast, I actually thought there was a chance the leggy lightweight might [...]
Uh Oh
Published on 26 Sep 2007 at 9:41 am.
13 Comments.
Filed under Iran, academia.
Looks like Bollinger is in for the Larry Summers treatment. NY Sun:
Al-Maliki Crows
Published on 26 Sep 2007 at 9:04 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, pols.
Says he’s solved it all. Bush says no, not exactly.
Shots fired
Published on 26 Sep 2007 at 8:47 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under asia.
If I were a human rights activist, I’d save some astonishment for this:
The Myanmar military opened fire on crowds of protesters in Yangon, almost certainly causing casualties, a French diplomat in the city said Wednesday.
Active Astonishment
Published on 26 Sep 2007 at 8:10 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
Lest anyone lose sight of the true threat to world peace, who’s trampling all over human rights amid all this attention on Ahmadinejad, McClatchy Newspapers’ Washington Bureau goes sniffing around for some Bush-bash. Astonishingly, McClatchy finds activists astounded:
Mission of A’jad
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 10:17 pm.
8 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Islam.
Ahmadinejad before the U.N. General Assembly (through translator):
In the name of God, the compassionate and the merciful, oh, God, hasten the arrival of Imam al-Mahdi and grant him good health and victory and make us his followers and those who attest to his rightfulness.
Mr. President, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased and grateful to [...]
Mission of Burma*
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 9:16 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Bush, UN, asia.
Burma news from Buddhist to Belmont Bangkok to Beijing on Bush. Monks defy military junta. Junta imposes a curfew and bans gatherings of more than five people. I don’t think the monks intend to back down. The old geezer in the orange robes looks PO’d.
Belmont Club’s Richard Fernandez at Pajamas on Burma’s “Saffron Revolution” cites Bangkok Pundit and [...]
Persian Sockpuppets?
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 10:21 am.
14 Comments.
Filed under Iran, academia.
OK, here we go. Fars: Iranian university presidents ask Bollinger 10 questions, some of which are actually germane to the situation:
Silent Treatment
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 9:15 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Iran, media.
Cat’s still got Fars’ tongue. It’s a mystery. The president of Iran just got bitchslapped in the Great Satan, and there isn’t even any official outrage. More interesting to Fars out of A’jad’s junket is his sitdown with Zimbabwean despot Mugabe; his call for the UN to observe justice, whatever that’s supposed to mean; his phone [...]
Learning Moment
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 8:41 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under Iran, academia.
Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger just set a new academic standard. The university as a moral force, a leader in struggles for peace, freedom and justice. Here’s Bollinger’s speech, an exercise in stark clarity. Bollinger’s bio suggests this might be a bold new course for him.* So maybe he is shining a light, as academics are supposed to do, [...]
Line of Duty
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 1:13 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Australia.
Aussie bomb-sniffing dog killed, three diggers injured by IED in Afghanistan.
“Razz helped identify where the bomb was placed and sadly paid the ultimate price for his actions.”
Razz was the second Australian explosive-detection dog killed in Afghanistan this month.
h/t Tim Blair
You Go, Girls
Published on 24 Sep 2007 at 11:40 pm.
12 Comments.
Filed under Islam, saudi arabia.
Saudi Sharia cops attacked by girls!
No News
Published on 24 Sep 2007 at 11:12 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iran.
… is no news. Fars at last check was still trying to figure out what to do with Bollinger’s speech. Their latest on A’jad’s big trip to the Great Satan is a Sunday event at which he addressed “a large group of Iranian expatriates residing in the US.” Looking at the picture, I wouldn’t think [...]
More Like This
Published on 24 Sep 2007 at 10:56 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Iran, academia.
I thought they wanted to have an academic debate with Ahmadinejad. You know, like they wanted to have with Hitler. If I knew they were going to mock A’jad and insult A’jad, and wipe the smirk of A’jad’s mug, I might have taken an entirely different view of this Columbia thing.
Good One!
Published on 24 Sep 2007 at 9:09 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Iran, pols.
Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, now yapping for Carter-without-portfolio Barack Obama, warns of dire threat of 20-year war with Iran. About 28 years too late! Must be appeasement humor.
Riddle: How many dim-bulb, mullah-coddling presidencies does it take to screw up American foreign policy and throw U.S. soldiers into an endless round of deadly Middle East engagements [...]
Charm Offensive?
Published on 24 Sep 2007 at 8:39 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under Iran.
Well yes, in this case, it is. Times of London:
The President of Iran has arrived in New York on a controversial charm offensive to convince the American people that they have nothing to fear from his country.
