LGF is ground zero for news of the latest sloppy photoshop job.
18 February, 2007
Gee. I wonder which religion
Funny how that detail didn’t make it into the story of the cabbie who tried to run over two customers after an “argument about religion”.
17 February, 2007
…and unusual cuts of lamb.
That’s the word from Venezuala, where one might ask, ¿Quién es John Galt?
History repeats itself.
Timing Is Everything
Nobody’s more shocked than you are to find an Ana Nicole story on Buttle’s World. But I have a soft spot for heavy irony.
I was just buying milk at the local Albertsons and noted the checkstand was festooned with ads for TrimSpa, a diet product, endorsed by a smiling Smith. It features the copy, “Be envied”.
16 February, 2007
Intentions are all that matter
if you’re a leftie, apparently. If the Breck Girl is making an argument here, that seems to be it. The disgraced nutroot bloggers didn’t “mean to denigrate” anybody’s religion. And he pats himself on the back for “taking them at their word” on that.
The guy has made millions as a trial lawyer and he can’t read for himself?
Muzzling the Moderates
Jamal Miftah, of Tulsa, OK, wrote an op-ed decrying violent Jihad.
Three guesses on what kind of reception he got at the Mosque.
Can’t Tell Your Players Without A Program
The Patriot Post’s Mark Alexander has written an excellent primer on just who the Sunnis and Shi’ites are. Even the well-informed can be forgiven some confusion on the issue. This is a great resource.
15 February, 2007
Jeff Gordon is going to win
So says his wife.
Going to win? Seems to me he’s already won.
Three Cheers for the Netherlands
Michelle Malkin noted that celebrities are “hiding” their money in the Netherlands. The ABC article, with the unintentionally funny paragraph calling Jennifer Lopez’s bottom “intellectual property” tells how bands such as U2 and the Rolling Stones are sheltering their licensing businesses in the Netherlands.
And the Dutch have beckoned by overhauling their tax structure this past year to make it easier and more lucrative for individuals and corporations to set up shell companies that allow income from royalties, interest and dividends to flow in and out of the country tax-free.
This is, of course, a good thing. One of my mottos is: There’s no such thing as a good tax hike, and there’s no such thing as a bad tax cut.
A corollary is that when anybody’s taxes go down, I benefit. When anybody’s taxes go up, I am injured. The only bad news in the article is that US residents need not apply. We don’t have the right treaty.
Figures.
Well, I hope it saves a lot of people a lot of money, for as many years as the Dutch are still Dutch.
14 February, 2007
Sunday Night in Baghdad
It’s worth checking in at Iraq The Model now and then. There are signs of hope.
The arrest of al-Zamili indicates that the new plan will not hesitate to target leaders of militant groups no matter what their position in the government was. The Sadr movement responded to the arrest only by saying that it was an insult to all Iraqis. One of their spokesmen said, in a clear sign of helplessness, “If one from our movement is to be arrested, then others from other factions should be arrested as well”.
I don’t know whether this current attitude of submission is going to last when more senior members are arrested. Still, I like the idea of arresting senior bad guys from both sects. This both satisfies public opinion, and gives credibility to the announced plans of the government to deal equally with all regardless of sect or background.
In Search of the Second Amendment
SJS confirmed
The Salt Lake shooter’s Sudden Jihadi Syndrome is confirmed.
But, of course, it was the gun’s fault.
I wish I had an account with Bank of America
so I could cancel it.
Michelle Malkin throws the book at them.
The “Surge” Is Working Already
Apparently “Mookie” al Sadr has discovered the better part of valor.
Behold how the mighty ABC News fails to connect the dots, even though the dots are within the same paragraph:
While members of the U.S. House of Representatives take turns weighing in on President Bush’s planned troop surge in Iraq, the focus in Iraq is not on the arrival of more U.S. troops, but the departure of one of the country’s most powerful men, Moqtada al Sadr and members of his army.
Reminds me of those articles talking about how the crime rate has been dropping “in spite of” an increased prison population.
Meanwhile, “Sources” have cleverly put their fingers on the bearded thug’s likely motivation for beating feet.
Sources believe al Sadr is worried about an increase of 20,000 U.S. troops in the Iraqi capital. One official told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, “He is scared he will get a JDAM [bomb] dropped on his house.”
“Sources” really have a keen grasp on the subtleties of the situation:
Sources say two scenarios are possible: Either al Sadr will be driven further into extremist mode or he will continue going forward with the political process.
