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all posts from July 2006


Is This Why The UK Times Is Drifting Left?

The other day, in a post titled Is The UK Times Becoming Labour’s Guardian?, I said I had seen a disturbing pattern of lefty/progressive spin at the formerly conservative Times.
The post was occasioned by a tricky Times piece that shifted the blame to the US for the failure of Europe’s negotiations regarding […]



They Steal Our Toys

MSNBC reports on the increasing number of vehicle thefts aimed at all the costly portable gadgets folks cart around these days.



What A Pack of Losers Lefty Fifth Columnists Are

My Way News - Fox News Calls Olbermann ‘Over the Line’
“Clearly he has no viewers except those he gets when he attacks Fox News,” Ailes said.
Of Saturday’s incident, Ailes said, “I really think that’s over the line.”
Then Ailes added, “And as Keith searches for a suitably ignominous end to a career that has basically […]



Just In Case

Steve Case apologizes for AOL Time Warner merger | TG Daily
“Sorry” doesn’t quite cover the greatest train wreck in financial history.



Why On Earth Should This Surprise Anybody?

Reuters AlertNet - Mideast violence may raise odds of US attack-experts
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - The Bush administration’s tacit support for Israeli military strikes on Lebanon may have increased the danger of militant retaliation against the United States and U.S. interests abroad, some experts say.
Years ago, in the runup to the fatally delayed Iraqi invasion, […]



Violence Solves Most Things Like This

Scotsman.com News - Hezbollah rejects ceasefire plan put forward by United States
A Hezbollah cabinet member denounced Ms Rice’s proposals, saying she came to force Lebanese into “submission” or else face more fighting.
The labour minister, Tarrad Hamadeh, claimed: “What Rice carried was merely conditions to cover a new round of fighting and a new round of […]



Bulletin From the Fifth Column

Clayton Cramer’s BLOG
Is USA Today Making Stuff Up Now?
No, USA Today is flat-out lying to advance an anti-gun agenda. This is the largest circulation newspaper in the country, the very backbone of the mainstream media. And they lie, because they want to, and because they think they can get away with it.
And we […]



Nothing Succeeds Like Success

Rice Outlines Proposal to Deploy Force In Lebanon
BEIRUT, July 24 — On an unannounced trip to ravaged Beirut, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice outlined a plan Monday to deploy an international force, possibly led by NATO, in a buffer zone just inside Lebanon for 60 to 90 days, after which it would expand its mission […]



Market Forces

Jihad Watch: Iran TV urges boycott of ‘Zionist’ products
Conspiracy theories about one’s enemies are probably one of the few outlets for creativity in the Islamic Republic of Iran. From Iran Focus:
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has launched a major campaign urging consumers to stop buying “Zionist” products, ranging from Coca-Cola and Pepsi […]



Old Tech

I stopped by Engadget, guardian of all that is hot ‘n geeky. Mostly, I had no idea what they were talking about.
Boy, do I feel analog.



American Dream: Conspiracy to Commit Massive Armed Robbery

Hillary Clinton: “It’s the American dream stupid” | US News | Reuters.com
Clinton said President George W. Bush and Republicans had “made a mess out of the country’s finances.” Rewriting her husband’s famous 1992 campaign slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid,” she declared: “It’s the American dream, stupid.”
Yes, that’s always been the American Dream to me: crawling […]



Our Political Masters Speak

I don’t normally dignify garbage by linking to it just to scoff. It’s too easy to fill a blog each day just by saying, “Look at this — isn’t it ridiculous?”
Every once-in-a-while it’s worth doing, though. Especially when it has the look of a sanctioned trial balloon. Today, the Assistant Editor for OpinionJournal is […]



With Red Hot Tongs, For Starters

Peace prize winner ‘could kill’ Bush | World Wide Weird | The Australian
“Right now, I would love to kill George Bush.” Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.
“I don’t know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond […]



Blog Alert

Click around a bit at Techdirt.
Note the “Quick Links” down in the right-hand sidebar.



