Can we please run Bill Whittle for President?
Don Quixote on Nov 30 2012 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet His public speeches are even better than his setpieces: [http://blip.tv/davidhorowitztv/bill-whittle-6444929]
Archive for November, 2012
A primer on Palestinian terrorism
Bookworm on Nov 30 2012 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Tweet A simple but effective video: Hat tip: JoshuaPundit
Found it on Facebook — Socialism versus Capitalism
Bookworm on Nov 30 2012 | Filed under: Capitalism, Socialism
Tweet In an earlier post, I ranted about the nasty vapidity that characterizes the “posters” my liberal friends put up on Facebook whenever an election draws near. I also mentioned that my conservative friends consistently post more substantive articles and images. This one, from my brother-in-law, manages to be both pithy and substantive. It packs [...]
I can’t think of anybody who won’t get the cat and dog jokes in this video
Bookworm on Nov 30 2012 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Tweet Hat tip: Danny Lemieux
The elusive quality of heroism rears its head in the Nanny State
Bookworm on Nov 30 2012 | Filed under: Britain
Tweet In today’s Britain, when something bad happens, all people of good will are trained to stand by. They watch and hope that the omnipresent CCTV will alert the authorities that someone needs help. Indeed, they’re so well-trained that, sometimes, even the authorities stand aside in order to take a break or follow department rules. [...]
Random thoughts of an idle mind — and an Open Thread
Bookworm on Nov 30 2012 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet Progressives and narcissists share an unpleasant trait: If you make a mistake, it proves that you and your ideas are inferior; if they make a mistake, it’s just a mistake. Your mistake is irremediable, because it’s intrinsic to who you are; their mistake is just one of those things, and can be either forcibly [...]
Let not your heart be troubled — nations can be saved
Bookworm on Nov 29 2012 | Filed under: America
Tweet I thought about Margaret Thatcher today. Lord knows, she was something. Brilliant, indomitable, focused, feisty, witty, and absolutely convinced of her right-ness and righteousness. She was the un-RINO. Her unswerving commitment to her principles enabled her to turn England around. We forget that sometimes, because the Labor party managed to take her legacy and [...]
Post-Thanksgiving Watcher of Weasels edition
Bookworm on Nov 29 2012 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet This is what I’m reading right now, and with great pleasure too: Council Submissions The Independent Sentinel – A Moral Dilemma Simply Jews – The Pillar of Defense fiasco The Political Commentator – James Clapper – Why does this man still have a job in the Obama administration? The Noisy Room – The Islamic [...]
The West’s perpetual adolescence — affluence and socialism create a nation of Peter Pans who refuse to grow up
Bookworm on Nov 29 2012 | Filed under: Children
Tweet One of the things I find most distasteful about ObamaCare is its requirement that employers must provide insurance coverage for their employees’ children through their 26th year. I don’t find this just economically wrong, I find it cosmically, morally wrong that our federal government has officially extended childhood until citizens are 26. I cannot [...]
This and that, from here and there — the good and the evil from today’s news
Bookworm on Nov 28 2012 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet There’s nothing I enjoy more than seeing someone slice and dice Paul Krugman’s latest idiocies. Randall Hoven does a magnificent job. The only sad thing about it is that he’s preaching to the choir. The ones who really should read his article — namely, the ones who think Krugman is actually smart and honest [...]
Public libraries are wonderful things
Bookworm on Nov 28 2012 | Filed under: Books, Britain
Tweet For our Thanksgiving drive to L.A., I went to our local library and got several books on CD. Since our small family manages not to have any overlapping areas of interest, this is always a challenge. One wants teenage hero spy books, another wants high school romantic dramadies (half drama, half comedy), another wants [...]
Yes, I have a very peculiar sense of humor
Bookworm on Nov 28 2012 | Filed under: Sex
Tweet I’m on a mailing list that introduces potential book reviewers to newly published books. Today’s email was about “romances.” I quickly scanned the list of books to see whether any were worth requesting to read and review. None were, but this one caught my eye: Kink is not my cup of tea, so it [...]
Is working as a porn star the cure for mental health issues?
Bookworm on Nov 27 2012 | Filed under: Sex
Tweet Did any of you catch a story the other day claiming that a study of porn actresses showed that they’re happier and better adjusted than their non-porn peers? The report in the Journal of Sex Research found that porn stars are not more likely to have psychological problems than other women. In fact, they [...]