Hang by your thumbs, Mook. Write if you get work.
13 February, 2007
Got Smith?
There was some chatter on The Corner today about Project Gutenberg and carrying e-books with you. It prompted me to contact the ever pleasant Peter Robinson.
Well, when you get posted on The Corner you’ll probably blog it, too.
I really do find it handy to have a library on my hip. I’ve read a lot, from The Importance of Being Earnest to (a lot of) Wealth of Nations in my odd free time. Since Gutenberg only has public domain works, they tend to be older. That’s a good thing, as I maintain that the English language reached its zenith in the late 19th century. So dig in and read all the Chesterton you can.
You can even read the books right on the web, assuming you really want to sit that long at your browser.
Smoking Guns
While readers of Buttle’s World have known for a long time about Iran’s part in the war, there are now literal smoking guns which should prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the Mullahs are helping to kill Americans.
Captain Ed has more.
11 February, 2007
Well. I’m impressed.
Hillary’s new diet is really working. I hardly recognized her in the photo!
More Deep Thoughts
Of course, frothing Imams don’t have the corner on idiotarianism. My guess is that this bundle of earnestness is a victim of US public education.
If the future is in his hands, kiss our civilization goodbye.
Meltdown
As if setting out to prove single-handedly that “Islamic thought” is an oxymoron, Imam Husham Al-Husainy drives the point home with the sledgehammer that is his dizzying intellect. Take a listen, and savor the subtlety.
English is the Lingua Franca
I just love saying that, because it’s a tri-lingual joke now. I’m reminded of it because the prissy busibodies in Brussells are campaigning to make French, the dying tongue of an irrelevant country, the de facto legal standard in the EU.
“Currently we have 23 official languages in the EU, that’s a true Tower of Babel. We need to chose a benchmark language for all judiciary texts, and we believe it should be French, for its precision and rigor,” said Maurice Druon, a French academic and a former Culture Minister.
I wonder if that was translated to English.
There’s little hope that this means they’ve rejected multiculturalism.
Selective Enforcement at YouTube
There’s a man from the Atheist religion who posts videos critical of other religions. YouTube, apparently being cowed by Islamic pressure groups, pulled down the anti-Islam videos and also cancelled his account. The anti-Christian videos? Oh, they’re just fine. I suppose the Christians need to start beheading people and strapping bombs to their kids or something.
Squeeze Iran
Kenneth Timmerman says that even our baby steps toward smacking down Iran’s influence in Iraq are having an effect.
“In Tehran, they are now referring to the United States as mar-rouye domesh vastadeh – the Cobra standing on his tail,” says Shahriar Ahy, an Iranian-born political analyst who helped build the post-war broadcasting network in Iraq.
The sea-change began on January 10, when President George W. Bush announced that the United States would no longer tolerate Iranian and Syrian intelligence officers using Iraq as a playground for their murderous games.
The difference between a Jihadist and a mule is that the mule responds to the carrot, too.
10 February, 2007
Recycling: Just Because It Feels Good
Everybody feels good about recycling. Right? Well, not all of us. I have long suspected what Penn and Teller have exposed here.
The LGF page I linked to has a language warning. This means you, mom.
For those who don’t want to hear the bad words, the bad news is:
Recycling has a net cost of $8 billion annually – just in tax dollars.
It costs about three times as much to recycle as to just dump it in a landfill.
It doesn’t save trees.
It uses more energy than making the products new.
It pollutes the environment.
There is one exception: Aluminum. That’s why bums with stolen shopping carts go through garbage cans looking for aluminum cans. The day recycling actually makes sense, those bums will be taking your plastic bottles, too.
So the bottom line is that the only reason to recycle is because it makes you feel good. Which it won’t, once you know the truth. And assuming you’re not a moonbat.
9 February, 2007
Terrorism Awareness
David Horowitz is trying to educate Americans, especially college students, about the threat we face. It seems absurd that he should have to, or that it should be so difficult, but you have to go in knowing that most universities have completely given over to the enemy.
Readers of Buttle’s World, being well-informed, rational folk, already know of the links between Jihad and Naziism. Nice to know the word is being spread, though.
Spread the word: terrorismawareness.org.
Infantile Passive-Aggression
VDH is, once again, on the mark. Why do they hate us? Wrong question. Why do they hate us but love our money?
