tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36254302011-12-14T20:37:18.113-06:00Revealed TruthVisit this site for verifiably accurate opinions on all things political - in contradistinction to the INcorrect opinions you are likely to find elsewhere.
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Thank you and welcome to: Revealed Truth.Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-25176707860185090152008-01-08T00:08:00.000-06:002008-01-08T00:29:48.258-06:00"Psyops"Pronunciation: \ˈsī-ˌäps\ Function: noun plural Usage: often attributive Etymology: psychological operations Date: 1966: military operations usually aimed at influencing the enemy's state of mind through noncombative means (as distribution of leaflets)(Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, www.m-w.com)I don't know who is doing it, but I'm getting a stronger feeling with each passing day thatEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1115278534983715052005-05-03T10:59:00.000-05:002005-05-05T02:39:22.666-05:00Too Much InformationYes, it's a bit cliche. But it's also eminently true as concerns the subject of this Peggy Noonan column in OpinionJournal.com." I was at a wedding, standing just off the dance floor, when a pleasant young man in his 20s approached, introduced himself and asked where I'd had my hair done. I shook his offered hand and began to answer, but before I could he said, 'I'm gay, by Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1114754562536373902005-04-28T23:47:00.000-05:002005-04-29T01:02:42.540-05:00Media hypocrisy on the filibusterThe shamelessness of the mainstream media in its presentation of the filibuster of Bush judicial nominees is truly a sight to behold. Check out this article on Powerline.The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently editorialized in support of keeping the filibuster."To end debate in the Senate and force a vote requires a successful motion for "cloture," which takes 60 Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1114584782414704192005-04-28T08:45:00.000-05:002005-04-28T23:15:29.333-05:00What would Pablo Serra do?"I made a pilgrimage to Santiago seeking to resolve the Social Security debate with a simple question: What would Pablo Serra do?I wanted to compare our pensions to see the results of an accidental experiment that began in 1961, when he and I were friends in second grade at a school in Chile. He remained in Chile and became the test subject; I returned to America as the Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1114580407820242912005-04-27T00:25:00.000-05:002005-04-27T00:40:07.820-05:00Hey, Chris Byrnes of Anarchangel has a new job! Check out his site and wish him well.Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1114578435376308792005-04-26T22:53:00.000-05:002005-04-27T00:51:04.943-05:00And now you know.....the REST of the storyYou've probably heard all about the "crisis" at Trinity International University here in the Chicago area. Threatening, racist letters were received by police, leading to the evacuation of minority students from the Trinity campus.Local racial scab-picker and race-baiter Mary Mitchell pontificated at length on the subject in one of her recent columns in Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1114237196161954692005-04-23T00:12:00.000-05:002005-04-23T01:19:56.163-05:00Oh, did I mention that I was going back to Phoenix for a week?Probably not. Sorry about that.I stumbled across something on TV tonight though that got my blood boiling enough on my first day home to make up for the lost week.Whilst looking up baseball scores online, my attention was diverted to a show on Fox (some type of newsmagazine - I'm not sure the name) featuring a 5 year-old-girl named "Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1113543171151720272005-04-14T23:20:00.000-05:002005-04-15T00:50:21.640-05:00Exhibit #537 in Support of the proposition that John McCain is Pond ScumThe vile little dirtbag is at it again. Now he's saying he's going to support the Democrats if the GOP tries to stop the filibuster of judicial nominees.WASHINGTON - Arizona Sen. John McCain said yesterday that if fellow Republicans succeed in banning the filibuster for judicial nominees, they could extend it to nixing debateEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1113285646968028492005-04-12T00:08:00.000-05:002005-04-12T01:11:04.153-05:00The Angle on Papal Selection You WON'T Hear on CNNSo we're doubtless now in for endless prattle over the next several weeks as to whether the Cardinals gathering in the Sistine Chapel will select a "progressive" Pope (e.g., one who supports the ordination of married lesbian transsexuals) or a "conservative" Pope (e.g., one who doesn't).What we almost certainly WON'T hear about is the likelihood Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1113282017219920392005-04-11T23:12:00.000-05:002005-04-12T00:00:17.220-05:00Sorry for the two-week hiatus. Lots of business travel, preparation for rotisserie baseball drafts, and a bad cold have all conspired to keep me away from this little forum. I promise to do better now.-------------Are the Philippines the next Afghanistan?Michelle Malkin talks about the escalating nature of the threat from the Philippine island of Mindanao. Mindanao has for centuries been home Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1112162543996865932005-03-29T23:29:00.000-06:002005-04-11T21:51:18.846-05:00The transparent Hubris of David ShawIn this article in the LATimes online, he says that bloggers don't deserve the same protections against revealing their sources that "real journalists" get. Here are some samples of his smarmy prose."Given the explosive growth of the blogosphere, some judge is bound to rule on the question one day soon, and when he does, I hope he says the nation's estimated 8 Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1111987169663895012005-03-27T23:09:00.000-06:002005-03-27T23:27:13.493-06:00"Should we have starved Marcus to death?"A man recently posted the story of his profoundly disabled son on a mailing list to which I subscribe. I found his posting so extraordinary and poignant that I asked for, and received his permission to republish here in its entirety.It will, I think, be my final posting relating to the subject matter of the Terri Schiavo case. It says all about the