Archives for December 2007
Strong As An Ox And Nearly As Smart: The New Republic Lost in the Fog of a ‘Baghdad Diarist’
How could that be possible? A dog does not get severed by a 21-inch tread attached to a 25-ton vehicle, it gets crushed.
Buddy demonstrates how much of a dog - Buddy is much larger than a typical […]
Yesterday, Atrios offered:
My Iowa Prediction
While someone will come out on top, as with the polls the result will pretty much be a 3-way tie, and so this pointless contest given meaning only by the media will have even less meaning than usual, though that won’t stop them.
Today, Adam Nagourney said:
What if Iowa Settles Nothing for […]
Remington Model 870™ Express® Youth
First, I like the idea of a shotgun. Handguns are too heavily regulated, and, I suppose, for good reasons. If a gun in the house is an accident waiting to happen; that goes double for handguns. After a bit of research on the internet, I decided on a […]
Eat my dust, Llamas!
The LLama Butchers: Where In The World?
Confess! Even if you are at your computer, you’re not doing anything productive this afternoon.
Therefore, I present for your consideration the Traveler IQ Challenge.
Second time around, I focused on clicking more rapidly, not worrying about getting real close. Since I was bound to miss quite […]
France bans smoking in cafes
France bans smoking in cafes, hotels and clubs on Jan. 1, stamping out the habit popularized by Jean-Paul Sartre puffing Gauloises in hazy brasseries.
In Germany, 11 of the country’s 16 states plan similar restrictions for 2008. Six of those, including Berlin and Bavaria, start Jan. 1. France banned smoking in offices […]
Black man, a father and a homeowner, found “guilty,” defending his family
A black man accused of killing a white teenager during a racially charged confrontation outside the man’s home was convicted of second-degree manslaughter Saturday despite his claims he feared a “lynch mob” had come to attack his family.
The ruling came on the fourth day […]
Wait until the Balloon Juicers and the SadlyNobodies 1 get ahold of this one:
Bob Owens, fresh from his hacktacular triumphs over TNR, the AP, and other elements of the evil MSM, takes on those Commies at The Politico: Confederate Yankee: Roger Simon’s Hit-Job On Fred Thompson At The Politico
Roger Simon’s Hit-Job On Fred Thompson At […]
McClatchy - U.S. convoys struggle to adjust to policy change
CAMP TAJI, Iraq — In the first month that they were in Iraq, someone threatened, shot at or tried to blow up the soldiers of the Kentucky National Guard’s B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery 12 times. Last month, there were only three such incidents.
But […]
from CommonDreams.org Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status
WASHINGTON, DC - December 20 - Lakota Sioux Indian representatives declared sovereign nation status today in Washington D.C. following Monday’s withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United States Government. The withdrawal, hand delivered to Daniel Turner, Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the State […]
Each “Book” of the Anabasis includes a short introduction, as summary of the narrative so far. The division of the work in Books and the introductions as well are certainly the work of later editors, and not Xenophon. The introduction is presented here [in brackets].
[The foregoing narrative has described what happened on the […]
Clinton: All Ur Domains R Belong to us
ABC News has learned that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has registered the names of two Web sites with the express goal of attacking her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. It’s the first time this election cycle a presidential campaign has launched a Web site […]
As my readers know, my 88 year-old Dad went into a nursing home a couple months ago.
Against the wishes of the rational members of the family, he was released, and went back to his own house, where he is now, with my 83 year-old mother and a round-the-clock nurse’s aide. He was in a wheelchair, […]
In any Presidential election campaign whenever the lead changes at some point in the year before the summer conventions, and when more than two candidates are viable, the pundits and news junkies indulge their favorite wet dream: the brokered convention.
None Of The Above: GOP Heading To A Brokered Convention
The Republican Party primary so far […]
Let’s be clear about the continual smears from the Clinton surrogates: “Hey, this guy is a Muslim, black, drug-dealing, madrassah-going, unelectable, scary brown Hussein — but we didn’t mean it the way you took it.”
The Clinton campaign, like any county sheriff from the Deep South in the Jim Crow era, is making this […]
I finally understand Hillary’s smear attacks on Obama. Or at least I understand their target audience. When the Clinton camp calls Obama a drug dealer, when they emphasize his middle name “Hussein,” etc. they are NOT trying to smear him with older, white, maybe xenophobic, Iowa Democrats. (They might get a few votes that […]
