…and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: “Yes, We Can.”
Addendum:
Yea, and when the Child learned that his Tribe of Media would be denied entrance, he chose not to visit the wounded warriors.
Pete Hoekstra wins one for the home team.
Rep. Hoekstra added an amendment to the Intelligence Bill that denies funding to this ill-conceived propaganda campaign (aptly referred to as “McCarthyism in reverse”). Despite the predictable opposition of Speaker Pelosi and the Democrat leadership, 55 Democrats joined Republicans to pass it by a whopping 249-180 margin.
CAIR, natch, is up in arms — you always know you’re doing the right thing if all the right people are in a snit.
So here, in celebration, is the formerly banned word:
Jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad.
So there, CAIR.
Original document fans and constitutional scholars rejoice. Now there is ConSource, an on-line, fully indexed resource for the constitution. You register (easy, free) and can then use radio buttons to turn a page of the constitution into clickable text, linking to founding documents. Really slick and, apparently, used in the recent Heller case.
The optimist in me wants to think that we, or one of our allies, is doing this.
In May, officials blamed British and American agents for an explosion at a mosque in Shiraz that had just finished staging an exhibition of Iran’s latest military hardware. Last year more than a dozen Iranian engineers were killed while trying to fit a chemical warhead to a missile in Syria.
A few months earlier, a train reported to be carrying military supplies to Syria was derailed by another mysterious explosion in northern Turkey. It is highly unlikely that these incidents are unrelated, which has only served to deepen the mood of fear and suspicion gripping the Revolutionary Guards’ leadership.
Perhaps it’s a mix of us, other Middle East actors, and Iranian resistance. Whoever it is, I hope they keep it up.
Then you’re a racist!
At least according to one violent, crazy lady. And most of the press, I’d wager.
Melanie Phillips proves that not everybody in Britain has lost their minds.
His very incoherence over policy, the fact we don’t know what he really believes in, enables people to project onto him their hopes and desires. He is the perfect fantasy politician. He is America’s very own Princess Obama.
But, of course, the belief that a handsome prince can magic away the troubles of the world is infantile. The idea that there is a new kind of sanitised politics by which problems can be solved without having to make hard choices is a dangerous delusion.
In Obama’s world there are 57 states in the U.S. There was one bomb dropped on Pearl Harbor. You can sleep through church enough to miss twenty years of sermons. Nuremberg was a good example of habeas corpus. And presidents serve for, oh, eight to ten years. (Oh, well. It’s not like he taught constitutional law or anything.)
So what if he gets a little confused between Germany and Poland? Get a load of where he chose to give his speech in Germany.
To paraphrase a favorite movie, “Truly he has a dizzying intellect.”
(This failed to post the other day when I wrote it. The gaffes continue, at such a pace I can’t keep up.)
This article in the New Yorker about the neurology of itching ends up going into fascinating territory when it talks about treating phantom limb problems with mirrors.
Much of it is speculative, but fascinating none the less. The neurological frontier is certainly expanding.
Time to disband the TSA.
At that point, Perry was standing in his underwear in public view. He asked to see a supervisor. That made things worse.
“She was yelling ‘I have power, I have power, I have power,” Perry said. The power to stop him from flying to Florida with his wife that day to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
Outrageous. Unless Mr. Perry happens to be a middle-eastern male of military age, of course.
A search-and-replace smoking gun for anybody still doubting that “Intelligent Design” is nothing more than relabeled “Creationism”.
A brief from reader JohnnyB:
Despite his actual work in creating the legal infrastructure for the internet, and his good work in evacuating Katrina victims:
1. Gore announced the X33 space plane as the winner of the next heavy lift platf
orm for the US, while the competition was still going on. The Delta Clipper fo
lks were shocked.2. His challenge of the Florida Election has people voting with computer touch
screens, as that is supposedly a more secure way. It is actually doing worse t
han paper ballots.3. His challenge of the Florida election cast doubts on our electoral system.
4. His challenge of the Florida election has undermined the President of the United States.
5. His challenge of the reason to invade Iraq — “He played on our fears!”– undermined my friends and family in the military.
6. His “playing on our fears” with global warming have me poisoning my home with
CFC bulbs filled with mercury — soon to be a law7. He destroyed what getting an Oscar was for.
8. He sits on the board of Apple computer. (Although if he’s done damage there I
haven’t detected it -Ed)9. His constant talking is emitting enough carbon dioxide to be considered toxic
waste.10. He has the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing of note. but then so did some
dead terrorist.
Well, Al has certainly made a fan there!
Check out this video of a man who hasn’t walked in twenty years. Now he can – thanks to an exoskeleton.
Read this account of the FOB in Afghanistan that was abandoned (not overrun!) after a real “fistfight of a firefight.”
“It was some of the bravest stuff I’ve ever seen in my life, and I will never see it again because those guys,” Stafford said, then paused. “Normal humans wouldn’t do that. You’re not supposed to do that — getting up and firing back when everything around you is popping and whizzing and trees, branches coming down and sandbags exploding and RPGs coming in over your head … It was a fistfight then, and those guys held ’ em off.”
Stafford offered a guess as to why his fellow soldiers fought so hard.
“Just hardcoreness I guess,” he said. “Just guys kicking ass, basically. Just making sure that we look scary enough that you don’t want to come in and try to get us.”
H/T BlackFive.
In Obama’s world there are 57 states in the U.S. There was one bomb dropped on Pearl Harbor. You can sleep through church enough to miss twenty years of sermons. Nuremberg was a good example of habeas corpus. And presidents serve for, oh, eight to ten years. (Oh, well. It’s not like he taught constitutional law or anything.)
So what if he gets a little confused between Germany and Poland? Get a load of where he chose to give his speech in Germany.
