Friday Open

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This is the World Famous Friday Open Thread. A Free Speech Zone.
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Has Zawahiri assumed RT?

Thanos offers some informed speculation….”Did we get Zawahiri this morning?”
Earlier there were several news stories regarding a missile strike in Pakistan, six miles north of Wana in the Kaloshah area of Azam Warshak, Shero Village.
Everyone is holding their breath wondering who we got, and Jawa report has speculation that Adam Gadahn is in multiple pieces.
I’m [...]

Barack Obama’s anti-gun friends at the Joyce Foundation

I ran across an interesting blurb over at Free Republic, and I thought it was worth bringing to your attention…
The source is David Horowitz’s most excellent “Discover the Networks” website .
Beatrice Joyce Kean established the Joyce Foundation in 1948 after accumulating hundreds of millions of dollars in the lumber industry (via family-owned timberlands, plywood and [...]

Thursday Linkage

courtesy of boortz.com
Apparently if you are a Democrat, you are required to have a plan for universal healthcare. At least according to Hillary Clinton. By the way .. .”universal health care” is just another way for Democrats to say “nationalized health care.”
House Minority Leader John Boehner has given the Republicans the proverbial [...]

RIP: Wm F. Buckley, Jr. 1925-2008

Writing at NRO, Kathryn Lopez reports the passing of a conservative legend…
I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died this morning in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.
He died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect [...]

Dem debate liveblogging

watch live on msnbc
The Democrat Debate in Ohio
The first 15 minutes dealt with socialized medicine, mandates, and Hillary was on the attack early and often.
Mrs. Clinton displayed her inner-wonk, and dominated the conversation. On a cut to Obama, the camera caught an expression on his face that showed a near eye-roll as he gave [...]

Tuesday Open

Another Zerobama photo, (h/t sweetness&light)

Obama is weak on national security

Just how weak is Barry Obama on National Defense?  He sounds like a George McGovern democrat to me.  See for yourself, in his own words….

Similarities of Obama 08 and Carter 76

Steve Kornacki in NY Observer draws an interesting comparison between the two campaigns…
…the similarities between Carter and Obama are considerable. Like Obama, Carter’s resume included service in a state Legislature (rare for a president), and only a very brief stint in high-profile office, his single term as Georgia’s governor from 1970 to 1974. Obama, of [...]

Big Sky warning

From the tall grass at NewsBleat….
Montana officials have warned SCOTUS (the Supreme Court of the U.S.) that should it adopt the erroneous position that the 2nd Amendment only protects a collective right of states to maintain militias like the National Guard, then the Feds will be in violation of the Montana statehood contract.
“…The U.S. would [...]

Monday Open

Dueling Photos….

Fauxtography: Adobe weighs in

You mean, even reputable news agencies might alter a photo? Well, I’m just shocked. Shocked I tell ya.
NEW YORK - Sometimes, a photo is simply too good to be true. [ed. note: ya' think?]
Tiny details in an image, for instance, may be too similar to have occurred naturally, suggesting a cut-and-paste maneuver. [...]

Looming Lightbulb Liability—–(LLL)

I saw this one coming months ago when California wanted to make these little toxic bombs mandatory. Now people are waking up to the fact that not every energy saving idea that comes down the ‘pike is a good one. Remember when mercury was going to kill us all? Mercury from the old mines in [...]

Touchscreen Table! (why haven’t I heard about this?)

I already knew about touchscreen technology, it’s fairly common now at such places as ATM’s and on I-Phones, but this is different. Very different, especially the ESRI technology, which is described as “industrial strength” google Earth.
This video below shows some of the magic of ESRI.

Then there is this video, which I was [...]

Enzyte Bob meets PT Barnum

Surprised? Not really….
The owner of a company that sells Enzyte, a so-called “male enhancement” tablet, is facing the prospect of more than 20 years in prison.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported a federal jury has convicted Steve Warshak, 40, and his mother, Harriett Warshak, of conspiracy, bank fraud and money laundering.Messages seeking comment from Warshak’s attorney [...]

Stealth bomber crashes at Andersen AFB (Guam)

a B-2 stealth bomber crashed at Andersen Air Force Base this morning. The incident happened at around 10:45am Saturday, as information we’ve gathered so far indicates that a lead B-2 aircraft took off and became safely airborne, but when minutes later a second bomber took off for reasons that are [...]

Obama takes funds from lobby partners

By Jim McElhatton, Wash Times
- Sen. Barack Obama, who has refused donations from federal lobbyists and paints his Democratic presidential rival as a Washington insider for accepting their contributions, took hundreds of thousands of dollars from partners at dozens of firms that lobbied Congress in 2007.
The partners — who often share in a law firm’s [...]

One missile launched, one satellite destroyed

By John E. Carey
For the Washington Times
The U.S. Navy missile streaked to an altitude of 133 nautical miles and slammed into the fuel tank of a dying spy satellite traveling at 17,000 miles per hour with 1,000 pounds of deadly hydrazine fuel aboard.
Various sensors on land, sea and in space noted the explosion.  Initial reports [...]

Weekend Linkage

The UN human rights experts have decided that the United States needs to do more to combat racial discrimination against African-Americans, Arabs and Muslims, Hispanics.
The ACLU is suing a city in Iowa that fines parents up to $750 if their precious little angel is suspected of breaking the law or violating [...]

Calling BS on BO

Update2: Uncle Jimbo weighs in (via h/a)
The ABC report drops it from heinous to just ignorant. My main beef is that such a silly sounding story made it to the debate as Obama’s main point about the military. It was slanted and not an accurate portrayal, thus emphasizing his weakness for the CinC role.
Update: [...]

Donks say, “there is no urgency”

Empty Suit

There is no authenticity to this creation of David Axelrod. Wake up America! Reject this poseur.

h/t dschlussel

Showdown in Austin

AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) — It’s showdown time in Texas.
The Democratic race was very different when the candidates debated three weeks ago.
Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois will face off in a Democratic presidential debate in Austin Thursday.
The debate, to be held on the campus of the University of Texas, will [...]

Girl marries dog in India to break ‘evil spell’

Here is a new twist on the “Man Bites Dog” story …
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“There is no jihadi terrorism in Islam”

Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent for Reuters, writes an interesting piece on the lack of specificity of language in combating terrorism. From the standpoint of mis-identifying the enemy from the get-go, Trevelyan is correct.
But, by allowing themselves to be intimidated by apologists for Islamic supremacists who supposedly “take offense” at any reference to the religion [...]