All you wrote was "Certainly the daughter," here. Nice sentence, Safire. Is this Sarah Palin's daughter?
[Add an example of "B-52" beehive hairdo, for JJ's edification. --AI]
Sunday, August 31, 2008
AI, Who's the tomato?
All you wrote was "Certainly the daughter," here. Nice sentence, Safire. Is this Sarah Palin's daughter?
[Add an example of "B-52" beehive hairdo, for JJ's edification. --AI]
Los Data Buoys
the liberal conservative Norman Mailer: "...the nihilistic maw of a national disorder..."
Read this next sentence (by Hitch) closely. It's astute: To touch on another comparison with today’s politics, Mailer noticed in Miami that Nixon had won the nomination in such a way as to also win the election: in other words, without splitting or embittering his party. These and similar reflections are of interest and value in a year when the Democratic nominee is, in one of his many protean incarnations, a Chicago South Side operator with a wife whose father was a Daley precinct captain, while the Republican candidate is a repository of something in which almost nobody in 1968 would ever have believed: America’s residual pride about its own valor in Vietnam.
Dreary Darwin? Not All the Time
Any good biographer or historian knows it's necessary to travel to the subject's historical landscape, at the very least to experience the same spatial ground. Here's a little two-pager regarding Darwin's old stomping grounds. The picture is of Darwin's study. Enjoy.
Steyn Stomps on the Frumious Palinbash
I understand AIs disagreements with the choice of Palin, but I'm with Steyn on this one. She's an intriguing figure, on many levels, and I think measurably improves the odds of not having a President Obama lording his Left Versaillean ass over us as the world disintegrates into rotten dictatorial pieces.
It is John vs. Barack. Sarah helps John more than Joe helps Barack. That is good. She has actually governed, which is good. She has proved to have the courage to back up her talk about corruption, which is very good. She has a rich life beyond politics, and that is also good. Do I have more confidence in her ability to get a firm sense of international politics and the dangers to us than I do of Joe or Barack being able to reevaluate their obtuse understanding of the same? Absolutely.
This was a good choice. It may not guarantee victory against Obama, but it helps more than any other available one.
Ah, The Twin Cities Ain't About Brotherly Love
Given the extent of hardcore leftwingism in that area [thinking of the rather large rallies ANSWER was able to conjure up there soon after 911], this is as surprising as that Sheriff Bull Connor liked his white sheets clean, his Dobermans rabid, and the "Neegrows" cowed.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
A warm bucket of spit
Finally, a mature assessment from NRO; after the first flush of excitement, reality starts to sink in. McCain is essentially telling the world that he doesn't really need a Vice President. It is hard to imagine Palin playing the same sort of role that modern Vice Presidents like Gore, Bush, Cheney, or Mondale played. Rather, the Office would seem poised to return to the "proverbial warm bucket of p***" category. McCain has thus made a purely political play without regard for the governance concerns.
Is Pepe Going to Die? (I mean from Gustav)
I was thinking we could at least start a betting pool of some sort. If he's staying in New Orleans, that is. Does anyone want to throw some numbers out there?
Dr. Phil Jackson Returns to U of North Dakota alma mater
Originally from Williston, North Dakota, Jackson attended UND before going on to coach the Chicago Bulls, and today the L.A. Lakers.
Kind of interesting. UND's basketball program could, ah, use some of Jackson's expertise.
Information is Good
That settles it, anyone who has that kind of energy and can run a State has my vote.
O'Brien says" We're Watching YOU !
You can slather the red or brown in a coat of green, and still a socialist pig is he.
Friday, August 29, 2008
So THAT'S why he chose Biden
Michelle is pretty feral-looking, imo. Best comment: As keen observer of sexual chemistry, Bill Clinton slipped Barack a cigar to employ later on in the evening.
Hail Ted!
Cute kid and a good way to take toesucker's advice and wsj's advice to run against congressional corruption. Hey, this could be getting interesting. Also, the choice is taking over all the buzz from Obama's speech last night (if there was one). LGFers happy as they are at the NRO corner. A good sign for the base. Wonkette calls her a GILF! Wonderful!
Portugal. The Man
This is the most famous thing to come out of Wasilla. That, and someone (what's her name?) McCain picked to run with him. Great. Just great.
Roumanian pastrami
Of course, the word comes from the Romanian pastramă. This is a dish usually made out of salty, cured berbec (as in BBQ), or mutton. One can also grill pastrama (on the BBQ). I'm getting hungry.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Holy mft!
Since I've been getting more and more into historic preservation in the last couple years, I've naturally been drawn to both the mundane, and in this case, the grand architecture, of Dakota. This is a pic of the courtyard of Richardton Abbey, located in Richardton, North Dakota (the western part of the state). Note: the monks ought to swap out the interlocking asphalt shingles for some kind of teracotta tiles, or at least cedar shingles. JJ, tell Rome to send funds.Just to my right is where I'd likely put the jacuzzi. We raided the wine cellar before leaving, too. The title leads you to the Benedictine Monks of Richardton Abbey link.