I’m In Nejad For Love
Published on 24 Sep 2007 at 7:52 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iran.
… simply because you’re near me …
I’m trying to figure out if this is a spoof. Pretty good one, if it is:
Why I Have a Little Crush on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I know I’m a Jewish lesbian and he’d probably have me killed. But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me [...]
Actions Louder
Published on 23 Sep 2007 at 10:41 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under France, art, heroism.
French master of mime won’t be down to breakfast. There are a few things you might not have known about Marceau.
Bashir and Friends
Published on 23 Sep 2007 at 8:57 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Israel, Syria.
Times of London: To satisfy Washington, Israeli commandos seized NK nuke material at Syrian base before DC gave the nod for Iz jets to flatten the place. More on the raid and the history. Heads up, Ahmadinejad!
Hitler OK!
Published on 23 Sep 2007 at 8:38 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iran, academia.
Says Columbia dean. Insane mass murderer would be welcome to speak in august halls of learning.
By Accident on Purpose
Published on 23 Sep 2007 at 8:22 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media.
NYT says, with MoveOn’s bargain basement “Betray Us” ad, it made a mistake. No full explanation, but a sober assessment of the available information would suggest that the dog ate NYT’s homework. Daily News:
Magnificent Failure
Published on 23 Sep 2007 at 7:48 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under history, media.
I spent 15 hours last week with Ken Burn’s “The War“ I loved it. I just didn’t like it. It is mandatory viewing, however. My Boston Herald review, with others linked below:
War of the Villages
Published on 22 Sep 2007 at 6:35 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
Omar at Iraq The Model mulls al-Qaeda’s most recent attacks:
This campaign I will call a campaign of self-destruction.
Weeks That Were
Published on 22 Sep 2007 at 2:00 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under blogs.
Surber’s Week That Was
Driscoll’s That Was The Week Of That Was The Week That Was
That’s what I’d call a couple of week links. Crazy links here.
Down For The Count
Published on 22 Sep 2007 at 10:00 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Sesame Street, al qaeda, media.
Simmins at Terrorist Death Watch on the difficulties of keeping an accurate count in the ‘Stan. This is a happy story. Someone tell Zawahri. This is a job for that infidel, that instrument of Shaitan, Count von Count.
Meanwhile, accuracy-related issue of a Rather different sort.
Hot Enough for Ug?
Published on 22 Sep 2007 at 9:38 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Neanderthals.
Another insidious global warming myth debunked. Climate change didn’t kill off the Neanderthals. Thanks to comparative radio carbon dating on the low brows and marine sediment data, John Hawks reports:
(More) News of the Stupid
Published on 22 Sep 2007 at 8:53 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Britain, moronocy.
Here. Beantown, the launching point for the World Trade Center attacks, emerges as a hotbed of faux terrorism.
Read ‘(More) News of the Stupid’
Fake Crime, Real Time
Published on 22 Sep 2007 at 8:15 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under crime, punishment.
If you wanna to do the fake crime, you gotta be ready to do the real time. Jesse MacBeth got his wish. He’s a war criminal now.
In Case You Had Any Question
Published on 21 Sep 2007 at 11:02 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Israel, Syria.
U.S. and Israel are working together against Iran, Syria. Great news, confirmed by the Washington Post:
Read ‘In Case You Had Any Question’
George Bush = New Saddam
Published on 21 Sep 2007 at 9:15 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under Canada.
Some wag at MacLeans maggie in Canada thought it would be funny to dress Bush up like Saddam. Presumeably will sell well in America-bashing, Bush-hating Canada.
Read ‘George Bush = New Saddam’
I Want My HTV
Published on 21 Sep 2007 at 8:23 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Palestinians.
Hamas music vid, in Hebrew, features the line, “In black bags, chunks of flesh of Jews.” It’s all meant to be very dispiriting, I suppose. “Hamas, Hamas, the apple of my eye! We destroy the Merkava!” That kind of thing. Coming out of the beseiged, isolated rubble of Gaza, with considerably more Fatah and Hamas blood than [...]
Blah Blah Blah Mohammed Jihad
Published on 21 Sep 2007 at 1:14 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under al qaeda.
Remember that guy from that post yesterday who likes listening to al-Qaeda? I like listening to al-Qaeda, too. Listen to this, from al-Zawahri:
“Do not ask President Bush when the soldiers will return; ask instead how many of them will return.”
That guy needs to check in with Terrorist Death Watch and get back to his speech writer.
