Jimmy Carter’s Jewish Problem

 
By Jason Maoz
JewishPress.com | November 30, 2006
For those with eyes to see, there were hints as far back as the 1976 presidential campaign of the trouble to come. Early that year, Harper’€™s magazine published “€œJimmy Carter’€™s Pathetic Lies,”€ a devastating expose of Carter’€™s record in Georgia by a then little-known journalist named Steven Brill.
Reg Murphy, [...]

Are You A Lumberjack?

Hightech news blog (and he’s OK) has assembled for your viewing and bookmarking pleasure, 59 amazing Python sketches …
And, we’ll make it an even 60, with the full length lumberjack sketch

Foggy Bottomless

Yesterday Colin Powell took the stage in Dubai and described the US presence in Iraq as consisting of three separate phases: (from the AP report)
The invasion phase went as planned. But the second phase, the military occupation, was “badly handled.” Mistakes during the second phase led to the third, “which could be considered a [...]

Vimto zots Britney

LOOKING A LITTLE DEEPER THAN LIBERALS ARE CAPABLE OF DOING.

Consider four recent events. First, the debate in the Tory party on whether to leapfrog Labour and adopt the radically redistributive anti-poverty policies symbolised by Polly Toynbee, the Guardian columnist. Then cast your mind to the impending defeat of the Bush-Blair coalition in Iraq. Next consider the nightmarish murder of Tom Rhys Pryce, the young [...]

Mid-Week Doobie

They still sound pretty good, too.

g’nite y’all

Iraq Survey Group Reaches Deal on U.S.-Iraq Policy

 
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan commission, under pressure to offer a U.S. exit strategy for the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, has reached a consensus and will announce its recommendations next week, the group’s co-chairman said Wednesday.
Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., declined to disclose any specifics about the Iraq Study Group’s decisions. The report, much [...]

Challenging the Meme

Ted Carpernter’s essay is representative of the MSM celebration of reaching another grim milestone in Iraq…
The U.S. mission in Iraq has now lasted longer than America’s involvement in World War II. That should be an occasion for sober reflection. In less than four years, from December 1941 to August 1945, the United States and its [...]

Silly String Helping Save Lives of Troops

STRATFORD, N.J. - November 27, 2006 - It may seem odd, but Silly String is helping to save the lives of soldiers in Iraq and one local community is making a big effort to ship it overseas.
Among the dangers faced by the military fighting in Iraq are booby traps.
Nearly invisible wires trip the explosions, but [...]

The Next Few Days …

Monday, I saw this headline:
“The future of the Middle East, certainly the future of Lebanon may well be decided in the next several days,” U.S. envoy to the United Nations John Bolton told BBC radio.
Bolton is not a man given to hyperbole. To say that he is direct is probably an understatement. [...]

Ode to Billie Joe

Four D Blues at the Tallahatchie. Good stuff, and more to see at Terrains of the Heart.

G’nite yall.

Another One Bites the Dust

The dreaded “Illegal War” meme officially bit the dust this afternoon: (AP via Yahoo)
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the mandate of the 160,000-member multinational force in Iraq. The council acted quickly in response to a request from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who said a top government priority is to [...]

Incoming Chair of Homeland Security Wants Open Borders

 
A Mississippi Democrat in line to become chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has warned the nation’s largest uniform supplier it faces criminal charges if it follows a White House proposal to recheck workers with mismatched Social Security numbers and fire those who cannot resolve the discrepancy in 60 days.
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Yes, you read that correctly. [...]

Jesse and the PC police

Kramer received a lot of attention last week for flinging the N-bomb at some rowdy hecklers. YouTube had the video, and it was all over the net. Now, Kramer is going to take the Trent Lott mea culpa tour, starting with an appearance with Jesse Jackson, who has his own pastracist remarks [...]

Who Will Kill The Pope In Istanbul?

The novel is about a conspiracy to kill the pope involving the ultra-conservative Roman Catholic society Opus Dei, the notorious P-2 Masonic lodge and U.S. intelligence services to prepare the ground for a U.S. attack on Iran.
The cover of the book, sub-titled Who will kill the pope in Istanbul? features Benedict XVI in front of [...]

NYT must give up phone records

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two Times reporters in a leak investigation of a terrorism-funding probe.The one-sentence order came in a First Amendment battle that involves stories written in 2001 by Times reporters Judith Miller and [...]

So you like your Resizer Firefox Extension?

UPDATE: This is a TOP 5 THE #1 WordPress Post of the Day. [...]

Rip it Good. RipIt4Me

Update: This is a TOP 50 WordPress Post of the Day…Thank you readers. WELCOME STUMBLEUPON READERS!
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RipIt4Me is a freeware utility that helps you backup your copy protected DVDs. Recently released DVDs are now very often equipped with stronger [...]

Iraq tribe says it kills 55 al-Qaeda fighters

RAMADI, Iraq, Nov 26 (Reuters) - The head of a tribal council in Iraq’s western province of Anbar said on Sunday that tribesmen had killed 55 al Qaeda fighters in a battle on Saturday, but the U.S. military could not confirm the figures.
The death toll, if confirmed, would mark an unusually fierce clash with insurgents [...]

Stellarium: put a planetarium on your desktop!

 
Stellarium “is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what

you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.”
File this under “very cool”. Available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, too!
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Michael Irvin joins Jimmy the Greek, Al Campanis, and Kramer in the ‘Stupid Remarks’ Hall Of Fame

And there’s still no comment from ESPN…
 
Four games ago, Tony Romo was a nondescript backup who’d never started a game. Now fans are hanging his name in the Cowboys Ring of Honor next to deities such as Dorsett, Hayes and the aforementioned Dr. Irvin.
How did a fourth-year nobody from Eastern Illinois become a pro sensation?
“I [...]

One Mosque Burned in Hurriya (Not 4 as reported by Green Zone Media)

 
BAGHDAD. €” Contrary to recent media reporting that four mosques were burned in Hurriya, an Iraqi Army patrol investigating the area found only one mosque had been burned in the neighborhood.
Soldiers from the 6th Iraqi Army Division conducted a patrol in Hurriya Friday afternoon in response to media reports that four mosques were being [...]

China’s Communist Party gets a taste for the blogging craze

Around 20 officials from a town in eastern China have set up their own blogs after being encouraged by a local Communist Party leader, state media said…..
However, the Chinese journalists noticed that visitors to the site are not allowed to post their comments immediately, a fact the town’s computer department explains is [...]

City said to be terrorist breeding ground

 
TETOUAN, Morocco, Nov. 25 (UPI) — A Moroccan seaport 3,000 miles from Iraq has become one of the world’s most fertile recruiting grounds for jihadists, U.S. officials say.
In the past eight months a group of young men, all worshippers at the same mosque, have left their homes in Tetouan, a few miles from the Strait [...]

Weekend Voodoo

And a pretty good job of it, Zach Wylde and Slash doing Hendrix’s VC.
Enjoy ……………….(h/tn2l)