matter Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1111871369294510672005-03-26T14:38:00.000-06:002005-03-27T22:42:54.270-06:00Debra Saunders on the Schiavo Case"(S)pare me the rhetoric about Republicans being hypocrites on states' rights -- fresh from the mouths of Democrats who don't want to let Alaskans drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, who don't want states to determine their own gun-control laws and couldn't wait for the feds to storm the home of the Miami family of Elian Gonzalez."The rest of her fairlyEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1111557788565696622005-03-22T23:37:00.000-06:002005-03-23T00:31:41.806-06:00Why some conservatives support gun control...Francis Porretto has written a typically insightful essay on why certain elements of bourgeois conservatism find gun control legislation appealing."The politically engaged tend to be among America's better off. Conservatives in particular often feel they have a lot to defend. In the main, they've worked hard for what they have, and justifiably feel Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1111391902681247032005-03-20T23:27:00.000-06:002005-03-21T02:06:16.060-06:00Cognitive DissonanceMain Entry: cognitive dissonanceFunction: noun: psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneouslySource: Merriam-Webster Online.The Terri Schiavo case has induced this unlike any other news event I can remember.One one side of the ledger are my libertarian inclinations, which tell me that her case isn't a matter calling for government Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1111127831340493012005-03-17T23:16:00.000-06:002005-03-18T00:40:45.916-06:00Time for a Paradigm Shift:Or: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."It occurred to me today that conservatives may have this whole judicial philosophy thing all wrong. For decades, the right has decried activist judges who substitute their own notions of right and wrong for the Constitution.-Like that idiot in California who decided that the millions of Californians who voted to define marriage as Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1110954622779237702005-03-16T00:08:00.000-06:002005-03-16T00:30:22.780-06:00I Celebrated This and I Didn't Even Know it!Thanks to Gary Collard for pointing out that Tuesday, March 15th was the Third Annual Eat an Animal for PETA Day.If you somehow forgot to celebrate, not to worry: McDonalds will be open tomorrow.Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1110953050274843692005-03-15T23:35:00.000-06:002005-03-16T00:04:10.276-06:00Democrats Ignore "Ownership Society" at Their PerilSo says John Zogby - no friend of the GOP - in this article at OpinionJournal.com.Self-identified investors comprised 46% of the total vote in 2004, a significantly higher figure than pre-election polls suggested. The group is neither dominated by the wealthy nor do members necessarily aspire to become wealthy. According to a series of polls we Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1110259338554514402005-03-07T23:20:00.000-06:002005-03-12T22:29:27.123-06:00Phoenix-Bound!I'll be in Scottsdale through Saturday. Talk to you again on Sunday!Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1110181674886593192005-03-07T01:31:00.000-06:002005-03-07T20:24:01.743-06:00Now that I've cooled down....I'll amplify a little bit on that last post.Anarchangel has hit a Grand Slam with this posting entitled Protesting Truth. In it, he manages to tie together:1) The ludicrous ongoing vilification of Harvard president Lawrence Summers over his (GASP!) suggestion that perhaps, just perhaps, the low participation rate of women in the hard sciences might have something to Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1110180541950203582005-03-07T00:24:00.000-06:002005-03-07T01:54:02.376-06:00May Blogspot Burn in HellTwo more hours of posting down the drain. I am physically sick.Read this post by Anarchangel and this posting by Eric Cowperthwaite.That was about a thousand words before Blogspot ate it. Read the postings, though, they're extremely good.Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109919557875880862005-03-03T22:55:00.000-06:002005-03-04T00:59:17.876-06:00CNN SINKING IN FOX HOLEThat's the headline on this wonderful story in today's New York Post.Wow, I didn't realize it was quite this bad for Ted Turner's orphan."CNN's ratings dipped 16 percent overall and 21 percent in prime time during February, according to Nielsen Media Research, as some of the cable news channel's biggest stars lost viewers.Fox News was the only one among the four cable news Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109830131592065932005-03-02T23:40:00.000-06:002005-03-03T00:08:51.596-06:00Will we get ANWR drilling at long last?The prospect makes me almost giddy. And to be completely honest, only half because its the right thing to do. Don't get me wrong, this should have been done twenty years ago. The Scum of the Earth and its congressional co-conspirators have foiled this eminently sensible project for far too long.But I have to admit that this rightness is only half the reason Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109740786039366382005-03-01T22:43:00.000-06:002005-03-01T23:19:46.043-06:00Religion of Peace Update:Killing Disobedient Muslim Women - Peacefully, of CourseThis piece in Sunday's Telegraph says that five Muslim women have been killed in so-called "honor killings" in the past few months IN BERLIN ALONE."The five Muslim women killed in recent months were murdered by their husbands or partners because they had 'insulted' the family honour by wanting to end the Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109654589560139072005-02-28T21:58:00.000-06:002005-03-02T01:13:16.866-06:00I know I shouldn't bother.But I can't help myself.I know I should just ignore the whole lot of boorish, overindulged, undertalented, pretentious, preening, dimwitted members of the most overestimated cadre of self-congratulating, undereducated, excessively glorified dullards this side of the San Francisco City Council.And I could. Easily. As a libertarian, I have an ideological leg up on most in Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109577070369363232005-02-28T00:49:00.000-06:002005-02-28T01:54:24.190-06:00I am disgusted with BlogspotHow depressing. I have spent the last two hours composing a post about Hollywood actors and why I loathe them.Blogspot lost it.I'm going to bed.Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109485458526774162005-02-26T12:06:00.000-06:002005-02-27T00:24:18.530-06:00This happened in America?"Susette Kelo dreamed of owning a home that looked out over the water. She purchased and lovingly restored her little pink house where the Thames River meets the Long Island Sound in 1997, and has enjoyed the great view from its windows ever since. The Dery family, down the street from Susette, has lived in Fort Trumbull since 1895; Matt Dery and his family live next doorEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109312339863207922005-02-24T23:23:00.000-06:002005-02-25T00:18:59.870-06:00More Ward Churchill IdiocyMichelle Malkin has transcripts of Churchill speaking before a group in Seattle in 2003. During the course of his speech, the nutjob essentially advised his audience how to commit terrorist attacks. Here's the first of 4 transcripts Malkin has on her site:Question from audience: You mentioned a little bit ago, "Why did it take a bunch of Arabs to do what you all should Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109227147608886672005-02-23T23:55:00.000-06:002005-02-24T00:57:56.390-06:00The wrong sort of BlackThis story almost defies belief.If I understand the article correctly, the usual crop of superannuated "black leaders" are unhappy that a disproportionately high percentage of blacks admitted to major universities are from Africa or the Caribbean.If you think about it, this is just an extension of the treatment this same bunch of race-hustlers gives to black conservatives. Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109140967941542892005-02-22T23:15:00.000-06:002005-02-23T00:42:47.943-06:00How come this is the first I've heard of this?Found via Ravenswood."You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here." -- Incoming DNC Chairman, Howard Dean.Ravenswood's blog was the first place I had seen this. Can you IMAGINE if, oh, the chairman of the Republican National Committee said this? Do you thinkEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1109052054254153452005-02-21T23:41:00.000-06:002005-02-22T00:04:00.510-06:00This blog is too politically correctIn an effort to remedy this deficiency, I hereby present this article by a population biologist named Gregory Cochran. His article deals with the potential causes of homosexuality. And his conclusion?Homosexuality is very likely a disease caused by a virus.A very pronounced tip of the hat for this one goes to the blogosphere's most indefatigable practitioner, Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1108966357175756472005-02-20T23:14:00.000-06:002005-02-21T00:20:36.543-06:00You might be a CINOWe've all heard of RINOS: Republicans In Name Only. Arlen Spector, Olympia Snowe, the execrable Lincoln Chaffee. Members of that species.But the more I listen to alleged "conservatives," whatever their party affiliation, I think it's much more important to be on the lookout for CINO's: Conservatives In Name Only.I'm coming across them more and more on the net and especially on Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1108787864522017932005-02-18T22:15:00.000-06:002005-02-19T02:14:26.203-06:00Best of my blogrollI haven't done a survey of my blogroll in a while. Here's some good stuff from the writers from the right on the left.Think that one through.---Ace of Spades quoting Ann Coulter: "Let’s burn their books when they burn our conservative newspapers... that way we can oppress them and increase global warming at the same time." The Ace has lots more good stuff from Saint Ann at the Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1108709764990893442005-02-18T00:43:00.000-06:002005-02-18T00:56:04.990-06:00Blogroll, please......Chris Byrnes' Random Mumblings is proudly added to the blogroll.His contempt for the Kyoto Treaty alone is enough to merit his addition. He also happens to be right on the other issues from what I can tell.In my humble opinion, he should have gone with his URL - "Anarchangel" - as his title. But hey, it's his blog. Check it out.Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1108704689505763862005-02-17T21:16:00.000-06:002005-02-17T23:52:38.953-06:00Leftists Check Their PremisesCase ASome Europeans ask the unthinkable: "Is it possible that Bush wasn't entirely wrong?"Not very loudly, mind you. And not huge numbers of them. But if this article in the International Herald Tribune is at all correct, a small group of freethinkers among the European elite is at least considering the possibility.Now the fact that a minority of Europeans are Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1108315451652072642005-02-13T11:22:00.000-06:002005-02-13T11:24:11.653-06:00Off to Phoenix.....on businesss for 3 days.Truth Revelation shall recommence Thursday.Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1108194449848198712005-02-12T01:02:00.000-06:002005-02-12T22:21:54.126-06:00Compare and ContrastCase ALibertarian economist and University of Nevada Las Vegas Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe gives a lecture to his Money and Banking class."The subject of the lecture was economic planning for the future. Hoppe said he gave several examples to the class of about 30 upper-level undergraduate students on groups who tend to plan for the future and groups who do not.Very young andEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1108087597445316512005-02-10T19:59:00.000-06:002005-02-10T20:32:09.873-06:00That Super Bowl ad with the troops walking through the airport........can be found here.If you're one of the few dozen people who didn't watch the Super Bowl or you somehow missed the ad, do check it out. I've heard that this is modeled after an event that actually happened in LAX. It's very simple, but equally powerful.Hat tip to Martini Pundit.-----Al Franken isn't running for Mark Dayton's Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1108020573305782672005-02-10T01:02:00.000-06:002005-02-10T12:24:47.520-06:00The irresistible attraction of untouchability
Francis Porretto discusses what the Ward Churchill mess has to say about the powerful appeal of victimology in today's America.
"The very tribes in which he's claimed membership have disowned him. Presently we will hear no more from this socialist firebrand.
