AN EMAIL FROM NORTHERN SCOTLAND:
Blogger Dave Terron is a distinguished British soldier and I felt honoured to receive the following email from him about the Scottish/English rivalry that I noted in my Christmas-day post. And, given the Scottish passion for celebrating the new year, it feels very right to start off with a [...]

AN EMAIL FROM NORTHERN SCOTLAND:
Blogger Dave Terron is a distinguished British soldier and I felt honoured to receive the following email from him about the Scottish/English rivalry that I noted in my Christmas-day post. And, given the Scottish passion for celebrating the new year, it feels very right to start off with a [...]


Robert Meyer has taken his swipe at evolution. To give him all due credit, he handles the subject about as well as most critics do. Which is to say, about as well as fish handle tap dancing.
It’s not his fault, or at least not entirely. He’s never been taught science.
He has almost [...]

From: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential2/the_occupation_of_germany.guest.html
“Headline: Germans Reveal Hate of Americans. Oct. 31, 1945. (Stories)
The German attitude toward the American occupation forces has swung from apathy and surface friendliness to active dislike. According to a military government official, this is finding expression in the organization of numerous local anti-American organizations throughout the zone and [...]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20041231/pl_nm/quake_usa_aid_dc
The president said the dramatic increase in assistance, which eclipsed a $250 million aid pledge from the World Bank (news – web sites), was based on initial the findings of U.S. assessment teams in hard-hit areas of southeastern and central Asia, and on a recommendation from senior officials including Powell.
This [...]

http://www.un.org/apps/sg/offthecuff.asp?nid=660
Q: Mr. Secretary, picking up on Richard’s question, I think a lot of people are asking exactly why you waited three days on vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, before you decided to fly back to New York in the face of this extraordinary crisis. Could you give us a full explanation [...]

FOXNews.com – U.S. & World – Boy Handed Over in Three-Way Custody Battle
A summary, because the story is confusing, and you need a scorecard.
Boyfriend and Girlfriend make a baby.
It indicates she alleges an assault, but not by whom. Only that it was “In the residence.” As the feminized media lapdogs don’t label the [...]

This is one of the few events in Chicago where the women actually are interested to talk to guys. I’d put it up there with the Green Tie as the best two nights out in the city.

The doubts about the validity of Christine Gregoire’s victory in the recent manual recount continue, as the GOP wants to know why the list of voters in King County who cast valid ballots does not match the actual number of votes certified.
As has been the case since Election Day, much of the attention is [...]

This could be a lot of fun if he really does it. Really bizarre, but fun nonetheless.
If it were a country song, the hero might be a love-struck cowboy astride a lame horse chasing after a doe-eyed girl who’s bound for the altar in the arms of another.

But if it were a Kinky [...]

John Podhoretz is frustrated by how politicized the tsunami situation has become. He points out that we should be focused on helping those effected by the disaster instead of exploiting it as a way to take cheap shots at George Bush and the United States.
THE political and ideological exploitation of perhaps the worst natural disaster [...]

From the “and you thought you were having a bad day” department: Anna Nicole Smith has lost 88.5 million… and not pounds this time.
A Federal Appeals Court threw out a judge’s ruling that gave Smith $88.5 million of her former husband’s estate. Smith married J. Howard Marshall when she was 26 and she was 89. [...]

Okay, this article may be blowing things a bit out of proportion, but this is still awfully disturbing news.
On Patong Beach and Kata Beach – where hundreds died or disappeared four days ago – the smell of suntan lotion wafted from the shore as a new influx of tourists determinedly ignored the carnage around [...]

Alan Brain at Command Post shows graphically that the tsunami that just struck Southeast Asia, as horrible and devastating as it was, could have been significantly worse if the direction of the waves was focused a bit differently.

If you’re one of these people, like my aunt in Florida, who still believe that the economy is in bad shape, you might want to take a look at this. Of course, my aunt still thinks Al Gore won the election in 2000, so maybe I shouldn’t use her as an example.
It’s been going [...]

