MY CHRISTMAS REVISITED Two interesting emails from two different readers provoked by my Christmas-day postings: “I enjoyed the account of your Christmas Day and wanted to contribute to the Scots/English debate, I am half-and-half with a with a Jewish great-grandfather. My grandparents came to London from Glasgow a hundred years ago and they were...
The Gift that Keeps on Giving, Part II. Bush wins! Again. This is really getting old; Ohio just finished its recount and surprise, surpriseâ€â€ÂBush beat Kerry. Oh, but he shaved 318 votes off the lead… of 118,775. The Green and Libertarian party presidential candidates asked for the recount and raised the $113,600 required under...
Brett Favre has finally decided to once and for all correct the spelling of his last name.
Mahmoud Abbas, pretty much a shoo- in to become the next head of the Palestinian Authority, states that the Palestinians will not make peace with Israel as long as Israel keeps it’s West Bank security fence up. So, until Israel tears down the fence that helps protect her from Palestinian suicide bombers, the Palestinians...
The house cleaning at the Central Intellegence Agency continues. Hey, maybe after all the dead wood is removed, the CIA will actually be good for something other than leaking stuff to the press. A senior intelligence officer at the CIA has resigned, the sixth high-ranking official to leave since the appointment of a new...
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2953355 UNITED NATIONS – U.N. investigators looking into charges of rape, pedophilia and prostitution involving peacekeepers in Congo have been threatened with retaliatory attacks, and witnesses have been bribed to change incriminating testimony, a draft report says. If this happened in the US, Rumsfeld would already be impeached. Where is the ground-swell to hold...
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&u=/nm/20041229/sc_nm/quake_lanka_wildlife_dc_1&printer=1 I’ve heard this before, that animals have a sense of nature that they use to get out of the way of “very bad things”. We’ve known this for awhile, and it would seem intuitive that some animals wouldn’t be able to get away from this, but that doesn’t appear to be the case....
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=5796 Read it for yourself… It’s whacked out crap like this that really makes intelligent discussion impossible. If you are going to spend your time trying to blame Haliburton, we’ll happily spend out time running the country in your stead.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/12/24/110902.shtml Quote: President Bush has implemented economic policies that resemble those of the Roman Empire, which forced the baby Jesus into homelessness on the night of his birth, former civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a pre-Christmas rant late Thursday. First, Jesus, nor Mary, nor Joseph were homeless. They were forced by...
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&u=/nm/20041229/us_nm/security_terrorist_dc_4&printer=1 I particularly like: “They are making him look as if he was this cold-hearted person, and he is not like that.” The guy shot and killed a 10 year old girl. Assuming he did it, I’m pretty sure that’s about as close to cold-hearted as one could get. What do you have to...
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1103549750210 This really picks apart the problem of these cases and the extremes on both sides. Namely this entire course of jurisprudence has lead to outright to any form of religiousity in the public square, even when the speaker is not the government or a government official. (See : http://www.livejournal.com/users/bambenek/94565.html ) This jurisprudence completely...
As I have posted before, Columbia University has been recieving a lot of unwanted attention for the tremendously anti-Israeli and anti-semitic professors in their Middle East studies department. Yet, their president Lee Bollinger refuses to do anything about the problem. The fiery focus on Israel in that department was tellingly noted in an article...
The idiotic UN official who had the gall to to claim that the United States was “stingy” about giving aid to the tsunami victims in Asia gave a half-hearted apology, and said he was really just misinterpreted. Of course, this is the same UN who did nothing while genocide was commited in Rwanda, does...
Over at Wizbang, there’s a translation from EXPRESSEN.SE that states that meteorologists in Thailand were going to give a tsunami warning after the earthquake, and did not fearing it would hurt the tourist industry. The Washington Post mentions this story as well, but says it can’t be confirmed. The truth should come out eventually,...
The wrangling amongst US politicians over whether to allow importation of drugs from Canada will likely become moot, as Canada is strongly considering not allowing Canadian internet pharmacies to fill prescriptions for Americans any longer. A tough new stance by Canada’s health minister on Internet drug sales has increased the odds that Americans will...
If you want your kids to attend the University of North Carolina, be advised that they will be required to read the Qur’an before they’ll be allowed on campus. At least…for now. Some of the kids are suing the college, claiming it’s their right to not be subject to the whims of those who...
Mordechai Abir has a good piece regarding al Qaeda’s intensifying efforts to disrupt the economies of the west by destroying Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities. On December 15, 2004, in an audio recording, bin Laden said “oil prices should be at least $100 a barrel,” and called upon Persian Gulf militants to exert themselves to...
Keep a mindful eye on all the media coverage to see how many times you can spot any blue-helmet U.N. workers helping those poor souls hurt by the tsunami. Keep a running total. I’m betting I’ll be able to use just one hand to tabulate the total. If by ‘blue-helmets’ you mean people in...
Tsunami Watch – Keep a mindful eye on all the media coverage to see how many times you can spot any U.N. workers helping those poor souls hurt by the tsunami. Keep a running total. I’m betting I’ll be able to use just one hand to tabulate the total.
DIVERSITY, GOOD AND BAD It is amazing how Leftists have perverted the word “diversity”. The people who can call a vicious dictatorship “The People’s Democratic Republic of …. ” have done a similar hit-job on “diversity”. American universities pride themselves on their diversity but are in fact one of the least diverse places on...
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