Texas copper follies

Que pasa?

More studies needed

Any volunteers?

Japanese Photos

Now We KNOW Soccer Has Made it in America

From our friends, the Westboro Baptist Church [the same cranks who picket both gay events and soldier funerals as equally the spawn of Satan. Guess David and his morose, maimed self combines the best of both worlds for 'em]

Chinese Kung-Fu vs. Japanese Ninja

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an Internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported on Friday.

Always nice to see old flames re-ignited.

this is in London, New York, and Toronto...

Texas Anti-Mosquito

Keep up the good work. Can't stand the f#cking skeeters!

Sunday Afternoon w/ MFT; or, .308 meets 1.45 lbs of melon...

Note the .308 shell (that's the caliber most Marine Snipers use). There's the Irish Dogg holding the melon (don't worry: to be placed atop the hay bails). And the aftermath. I have a 13-second AVI video of the actual shooting of the melon, but for whatever reason blogger.com won't allow my iMac to upload the damned thing. I'll try to figure it out. Kind of neat to watch the "reactive target" blast into a million little bits. We had fun.

Is he bugging out?

Pepe's View of the Idaho Senator

Chilled Red Vino?

JJ and AI, you guys cross the pond a bit more frequently than I. Have you encountered this new trend about chilled red wine? Or is it a trend? Has it been around for a while? Sounds like it would get the table reds just a little too chilled. According to the article, chilled red wine goes good with cheeseburgers.

Trinity of War

Hitch breaks down the three sub-Wars going on within the broader WAR, and then the sub-sub-conflicts within those. And he warns of Political Opportunists who make the generalized statement, "We need to get out of this War..."

"Which War?," responds Hitchens.

Mississippi Fat: Bigger Girls Down There...

Experts say Mississippians need to skip the gravy, say no to the fried pickles and start taking brisk walks to fight an epidemic of obesity.

...and also give up that whole nostalgia for the Civil War South temperment, and while at it, jettison the lingering KKK vibe too.

Must Read

Spaghetti and Anchovies... (or, back to the basics...)

I made the below recipe this evening. It performed 1.5 out of 5 MFT stars. I used a large red and yellow onion much to the Spaniards shagrin. The dish itself was missing something, perhaps some fresh chopped tomatoes (this is the time of year for 'em!). I would also recommend putting in 3/4 TBSP of red peppers rather than 1 full tablespoon. The heat tended to dominate the anchovy taste. Grate some parmesan over it too, and don't over heat the thin-sliced garlic.

Here's a Batali "Molto Italiano" spaghetti/anchovies recipe I'm going to try (eventually), and I thought you might like to keep it on reserve. Let me know if you ever try it too. As follows:

From page 173 of Batali's, "Molto Italiano":

Spaghetti w/ Caramelized Onions, Anchovies, and Toasted Bread Crumbs:

The trick here is to buy the best anchovies you can find. The brand for me is Recca, for their dependable quality. But I have been known to use a can of sardines in a pinch, or even a tablespoon of oil-packed Italian tuna[!]. Hey, life is short!

MAKES 4 SERVINGS

1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons EXTRA-VIRGIN OLIVE OIL

2 large SPANISH ONIONS, cut lengthwise in half and then into 1/4-inch-thick half-moons

5 salt-packed ANCHOVIES, filleted and rinsed

1/2 cup MILK

4 cloves GARLIC, thinly sliced

1 tablespoon HOT RED PEPPER FLAKES

1 pound SPAGHETTI

1/2 cup roughly chopped ITALIAN PARSLEY

1 cup TOASTED BREAD CRUMBS

1.) In a 10- to 12-inch sauté pan, combine 3 tablespoons of the olive oil and the onions and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the onions are very soft and golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Set aside
2.) Meanwhile, bring 6 quarts of water to boil in a large pot, and add 2 tablespoons salt. [kind of a jump here] Soak the anchovies in the milk for 10 minutes.
3.) In another 10- to 12-inch sauté pan, heat the remaining 1/4 cup olive oil over medium-high heat until smoking. Add the garlic and red pepper flakes and cook until the red pepper flakes are lightly toasted, about 30 seconds. Drain the anchovies, toss them into the pan, and cook, stirring, until they have broken down, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the cooked onions and lower the heat to a simmer.
4.) Drop the spaghetti into the boiling water and cook until just al dente.
5.) Drain the pasta and toss into the pan with anchovy mixture. Add the parsley and stir to coat. Pour into a warmed serving bowl, sprinkle with the bread crumbs, and serve.

