tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131149782011-04-21T20:40:31.153-07:00A moderate conservative living in the left coast, surrounded by the sureal, wonders if there is a sane life living amongst those who have lost touch with reality.William Woodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14125248910339373710noreply@blogger.comBlogger1871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13114978.post-74694498055037940552007-02-15T12:09:00.000-08:002007-02-15T12:10:27.247-08:00

I've moved over to Development Chaos Theory, where I'll mostly be talking about development stuff. C'ya there!

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Recently the port side of the blogosphere have taken on a new tactic: outing. Senator Larry Craig.... What's with the gay bashing? And... the pitch... Another case coming soonSen. Larry Craig (R) of Idaho Outed by Mike Rogers on Ed SchultzOkay, here's my fundamental problem with this. While I understand that many on the left believe that, for example, opposing same-sex marriage is tantamount to

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Short story: In 2004, the United Nations passes Resolution 1559 which requires, amongst other things, that Lebanon disarms Hezballah. Lebanon fails. Hezballah starts shoting Iranian rockets at Israel. Israel invades Lebanon.The United Nations passes Resolution 1701, which amongst other things requires Lebanon to implement Resolution 1559.And so we arrive at the sorry state of affairs where:(1)

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From The Brussels Journal: The Failure of Western Universities: The Saudis and other oil-rich Arabs are busy buying influence over what Westerners hear about Islam. Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, a member of the Saudi Royal Family, is an international investor currently ranked among the ten richest persons in the world. He is known in the USA for a $10 million check he offered

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While the term itself has come to represent technological change, the term Tipping Point has sociological origins--albeit racist ones. However, it is quite descriptive: at some point a group of people have had enough--and everything changes en-mass regardless of the best efforts of those who are at the receiving end of the silent majority's anger.We're getting close.The latest evidence in

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(h/t: Little Green Footballs) Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removedBefore getting into the meat of this article, let me note its title. By using the word "Asians" (which is technically accurate if you place the Middle East in the continent of Asia) rather than the more accurate "Muslim Arabs", the article title makes it sound like the passengers were racist against Chinese

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I remember last night talking about some meme warfare that took place against the United States by the Soviet Union which currently infects our world view, especially the world view of the Left. It fascinates me because until 9/11, for the most part the two parties in the United States were indistinguishable: I would regularly switch party affiliations at whim depending on which party's primaries

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Too bad the modern liberals don't: The wealth of generations - Capitalism and the belief in the future.Karl Marx explained that capitalism would make the rich richer and the poor poorer. If someone was to gain, someone else had to lose in the free market. The middle class would become proletarians, and the proletarians would starve. What an unlucky time to make such a prediction. The industrial

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The Israel/Lebanon negotiated peace settlement will less less than one week, as Hezbolah will fire rockets into Israel within a week, and the Israeli Defense Force will retaliate.It's been the pattern. Why should it be any different?What's going to be fun is that the peace settlement will put Lebanese troops into harms way--which sets things up for a full declaration of war, as the IDF goes into

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From the Reuters News Service at Yahoo! News Photos:(h/t Little Green Footballs)Before I dissect what is wrong with this picture, let me note that this is exactly the picture off the Yahoo News Service. I did not alter this picture; hell, I didn't even alter the name of the picture. All I did was drag and drop the picture from Safari onto my Mac desktop, then upload it to my iDisk account. So if

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The starboard side of the blogosphere seems to be a-twitter with complaints about a BBC comedy show "Time Trumpet" which has a satirical segment called the "Terrorism Awards": Michelle Malkin comments here We are a month away from the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I still pause, once a day, to think about what happened and how it has changed my outlook on life. How it has opened my

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Two emerging memes from the Israeli/Hezbolah conflict:(1) Why is Israel bombing Lebanon? Those Hezbolah guys are just these guys, you know? They're not Lebanon; they're just thugs, and despite having weapons from Iran, it'd be like the US military bombing downtown Los Angeles because a bunch of Crips shot up a bunch of Bloods and hit a woman with her baby.(2) Hezbolah is actually a well-respected

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Right now California may be nearing another stage 2 electrical alert where there is simply not enough electrical capacity to service people running their air conditioners in our current heat wave.So what happens if millions of cars switch to being electric cars?According to Wikipedia, an electric car takes approximately 0.3 to 0.5 kW/h per mile to recharge. Assume an average travel distance of 40