But don't expect Churchill to be the last to try this gambit. Reflexive guilt over white Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1108014370860017852005-02-09T22:56:00.000-06:002005-02-10T09:35:27.696-06:00Blogroll addition
I discovered Eric Cowperthwaite's blog, Eric's Random Musings, via a comment he posted on this site. Eric adds an interesting and different libertarian viewpoint to the blogosphere. For one thing, he's ex-military and from what I can tell, quite pro-military. For another, he's a devotee of Robert Heinlein, whom, I am ashamed to admit I had never heard of. Based on research Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107927025603561742005-02-08T22:07:00.000-06:002005-02-08T23:36:13.513-06:00An evening with Christopher Hitchens
If you are as utterly fascinated as I am by the prospect of spending an evening talking geopolitics with Christopher Hitchens, you'll love this piece on Michael Totten's blog (hat tip to Kim DuToit via the Belmont Club. Or is it the other way around?)
Anyway, the piece is more noteworthy for the profile of Hitchens than it is for its points about Iraq. For Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107842704609875802005-02-07T23:32:00.000-06:002005-02-08T01:40:59.116-06:00Ayn Rand's 100th birthday
I would be remiss not to comment on the passing of Ayn Rand's 100th birthday on February 2nd - only because her works played such an important role in formulating my own political worldview.
I had already begun my transition from leftist thinking to libertarian/right leaning by the time I read her novels. So in my case, the most influential aspect of Rand's Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107837227150324442005-02-07T21:24:00.000-06:002005-02-07T23:15:36.396-06:00Michelle Malkin has the Eason Jordan story in her teeth
And she isn't letting go. I do believe Michelle Malkin might just be the most important rightwing blogger out there right now. If not, she's certainly in the team picture. Right now, she's all over the Eason Jordan story like no one else.
She took it upon herself to contact David Gergen, who was present at the World Economic Forum in DavosEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107667963491935922005-02-05T23:18:00.000-06:002005-02-06T00:25:19.790-06:00Michael Moore's "Minutemen"
Here's the latest from Iraq the Model on the tactics now being used by the murdering scum who Michael Moore called Iraq's Minutemen:
"The suicide attack that was performed on an election center in one of Baghdad's districts (Baghdad Al-Jadeedah) last Sunday was performed using a kidnapped 'Down Syndrome' patient.
Eye witnesses said (and I'm quoting one of my Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107590214933637252005-02-05T01:47:00.000-06:002005-02-05T01:56:54.933-06:00You blog, I blog, we all blog, for Ipod
Every other web site I visit - blog or otherwise - seems to think I desperately need an Ipod. There are contests that allow you to win Ipods. There are links to places that sell Ipods. Pictures of Ipods, stories about Ipods. As Jan Brady might say: "Ipod, Ipod, Ipod!!"
It's gotten so overwhelming that I've almost been tempted to find out what the hell an Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107586281000394872005-02-05T01:23:00.000-06:002005-02-05T01:19:54.336-06:00
Eastern European nations ask for ban on communist symbols
I have to admit that I really enjoyed reading this story. While I know that banning communist symbols is no more morally acceptable than banning Nazi symbols, I also know that it's sure as hell no LESS morally acceptable either.
As you probably know, Germany already prohibits the display of Nazi symbols such as the Swastika. ApparentlyEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107577495063543652005-02-04T21:53:00.000-06:002005-02-05T00:21:41.346-06:00The minutes of this week's meeting of the Fidel Castro Fan Club...
...can be found on the web site of the Democratic Underground here.
Keep in mind that this is the crowd that thinks America has become a fascist theocracy because....well I'm not quite sure why. I think it has something to do with John Ashcroft praying, but it's all a bit unclear.
At any rate, they call Bush things like "Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107497079211349642005-02-03T22:47:00.000-06:002005-02-04T00:50:42.496-06:00The wretched little fraud that is Andrew Sullivan
In the first place, I've never liked his smarmy, slithery demeanor. More important, though, he's always struck me as a man - well as a person - more concerned with building a reputation as the world's foremost iconoclast than with actually advancing any ideas.
He's gay! And Catholic! And conservative! But of course he despises the Catholic Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107408382483935992005-02-02T21:40:00.000-06:002005-02-03T00:09:58.820-06:00Greenpeace founder: "Environmental movement has lost its way"
Patrick Moore was one of the founders of Greenpeace. Despite being a committed environmentalist, he broke with the group years ago. Why?
He tells us in this op-ed piece in the Miami Herald.
"...The environmental movement has lost its way, favoring political correctness over factual accuracy, stooping to scare tactics to garner Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107329902095375842005-02-02T01:28:00.000-06:002005-02-02T02:07:15.740-06:00Is there a Swiss Banker Fan Club?
If so, I might just join after reading this.
Concerning Jacques Chirac’s proposal for an international tax on countries with banking secrecy, to be used to finance "third world poverty," Swiss Bankers Association spokesman James Nason said this:
"A far better idea would be if the oh-so-pious French were to impose a tax on nasty tin-pot dictators who purchase Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107323838346564822005-02-01T23:35:00.000-06:002005-02-02T02:04:29.586-06:00An honest left-wing journalist is hard to find
Evidence continues to mount of the comprehensive unhinging of Old Media. If there is such a thing as mass psychosis, I think that's what we might be witnessing.