Incompetent Morons

California Warns of Rolling Blackouts - New York Times
LOS ANGELES, July 24 - Unrelenting tropical heat and humidity has driven demand for electricity to record highs in California and other states. If people could not take the weather anymore, neither could transformers and other equipment, which sputtered and shorted out and left tens of thousands […]



To Heck With GG - Here’s A Real Sock Puppet

I don’t know why I even bother raking Hugh Hewitt over the coals, he’s so obviously reduced himself to little more than a mouthpiece for the Bush administration, but he keeps coming up with nonsense like this:
And the article does close with an excellent reminder fromthe Hudson Institute’s Kenneth Weinstein:
Kenneth R. […]



We are the Chorus, and We Agree

Enjoy!
(Via Cold Fury)



Let’s Get It Settled

NBC 4 - News - Judge Who Told Illegal Immigrant To Leave Court Is Dismissed
LOS ANGELES — A judge who threatened deportation to Mexico for an illegal immigrant seeking a restraining order against her husband has been dropped from the roster of part-time judges used by the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Judge Pro Tem Bruce […]



Oh, Weep

St. Paul Pioneer Press | 07/24/2006 | ‘I want to go with you’
There was nary a dry eye inside the family meeting room at the Ramsey County jail. Even some of the jailers cried, the main characters in this drama recalled.
“I want to go with you,’’ a sobbing Eric Barreto, 11, told his jailed parents […]



This “Debate” Needs No Advancing

TCS Daily - For Stem Cell Research: A Lesser Malevolence
First, dedicated proponents of ESC research must respect, acknowledge, and engage the arguments posed by their opponents. Depicting critics of techniques that destroy embryos as anti-science boors does nothing to advance the debate.
Actually, they are anti-science boors, and to pretend there is a legitimate “debate” with […]



SDS - Sudden Dementia Syndrome

Radicals To Return To Chicago After 37 Years - July 24, 2006 - The New York Sun
“I am a little skeptical or bemused at the idea that you can go back and pluck a name out of history,” a Hamilton College history professor, Maurice Isserman, 55, said. The author of “If I Had A Hammer: […]



WackyPoodia

Why Wiki Can Drive You Wacky - Los Angeles Times
More news about the joke “encyclopedia” that operates on the principle that if thousands of people are wrong, then their collective consensus will be right.



What So Hard To Understand About This?

RUDY, THE FRONT-RUNNER By RYAN SAGER - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion
For months, the media have treated their favored candidate, maverick Sen. John McCain, as the man to beat. But the basis wasn’t the polls, but the now-clearly-mistaken assumption that Rudy wouldn’t run - plus a willful adherence to a false storyline that social […]



Phony War

IDF: Terrorists running out of rockets | Jerusalem Post
IDF Military Intelligence (MI) believes the army has 10 days left before diplomatic pressure puts an end to Operation Change of Direction against Hizbullah, The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday.
In addition, MI - reflecting its latest strategic assessment - believes that the Islamist group has already been […]



Big Feet, Dainty Shoes

Rice Makes Unannounced Visit to Beirut
BEIRUT, July 24 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Beirut Monday to help shore up Lebanon’s fragile government after nearly two weeks of Israeli bombing, and U.S. officials announced a $30 million contribution toward an international aid package for the battered country.
However, Katie Couric was […]



Predictable

IDF hits car carrying fleeing guerillas | Jerusalem Post
Earlier in the day, Golani Brigade troops, tanks and combat engineers engaged in heavy fighting after pushing their way deeper into Lebanon towards the village of Bint Jbail, branded Hizbullah’s “terror capital” in southern Lebanon, located northeast of Maroun al-Ras. The troops came under attack from anti-tank […]



California State Workers Rake It In

Over at The American Thinker, Thomas Lifson writes:
77 state employees earned at least $200,000 … More than 3,600 prison guards earned more than $100,000 last year. The secret, of course, is manipulation of the system so as to qualify for stupefying amounts of overtime pay.
…Years ago, a study was done comparing pay levels in […]



Their Own Worst Enemy

An article at FrontPage disputes the CW — which the open borders/amnesty gang is fond of flogging — that Proposition 187 wrecked California’s Republican Party.



