Napkins
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Tweet This afternoon, my daughter went around the house singing “Can I get a napkin, please?” Now I know why:
Archive for March, 2008
College for sale — rich conservative sought
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Education
Tweet If you’ve got a few million lying around, have I got a deal for you: Antioch College, the little liberal Ohio school that has fallen on hard times, is for sale for $12.2 million, a spokeswoman said Sunday. The 156-year-old private college — which counts civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, writer Rod Serling, [...]
The seeds of hatred
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Britain, England, Islam, Israel, Nazis, Palestinians
Tweet The accepted wisdom is that the intense hatred the Palestinians feel for Jews is a direct result of Jewish annexation of the West Bank and Gaza after the 1967 War. Of course, as with most propaganda, this is false. Aside from conveniently ignoring the 1956 and 1948 Wars, not to mention the Koran itself, [...]
More on un-freedom of speech *UPDATE*
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet Do you recall that, on the day I posted the Fitna video, I wrote the following? LiveLeak explains why it is showing this video, despite the fact that some at LiveLeak strongly disagree with its content. I note two things. First, LiveLeak understands free speech. Second, the LifeLeak discussion about its decision to show [...]
Home
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet Homebody: a person who prefers pleasures and activities that center around the home; stay-at-home. I’m back, and so glad too. It was a very pleasant weekend up in what my kids still call “the snowy mountains,” but I’m a homebody and I’m so glad to be home. I’m getting the kids packed up for [...]
Blog free day . . . sigh
Bookworm on Mar 28 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I love blogging. So, on days like this when I’m hitting the road for an out-of-town weekend, I feel somewhat bereft that I won’t get the chance to sit down and opine to my heart’s content. But that’s the way it’s got to be. Whether I blog over Saturday and Sunday depends on internet [...]
And the winners are….
Bookworm on Mar 28 2008 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet Watcher’s results are in, and this time I’m on top of things. On the Council side, first place went to Done With Mirrors for the best post I’ve seen about the media’s “Grim Milestone” watch: Get Your Grim Milestone Today? Second place was for my post, “What Would You Do?,” which asked what you [...]
Once a Marine
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Military
Tweet I loved this short, but true, story: A teenager learned it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, no matter how old he is. Santa Rosa police Sgt. Steve Bair said an 84-year-old man was walking on Fourth Street with a grocery bag in each arm [...]
Fitna is here *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet Geert Wilders’ 15 minute film about Islam is available now. While the Dutch government is afraid to show it, bloggers are not. Those who are anti-American, those who hate Israel, those who are completely invested in multiculturalism, try to downplay the conservatives’ concern about Muslim violence by analogizing conservatives to the Nazis, who scapegoated [...]
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury update
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet Bangladesh, having done the wrong thing when it arrested Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury and threatened him with death for having the temerity to suggest that Israel ought to be allowed to live in peace and for pointing out the Islamist threat in Bangladesh, is now trying to prove that, if two wrongs don’t make [...]
Reality check for the economic equivalence argument
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Hamas, Israel, Palestinians, United Nations
Tweet In today’s Guardian, there is a glowing review of Ron Paul, particularly with regard to Paul’s stance on American support for Israel: If that weren’t enough, when the House of Representatives was recently passing another denunciation of Palestinian violence, Paul refused to support it. He abhorred all attacks on civilians, he said – but [...]
Just a little nap after dinner
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Tweet I don’t know why, but I found this a tremendously amusing and rather charming story.
A scathing indictment of modern liberalism
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Leftist morality
Tweet Writing at the American Thinker, J.R. Dunn has a scathing indictment of modern liberalism, starting with the 1968 Democratic convention. I think the whole article is worth reading, especially the bit about the Clinton-esque corruption of Governors Spitzer, McCreevy and Paterson, but I was especially taken with this run-down, which describes the liberalism in [...]
I believe them, but….
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Democrats, Iraq
Tweet Here’s the story: Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While [...]
Server problems
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet Hey, everyone! Welcome back and thank you for your patience yesterday. The server that hosts my web has been dying slowly, and yesterday was a bad day. A new server is going into effect over the next two weeks (these things take time), but the transition should be fairly seamless. If you try to [...]
The myth of the “Cycle of Violence”
Bookworm on Mar 26 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Tweet In the Leftist world of moral equivalence, there is no right or wrong, there are just cycles, with everything being a meaningless tit-for-tat. In this world, you simply assign blame, not by conduct and intent, but by Leftist assigned “level of oppression.” HonestReporting has a good little video exposing the dishonesty behind this world [...]
The Messiah-Shtick
Bookworm on Mar 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet I wrote it for American Thinker, where you can read it, or you can read it here: Messiah: “One who is anticipated as, regarded as, or professes to be a savior or liberator.” American Heritage Dictionary Schtick: “Yiddish slang meaning “gimmick” that has come to mean “someone’s signature behavior.” He presents as a fairly [...]
Let’s just examine one more thing
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet Much is being made of the fact that Michelle and Barack Obama, when they were earning a mere quarter million after tax dollars per year, were exceptionally stingy with their charitable donations. (See here and here, for example.) If that is the whole story of their charitable contributions, that’s pretty stingy and does not [...]
Let’s just ignore the other problems
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet I grew up spending a large part of my life at Lake Tahoe. At that time, Tahoe was a brilliant blue and crystal clear. More than a decade ago, after a long hiatus, I returned to Tahoe. I was overwhelmed by the crowds, by the wall to wall houses, by the big green lawns [...]
A most amazing man
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Christians, Islam
Tweet I read two articles today that dovetail beautifully, by showing words spewing meaninglessly into the ether and by showing words used bravely to make big changes. As for the meaningless spew into the ether that is, of course, Barack Obama, he of the sonorous (or, to my mind, soporific) voice, the big, meaningless ideas, [...]
Crazy teachers at home and abroad
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Education, England, Military
Tweet This morning we read about the Minneapolis high school that turned away the Vets for Freedom bus. It turns out that this attitude, in its most extreme form, is epidemic in England: Teachers today vowed to oppose military recruitment campaigns in schools that are based on Ministry of Defence “propaganda”. The National Union of [...]
Destroying the “peace-loving” challenge to warfare
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war
Tweet Anti-war people love to point out that most Iraqis are peace-loving, or that most Muslims are peace-loving. I’m sure they’re right. Walter Williams, however, points to the fallacy in this line of argument when you are a country under attack from the non-peace loving elements in a given community: Horrible acts can be committed [...]
The forgotten victims
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: China
Tweet Dennis Prager writes really movingly about the unfairness of a world that elevates Palestinians to “chief victims,” while ignoring the murderous horror that the Chinese have visited on the Tibetans. I doubt we’ll see a principled stand that has the world boycott the Olympics, but we should. I’m no fan of Jimmy Carter, but [...]
Interesting editorial choice
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Israel, Media matters, Military
Tweet As is the rest of the media, the Times is making much of the fact that 4,000 American troops have died during more than five years of war in Iraq. I won’t repeat here (or, at least, I won’t repeat at length) my oft-stated belief that, while each death is a personal tragedy, this [...]
A true Obamination
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet I don’t believe in kicking someone when he’s down — or, at least, I don’t believe in launching the first kick once he’s already fallen. I say that because I hope all of you appreciate that I’ve disliked Obama from the get-go. If you check my categories on the side, and look at my [...]