Sarko goes Coanda

But do the French still have fighter jets, or did they go the way of the Coanda jet?

A Great Week for Coffee!

It's been a great week for coffee drinkers: 1) "Data from 10 studies … suggest that people who drink coffee may be reducing their risk of liver cancer." 2) "Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day helped protect older women against some age-related memory decline." 3) "Drinking three or more cups of coffee a day may cut the risk of colon cancer in women by half." 4) "Exercise and moderate caffeine consumption together could help ward off sun-induced skin cancer." Unauthorized conclusions: 1) Go pour yourself another cup. 2) And don't forget the chocolate...

Haggard on the Rebound!

Ted Haggard doesn't need donations. He needs to suck it up and take out a Student Loan like the majority of undergrads do nowadays. Maybe he can get a loan from his meth-peddling gay prostitute buddies? Then again, Haggard is taking courses at the University of Phoenix ("downtown campus"), which I'm guessing is a glorified Aakers program.

Ethno-Mathematics

Thomas Gilsdorf is going to be delivering a presentation/lecture in Bismarck this coming Wednesday (3pm, CST) on Ethno-Mathematics (or Native American math systems). I'm going to go down and check it out. Wish you math guys were out here to check it out too. I know a bit about the Mayan and Aztec lunar calanders, and I imagine that this will delve into something similar. I'll report my findings. Here's a link to an excerpt from a previous presentation.

Heroes of fucking October

Academic Twit Rebuked by Caveman

Hitchens Missing an Obvious Point

Read the comments too. They manage to be stupider than Hitchens, except one that I copy into the comments.

Steyn on Rah-rah-rah, pffft!

Fargo Homage to AA...

Deep down, I know AA has a soft-spot for these next seven exits. South-bound, just north of Fargo on the I-29...

Hope for JJ and Pepe...

While doing research at a county courthouse in Dakota last week, I discovered this signage posted in the men's bathroom. The courthouse itself was constructed during the Great Depression, and perhaps the sign was posted to let returned WWII veterans know that there is a cure for those French diseases...

Note: even the health department spelled "Bismark" wrong. The name comes from the Prussian Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck.

JJ on steroids

Mendez to the rescue

So how would a Versaillist interpret this story? Rah-rah-rah, pffftt! would be JJ's guess, yes?

Jay on the hood

Pounding the pavement

Polish style.

Krauthammer on Reason

This guy is great.

It's all in the nose

To the scientists' surprise, the mutant female mice behaved like men at a Seventies disco night. They sniffed and ran after females, flounced their pelvises, mounted and thrust at male mice, issuing ultrasonic squeaks of the kind that males emit to show lurv [sic].

Are they chanelling John Travolta, or Elvis?

Monkey business

The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts.

Darwin was right!!!

Not from Planet Pepe

I mean, ikf this is not totally outside the Versaillist view of the world, I don't know what is.

Rum, sodomy and the lash

Planet Pepe redefines sodomy, and changes "and" to "implies".

Versailles to the rescue?

Kouchner: I believe this is the moment. Everyone knows the Americans will not be able to get this country out of difficulty alone. I really believe that depending on what happens here it will change the world. This is about having an opinion and knowing what positive things one can do and what role France can play in this region.

Hmmmmmm.....

Seattle ferry haiku

How about a little contest on who can write one?

