Here’s a regulatory scheme that’s sheer genius. And it would only cost us about $300 billion.
5 March, 2007
Feel Safer Yet?
Isn’t it wonderful how pilots are now armed in the cockpit? Oh, wait. Only a few are: The Federal Flight Deck Officers. At least they are armed. Right?
Read the linked story. It’s been up since mid February, while the MSM has been broadcasting the story. It’s about a serious probe on the same American Airlines flight Richard Reid tried to blow up. You did know about this from all the news media reports, right?
Oh.
Well, at least we can still have granny frisked at the airport. That ought to help.
4 March, 2007
Signs of Hope
How about a Secular Islam Summit? One of the speakers is Wafa Sultan herself.
FBI: Criminals ignore gun laws
This keen grasp of the obvious has been buried – until now.
Granted, 40 is not a very big number. But the results are just a tad lopsided:
The existence of the report was first discovered by self defense civil rights activists in January 2007 when it was mentioned in a law enforcement newsletter. According to the December 28, 2006 issue of Force Science News, the FBI research focused on 40 incidents involving assaults or deadly attacks on police officers, in which all but one of the guns involved had been obtained illegally, and none were obtained from gun shows.
Ad Baculum Redux
Michael Crichton is truly a treasure, even if all of his books aren’t that good. If you beleve in the Goracle, you won’t want to read this.
Imagine that there is a new scientific theory that warns of an impending crisis, and points to a way out.
This theory quickly draws support from leading scientists, politicians and celebrities around the world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropies, and carried out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms.
I don’t mean global warming. I’m talking about another theory, which rose to prominence a century ago.
You should studiously avoid reading this (PDF file), and this would bother you quite a bit.
And you probably won’t want to watch this, either.
I’m trying to teach my daughter that, no matter what the topic, if someone’s argument sounds like it’s trying to scare her, she should doubt it.
Evil Book Watch
Speaking of giving a good dressing down, Orson Scott Card gives Steve Berry quite the spanking.
Let me tell you about an audiobook that I hated.
I didn’t hate it because it was badly written — it was mediocre in the way that mediocre thrillers usually are, and that means it would ordinarily have been tolerable.
No, the reason I stopped listening to Steve Berry’s The Alexandria Link is that this book is evil.
I don’t mean it’s about evil. I don’t even mean that it is evil-porn, like those horror books whose authors are pervertedly devoted to thinking up cool ways to torture and kill people.
I mean that this book, to the degree that it is read by people ignorant of history (i.e., practically everybody), will move us closer to a future in which our society permits or even approves of the murder of Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel.
Yet another great find on LGF, which is quickly becoming one of the most essential blogs around.
Hooray for our side
In her report from CPAC, Michell Malkin takes Ann Coulter to task.
With a single word, Coulter sullied the hard work of hundreds of CPAC participants and exhibitors and tarred the collective reputation of thousands of CPAC attendees. At a reception for college students held by the Young America’s Foundation, I lambasted the substitution of stupid slurs for persuasion– be it “faggot” from a conservative or “gook” from a liberal–and urged the young people there to conduct themselves at all times with dignity in their ideological battles on and off campus.
I made something else explicitly clear: Not all of us treat the communication of conservative ideals and ideas as 24/7 performance art. You can and should use humor to convey your message. You can enlighten and entertain–without becoming a tired old schtick. You can joke without becoming
Points all well-taken. It’s worth noting that when someone on the Left says something stupid and offensive, the typical reaction is to circle the wagons. Or get them a job blogging for Edwards. When someone on the Right does, the heavy artillery comes from our own camp.
It was stupid of Screamin’ Dean to insist that all the Republican candidates “apologize” for Coulter’s remark, for no other reason than they didn’t make the remark. But the political reality is that they had to say something about it. That was Coulter’s fault. It was even more stupid of her to have made it. Why? She’s smarter than Dean. She also gets held to a higher standard than Dean, because she’s not (supposed to be) a raving lunatic.
Don’t get me wrong: I love a good polemic, especially from a polemicist who looks that hot in a miniskirt. I’ve been a fan of Coulter’s for years.
She should apologize. But not to the Breck Girl, and not to Mr. Yeaaaargh. To us.
2 March, 2007
Cassini-Huygens
Don’t miss the stunning images and animations sent back by our robot emissary to Saturn.