The latest to spin off his axis is CNN head honcho Eason Jordan. You may remember Jordan as the fellow who admitted a couple of years back that his network purposefully spiked stories of Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107243621917057152005-02-01T01:16:00.000-06:002005-02-01T01:46:38.116-06:00War versus freedom - and why it's never simple
Francis Porretto of Eternity Road offers a couple plates full of food for thought on the moral considerations of war.
A supporter of our efforts in Iraq (and of course, Afghanistan), Porretto isn't concerned with justifying body counts - though he does offer both Dresden and the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings as examples of the sort of tactical Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107227537642801032005-01-31T20:56:00.000-06:002005-01-31T21:14:44.306-06:00Speaking of political courage...
"The man replacing the mayor of Baghdad - who was assassinated for his pro-American loyalties - says he is not worried about his ties to Washington.
In fact, he'd like to erect a monument to honor President Bush in the middle of the city.
'We will build a statue for Bush,' said Ali Fadel, the former provincial council chairman. 'He is the symbol of freedom.'
Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107155604373842392005-01-31T01:34:00.000-06:002005-01-31T01:43:41.880-06:00THIS is what political courage looks like
The left loves little more than to prattle on about the alleged "courage" of this person or that. The folks they celebrate in this fashion, however, are generally little more than the most slavishly conformist devotees of political correctness. Abortionists, for example, are often hailed by the moonbat wing of the Democrat party as Profiles in Courage - Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107152034819051702005-01-30T23:25:00.000-06:002005-01-31T00:28:03.536-06:00Conservatives say "Thanks, Hollywood, for Reelecting W!"
A very nice new blog (as of November) called Zebra Report does a great job of covering the news with a cogent right-wing spin. I learned from ZR about this upcoming billboard campaign by Citizens United "thanking" Hollywood for helping to get President Bush reelected.
How truly mean-spirited. And delicious!
W. As in Walker. Not Whoopi.Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1107062616135111682005-01-29T21:29:00.000-06:002005-01-30T00:37:33.616-06:00Germany's Novel Full Employment Strategy
One doesn't often hear the words "German" and "Ingenuity" juxtaposed. Germany is generally perceived - and with good reason - as a land of highly proficient technicians and engineers, but as not being a hotbed of inventiveness. Being a "Good German" means doing as one is told, doing it proficiently of course, and most of all, doing it without complaint.
Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1106887712643511492005-01-27T22:05:00.000-06:002005-01-27T22:48:32.643-06:00The Tolerant Left
In his column this week, entitled "Self-Indulgence" Thomas Sowell wonders exactly what the Inauguration "protestors" were protesting? "What are these 'demonstrations' demonstrating -- other than adolescent self-indulgence and contempt for the rights of other people to go about their lives without finding their streets clogged with hooligans and the air filled with obscenities?"Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1106806060595390312005-01-26T23:45:00.000-06:002005-01-27T00:41:52.203-06:00Turner-Induced Schadenfreude
Induced not only in me, but in an unnamed Fox News spokesperson.
Addressing the National Association for Television Programming Executives conference yesterday, CNN founder Ted Turner compared Fox News to Nazi Germany. While acknowledging that Fox was trouncing CNN in the ratings, he implied that CNN is still more journalistically pure. By all accounts, it appears Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1106721354417756202005-01-25T22:37:00.000-06:002005-01-26T00:46:15.606-06:00The Era of the Singularity
Arnold Kling has written a captivating piece at Tech Central Station. One part book review and one part economics essay, his article is entitled "The Anglospheric Challenge to the Political Left."
The book review aspect discusses James Bennett's new book "The Anglosphere Challenge". You can read the entire first chapter of Bennett's book here. A key component of Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1106710397099276382005-01-25T21:21:00.000-06:002005-01-25T21:33:17.100-06:00Blogroll Addition
And long overdue. Ravenwood's Universe offers excellent right-wing commentary and is updated quite often. He's also got a nice feature whereby he categorizes his posts so you can look them up by topic.
His most recent posting, for example, can be found under the category "Cold Dead Hands." As you might suspect, it's about guns. Specifically, it's about the fact that more and Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1106635611278227072005-01-25T13:47:00.000-06:002005-01-25T01:12:27.153-06:00The New Face of the Antiwar Left:
Marxist Feminist Lesbian Jamaican Radical Poets - and the Men Who Love Them
About those Inauguration protestors. Speaking (as Peter Brookes was in the entry below) about leftist swine who want to see the U.S. face worldwide defeat, here is a very nice description of the compilation of vermin that largely comprised the anti-Bush crowd at the Inaugural protests. Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1106630969516289822005-01-24T23:08:00.000-06:002005-01-24T23:29:29.516-06:00Bad news for Iraq gloom-and-doomers
"A just-released poll by the National Endowment for Democracy's highly-respected International Republican Institute (IRI) suggests that Sunday's Iraqi elections will be much more successful than the nattering nabobs of negativity predict.
IRI conducted the poll Dec. 26 to Jan. 7 in 16 (of 18) Iraqi provinces. It shows that 'anticipated participation numbers Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1106019306514985902005-01-17T21:30:00.000-06:002005-01-24T23:33:25.933-06:00Off to Mazatlan
No, that isn't a Yiddish toast. That's a city in Mexico, and I'm going there for 4 days for a trade show.