I'm Back

Hope you guys had a good summer. Will get started for real soon. Best.
[This asks for a Popeye cartoon -- AI]

Designer burkha

Versailles style. Just what Pepe dreams of: I am imagining like Romy Schneider or Catherine Deneuve wearing some turban looks in their movies.

Hurricane Dean's Campaign Reaches Mexico...

Found a little bit of internet so I'll take advantage while I can.

When the Weather Channel speaks of Hurricane Dean, I think of Howard Dean campaigning and frightening throughout the Carribean and Gulf. The similarities -- be it a 185mph wind, or a 210mph Howard Dean Hollar-Scream -- are uncanny! I'll bet we can get a YouTube of both.

Camel pass

Very Darwinian.

JJ on ice

Chasing mountain goats, yes?

Edison hard at work

Hi, guys - I'm baaack!

Kaplan's anti-Rudy essay...

I didn't get a chance to read it entirely. It was hard to read even three or four paragraphs as Kaplan lacked any sort ability to sort out Strengths and Weaknesses of Rudy's article. It seemed Kaplan has deeper personal issues with Rudy himself than with Rudy's theories regarding foreign policy. ...or maybe it's just me. [Is this a pic of MFT in Star Wars attire? -- AI]

Starbucks, the matrix of coffee

I refuse to tip at Starbucks as -- according to this article -- I typically order the most boring drink of all time (symbolic of my personality): coffee. I'm not tipping some over-caffeinated idiot who pulls a lever, and then hands me the cup of coffee. I'd think about it if they came to my table to take my order. Otherwise, they can right piss off.

And oh: good article.

les mauvais terrers a' traverser; aka, Bad Lands...

If you wanna brushen up on your North American geology, and how it has influenced Man and the Natural world.

A Paleontology excerpt regarding western Dakota's palm trees and sandy beaches (though watch out for dromaeosars!):

The Hell Creek beds contain dinosaur remains that have been extensively collected. The Hell Creek Formation, exposed in the southern portion of the Little Missouri badlands, was deposited at the end of the Cretaceous and contains remains of the last species of dinosaurs that existed on Earth. North Dakota Geological Survey geologists studying the Hell Creek have identified fossils of 14 species of dinosaurs, including Triceratops, duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs), Tyrannosaurus rex, pachycephalosaurs, the small raptor-like predators called dromaeosaurs and several others. Triceratops seems to be the most common of the dinosaurs in North Dakota. Fish, turtles, crocodiles, alligators, champsosaurs, lizards, amphibians, birds, and small mammals are other vertebrates represented by fossils associated with the dinosaur remains. Freshwater snails, mussels, pill clams and insects are also found in the Hell Creek Formation. Many species of exotic plants represented by leaf fossils, seeds, and pollen are found, including broad-leafed trees, cycads, palm trees, and ground ferns. These plants and animals inhabited a vast subtropical, coastal plain delta that covered western North Dakota during latest Cretaceous time.

Tora Bora

While this new offensive is the right idea (still need to be dropping more MOABs, though), it seems it might be that much more effective if the Pakistani military provided an anvil (or at least an anvil lite) by launching their own offensive.

In any case, I wish the American Citizen-Soldier well out there.

AA...

...before things swing into full-tilt once again, check your hotmail or university e-mail account when time allows. I've sent you an update.

~mft

Lord of the Flies, II

Western Civilization has been obsessed with constructing a "paradise" out of seemingly idyllic wilderness (or just wilderness) ever since Defoe got back to the mainland and published Robinson Crusoe. Here's an interesting 21st Century spin on it all.

al Qaida is not in Mesopotamia...

...or they just do quick visit bombings and then leave right away. This article provides a bit more context to that latest piece by Hitchens, about al Qaida in Mesopotamia.

...a nervous Dublin?

The Hibernians seem to have forgotten how the Danes acted the last time they landed and said "we're just on a voyage of discovery..."

Church bells rang out and a flotilla of sailing boats greeted the ship's entry into Dublin's port on Tuesday.

And another reason those Vikings kept coming back: Sorensen said he was already counting down the days to setting sail again. "It is like a narcotic -- you can't live without it," he said.