Have You Met Mister Colt .45?

I know what I’d like to force feed him with.



Pix From the Past

Daily Pundit has been doing business for nearly five years, and in that time, we’ve posted a lot of memorable pics. Some of them are worth a re-visit, so whenever the spirit moves me, I’ll post one.
Remember when a bunch of online America-haters (a lot of them are now full-fledged moonbat members of Kos’ […]



Arabs Vs. Iran

Michael Rubin casts an eye toward growing Arab concern regarding Iran. To his observations about their differences one might add that the great majority of Iranians are not Arabs, and Iran’s national language is Farsi, not Arabic.
It has often been written recently that Iranian proxy Hezbollah’s attack on Israel is intended to deflect attention […]



Fjordman Pair

At Brussels Journal: history and themes of political Islam.
At Gates of Vienna: the rise of the transnational thug-elite.



A Life. Some Assembly Required.

Jeff Harrell is homesick.
Plus he has violins in his fridge. That’s bad.
But he just met a pretty girl who extended her hand and struck up a conversation. That’s good.
Then he thought of a reason to do nothing about it. That’s bad.
Now he writes posts about math. Lost math. Math he can […]



Coming Soon!

Windows Armegeddon v5.0



Unlike BJ, Who Never Met A Spending Bill He Didn’t Love

Clinton says Bush years ‘hard on science’ - Boston.com
BOSTON –New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that scientific and medical advances in fields including embryonic stem cell research are being held back by a White House that puts ideology and theology ahead of facts and evidence.
Yeah? Any veto that prevents government spending is fine […]



More DIY - Or Why I Didn’t Post Much This Weekend

Yesterday I bought a new car, and today I put up the tile backsplash above my sink and counters. I thought it turned out okay, although for some reason I had bought white grout, and one quick splash told me that wasn’t going to look right. I’ll be picking up some black grout later this […]



The Weekend Cooking Thread

Regional cooking is enshrined in the American way of life, as is obvious from recipes for Southern Fried Chicken, New England Clam Chowder, and so on.
What are your regional favorites? Give us a recipe, if you’ve got one.
Here’s a recipe for San Francisco’s Sourdough Bread Pudding that’s pretty good.



So Many Libertarians Just Don’t Get It

Ilya Somin at the The Volokh Conspiracy is musing about the split in libertarian ranks over Iraq. In the comments to his post, everybody from David Friedman on down replies. The general thrust of the arguments center on the libertarian non-aggression principal, which says that libertarians should never, under any circumstances, initiate force […]



But Will They Listen?

Mike Hendrix offers Syria what sounds to me like some excellent advice:
Pardon my French, but you terrorist-supporting swine really need to just go fuck yourselves.
He has more.



More Outrageous Bullshit from Washington Propaganda Central

We Have To Talk To Bad Guys
Although the fighting in the Middle East is still raging, it is not too soon to start drawing lessons from these tragic events. Even if this situation begins to cool, there are so many other flashpoints in the Middle East and so many other potential hot spots in the […]



Boomers

Castro Gives Chavez Tour of Guevara’s Home - Newsday.com
ALTA GRACIA, Argentina — Fidel and Hugo went on a pilgrimage Saturday to Che’s house.
In an emotional journey, Cuban President Fidel Castro and Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez toured the Argentine boyhood home of Castro’s fallen comrade and legendary guerrilla, Ernesto “Che” Guevara. It was a first visit […]



Is The UK Times Becoming Labour’s Guardian?

I’ve seen some lefty Eurocrap in the Times during the last month or two, but
this piece about Britain setting a new direction for the negotiations with Iran may be a new low.
The article says “The (new British) plan … echoes the ‘containment’ of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.” Some plan — the […]



Well, I Did It

I’m now the proud owner of a brand new 2006 Toyota Rav 4, and it only cost me twice what my dad paid for our house in 1960. Of course, the car has air conditioning, and the house didn’t. This is, by the way, the very first brand new car I’ve ever owned. […]



