News from Iraq
It will probably go un-noticed in all the flap on Haditha, but there is a lot of great news coming from Iraq.
Articles from May 2006
Mecha Medrassah?
See this piece over at Hot Air, and then decide. This is a magnet school, with questionable teachers and funding sources, unfortunately some of those funds are your tax dollars.
Categories: Education, Immigration, Politics |
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Unity08 Third party initiative
Third party forming over the internet, from KCBuzzblog, the KC Star’s politics blog:
A bipartisan group of political organizers launched a new group today called Unity08.com, an effort to redesign the system for nominating White House candidates. The Internet-based third party is headed up by former Carter chief of staff Hamilton Jordan, former Carter communications director [...]
Categories: Elections, Liberal Mythos, Politics |
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I’m a real SOB
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And it turns out that it’s a good thing. Thanks for the award Liz, it’s well appreciated.
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100th post, and some administrivia
I just got back from vacation so I have a lot of ground to recover here at work and won’t be posting a lot today. However I did go through and flag all the immigration articles with that tag, you can pull them all up on one page by clicking on ‘”immigration” under the categories [...]
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Memorial Day Poem
A poem from my father, who I thank once again for his service, and thanks on this day to his brother, my uncle Johnny who did not board the flite back.
Non-Nuclear ICBMs
To update an earlier post on this, see the new Reuters story on non-nuclear Trident II missle use here.
The International Herald Tribune said the weapon would be a non-nuclear version of the submarine-launched Trident-2 missile and be part of a president’s arsenal when considering a pre-emptive attack.
The report quoted military officials as saying it could be used [...]
Categories: Energy, Military, Nuclear, Politics, Science |
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Immigration Bill in Conference
 “The line between good and evil goes through every human heart.” –Solzhenitsyn
Now that the Immigration bill is in committee and the senate has left the house to take the heat it’s time to assess best and worst-case scenarios. It’s unlikely at all that the amnesty program or “path to citizenship” will survive through the conference, [...]
Categories: Elections, Immigration, Politics |
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Jefferson Probe Update
I question Denny Hastert’s initial stance on this, as should you. Congresscritters are not above the law, and there aren’t protections and immunities in place here for them as in European governments and other parliamentary bodies. The US is a republic.
Sadaamists hiding in Sweden
One of Sadaam Hussein’s cousins is currently seeking asylum in Sweden, see the article here.
In other other interesting developments Raytheon and Bofors have created a new GPS guided artillery shell which is now deployed in Iraq.
The cost of the shells is secret, but according to American press reports, they cost about 200 000 kronor each, [...]
Germany visits the edge of the Non-Nuclear Power abyss
In Germany politicians earlier made committment to eliminate nuclear power from Germany by 2021 after unrelenting pressure over the last 20Â years from the Greens. This even though Nuclear supplies 30% of Germany’s energy at present. After the trick Gazprom pulled with the Ukraine perhaps they ought to rethink that committment. See this article at Deutsch [...]
Categories: Energy, Nuclear, Politics, Science |
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Libby Ruling
At American Thinker an article on the recent ruling to obtain reporter’s documents explains the potentials in detail. This ruling has far-reaching consequence, a future case against Karl Rove would springboard from Fitzgerald’s case against Libby, or that appears to be the now-waning hope. You could picture Libby like Claudius in the Masterpiece theatre production of “I Claudius” saying:
“Let all [...]
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Mexican Elections
The sentiment in the entirely unscientific poll I took was 100% Obrador. A couple of notes: the majority of the folks I surveyed worked at the resort, the airport, for transport companies, or at tourist attractions, and with only a couple of exceptions they were Mayan. Obrador runs strong among the indigenous Mayans due to his strong efforts on their behalf in the past.
Categories: Elections, Immigration, Politics |
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On Vacation
If there’s internet where we are going for the next week I will post, otherwise not.
Ok we are at the airport and I am blogging from my PPC 6700 just to see how it goes.
Btw, I do Love my Pocket PC 6700 — it’s a phone, it’s a video cam, it’s an MP3 player capable [...]
Singularity Summit
See Jerry Pournelle’s blog of the Stanford Singulartiy Summit here. If you have no clue what is meant by the singularity, read some Vernor Vinge, or go here.
Clarice silences the lambs
Like anxious sheep the left has been bleating about a possible Rove indictment all week. See Clarice Silencing the Lambs at American Thinker.
Categories: All Jacked up, Elections, Journalism, Liberal Mythos, Politics |
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Dems and RINOs kill offshore drilling
It appears Congress wants both us and our children dependent on despots and tyrants for energy.
Categories: All Jacked up, Energy, Nuclear, Politics, Science |
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KOS hates Walking in Overland Park KS
Over at KOS SpleenOrnament displays the natural insecurity and paranoia of the left. I live in the area, and walk in Overland Park all the time, but look at Spleen’s take on it:
There are places in America where walking makes you a freak. As though, in opening your mouth to speak, you’re revealed to be [...]
Categories: All Jacked up, Liberal Mythos |
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Somalia and the left
The left hemisphere of the blogosphere is up in arms over rumored US intervention in Somalia. They are upset that we might be dealing with some of the warlords in control of the countryside instead of the “official government”. Some of these warlords could have helped in the BlackHawk Down incident, which is upsetting to all, but if [...]
The best news in years!
This is the single most encouraging news item I have seen in ten years because without nuclear power America is certain to falter in this century. GE has broken ground on a new factory that will make next-generation Nuclear Power plants, see the story here.
I never thought this would happen,
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