Gibbon and Football

But the superior merit of Agricola soon occasioned his
removal from the government of Britain; and forever disappointed
this rational, though extensive scheme of conquest. Before his
departure, the prudent general had provided for security as well
as for dominion. He had observed, that the island is almost
divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they
are now called, the Friths [sic] of Scotland. Across the narrow
interval of about forty miles, he had drawn a line of military
stations, which was afterwards fortified, in the reign of
Antoninus Pius, by a turf rampart, erected on foundations of
stone. This wall of Antoninus, at a small distance beyond the
modern cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, was fixed as the limit of
the Roman province. The native Caledonians preserved, in the
northern extremity of the island, their wild independence, for
which they were not less indebted to their poverty than to their
valor. Their incursions were frequently repelled and chastised;
but their country was never subdued. The masters of the
fairest and most wealthy climates of the globe turned with
contempt from gloomy hills, assailed by the winter tempest, from
lakes concealed in a blue mist, and from cold and lonely heaths,
over which the deer of the forest were chased by a troop of naked
barbarians.

It's all here.

Israel doing our work for us again?

Reminds me of the Blues Brothers quote by the "Illinois Nazis," but backwards, of course.

If they'd been collecting lip-balm for cocksuckers...

Wonderful Ads

ACLU! Where are you when the World needs you?

Dakota War on Deer...

Yup, deer hunting season opened about 8 days ago. I was out in the countryside when it did. A group of hunters drove up to where a co-worker and I were sitting, and my first instinct when they approached was to throw my hands in the air and say, "We're friendlies!" And I just had some venison sausage last night. Pretty good stuff.

Neocon alert!

Planet Pepe is not amused when one of the faithful deviates even by an inch from the Party Line. How do you say fatwah in San Francisco?

Mullahs nix Garcia Marquez

Planet Pepe is not amused. Let them spend 100 years in solitude.

PRAISE BE TO HOOTERS!

Now they have to try and get beyond the Right Reverends of Bismarck. It shouldn't be *hard*, though: afterall, it's a family restaurant...

Note: check the blog responses below this article. I posted.

~mft

Jimi Hendrix special

At $1,500, it's a steal.

post-mortem: Pint-sized Jewish fireplug, "Nobody calls my dog a faggot!"

Family tree?

That's a new one -- yet another step down the slippery slope greased by the Grinches of this world.

...the latest from FCP's friend, Cpt. Sam Cook...

It's nice to contextualize these singular troop updates with the broader themes that are being reported by the Press Establishment. Even nicer when they are folks we know. In Sam's words, within the first post.


Crazy Horse Troop FCP link.

Rudy gets a NoDak, "Oh-Yeah, You Betcha!"

I know Rudy is no McCain, AI, but at least still a Republican, eh?

Note the pic as The Meeting of the Mayors: Rudy of NYC, and Warford of Bismarck, N.D. I've met the latter a time or two, when I was a young and impressionable highschool student who volunteered from time to time at the North Dakota Republican Party HQ. Reality kicked in, though, and I got myself away from all that political racket. Go Rudy.

Canuckian policemen

Get tough on Polack peons. I guess they can't do much about anyone else, except perhaps give huge tickets to AA for expired subway tickets. So may as well zap disoriented travellers, right?

AA's Heartthrob

Babes from Planet Pepe

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Got Humanities?

Harold Bloom on the Western Canon...

Japan on the Real Meaning of Christmas...

...a Christmas tree with 400 diamonds for a cool 1.8 million dollars...

If you really love your family, you'll get two.

Pretty decent stuff, fellahs... (an mft recommend)

Kind of Interesting Note...

Just a quick note: here's my bro-in-law getting his promotion to 1st Sgt., just this past week or so. Nice work. Another reason for FCP'ers (sans Pepe) to raise a pint. Here's to the Sarge, America's MP's, and the other fine men and women bringing the hurt to religious fanatics the world over.

~mft

always the brightest and best...

Hillary's New NSC Chief

A Question for the AI, JJ Cabal

Hey, guys, when are you going to grace us with detailed and factually correct reports on Steyn's talk? It wasn't at a Masonic Lodge, was it? If you don't, then I'm gonna have to trust reliable Hubbo news-sources, especially the kind that get reborn of fire. It'll make a Pepe out of me. [This calls for a pic of JJ, the way he would look if he were to wear a coat, and have mucho dinero. -- AI]

Sioux City Stalinist Earns His Radiant Future

To win a Putin Prize you know that, unlike the Nobel, it's guaranteed you actually deserved it.

A Syrian [of all people} Speaks Truth to Clerical Power. Clerical Power Strikes Back.

