Blair and British Politik — nice work, Tony...

Politically it makes sense for Blair to pull troops from Iraq, thus making Pepe feel a victory. Yet to put more in Afghanistan still makes him a viable contributor to the war on al queda.

Note: the pics are especially for Pepe who has suggestively requested that we provide him photos of men with big guns.

German Foreign Bunda-Minister?

Here he is, Joschka Fischer!

friendly fire

this is a bunch of shit

jimmy swaggart told me he lived on the mississippi-alabama border.

a hilarious twist of fate

great story

wiki on the SEALs

aa's boy makes a push

but will he get the 500 signatures?

arnie joins the majority

anyone still supports the war effort besides the WH and this board?

Impossible

2003 redux?

A hypothetical

Had the neocons focused on afghanistan rather than invade iraq, would ahmadinejad be in the position to thumb his nose at the int'l community today?

Attn: literary Hackers and Skimmers...

...you know who you are. I was gonna read this article by Alan Riding, but I found myself pressed for time so I skimmed it. Check it out. ~mft

Ailing Iraqi leader in Jordan

New Foreign Policy Expert

From Planet Pepe? Jolly good. Bring in the clowns!

Marketing Idea: Have People Dig for Money in a....

[wait for it]... Cemetary.

binnie's back

Almost five and a half years ago, America — united by the shock of 9/11 — understood exactly what it needed to do. It had to find, thwart and take down the command structure of Al Qaeda, which was responsible for the deaths of 3,000 innocent people on American soil. Despite years of costly warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq, America today is not significantly closer to that essential goal.

At a crucial moment, the Bush administration diverted America’s military strength, political attention and foreign aid dollars from a necessary, winnable war in Afghanistan to an unnecessary, and by now unwinnable, war in Iraq. Al Qaeda took full advantage of these blunders to survive and rebuild. Now it seems to be back in business.

Yeah, Right.

Wikiology

Yeah, well...

Yo! AI! Still Lookin' to Draft Nixon?

Polls talk. Bullshit walks.

CNN Oddly Worried About Accuracy

What if Al Gore says it's not a tornado? What then??

French WOT Making Headway in Colombia

A sorority that thinks of us

They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.
The 23 members included every woman who was overweight.

Pinko lefty NYT journalists sure don't understand what makes a worthy sorority.

Those Dreaded Biking MIlitants

"Biking militants die when bomb explodes prematurely," from AP

Bad stuff happens, man, when you become a zealot for the two wheeled hump.

An Ugly Dusk Looms over Pakistan

A lost cause, of course, to hope that among the Soc-lings there is any residue hatred for this after so much Hatred has been consumed in the sick joke of huntin' for neocon.

An Ugly Dawn Looms Over Versailles

The hopeful question sounds: " Can't we still Hate? Neocons will yet walk the Earth, right? And we really really Hates 'em".

No Opportunity in this Crisis?

What about My Lai? Who's the Good Guys?!?!

Pinko fellow-travellers

From planet Pepe.

Withering Scheits

With Imams like these no Believer need fear the Kufr

banana republic

Nearly all of the dismissed prosecutors had positive job reviews, but many had run into political trouble with Washington over immigration, capital punishment or other issues, according to prosecutors and others. At least four also were presiding over high-profile public corruption investigations when they were dismissed.

That Didn't Take Long!

Yanks Abroad Go Most UnPepe

Planet Pepe Unmasks a Devious Neocon Plot

paper tiger

On planet cheney, the us could conceivably win a war against iran, all the while being on the losing end of and endless battle with insurgents in iraq, failing at controlling a civil war and slowly losing afghanistan back to the taliban. ahmadinejad must be losing sleep over this threat.

context

this article has the context that mft found lacking in the previous post

redneck humor is out in DC

Tasty Monsters from Davy Jones' Locker

Hmmm,,, Monster stewed in tomatoes, red wine, and garlic, Monster grilled with lemon, garlic, and white wine. Monster ringed, breaded, and oil fried, Monster..... 50 Ways to Cook Your Monster

Pepe's Boyz Work at the Lower Mind

Better Tour Results Through French Chemistry

A new oxymoron enters English: " Of Gallic Competence".