The wealth of data coming back from this mission must be amazing. Frankly, if all it did were bring back images like these it’d be worth every penny.
1 March, 2007
Thug Watch
As if desperate to prove how beholden to union interests the Democrats can be, they’re trying to strip workers of their right to anonymous votes. It passed the House, of course. It may get held up in the Senate.
Unremarkable Statistic OTD
Over at Newsbuckit they came up with a way of counting how often the “seven words you can’t say on television” appear in the blogosphere. They then determined that, comparing left-wing and right-wing sites, that…
Oh, I won’t spoil it for you. You’ll probably guess anyway. What you might not guess is the ratio.
Jihad, the Movie
LGF just linked to this little gem of a short film. My comments on it are there in the blog comments. Don’t read the comments (anybody’s) before seeing the movie.
28 February, 2007
The Breath of the Beast
Michael Ledeen linked to a new blog, The Breath of the Beast, encouraging us to read the latest two posts.
They deal with the way in which the Islamic Fascists brutalize their weakest people: women and children. And they do it so clearly, so quietly, that the horror of it all is somehow made comprehensible. It’s a great accomplishment. Don’t miss it. Please.
Those would be this one and this one.
His metaphor is both moving and appropriate. I also recommend the blog’s opening entry, My First Encounter with the Beast.
OK, let’s impeach Bush now
And put Cheney in charge, ASAP.
The Bush Doctrine is dead.
27 February, 2007
Inconvenient
After watching the Goracle Himself soaking up the fawning adulation at the Oscars I’m just waiting for him to start making appearances dressed in robe and sandals.
Update:
Deep thoughts from the dizzying intellect of Katie Couric:
Gore has repeatedly said the environment is not a Democratic or Republican issue; it’s a moral issue. But now that Hollywood has so completely embraced the former vice president, one wonders if this issue will be associated only with liberal causes.
Gee, Katie. Ya think?
I’m All About Ayaan
I think she’s my new heroine.
Maybe “Infidel” will inspire a generation of Muslim teenagers to study, work hard, join the mainstream — and then say what they think and spoil the political consensus. Either way, I’m not sure that the impulse to dismiss Hirsi Ali for her lack of utilitarian value reflects well on those who do it. Nor does the underlying assumption: that religious faith must be respected and defended on behalf of the dark-skinned immigrants who live among us, even though we natives no longer seem to require it.
This just in: Congress is both dishonest and stupid
Not satisfied with lying about what time it is for half of the year, Congress decided to extend Daylight Savings Time. This brilliant decision, which is nothing more than a feel-good measure, was made a whole two years ago. And now it can be revealed that congressmen are too stupid to set their own clocks.
I want you to hear the voice of Fizzini in your head, saying “Morons.”
The Candidate To Watch
The Entertainment Quotient of the 2008 campaign just jumped, thanks to the very presidential Dennis Kucinich, the candidate who hopes to be a real boy some day.
26 February, 2007
Real-Time Moonbattery!
Digg is a site where people can “digg” or “bury” links, theoretically providing a socially-democratic bookmarking service. Once LGF started getting Diggs, the Diggbats, as Charles calls them, came out of the woodwork. Now you can watch in real time as the idiotarian forces of evil try to supress information. Fascinating.
25 February, 2007
The Resurrection of Haifa Street
Check out the military’s own podcast for signs of hope.
If you like getting news from Iraq without the political spin the MSM provides, tune in to the feed.
I want to see what happens if he finds Mohammed.
James Cameron says he’s found Jesus’ tomb.
Let’s keep a running count of all the Christians who riot and start beheading people.
24 February, 2007
Go, Steve
Steve Jobs and I probably disagree on most things political. But he’s right on the money about teacher unions.
“What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in they couldn’t get rid of people that they thought weren’t any good?” he asked to loud applause during an education reform conference.
23 February, 2007
Child Abuse and Global Warming, Redux
Here’s a classic example of missing the point.
Half of young children are anxious about the effects of global warming, often losing sleep because of their concern, according to a new report today.
…
“While many adults may look the other way, this study should show that global warming is not only hurting the children of the future, it’s affecting the welfare of kids now.
No, you moron. The irrational fear of global warming, placed in their young skulls by putative adults, is what is affecting the welfare of kids now.
There’s a monster on the loose, and his name is Ad Baculum.
