Say what you will about the President’s pre-prime-time speech yesterday justifying his inexplicable (“Hillary made me do it?”) decision to inject American military forces on the rebel-side of the evident civil war going on in Libya, but I note that uber-neocon Bill Kristol liked it… a lot. Look… we’re already hearing about photos of the victims of “kill teams” in Afghanistan, we’re still in Iraq… and over 100 other countries… So why not place our personnel in a position to commit yet more atrocities (or have some inflicted on them)? I’m sure that like most stopped clocks, Bill Kristol is...
Continue reading...March 2011
Saturday pot pourri
Gorgeous day here in NYC– high 40’s, low 50’s– full sunshine. And so, the weather is probably just fine in Turtle Bay, just a few miles away in mid-town Manhattan, where the UN Security Council authorized the mother of all jihads a no-fly zone and other international military intervention against the Libyan regime (and in favor of Libyan rebels), after the United States government finally got behind such a proposition, it seems that the President shifted in favor of same because Hillary wanted him to. (on this point, Althouse goes much farther than I would, or than is reasonable… and...
Continue reading...Swept away
The devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan that has killed countless numbers of people (thousands are still reported missing) hit home, literally, as the tsunami washed away at least one California man who was too close to the ocean as he tried to take pictures of the waves. Ginormous earthquakes are just something else to consider when thinking about the benefits of… nucular power… although some of the danger appears to be receding, Japan has about five of the suckers on high alert right now, because, ironically, the loss of electricity caused by disruption of a big earthquake prevents the...
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For no particular reason, I’ll pass along this primer on a government/military industrial complex program so insidious, it might well kill us all… before everything else does, of course. Not to make light of it… just to… you know… put it out there. This rain-soaked and wind-swept Sunday, your talking dog hit a rare feat– a personal best in a road race, albeit only my third try at the distance, in this case the Caumsett Park/USATF National Championship 50-K race… Frank at Run Dangerously has a report on the race (I finished too far back to figure in any of...
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