Category: Bits and Pieces

So many on the Left have this dream that, if Israel were just gone, the world would be a happy place.  All the Muslims would love us, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and Iran, and whatever other Muslim country, would become a democratic paradise with equal rights for all, oil prices

Obama may have been a Con Law professor, but one really begins to suspect that he was faking it, since he doesn’t seem to have read the Constitution.  Steve Priestap, husband of Kim Priestap, explains.

And a few LED’s too: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw[/youtube]

Ann Coulter wrote an absolutely lovely obituary about Ron Silver.  What an admirable man.  I hope one day to be as brave as he was.  I’m still a work in progress.  He was clearly the finished product.

I don’t watch much TV, so I’d never heard of Shep Smith before I saw the following video.  Having seen the following video, though, I appreciate the clarity of his views: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov75Ld1BhwU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Hat tip:  American Digest, Don Surber, Small Dead Animals (it’s complicated)

Hey, I know it sounds paranoid, but how else are you supposed to take the fact that Atty Gen’l Eric Holder has announced that the Obama administration, having decided to close Gitmo and only then discovering that no one wants its “tenants,” is now contemplating releasing some former Gitmo residents

. . .  and it is in England, where fewer and fewer people work, yet government workers have earnings that exceed the inflation rate.  It’s a Ponzi scheme and it can’t last forever.  Once all the taxpayers are destroyed, who is going to pay these government workers?  And this is

You guys know that I don’t go in for cute photographs, but this one charmed me.  It’s the expression on the little guy’s face.

This is a matched set.  First, a veteran speaks about what he and others have given to the country and what the country, under the new administration, is now refusing to give back. And you know it’s bad when even Jon Stewart is upset. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM

As you know, Natasha Richardson, who is the mother of two young children, is in critical condition.  The story is that, because of a fall on the bunny slope at a ski resort, she suffered a brain injury and is now near death’s door.  Reading the various reports, however, which

This is subtle and wickedly funny.

When I was a little girl, growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s, I loved fairy tale books.  I especially loved the illustrated ones, with the painstakingly limned pictures of beautiful fairy princesses.  Indeed, I still own my favorite (which has been reissued), The Golden Book of Fairy Tales

Well, I read the papers this morning, and visited my favorite blogs — and left them all uninspired.  I can’t blame the papers or the blogs.  It’s just that nothing I read triggered anything in my brain. One of the things I like to do when I blog is see

Cannibalism stories crop up in the news every one or two years.  The stories are always sordid but, for reasons unclear to me, I found this headline’s calm understatement amusing: “Russian woman held for eating friend.”  Must be my cold addling my brain.

I’m perusing the news even as I type this, so this is a place holder — an Open Thread until I have something to say (assuming I do).