Use It Up, Throw It Out, Build A New One...
Here's a picture of the "old" (by American standards) Memorial Bridge that spans Bismarck-Mandan on the Missouri River, and just behind it you can see pillars for the brand spanking new Post-Post-Modern bridge. Before construction started, there was a small effort in the Historic Preservation community to refurbish and rebuild the Memorial Bridge, but it seems it's easier in America to just use it up, throw it out, and build a new one. Whatever. Check out Simon Schama's "Landscape and Memory" if you don't know why this might be problematic some day for Western Civilization. That's all.I snapped the picture a couple weeks ago.
~mft
Rove postpones recession
Gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, its fastest pace in nearly a year, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. The revised reading was much better than the government's initial estimate of a 1.9 percent pace and exceeded economists' expectations for a 2.7 percent growth rate.
Just a guy in the neighborhood
.. says Obama. Who is Ayers? .. says Pepe. In 1995 Ayers won a $49.2 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation — matched two-to-one by public and private contributions — to promote “reform” in the Chicago school system. He quickly brought in Obama, then all of 33 and bereft of any executive experience, to chair the board. With Ayers directing the project’s operational arm and Obama overseeing its financial affairs until 1999, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in public education. Hmmm... The mad bomber gives zillions in grant money to Barry to play with, and then BHO barely remembers his mentor and benefactor? Any surprise here?
Ratatouille a l'ail
Spicy field rat dishes with garlic thrown in have become particularly popular. Eat, JJ, eat!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Friedman / interesting contrast
The difference is starting to show. Just compare arriving at La Guardia’s dumpy terminal in New York City and driving through the crumbling infrastructure into Manhattan with arriving at Shanghai’s sleek airport and taking the 220-mile-per-hour magnetic levitation train, which uses electromagnetic propulsion instead of steel wheels and tracks, to get to town in a blink.
Then ask yourself: Who is living in the third world country?
Then ask yourself: Who is living in the third world country?
Rudy drops a hint
Wink, wink. How about Lieberman at State and Rudy at Justice. In the unlikely even that Mitt doesn't get the VP nod, he would be good at Treasury. Now, of course, there is that little matter of winning 270 Electoral College votes...
[Intrigue -- JJ]
[Intrigue -- JJ]
BarackBook
Obama and his friends. A facebook-like list to help Pepe find out who's who in Obamaland.
More P & T for MFT
MFT, you posted some P & T BS a while back. It was great. Here's another installment.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
How to Get Shit Done in Denver
Throw a blowout. Don't host some dinky little gathering. Make it a rager. That way, you're protected by the "widely attended" rule, which says lawmakers can attend a corporate-sponsored party as long as 25 nonlawmakers are also attending. You'd think they'd be eager to admit nonlawmakers like me. You'd be wrong.
Minnesota Cattle Country
Thanks to fertility-management techniques, lucky [State Fair] visitors to the "Miracle of Birth" exhibit can watch a mother cow expel a live newborn calf at least once daily (occasionally with the help of "snares, hooks, and calf jacks").
Mitt's stock rises for a day
Up to $70!. I think Giuliani would do better in a debate against Biden though.
Mathematics Genealogy Project: Henri Paul Cartan
While academics understandably need to compartmentalize to get anything done, it's also interesting to keep that Bigger Picture in mind. Check out the link to the Henri Paul Cartan genealogy project. Note: this link is a collaborative effort, in part with North Dakota State University (based in Fargo -- insert "You-Betcha" here).
Watch out for those steps
Especially if you had a single malt too many. Own houses tend to be more dangerous than foreign travel. [Added dangerous house. -- JJ]
A parliament of barbarians
Useful idiots: It is impossible to compare Kosovo and Osetia! Miloshevich didn't bomb sleeping people like Saakashvili! igor, Moscow
These are the Happy Jihadists the DNC Honors in Denver
So they honor Ms. Mattson, who is a spokesperson for this group, and did they really think that the MSM would cover them in the Cone of Silence on this? Did they really think they could coopt our mighty and magnificent MSM? Really......
oh, ......yeah
Damn that Martian Global Warming
Damn, we just missed 'em. Glaciers would have been cool. Damnation.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Henri Cartan, Eminence Grise,et La Mort
Both I and JJ had the same reaction on hearing this news today "Henri Cartan?Dead? WTF you talkin' about, boy? He's been dead like, forever, right?"...
Well, apparently not. So a very long life for Henri, the Third to Last of the Bourbakis.
gringas putas
really.