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Because without the national debt we would slip into socialism--that is, we would slip into government ownership of private business: How the Fed creates money without creating socialismThe most common way the Fed creates money is by purchasing some of the public’s T-bonds on the open market. In other words, the Fed grabs a handful of that infinite potential supply of money, then trades that

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I've been a reader of The Oil Drum for a while now; one hypothesis they advance is that we have reached "peak oil"--that point in time when we're getting the most oil out of the ground possible, and it can only go downhill from here. Of course the graphs they point to show a flattening of oil production over the past few years, just as if we've reached peak oil. They admit that some of this

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So I'm looking over at Wired, when I read: Ex-NSA Chief Assails Bush TapsFormer National Security Agency director Bobby Ray Inman lashed out at the Bush administration Monday night over its continued use of warrantless domestic wiretaps, making him one of the highest-ranking former intelligence officials to criticize the program in public, analysts say."Analysts?" There's a red flag. And the fact

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Let's rewind the clock 4 years: Dying to KillThen and now, a man with little training — powered by fanatical zeal and hatred for the West, full of delusions of paradise, relatively young, and recruited and trained by professional militarists — could do quite a lot of damage to initially unprepared Americans. If, in the past, a Japanese kamikaze (who had little or no chance of sinking an American

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In Gasoline prices: A one-question self-quiz, The Skeptical Optimist asks:Which of the following two mutually-exclusive choices is your top priority for energy to run your automobile:Either:A - Cheaper gasoline starting now, so you can drive at least 20% more miles on $30 worth of gasoline.Or:B – Eventual independence from foreign oil, so our kids and grandkids can be free of the baggage that

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You scored as Foreign Policy Hawk. Foreign policy hawks believe that the spread of liberty throughout the world is the historic mission of the United States, and that it is vital for our security. They can be found in both political parties, and are united in their desire for a large military and a highly assertive foreign policy.Pro Business Republican95%Foreign Policy Hawk95%Libertarian60%New

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Stunning, because if you are like me and know just enough about economics to be dangerous--but not enough to actually know anything--the following comment from CATO will just mess with your brain:Electronic Money and Monetary Policy: Separating Fact From FictionAll forms of money that circulate in the United States today are forms of credit that also serve as media of exchange. For example,

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Today's highly fascinating blog: The Skeptical OptimistHis is one of the few blogs I've encountered who is in favor of the National Debt, and who has argued in it's favor in a very coherent and passonate way. For example, take his Why Debt Doomsday is a MythIt’s a myth advanced by people on all sides of the political landscape. It invokes unfounded fear in voters everywhere. Democrats use it as

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Why 'leaker in chief' charge harms the presidentPresident Bush has long railed against leaks of classified information as a threat to national security; his administration is vigorously investigating unauthorized revelations of classified material to the press about secret overseas prisons and warrantless wiretapping. Now, a revelation of grand jury testimony establishes Bush himself as a player

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Air trends 'amplifying' warmingReduced air pollution and increased water evaporation appear to be adding to man-made global warming.Research presented at a major European science meeting adds to other evidence that cleaner air is letting more solar energy through to the Earth's surface.Other studies show that increased water vapour in the atmosphere is reinforcing the impact of man-made

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You are a Social Moderate (56% permissive) and an... Economic Conservative (76% permissive) You are best described as a: Capitalist Link: The Politics Test on Ok CupidAlso: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

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I'm selling my Mazda Miata. It's a nice car; 49,500 miles, excellent mechanical shape. So I go to Pep Boys to buy some soap so I can wash it before a prospective buyer buys the car.I'm sort of flirting with the cashier; not really flirting, but striking up a conversation. She asks "so, finally washing your car, huh?" I responded that I was washing my old Miata so I could sell it. She asked about

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For the garden bought Pink Breath of Heaven, some more Lavender, and some Hibiscus plants. The former will go into a 4x4 area of ground and serve as a barrier and border, the lavender will go along the garage next to a walkway in a narrow little area (where other lavender is currently thriving), and the hibiscus will frame one of the "hidden" seating areas in the side yard.Armstrong Gardens down

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For the past two years I've been thinking about buying a new car.One of the first posts I made on LiveJournal was about the BMW Z-4, a very nice convertable car. I remember musing about how it was a sort of "executoy"; a very well built BMW convertable with all the really cool options. I've mused in the past about other cars as well, including the 325i and the Z-4 coup, which is due sometime