Second Amendment day: shooting the Glock
Bookworm on Nov 27 2012 | Filed under: Second Amendment
Tweet I had a delightful reason for my blog silence today: I had a pistol safety and training class, followed by an instructor supervised hour at the shooting range. As you all know, on November 28, 2009 — exactly three years ago — I went to the shooting range with my brother-in-law and had a [...]
Watcher’s Council winners, Thanksgiving 2012 edition
Bookworm on Nov 27 2012 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet The Watcher’s Council members took time off from turkey and stuffing to read and vote on the Thanksgiving week submissions. If you haven’t read the submissions, they’re good, damn good. The winners, placers, and show-ers are below. But first, a little reminder that the Watcher’s Council forum is up. I didn’t participate this week [...]
It’s a mad, mad, mad homophobic, antisemitic, anti-Christian, Leftist, Islamist world
Bookworm on Nov 26 2012 | Filed under: Homosexuality, Islam, Lefties on Parade, Leftist morality, Libya
Tweet In today’s news, we learned that Muslims in Libya kidnapped twelve men that they claimed were homosexuals in order to execute them: Extremists say they will execute a dozen men they allege are homosexuals, whom they abducted last Thursday at a private party in Tripoli’s Ain Zara district. A body calling itself the ‘Private [...]
Pat Condell says that, as long as Hamas exists (and, worse, is feted) there will be no peace in the Middle East
Bookworm on Nov 26 2012 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet Reality, stripped of politically-correct pap — or, Hamas is even worse than the Nazis:
Gore’s boiling frogs versus real boiling frogs: can we save ourselves?
Bookworm on Nov 26 2012 | Filed under: Economics
Tweet Al Gore got a lot of mileage out of likening the slow accretion of anthropogenic climate change to a frog in cold water that was gradually being heated to boiling point. He contended that, just as the frogs were lulled by the gradual heat to be the point at which they’d fail to react [...]
Long drive open thread
Bookworm on Nov 25 2012 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet After a lovely long weekend with family, we’re getting in the car today and heading home. If things go well, the drive should take about seven hours. If we get stuck in holiday traffic (as happened when we drove down), we’re looking at nine hours on the road. I might be able to blog [...]
Knowledge equals paranoia *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Nov 24 2012 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet (iPad wiped all my hyperlinks, so if you’re interested in the security programs I mention, you’ll have to search then yourself.) A friend’s email got hacked. This led to a discussion with a very knowledgeable person about the risks she now faces. Upon realizing she was hacked, she immediately changed her email password and [...]
Post-Thanksgiving stupor Open Thread
Bookworm on Nov 23 2012 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet I’ve been spending a delightful Thanksgiving with my in-laws. They have an almost ridiculously comfortable home and they provided a postcard perfect Thanksgiving dinner last night. Today, I’m in the usual post-Thanksgiving coma, and am finding it almost impossible to martial my thoughts or to deal with the difficulties of writing posts using an [...]
Susan Rice: Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.
Bookworm on Nov 22 2012 | Filed under: Libya
Tweet Who knew that Susan Rice was a Thomas Gray lover? He was the poet who, in his widely forgotten “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,” penned the unforgettable line that, “where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” Rice, whom Obama would like to have serve as his Secretary of State [...]
Watcher’s Council Thanksgiving edition
Bookworm on Nov 22 2012 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet From the Watcher’s Council: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – It Ain’t Time to S.T.F.U. Yet, I Guess The Noisy Room – Going Galt and the Neo-Comms The Political Commentator – Presenting the Democrat plan for going over the fiscal cliff! The Independent Sentinel – Obama Is a Narcissist Who Rules a Narcissistic Nation Joshuapundit-An Answer For Rupert Murdoch – [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bookworm on Nov 22 2012 | Filed under: Uplifting stories
Tweet I have to admit that having Obama for another four years in the White House, having Harry Reid serve as Majority Leader for another two to four years (at least) in the Senate, and having Israel poised on the brink of a major war with another Iranian proxy, doesn’t give me that warm, comfy [...]
Obama’s economy and his health care plan come together in the restaurant business
Bookworm on Nov 21 2012 | Filed under: Children, Economics, Education
Tweet On Monday, I noted that ObamaCare regulations requiring employers to provide full (really full) insurance coverage to all employees may make running restaurants, which have a famously low profit margin, so prohibitively expensive that many will go out of business. It turns out that we needn’t fear this eventuality, because we’re about to see [...]
