Does God exist?
This has been popping up amongst the handful of my facebook friends who are religious. I think you’ll like it: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvhGeNzdRZA[/youtube]
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Cross-dressing jihadists, disillusioned Leftists, and judicial madness
Sadie sent me a great trio of stories today, and I want to pass them on to you: The UN wants to make sure that the Western nation’s efforts to protect themselves against cross-dressing jihadists (you know, those guys who don burqas to hide bombs) don’t offend transgendered individuals (who
Continue readingJust Because — Starbuck
Reading the news and listening to some very mellow 70s music: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVfqxBN3tM[/youtube]
Continue readingA scathing indictment of our Commander in Chief’s wartime conduct
In Best of the Web Today, James Taranto politely savages Barack Obama’s absentee leadership as American troops live and die in the line of Taliban fire: “The United States cannot wait for problems surrounding the legitimacy of the Afghan government to be resolved before making a decision on troops, U.S.
Continue readingConservatives in San Francisco protest Barack Obama
The news coverage about protests against Barack Obama during his visit to October 15 San Francisco visit was a bit lethargic. It’s just not as much fun, I guess, when the protesters aren’t bad-mouthing Bush or pretending to be waterboarded. However, I can offer you two offsets to that colorless
Continue readingDisneyland as a microcosm of the best of American culture
I happen to be a huge Disney fan, whether we’re talking about the man, the movies, or the lands/worlds. I don’t know if I can hang onto that forever, as the current Hollywood corporate entity, with its TV station, seeks to market sanitized sleaze to our tweens and teens. I
Continue readingWould plagarism software settle the “Dreams” debate?
As more questions arise regarding Obama’s contribution to his own autobiography, I wondered whether a software program could be written to compare his known writings (which, other than Dreams, are almost non-existent), to Ayers’ prodigious output. Turns out such software already exists and at least one person claims that it
Continue readingA singularly unfortunate photo placement
I tend to check out the Yahoo! News aggregator periodically, because it’s a good way to see what the Yahoo algorithm decides is “popular.” I’m pretty sure a computer program generates the images that go with the tagged news stories, and sometimes the computer makes some very bizarre choices, that
Continue readingJust Because — Fred & Ginger
I was reading the news — none of it good — and desperately felt the need for a little joy and beauty. This number, from the 1936 movie Swing Time, beautifully brings together one of America’s great popular music composers (Jerome Kern) and two of the most elegant, exciting dancers
Continue readingIsrael, espionage and the vindictive, Chicago-style Obama administration
Maybe it’s true, but given this administration’s active, and often false, demonization of those on its enemies list (Rush, Fox, the Chamber of Commerce, Insurers, Doctors), I find very disturbing this headline from BNO News: Authorities charge former Department of Energy, Defense and NASA worker with attempted espionage for Israel.
Continue readingDemocrats ready to go nuclear on health care
IBD has about as good a summary as any I’ve seen of the nuclear option the Congressional Democrats are planning. So good, in fact, that I’m reprinting it here, because I want to make sure everyone who visits my blog reads it. Please click on the IBD link, however, ’cause
Continue readingThe weather forecast and global warming
Last week, the weather forecast was wrong four days out of five, promising sun on rainy days and rain on sunny days. Today, we were warned of “showers.” So far, the non-stop rain has ranged from hard to the kind of downpour that would make Noah feel at home. The
Continue readingHe’s “sort of a God” if Caligula is your standard
I liked the way Jennifer Rubin tied together the “sort of a God” MSM meme and the White House’s undignified but effective advertisements for . . . I mean, attacks against Fox: After all, it [the attack mode] directly contradicts the stereotype of conservatives and the glorified image of Obama.
Continue readingMonday afternoon open thread — and update on my mother
Turns out my mother simply fainted because she fainted. When you’re her age, that sometime happens. It scared the living daylights out of my son, though, who thought she had died right before his eyes. We talked about it and he’s recovered from the experience now, as she has. Long
Continue readingJust Because — one of the most sophisticated love songs ever written
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcHvSigxfW0[/youtube]
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