Ba’ath House
This amuses the heck outta me:
Greg Gutfeld of Fox News Channel and The Daily Gut has proposed the best response yet to Park51, a.k.a. Cordoba House, the 13-story “community center” and mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero: “I am planning to build and open the first gay bar that caters not only [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
A Week of No Good News
I’m not in a particularly good mood today and the weather (hot, muggy, stagnant) isn’t helping. Neither is this:
[Charles Krauthammer] On Robert Gibbs refusing to comment on the planned mosque at Ground Zero because it’s a “local” issue: It’s no more a local issue than 9/11 [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
More WWII Parallels!
ABC’s Jake Tapper: President Obama, White House: Al Qaeda Is Racist
“Additionally, U.S. intelligence has indicated that al Qaeda leadership specifically targets and recruits black Africans to become suicide bombers because they believe that poor economic and social conditions make them more susceptible to recruitment than Arabs,” the official said. “Al Qaeda recruits have [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Northern Ireland Again
Yikes:
The Sunday Times – Return to Bloody Sunday The authors investigated the shootings for The Sunday Times. They reveal how their findings became pivotal to the inquiry. Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson
On Tuesday at 8am, a small band of lawyers, among them Britain’s best and brightest, will enter the Guildhall in Londonderry under what [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIV
Flotsam Flotilla
Charles Krauthammer with some timely reminders:
The fundamental deception here is the use of the word “humanitarian.” . . . Humanitarians don’t wield iron clubs, and [they] would have killed the Israelis had the Israelis not drawn their pistols in self-defense. But there‘s a larger issue here. What exactly is [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIII
Epic:
This would have been better yesterday, but Peter only sent it to me today.
Categories: Art and Literature
Psychoanalyzing Islamic Pathologies
On Muslims’ Locus of Control and Western arrogance, a few key points:
New English Review – Muslims and Westerners: The Psychological Differences, by Nicolai Sennels
This one is amazing. I have never noticed this. It’s been remarked upon, all these doctors from the Islamic world (and not just the ones that blow themselves up, but that work [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
UCSD’s Genocide Problem
David Horowitz gets an American college student to answer the question:
Smug little punk. I wonder if she’s a convert.
Updates:
RC2 must have woke up generous:
I honestly don’t think that’s what the girl meant. I think she was responding to Horowitz’ prior question about whether or not she supported Hamas. She initially doesn’t [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
South Park Caved, So It Must Be Israeli Apartheid
The Corner – Mark Steyn: You Can Feed the Crocodile…
…but sometimes he’ll still eat you first. While the initial US reports on the Times Square car bomb concentrated on the by now traditional denials that this was anything to do with terrorism and, even if it was, it was “amateurish”, the Telegraph in [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
South Park’s Mohammed and Bill Clinton’s Oklahoma City
NRO – Not Too ‘Hip’ and ‘Edgy’ for Censorship Don’t worry about Iran’s nuclear program, but if you meet a tea partier waving some placard about the national debt, try not to catch his eye. By Mark Steyn
Hence, Bill Clinton energetically on the stump, summoning all his elder statesman’s dignity (please, no giggling) in [...]
Categories: Entertainment
One Quick “Ouch” Before I Turn In
Rod Liddle:
Just like you, I will be glued to my TV tonight to watch the first instalment of a Channel 4 series in which famous figures of today choose an iconic figure from the past and explain how influential they have been to their lives and philosophical outlook. Tonight we [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Creepy On SO MANY Levels
Via RC2’s Google Feed: Exposed: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff
UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said last week that the images produced by the scanners were deleted “immediately” and airport staff carrying out the procedure are fully trained and supervised.
Of course, you can just imagine all the [...]
Categories: War and Peace
With Lawyers Like These, Who Needs Litigation
Man. One of Kerry’s 2004 Election Lawyers says:
It should be obvious now, even to Obama’s most passionate supporters that shielding the free world requires more than mere words like “hope” and “change.” Bush’s detractors should be embarrassed having arrogantly thought they could do it better, and those Republicans who abandoned Bush when he [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Clearly We Are Toast
LA Times – U.S. learned intelligence on airline attack suspect while he was en route
U.S. border security officials learned of the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day jetliner bombing attempt as he was airborne from Amsterdam to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed.
Well, they’re not [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
