Author: Don Quixote

Apparently, using ground turkey in place of ground beef isn’t so much better for you after all.

Don’t have a clue how Book posts these, but Sadie suggests I ought to, so here goes: Council Submissions   Joshuapundit–The Most Dangerous Story In The News Today The Noisy Room – The Conservative Stand New Zeal – Obama and Marxists March in Unison on Immigration Rhymes With Right –

Sadie here:  Super Congress and the Committee of 12 (sounds like jury duty) and if there is a tie, who is the tie-breaker? The article, in spite of links to the Left, raises a few questions. Time to start asking them. Did the inner circle just kick the Tea Party

I read yesterday an assertion that Great Britain, with its stricter gun control has fewer murders but more rapes, burglaries, robberies, and other crimes than the U.S.  I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is true, it could be as much because of cultural differences as anything.  Comparing

We anticipated that Barcelona would be one of the high points of this trip. After all, Barcelona is Gaudi’s town, famed for its knock-your-socks off architecture. EVERYBODY loves Barcelona. No wonder the cruise ship made it a 12.5 hour stop. Except we didn’t love Barcelona. It wasn’t just the punishing

Sadie sent this to me a few days ago, and I’m just getting around to using it.  I agree that Robin of Berkeley looks like a good read.   Here’s Sadie’s comment and link: Although, I haven’t gotten to the additional links (4) within the article, I think I counted no

A few months ago I read a report about a school district that had banned all competitive games in the school yard, even games as innocent as freeze-tag.  That same day I read in Entertainment Weekly that the TV ratings for the past week were dominated by competitions.  American Idol

..or spineless? Strange lot, the Brits. Families of victims of the 2005 London transit bombings have abandoned a legal bid to force the government to hold a public inquiry into the terrorist attack. A lawyer for 25 families says a coroner’s inquest that ended in May had thoroughly investigated the

DQ:  Feel free to add your own caption to this or, better yet, find your own picture and add your own caption to that.  Here’s Sadie’s to get us started: CAPTION THIS: 1. “I am this little”

Sadie (thank you, Sadie) sends along the following: It’s not just Al Jeezera, it’s the ‘timing’ too. Ramadan begins today. Next month marks 10 years (September 11), Durban III NYC, P.A./Hamas urging for statehood (Hamas fired 26 rockets into Israel during the month of July), Madam Clinton said it’s “real news”

We left Italy yesterday and headed for Cannes. Rather than sticking around in what is basically just another beach town, we took a tour to Grasse, the heart of France’s perfume industry, and St. Paul de Vence, a nicely polished, walled medieval town. At the Grasse factory tour, there was

Now that we supposedly have a budget deal, this is an open thread for people to express their thoughts on the deal.  Does it accomplish anything?  Does it accomplish enough?  Where do we go from here?  What effects will this deal have for the 2012 elections?  What do you think?

Sadie had another great idea.  Obama’s birthday is this week.  If you had the chance, what would you like to get Obama as a birthday present?  I’ll start.  Since he is so fond of giving DVDs as presents I’d get him a DVD of all of Winston Churchill’s speeches.

An Iranian woman who was blinded by a suitor who threw acid on her face has pardoned her attacker at the last minute, sparing him from being blinded by acid as retribution. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/iranian-woman-blinded-disfigured-by-acid-spares-attacker-the-same-fate/ Sadie here: The attack occurred in 2004 after she rejected his marriage proposal. Bahrami had demanded qisas,

The latest CBO figures show that under current law—i.e., assuming that everything works as planned under the new healthcare law—the share of GDP devoted to federal spending on mandatory health programs (Medicare and Medicaid) will be 68 percent higher in 2035 compared to 2011. But the CBO recognizes that certain