Tour Update: Landis Will Win

Barring mishap, Floyd Landis will win the Tour de France tomorrow. During today’s Stage 19 Individual Time Trial he performed approximately as expected by gaining a substantial cushion over the two riders still ahead of him yesterday (Pereiro and Sastre), and keeping a comfortable margin on Kloden.
After yesterday, the top four were:
1 Oscar Pereiro
2 Carlos […]



We Really Are Good

Blogger Media at the Forefront of the Middle East Coverage War: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ — Pajamas Media (PJM) is providing special extended coverage of the Middle East War in conjunction with its new initiative called Politics Central. Within the PJM Network of 90 bloggers are several in theater […]



Winners and Losers

Rice Outlines Strategy for Middle East Trip - New York Times
WASHINGTON, July 21 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, soon to leave for the turbulent Middle East, said today that the violence in Lebanon must end in a stable and lasting peace, not just a cease-fire.
Meaningless blather.
“We do seek an end to the current violence, […]



Spare Me From Journo Objectivity

FOXNews.com - The Great Blogosphere Brawl - Blog | Blogs | Popular Blogs | Video Blogs
At this point, Frisch could have publicly apologized, accepted her knocks and exited with some grace. Instead, she reacted in a manner that sad experience makes me view as typical of the far-left. (The behavior of right-wing zealots is no […]



Billary

(Photo: the Washington Times)
Back in March, a DP post titled Pentagon Hillary commented:
The traditional pattern for a would-be Democratic nominee, says (Lowell) Ponte, is to campaign left to win the primaries then shift center/right to capture the swing vote.
Ponte thinks Bill Clinton was able to triangulate his way across this recurring challenge, […]



The Chicken? Or the Egg?

What goes down and up at the same time?



Shia vs. Sunni

Israel Matzav
A Saudi Wahhabi ‘cleric’ has issued a fatwa against joining, supporting or even praying for Hezbullah, according to a report on Fox News via YNet.
This tends to bolster my contention that the real battle here is going on between Iranian Shiites and their hegemonic aspirations, and Saudi Arabian Sunni goals of domination of the […]



A Time of Trial

ABC News: Matteo Tosatto Wins Tour De France Stage
MACON, France Jul 21, 2006 (AP) - American Floyd Landis remained in third place in the Tour de France, while Matteo Tosatto of Italy won Friday’s 18th stage in which the top contenders rode together in a trailing pack.
It all comes down to tomorrow.
BTW, it looks very […]



Holy Moley! Electrifying!

135 mpg and 0-60 in four seconds?
I’ll take one.



Apparently We Lose Seoul

Thanks to a DP reader who is extremely (and currently) knowledgable about the situation, I have received the following information about Seoul and NORK artillery:
The choice isn’t “rockets or guns”. The NorKs have 180mm guns and 240mm rocket launchers, similar to our MLRS, which can range a large part of metropolitan Seoul. Lots […]



Fat Chance

Weighty Words From a Guru Of Fitness - July 21, 2006 - The New York Sun
When Mr. Cavuto told Mr. Simmons that a former guest claimed that, because Americans aren’t eating wisely, the government needs to step in to control this epidemic, Mr. Simmons said: “This is just ridiculous. I mean, it’s like Big Brother […]



Barn Door. Horse. Stolen.

Counterterrorism Blog: Hizballah Activity in North America
Brian Hecht of The Investigative Project on Terrorism has prepared a quick reference guide to major Hizballah and Hizballah-linked illegal activity in the United States, Canada and Mexico:
Actually, this is bullshit.
The Hezbollah problem in the US isn’t with the ones we’ve caught. It’s with the ones we haven’t.



Barn Door. Horse. Stolen.

Counterterrorism Blog: Hizballah Activity in North America
Brian Hecht of The Investigative Project on Terrorism has prepared a quick reference guide to major Hizballah and Hizballah-linked illegal activity in the United States, Canada and Mexico:
Actually, this is bullshit.
The Hezbollah problem in the US isn’t with the ones we’ve caught. It’s with the ones we haven’t.



