Friday, July 13, 2007
With Google you can Tend to It Like Beckham
although personally I'd rather you take your money and Wend It to Me Like Beckham
Uh Oh, God, Now You've Gone Too Far
So, how soon before Morgan gets fatwaed? Or issues a statement "apologizing for any unintended insult or misunderstanding?"
Perhaps Pepe will deign to allow Morgan into Versailles for some heart to heart Vichyisms, and small lessons on the court etiquette of dhimmitude
Perhaps Pepe will deign to allow Morgan into Versailles for some heart to heart Vichyisms, and small lessons on the court etiquette of dhimmitude
Nobel Dreams of Blood
Why not? In the last 15 years or so you have a much higher chance of finding a murderer when you scratch a Nobel Peace Prize Winner than you do finding a murderer in a random sample of 20 taken from Angola [the one near Now Not So Big Sleazy ]
Spanish Futbol is a Sick Puppy
With fanaticos like these no wonder Beckham fled for the azure vistas of serene Bellaire
How often does the dream scenario play out?
All the time in Louisiana. Thank you David for contributing to expose the hypocrisy of the bible-thumpers, social conservatives and other finger-waggers who should really abandon their strange obsession with everyone else's bedrooms.
For those of you who aren't familiar with David, no one in Congress epitomizes the goody-two-shoes sunday-church family-value ideology more forcefully. This is a truly seminal (pun intended) moment as you really couldn't fry a bigger fish than that, outside of the executive, that is.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Automatic wiping
Americans typically use twice as much toilet paper as Europeans — as much as an arm's length each pull
Hmmm... We need a study to figure out why.
There's also an option for a "rescue roll" on one side of the machine just in case the old-fashioned way is preferred.
That's a relief!
Hmmm... We need a study to figure out why.
There's also an option for a "rescue roll" on one side of the machine just in case the old-fashioned way is preferred.
That's a relief!
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Omar and Maude
The advising Imam behind the desk said "the very thought of your young and her aged flesh commingled makes me want to...to....vomit" ?
Everything seems fine about him except for that one nasty little five letter word..."pious"
Everything seems fine about him except for that one nasty little five letter word..."pious"
Monday, July 09, 2007
The Miserable House of Bush
crud......I really really really wish McCain had taken up Kerry on his offer in 2004. I wouldn't trust this administration to have the leadership to do the right thing if they were given as many chances as Methuselah had years
Sickos in Paradise
Here Planet Pepe strikes into that bouncy tune "Dr. Mengele's body lies moulderin' in the Grave, but his Soul goes Marching On! "
"Doctors & Jihad: "Terror Is Healing" [Andy McCarthy]
Two very interesting takes on this subject of understandable interest on the Corner in recent days. Dr. Andy Bostom at FPM and Stephen Schwartz at the UK's Spectator analyze the long and curious relationship between medicine and jihadist thought. I confess to being embarrassed not to have known that Osama bin Laden's mentor, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, was a medical doctor. I knew that, like his friend and my former notorious defendant, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, Azzam had earned a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo in the early 70's. I did not realize he was also a physician.
Interestingly, Azzam was murdered in 1989, and there has been strong speculation — most recently in Larry Wright's heralded book, the Looming Tower — that Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 was complicit. As has been noted here, Zawahiri is also a physician."
"Doctors & Jihad: "Terror Is Healing" [Andy McCarthy]
Two very interesting takes on this subject of understandable interest on the Corner in recent days. Dr. Andy Bostom at FPM and Stephen Schwartz at the UK's Spectator analyze the long and curious relationship between medicine and jihadist thought. I confess to being embarrassed not to have known that Osama bin Laden's mentor, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, was a medical doctor. I knew that, like his friend and my former notorious defendant, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, Azzam had earned a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo in the early 70's. I did not realize he was also a physician.
Interestingly, Azzam was murdered in 1989, and there has been strong speculation — most recently in Larry Wright's heralded book, the Looming Tower — that Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 was complicit. As has been noted here, Zawahiri is also a physician."
Pepe's Fleurs Du Mal Blossom Brightly
More on the similar:
"So Yon reports a revolting modern-day Thysestean feast:
The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11-years-old. As LT David Wallach interpreted the man's words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, "What did he say?" Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family.
What is striking about all this savagery—whether with the filmed beheadings of Westerners in Iraq to the recent flaming Johnny Storm human torch at Glasgow, screaming epithets as he sought to engulf bystanders and ignite his canisters — is the absolute silence of the West, either distracted by Paris and i-Phones or suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome and obsessed with Guantanamo.
It is hard to recall an enemy so savage and yet one so largely ignored by rich affluent and distracted elites as the radical jihadists, as we have to evoke everything from mythology to comic books to find analogies to their extra-human viciousness.
