October 20, 2008
Monday, October 20
Elsewhere....
- Toy Soldiers:They came, they saw, then left the Afghan war without a single mission More than 100 soldiers from the elite Kommando Spezialkrafte regiment, or KSK, are set to leave the war-torn country after their foreign minister revealed they had never left their bases on an operation
- Question of the day: How would you like to meet this heinous, creepy bitch in a dark alley?
- James Bowman notes that "whenever the charge of "hate" is raised in a political context, nine times out of ten, the person who raises it is the one doing the hating."
- Ass-talking sweeping the pinhead pundits: Morgan: "Can anyone prove to me Sarah Palin is a dimwit? Because if you can’t…and you haven’t met her personally…you people who say she is one, are pretty much talking out your asses."
- MIT Study: Internet Rife With Hypocrisy, Lies “Much to our amazement, we found that the vast majority of what people said online was in fact completely false,” said lead researcher Dr. Albert Clarke.
- Orson Scott Card asks reporters "Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?" But answer comes there none.
- Two Harvard boffins agree Nuke terror harder to do than flying airplanes into skyscrapers so don't worry.
- Infiltration in Iraq continues Iraqi forces detain seven Iranian agents in Iraq - The Long War Journal
- Small war gets ready to lift off in Somalia An Armada Masses Off the Horn of Africa
- Metaphor for Undecided Voter? Horse gets head stuck in tree
- The vanished Musings & Migraines post about Obama from January, 2005:
When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the livingroom of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were launching him--introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread. His "bright eyes and easy smile" struck me as contrived and calculated--maybe because I was supporting another candidate. Since then, I've never heard him say anything new or earthshaking, or support anything that would require the courage of his convictions.
White on white text here. You have to select text to see it. - Treacher shows you The sprawling skyscraper where Barack Obama and William Ayers worked together for years but never laid eyes on each other
- "Did you know the Annenberg Challenge was funded by a Republican and included many Republican leaders?" "Well, how about that. Did you know the planes used on 9/11 weren't built by terrorists?"
- Big Daddy Roth's furturistic hot rod is back from the dead. iowahawk: Viva El Orbitron!
- National Post: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof - Watts Up With That?
- Iran busts ‘spy pigeons’ near nuclear site "Early this month, a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings...."
- "The most sophisticated demagogue is the one who publicly expresses the wish to engage in a rational debate with the people: even the clever can be tempted to feel he is speaking personally of them, whilst the stupid are absolutely sure." - The Joy of Curmudgeonry: Fewtril no.260
- Why hasn’t Obama put McCain away? The answer to the voters' apparent hesitancy is simply that citizens still have no idea who Barack Obama is.
- Beth Snyder Bulik actually sticks to the facts in Pallin' Around With Palin in Pennsylvania - Advertising Age - Campaign Trail
- The Pilate Effect "Perhaps the worst feature of Pontius Pilate's leadership is the way he asks the crowd to tell him what he should do. He is truly a man without a personal grasp of absolute values ('Truth, what is that?') and such a leader causes his followers to begin to doubt the very existence of these values."
- Joe the Dumber Biden: "We’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
- America the Weak "Add in Sen. Joe Biden - with his track record of calling every major foreign-policy crisis wrong for 35 years - as vice president and de facto secretary of State, and we'd face a formula for strategic disaster."
- Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Rethinking Public Opinion
- "Transformational figure" to leave America poorer, markedly less free, and less powerful.
- One Cosmos: Obama and the Emperor's New Empty Suit He will not "lure" you toward the good by his intrinsic authority, but compel you "share" and "spread around" the fruits of your labor with his purely earthly power.
- Saint Augustine: "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
- Don't Forget the Undecided Voters Neither Obama nor McCain garners majority support, and 15% of voters remain undecided.
- A little-used therapeutic tool The Doctor Will Insult You Now
Posted by Vanderleun at October 20, 2008 9:58 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
And the KSK must be utterly embarrassed. The Canadians have been in more combat than a bar fight. (Go PPCLI!)
It is a different day when Germans are not permitted to fight. Germans - not allowed to fight! I mean, I never thought I would ever live to hear that!
Posted by: Mikey NTH at October 21, 2008 5:19 PM