I’ve often wondered what kind of guy has to pay for sex.
Michael Yon signs off from this dispatch saying:
Today I am in Iraq. Tomorrow Europe, and within the week, back to Texas. About a month later, I should be back in what is left of the war. There is relatively little fighting going on these days.
Ponder that for a moment.
And I pre-ordered Yon’s book just now. You should, too.
It’s not a complete collection of Al Jaffee’s Mad Magazine Fold-ins, and the New York Times has done a predictable job of cherry picking, but these are still fun.
And he might be president.
Listen to the bullet-head and the madness that he’s saying.
Richard Miniter asks, “Would the Times have hired former Nazi officers to cover the three-year insurgency against the American presence in Germany in the late 1940s?”
That equal-opportunity offender of religions, Pat Condell, sinks his choppers into the world’s most dangerous religion and the reaction to Fitna.
Can’t say as I find much to disagree with in this one.
While following this story I hit a link to the last message broadcast before the surrender at Corregidor. Chilling.
How sad it was when, under threat of violence from Islamic jihadists, they took down Fitna.
Well, today LiveLeak has shown that, unlike most of the dhimmi media, it has a backbone.
On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but to remove the film “fitna” from our servers following serious threats to our staff and their families. Since that time we have worked constantly on upgrading all security measures thus offering better protection for our staff and families. With these measures in place we have decided to once more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules. We apologise for the removal and the delay in getting it back, but when you run a website you don’t consider that some people would be insecure enough to threaten our lives simply because they do not like the content of a video we neither produced nor endorsed but merely hosted.
Three cheers for LiveLeak!
Hillary’s old boss says he fired her –
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
Well, I’m crushed. Why didn’t he speak up before? All this time I thought I could trust Hillary. Now, for the first time, there is doubt.
Excuse me. I have to go look at my cattle futures portfolio.
Pizza delivery drivers shouldn’t have to give up their right to self defense to have a job. Pizza Hut should be ashamed of this.
The other day someone at work posted this link.
I couldn’t take it. I replied:
I know others are thinking it. I’ll be the one to say it.
This is one of the silliest things I’ve ever seen come down the pike, a
triumph of symbolism over substance.Balderdash. Poppycock. Flapdoodle.
OK, flame away. I can take it. The people with the hard job are the
guys at the Onion who have to try to come up with something funnier.
I mean, really. People who still try to blame Katrina on “global warming” are just beyond clueless.
Today I see that Samizdata did it better.
Disney fans claim that there are Hidden Mickeys in the animated films. Well, they aren’t all in the cartoons.
As Michael Ledeen points out, even if it’s only half true it’s the story of the year.
America is sitting on top of an oil field with an estimated 200 billion barrels of oil. If we can exploit that it’s a win-win: We get energy independence and stop sending money overseas to our enemies, and the worldwide price of oil drops, further denying our enemies funding.
I suppose the usual suspects will oppose it, of course.
Geert Wilders’ film, Fitna, is available here.
If using Islam’s own words and actions is intolerant, then this is intolerance. This is a must-see, but know that there are some disturbing images. But the images aren’t half as disturbing as Jihad is.
Wilders is a brave man.
Update:
LiveLeak has taken the video down due to (cue rimshot!) death threats. You know, from the Religion of Peace. I wish I had downloaded it instead of just watching. There need to be lots of copies to keep uploading to YouTube. As of this writing there still is one there, but it’s not showing the option to download. Watch it soon.
Further Update:
Follow the link from the above update, and you’ll see that Charles has added an update with a link and instructions on how to download the film. I now have it on two separate computers. Download and spread it!
People are rightly giving Hillary the business for this whopper:
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
Thoroughly spanked by CBS, she whines this lame defense:
“You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things—millions of words a day—so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.”
Millions, Hillary? Let’s assume a fast talker who uses mostly monosyllabic words. Someone like that could say maybe 3 words per second. That’s 10,800 words per hour. Or 259,200 in a 24-hour day. I just don’t think she’s going to manage the nearly 12 words per second it would take to reach even one million.
What a math whiz.
I know! Let’s put her in charge of health care!
Update:
Perhaps I was hasty. (mature audiences only)
Another Update:
Malkin has artwork.
I’m not a fan of McCain in general, but I like this McCain a lot.
Soon, of course, doesn’t mean this year. But the fact that human trials have happened once is encouraging.
Not just us stateside smarties. Guys who can get stuff done read his blog, too.
Or was it my brain? Anyway, if you can scroll through Zombie’s report on the Iraq Fifth Anniversary demonstrations in San Francisco without laughing you must be a Code Pinko.
(Caution: language. And don’t skip the videos.)
Clinton, still learning about the internet’s stubborn memory.
His Portland speech is here.
The first item of note is that he called Wright’s remarks “deplorable”. Shame Obama can’t say that himself.
Mixed in with the platitudes and hot air, he dropped into Spanish to say, Este es un hombre que nos entiende, y nos va a respetar. (This is a man who understands us, and is going to respect us.) Framed in the context of Richardson the “hispanic” (who is just as “hispanic” as Obama is “black”) the message is clear. Respeto is an important concept in latin culture. So yes, Obama’s proxy was pandering directly to hispanics, and the understood message is he’ll give you what you want. That’s red meat to people who grew up in a culture of dependency as did all of Mexico’s lower class. And it’s not the middle or upper class that is crossing the border illegally.
It’s at least consistent with his desire to grant drivers licenses to illegal aliens.
from Michael Yon in Nineveh.
There are no guarantees, but this could be the endgame for major combat operations in Iraq. Combat is likely to heat up in Mosul and western Nineveh by about May. There likely will be some reports of increased US and Iraqi casualties up here, but this does not mean that we are losing ground or that al Qaeda is resurging – though clearly they are trying. If there is an increase in casualties here as we go into the summer of 2008, it is because our people and the Iraqi forces are closing in. We have seen just how deadly al Qaeda can be. This enemy is desperate. They know they are losing. They are not likely to go out easy. The enemy is smart, agile and adaptive. Likely they will land some devastating blows on us, but at this rate, our people and Iraqi forces appear to be driving stakes through al Qaeda hearts faster than al Qaeda is regenerating.
Read Yon and you know what’s going on in Iraq months before people who rely on the MSM.
Update:
Instapundit passes along this email from Michael:
“It’s important to contextualize the fighting in Basra. That the Iraqi Army apparently is fighting JAM is important; a largely Shia Government of Iraq is in command of the Iraqi Army. The Iraqi Army is fighting Shia militia. This is not bad news.”
Why the Bush administration hasn’t beaten the drums about Iran’s involvement in Iraq for all these years is beyond me. It’s not like it’s been a secret. Apparently our best General thinks it’s time to talk about it.