Wow. Never did I think to hear a Syrian on Al Jazeera daring to speak that way. Long may he Live.
That smile on the Cleric's face when he asked "just who do you mean by those Bedouins?", only the leftist cadres here in Cascadia would not immediately get the menace in that.

They blow themselves up too!

automatically in front of the synagogue.

Paduan Wags at it Again

The local mosque needs replacement so the locals 'blessed' the site on which it is planned by walking a leashed pig on it for awhile yesterday. I must say that I am not so fervently opposed...

Flanders fields

On Armistice Day, here's a little poem, by John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Eat your heart out, Pepe

The surge is working, says the Beeb. There is no joy left in the Big Easy.

NH survey

Questions: (1) How about Iran, and (2) How about "wot"? Here are the answers we get from the Land of Pepe: (1) No nukes, no threat, (2) Build relationships to Muslim states. Lovely, just lovely.

Britney blows red light

Anyone got a smart-alecky comment to make?

Zapatero-Chavez catfight

Bhawhawwhaaaaww! Can Hugo ever shuddup?

Pepe All Over!

MFT Scripsit

Steynesque Sweden

The multiculti Gettysburg Address

Anyone wants to take a whack at what it would sound like, if, say, Pepe were to rewrite it?

Crazy Horse Troop...

Captain Sam Cook (West Point graduate and younger brother to a mutual friend of AA and MFT) has a blog for his C Troop, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (I believe that was Patton's outfit, too).

So far as I know, upon his return from this upcoming tour in Iraq (his 4th or 5th I believe), Sam plans on pursuing his Ph.D in history, perhaps at AI's alma matter. Just passing along the blog. Here's to C Troop (thanks for the excuse to raise yet another pint, Sam).

One too many Stone IPAs?

The Chinese are coming!

On Russian carriers. Don't worry, be happy, says JJ.

It was all a misunderstanding

Mr. Sarkozy, calling France’s opposition to the American-led war in Iraq “a disagreement,” said: “I never quite understood why we had to fight with the United States. I never quite got it.”

Britney and Paris Wannabes: Trickle Down or Up?

I can't put words to it, but there's just something about this photo that says, ah, what? Tolstoy would grope for the Truth of it with words.

Another question: are these women emulating Britney, Paris and Lindsey Lohan? Or is the Hollywood Ho-Bag trio merely emulating these drunken women?

These are the important questions of our time...

Sidenote: I don't know when I'll be around a computer within the next week and a half, but JJ and AI have to pony up and give us a report on The Steyn Lectures.

Saving Robin's Wood...

Saving the forest and myth of that renowned economic redistributionist...

Yeah, right

Where's the punkabilly?

Draft Kucinich!

The MSM caught the Prince of Darkness in a typo.

Coanda rulz!

SriLankan Airlines insisted there was no danger in flying without a [5 ft] wing tip. It added: "They are purely for aerodynamics and to keep fuel costs to a minimum. There is no impact on safety at all. Safety is our absolute priority."

Hey, Coanda said that after the very first flight with a jet engine. Who cares about a little chunck of fuselage missing? Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

Fruity Theatre Critic on board wiith Iran

Talk about an Uncle Tom.

Mag Anomaly and the Gap

Meli claimed to see a correlation between a geomag survey and TPM Barnett's zones. We sent him the letter I put in as comment 1. We'll see if he's a good sport about it. He got into a really vicious spit fight with Steyn a while back as you recall. BTW, I think the Mag chart looks like a van Gogh.

Apostasy

Brooks kinda funny

EDWARDS: I worry about the two Irans. For while the corporate Jihadis are building nuclear weapons, the working-class extremists are shivering in doorways and making do with sharp sticks.

Hey, MFT, How's this for hairy Chinese cookery?

Iowahawk on the border

Tolstoy gropes for the Truth

Tolstoy appears to have beaten the annalist historian Marc Bloch (a French Jew later executed by the Nazis) to the Total History punch. Groping for truth is difficult, and often I think, "How should I even try to put all of this into words?" It's a wonderful prologue to the period leading up to what in the business is categorized as "post-modernity." From the NY Review of Books it appears as though Tolstoy struggled with finding the Truth (certainly an Enlightenment principle) while transitioning into the contradictions inherent in the post-modern world with his beautiful stream of words to describe that truth: a grope.

FCP'ers are fond of groping (take it from here, JJ)...

First Yahoo, Now Google

Remember this?

How to cure hiccups

If there ever was a post that belonged in the category listed below, this is it.

Hillarious

Hey, Pretty Boy has a pretty good adman, gotta give him that.

Sweet in-laws

The Descent of Clocks

Very neat

Wages of apaciguamiento

Up Pepe's alley.