For a self-congratulatory culture issuing moral lectures on everything from global warming to the dangers of smoking, the silence of the West toward the primordial horror from Gaza to Anbar is, well, horrific in its own way. "
"So Yon reports a revolting modern-day Thysestean feast:
The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11-years-old. As LT David Wallach interpreted the man's words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, "What did he say?" Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family.
What is striking about all this savagery—whether with the filmed beheadings of Westerners in Iraq to the recent flaming Johnny Storm human torch at Glasgow, screaming epithets as he sought to engulf bystanders and ignite his canisters — is the absolute silence of the West, either distracted by Paris and i-Phones or suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome and obsessed with Guantanamo.
It is hard to recall an enemy so savage and yet one so largely ignored by rich affluent and distracted elites as the radical jihadists, as we have to evoke everything from mythology to comic books to find analogies to their extra-human viciousness.
For a self-congratulatory culture issuing moral lectures on everything from global warming to the dangers of smoking, the silence of the West toward the primordial horror from Gaza to Anbar is, well, horrific in its own way. "
Ledeen Fails to Get it Quite Correct
From Planet Pepe one can hear the hubbub of joy and praise at the brave acts of "Freedom Fighters". Silence, in comparison, would be sweeter.
"Further Crackdowns in Tehran [Michael Ledeen]
Our Iranian negotiating partners have struck against student organizations—official ones, duly approved by the regime, not underground revolutionary cells—on two university campuses and a park in Tehran. Further details will emerge within a couple of hours. I am told that no less than fourteen student leaders have been carted off to the torture chambers.
As Victor says so eloquently today, the silence of the Western world about the nature of our enemies is truly horrifying."
"Further Crackdowns in Tehran [Michael Ledeen]
Our Iranian negotiating partners have struck against student organizations—official ones, duly approved by the regime, not underground revolutionary cells—on two university campuses and a park in Tehran. Further details will emerge within a couple of hours. I am told that no less than fourteen student leaders have been carted off to the torture chambers.
As Victor says so eloquently today, the silence of the Western world about the nature of our enemies is truly horrifying."
Profiling the Binnie Boyz
It's not what Pepe would have guessed. Then again, does Pepe ever get it right, what with those pinko RayBans he wears all the time?
Sunday, July 08, 2007
A Frenchie Ward Churchill
But Ward is just a random prof out there, this is a goverment official peddling the Pepean ""9/11 was all a Mossad-Bush-Cheney-Halliburton plot" line. Aahhh, the unbearable lightness of Versaillist "thought"...
Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, circa 1860s...
I took these pics of Fort Rice this evening (July 7th, 2007). General Sibley used Ft. Rice as a place to resupply during his Indian War campaigns on the upper Missouri. To contextualize it in the national sense, the Civil War was still raging in the east. The footings you see in the photos were re-constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the make-work projects of the Great Depression. These photos were snapped in the evening. The link above will take you to the first newspaper printed in Dakota Territory at Fort Rice, 1865. Plenty of Irish and German immigrants in that particular army, at least back then. Interesting stuff all around. Enjoy.
July 4th, 2007: post-DON'T TREAD ON ME aftermath...
mft's band played a private July 4th party on the upper Plains, just north of Bismarck, right in the Cottonwoods along the Missouri River (note the Missouri to the right of the frame). Fun was had by all. Thank you Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Eating lead
Makes one feed lead to others? Switching to unleaded gas is what made it work for Rudy? Hmmm... We need more studies.
Young Paris, turbo charged
I say, 6 months with a road gang, breaking stones with a hammer. That should cool her off.
Friday, July 06, 2007
Garbage Barge of History Redux...
Note: I linked to this Hitchens piece through the Hitchens web-site. It suggests that Hitchens wrote this, but without a by-line, it's not 100% certain (there's mention at the end).
Also, this author claims to some extent still be a Marxist, but Hitchens has abandoned that Utopian Ideal (unless the once a Marxist, always a Marxist maxim holds, regardless of change in worldview).
In any case, it's a commentary on some recently published letters of that 19th-century Positivist, garbage historian (he was a Philosopher-Journalist, afterall), Karl Marx.
Also, this author claims to some extent still be a Marxist, but Hitchens has abandoned that Utopian Ideal (unless the once a Marxist, always a Marxist maxim holds, regardless of change in worldview).
In any case, it's a commentary on some recently published letters of that 19th-century Positivist, garbage historian (he was a Philosopher-Journalist, afterall), Karl Marx.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Smothering with love
Police say they have arrested the baby's grandfather, 52-year-old Abdul Rahman, after he confessed to trying to kill the newborn by burying her alive.
Par for the course -- just the thing to do in Pepeland.
Par for the course -- just the thing to do in Pepeland.
