Archives for April 2006
Malkin:
You know who you all are.
And if you think I’m going to stop blogging/writing/making a living because you’ve plastered my family’s private home address, phone numbers, and photos and maps of my neighborhood all over the Internet to further your manufactured outrage and pathetic coddling of a bunch of lying, anti-troops punks at UC Santa […]
¶ Posted April 19, 2006 § Blogosphere & Internet, Moonbats and Dem Stupidity ‡ Comments (15)
Anne Applebaum: Tilting at Windmills
But they also reflect a deeper American malady. The problem plaguing new energy developments is no longer NIMBYism, the “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” movement. The problem now, as one wind-power executive puts it, is BANANAism: “Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.” The anti-wind brigade, fierce though it is, pales beside the opposition to liquid […]
¶ Posted § Science & Technology, Moonbats and Dem Stupidity, Energy ‡ Comments (4)
Troops sent to Honiara; city in ruins
A FORCE of more than 100 Australian soldiers and 80 federal police have been rushed to the Solomon Islands to battle rioters laying siege to the island nation’s capital Honiara.The violence is the worst in the Solomons since Australia and other Pacific nations intervened in 2003 to end years […]
¶ Posted § History, Asia ‡ Comments (1)
Why Are They Speaking Up Now? The idea that military generals did not voice their concerns about our failed military strategy is a strawman, of course.
The Downward Spiral of Circularity You start with a strawman - that Al Zarqawi is the only (or even primary) reason for staying in Iraq. How can I put […]
¶ Posted § Blogosphere & Internet ‡ Comments (2)
Injuries From Lawn Mowing Increase Nationwide
Mowing the lawn can be a weekly ritual of the spring and summer months for many Americans. However each year, nearly 80,000 Americans require hospital treatment from injuries caused by lawn mowers, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers […]
¶ Posted § Iraq, U.S. - General ‡ Comments (6)
from The Washington Monthly
Kevin Drum, as usual, discusses the issues very rationally. Read the whole thing.
In so doing, he picks up on Lt. General Gregory Newbold’s comments in Time magazine.
“After 9/11, I was a witness and therefore a party to the actions that led us to the invasion of Iraq — an unnecessary war….I now […]
¶ Posted April 18, 2006 § Iraq, U.S. - General ‡ Comments (13)
Funeral Director rebuts ‘Peace Mom’s’ story
This is a slightly complicated, “he-said, she-said” story, but the funeral home owner claims that Cindy is lying in trying to blame him for the lack of a headstone on Casey’s grave.
A Vacaville funeral home owner took exception to “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan’s allegation that his mortuary did not fulfill […]
¶ Posted § Moonbats and Dem Stupidity ‡ Comments Off
Featuring Mr. Potato Head
As part of my never-ending quest to make the Llamabutchers one day say, “Holy crap, that Sobek fellow is so geeky, he makes us look flat out hip!” as well as part of certain court-ordered community service (I was framed, BTW), I now present for your education, a Very Brief History of […]
¶ Posted § Humor & Entertainment ‡ Comments (1)
“Tide gets clothes cleaner.”
I had some fun last week with the evolution slogan, “Teach the Evidence,” in response to this at The Panda’s Thumb and the film “Flock of Dodos.” The filmmaker of “Dodos” pointed out that ID proponents do a better job selling their ideas than evolutionists do, a point wholly unrelated […]
¶ Posted § Socialism & Capitalism, Evolution ‡ Comments (5)
Senior Hamas official holds Israel responsible for suicide bombing
A senior Hamas official on Tuesday held Israel responsible for the latest suicide bombing in Tel Aviv and was sharply critical of the Palestinian president for issuing a condemnation of the attack that killed nine people and wounded dozens.
Palestinian logic.
¶ Posted § Israel ‡ Comments (3)
Other views from Babalu Blog: April 17, 1961
Let’s just say that President John F. Kennedy does not come across very well:
“The Republicans have allowed a communist dictatorship to flourish eight jet minutes from our borders,” accused John F. Kennedy during his famous debate with Richard Nixon during the 1960 presidential campaign. “We must support anti-Castro […]
¶ Posted April 17, 2006 § History, Latin America ‡ Comments (3)
BBC NEWS
A Palestinian suicide bomber has killed nine people along with himself and injured about 50 more in Tel Aviv. The bombing, which came during the festival of Passover, was the first suicide attack in Israel since January. The militant group Islamic Jihad said it was behind the restaurant blast, but Israel said it held […]
¶ Posted § Israel ‡ Comments (1)
Easter message from Pharyngula
PZ Myers concludes his anti-Christian, anti-Easter screed thus:
This holiday has a longer tradition than the Christian church, and is associated with the return of Spring. So celebrate life. Go for a walk. Plant a tree. Read a good book. Have a conversation with someone. Write a poem, paint a picture.
The lesson you […]
¶ Posted § Moonbats and Dem Stupidity, Holidays ‡ Comments (14)
A few highlights from Bill Crawford in National Review Online
Colonel William Grimsley commanded the brigade that first took control of Baghdad Airport. Three years on he remains optimistic … Iraqi soldiers remain well motivated … The Iraqi army continues to take over more battle space … 39 of 45 planned border forts along the Iran-Iraq […]
¶ Posted § Iraq ‡ Comments (4)
Because it does not apply any more.
Bill Hobbs, fired from his job for running Muhammed cartoons on his blog. Notably, his firing was sparked by a hit piece by a Leftie. Apparently the Left is pleased to make common cause with the Islamists, if they can “take down a wingnut.”
Scott Savage, a librarian, investigated […]
¶ Posted April 16, 2006 § Middle East & Islam, Moonbats and Dem Stupidity ‡ Comments (22)