Top Emailed Story on BBC

The cat is said to be 12 months old and very timid.

Oh Boy

Tommy got his pap smear results back today... Tsk tsk.

Steyn on Blair

One Man with Courage Makes a Majority

I almost wish Gore-Lieberman had won. This guy is a mensch! Giuliani-Lieberman in '08!

the joys of extended deployment

Khameini & Harvard: Death to Penrose!

Confused about the concept

Paris Hilton and Russian aluminum boots

Now that we have a good deal of the posts sorted by labels, the next challenge is to find unexpected links beween the topics. Here's a stab at it. PH goes under hoes, of course -- but where do the Russian aluminum boots go? We had some back-and-forth about that at some point, but I lost track.

Madre de Deus

The Portuguese and the Brits clash. Who takes the booty?

drip drip ?

or is it just for muslim wackos ?

a true american hero

On planet cheney

the glass is 1% full

Good Idea, Abdullah!

Prodded out

Hah, hah! Bye, bye, and watch for those transverse bars, they can mangle your jewels.

Getting what Pepe wishes for

Coanda UFO

Powwww!! Hey, JJ, where's my jeroboam?
Our UAV is capable of vertical take off, fully controlled flight, hovering and landing on a specified point. By using the Coanda principle to create lift, it has very little downwash and is aerodynamically stable. To date all prototypes have been battery powered, but the design is scalable and the larger versions will have internal combustion engines. The craft will be most useful in urban environments, where its ability to hover and fly close to and within buildings will enable close quarter surveillance and intelligence gathering. Having no exposed rotating parts, brushes with walls etc., do not compromise the craft’s flight.

Still waiting....

Tooling up the world cerebrium

James Tooley's "findings are surprising, and they bear directly and profoundly on the relief of extreme poverty all over the world. (Name me a more important issue than that.) The reason you haven’t heard of James Tooley is that his work is something of an embarrassment to the official aid and development industry. He has demonstrated something that many development professionals would rather not know—and would prefer that you not know, either."

That is, private schools are doing a better job educating the poor in Africa and Asia than the state school counter. In Tooley's analysis, "Better results are what they [the students of private schools] get. After comparing test scores for literacy and basic math, Tooley has shown that pupils in private schools do better than their state-school equivalents—at between a half and a quarter of the per-pupil teacher cost. In some places, such as Gansu, China, the researchers found that private schools serving the poor had worse facilities than comparable state schools; in Hyderabad, they were better equipped (with blackboards, desks, toilets, drinking water, and so on). Regardless, the tests so far show that private-school students do better across the board.

If you fellahs wanna read the entire article, let me know. Here's Tooley's website at Newcastle University.

petty thieves and purse-snatchers...

Canadian Multi-Cultural Panel weighs in on the matter: "Firefighters look at the ruins of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. A speaker at last weekend's Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security meeting in Toronto, which brought together national security officials and community representatives, said Muslims were not involved in the 9/11 attacks and claimed seven of the 19 alleged hijackers were "alive and well." The discussions were set up three years ago to engage the country's ethnic communities in Canada's fight against terrorism.
Photograph by : Chris Hondros, Getty Images

note: JJ linked this article within a previous post, but after reading the content it warrants a bit broader exposure.

Signor Berlusconi! Your Limousine Awaits.

Le Pen channels Pepe

Les grands esprits se rencontrent: showing, once again, that all Frenchmen think the same way, no matter what they say.

on education, pedagogy, and the mathematical need for babes

For one reason or another, there's been a flurry of articles trying to explain why American kids suck at math. A day or two ago we got some gibberish about taking math tests in a room full of babes in bikinis. Here's another couple angles on the matter:

1.) A child's belief in their own intelligence, and how that influences their intellectual development.

2.) ...and why we need babes in bikinis to take away the anxiety during math testing.