Saturday, August 01, 2009

“Retired” Terrorist Meets Hollywood Squares

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When all the right people hate you ... The group condemned the use of the interview with Mr Abu Aita. “This was a dirty use of our brother, ...
Friday, July 31, 2009

I Blame an Insufficient Number of Human Sacrifices

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Chicago Sees Coldest July In 67 Years After all, it’s no less scientific than the logic behind “global warming” , um, “climate change” , um...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

From Central and Eastern Europe to the Apologizer-in-Chief: A Remarkable Breach of Convention Doubling As a Public Expression of Mistrust

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It’s a remarkable breach of convention when close and very dependent allies of the United States display their anxieties about being sold ou...

Is This the America That Obama Wants?

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A decision by France’s energy regulator that seems to defy both logic and Europe’s green consciousness has set off a political storm here, s...

The Culture has been Reduced to a Sad PR Exercise

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Funny, isn’t it that failed societies seem to grasp at straws . The doofuses on C Dans L’Air , a kind of metrosexual Oprah program are in t...

Maybe the stories are connected on some gut-level

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In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable New Poll Finds Growing Unease on Health Plan
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Dutch to neo-Malthusian sects: Been there, done that, got the t-shirt

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It looks as though somebody missed the memo: the idea is to ratchet up the hysteria, not speak rationally about it: The Netherlands is warm...

Mythbusters, a continuing series

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With the exception of the price, of course : Organic food is no healthier than ordinary food, a large independent review has concluded. Ther...

How many of you Canadians in the room think you have a terrible health care system?

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From Paul Krugman, aka the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity...

That Nonexistent Cat Sure Likes Lasagna!

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Care for some disturbingly dark graphic Haiku ?

You Want a Lifetime of Freedom and Stability

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So do we .

More Pitot Problems Seem to Be Emerging for Airbus

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During a recent flight, more problems seem to be emerging for Air France (and Airbus) regarding one of its planes' Pitot tubes… Lead...

Mais Oui, Of Course; Garçon! One More Glass of Rouge For la Mam'zelle

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But ov course, zis ees a storee zat could onlee 'ave been sent to mee by a Frenchman — what you zink? (zank iou, François)…

The Governor of Arkansas, a Former Vice-Presidential Candidate, Has Resigned

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Or so said the France 2 channel's introductory comment announcing its report on the resignation of Alaska's Sarah Palin…
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Kangaroo Juvenile Court Kidnaps Babies

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"All they want is our money" says one couple whose child was kidnapped by the Child Protective Services (sic) "and our child...

Dieu Merci We Don't Live in George Bush's America

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Thank God we don't live in George Bush's Amérique , deadpans Hervé, as the Frenchman points out that between 2001 and 2008, telephon...

Is it Spanky Time Yet?

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Much as it was with the fighting KPD and SA brown-shirts in the collapsing days of the Weimar Republic, violence is thought to be in the car...

Some things are best left un-discovered

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Who says talking about taxes is a drag ?

Big, Big Talkers

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The more dominated by irrationalism and wishful thinking, the worse they stand. The universities in la culture du débat rank qualitatively...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Good intentions, paving stones, etc...

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Here we were led to believe the statists making decisions for the people™ was all sweetness and light : Implementing the European Working ...