The late Dr. Andrew Spielman...

Well, he was one of those who made significant contributions to Western Civilization, the World, and Humanity. I get a little bored with the Nature First incantations from the Environmental Saviors of our Ivy League. My eyes widened with a bit of joy when I read this excerpt:

In several interviews with HPH NOW, he seemed captivated with disease transmission, particularly in relation to mosquitoes-which thrive in all corners of the world, and yet, as Spielman pointed out, contribute nothing to ecology and fell humans in the millions with the pathogens they carry.




Yet I wonder how then Dean Barry Bloom could say, in the same article, that Spielman "had a singularly holistic view of the balance between man an mosquitoes and between the biology and ecology of both." Maybe I shouldn't wonder so much, though.

Skanda Kopa Gone Loca

This has to be to be the most laughably stupid cop caper I've ever heard of......and if it was a pick up trick gone awry, then it is even more laughable.

When "Nothing to Fear but Fear itself " doesn't quite capture it.

At least if he had Bikini Babes at his carwash he might have died a happy man

RIYADH (AFP) - A Bangladeshi man died of fright after being arrested by Saudi Arabia’s controversial religious police for washing a car instead of praying, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.

The unnamed man died last week in the holy city of Medina after being detained by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Al-Jazirah reported.

The Arabic daily said the man “convulsed in fear after he was arrested, leading to a drop in his blood pressure and causing his death.”

The man was arrested by members of the commission, commonly known as the Muttawa, for washing a car during a time of day when he should have been at prayer, the paper said.

Important Parisian Contribution to Western Civ. #004

Okay, okay: plenty of French bashing going on with FCP (understandable, yes). Unless we're ready to match Bill O'Reilly, prude-to-prude, then we have to acknowledge the genius of getting babes to wear thongs and bras as swimwear!

When the bikini first arrived, its revealing cut scandalized even the French fashion models who were supposed to wear it; they refused, and the original designer had to enlist a stripper instead.

Nice!

A Sober Hitch is a Lucid Mind

08/13/07: the Ides of August are upon us...

Roman Calendar refresher taken from my in-box this morning, from "Wordsmith" (wsmith@wordsmith.org):

"Beware the Ides of March," the soothsayer warned Julius Caesar. Caesar didn't heed the warning and we all know his fate. At least that is what history tells us. I've a feeling Caesar did mind the date but he simply got lost in the hopelessly complex Roman calendar and confused the D-day. Ides are only one of the ingredients of the Roman calendar. The other two are calends (or kalends) and nones. The calends are straightforward -- they always fall on the first of every month. Nones on the fifth or the seventh, and ides on the thirteenth or the fifteenth. All dates are counted backwards from the nearest nones, calends, or ides.

Here's a little rhyme to help you remember the dates:

March, July, October, and May
The nones are on the seventh day.
And ides fall eight days after the Nones.

The word calendar derives from Latin calendarium (account book) since it was used to keep track of the date when debts were due.

ides (eyedz) noun: The 15th day of March, May, July, or October, and the 13th day of the other months in the ancient Roman calendar.

[From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin idus.]

Note: I'm guessing the Ides were made popular by our English friend, William Shakespeare, rather than being made popular by any history book. And then by the public school system that had us commit "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears..." in the 10th grade. At least in my neck of the woods.

Post Mortem on the Lord of PP, and Perplexity Before the Abyss

From another letter to Steyn


I’VE GIVEN UP ARGUING
I thought your comment about the reaction to yet another 9/11 was dead-on. I've often thought that the first reaction to another attack would be some variation of "It's Bush's fault." Even if it's after he leaves office, it will be, "Well if we never had Bush, this would never have happened."