This is really frightening.
The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the sandbox: More than 10 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight, the American Heart Association reported Thursday.
That is up from 7 percent in 1994, according to the heart association’s annual statistical report on heart disease and stroke.
The 10 percent [...]

The U.S. military is at the frontlines of the tsunami disaster, helping to deliver aid to those who need it in Indonesia.
A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group is heading from Hong Kong to the shores of Sumatra. The first of many Air Force C-130 cargo planes has landed in Indonesia with [...]

A LEFTIST GAME-PLAN FOR 2008
It is pleasing to see a post on Daily Kos that shows a considerable grip on reality. Some of his attempts to deal with the reality concerned are a bit amusing, though. The point of the post is to tell Democrats how to change their message so that they [...]

A LEFTIST GAME-PLAN FOR 2008
It is pleasing to see a post on Daily Kos that shows a considerable grip on reality. Some of his attempts to deal with the reality concerned are a bit amusing, though. The point of the post is to tell Democrats how to change their message so that they [...]

2005 Predictions:
1. Yakov will begin teaching a university course on advanced fisting techniques.
2. Gus will be knighted and stop talking to us.
3. Pete will join Southwest as an engineer/greetor type.
4. Mike will display the link/name of the blog in 78 point font above “MND.”
Okay, that’ll never happen.
5. The Lions will go 8-8 next year and [...]

From John Derbyshire:
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200412300915.asp
Hanging out at the mall. Speaking of ugly: We did some last-minute Christmas shopping at the humongous Smith Haven Mall out here on suburban Long Island. What a depressing experience! I have heard about the teenage pastime known as �hanging out at the mall,� but I had never really [...]

I’m sure most have read this and the associated trash. Have you read this?
“We are doing very little at the moment.”
The UN can’t be bothered with actually helping people while the United States is going the real footwork. If the UN can’t be bothered to get their crap together to [...]

http://www.heritage.org/research/features/socialsecurity/
This gives you an idea if you will get Social Security and at what benefit level / rate of return based on average contributions, etc.
It doesn’t apply much to me as I’m a state employee and I contribute to that pension in lieu of Social Security, but it makes for an [...]

The New York Times is at it again. This time, in an editorial, they claim that America is “stingy” with its foreign aid. The editorial is here, if you want to bear witness to idiocy, not to mention take the time to register.
“Stingy”? The United States spent $15.8 billion for “official developmental assistance” to developing [...]

2005 Predictions.
More of the same; the vitriol that has been heaped upon Bush in western Europe, Canada, Berkeley, etc. will continue to shift to the American people until we can’t travel to these alien worlds without a disguise and a poorly faked French accent.
Michael Moore’s new film on the evils of the drug industry will [...]

I wound up needing to get into a locked cabinet today. On a hunch, I tried one of the keys on my half-pound key ring. When the very tip was inserted, the lock turned and I was able to get in to the cabinet.
The lock is kind of old, and it may be [...]

Discussion continues in an online forum. Some of the items raised are very interesting.
The first post deals with the process of thermal depolymerization, by which any organic matter can be turned into oil. Apparently, right now, the quality is up to that of diesel fuel. Links are provided to Wikipedia, A copy of an article [...]

How the hell is this again?
Wal-Mart Workers Accused of Shooting Cat
Now let me get this straight – and I am a cat person myself, please bear in mind: We have a stray, feral cat, more than likely with no vaccinations, so subject to rabies, living in a storage trailer. When it won’t [...]

Iraqis living in the United States will be permitted to vote in the Iraqi elections in Chicago and four other US cities, if they qualify for Iraqi citizenship.
Iraqi citizens in the United States are getting a taste of the hope–and the logistical headaches–created by the upcoming Jan. 30 elections in Iraq with the news [...]

This story, at the News and Observer, speaks for itself.
A very telling fact was that the mother was despondant over not having custody of her children. Well, there’s a familiar story, isn’t it, guys?
Now, what is going to happen is that sick and twisted Feminazis and their allies will try to put the spin [...]