…is another’s freedom fighter. Case in point: the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. First off, let’s be blunt: the PKK is a terrorist organization, and operates to terrorize the Turkish government into acceding to Kurdish nationalist demands. They have done this by, among other things, killing innocent Turks.
The PKK has [...]
Archive for July, 2007
One man’s terrorist…
Posted in Kurdistan on July 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Still the best
Posted in New York City on July 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When I was growing up in New York City, the Empire State Building was touted as being the true embodiment of New York, its essence so to speak. Well, it’s hard to argue with that. After all, the Empire State Building was the tallest in the world at the time. And it [...]
res ipsa loquitur
Posted in Arabs on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, yet another story about the vaunted Arab friendliness and welcoming of strangers. It seems that a group of spoiled Arab sweeties, fresh from spending their unearned oil revenues in Milan, refused to have their pure selves seated next to men to whom they were not related.
Now, how people arrange their lives, and with [...]
Go Hillary; Go Obama
Posted in Politics on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Delicious. One can only hope they both lose, and the Donks nominate Bill Richardson. It would be called “shooting a tuna fish in a barrel.”
Harry Potter and the Elders of Zion
Posted in Iran, Islam on July 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps that is the name for the next tome in the Harry Potter series. But only if J.K. Rowling will issue franchises to the Islamic Republic of Iran. From the MEMRI Blog:
In an article, the Iranian daily Kayhan, which is identified with Iranian Supreme Leader ‘Ali Khamenei, criticized Iran’s Culture and Islamic Guidance [...]
Feeling guilty, are we?
Posted in Poverty on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing endures like white guilt. When the blacks living in poverty rioted back in the late 1960s, thence was reinforced the need for a war. We’re always having wars; wars in name but not in effect. The so-called war on poverty is the classic example: we declare “war,” we throw money [...]
Save Harry Potter
Posted in Culture on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Via Pedro Morgado, at Avenida Central: Save Harry Potter. Thanks, mate; couldn’t agree more.
Say Yes to a Full Pint
Posted in Culture, Liberty on July 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes you just gotta stand up and be counted. Seems like Nanny Britain has gone too far, by having a beer regulation but then not enforcing the requirement that when you buy a pint at your local pub, you’ll actually get a bleedin’ pint.
One may ask, what business is it of the government of [...]
Obligatory Harry Potter Post
Posted in Culture on July 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
First, straight off, this: J.K. Rowling’s latest book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is nothing short of brilliant. Yes, I suffer from having swallowed, practically whole, all six of its predecessors. In short, I’ve been suffering from Adult Onset Pottermania since the first book came out in June, 1997.
First, the obvious: [...]
Confessions of a disloyal Republican
Posted in Politics on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I used to consider myself a stalwart Republican. With rare exceptions over my voting life, I have voted the straight Republican ticket. My confession? I am disgusted with the performance of the Bush administration and with Republicans in Congress. Disgusted.
Not so disgusted that I could bring myself to vote for a [...]
President Al Gore
Posted in Politics on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, a man can dream, can’t he? “President Al Gore” has such a lovely sound to the ears of liberals living near that river in Egypt. As in, living in denial that George Bush was elected in 2000. Apparently, the NutRoots are still in denial.
Just imaging what a President Gore would have [...]
Nanny Strikes Again
Posted in Culture, Nanny State on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s easy enough to find many pictures showing how evil McDonald’s is. This theme was even turned, by a polemicist, into a feature-length movie in 2004 (Super Size Me). The common thread? Blame McDonald’s for, among other things, weight gain if one eats nothing but Big Macs and fries and sugared soda [...]
So that’s what a president does
Posted in Politics on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Seems as though Obama doesn’t quite have a grasp on what the president’s duties might be. That’s president of the United States, not president of the local meatpacker’s union, or whatever.
According to Nothingburger Obama, the duties for the Leader of the Free World, and Commander in Chief of the mightiest armed forces in the [...]
Outrage of the day
Posted in Law and order, Political Correctness on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When can a man rape a seven-year old and walk away? Why, when he can claim to not understand English. Of course, that should be the politically correct “alleged” rapist. Yes, we are all innocent until proven guilty, blah blah blah.
This particular defense hinges on another allegation: that the court system [...]
“politically correct primate”
Posted in Political Correctness on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, shades of Margaret Mead . We have the bonobo apes, close cousins to the chimpanzee, and a prototype for how feminazis would organize us. From the July 30, 2007 New Yorker (as previewed in today’s Wall Street Journal), the essence:
Bonobos seem to organize themselves without the use of hierarchies, have more sex [...]
“wet-foot, dry-foot”
Posted in Tyranny on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is the name of a self-conflicted policy from the Clinton administration. The policy is well-known to anyone who lives in or near South Florida, or who has Cuban relatives or friends.