I wonder though, if you would expand on your closing comment, that being the comment that the divide in the country is real. I thought that was equally accurate yet even more ominous. I used to welcome a chance to argue. Now even I have tired of it - that the Left is so hardened to their positions that there is no room for discussion. They almost immediately escalate any argument to a shouting match or a tu quoque gotcha fight. In truth, I don't think even the Left knows what they want. Take a look at most of the 200 + comments on any Kos post and you can discern 50 or
more separate positions that even they can't agree on. (It's going to be interesting to watch them eat their own by the way, as they "cleanse" the party in Kos' words)

Where do you think we go from here with such a divide? The inability of a people to unite in the face of an external threat is a death sentence...... I'd like to believe my kids will grow up in a better country than what we have right now.

John Macnamara

911 + Week, a Retrospective Glimpse

A letter to M.Steyn's website. One of the most vivid memories from a visit to Manhattan shortly after 911, with a certain Irish Dogg and the mordantly witted MFT, was of a march by some 3,000 [or so was the claim] card carrying members of Planet Pepe [this particular chapter being that of ANSWER, whom you may remember did such fine cover for Saddam for a good year +]. No, it has gotten no better since. The Lords of PP still are firmly committed to Bush=Hitler, while the Bush administration is stuck in a bizarre limbo where Churchill's rhetoric is married to Chamberlain's political sensibility. No, it has gotten worse.

STUNNED BY THE ANTI-AMERICANISM
I was in London six weeks after 9/11 and saw my first anti-American (anti-pre-Afghanistan-war, anti-capitalism, whatever) rally. It was stunning for me, as an American, to see. Fortunately there were sane Brits there to calm me down. I was simply stunned, and headed for the nearest pub just to keep from getting arrested. First time I saw a Bush=Hitler sign too. I'll never forget it. It was then, looking back, that the full force of the idea that roughly half of the west is simply unprepared to deal with radical Islamism, and would just as soon blame America or whatever the current boogey man is, hit me. And it's not got any better since.

Brent Smith

The Dog Days Have Brilliant Nights

When the Going Gets Tough On Planet Pepe.....

the "tough" get running, and running, and running....

NYC Blows (at least last week)

A tornado brought wind and wrath to New York City last week. I know a couple touched down in the Dakotas during this summer. But for one to hit NYC is another story. Did you catch any of it, AI? Did the same storm system get over to your neck of the woods? Any pics?

Here's a slate.com write-up on it all.

Conditioning the Lungs in Arvin, CA

Urban Dictionary...

...I think this might belong in the sidebar to the right. AI, would you be so kind to do the honors? Check it out for yourself first, though. It reads a bit like a contemporary variation on the Devil's Dictionary.

Pining for 9/11

In the vain hope that that could jolt the Pepes of this world. Not gonna happen.

Send in Major Kong

What to do with those marauding Bears? Let's hear something creative, boys.

Pepe's Alma Mater Weighs in on Utah Collapse...

A team of geologists from UC-Berkeley said the seismological data from the mine collapse does not match what they would expect to see in a natural earthquake.

MFT wonders aloud: what's an "un-natural" earthquake look like, NPR? Berkeley geologists continue:

"What we found is that this seismic event was is in fact very different from what we typically see in earthquakes and it seems to suggest that there was a closure of an underground cavity," said Doug Dreger, the chief author of the study from Berkeley Seismological Laboratory.

You know Doug, Pepe?

Bob Murray, the owner of this mine, sounds like a real God Fearing man, at least to a Sinner such as myself.

Dakota Badlands Bull...

That's the brim of my hat in the lower-right corner of this photo. The herd of cows are just behind the crewmember that shot this photo. The bull was mainly curious. Still, someone always kept an eye on it.

Another fellah stopped to talk with us. He said he just about stepped on a rattle snake about 300 meters east of this location in an ephemeral creek. Not but an hour or two prior, a storm system released about an inch of rain. This soaked the rattle on the rattlesnake. It wouldn't have been able to alert us, even if it wanted to. We opted not to perform our pedestrian survey in that particular area. No photos of the snake.

The Military Industrial Complex...

...as reported by the Journalistic Industrial Complex. There are a couple gadgets that appear, at the outset, to warrant our curiosity. I'm interested in this netting that can "catch" RPGs. Check it out.