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The Independent lists a story that has taken off everywhere on the Blogosphere: How Islamic inventors changed the worldFrom coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind themIn the name of

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America and the United NationsIn fact, however, the UN is a shamefully squalid organization whose corruption is almost impossible to exaggerate. If you think—as the media and the left do in this country—that Iraq is a God-awful mess (which it’s not), then try being the Balkans or Sudan or even Cyprus or anywhere where the problem’s been left to the United Nations. If you don’t want to bulk up

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Something about the UAE port controversy has bothered me for a while. What has bothered me is essentially this: what the hell is actually being transfered from British to UAE control? So far we've been told repeatedly that a United Arab Emirates company will be taking control of six ports--and by "port" most of us think "Port Of Los Angeles"--the entire multi-acre complex of shipping terminals,

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Google does Macintosh widgets!

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Iraq wants to join the NATO! The senior advisor in the Iraqi defense ministry Mohammed al-Askari told the press today that the ministry is looking forward to seeing Iraq become a member of the NATO and that the minister Sa'doun al-Dulaimi, the chief of staff and the higher commanders are planning to propose this plan to the new government once it's seated. Al-Askari told al-Hurra TV tonight that

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On Google News at this moment, all three main world stories and one of the two top stories are about Islam in one form or another:Hamas Assumes Control of ParliamentRAMALLAH, West Bank, Feb. 18 -- The radical Islamic group Hamas took control of the Palestinian parliament Saturday during a somber swearing-in ceremony, and legislators from the new majority quickly made ...Libyan interior minister

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Moral Politics - A Morality-Based Political Test This test is (or at least tries to be) a different political test. Most tests assess your opinion by questioning your stance on political issues. This test explains why you think what you think by mapping your personal moral system. Moral views are the major factors that influence political opinions. Every political stance can be explained by one's

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Well, it's on order and scheduled to arrive March 20th.

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The more Muslims push the case that publishing images of Mohammad is "racist"--despite the fact that Mohammad has been drawn for centuries by Muslims themselves--and the more over the top the reaction is (burning buildings, murdering people, ranting in public), the crazier they appear.And the more likely it is that people will say "oh, just grow the fuck up"--and publish more ridiculing

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Click on any of the images below to enlarge:Did I offend you?Do you feel offended?Bill Clinton said these cartoons were offensive--sufficiently offensive enough, in fact, that they were morally on par with burning of embassies and killing people. In Europe, where these cartoons were drawn, European leaders are considering sanctions and are considering altering their "freedom of speech" rights to

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Don't fuck with the West and our free speech, because what was once repect has now turned into complete disdain for Islam and the childish leaders of that once great--but now totally fucked-up religion.Exhibit A: The Mohammed Dance!Less some Iranian decides that turnabout is fair play and it's time to make fun of Jesus, you're too late:Exhibit B: The Jesus Dance.I think this shows something

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A: "If I don't do it, who will? I'd better take responsibility."B: "I deserve...I'm entitled..."C: "It doesn't matter if I take responsibility or not, it always seems to come together at the last minute."The problem with C is that it turns to B unless A is there to bail it out. B preens itself constantly, proud that the universe has created them, so they can take their rightful place in the

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The LA Shoe Bomb Plot Under the plot, the hijackers were to use shoe bombs to blow open the cockpit door of a commercial jetliner, take control of the plane and crash it into the Library Tower in Los Angeles, since renamed the US Bank Tower, Bush said. In his remarks, Bush inadvertantly referred to the site as “Liberty Tower,” and immediately afterward, the White House corrected him.Here's some

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I've read a lot of comments blasting various Republican and Democrat congress critters on their support or opposition to various bills--and inevitably each of these comments are black and white: the latest being the Democrats almost universally opposing support for Justice Alito. Voting against Justice Alito after voting against a fillibuster was a guaranteed loser vote anyways--but still people

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The cartoon wars are heating up--and things are getting very interesting as people from around the Western World are starting to react in anger towards a Muslim world who believe, quite honestly, that Islam trumps Western values--and aren't afraid to say so, explicitly.Reminds me of a passage from the United States Declaration of Independence. No, not the famous line about how all men are created

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Without 'Net neutrality,' will consumers pay twice?Content that travels over the Internet is chopped into "packets." The Internet is designed so that these packets can travel through multiple paths to get to their destination. Some packets go one way while others go a different way. Then they're reassembled at the end.While the packets travel through the network, they can face congestion and get

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After expressing outrage by burning to the ground the embassies of a couple of countries for the outrage of showing Mohammad in a bad light, some Muslims said "what would you do if we insulted your Jesus and Mary?"The National Endowment of the Arts offered them funding.