Hey, as I write this, it's zero degrees F in Chicago and the high in Mazatlan's going to be 85 tomorrow. On the other hand, I'll spend all day Tuesday and Saturday in airports. It's about a wash.
I'll be back Saturday night or Sunday morning to Reveal more Truth.Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1106018564533114232005-01-17T20:55:00.000-06:002005-01-17T21:24:27.423-06:00Whittaker Chambers, She Ain't
Amber Frey's book, Witness, is #1 on the NYT Best Sellers List. Ugh. I heard her interviewed and actually felt sorry for her. "Yeah," was her responce of choice to most questions. When a question that couldn't be answered yes or no was asked, Professional Nuisance Gloria Allred stepped in to save her. This is one dumb broad, and I can't imagine she had the slightestEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105946426763615992005-01-17T01:08:00.000-06:002005-01-17T20:42:03.776-06:00So it Wasn't "Values Voters," After All?
No kidding. My first post upon my return was on this very subject.
I don't know who Lorrie Goldstein is, but she's brilliant. She agrees with ME in this piece in Sunday's Toronto Sun.
She points out research done by the Pew Research Centre and others has shown:
"(a) Bush made relatively bigger gains with non-religious voters than religious ones.
(b) Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105944745398119172005-01-17T00:32:00.000-06:002005-01-17T00:52:25.396-06:00Deficit Shrinking. Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.
If it were to cover this story, that's doubtless how the New York Times would headline it. Alas, the Great Gray Hag and its Old Media brethren seem intent on ignoring it. So, as usual, we must look to Larry Kudlow for the "Sky Isn't Falling" version of economic events:
"In the first three months of the fiscal year that began last October, Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105768412965648252005-01-14T22:48:00.000-06:002005-01-15T00:23:09.033-06:00(Academic) Freedom is Slavery.....
Need more proof that the colleges and universities of America are largely run by neostalinist cretin?
Well, here's some, anyway.
Exhibit A is the administration running Florida's Indian River Community College, which (IRCC) have forbidden the school's Christian Student Fellowship from showing the Passion of the Christ!
The alleged basis for the ban is the Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105604345568926212005-01-13T01:55:00.000-06:002005-01-13T02:19:05.570-06:00The Demise of the AMMP
Thanks to Kevin Baker for pointing out this interesting Howard Fineman column on MSNBC entitled "The 'Media Party' is over."
Fineman argues that the American Media Mainstream Party was officially killed (or at least mortally wounded) by the Memogate episode. He clearly thinks this isn't a good thing, but at the same time he puts up a pretty tepid case. Honestly, it looks Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105599353661329432005-01-13T01:51:00.000-06:002005-01-13T01:18:55.263-06:00Heil Harry!
I guess even fabulously rich and well-bred twenty-year-old goofball kids will be twenty-year-old goofball kids.
But WOW, you would think that somewhere in all that grooming the royals get someone might have told Prince Harry that it's probably best not to be seen in public wearing a swastika arband!
Harry auditions for the Richard Dawson role in a Hogan's Heroes remake.
Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105595216928939242005-01-13T01:39:00.000-06:002005-01-13T00:50:49.150-06:00NYSE Resists Jackson Shakedown
Lenin famously said that the capitalists would sell world socialism the rope with which it would hang them. Happily (and surprisingly), at least one group of capitalists of the first order has gone out of the rope business.
According to the Cybercast News Service, "For the first time in eight years, Jesse Jackson's Wall Street Project will not receive a donation Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105511669404154442005-01-11T21:49:00.000-06:002005-01-12T01:21:58.973-06:00We Think We Can Believe THIS Story - It Isn't From CBS News
It's from the Washington Post, in fact.
It turns out that CBS News is suffering a bit of a financial hit as a result of Rathergate. CBS News only accounts for 10% of corporate profits, but the hit is measurable nevertheless, resulting in CBS having to give ads away on other programs to make up for the lost news viewers.
"In the weeks Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105342580899701742005-01-10T01:43:00.000-06:002005-01-10T01:38:01.483-06:00Leading off....Spain
So the Spaniards get to be the first to sign up to the EU Constitution, via referendum on February 20. God bless 'em.
Here in the states, anyway, the EU consolidation continues to be a vastly underreported story. Which isn't really surprising. I wonder, though, if it isn't underreported even amongst the constitution's prospective victims...err...beneficiaries in Europe.
Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105338939393627102005-01-10T01:29:00.000-06:002005-01-10T00:35:39.393-06:00MartiniPundit Added to the Blogroll
I've been looking to beef up the listing on the left. Boy, there's lots of junk out there. But here's a good one, hereby added to the blogroll: MartiniPundit.
Wonder if those are vodka or gin martinis?Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105334997853770792005-01-09T23:19:00.000-06:002005-01-09T23:34:00.710-06:00The Truth About the Tsunami at Last!
And it's all laid out right here.
It's scary stuff, alright. Just take a look:
"To simplify matters for non-technical readers, an earthquake is always triggered by a resonant electromagnetic frequency in the range 0.5 to 12 Hertz, but it is not an instant process, because the resonant frequency must be precise. Thus as true resonance approaches, the faultEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105173764320533822005-01-08T02:11:00.000-06:002005-01-08T21:52:31.310-06:00And the Unfortunate Choice of Words Award for 2005 goes to....
Yes, yes, I know. We're only a week into the year. Nevertheless, I think we can shut down nominations and give this year's prize to....