Homo Erectus Makes Darwin Go Limp

Stochastism lives!

The old theory is that the first and oldest species in our family tree, Homo habilis, evolved into Homo erectus, which then became human, Homo sapiens. But Leakey's find suggests those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya for at least half a million years... Overall what it paints for human evolution is a "chaotic kind of looking evolutionary tree rather than this heroic march that you see with the cartoons of an early ancestor evolving into some intermediate and eventually unto us," Spoor said in a phone interview from a field office of the Koobi Fora Research Project in northern Kenya.


Yet even in chaos, there is still order...

Very Strange Case Gets Stranger

Snake contra Rabbit

So Much For Red Sky At Night

Ibrahim Sanchez Cometh & Profiteth

No Quarter Given

Would it have been safer to say "Oh Sister, can you spare a dime"?

mft calls "bullshit" on pepe

Click on link to see origin of this argument. Below is the excerpt. Additions welcomed:

Pepe le Pew said...
...Americans are in no position to give lessons regarding beer.

My Frontier Thesis said...
That Americans don't make good or great beer nowadays, Pepe, is evidence of — once again — your Ameriphobia.

Alright, fellahs: time to draft a list of the fine micro-drafts that have been filtered from sea to boozing sea, across the fruited plains. Just for Pepe. Just this once.

Here's a couple you need to try Pepe:

1.) Boulevard Wheat (out of Kansas City, Missouri)
2.) Mirror Pond (out of Oregon)
3.) Summit Maibock (St. Paul, Minnesota)
4.) Moose Drool (Big Sky Brewery, out of Bozeman, Montana)
5.) Lienenkugles, Red Lager (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin)

Okay. There are four, off the top of my brain, Pepe. Try those and then come back. Your French Nationalism might influence your taste buds, though. But to be honest, microbrewing has increasingly gained speed since the 1980s (perhaps even earlier) in Yankee-land. Be as honest as a xenophob can. I'll look for your French recommend asap.

~mft

"Inherit the Wind"

I'm going to sit down for the second half of "Inherit the Wind" this evening (staring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly). Good stuff, a story about the Scopes Monkey Trial, about the evolution of monkeys, and whether or not it could be taught in a Tennessee school to "simple folk." In the movie, a reporter dubes as the American Voltaire, H.L. Mencken.

If time and ambition allows, I'll draft a review for The Peasant Eye, and maybe draw some comparisons and contrasts with the contemporary shenanigans in Kansas. Why don't you fellahs try to catch it again (or for the first time). Maybe we can get a bit of dialog going on the Peasant Eye, too...

Battle at Kruger, South Africa...

In short, the water buffalo walk right into a lion pride ambush. The pride strikes, and begins to take down a calf. While the pride administers the suffocation choke-hold at the water's edge, a crocodile surfaces and grabs the young buffalo. A tug-of-war ensues between the arguable kings of the jungle, and croc. The pride pulls the calf from the croc, but alas, the buffalo herd by this time has regrouped to mount their counter-attack. If this wasn't enough, after the lion strangle and the croc mauling, and once the bison herd begins to chase off the pride, the calf stands up, and returns to the herd.

Fascinating...

Oops, What's This? The French Elvis Taxes a Hallyday?

Shooting down Pepeanisms is as close as life offers to the proverbial fish in a barrel

Oops, What's This? Frenchmen Honoring their Cherie Jerry?

"Inconceivable!" spouts The Versaillian

A Footie Coup for Planet Pepe?

Ah, Khaybar United FC, instead of a smarmy entrance of players in hand with young kids Le Pew can now see a proper reenactment of the slaughter of the Neocons and shiver orgasmically at the lamentation of their women.

Frenchmen win the girls

Men with square jaws, larger noses and smaller eyes were classed as significantly more dominant, less faithful, worse parents and as having less warm personalities. Those with finer facial features, fuller lips, wide eyes and thinner, more curved eyebrows on the other hand were viewed as a better bet for long-term relationships.

