Beauty in the midst of chaos
If you want to see incredibly beauty in the midst of Nature’s chaos, you must visit this link for photographs taken in some of the Western wildfires. They’re just breathtaking. FacebookTweet
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This is so not accurate
I took a test to determine whether I’m a control freak and it said — surprise! — that I’m not. Take the test and see what you think. I think it asked the wrong questions, confusing control freaks with cranky and arrogant people. Basically, I’m a control freak because, in
Continue readingAha! I was right.
I’ve never liked beaches. I don’t like the way sand infiltrates everything and I hate the sticky, burning feeling of salt water on my skin. The fact that, as a child, the beaches we went to often included a windy road that triggered my carsickness only increased my hostility to
Continue readingCan I boast?
I sit home most of the day at my computer staring at tremendously boring legal documents. To while away my time, I listen to talk radio (through KRLA). Occasionally, I get exercised enough by what I hear to call in. Last week, a call to Dennis Prager had him suggesting
Continue readingOstrich syndrome continues on the Left
I’m really enjoying the periodic forays I’ve been making into Leftie land regarding the current Israeli/Hezbollah war (you can see my previous posts here and here), so I thought I’d keep going. No survey would be complete without checking in with Howard Dean. I know it’s already old news (two
Continue readingDirty guys doing dirty things — or, follow the money
I don’t even have a link for this yet, but here’s the latest from CENTCOM about the link between crime and terrorism: COMBINED FORCES COMMAND – AFGHANISTAN COALITION PRESS INFORMATION CENTER KABUL, AFGHANISTAN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2006 Release # 060718-07 Extremists linked to drug trade KABUL , Afghanistan
Continue readingRichard Cohen’s article isn’t as bad as it first appears
On it’s face, Richard Cohen’s most recent op-ed for the WaPo looks like a self-hating anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli screed. It’s not really, although it’s inartfully written (very), and some of the conclusions he draws aren’t necessarily correct. I thought, therefore, that I’d give the article a polite fisking to try to
Continue readingWhat will we fight for?
While I work, I like to listen to talk radio in the background. (I use KRLA’s site, which has great streaming audio.) Today, however, I couldn’t stick with it. I was listening to Michael Medved talk about the very real possibility that the same portable missiles that are raining down
Continue readingThe slippery slope or true democracy
I can’t decide if this is the beginning of the end for any hope of normal society in Holland, or if it is an appropriate event in a free society, which allows issues to be aired and decided upon by the voters: A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a
Continue readingWanting a Mom to go to prison
Sometimes, when children die in horrible accidents that could have been avoided if the parents had been responsible, I feel that the child’s death is punishment enough for the parent, and that imprisonment would be redundant. In the case of Maureen Faibish, however, who killed her son by pitbull, I
Continue readingWhere the ACLU should be putting its energy
This is part of a longer post at American Thinker, which I think nails an issue about the current war being waged all over the world — the Leftist’s self-defeating alignment with the Islamists: Islam was founded as a religion that is the state, where the state is the religion.
Continue readingNo, no, no!
There’s more and more talk lately of a UN peacekeeping force going in to put a fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Now, Putin is chiming in to say he might help out with this. I sure hope that Israel, who has less reason than any nation in the world to
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DQ again. Just read a news article with some good background on the current crisis. I’m not writing about the background, though, but about its assumptions as to the public’s reaction. It suggests that if Israeli civilians are killed they will “begin clamoring for a cease-fire.” But if Lebanese civilians
Continue readingA proportionate response
DQ here. I’ve been silent about the recent events in the Middle East because Bookworm knows the topic far better than I do and is doing a fine job of blogging about it. I do want to make a couple of suggestions, though. I keep hearing calls warning
Continue readingIsrael and perception
Israel used to win wars because she was smarter than her enemy. I’m not so sure now. Israeli intelligence was deeply asleep when it was unaware of Hezbollah’s ability to tap into her computer, when it was surprised by the tunnels under her borders, and when it didn’t know that
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