Fact: if I don’t eat this last delicious mini Hostess fruit pie (peach), somebody else certainly will. So, unless one happens to adhere to either an ascetic or a showily magnanimous philosophical worldview—which, blessedly, I don’t—gobbling this puppy down is like, a no-brainer, when you stop to consider it…
March 30, 2006
March 30, 2006
“Silence is Wisdom”
Via PJ Media, whose Iraq Files Project is gaining a good deal of attention worldwide, comes yet another translation of a captured Iraqi document, this time appearing on Ray Robison’s site (with analysis).* This particular document, if the translation is correct, is of a memo that “contains a detailed list of instructions on how Iraqi intelligence personnel should conduct themselves while ‘visiting’ Afghanistan’”. The memo itself is not too lengthy,
March 30, 2006
Northern Blights
Canada’s Western Standard Magazine / blog (which publishes Mark Steyn and Kate McMillan, among others) is being sued for publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons. I hate to keep beating this drum, but the Orwellian concept of “tolerance” driven by the implied authority within identity politics for a particular identity group to determine the parameters of acceptable speech relating to that group, is completely anathema to western classical liberalism—and in fact
March 30, 2006
NSA / FISA follow-up follow up
From Powerline, who posts more of the transcript, and AJ Strata, who concludes that It was not actually the fact that NSA bypassed FISA—it was actually that Bush was opening the NSA leads to FBI investigation which were making their way to the FIS Court—where these leads were being rejected by the head judges as ‘illegal’ leads! The so called ‘tainting’ of FISA some of the FIS Court judges complained
March 30, 2006
Because sometimes, the prospect of coalition soldiers storming your safehouse with heavy armor and automatic weapons is enough to tweak your conscience that LITTLE extra bit… (UPDATED and UPDATED AGAIN)
American journalist Jill Carroll has been released. This is a good thing. The Jawa Report and Stop the ACLU have more. **** update: Apparently Ms Carroll was treated like a princess by her noble and gentlemenly kidnappers, who snatched her up three months ago simply to protest the occupation of their country by the forces who liberated 25 million Iraqis from under the boot heel of Saddam Hussein. Such a
March 30, 2006
John Bolton’s straight-talking mustache, “Regis,” visits an Asian “massage therapist”
“Regis”: “—And this time, honey, I want the ‘happy ending’ in carnauba wax, which is easily brushed out—not the hot ginger oil. Last time when you, y’know, finished me off…it took a week of soaping the duster with Lever 2000 twice a day before I could enjoy a nice single malt Scotch. In the meantime, the Macallan would just bead up on me like little brown single malt boils.”