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In 1898, off the coast of Spanish controlled Cuba, the U.S.S. Maine exploded, triggering the Spanish-American War with the rallying cry "Remember the Maine." At the time it was decided that a Spanish Mine caused the explosion, but in retrospect the timing was just too convenient: the disaster triggered a war which the public had been itching for for a long time. Research done in 1976 suggested

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In an editorial in the Los Angeles Times, Andrew Bacevich asks some questions: What isolationism? IN HIS STATE of the Union address on Tuesday, President Bush worked himself into a lather about the dangers of "retreating within our borders." His speech bulged with ominous references to ostensibly resurgent isolationists hankering to "tie our hands" and leave "an assaulted world to fend for itself

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Two items, right next to each other on Little Green Footballs:British Muslims: "Kill Those Who Insult the Prophet Muhammad" No British papers have reprinted the Mohammed cartoons, but British jihad group Al Ghurabaa has issued a call to kill everyone who insults Mohammed.Danish Islamists Fake Cartoons Danish Islamists deliberately fanned the flames of Muslim outrage over the dreaded cartoons of

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A lot of hay has been made of Bush's assertion that we should use technology to move away from an oil-based economy to using alternate fuels. For example, from Instapundit.com we have a link to The American Enterprise: An Energy Revolution The energy panacea of the moment is a concept called the “hydrogen economy.” Theorists propose to transition U.S. energy usage to hydrogen—a common element

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Germans print Muhammad caricatures But the German Welt daily put one of the drawings showing the prophet's turban transformed into a bomb on its front page on Wednesday. It said the picture was "harmless" and expressed regret that the Danish Jyllands-Posten daily had apologized for causing offense."Democracy is the institutionalized form of freedom of expression," the paper said in a front-page

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Tired.Spent the entire day finishing a rectangular garden kiosk in my back yard, along with a much smaller kiosk designed for a statue of Ganesha, and some shelves and a table for a Cedar Shed that I assembled a few weeks ago. The cedar shed window overlooks a patch of land that leads up to the Ganesha, and I intend to plant the entire area with Star Jasmine and some decorative ornamental grasses

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While searching on-line for the correct spelling of President Ronald Reagan's name, I came across a very interesting web site: a complete list of the Governors of California. Two things struck me: First, that while every other governor's official biographic image is a stately classical panting or photograph, Governor Jerry Brown's official biographic image is an impressionist piece of crap--which

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From Power Line: Some Thoughts on Youngstown Steel In the ongoing debate over the legality of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs--the parameters of which, it is important to remember, are still largely unknown to the public--those who argue that the NSA programs are, or may be, illegal, have often relied on Justice Robert Jackson's concurring opinion in Youngstown Co. v. Sawyer,

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Hamas Without VeilsThere will be no excuses or ambiguities when Hamas fires rockets on Israel and launches suicide attacks against civilian targets. Until Tuesday, the PA could hide behind the excuse that they were not directly responsible and they could not rein in the "militants." Now the "militants" are the militia of the ruling party. They are one and the same with the Palestinian Authority.

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This is a very big deal: BB&T Respects Property Rights, Won’t Fund Eminent Domain AbuseBB&T, the nation’s ninth largest financial holdings company with $109.2 billion in assets, announced today that it “will not lend to commercial developers that plan to build condominiums, shopping malls and other private projects on land taken from private citizens by government entities using eminent domain.”

