Friday, May 16, 2008

Gasp Protest

 

Sheboygan man kicks a stand against gas prices. He’s parked the pickup and is biking it. via The Consumerist. It’s summer time. Or spring, whatever. Work’s only 9 miles away. Only one problem:

 ”I’m not in the greatest shape. The mornings are the worst. It feels like it takes forever. I get like a mile down the road and I want to die.”

Art here shows a pretty skinny guy. Lifestyle issues?

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World’s Worst Poet

Takes in more than J.K. Rowling at auction. NYT’s The Lede.

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Irany Alert

Iran is concerned about foreign support for terrorism in Iraq. Tehran Times:  (more…)

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Real-Life Bart Simpson

 

And selfless American hero. Ross McGinnis, trouble-prone kid, turned his life around, then gave it away to save four comrades when he threw himself on a grenade. Medal of Honor ceeremony next month. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:  (more…)

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More Dire Portents

Clarke via Peggy Noonan at WSJ: Short-term pessimistic, long-term optimistic. For Congress maybe but the presidency is McCain’s to lose, Dem “this is the year” chatter notwithstanding. And he will if he stays on the fantasy meme.

Meanwhile, a partisan McCain gotcha that doesn’t quite get. James Rubin at Washington Post:  (more…)

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The Year … 2013

    

I thought this AP article was a little over the top, with its description of a “mystical” speech and its report that McCain “peered through a crystal ball to 2013.” Then I saw this at the McCain site, with the melodramatic voiceover.   (more…)

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Bully Pulpit

Bush observes out loud that Obama and other dems are pro-appeasement. CNN:  (more…)

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Fighting Prejudice

It’s not just for Obama anymore. Surber stands up for West By God Virginia: The gap-toothed sister-loving semi-literate gun-toting kloset-Klan snakehandlers of recent report and casual disparagement place a premium on education.  (more…)

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Last War, This War, Next War

All being debated over at Small Wars. Some light reading there and elsewhere on that which only the dead have seen the end of:  (more…)

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Old Ways

Maybe this means we ought to think about cranking up a 10th Crusade and replacing the Koran-flushing with the Iron Maiden at Guantanamo. Blair on greenies for traditional medieval methods. (sarcasm/satire alert for any obtuse lefty dolts linking in … then again, who knows? Maybe the old ways are better. They reversed the Mohammedan tide back then, after all, and inaugurated a mini-Ice Age. Could work.)

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McCain as Mushroom

In a North Vietnamese basement, and other distortions of Vietnam and Iraq picked apart by Karl at Protein Wisdom.

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A Simple Matter of Tax Fairness

With Brazilian thong shots. Learn more about this important issue at Instapundit.

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Bear Facts

We go deep north to Kate of Small Dead Animals on the large, very live ones:

Gateway notes a cull would make more sense and measures the ice.

I’m kind of torn about this issue. I’m frankly annoyed that the global temperature trends may get in the way of my retirement plans: houseboat on scenic, tropical Hudson Bay.   (more…)

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Dire Portents

I’d consider the source on this, but don’t say you weren’t warned. Hill on choosing McCain over Obama, via CNN:  (more…)

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Obama’s Sexism Problem

You know that thing this morning about rampant male chauvinist piggism among Obama voters? You know, one in five Obama voters said gender was a factor. Well, apparently the fish rots from the head down.* Obama apologizes for calling a female reporter “sweetie.”  WXYZ: (more…)

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Carbon Runway Skidmarks

As hilarious as this story is about Sir Paul’s $165,000 hybrid Lexus being flown halfway around the world at a horrendous cost to Gaia, it raises some serious questions. UK Telegraph:  (more…)

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Judgment

A Spanish court finally exercises some. Murder charges dropped against three American soldiers in the Hotel Palestine incident. BBC:  (more…)

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PTSD-urple Heart

WSJ reports on a move to award Purple Hearts for PTSD:  (more…)

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About That Frothing Racism

The big news is that Clinton stays alive. I don’t know why anyone would be surprised. She wasn’t exactly dead in the water, no matter what the pundits were saying last week.*

How does she live? Ugly. That’s the story line, anyway. According to everything I’ve seen this week,** it’s because Americans are closet racists, and the gap-toothed semi-literate erstwhile Klansmen of West Virginia have underscored the point. NYT:   (more…)