Senator Ted Kennedy
Teddy speaks vermouth to power.
For the hilarious lack of self-awareness he demonstrated with this comment, directed to Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales:
"It Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105170545416867242005-01-08T01:31:00.000-06:002005-01-08T01:49:05.416-06:00Environmentalist Creed: "Save the Mosquitos. Let the People Die."
So says Nicholas Kristof in this Op-Ed piece in today's New York Times. From what I've read, the defacto ban on DDT in most of the world qualifies as one of the most underreported scandals of the past several decades.
"If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105163770892019982005-01-07T23:12:00.000-06:002005-01-08T02:04:31.256-06:00This just in: Brits don't want to vacation in Dubai
If you're like me, you often find yourself wondering how the typical British subject views the prospect of vacationing in Dubai.
Well, we're both in luck because that question and others are answered in this London Telegraph survey of British attitudes toward the various nations of the world (found via John Ray).
Most of the findings are Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105089212624039402005-01-07T02:58:00.000-06:002005-01-07T03:13:32.623-06:00You Can Shop at Staples Again!
Hooray!
Staples says it ISN'T punishing Sinclair after all!
"To clarify that Staples does not have a policy against advertising on Sinclair Broadcast Group news, Staples has the following statement:
Our media buying process with Sinclair Broadcast Group stations has recently been misrepresented by an organization with no affiliation to Staples. Staples regularlyEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1105079990593775522005-01-07T00:41:00.000-06:002005-01-07T00:40:47.436-06:00The Murdering Mother You HAVEN'T Heard About
By now you have probably heard that Andrea Yates' conviction for killing her five children has been overturned by the Texas 1st Court of Appeals.
It seems that some psychiatrist testified that Yates once watched a TV show that never really existed. So of course her conviction for five murders was overturned. Makes perfect sense to me.
I think the Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104997418311151322005-01-06T01:33:00.000-06:002005-01-06T01:43:38.310-06:00The (Doctor) Angell of Death
I don't think I've ever done a posting on Euthanasia, but this blog entry on Francis Poretto's Eternity Road absolutely floored me.
Listen to this quote from Certified Medical Bigwig Dr. Marcia Angell, concerning Oregon's assisted suicide law:
"I am concerned that too few people are requesting it. It seems to me that more would do it. The purpose of a law is to be Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104993895868983322005-01-06T00:45:00.000-06:002005-01-06T00:45:47.560-06:00Staples Has Buckled Under
Score one for the left. Office supply firm Staples has pulled its advertising from Sinclair-owned television stations. It did so under pressure from an alliance of far-left individuals and organizations calling itself "Media Matters for America."
"On December 14, Media Matters for America -- supported by MoveOn.org, MediaChannel, Working Assets, Robert Greenwald (Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104906075863794682005-01-05T01:21:00.000-06:002005-01-09T02:07:20.226-06:00Updated for 2005!Fifty-ONE Things You Can Do To Annoy The Politically Correct
My most popular posting ever was the original "Fifty Things You Can Do To Annoy The Politically Correct," published in 2002. Presented for your enjoyment is the new and improved version for 2005.
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1) At your next house party, serve a big pot of Endangered Species Stew.
2) Give out candy cigarettes on Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104899667875805622005-01-04T22:34:00.000-06:002005-01-04T22:39:46.446-06:002005 New Years Resolutions (from "Prickly City") Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104820914175364042005-01-04T00:42:00.000-06:002005-01-04T00:41:54.176-06:00Good News on the U.S. Manufacturing Sector
Rumors of the death of manufacturing in the U.S. are greatly exaggerated. According to this article:
"US manufacturing activity accelerated in December as the falling dollar continued to help exporters and domestic demand strengthened, according to figures released on Monday....
Export orders were particularly strong, with the index rising from 54.7 Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104738968571304482005-01-03T02:00:00.000-06:002005-01-03T01:58:38.760-06:00The Wrong Sort of Hiker
This story comes to us courtesy of the London Telegraph. And it's a doozy.
"The Lake District National Park is to axe the free guided walks carried out by over 100 volunteer rangers because they attract only 'middle-aged, middle-class white people'.
The scenic walks, which introduce thousands of tourists to the fells each year, are being scrapped as part of a three-yearEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104737518356664632005-01-03T01:58:00.000-06:002005-01-03T01:31:58.356-06:00Double-edged Politics
Suzanne Fields' new article on Townhall.com is pretty interesting. She discusses the haughty attitudes largely still held by Democrat elites, despite mounting evidence that they have nothing to be haughty about.
"Sneering that George W. is dumb no doubt makes the Democratic elites feel good, but if George W. is dumb, anyone who votes for him is by definition 'dumber.' An Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104657291472752482005-01-02T02:48:00.000-06:002005-01-02T03:14:51.473-06:00Who CAIR's?
From Boston.com:
"After viewing a portion of the first episode included on a DVD in Entertainment Weekly, officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) expressed dismay at the depiction of a Muslim family."
'At first I was shocked,' organization spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed told the New York Daily News.' In this particular case, they show an American-Muslim family andEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104651883584350322005-01-02T01:37:00.000-06:002005-01-02T01:44:43.583-06:00Thanks Samizdata!
They've got the exact quote of the soldier who asked Rumsfeld why the word wasn't getting out about all the good work that's being done in Iraq.