Or, as Fariello puts it, "I don't get anybody in my office who says, 'My husband sits on the couch all day and eats bonbons, and I want to have sex with him all the time.'"
Or, as Fariello puts it, "I don't get anybody in my office who says, 'My husband sits on the couch all day and eats bonbons, and I want to have sex with him all the time.'"
And Obama has a better organization than Dukakis (no tank rides, that's for sure)
Atwater and Ailes, why have you forsaken us?
The Human Almanac of Energy
I was speaking with a friend, engineer, and former county commissioner last week about energy. We agreed that a great step in the Liberation of Humanity will come when we (the royal humanity We) find a clean and limitless source of energy: we discussed the Big Oil, but were more interested in nuclear and wind energy. When are physicists and engineers going to get on with it, eh? (JJ, what gives?)
In the meantime, though, the Farmer's Almanac is taunting Dakota with a winter 2008-2009 prediction. And naturally, Dakota smirks.
In the meantime, though, the Farmer's Almanac is taunting Dakota with a winter 2008-2009 prediction. And naturally, Dakota smirks.
Derb channels moi
this is the most disastrously awful choice Americans have ever been offered for the post of chief executive. You don't say.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Give Peggy a Chance
But Mr. McCain provided, in 2004, one of the most exciting and certainly the most charged moment of the Republican Convention, when he looked up at Michael Moore in the press stands and said, "Our choice wasn't between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war, it was between war and a greater threat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. . . . And certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace." It blew the roof off. And the smile he gave Mr. Moore was one of pure, delighted malice. When Mr. McCain comes to play, he comes to play.
Pepe is marching!
It's Chicago '68 all over again. Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, and Ward Churchill are linking up arms with Pepe. Pinko nirvana! [Added pic. -- JJ]
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Fruit take...
Andrew Sullivan calls McCain a cranky back bencher. Is this some kind of gay code? He wants a crank in the back bench or something?
Sarko to the rescue
France brokered the ceasefire to end fighting over Georgia's Russian-backed breakaway province of South Ossetia which started on 7 August. The deal's terms are vague about the extent of any buffer zones, analysts say. A spokesman for the French foreign ministry, Eric Chevalier, said a United Nations Security Council resolution was needed to clarify exactly what the ceasefire agreement covers. Beautiful. Send back Sarko & Carla to hammer out a deal with Putin. The French are experts at this.
It's the gasbag!
What a guy!: The tape showed a testy exchange in response to a question about his law school record from a man identified only as ”Frank.” Mr. Biden looked at his questioner and said: ”I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do.” Right.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Meanwhile, back at the Ministry of Truth on Planet Pepe
Al Manar dedicates a Peace and Love Video to Neocon Nation
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Time for change
I wonder if pharmacists who don't believe in tylenol shouldn't be allowed to refuse dispensing it too.
...who wants to take this one?
According to the article (read link), the UN is banning any criticism towards Sharia law or the Quran. Does that make this picture of a re-designed trade tower illegal?
Hah! Pepe, is that you?
"As a Canadian I would feel better & safer in Europe, not presently as I sit a stones throw from the U.S.A.
Ken, Victoria, Canada"
I'd feel better if you were there, too. The farther away from North America, the better. Canada is rather useless in world affairs. Rarely participating, only criticizing. It's the biggest 'insignifcant' country in the world.
RowlandP, Virginia, USA
Ken, Victoria, Canada"
I'd feel better if you were there, too. The farther away from North America, the better. Canada is rather useless in world affairs. Rarely participating, only criticizing. It's the biggest 'insignifcant' country in the world.
RowlandP, Virginia, USA
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Mongolian Babes and Such...
Some months ago an understandable question was asked: how are the babes in Mongolia? Gentlemen, I offer another site.
Enjoy.
~mft
Enjoy.
~mft
Leryn Franco: How She's Able to Do That
These pics were necessary to post to fcp, as they demonstrate how agile Leryn Franco is, and how she's able to coax javelins right where she wants them.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Democracy a la Russe
Elect a drunk, he appoints a KGB guy that kills citizens to scapegoat Chechens, then invades some poor schmuck next door. That's how to build consensus.
The spirit of abu ghraib is catching on
ok, i'm trolling here. Just wanted to beat a? to this article.
Khosting the Taliban More Suicide Bombers
Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman, said Afghan soldiers, aided by U.S. troops, chased and surrounded a group of insurgents, and that six militants blew themselves up when cornered.
On the Limits of -- ahem -- Self Improvement: Part I (of III)
The final Part III installment has already been posted below. You might enjoy the description of Hitchens in his 59th summer.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Bhutto Dead, Musharaff Forced Out, Allah Akbar!
Islam Militant and the dhimmi dodos, from Rawalpindi to Nawlins', ululate. The Strong Horse is ready to ride.
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