Bad combinations
Bookworm on Dec 07 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Bad combination: skunk, dog and couch. The skunk got the dog, and the dog got to the couch before we could stop her. Yikes!
Archive for December, 2009
The Wall Street Journal’s sober assessment of the fascist (yes, I mean it) EPA ruling
Bookworm on Dec 07 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
I can’t do better than to quote from the Wall Street Journal on the EPA ruling, which constitutes nothing more than an undemocratic takeover of all business activity and most government activity in this country: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said yesterday that her ruling that greenhouses gases are dangerous pollutants would “cement 2009′s place in [...]
Breitbart’s Big Government
Bookworm on Dec 07 2009 | Filed under: ACORN, Education, Government, Media matters
For reasons that make no sense to me, I don’t go to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government site as often as I should. Wait, I take that back. I know precisely why I don’t go: it’s an incredible repository of closely researched and factually supported articles detailing the way in which the Obami conduct themselves. What [...]
Remembering a day that will live in infamy *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Dec 07 2009 | Filed under: World War II
One of the most emotionally charged experiences I’ve ever had was standing in the Hawaiian sunlight, watching drop after drop of oil rise up from the USS Arizona. The past was not past — it was there, in front of me, in the water, still moving. Let’s remember today those who died on December 7, [...]
Paying penance for the beauty in life
Bookworm on Dec 06 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Last week, I posted the video of Josh Groban singing Oh, Holy Night. I happen to think Groban has produced one of the loveliest versions of that song ever. I don’t know how she’s done it, but the Anchoress has managed to find the mirror version of that same song. Check it out, put prepare [...]
What Palestianians really want
Bookworm on Dec 06 2009 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
With every passing post, I am more impressed by Evelyn Gordon’s opinings about Israel. Today’s post is another home run, this time showing, in clear language, that the Palestinian demand for a two-state solution is one more dangerous, expensive fraud, in an age of dangerous, expensive frauds.
When violence is the answer
Bookworm on Dec 06 2009 | Filed under: Anti-war
I love my dojo. The teachers are, without exception, top quality and, also without exception, they are just about the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Oh, one other thing: without exception, they’re pro-Obama and anti-War. What this means is that you have people who dedicate their lives to teaching fighting, and who believe passionately in [...]
Winners at the Watcher’s Council
Bookworm on Dec 06 2009 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
There were no surprises in this week’s Watcher’s Council votes. Wonderfully written articles about ClimateGate and Obama’s Afghanistan dithering won. The other wonderfully written articles that the Watcher’s submitted fell neatly into place behind the winners: Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 points! – Mere Rhetoric – Leaked Global Warming Docs: “Publicity Machine” Used [...]
The Nanny State Commander in Chief
Bookworm on Dec 06 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Military
Do you ever wonder what it’s like to live in Iowahawk’s brain? I do. Brilliant satire flows out of him so effortlessly that I know that his brain functions in a very different, and much more sophisticated, way than mine does. Take the Nanny State approach to war. Unable to come up with my own [...]
Explaining hide the decline *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Dec 06 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
In the wake of the emails that an anonymous whistleblower published, those of us who aren’t scientists have been able to figure out that something is very, very wrong with the AGW data. Still, all the science stuff is confusing, especially the bit about “hide the decline.” Thankfully, at American Thinker, Marc Sheppard takes the [...]
As Christmas approaches, help soldiers get calling cards
Bookworm on Dec 05 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Chase is giving $5 million dollars to charity. The deal is that facebook users get to vote for the charity of their choice, and then Chase will use those votes to determine how to allocate the funds. If you have a facebook account, think about donating to Cell Phones for Soldiers, an organization two youngsters [...]
Hollywood priorities revealed in petition signatures
Bookworm on Dec 05 2009 | Filed under: Hollywood
When the law finally caught up with Roman Polanski, self-confessed rapist of a 13 year old girl, the entertainment and fashion worlds leaped into action. Without even attempting to claim Polanski was innocent (hard to do, since he admitted the charge as part of a plea-bargain), the petition assured the world that Polanski deserved freedom [...]