To paraphrase a favorite movie, “Truly he has a dizzying intellect.”
Guess where this KFC is.
Update:
The chicken outfit may well exist in Fallujah, but it’s not official KFC.
In case you’ve ever been puzzled by the phrase or heard it misused by the MSM and it’s left-wing friends, Ilya Somin does a great job here of demystification.
So the consensus on anthropogenic global warming at the American Physical society is crumbling a bit, but not officially. The clarification is kind of funny, really.
Update:
The plot thickens.
More updates:
Buttle’s World reader Agrapha sends along some links indicating that the sun’s cycles are still normal, They seem to explain historical temperature changes as long as you account for volcanic aerosols, and while we know they’re important, current climate models don’t seem to account for them fully.
Ergo, your SUV is warming the planet. Or something like that.
More here.
I’ve been a member of AOPA (AIrcraft Owners and Pilots Association) for something like a quarter of a century. It’s always been a good resource for pilots, and a fine advocate for general aviation.
Which is why I was shocked to learn that they have been taken in by Algore and the morons at SOSN (Stop Oil Speculation Now.)
I just used their contact form to send them this message, and I encourage all members of the AOPA to do likewise:
I have heard that the AOPA is urging pilots to join “Stop Oil Speculation Now”. If this is true I must insist that you withdraw that letter and withdraw all support for SOSN immediately.
Oil speculators do not drive the price of oil. They are indicators of probable future prices, not the causes of them.
Al Gore and his SONS cronies are in it for the money. As long as environmentalists and their “peak oil” agenda keeps driving up the price of oil, they stand to make millions off of “alternative” energy sources.
As a pilot I’m as miffed as anybody at spending $6.18 per gallon to tank up the Warrior. If the AOPA wants to help lower my fuel bill it should support not only alternative energy but oil drilling HERE and NOW.
I am shocked that the AOPA could have fallen for this. You can see in your records how long I’ve been a member. I’ve enjoyed the magazines and the online services. But I will not send ONE MORE PENNY to an organization that tries demonizing the free market. It’s antithetical to everything I, and other pilots, stand for.
Once again, I insist that you withdraw all support for SOSN.
Pilots: Once again it’s time to make your voices heard. Sadly, it’s our own AOPA that needs to get the message.
Charles at LGF dug up an old Charles Krauthammer column that (should have) put a stake through the false dichotomy the ID gang insists on using.
How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God. What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of life forms, distinct and yet interactive, all ultimately derived from accumulated variations in a single double-stranded molecule, pliable and fecund enough to give us mollusks and mice, Newton and Einstein? Even if it did give us the Kansas State Board of Education, too.
Even those of us who don’t (or, as in my case, no longer) believe in God have to agree. If you want wonder, and something to marvel at, you can’t beat how life on this planet has evolved. God should take it as a compliment.
The Vatican has made peace with evolution. Mormons are going that direction, too. It’s a relatively narrow brand of Christianity and, unfortunately, a much larger swath of Islam, which thinks evolution is an -ism which contradicts religion.
Charles Krauthammer asks the musical question, just who does he think he is?
We are getting to know. Redeemer of our uninvolved, uninformed lives. Lord of the seas. And more. As he said on victory night, his rise marks the moment when “our planet began to heal.” As I recall — I’m no expert on this — Jesus practiced his healing just on the sick. Obama operates on a larger canvas.
If you can read the whole thing without laughing and/or crying, you’re a better man than I.
Not quite. But Samizdata is cautiously optimistic.
Meanwhile, the police in Chicago are preparing to mow down crowds of people.
It’s worse than I thought. The cooperation between American creationist flat-earthers and Islamic creationist extremists has been going on for years.
(Take a listen. The audio is only about 4 minutes.)
I knew that D.C. and other anti-freedom government agencies would resist gun rights after Heller. Cynical as I am, I didn’t see this coming. Let’s add “slow learners” to the list.
This is an excellent idea. It would deprive the flat-earthers of one straw man.
I’d like to abolish the insidious terms Darwinism, Darwinist and Darwinian. They suggest a false narrowness to the field of modern evolutionary biology, as though it was the brainchild of a single person 150 years ago, rather than a vast, complex and evolving subject to which many other great figures have contributed. (The science would be in a sorry state if one man 150 years ago had, in fact, discovered everything there was to say.) Obsessively focusing on Darwin, perpetually asking whether he was right about this or that, implies that the discovery of something he didn’t think of or know about somehow undermines or threatens the whole enterprise of evolutionary biology today.
It does not. In the years ahead, I predict we will continue to refine our understanding of natural selection, and continue to discover new ways in which it can shape genes and genomes. Indeed, as genetic data continues to flood into the databanks, we will be able to ask questions about the detailed workings of evolution that it has not been possible to ask before.
Yet all too often, evolution — insofar as it is taught in biology classes at all — is taught as the story of Charles Darwin. Then the pages are turned, and everyone settles down to learn how the heart works, or how plants make energy from sunshine, or some other detail. The evolutionary concepts that unify biology, that allow us to frame questions and investigate the glorious diversity of life — these are ignored.
Darwin was an amazing man, and the principal founder of evolutionary biology. But his was the first major statement on the subject, not the last. Calling evolutionary biology “Darwinism,” and evolution by natural selection “Darwinian” evolution, is like calling aeronautical engineering “Wrightism,” and fixed-wing aircraft “Wrightian” planes, after those pioneers of fixed-wing flight, the Wright brothers. The best tribute we could give Darwin is to call him the founder — and leave it at that. Plenty of people in history have had an -ism named after them. Only a handful can claim truly to have given birth to an entire field of modern science.
Read the whole thing.