In simplest terms, our policy allows Cubans fleeing communist tyranny to stay in the United States only if they make it to dry [...]
Hope for Islam
Posted in Islam on July 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is an essay in today’s Washington Post Outlook section that gives some hope for a better, more tolerant future for Islam. It is “Losing My Jihadism” by Mansour al-Nogaidan, a Saudi native.
The essence of his charge to his co-religionists? Reinterpret the Koran; learn to live in peace with others. From the [...]
Hope springs eternal
Posted in Politics on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…for the black widow spider from Hope, Arkansas, now a carpetbagging senator from New York: The Hillary. The latest poll conducted by Fox (which I trust much more than any conducted or even touched by the New York Times or CBS News) shows what many would interpret as the inevitability of Hillary as [...]
NutRoots in Pittsburgh
Posted in Idiotarians, Politics on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m assuming that a columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a mainstream media outlet in guess where, would be considered, likewise, “mainstream.” But it appears that the NutRoots run deep, and have infected at least one columnist. The newly-annointed NutRoots columnist is one Dan Simpson, and he gives obeisance to the Cindy Sheehan wing [...]
vox populi
Posted in Politics on July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
One must hope that this poll is as biased as the “news” organizations that ran it. Which were the Fake but Accurate CBS News, and the Jayson Blair Times. The latter sometimes referred to as the “We don’t need to fact check our precious young staff hired without regard to merit” Times.
Anyway, this [...]
Mesopotamia
Posted in Iraq, Media on July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mesopotamia is the classy name that pretentious folks have for Iraq. And, at the head of the class, polishing those apples for some great, liberal teacher, is the Gray Lady. The Times seems to refer to some terrorist group now operating in Iraq as “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.”
Well, I checked the CIA Factbook, [...]
Drop those nuts!
Posted in Idiotarians, Iran on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You just can’t make this stuff up. Iran’s just busted some squirrels, claiming they were spying. From Y-Net:
Iranian intelligence operatives recently detained over a dozen squirrels found within the nation’s borders, claiming the rodents were serving as spies for Western powers determined to undermine the Islamic Republic.”In recent weeks, intelligence operatives have arrested [...]
Football
Posted in Culture, Sports on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting piece at NRO by Geoffrey Norman today about the latest British invasion: Beckham, David, one each, plays what the euros call “football.” Which we call “boring.”
Ever since I raised my kids and took my son to play baseball, soccer was going to the The Next Big Thing. We were all touted [...]
Total war?
Posted in Islam, War and Peace on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Time and time again we are reminded of the fact that we are not fighting a war. Yes, the president calls it a “global war on terror” — GWOT, a most unsavory acronym. And, yes, unfortunately, far too many of our best young men have died in the futility that is “nation building” [...]
Nanny on the rampage
Posted in Culture, Politics on July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This video kind of makes me nervous. Nothing that Mitt Romney says is objectionable, precisely. Yet taken as a whole, I get the distinct whiff of goody two-shoeness. Yes, not an actual word, but it’s a feeling of having some overbearing nanny peering over your shoulder while you live your life.
Pornography, sex [...]
Useful idiot
Posted in Idiotarians on July 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a little story in today’s WaPo by a man who illustrates the concept “useful idiot.” This man has supped with the devil, and confesses himself “a little sad” over the recent demise of one of the worst of the worst of the jihadis.
The moke’s name is Nicholas Schmidle, sounds like “schmuck.” The [...]
one-month vacation
Posted in Iraq, War and Peace on July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Must be nice, to have those infidels over in your country fighting for your right to take a one-month vacation. This is what the Iraqi parliament will be doing. Poor souls, they don’t get the two months that seems to be the norm in lazy places.
The puppet head of the Iraqis, prime minister [...]
NIMBY
Posted in Energy, Hypocrites on July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, the bloviating of insincere politicos. Pictured is one of the worst of the worst, the ultra-liberal Jim Moran (D-VA). Moran represents, among other places in deep blue Northern Virginia, Old Town Alexandria.
What is Moran doing in the picture? Doing what he does best: bloviating, this time against anything that furthers [...]
future orientation
Posted in Political Correctness, Poverty on July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From my native burg, the latest in the nanny impulse from Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Mr. Bloomberg appears to be a well-meaning and fairly competent mayor, as much as anyone can be in the suicide stew that is New York City.
But Mayor Mike has a fatal flaw: he’s a white limousine liberal, sort of [...]
“unsupported and incredible”
Posted in Iraq, War and Peace on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is something more than a little surreal about the legalistic standards used by the mainstream media to judge the rightness of our actions in Iraq. The media, or at least the liberal-leaning elements of it (which is to say most of it) seems to think that we ought to fight terrorists and tribal [...]