"Sir, how do we win the war in the media? It seems like that is the place where we're getting beat up more than anybody else? I've been here - this is my third tour over here and we've done some amazing things. And it seems like the Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104650620435972872005-01-02T01:06:00.000-06:002005-01-02T01:23:40.436-06:00Europe Rethinking Bush?
On the one hand, I'm reluctant to post this on the grounds that I don't much care WHAT European governments think about Bush. On the other hand, it is an interesting article.
Found via Instapundit, this article by two writers for the Economist speculates that the EU states may be warming up (just a bit, mind you) to W for three reasons:
1) Common ground on the Israel/Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104569397979664512005-01-01T02:06:00.000-06:002005-01-01T02:49:57.980-06:00Blessed are the Poor. So Let's Keep Them That Way.
John Ray maintains 497 blogs, one of which is entitled "Leftists as Elitists."
This particular blog this week features a very uplifting correspondence from a reader in Costa Rica. Honestly, this is the sort of piece that does my right-wing-libertarian heart good. Here's a generous sample:
"As I've told you, I'm in Costa Rica. And we get a lot Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104529819556832572004-12-31T15:40:00.000-06:002004-12-31T16:21:37.393-06:00Feds to Declare Marshal Law in Ohio! Marines on Their Way!
That's what a group of forlorn dopes over at Democratic Underground seems to think, anyway. This is really priceless!
The thread starts with somone posting an excerpt from an Article in the Toledo Blade. The article talks about how a Marine unit will be conducting exercises in Toledo for about three hours on January 7th. The Major of Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104522397111600272004-12-31T13:42:00.000-06:002004-12-31T13:46:37.113-06:00The John Kerry Six
That's what Tim Blair has dubbed the pathetic gaggle of a "half dozen supporters of John Kerry are holding vigil in front of his house, still hoping for a Kerry presidency."
You can find the original article here in the Official Periodical of the John Kerry Six, the Boston Globe.
Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104521196707842992004-12-31T13:14:00.000-06:002004-12-31T13:33:06.600-06:00Hey, Francis Porretto's Got a Blog!
Francis ran the former Palace of Reason, to which I used to occasionally contribute, and which I gather is no longer in existence. But now he's got a nifty blog called Eternity Road in which he offers his pronouncements as the Official Curmudgeon of the blogosphere. You can hereafter find his blog listed on blogroll on the left of the page.
Here's a Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104520319499052732004-12-31T13:09:00.000-06:002004-12-31T13:11:59.500-06:00Cheese Postscript
After this, I promise, no more cheese posts. But if you're trying to kick the cheese habit, this posting from Francis Porretto might help. Who knew?Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104481344092613902004-12-31T01:50:00.000-06:002005-01-01T03:02:25.946-06:00Warning! This Posting Concerns the Economics of Cheese!
This may sound boring to you, but I find it fascinating. I'm sure that says more about me than it does about the subject of dairy economics, but I'm going to do this anyway.
This article in today's Chicago Tribune (free registration required) discusses how Dairy Farmers artificially raise the price they get from the government for their Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104432432720702772004-12-30T13:40:00.000-06:002004-12-31T01:26:54.146-06:00Tee Hee
I think I'll do my first plug. I found this selection of "I Love Halliburton" products for sale on Cafepress.com via Kim DuToit's site.
What better way to annoy the leftist in your office than to walk around with an "I Love Halliburton" coffee mug!
I Love Halliburton Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104391130576422572004-12-30T01:31:00.000-06:002004-12-30T01:28:33.176-06:00The Insipid Object Meets the Inane Force
If you reside in the Chicago area, you are well aware of our resident Unholier-Than-Thou atheist pest Rob Sherman. If you don't, though, you probably have a clone where you live. You know the type: he scurries about the metropolitan area looking for things to be offended about. Crosses in city seals, seals wearing crosses...that sort of thing.
Well, I'm Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104358511907583972004-12-29T16:06:00.000-06:002004-12-29T16:17:19.843-06:00Ooops
Remember this report a couple of weeks ago?
"BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested in a German newspaper interview published Saturday that the Republican Party should move "a little to the left," a shift that he said would allow it to pick up new voters...."
Well, as Emily Letella used to say: "Never mind."
The reporter who did the interview now says Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104352087995326872004-12-29T14:08:00.000-06:002004-12-31T03:40:47.456-06:00Jerry Orbach Dies
Bummer. The only tv drama I've ever really followed (I think I'm the only person on Earth, for example, who has never seen a single episode of either "ER" or "NYPD Blue") has just lost its central character, Detective Lennie Briscoe.
My favorite moment in every episode was Lennie's smart-aleck comment over the body of the murder victim just before they cut away to the opening Enemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625430.post-1104350664657166932004-12-29T13:54:00.000-06:002004-12-29T16:18:12.163-06:00Dueling Sontag Obituaries
Michelle Malkin compares MSM obits of Susan Sontag with the pithier version offered up by Washington Times editor Stacy McCain.
Here are the headlines of some MSM obits:
"A Rigorous Intellectual Dressed in Glamour"
"The Intellectual Risk-Taker Died in NY"
"A Celebrity Intellectual Who Provoked, Inspired"
Here's the start of McCain's version:
"Novelist, radical SusanEnemy of The People/ Friend of The Personnoreply@blogger.com