The irony is too much!

Here we have anti-Bush protestors calling him a "terrorist", then turning around and terrorizing and vandalizing Mar Del Plata.

This stuff writes itself!

You don't hear this from the MSM

The are Muslim riots in Denmark now.

Toeing the line

Yes.

I'm glad to see that Democrats, especially minority Democrats, are beginning to realize that they can't have it both ways: to respect diversity, yet race-bait when 'one of their own' breaks away from the herd mentality.

Assimilation

The riots in Paris are a direct result of the failure to assimilate the immigrant Muslim population.

By ignoring them, allowing them to congregate and form their own 'shadow governments', and by not educating them to speak one language, the immigrant Muslims became disaffected, unpatriotic, and unemployed. The three situations came together to spark the riots, now in their eighth day.

This is what we need to prevent in the U.S, which is why I'm completely against a bilingual U.S. Without a single language to promote national identity, you encourage these sorts of enclaves where only Spanish-speaking people live, or only Chinese-speaking people live. These areas are also usually economically depressed, and a cycle of disenfranchisement is created.

Currently, the U.S. has been spared such violence as that affecting Paris, but I'm afraid that, given time, we will no longer be so blessed.

Mmm...gadget goodness

Methinks that this will be my new phone.

Quad-band 850/900/1800/1900 GSM world/smart-phone, Bluetooth, USB 2.0, WiFi, EDGE (U.S., bound, baby!) with a 352x416 screen and 3MP camera! Oh, and it runs Windows Mobile 2005.

Sweet. This totally supercedes the Q and the N90.

Fossil Watch: Atari-style!

Even though this watch by Fossil doesn't qualify as a gizmo, having Asteroids as a watch face is still so cool!

I'm definitely going to pick one up.

The Australian: Clerics still preaching hatred of West

It's amazing just how two-faced these Islamists are.

Their duplicity is appalling, and I hope that they get their just desserts.

Sick

And here I was thinking that Japanese cartoons were pushing the envelope in violence. This Iranian cartoon for children extolling the virtues of martyrdom is just sick.

Islamism is truly a culture of death.

Dat Nguyen

Man, I respect Dat Nguyen so much. His perspective about football is nothing short of classy. His team spirit is something sorely lacking in professional sports today.

Iran needs to be stopped

Iran will be processing more uranium at the Isfahan nuclear facility next week.

There can be no doubt that a nuclear Iran is a existential threat to Israel and, indeed, the stability of the Middle East. Europe is continuing to negotiate with Iran, but I fear that it's nothing but a delaying tactic on Iran's part. I predict U.N. sanctions against Iran early next year followed by likely military action by the U.S. or Israel late next year.

Senate closed session fallout

There are those on the right like Michelle Malkin who believe that Sen. Harry Reid's stunt to close the Senate session yesterday as nothing more than a temper tantrum, and that it will play badly with the public. I beg to differ. What really happened is that the Democrats were able to get their talking points across because regular people don't understand the traditional courtesies of the Senate and why exactly closing the session was a temper tantrum.

By closing the session, the Democrats got the political momentum for the day and were able to frame the event in any way they chose, while the Republicans were forced to play defense by having to explain away the entire event.

Smart move...for a Democrat.

'Over There' discontinued

I'm so upset that FX's war drama 'Over There' has been discontinued.

'Over There' is one of the best dramas on TV today, and it's disappointing that viewership tailed off. If you're reading this, and you're a fan of 'Over There', write to FX and tell them to renew the series.

The rotten core of Islamism

Read this article from Theodore Dalrymple. Replace British Muslim with African-American. Then wonder why African-Americans, even though they too are disadvantaged, don't go around wanting to become martyrs against the decadent West.

Sixth Night of Violence Erupts Near Paris

The rioters in Paris are thugs and need to be put down as harshly as possible. The French authorities need to cordon off the area and move in to arrest all lawbreakers.

Perfect gift for coffee drinkers

Check out this cool coffee mug!

By moving the three bands around, you can indicate to your friendly neighborhood barista that you want a "Coffee, White, 1 sugar" without any confusion.

Dems prepare for Supreme Alito fight

The battle lines are already drawn for a huge fight for the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.

The general consensus is that Alito is eminently qualified to be a Justice, significantly moreso than Harriet Miers. His peers, even liberal ones, heap praise upon him. So what's the brouhaha among the Dems in Congress?

