Tuesday, December 2 (Updated)

"You can fool all of the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all of the time; and that should be enough for most purposes." - From Minims by Tom Weller. [Note: Long ago I was the editor for this wonderful book. Glad to see it has survived being out of print and is still being pointed to today by distinguished pages such as Drawn. ]

• "It is there we must go. Sooner or later, it is there we must go."

  We are going about this the wrong way. We treat symptoms rather than disease. We goafter men when we should be going after addresses. Behind every Islamic killer there is a nation. We have long known their names -- Syria, Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan. These dismal places are the factories of terror and blood. Wherever you find hordes of dead Westerners and slaughtered Jews you will find the footprints of one of these regimes. The Return of Scipio

• Getting closer: In 2007 Thomas Sowell wrote,

  When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup. - Don’t Get Weak by Thomas Sowell on National Review Online

• Jay Reading says, So Much For The Whole “Change” Thing… "Hillary Clinton gets the thankless job of Secretary of State, ensuring that she’ll never be President and keeping her well away from Washington." [And when she's in town, she can get Barack his coffee!]

• All ye know on couch and all ye need to know: Psychiatry...in One Page or Less @ Ars Psychiatrica.

• From Mumbai to Minneapolis, WHY it WILL happen here @ Northeast Intelligence Network

  Despite the evidence presented, there is an incredible disconnect from reality by otherwise rational and reasonable individuals, people in leadership, and some at higher levels in our own law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Why else would one treat with sickening malaise the existence of a bullet-ridden school bus situated on the grounds of a private Islamic commune located at the base of the Catskill Mountains in New York State?

• They burn them so you don't: Planes on Fire @ Picdit (Gallery Here)

• On Board the Navy's Lifeless Shoreline Ship @ Danger Room The Littoral Combat Ship is designed to "be whatever you want it to be."

• Surprisingly, Iggy Pop is not only stil alive, but according to Patrick Ambrose he Lusts for Life.

• Doug Ross tells you about the Six Easy Steps to President Hillary in 2012.

Posted by Vanderleun at December 1, 2008 8:53 PM