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In a world of legal scholars and brilliant thinkers, I cannot believe that I'm amongst the first to observe this. But let me give it a go anyways.From Power Line: Hayden Delivers Impassioned Defense of NSAQUESTION: General Hayden, the FISA law says that the NSA can do intercepts as long as you go to the court within 72 hours to get a warrant.I understood you to say that you are aggressively using

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TV in the bedroom halves your sex life - studyROME (Reuters) - Thinking of buying a TV for the bedroom? Think again -- it could ruin your sex life.A study by an Italian sexologist has found that couples who have a TV set in their bedroom have sex half as often as those who don't."If there's no television in the bedroom, the frequency (of sexual intercourse) doubles," said Serenella Salomoni whose

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Apple's iWeb application is out. And quite honestly, as a blog tool, it was clearly written by people who don't get blogging. Rarely do I see Apple screw something up, but in this case, Apple's iWeb product, as a blog tool, is the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen. It's almost as if the developers at Apple thought "hey, I heard this blog thing has become really cool; let's go out and create a

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They'll Be OK if No One Reads the ReportWhere the Post is most mendacious, however, is in the truncated quote that it presents as the CRS's overall conclusion: "The administration's legal justification 'does not seem to be ... well grounded,' they said."Here is what the CRS actually wrote:Given such uncertainty, the Administration's legal justification, as presented in the summary analysis from

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Intelligent Design - Fact or FictionSecondly, some of the popular evolutionary postulates are contrary to proven physical law. For instance, the idea that the original creation of a life form as a random occurrence from inert or simple organic forms flies in the face of the principle of entropy which states in part that order without intelligent intervention will ultimately decay into chaos or

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The Case for Contamination... On Kumasi's Wednesday festival day, I've seen visitors from England and the United States wince at what they regard as the intrusion of modernity on timeless, traditional rituals - more evidence, they think, of a pressure in the modern world toward uniformity. They react like the assistant on the film set who's supposed to check that the extras in a sword-and-sandals

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Airline dumps drunk on tiny islandLONDON: A drunken plane passenger who abused cabin crew on a flight to Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands, spent 36 hours as a castaway after the airline abandoned him on an island in the Atlantic, 480km from his destination.Monarch Airlines said the man became rude and aggressive towards staff soon after flight ZB558 took off on Tuesday evening from Manchester,

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As seen on New Sisyphus: EU observers return to reopen RafahEuropean monitors said they were reopening the Rafah border crossing Friday afternoon, hours after a group of angry Palestinian police forced them to close the border and flee.Julio De La Guardia, spokesman for the European monitors, said the situation at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing was under control and the border would be opened for

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As first seen on Instapundit: Where could I move? So I'm getting a little frustrated with the Bay Area real estate market, and for the first time in years I'm casting about the rest of the nation to see if there's anywhere else where I could possibly live. Here are the requirements:...Of course, Berkeley meets all those considerations. Every single last one of them. It's why I live here and not,

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Much has been made over the moral ambiguity of Spielberg's latest film, "Munich":Israelis blast message of Spielberg's "Munich"Steven Spielberg's new film "Munich", about Israel's reprisals for the slaying of its athletes at the 1972 Olympics, has not opened yet but already many Israelis are convinced that the world-famous creator of "Schindler's List" has missed the point.Even the usually

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Basic Blogging 101 lesson of the day: If you murder someone, don't blog about it.H/T Asymmetrical Information.

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As seen on Little Green Footballs: I'm not the ideal poster boyTo summarize the story, an adjunct professor, Thomas Klocek, got into an argument with a group of students at a student activity fair at DePaul University where he teaches--and when the students at the "Students for Justice in Palestine" complained, Mr. Klocek lost his job. He's how suing.The money quote, from the last page of the

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The problem with Bush's poll numbers is, like all poll numbers, they attempt to reduce all of human experience to a single "yes" or "no" question. That Bush has a 42% approval rating doesn't mean that 58% of people would vote against Bush for a liberal candidate. In fact, many people in the Republican side of the equation are pissed not because Bush isn't liberal enough, but because he's not

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From the Captain's Quarters: Ask Not What Windmills Do To My View ... One of the more laughable hypocrisies of the environmental movement has been the proposed windmill farm called the Cape Wind project. The proposal involves the installation of hundreds of windmills in an area that should capture enough power to generate a significant amount of clean energy -- the kind of energy that

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My thinking about urban sprawl and those who advocate reducing or eliminating it often go back to the notion of collectivism: that of enforcing equality of result amongst individuals. While collectivism (which is inherently anti-meritocratic in that those who have the most to contribute to society are repressed so they don't gain the most personally from their contributions) often expresses