Katie Coward Cries Off

Which Anchors Put Themselves In The Line Of Fire? | TV | Access Hollywood
Katie Couric, who takes over the CBS Evening News in September told Access Hollywood that at this point, she would not venture into the Middle East hot spot.
“I think the situation there is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two […]



Mindless Imbeciles - Next: Cigarettes Are Bad For You?

Lebanon
SAFETY AND SECURITY: Recent events in Lebanon underscore the need for caution and sound personal security precautions. Former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005 in a car bomb attack in which 22 people were killed and many others seriously wounded; the potential for violence remains. Since February 2005, […]



Fun and Games

Centrist Democrats Ponder How To Counter Netroots - July 21, 2006 - The New York Sun
At a time when centrism has become a dirty word in some Democratic Party circles, hundreds of the party’s avowed moderates are convening in Denver this weekend to discuss their agenda for this fall’s election and the presidential contest in […]



Is It Really War?

ISRAEL POISED TO INVADE LEB By URI DAN Mideast Correspondent - New York Post Online Edition: News
July 21, 2006 — JERUSALEM - Israeli military commanders decided last night they must invade Lebanon to drive Hezbollah from Israel’s border, officials revealed.
Israel will send a large ground force across its northern border to carve out a Hezbollah-free […]



What Do You Think?

A Secret the Media Kept - The New Editor
Michael J. Berlin recalls that during the Iranian hostage crisis beginning in November 1979, hundreds of journalists kept secret for almost three months the fact that six officials from the US embassy in Tehran were being hidden by Canadian diplomats. The story didn’t break until the six […]



Is Scotland Breaking Away?

According to this article, there’s growing animosity between Scotland and England — enough, if it keeps going the way it is, to pry the UK apart.



What A Shitty Little Country

Jews being harassed in Norway | The Brussels Journal
Only about 1,300 Jews live in Norway, but because of the tensions and the current events in the Middle East, they too run the risk of getting attacked. According to the Norwegian newspaper Vårt Land, a Jew was assaulted by some Arabs in the streets of Oslo […]



Horselaugh

The Sun Online - News: Exiled Bakri in SOS plea
EXILED preacher of hate Omar Bakri has begged the Royal Navy to rescue him from war-torn Beirut.
The Muslim cleric who fled Britain last year, tried to board a ship full of women and children yesterday but was turned away.
He also wrote to the British embassy asking […]



Iran and Syria Win This One

CNN.com - Hezbollah leader apologizes for attack’s child victims - Jul 20, 2006
As volleys of Hezbollah rockets have soared across the border for the last nine days, Israel has pounded Lebanon with artillery and airstrikes. Despite Israeli claims to the contrary, Nasrallah said the attacks have failed to faze Hezbollah politically or militarily.
“I can say […]



People Will Spit When They Say His Name

CNN.com - U.S.: Iranians witnessed N. Korea missile test - Jul 20, 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — One or more Iranians witnessed North Korea’s recent missile tests, deepening U.S. concerns about growing ties between two countries with troubling nuclear capabilities, a top U.S. official said Thursday.
We thought Jimmy Carter’s watch was a disaster. We thought Bill […]



Gimme That Old-Time Whabbism

Dhimmi Watch blogs about how the Saudis use misyar, a short-term marriage contract, to end-run their religion’s prohibitions on extramarital sex.



Fjordman: Take Up Arms

Writing at the Brussels Journal, Fjordman outlines key events in Europe’s creeping totalitarianism, and links this progression to the rise of Islamism. He thinks the governing class is moribund and dangerous, leaving Europeans little choice except to take their safety and rights into their own hands:
The reason why European authorities are becoming increasingly totalitarian […]



Fool Me Thrice….

How many times have we seen it? The Bush administration makes some moves that, at first, appear half-way tough (like giving Israel a blank check to take out Hezbollah) and we on the right immediately begin constructing fantastic air-castles: Israel will destroy Hezbollah! we pant breathlessly. Assad’s days are numbered! The […]



It Has Now Become Quite Clear

That those who believed we could let Israel take care of the Iranian nuclear problem have been living in a daydream. Israel can’t even take out a rabble of badly-armed barbarians less than twenty miles across its own border.



