…say, is this thing even on…?
January 29, 2007
the “‘a moment of existential crisis’ post” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
Letters from our Betters
Denver’s Lillian Norgren—in what can best be described as a perfect storm of half-baked anti-war talking points—sends the following letter to the Rocky Mountain News (“Forget a ‘win’ in Iraq, let’s get out—now!”): I think it is way past time to cease the endless prattle about how to ‘win’ this fiasco in Iraq. Let’s remove our troops, not send more in! Question: What is there to win in Iraq? If
The Cowardice of Capitulation or the Bravery of Clear Sightedness? [UPDATE]
Over at Hot Air, Allah links to a Daily Mail (UK) story highlighting the growing concern over the progressive’s multiculturalist project—a story that, in its way, dovetails nicely with the Melanie Phillips post Dan cited earlier (LGF video here). From “Multiculturalism ‘drives young Muslims to shun British values’”: The doctrine of multi-culturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found. In
a CITIZEN JOURNALIST joins Daniel Kirkpatrick in his disgust over the publication of unsourced stories
For what it’s worth, if I’m to believe that some rampaging neoconservative deathsquad forced a group of six peaceful progressives at gunpoint from a Whole Foods store (where the six had gone to pick up some oil-free artichoke hearts and spirulina, and of course to pray to the sprout display), then doused them with Menorah oil and set them ablaze—all while the local Likudniks looked on in either a tacit
Wow! Thanks Townhall Spotlight! [Dan Collins]
I’ve been invited to take advantage of a special Townhall Spotlight deal: $10 worth of quarters for only $20! That’s a 69% savings! Hurry. Supplies are limited and you are only able to purchase 5 at a time! Don’t miss out on this 40-Coin Complete Set of Uncirculated Statehood Quarters! Hoarded by the public, these popular coins are now vanishing from circulation and WILL NEVER BE MINTED AGAIN! But now,
MSM Appalled at Internet Publication of Unsourced Stories [Dan Collins]
Daniel Kirkpatrick in NYT: Jeffrey T. Kuhner, whose Web site published the first anonymous smear of the 2008 presidential race, is hardly the only editor who will not reveal his reporters’ sources. What sets him apart is that he will not even disclose the names of his reporters. But their anonymity has not stopped them from making an impact. In the last two weeks, Mr. Kuhner’s Web site, Insight, the
Daniel Pipes Macadamizes Livingstone [Dan Collins]
From Melanie Phillips, regarding Pipes’s recent debate with Red Ken about the “clash of civilizations”: The victory by Pipes and Murray was surely a development of no small significance in these savage and degraded times. Here were two neoconservatives, both staunch anti-jihadis and robust supporters of Israel and America, making the case to thousands of progressives in a left-wing bear-pit that London’s very own version of Che Guevara was helping
So Long, Suckers! (CraigC)
Tomorrow at midnight, the wife and I will be hopping on a redeye to Jamaica. We’ll be spending five days hanging with Little Feat in Negril. It’s tough duty, but desperate times call for desperate measures, and if we don’t do this, the terrorists will have won. I know it’ll be hard on you guys without me around here, but try to soldier on. Heh. I said hard on. If
Pompous Transatlantic Media Jagoff of the Day [Dan Collins]
From Allah, via John Hawkins comes this UK news televised video of Iraqi soldiers manhandling three terrorists caught with mortar rounds in Baghdad. Oh, the humanity! Oh, the brutality! Oh, the f*cking insane, pretentious, addlepated, ignorant, self-aggrandising, arrogant, stupid, hypocritical jackassery of the newsreader.
Iraq, the U.S., and Chemical Weapons [BRD]
In Darlene’s Post ”Peace at any Price”, one commenter, Alphie, makes the assertion that the U.S. played an arguably dominant role in the creation of the Iraqi CW capability, as noted below: Sure we didn’t sell Saddam chemical weapons, Tom. What do you think Rummy was dropping off for Saddam in the famous handshake photo? Subsequently, he was asked to provide further information to support his assertion, which he did