Some Republican lawmakers are standing up for the SEALS
Bookworm on Dec 05 2009 | Filed under: Military
Mudville Gazette reports that some Republican lawmakers haven’t forgotten the three SEALS facing court-martial for having given a fat lip to a suspected Al Qaeda murderer during his arrest. This is no little thing. SEALS are the creme de la creme of our military forces. If they’ve done wrong, that’s one thing. But if they [...]
I wonder how far the virtues of truth and dissidence go
Bookworm on Dec 04 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I saw a series of three bumper stickers, running from left to right across the back of someone’s car today. This is the first one: Clearly, this is a person who values the truth above all things. This is the second one: This is also a person who believes that the oppressed should be allowed [...]
Reason to be grateful Obama appointed gay porn-purveyor Jennings as Safe Schools Czar
Bookworm on Dec 04 2009 | Filed under: Education, GBLT
No, my post title does not mean I’ve gone off my rocker and started supporting Kevin Jennings in his role as Safe Schools Czar. Thanks to Terresa Monroe’s hard work, I’ve known for months exactly what kind of person Kevin Jennings, the “Safe School Czar” is. He’s a career gay man who is devoted to [...]
One of the best sung Christmas songs
Bookworm on Dec 04 2009 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Yesterday I blogged about the way in which businesses, bowing to political correctness, erase Christmas from the holiday shopping season. My personal, Jewish, opinion, is that I like the Christmas season, especially the music. One of my personal favorites is Josh Groban’s O Holy Night. I think there are few, if any recordings, better than [...]
Media continues to give new meaning to old ideas
Bookworm on Dec 04 2009 | Filed under: Anti-war, Hollywood, Media matters, Military
There’s yet another movie coming out about the way in which the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq destroy lives and turn young men into pathetic losers: There is a grim timeliness to the release of “Brothers,” Jim Sheridan’s movie about the effects of war on the family of a Marine serving in Afghanistan. Whatever the [...]
Obama overlooks the obvious when it comes to job creation
Bookworm on Dec 04 2009 | Filed under: Economics, Government
The jobs summit is at an end and Obama has given lip service to the private sector. He doesn’t really mean it, though. How can he, when he makes statements such as this one: Mr. Obama said he would entertain “every demonstrably good idea” for creating jobs, but he cautioned that “our resources are limited.” [...]
When it comes to education, liberals continue to be invested in affirmative action *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education, Race
When I was a very little girl, back in the hard drinking 1960s, an expression I frequently heard was that someone or something needed a bit of “the hair of the dog that bit you.” I used to think that actually meant people would consume dog hair to cure their ills. It was only later [...]
Bloggers, beware of trolls; and trolls, beware of smart bloggers
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
JoshuaPundit has an amazing story about a troll. I won’t say more. Read it yourself and be warned about the way in which the Left seeks to pervert the debate through lies.
This week’s Watcher’s Council submissions are an excellent bunch
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
I am having a really hard time casting my vote this week for the Watcher’s Council. The submissions, which are invariably good, are, this week, great. See what you think: Council Submissions Soccer Dad – The Warming Concensus The Razor – ClimateGate Shows the Importance of the Amateur Scientist Joshuapundit- Obama – The War President [...]
Something’s missing this season
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: Religion
Don Quixote and I were at the local mall. The mall was getting ready for the shopping season, and it has some special events planned. It even had a sign: If you’re like DQ and me, you realize that something is missing from the sign: there’s no mention of the actual holiday being celebrated, with [...]
The terrorists are, apparently, still probing our weaknesses
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: Muslim violence
Yesterday I linked to a post at Pierre LeGrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar about another possible terrorist dry run. Melissa Clouthier now has more. I’ll blog later, but have to work.
Michelle Malkin exposes exceptionally shoddy New York Times “journalism”
Bookworm on Dec 02 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
I want to be a journalist. I mean, heck, who would want a job where you don’t have to think and you don’t have to research — all you have to do is emote. That’s what emotive New York Times “journalist” Nick Kristof did when he wrote a sob story about a young man with [...]