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Transit Talks Proceed in Starts and Stops A strike by Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, which represents 33,700 subway and bus workers, would begin at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow. Walkouts by public employees are illegal under state law.Speaking of New York, it appears that the combined effects of a snowstorm and a mass-transit employee strike will potentially cripple New York. Because New York

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Sprawl is the natural human conditionRybczynski: "It appears that all cities–at least all cities in the industrialized western world–have experienced a dispersal of population from the center to a lower-density periphery. In other words, sprawl is universal. Why is this significant? 'Most American anti-sprawl reformers today believe that sprawl is a recent and peculiarly American phenomenon

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At the New Sisyphus, I found: I Could Have Passed That Bill In 10 Seconds:Representative democracy of the type practiced in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is vastly superior in all measureable terms to any other system either formerly or currently in use.Today comes further proof of this essential fact, via the proud State of Idaho's fine legislature.

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Just installed a site meter so I can track who is reading my blathering. Okay, so I'm curious as to who may be reading my rantings.Don't worry; it doesn't tell me *who* is reading my crap postings; only how many people have been drawn to the stench...

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Warden: Williams frustrated at endSAN QUENTIN, California (CNN) -- Death did not come quickly for Stanley Tookie Williams, the co-founder of the violent Crips street gang who was executed by lethal injection early Tuesday for the 1979 robbery murders of four people in Los Angeles.Witnesses and prison officials said Williams appeared to grow impatient as prison staffers searched for several

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Ba'athist insurgents to protect Iraq electionsNow guerrillas in the volatile Anbar province say they are prepared to protect voting stations from al-Qa'eda fighters.Ali Mahmoud, a former army officer and rocket specialist under Saddam's Ba'ath party, said: "We want to see a nationalist government that will have a balance of interests. So our Sunni brothers will be safe when they vote.""Sunnis

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Buried in the CNN article Bush: Iraqi democracy making progress; estimates 30,000 Iraqis killedU.S. officials are hoping for a high voter turnout in Iraq, especially among Sunni Arabs, a minority that enjoyed great power during Hussein's reign. Sunnis largely boycotted the January election for a transitional National Assembly.U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad told CNN that "Sunnis seem to

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ElBaradei's IAEA: Not the EnemyCharles Johnson over at the indispensible Little Green Footballs posts today regarding Mohamed ElBaradei's upcoming acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize and labels him a "blind, toothless nuclear watchdog." While I certainly agree that ElBaradei's IAEA has not done as good a job with regard to Iran as I might wish, I cannot agree with Charles' characterization in

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Look, ma; a new look and feel! It may not be better, but it looks different, which is really all that matters, right?

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As seen on Little Green Footballs: ElBaradei says nuclear arms should be taboo as slaveryThe world should work to make nuclear weapons as universally condemned as slavery or genocide, UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Saturday after receiving the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the world had 27,000 nuclear warheads

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While talking to my brother this morning he raised an interesting point.It'll be fine to call a Christmas Tree a "Holiday Tree", just as soon as we call a Menorah "Holiday Candles", the seven principles of Kwanzaa "Holiday principles", and Ramadan fasting "Holiday fasting."Until then, it's hard to see how calling Christmas symbols "Holiday symbols" (and excising from public view anything that

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For years, since 9/11, the accusation has arisen from the Right that the Major Media (including the Los Angeles Times) has been editing and shaping the news to their own world view--one which is against President Bush, against the War on Terror and against the invasion and subsequent reconstruction of Iraq. Personally I believe that this comes from laziness: the editors of publications such as

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Is it just me? Or is it that reading a Pajamas Media Blogjam is about as fucking boring as reading a Usenet flamewar when your news poster configurations are fried and you cannot comment back?See, the thing I like about Blogs is that other people manage to either find stuff that is interesting or post on information from their own personal experience. So, for example, I like InstaPundit because

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Last night I caught a small bit of George Carlin's comedy routine on HBO. I happen to like his sarcastic humor. But at one point in his routine he made a couple of jokes which struck me as illustrative of the difference today between liberals and conservatives. Paraphrasing the joke, he said something like:"But I don't make fun of politicians. Why? ... Because politicians are the product of

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So yesterday the Senate passed a resolution which has been read by the Major Media as a "no confidence vote" against Bush's handling of the Iraq war. We've heard many on the left complaining that fundamentally we must bring our troops home for two reasons: either the presence of our troops in Iraq is dangerous or rediculously expensive--way too expensive for the payback that we're getting. The

