January 2, 2007

 
TN: Clerk pulls handgun on robber: “A would-be-robber got more than he bargained for from behind the counter of a local convenience store. At about 2:47 Wednesday morning, Kingsport Police responded to Central Chevron and Food Mart, 220 Carolina Pottery Drive. The clerk stated a white male [WHITE! The only time color can be mentioned!] [...]

January 1, 2007

 
“DETOX” NONSENSE
 
It has been a gluttonous few weeks. The parties, the chocolates, the mince pies - all capped with that 6,000-calorie Christmas Day feast. A January detox sounds sensible. A chance to purge those toxins, burn away the flab and give our furred arteries a well earned break.
Millions of us will be making just such [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
To all who come by here.
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Saddam And The Left
Excerpts from Sigmund, Carl & Alfred
Predictably, much of the left is in a frenzy over the trial and execution of Saddam, because for the first time in a very long while, they, like he, have been exposed for who and what they are- enablers and [...]

 
TX: Teen shoots, kills 2 would-be robbers: “An overnight home invasion robbery attempt in northeast Harris County ended in a hail of gunfire that left two suspects dead. Investigators said a 17-year-old was home with his cousin when four armed men kicked in the door and started shooting. The teen pulled out a shotgun of [...]

December 31, 2006

One flu over the cuckoo’s nest
Flu fearmongers must be quite depressed these days. Seasonal flu is late. Bird flu - despite all the headlines - hasn’t gained much traction among humans. And we haven’t had pandemic flu in 36 years. The good news is so good (for the rest of us, that is) that [...]

 
HOORAY! THE BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD IS DEAD
See here

A great New Year present for Iraq. But no doubt the Left will now immediately make a saint of some sort out of him. They don’t care about mass murder. They never have. If they could canonize the vicious “Tookie” Williams (above), and excuse mass murderers [...]

 
3 home intruders shot dead in Albuquerque: “Three men who broke into homes in the Albuquerque, N.M., area in the last month were shot dead by homeowners, and police say they hope would-be robbers take the hint. The latest incident involved Raymond Gabaldon, 40, a repeat offender, who, police say, stole a car and then [...]

December 30, 2006

 
IL: Residents defend themselves against robbers: “Police said two men were attempting to rob a home in the 5200 block of Ohio Avenue when they exchanged gunfire with other men inside the house. Police said one of the two was Richard R. Cosey III, 28, of the 7000 block of West A Street in [...]

Bug counters to infest kitchens
 
British food frenzy
What do you look for in a restaurant to celebrate the new year? Good food, wine and atmosphere? No, the authorities are sure that what diners really want to know is how many bacteria are in the kitchen, and how much saturated fat is on the menu. Yummy.
The Times [...]

DENYING THE OBVIOUS ABOUT ISLAM
Shoebat begins by explaining his frustrations with Westerners who consistently misunderstand the nature of the Islamists: “Ever since I left radical Islam, I have consistently run into Westerners who are oblivious to the mind-set of radical Islamists, and being on both sides of the fence, I have felt like I am [...]

December 29, 2006

 
DOES THE USA HAVE A LOW LIFE-EXPECTANCY
The article excerpted below says that it does. I will leave it to demographers to comment more fully on it as I could not with a quick search find the figures upon which it is supposedly based. The article says that it is based on this report and that [...]

IS SUPPORT FOR THE TROOPS MASCULINE?
Every now and again, somebody gets the idea of saying that conservative values are male and Leftist values are female. I have critiqued the assertions by Leftist George Lakoff to that effect some time ago.
But the idea also seems to be a favourite of conservative psychologist Gagdad Bob. Gagdad Bob [...]

Ninth, 10th amendments important too: “The Ninth and 10th amendments to the U.S. Constitution don’t receive as much attention as their siblings in the Bill of Rights, but they are no less important in the day-to-day lives of citizens in our community. The two amendments are similar in that they don’t specifically spell out rights [...]

December 28, 2006

 
WHAT A RIDICULOUS “STUDY”!
It reproduces only a tiny part of the human experience of long-haul flight. And elderly humans DON’T die from jet-lag — or we would all have heard of it years ago
A study that exposed elderly mice to the ravages of regular long-haul flights found most of them died. The University of Virginia [...]

 
THE HIGH QUALITY OF MILITARY MEN
Below is one of the many letters from American servicemen published by Taranto. I recognize every bit of what the writer says. My own time in the Australian army was of no importance at all (though I enjoyed it greatly) but the one thing it taught me very clearly was [...]

OK: Man shoots, kills intruder: “Norman police said a man was shot and killed Thursday after breaking into a northeast Norman home. Responding to a 911 call from the resident, police said they found the body of Keith Dewayne Robinson, 23, in the home about 11:45 p.m. Capt. J.D. Younger said the resident told officers [...]

December 27, 2006

ISLAM LEADS TO FAILURE
Excerpt from Daniel Pipes
The book that most shaped my understanding of modern Muslim life was Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s Islam in Modern History (Princeton, 1957). To reduce Smith’s nuanced thesis to a few sentences, he argues that Muslim military, economic, and cultural success in the premodern period created an expectation that God’s people [...]

 
CA: Woman holds burglars, police confiscate her gun: “Sheriff’s deputies went to a home in the 300 block of Beardsley Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. Monday, according to Sgt. Richard Wood. Resident Jessie Bower, 68, had seen two males on her back lot and confronted them with a pistol. Bower, who is not in good [...]

 
THE ASBESTOS SCARE
I am repeating below an article that I ran some days ago on “Greenie Watch”. I commented at the time that naturally-occurring asbestos has been around in the soil of large parts of Southern California ever since the area was settled in the 1780s — so we should be seeing lots of asbestos-related [...]

December 26, 2006

Eat, drink and be merry
By Australian columnist Christopher Pearson
Health ministers, state and federal, are of one mind on the question of obesity. Lack of exercise and poor diet (known in the trade as the Big Two) are to blame. Recent articles in the International Journal of Obesity tell a different story.
Pathways, an obesity prevention [...]