Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Iran, Iraq
Tweet I love Dean Barnett’s column explaining how much Bush and our military have achieved In Iraq and deservedly castigating the Democrats who would, first, deny that any victory is within our sights and, second, give the credit for American perseverance, strength and fortitude to the Iranians.
Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet One of the things that has infuriated me for years in the roiling battle between Israel and her neighbors is Israel’s utter ineptitude at courting the media. For decades, after ever single “event,” the Palestinians offered dozens of sympathetic people up for interviews with the MSM, while the Israelis offered terse, uninformative commentaries from [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Immigration
Tweet At From my position . . . On the way, Chuck delved into the federal budget and found some extra money that could be transferred from its assigned and used, instead, to fund the War. You’d be amazed at how much of our money goes places that the Founders never contemplated.
Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet When I was 12 or 13, I used to have heated discussions with my father about Communism. Even then I had the wit to see that Communism’s major failing is its denial of human nature. Daddy, one of the smartest people I’ve ever known, had been so indoctrinated in Communism in the Germany of [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Israel
Tweet Gail, at the Crossing the Rubicon, has a wonderful site, not just because of the interesting posts she writes, but because of the visuals. I’m a word person, but Gail sees things. It’s no surprise, then, that Gail found a site with the most amazing aerial shots of Israel that you’ve ever seen. If [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
Tweet When I’m at work, I act like a professional. Even if I had ever lost my temper on the job, though, my moment of rage would have quickly vanished. If you’re someone a little unclear on professionalism, though, with a blue mouth, and you work in the news business, you might find yourself captured [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Religion
Tweet Yesterday, my son’s third grade class presented charming (and very well done) sketch performances based on Greek mythology. They carefully hewed very closely to the original stories, and the hour-long performance was a great refresher course for me about the Greek myths, most of which I hadn’t thought about in years, if not decades. [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Iraq
Tweet I’m embarrassed to admit this, but Lynn Woolsey represents me in Congress. I didn’t vote for her — but this is what you get in a majority style democracy. Marin County has many virtues, which is why I like to live here, but wise political choices are not among those virtues. Right now, as [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet It’s not new (or news) to me, but Mark Steyn has put a pithy spin on the horrors of female feticide in Asian and East Asian countries — and on the probable results that will from from the massive demographic skewing these murders create.
Bookworm on May 30 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Gay marriage
Tweet Gay marriage has a warm, fuzzy feeling. Those who support it ask, who can be hurt by granting to gay couples the same rights we give to straight couples? As you know, while I have no trouble with same sex relationships between consenting adults, and favor granting civil benefits to gay couples, I do [...]
Bookworm on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran, Iraq, Jihad, John McCain, Judges, Judicial activism
Tweet I’ve been finding very disturbing the intense hostility that conservatives direct against John McCain. So much so that I wrote a very long rant on the subject, which American Thinker was kind enough to publish and which I reprint below: Perhaps because I’m a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born conservative, I look at [...]
Bookworm on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet Well, I voted for Soccer Dad, but the Watcher himself (or herself) was kind enough to vote for me — breaking a tie between Soccer Dad’s post and mine. I have to admit to being rather pleased, because I thought this was a week of exceptionally good contributions from Council members, and actually didn’t [...]
Bookworm on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I was genuinely saddened to read that Harvey Korman, comedian extraordinaire, has died. My strongest memories of him are his skits on the Carol Burnett show, when he and Tim Conway would leave me laughing so hard my sides ached and my eyes teared. What made the sketches so perfect was the Korman was [...]
Bookworm on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Hollywood, Nazis, World War II
Tweet In a comment to my earlier post about talk with an ideological foe being dangerous, Gringo mentioned a classic anti-Nazi piece of Hollywood propaganda (made when Hollywood viewed America as the ally, not the enemy). I found it at YouTube (of course), and share it with you. And for those of you who are [...]
Bookworm on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Tweet I like both the reporter’s and the CHP officer’s very discrete wording (emphasis mine): Two teenagers engaged in amorous activity while driving were injured on Highway 101 in San Rafael Sunday in a rollover accident so dramatic it caused a second crash less than a minute later, the California Highway Patrol reported Wednesday.A 17-year-old [...]
Bookworm on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran
Tweet Ann Coulter nails everything that’s wrong with Obama’s delusional idea of talking Ahmadinejad down from the nuclear ledge: There are reasons to meet with a tyrant, but none apply to Ahmadinejad. We’re not looking for an imperfect ally against some other dictatorship, as Nixon was with China. And we aren’t in a Mexican standoff [...]
Bookworm on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Tweet Or, why you should always read your instruction manual. Last November, there was a little notice story on the European wires, about a brand new plane that rather mysteriously crashed while on the ground: French authorities have launched an investigation into a crash involving an Airbus plane due to be delivered to the United [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet One of the pleasant tasks I have tomorrow is to review the nominations at the Watcher of Weasels and vote on my favorite. The following are the offerings for this week: Council links: Dear Mr Hoyt Soccer Dad In Which It Gets Worse Done With Mirrors Cowbama Diplomacy and Iran Wolf Howling An Honest [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
Tweet I’ve blogged at length about Obama’s approach to lies. Unlike Hillary, who just works herself into a frenzy of denial, Obama has an incremental approach. He just keeps leaking out pieces of the truth. By the time he’s fully exposed himself as a liar, the compliant, short-memoried media has long forgotten what the whole [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Christians, England, Islam, Jews, Religion
Tweet It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything this sad. It comes from the Church of England’s own newspaper: If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, religiously speaking, the UK is an Islamic nation, and [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I very much like John Hawkin’s blog Right Wing News, which was one of the first conservative blogs I started reading when (a) I realized I was really a conservative in Democratic clothing and (b) I discovered the blogosphere. It was one of the sites that helped me realize that politics is an intellectual [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: World War II
Tweet I bet if I say “The Great Escape,” you instantly have that melody (see below) running through your head. The real great escape, though, was much more than a melody or a movie. Check out this interactive web site to see the amazing tunnel those POWs dug. Hat tip: W”B”S
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Iran, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet The other day I did a lengthy post explaining (to my own satisfaction) why there is nothing “McCarthyite” about the fact that American Jews assume that those who support Palestinians are not just supporting peace, but are in fact hostile to Israel or anti-Semitic — or both. This is because, I said, the relationship [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet William Katz has his own, very interesting, blog at Urgent Agenda. However, he saves his long posts for Power Line and this time he has a doozy about the many ways in which Obama is not JFK. Since Katz lived a life that was front and center at many historical events in the second [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco, Sex
Tweet Masturbation has been a staple of R or X-rated humor for a long time. Other than that, being a solo activity, it hasn’t had much of a public life — or so I thought until this morning. In keeping with the posts I did about the Bacchanal that San Francisco’s venerable Bay to Breakers [...]
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