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No Play Cheap Shots

Bush says that out of respect for the war dead and their families, he decided to stop playing golf during wartime. AFP:  (more…)

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Vatican OK with Aliens

Not the illegal kind, though at last check the pope’s good with those, too.* The big-eyed Roswell variety. Vatican big says ”brother extraterrestials” are God’s creatures, too. Reuters:  (more…)

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Monkey Jokes and Funny Feelings

 

Stupid, vile, not funny. Also, his excuse is lame. If you’re going to be a racist throwback, at least be honest about it. More on funny feelings below. Monkey jokes first, via the Atlanta Journal Constitution:  (more…)

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Terms Defined

Rich Lowry at NYPost cruelly mocks Obama’s desire to define the terms of political discussion … a shocker, coming from the PC side of the aisle … on the grounds that it’s wrong to define people. OK, says Lowry, no more defining then:  (more…)

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In Other Signature Events

Hill’s slip of the tongue, “next president … he,” is being taken as a subliminal indicator she’s about to drop out … by people who doesn’t know about the eye gouging or maybe have forgotten the rude old joke about Margaret Thatcher’s chest hair.

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Campaign Scrawls

I always thought handwriting analysis reeks of psycho-babble, and this article on the presidential candidates is no exception. Who knows, maybe it works, another expression of personality … the “graphologists” cited below are “court-certified,” whatever that means … though it’s hard to think in the case of these well-known specimens that some reading in isn’t taking place. LA Times:  

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Bush Lied, Shopping Carts Dinged People’s Cars

It’s called ”Bradley Crushes Insurgent Car,” which makes this bit of war zone fun a public service. via Mudville Gazette, for all your on-the-ground war zone vid and reading needs.

Unrelated, entirely different, or not. Two Boston Herald columnists have now weighed in on that key indicator of social decay, the unreturned shopping cart.   We’ll start with Alan Lupo: (more…)

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Sox Fan’s Face vs. Yanks Fan’s Fist

Sox fan’s face wins the fight. Whiny Yanks fan wins the $$$. Boston Herald:  (more…)

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Monday, May 12, 2008

Plaguing Notion

Different people are latching onto different parts of the Obama-Goldberg interview on Israel, Hamas. It’s turning out to be fertile ground for praise and condemnation. There’s the “some of my best friends are Jewish” hit.  (more…)

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Eye Gouge vs. Shark

 

Plucky Aussie swimmer pokes a Great White in the eye and lives. The Australian:  (more…)

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Another Quarter Heard From

Ardolino’s latest, a foot patrol with American grunts and some Iraq Shiites and Sunnis who apparently are operating from a different playbook than that described by the mullahs below. Support independent journalism.

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From the Mouths of Mullahs

Iranian newspapers, via MEMRI: “In the Power Struggle in the Middle East, There are Only Two Sides, Iran and the U.S.”  (more…)

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Blair is Dead, Long Live Blair

Farewell to www.timblair.net Great Australian blog of which this one is a pale spinoff has shifted digs. Ignore the cruel remarks about selling out, Tim … I’m confident that great Australian-American entrepreneur, Rupert Murdoch, doesn’t needlessly toss around the manhole covers for blog duty.

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Get Me Outta Here!

 

Last week, it was the plaintive plea for a super-sized toilet. This week, the Cheeseman shows he’s willing to submit to any indignity to get sprung. Boston Herald: (more…)

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Heart of Darkness

You can almost hear the “Scree! scree!! Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!!!” of exotic plumed birds and shrieking monkeys as this intrepid scribbler hacks his way into the clearing where he encounters natives heretofore ignorant of all trappings of civilization. It’s a tour de force of the genre as the UK’s Financial Times attempts to explain why Obama is going to tank in West Virginia. Apparently because the back of beyond is loaded with ignorant bigots who underscore the deep insight of Obama’s anthropological observations re bitter small-town gun-toting bible-thumpers. Let’s listen in as Andrew Ward reports on these exotic creatures who puff upon the smoke of rolled up tobacco leaves and voice bizarre superstitions, one of “several” he encountered when he ventured deep into the Heart of Darkness. (more…)

