Off to Ireland, for some r&r. Some stout; some pub food; some music. But mostly the joy of being among the Irish, walking the streets of Dublin.
In one sense, going home. I’ve always loved the Irish, and not the least because they’ve had the gumption to tell John Bull to f*** off. [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Éire go brách
Posted in Just me on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
you don’t say
Posted in America, Culture on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a WaPo headline that comes under the category of dog bites man: “‘No Child’ Law May Slight The Gifted, Experts Say.” Gotta love those experts; they’ve got a way of burning down through those layers upon layers of complexity and honing in on the truth.
The story illustrates how, when people look [...]
“iconic Negro”
Posted in Politics, race on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The topic of today’s David Broder column is white guilt. And, in the words of Shelby Steele, Obama’s role as an iconic Negro in the race. In the simplest of terms, this means that a principal reason for Obama’s success, so far, is a combination of white guilt, and the fact that he [...]
It’s all about us?
Posted in Anglosphere, War and Peace on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another friend gone: John Howard has been defeated in his bid for a fifth term as Australia’s prime minister. Mr. Howard has been a good friend, and has continued the Aussie tradition of standing with us in wars against totalitarianism and Islamists.
That will come to a screeching halt with the installation of Labor’s [...]
Scottish gits
Posted in Anglosphere on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The United Kingdom is called such because of the Treaty of Union of 1707. From the Scottish Parliament website, the basics:
The Treaty of Union declares that England and Scotland shall become one kingdom, with the same monarchy and succession, a single parliament (‘the Parliament of Great Britain’), and equal trade and economic rights.
Just a [...]
A new norm
Posted in America, Immigration on November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things that has changed in this country is the notion of who has a right to come here. In the past, it wasn’t important. At least while we were expanding to the Pacific, we needed as many immigrants as we could get. To build the railroads; to work the [...]
Imageo Deo
Posted in protect life on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The stem cell progress announced yesterday (WaPo story here) is being viewed through a political lens in the mainstream media. Here’s the lead paragraph from the Post:
Researchers in Wisconsin and Japan said yesterday that they have turned ordinary human skin cells into what are effectively embryonic stem cells without using embryos or women’s eggs [...]
Chuck’s for Huck
Posted in Politics on November 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
That settles it: I’m voting for Huck. Mike Huckabee, that is, candidate for the Republican nomination. Thought I was for Rudy or John McCain? Well, that was before the Chuckster weighed in.
Chuck Norris, baddest, toughest Texas Ranger ever, has endorsed Huck. Here’s the campaign ad, worth seeing even if you’re [...]
Worth our very lives
Posted in Politics, Terrorism on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A little vignette from James Taranto’s Best of the Web yesterday, about the angry Left and how they view national security. The focus is a Q&A from the last Democratic “debate.” The candidate is Chris Dodd, a reliable lefty from the state whose other senator is Joe Whose Last Name Must [...]
All immigrants are not the same
Posted in America, Immigration on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What do Mohammed Atta and at least four other 9/11 hijackers have in common with Albert Einstein? They were all immigrants. As are millions of other legal immigrants, law-abiding people who are just seeking a better life. And who are welcome to our shores.
What distinguishes Atta and the other terrorists is that [...]
Obama, infomercial host
Posted in Politics on November 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It is a bad joke that Barack Hussein Obama is running for president. He is wet behind the ears, to say the least. His resume is, well, the charitable word for it is thin. He comes across as a nice guy, if a bit on the vacuous side. Audacity of Hope [...]
What’s in a name?
Posted in Just me on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Decided to change the name of this blog. From Wrong Side of the Tracks to Right Turns.
Why? Because it describes my preferred direction in most things. Although I was, in fact, born on the wrong side of the tracks, I’d rather be looking forward than backwards.
Thanks for stopping by.
Allah the Merciful?
Posted in Islam on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is one nation that epitomizes the true nature of unbridled Islam. It is Saudi Arabia, home to the Wahhabi strain of Islamic law. In case we’d forgotten, this is the strain that is taught in places funded by the Saudis here in America, and elsewhere where this Islamic virus is spread. [...]
Three-sided
Posted in Politics on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Clintons, Hill and Bill, were famous for being able to do a tap dance around the truth. Make that a tarantella, actually — a lively, spirited dance of such energy that those who watched were so enthralled that they completely forgot their original questions.
So it was; so it is; so will it always [...]
Everyone else’s fault
Posted in Arabs, Israel, Terrorism on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One reason that there is not peace between the Palestinians and Israelis is that the terrorists who run the West Bank and Gaza have some helpful enablers among the liberal media. This isn’t the primary reason; but it does contribute to the woeful inability of the Paleos to stand up and do the right [...]