Zebrula...
It kind of looks like the zoo trainer washed the upper half of the horse with too course of a sponge.
Joys of socialized medicine
Hey, there is a silver lining in having Big Brother run health care, in true pinko fashion: nothing works, not even syringes. Hallelujah!
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Dino bone soup
Coming to the local Chinese restaurant? Thanks but no thanks, I'll stay with the Wonton.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
your opine, fellahs:
At lunch today my girlfriend noticed two ladies walk into the diner, and one was dressed in casual clothes, and sporting two holstered pistols, one under each arm.
I called down to Bismarck's Finest after lunch, and asked the lady on the other end (we'll call her Officer Secretary) of the phone if she could clear a gun-lady scenario up. I offered the best description I could based on the limited amount of glancing I did (she had two guns, after all -- don't need to stare too hard).
Officer Secretary wondered if it might be a probation officer, because they sometimes carry. I said, "Do probation officers pack double heat?" She didn't know. She then said, "Did you ask the lady to show you her badge?" I said, "No, she had two guns..." Officer Secretary said, "Good point."
The paradox was profound: if someone has a number of holstered guns, and dons something that looks like a badge, does the public have a right to demand their credentials? Even more disturbing, does the public have a right to eat in a diner where pistols in horizontal holsters aren't pointing at everyone's head?
I then told Officer Secretary that with all the Dog Bounty Hunter shows on television today, one tends to wonder if this wasn't some variation on the theme. She said to call down to the Bismarck PD if anything of this sort was ever encountered again. "We'll send an officer up right away." ...and then I wondered: is it better to just leave someone with holstered weapons alone rather than bring a uniformed officer into the mix, especially in a crowded public dining room?
Strange lunch...
I called down to Bismarck's Finest after lunch, and asked the lady on the other end (we'll call her Officer Secretary) of the phone if she could clear a gun-lady scenario up. I offered the best description I could based on the limited amount of glancing I did (she had two guns, after all -- don't need to stare too hard).
Officer Secretary wondered if it might be a probation officer, because they sometimes carry. I said, "Do probation officers pack double heat?" She didn't know. She then said, "Did you ask the lady to show you her badge?" I said, "No, she had two guns..." Officer Secretary said, "Good point."
The paradox was profound: if someone has a number of holstered guns, and dons something that looks like a badge, does the public have a right to demand their credentials? Even more disturbing, does the public have a right to eat in a diner where pistols in horizontal holsters aren't pointing at everyone's head?
I then told Officer Secretary that with all the Dog Bounty Hunter shows on television today, one tends to wonder if this wasn't some variation on the theme. She said to call down to the Bismarck PD if anything of this sort was ever encountered again. "We'll send an officer up right away." ...and then I wondered: is it better to just leave someone with holstered weapons alone rather than bring a uniformed officer into the mix, especially in a crowded public dining room?
Strange lunch...
Slate.com drops the double-hammer on the London bombs
Two links to read (except for you, Pepe: don't read this stuff).
1.) Between London and Baghdad: Vigilant Traffic Wardens, Trusted Police Officers, and Women Who Complain," by Russian Historian and Journalist, Anne Applebaum. According to Applebaum, the Stiff Upper Lip and British Bulldog are alive and well.
2.) ...and, The Brit-turned-Yankee himself, Christopher Hitchens. Hitch is calling out the attempted London bombings as an attack directed at the ladies.
Hitch also psychoanalyzes Planet Pepe, and Pepe's support for the feudal system of Islamocracy: "Liberal reluctance to confront this sheer horror is the result, I think, of a deep reticence about some furtive concept of "race." It is subconsciously assumed that a critique of political Islam is an attack on people with brown skins."
1.) Between London and Baghdad: Vigilant Traffic Wardens, Trusted Police Officers, and Women Who Complain," by Russian Historian and Journalist, Anne Applebaum. According to Applebaum, the Stiff Upper Lip and British Bulldog are alive and well.
2.) ...and, The Brit-turned-Yankee himself, Christopher Hitchens. Hitch is calling out the attempted London bombings as an attack directed at the ladies.
Hitch also psychoanalyzes Planet Pepe, and Pepe's support for the feudal system of Islamocracy: "Liberal reluctance to confront this sheer horror is the result, I think, of a deep reticence about some furtive concept of "race." It is subconsciously assumed that a critique of political Islam is an attack on people with brown skins."
Monday, July 02, 2007
Hapsburg Heir: Bran Castle For Sale
Another 14th century attempt at checking the Jihad advance. Now a bastion of Vampire mythology (sans peacock).
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Red Ken explains things
He noted that terrorist acts had been carried out in London over the years by various groups including for example far-right groups.
Ah, yes. That's the real danger.
Ah, yes. That's the real danger.
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