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Meet Michael Bhatia

The late Michael Bhatia’s work, photos and some interesting vid interview segments at this tribute site. Comes across about as academically wonkish as they come, all the more interesting that he would take so direct a role, that would lead to his death in combat in the company of American soldiers.   (more…)

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Mother’s Day

Alex Jimenez, Byron Fouty and Joseph Anzac went missing a year ago. Only Anzac’s body has been found. The anniversary was marked in Lawrence, Massachusetts, yesterday by Jimenez’s mother and family, friends and comrades. Herald:  (more…)

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Schism

Feminists bitterly divided over Hill, Obama. Intense irony alert. via Herald:  (more…)

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iBook ‘Em, Danno

Stupid e-criminals busted. via Herald:  (more…)

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Bigotry Alert

Hey, how’d this sneak in? LA Times: West Virginia could spell trouble for Obama. That’s not supposed to be part of the story line. I thought it was all over, he was anointed.

It’s about West Virginia as the canary in the coal mine of American electorial racism. Hill’s still supposed to go, but now they’re working on the excuse for Obama’s November loss. There’s an odd line in there, by the way:   (more…)

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Great News on the Warm Globe Front

Great tits not impacted by global warming.

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Quitters Never Win

And eye gougers never lose. Sometimes they just don’t get every last eyeball. Emily’s List founder Ellen Malcolm at the Washington Post on women, always being shoved into second place or told to give it up. Why should Hillary give up just because all the guys are telling her to? Good question. It’s heartfelt, spot-on. Doesn’t get into the eye-gouging,* though.  

Wikipedia has an eye-gouging entry. Who’d have thought? No Hillary citations, though. That’s odd.

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Let’s Use Our Words

Obama: Can I get a little less rat-tat-tat, a little more yap yap yap, people?

Beirut to Beltway: This is diplomatic genius. We never thought of that one. Thank you, oh thank you, Anointed One! Also, STFU.

Via Gateway who has more Leblinks including one rueful former Hezbollah supporter.

The Blacksmiths of Lebanon have your Leb TV, maps and the local rumor mill.

Leb Political Journal posits a Syrian grab-back, wonders whether the Hezbos now capitulate or escalate, and takes a stroll through Hamra.

Totten’s got your big picture.

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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before

Sadr says uncle, Mahdi Army will play nice. Really, you can have all the heavy weapons. Any heavy weapon you find, you can have it and whichever idiot is carrying it. McClatchy:  (more…)

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Critical Mass

The question for Hillary is how soon Obama’s poor choice of associates hits critical mass.

Let’s see, there’s Wright, Rezko, Ayers … that’s hit three major hits right there from black liberationist wackjob to sleazy wheeler dealer to smug America-hating former wannabe 60s terrorist. Now we’ got this guy who hangs with Hamas, and scroll down a little at the link for the bit about Zionist-bashing Rashid Khalidi. No pervs yet, correct me if I’m wrong. Times of London: (more…)

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Friday, May 9, 2008

Dumb as Bush, Senile as McCain

Only younger and smarter. Howabout that. Even boy wonders say stupid stuff sometimes: (more…)

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Fallen American

Doesn’t really look like the kind of guy who would be killed in the lead Humvee of a four-vehicle combat patrol, riding with the 101st Airborne’s Task Force Currahee in Khowst Province, does he? A little bookish, maybe. But it maybe there’s something there in the eyes. Hard to tell from a snapshot. Easy to read it in, after you find out a little about how he lived, how he died, and the company he died in.

Local boy goes out into the world, makes good, makes a sacrifice. Michael Vinay Bhatia, 31, of Medway, Massachusetts, magna cum laude Brown University, Oxford University doctoral candidate, didn’t have to be in Afghanistan, but he wanted to make a difference, and he did. You’ll find a Small Wars Journal tribute/roundup and the Boston Herald’s article below. DoD provides what appear to be the names of the two American soldiers he died with, below. Two others critically wounded. All volunteers who chose to be where they were, making the world a better place.

Spc. Jeremy R. Gullett, 22, of Greenup, Ky., who was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Staff Sgt. Kevin C. Roberts, 25, of Farmington, N. M., who was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Yes, 2/506 is the “Band of Brothers” battalion, and I guess they are brothers now.

 Here’s Small Wars Journal:  (more…)

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Wrong al-Masri

Bummer. Better luck next time.

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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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