Ah, well...

Camille Paglia channels moi?

But things will be vastly different: no more happy facade of pacification and reconstruction; no more corrupt protectionism of commercial contractors; no more costly police or military training of volatile, faithless local recruits; no more intrusive neighborhood patrols with our soldiers blown to smithereens by cheap booby traps. It will be real war, heavily applied by air force, with maximum damage inflicted at minimal cost to our troops.

My only quibble: why wait to send in the flyboys?

Sarko tastes

Mr Sarkozy has been his usual garrulous self as he has made appearances around the town named after James Wolfe, the British general who routed the French in Quebec in the 18th century. The French President told inquirers that the only American on his iPod jogging playlist is Elvis Presley. The rest are French evergreens such as Johnny Hallyday.

On a different curve

The Intellectual and Moral Idiocy that is Multiculturalism

gets its gal...... If you resurrected Jonathan Swift and asked him to satirize this effluvium out of Planet Pepe, all he could do is shrug his shoulders and thank his lucky stars that he belonged to an era when satire could actually surpass reality.

Caliph-ornia; or, SHARIA BAKING 101

This past Saturday (08/04/07), CNN ran a little blurb regarding this story in Oakland. Chauncey Bailey, an editor of the Oakland Post, was murdered last Thursday, during the day, by an Islamic group. CNN referred to the thugs as an "Islamic splinter group," whatever that means.

Here's one reason mft hates cops (although admittedly yes, there are decent ones out there, trying to make a positive difference). Hitchens remarks on trying to have a conversation with California Coppers:

I called Bob Valladon, the extremely rude and graceless head of the Oakland police union, but I didn't even get to put my question before receiving a large flea in my ear. Other California law-enforcement officials were adamant in refusing to be quoted in any way. I can't say I blame them: Thousands of their voters and citizens are living in Third World conditions of fear, with a "no-snitch" policy openly enforced at gunpoint, and they cannot be troubled to do anything about it.

When is the Governator going to step in? And why hasn't he already?

Kitty Kondemnation for Kops...

No speak English here

Try telling a minority business owner to leave so you can bring in a quality tenant to serve the need of the English-speaking population.
Yeah, try and do that.

useful info

on how to get out of a sinking car.

A Worthless Bond

Free Persuasion in Planet Pepe's Agora

Bah, those Greeks with their puerile Agoras and Academies and Lyceums. You want to know how to convert people to your side? Follow the stench of Le Pewism.

It's diaper-filling time in a*land

Dancing to Die For

Brave little hoofers

Zingers

Rudy: "In four debates, not a single Democrat said the word, 'Islamic terrorists'."

Romney: "I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week."

Hey, this guys are getting better than us when we pick on Pepe! We gotta get more creative to stay ahead of the curve.

Nice heist

An insider job?

Snakebitten by the Killer Keystone Kops

Is there such a thing as malpractice against coppers?

Recalling a Proud Day for Planet Pepe

Ah, we should thank Le Pews favorite currently alive murderous Red thug for such precious memories

And Cauldron Bubble

And so it went on Planet Pepe, on a fine saturday in the year 2007

Witches Brew

And Trouble

Toil

Bubble, Bubble

Pulping the books

Auto de fe, the Planet Pepe way.

Melting the pot

"People living in ethnically diverse settings appear to 'hunker down' -- that is, to pull in like a turtle." Naahhh, Pepe is happy as a clam.

time to eat dick

What better way to secure a contract than over a steaming penis fondue.

rummy drops to a new low

This Wood Doc Ain't Got a Woody for Teddy

Well, if both MFT and I are going to express our admiration for Teddy, I suppose we've got to expect a bit of FreeCounterPoint.

"We Used To Be A Serious Country"

Now it's the Wizard of Oz, to the Left and to the Right. [And who can better illustrate the concept than Sean Penn sucking up to Hugo? -- AI]

Arclight Into Night

A Thing of Beauty