They’re Right - We Are Paper Tigers

Iraq breaks with U.S. and assails Israeli raids - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
BAGHDAD Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq has forcefully denounced the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, marking a sharp break with President George W. Bush’s position and highlighting the growing power of a Shiite Muslim identity across the Middle […]



No, It’s Just Those Evil Fox Viewers Who Are Partisan

Extreme Mortman » California Gets Stranger And Stranger - Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Take Politics Seriously Again
Here’s a strange poll. The Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University asked Californians for their TV viewing habits and thoughts on issues — a poll which produced this headline:
Television news […]



Take Home

$3183 a month.
Welcome to god’s country!



I Dunno…. (He Shrugged)

Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggart?



Ammo

For those of you looking for a web site that will keep you uo-to-date on the War Against Wal-Mart, here it is. (Hat tip: Wal-Mart contact Chris Abraham).



President Pander Bear At It Again

Bush woos NAACP | Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON — President Bush, making his first personal appearance as president before the NAACP, promised today to sign a renewal of the Voting Rights Act.
But it is the renewal of this Republican president’s own frayed relations with the African-American community that weighs on the White House’s mind.
He probably wants it […]



The Second Coming Of Floyd

Yesterday, Floyd Landis bonked early in the seventeenth stage and went on to lose eight and ten minutes to his main GC competitors. At the end of the day he was in a distant 11th place.
Every rider fears such a meltdown. It can strike out of the blue, and result from the cumulative […]



Anybody Got A Rav 4? Do You Like It?

Reason Foundation Commentary: Have You Hugged a Hummer Today?
But despite all these drawbacks, hybrids are at least better for the environment than say….. a Hummer, right? Nope.
Spinella spent two years on the most comprehensive study to date – dubbed “Dust to Dust” — collecting data on the energy necessary to plan, build, sell, drive and […]



Landis Back In Contention

Tour de France 2006
Floyd Landis may have crumbled in stage 16 but today he proved that he is a true fighter. He attacked at the base of the first of five climbs and raced onward to Morzine to claim a fine victory in one of the most exciting stages in year. He began the day […]



A New Question

Do the United States, Europe, or Israel have the will or the guts to effectively oppose and/or defeat Islamist fundamentalism or the states that support and use it?
If yes, explain why. If no, how can the necessary fortitude be achieved?



Paper Tigers Everywhere You Look

Lebanese Army may join forces with Hizbullah | Jerusalem Post
The Lebanese Minister of Defense warned Israel Thursday that if IDF ground forces are sent into southern Lebanon, Lebanese troops will fight along with the Hizbullah against Israel.
I suspect this will be used as a reason for Israel not to invade Lebanon, and not to destroy […]



Keyes to the Kashbox?

Minutemen not watching over funds - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper
Many of the group’s most active members say they have no idea how much money has been collected as part of its effort to stop illegal entry — primarily along the U.S.-Mexico border, what it has been spent on or why it […]



Geek Movable Type Stuff

Movable Type offers a posting add-on called “Quick Post” that lets you select text on some web page, click “Quickpost”, and open a window with the link to that text, as well as the text itself, in an editing window. All well and good, but it doesn’t offer preview.
Zempt, a similar program not associated […]



The New Tabbed Internet Explorer

Much as I sometimes hate to give props to Microsoft, I have to give them credit for this much in their new “Firefox Killer” IE - it uses a hell of a lot less ram. Firefox claims to have fixed the dreaded memory leak, but when I have an instance of FF open with […]



Can The French Crusaders Drive Them Out?

Israel: Spain relations hurt by PM’s accusation IDF uses ‘abuses force’ - Haaretz - Israel News
Israel’s envoy to Spain said on Thursday the two countries’ relations had been damaged after the Spanish prime minister accused Israel of using “abusive force” during an event at which he also wore a Palestinian scarf.
Odd. I didn’t realize […]



Israel’s Unnecessary War

Daniel Pipes thinks Israel invited the current round of aggression by going soft, and he considers the highly limited goal of recovering the three captured soldiers symptomatic of this lack of resolve:
I fear that the Gaza and Lebanon operations are focused not on defeating the enemy but winning the release of one or two […]



Can’t Have England Offending those Muslims, Eh?

