Democrats helping the “working class” — you know, the ones with the beach front properties.

“There are a number of mini-stories within the Father Pfleger controversy.“

at The People’s Cube.

McCain vs the Media

Obama spoke to graduates at Wesleyan this week.  Sounds like it was a disgusting speech.  Adam Brodsky was all over it.

This went well past the standard graduation calls for community service and voluntarism. The senator chided those who seek life’s material rewards: “Fulfilling your immediate wants and needs,” he insisted, “betrays a poverty of ambition.”

In fact, Obama himself was betraying a poverty of understanding US history.

After all, it’s not too many Americans pursuing their dreams that threatens the nation’s greatness - it’s too few.

Negating the Nakba Narrative

Dean Kamen’s new invention — prosthetic arms

Someday we may all want to replace our arms, eyes, ears (and tounges?).

Nazi occupied Paris — was a big old sex party?

The Gipper.

The Gaffer.

Now that Rachel Ray and Dunkin’ Donuts have pulled the web ads showing her sporting the keffiyeh, I doubt you’ll see her wearing Freshjive’s hip “The Good Ol’ Days” t-shirt with a smiling, sunglasses clad Yasser Arafat, reveling in all his terrorist glory.

Remember, Freshjive?  Terrorist t-shirts for the douchebag set seem to be his thing…

The Washington Post says that Al Qaeda is not doing so well these days.  The reporter struggles to explain (or is purposely excluding) the Iraq war’s importance to their serious setbacks world-wide, essentially claiming that Al Qaeda is its own worst enemy (not the US).

LGF:

Where can a moonbat go when its conspiracy theory is even too whacked out for the Huffington Post? (Yes, apparently, there are some things too whacked out for HuffPo.)

Will Al Gore accept the challenge?

Barking moonbat alert in London.

Michael Totten is home from the Balkans. Looking forward to reading his stories…

The Frogmander — an amphibian missing link discovered.

Today is Rachel Carson’s birthday.  May her destructive junk science be noted in history.

You don’t say? Home prices down, sales up?

Who would have thought?

Is Barack Obama must the most gaffe-prone politician in memory?

Update: ANOTHER

Brutal Nature - Lions versus Giraffes

McCain goes on the attack:

“He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,” the Arizona senator added. “If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn’t had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly.”

I’d like to see the new HBO movie on the Florida recount.

We watched this thoughtful lecture last night from Ken Miller on Intelligent Design.  On one hand, I can’t believe people are still pushing creationism (under a new name, ID). On the other, the politicization of science encourages this.

There was one point in the question and answer session where an old communist “World Can’t Wait” moonbat tries to attack the political right to score some cheap points, trying to liken America today to 1933 Germany. Ken Miller bats him right back down with perhaps his best thoughts of the lecture.

When Bill O’Reilly (and his copycats) pronounce “Secular Progressives” as the enemy, it is extremely damaging to the cause of freedom. They are literally handing over the province of science to the political left and the Al Gore’s of the world couldn’t be happier. There is a symbiotic parasitic relationship between the exploitative left and the religious right that often becomes clear, especially in lectures like this one. They both need each other to survive and together they do all too much damage.

Corruption in Eastern Europe is still a way of life.  Kejda always talks about the bribery still happening in Albania (and how pathetic the political parties are).

Iowahawk: Evolution of a Republican representative

Russian Communists not happy about the new Indy Jones movie:

“Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett (are) second-rate actors, serving as the running dogs of the CIA. We need to deprive these people of the right of entering the country,” said another party member, Andrei Gindos.

Sounds awful but looks awesome: the visual patterns formed by sound waves of different frequencies.

A blog about the upcoming Hobbit movie. Loved the book. Loved the LOTR movies too. Here’s hoping for something just as good.

Baltimore Sun:

Kantor talked with Jewish voters in South Florida, many of them liberal Democrats, and found real skepticism about Obama, some of it based on a lack of familiarity with him, some of it on misinformation and some of it on plain old-fashioned racism.

She didn’t find anyone who felt uncomfortable because of his stated positions calling Israel a sore or his willingness to meet face-to-face with Iran’s leadership who want to wipe Israel off the map.  I guess those positions are just kosher with every informed, non-racist Jew.  Funny how that works.

Eurofascists working hard to fill the void

The light bulb that has been burning for 107 continual years

Water that isn’t really water

Robert Byrd is distraught over Ted Kennedy

Why some Neo-Nazis are starting to support Israel.

Abdul-Khaliq al-Sabawi, al Qaeda’s #1 in Mosul has been captured.

Study Says Global Warming Not Worsening Hurricanes

Do you think Al Gore will change the cover art on “An Inconvenient Truth?”

No more porno in Gaza

Spengler believes the root cause of the credit crisis is a demographic one.

Kejda and I are on the Bolt Bus back to New York right now.  $15 from Boston and it has wireless internet (which is slow, but very nice to have).  They advertise more leg room than normal a normal bus, and that may be the case, but the leg room seems about normal (not great).  A lot of people take the Chinatown bus or Amtrak.  The train is more comfortable but I think I’d rather save $50 each way and have internet access.

A real family now.  Married today at 6:30pm.

Within a year, if Moshe Kai Cavalin keeps up his grades and completes the rest of his requirements, he hopes to transfer from his two-year program at East Los Angeles College to a prestigious four-year school and study astrophysics.

Holy smokes! The article claims his parents don’t push him much, but this quote from the father with respect to the son recently breaking an arm in the pursuit of martial arts makes me wonder:“Finals are coming and everything and he cannot play with both hands. He’ll just try to play with the right hand,” he says. “I don’t know how his grade’s going to be in piano. It worries me a bit.”

Juuuust kidding!

Seething mad over Hillary’s big white win in WV.

More amazing, however disturbing animation: “Dimensions of Dialouge” by Jan Svankmajer.

Listen to these idiots speak the language

“He’ll be horrified after learning it was delivered by plane. Paul has always campaigned for green issues and he can’t understand why anyone would send an enormous car from Japan to Britain on a plane.”

Carbon offsetting firm CO2balance.com said the plane journey would have caused a carbon footprint of 38,050kg, compared to 397kg for a three-week boat journey.

A carbon footprint is the measure of the impact that human activity has on the environment and is measured in units of carbon dioxide.

Co2balance.com Director Mike Rigby said: “That is the equivalent of driving the car around the world six times.”

A spokesman for Swissport, the freight handling company who unloaded the car at Heathrow, said: “Obviously we were happy for the business but everyone was shocked. The carbon footprint must be enormous.”

Paddy Gillett of the anti-aviation lobby group Plane Stupid, said: “For anyone to pretend that a private limousine is in any way eco-friendly is like pretending a private jet is. It’s total greenwash.”

Peter Thiel, former CEO of PayPal: “In the long run, there are no good bets against globalization”

Obvious: Einstein was not religious.

Art from Body Parts: Not Just For Nazis Anymore

Michael Totten: “Hezbollah’s “victory” in Beirut is not all it seems”

Ghost blogging