Articles from July 2008



As Predicted

This is a time when I hate being right in these previous articles. This is a night I surely wish I were wrong, completely and utterly wrong.
North Koreans are starving once again, and for now it’s the tyrannies and the slave states that will feel the brunt of hunger. Later, if we do not make energy more [...]

Celeb

Obama’s “Socialism”

Obama is clearly the most socialist candidate ever to win the nomination of a major political party in the United States. In Europe they love him because he matches the politicians that they are used to there. The concepts and proposals that he vaguely puts forth match those of the Euro parties of trade-unionists, elite socialists, [...]

Jurassic Fight Club Premiers Tonight

Also on the History Channel “Evolve – Eyes“

Images again

In case you are wondering about the glut of photos lately I”m fiddling with the gallery feature in wordpress so that I can not only insert them but also manage how they appear easier. (left right, border etc.) Right now if I don’t want defaults of wordpress to take over I have to insert manual [...]

Raindrops

The View From the North and Hair of the Dog

Moss grows on the North side, and in the far North it’s not unusual to encounter the hair of the dog as a sovereign remedy.

The Dark Knight of Our Souls

The Dark Knight portrays a quintessential struggle between good and evil in in a fantasy setting that’s an allegory for the real world and the larger struggles within it. It’s the movie about the war on terror that Hollywood cannot and will not force itself to make.
Hollywood has made several attempts at war movies, but [...]

The Audacity of Hopelessness

Today Senator John McCain gave a speech in Denver, and this segment bears repeating:
Senator Obama and I also faced a decision, which amounted to a real-time test for a future commander-in-chief. America passed that test. I believe my judgment passed that test. And I believe Senator Obama’s failed.We both knew the politically safe choice was [...]

Water Over the Dam

Taliban Ally Harkat ul Mujahideen Controls Mohmand

In Saturday’s report from Pakistan I noted that there was fighting between militant units of Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan. Post fighting it appears the TTP / Harkat ul Mujahideen force beat the Lashkar e Taiber (Tayyaba) force and is now in control of Mohmand Agency as outcome of that. Umar Khalid is their leader, and this appears [...]

The Obamaglam Song

Drill it All

Spam Mail Virus Warning

There’s a new email virus making the rounds, Nuwar, so be careful if you receive an email about war with Iran. Here’s what’s known about it:

W32/Nuwar@MM is a mass-mailing worm that attempts to send copies of itself based on email information harvested from the host system. The latest W32/Nuwar@MM spam messages are about war in [...]

Expelling Goats

Is it the dusk or the dawn of a new day in America?
Rich Lowry over at National Review has a great article on the desire of the democrats to deflect the flames emanating their way from their constituents to oil speculators instead. As always in congress the fault lies anywhere else but there.
While Waxman was producing his steroid [...]

Kasey’s Friends and Kasey’s Eye

The Evolution of the Bacterial Flagellum

And why is this important? See Ken Miller explaining the Kitzmiller intelligent design trial below.

Jay Leno on Drilling in ANWR

Dems Consider a Gas Tax Hike

No, I am not making it up. I’ve told you before that the Democrat party is the party of stasis and stagflation, they think energy too expensive to use is a good thing. You can easily demonstrate that expensive energy kills people. See here.

Pakistan Taliban Schism Confirmed – 50 Dead

The schism that has stewed for a couple of months within Baitullah Mehsud’s loose alliance of Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan broke out into open large scale fighting in the Mohmand agency Friday. Initial reports had ten dead up until the point when the Afghan Taliban leadership brokered a peace through a Jirga. Fighting broke out again immediately after the Afghanistan [...]