He's conservative. He's an originalist. He's been compared to Justice Scalia. He's been nominated by Bush, the Great Satan. All of which have no bearing on whether he's qualified to be on the Supreme Court. The Dems want someone who, as Sen. Chuck Schumer puts it, is "in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us." Or to put it in real-speak, a person who's pro-Roe, who's pro-quotas, etc. You know, a liberal.

The Dems are saying this now, but when they have the opportunity to choose their own Justice, will they choose one that happens to be anti-Roe to "unify us"? I think not. Just look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg: she was confirmed 96-3.

More hysteria

Man, Roberts's seat on the Supreme Court isn't even warm and Andrew Sullivan is calling him craven and will condone the Executive branch's powers "to detain without charge, to cover up its own actions, and to torture."

Sullivan deserves his own award. The "Sullivan Award" for hysteria, hyperbole, and wild assertions with no basis in fact.

Conservative groups don't want 100% effective vaccine for cervical cancer

Because they fear it will encourage teen sex.

Good Lord. I suppose they'd also be against a cure for AIDS because it would do the same thing. Good job!

Woot!

The Cowboys beat the Arizona Cardinals yesterday, 34-13.

Nice that they:

1) Beat them by such a large margin.
2) Got a late 4th quarter INT for a TD from Anthony Henry (Pro Bowl player).
3) Had great success running the ball with Marion Barber.

Now, the Cowboys have a quandary, though. With Julius Jones coming back from injury, who to start in two weeks against the Eagles?

Orange Julius has been out for 11 of the 24 games he's been active, which makes him officially injury prone. Barber, however, has only two good games under his belt. The Cowboys have to stick with one guy as the go-to guy in two weeks, and I'm afraid that there will be so much indecision that it will hurt team chemistry.

Unions

And one of their ugliest faces.

I work alongside unions on a daily basis as an engineer. Most of those I work with are great guys, but it's amazing the number of thugs in those ranks that bring the entire concept down.

Note the security guard getting in on the action, assaulting a pro-Schwarzenegger counter-protester.

Via Michelle Malkin.

Insane

What have we come to as a society where now we're starting to ban Halloween in our schools?

Halloween should be a holiday that is so commercialized that it's lost all historical meaning. It should be about kids dressing up as fairies and goblins and going around getting candy. I can't believe that there are parents out there that are so uncomfortable with it that they whine about it like babies. And instead of getting themselves a backbone, principals are buckling under like wimps in order to 'respect other people's cultures'.

Disgusting. Just another indication of America's decline into nihilism.

Scooter Libby

This is the weird thing about the whole Scooter Libby affair: if he was the sole leaker in this whole fiasco, why would he lie about his role (whether he was the source or he had heard it from reporters)? He would have no reason to protect the Vice President, since, as they both are officials that can speak about classified information (I'm not even stipulating that the identity of Valerie Plame was even classified at all) to each other, the Vice President is free pass along information to him with no legal consequence.

In the sole leaker scenario, the only reason for Libby to lie is to protect himself. However, since it appears that there is strong evidence to show that Libby was the source that he couldn't possibly hide, the reasons come down to panic or honest mistake.

All in all, whatever happens, it seems that the administration, barring some incredible discovery, is insulated from this entire affair.

No good deed is ever gone unpunished

In one of the worst stories of dogs biting the hand that feeds them, three survivors of Hurricane Katrina and Rita are accused of strangling Betty Blair, a 77-year-old volunteer at a church that sheltered them. She had hired them to do work around her home.

I'm glad that these guys were caught in Texas. It'll be the death penalty for them.

Corruption

Wow. This report from the Detroit News regarding the corrupt practices of Jackie L. Currie, the Detroit city clerk, is just appalling.

Democrats regularly accuse Republicans of vote tampering, but this report just shows that the pot is calling the kettle black.

If the shoe fits

Too bad I'm not a paying member of NYT Select, but David Brooks writes a brilliant article arguing that the Democratic Party has become the party of paranoia.

Brooks writes that even though Patrick Fitzgerald did not bring charges of outing a covert agent against Scooter Libby or the 'evil' Karl Rove, Democrats are still filled with "grand conspiracy theories that would be at home in the John Birch Society."

Quoting from an essay by Richard Hofstadter written 40 years ago, Brooks argues that the Democrats "are dispossessed, who feel their country has been taken away from them and their kind" and "[developed] an angry, suspicious and conspiratorial frame of mind. It is never enough to believe their opponents have committed honest mistakes or have legitimate purposes; they insist on believing in malicious conspiracies."

If the shoe fits...