Gates of Vienna: Cry “God for Harry, England, and Saint George!”
…the Church of England is considering rejecting England’s patron saint St George on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims.
David, are you still sure it’s not too late for England?



Yet Another Reason Not To Call Myself A Conservative

WorldNetDaily: Where are the Christians?
CNN.com - Dobbs:?Not so smart when it comes to the Middle East - Jul 19, 2006
What is it with certain segements of the right, and their open, unabashed anti-Semitism?



Help?

Could somebody with a Typekey account go over to my real estate blog and try to post a test comment?
I made some changes to some of the templates, and haven’t seen any comments since. This blog doesn’t get many comments, so at the moment I don’t know if I’ve got a problem or not.
Thanks.



Hand Me The Vomit Bag, Please

A Short History of the Pledge of Allegiance - Newsday.com
In 1945 Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance, codifying it into law so that no one could change its words without congressional approval. President Eisenhower in 1954 asked Congress to add the phrase “under God” to the pledge.
Ralph Luker, a historian who edited the first […]



Now, That’s Bad

Chron.com | Expert: Yates thought her boys were ruined
Andrea Yates believed one of her sons would become a serial killer, another would be a mute homosexual prostitute and that both would burn in the fires of hell if she did not kill them, a psychiatrist told jurors today.
…Yates’ religious beliefs, he said, were the “trellis’’ […]



Disgusting Losers

House votes to keep “under God” in pledge - Yahoo! News
The Supreme Court struck down the appeals court decision on procedural grounds but left the door open for another challenge, causing Republicans to say the pledge must be placed off-limits before “activist judges” tamper with it again.
“We’re creating a fence. The fence goes around the […]



Floyd Landis Bonks

Yesterday’s stage 15 was the first of the three Alps stages. Landis re-took the yellow jersey with a strong ride that was matched by Kloden but 25 seconds better than Sastre, 39 better than Leipheimer, 1.11 ahead of Menchov and Rasmussen, and 1.39 ahead of Pereiro.
That gave Landis a 10-second lead over Pereiro and […]



Booba McBush Vetos One

OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
“President Bush cast the first veto of his 5 1/2-year presidency Wednesday, rejecting legislation to ease limits on federal funding for research on stem cells obtained from embryos,”
Well, he did it.
Of course, the stem cell bill is pork, pure and simple, and the government really has no business funding […]



Sigh. I Mean, It’s Nice, But…

San Francisco. Three million bucks.



Just About Says It All

FrontPage magazine.com :: Restraint Means Genocide by Joseph Puder
Only the complete defeat of Palestinian terrorism and its infrastructure in the Israeli context can bring the Palestinians to the negotiation table and give peace a chance. Similarly, America must overthrow the state-sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Syria, and perhaps Saudi Arabia if we are ever to hope […]



Papal Infallibility

IOL: Pope backs G8 Middle East declaration
Pope Benedict XVI tonight lent his support to the G8 summit declaration on the Middle East, which blamed the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah for the escalation in fighting and which urged Israel to exercise restraint.
How odd. Just a couple of days ago, he was blaming both sides […]



Monkey Pounding Chests, Dogs Crouching and Growling

Muslims will soon be victorious
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday evening warned bullying powers of the wrath of regional nations.
Addressing a local seminar attended by several university professors and thinkers in the northeastern provincial capital, Mashhad, he said bullying powers will soon burn in the fire of regional nations’ wrath and the scenario of oppressors […]



The Two-Front Farce

Time Magazine assessed that “What is clear is that with Israel fighting enemies on two fronts, the Middle East strain is deepening.”
The Washington Post wrote “The capture of the soldiers ( by Hezbollah) and the fighting effectively opened a second front for Israel,” and added that “The fighting took a dramatic turn early […]



Naked Union Hatred Not Enough

National and World News (PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com)
BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday overturned a Maryland law that would have required Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to spend more on employee health care, arguing the retail giant “faces threatened injury” from the law’s spending requirement.
The state law would have required large employers to spend at least […]



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