Par for the course
Posted in Arabs, Immigration, Terrorism on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s see. Out geniuses at the FBI and the CIA both provided security clearances and employment to a woman who was an illegal Muslim immigrant who obtained her citizenship fraudulently, and who has family ties to foreign terrorist backers. Par for the course.
However, our stalwart defenders of freedom claim, according to this NBC [...]
Kurdistan
Posted in Kurdistan on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There is one successful result of our toppling Saddam Hussein: Kurdistan. The Kurdish nation, established in fact if not as recognized by the United Nations, is fully functional, and, better yet, friendly towards us.
We’ve let the Kurds down, and hard, before. It should never happen again. Not because they are friendly; [...]
Think this is simple?
Posted in Racism, race on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The subject is prejudice, of the racial kind. This article in the New York Times is well worth the time, for the subject is the differences between racial groups in genetic inheritance. Specifically, intelligence.
Back in the day, we were raised with the iron-clad assumption that all races were pretty much the same in [...]
“because that’s where the money is”
Posted in Islam, Terrorism on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The title quotation is attributed to Willie Sutton, a career bank robber, who was asked why he robbed banks. Some things are just too obvious, I suppose. Or, in different words, yes, there are stupid questions. Along these lines, now comes “Muslim mapping” by the Los Angeles Police Department.
According to this KNBC [...]
“Israel is indestructible”
Posted in Iran, Israel on November 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If ever there were a man with bona fides concerning the national security of Israel, that man is Efraim Halevy, former Mossad chief. From an article in today’s WaPo, we get this summary:
Efraim Halevy, the former head of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, titled his memoirs “Man in the Shadows.” But now that he’s [...]
“too likeable to white people?”
Posted in Politics, race on November 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hillary really must be scaring some folks, Republicans as well as Democrats. There appears to be a media boomlet for Obama, who now might be called “the other white meat.”
Yes, Sen. Obama is, technically, “black,” insofar as such things are measured by racialists who care about that old racist “one drop of blood” criterion. [...]
Some will be left behind
Posted in America, Culture on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Try this statement out on an unsuspecting spouse, significant other, or colleague: Did you know that half of all Americans are at or below average in intelligence?
Except for anal-retentive statistician types out there who might quibble about means and medians and other such tidbits which don’t change the essence of the statement, many [...]
“Evangelical Vote Still Appears Divided”
Posted in Christianity, Politics on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Shocked. Truly shocked. That social conservatives are not monolithically endorsing just one Republican candidate. This article in the WaPo, which appears typical for the liberal media, tells the entire tale in its headline: “Consensus Lacking in GOP Endorsements — Evangelical Vote Still Appears Divided.”
Prompting the article is the surprising, some might say [...]
How green was my Toyota
Posted in Culture, environment on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Saw a very interesting and annoying Toyota commercial this morning. It showed some perky peasants building what looked like a Toyota Pious out of sticks, leaves, mud, and what-all found lying about.
The model of a car, being completed, was then shown in time-lapse photography gradually withering away to…nothing. Which was the whole point [...]
A woman, perhaps…
Posted in Politics on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…just not that woman. That woman being Hillary Clinton, of the crooked-as-a-dog’s-hind-leg Clintons of Arkansas. A just-released Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has two principal findings: First, he Republicans are not trusted to govern and would likely lose next year’s presidential election.
Second: if the Democratic candidate is Hillary, Republicans may win. [...]
“liquid Wal-Mart”
Posted in Americana, Culture on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Love it or hate it, Starbucks has saturated our culture. From today’s story at WSJ,
the Onion once reported, “continued its rapid expansion Tuesday, opening its newest location in the men’s room of an existing Starbucks.”
For coffee-lovers like me, this is a disappointment. Never can tell when you’ll be getting rid of the last [...]
Please vote on this soon…
Posted in Politics on November 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Via DowJones/Nasdaq news, Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio has announced he will try to force a vote on Cheney’s impeachment.
This is Dennis Moonbeam Kucinich, who embarrasses even the lefties among the House Democrats. In this update from Fox, we learn that the Republicans in effect said, “oh, yes, pleeeaase bring this [...]
Liberal Gospel
Posted in Christianity, Politics on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Liberals just love it when one of their own can assume the mantle of an evangelical Christian. Case in point is a Democrat, John Arthur Eaves, running for governor in Mississippi. The Washington Post describes him as a “wealthy evangelical Christian.” The liberal press just loves liberals who claim to have Jesus on their side.
What [...]
“our women are being raped by white moms”
Posted in Law and order, race on November 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The title quotation is as stupid as it sounds. The real subject is the alleged deluge of “hate crimes” in the United States. The overheated individual making the statement is one Malik Shabazz, and it is in response to a heinous crime. From the WaPo:
“Hate crimes are out of control in [...]