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Five questions non-Muslims would like answeredThe rioting in France by primarily Muslim youths and the hotel bombings in Jordan are the latest events to prompt sincere questions that law-abiding Muslims need to answer for Islam's sake, as well as for the sake of worried non-Muslims. Here are five of them:(1) Why are you so quiet?...We are constantly told by both various muslim advocacy groups (

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US reveals Iraq nuclear operation: The US has revealed that it removed more than 1.7 metric tons of radioactive material from Iraq in a secret operation last month."This operation was a major achievement," said US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham in a statement.He said it would keep "potentially dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists".Along with 1.77 tons of enriched uranium,

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On the Vodkapundit blog, Stephen Green posts on the current media war: The Arm of Decision: Previously, I wrote that in order to win the Terror War, we must "prove the enemy ideology to be ineffective," just as we did in the Cold War. In that conflict, we did so in three ways: by fighting where we had to while maintaining our freedoms, but most importantly by out-growing the Communist economies.

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(This is part 3 of a series; part one is here, part two is here. I believe it's a useful exercise to frame one's own beliefs to see if they are internally self-consistant, or just built upon a fast-food diet of television and bad college education.)So in an environment where we assume the individual is supreme and the moral certainty of the individual's fundamental rights to life, liberty and the

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Well, it appears that here in California, every single proposition that was put on the ballot for the special elections uniformly lost all the way across the board. Now there were a few on the ballot that deserved to go down (such as the ones that would have institutionalized socialized medicine), but the reform propositions 74, 75, 76 and 77 were all rejected as well--despite support from such "

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It's not all that uncommon to receive a politically charged "sermon" at some churches across the country. Either right-wing remarks or left-wing remarks, if done in an incidental way (such as illustrating an important non-political biblical message) are reasonable, I suppose--but there are limits on how far the political remarks should go. To cross those limits and you are not tending to your

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Is there an absolute moral system? If we start with the assumption that individuals are special and unique, and all are deserving to find their own way in life, and if we presume that by virtue of our creation we have certain needs and desires--such as the desire for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness--then we must conclude that there is indeed an absolute moral system.Let me be clear.

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It's the new elite Chinchilla warriors!

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This may be a little long, and irregular, and broken across multiple posts. People who know me are often surprised when I claim to be a conservative and vote Republican; I have a very lasse-faire attitude when it comes to personal lifestyles, for example, which doesn't seem to jive with their image of Republicans as near-fascist "Moral Majority" bible thumpers. And while I will admit a departure

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Okay, for many years I was a satisfied customer of SBC. Actually I got the DSL service way back when it was still just Pacific Bell, and the Internet worked just fine.But it was ancient service. One meg down, 128K up; and there was no way to upgrade the service without switching the service to a new modem and a new remote terminal location. So I switched.And that is when the problems started.The

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Yeah, it's been a while. First, about my cryptic note about hospitals: the doctor has prescribed antibiotics to fight off a bacterial infection which was apparently the source of the chest pains that I was experiencing. So between the stress and a bacterial infection I was experiencing severe chest pains, an inability to breathe--and with a grandmother who died of a heart attack, I thought I was

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In one's life, there are a number of life changing events that completely shift your world view.Your first kiss.Your first carGoing to collegeLosing your virginityYour first professonal jobThe day you get marriedThe first time you hold a childThe first time you are lying in the hospital being tested for a heart attack.The good news in my case is that it was nothing: probably a skeletal mussle

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QUIT: Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism: As queers, we are part of an international movement for human rights that encompasses the movement for Palestinian liberation, and all other liberation movements.I think the term here is "useful idiots."Because suppose in the off-chance these homosexuals manage to succeed in helping Palestine become free and liberated and a separate country--then

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Today is the start of the 9th month of the Islamic Calendar, the month of Ramadan, the month Muslims are commanded by the Quran to fast for Allah.

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Here's hoping that 5766 is a better year for you than 5765!

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It seems a new strategy has arisen from Muslims tied to Saudi Arabia, the same group of people who brought to you 9/11, to destroy the west: the pecking to death by ducks strategy, whereby the "political correctness" and "sensitivity" memes of the liberal left are used as a crowbar to beat Western Civilization to death.Case in point: Muslims Offended by British Flag, where the director of the

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