Monthly Archives: September 2007

Another doctor of death

Posted on September 15, 2007 | Comments Off on Another doctor of death

An almost doctor, Wayne State University third year medical student Houssein Zorkot, 26. He was arrested Sept. 8 in a Dearborn, MI park in camo drag with a loaded AK-47. City officials hushed it up, they say, because they didn’t want a local media "story about terrorism" so close to the 9/11 anniversary three days later. Debbie Schlussel, who lives there and follows these medico-jihadis, has more. Zorkot’s own website makes his terrorist sympathies clear.

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Betrayus

Posted on September 15, 2007 | Comments Off on Betrayus

The plot thickens. Seeming success in Iraq breeds efforts to undermine it. Leftist MoveOn, for instance, didn’t invent the slur "betrayus" for Gen. Petraeus that they used in their execrable ad in the NYTImes. They got it from some of his old enemies within the military, who had long used it as a nickname for him, say the usual anonymous sources. Chief among those antagonists is his boss at CENTCOM, Admiral William Fallon. As VHD might say, Gen. Sherman likewise was despised by more than a few generals in the Union army. Only his boss, Gen. Grant, held them at bay while Sherman led his devastating march through the South. P.’s boss does not back him, but President Bush does. Will it be enough?

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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops

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Today’s pretty picture

Posted on September 15, 2007 | Comments Off on Today’s pretty picture

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Don’t you wish your eyes were cameras, with filters and digital enhancement? No?  

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A northwest passage to the sea

Posted on September 15, 2007 | Comments Off on A northwest passage to the sea

Ice melting in the Arctic has created a long-sought fabled sea route from Europe to Asia across the top of the world. The usual suspects, of course, are blaming global warming. It could be, but I rather doubt it. The record is simply too young to know for certain if this hasn’t happened before. Hopefully, the Seablogger will enlighten us on the subject, once he gets his pitiable personal work completed.

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Posted in Scribbles, Weather/Climate

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The return of the plague

Posted on September 15, 2007 | Comments Off on The return of the plague

Every time we pass through the gates of the Dell campus of the Jewish Community Association of Austin–the local JCC, in other words–I say a prayer for the smiling but serious off-duty state troopers and city cops working the guard booth for extra pay. There’s time because we have to slow down and weave around the large orange barriers intended to thwart a speeding truck bomb. Although if the driver was a suicider, he probably wouldn’t be concerned about speed. VDH, no alarmist, explains what’s going on better than I have seen it in a while.

MORE: The powerful, controlling (let’s not forget wealthy) Jewish lobby. Subject of a new bestseller.

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Posted in Israel, Scribbles, Texana

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Missing Mark

Posted on September 14, 2007 | Comments Off on Missing Mark

Mark in Mexico seems to have stopped blogging. Without any explanation, which is odd. We do hope he’s okay. Could certainly use his analysis of the Pemex bombings. It looks like homegrown terrorism is taking root in Old Mexico, in addition to the Narco wars. Great time to have a porous southern border, eh? If you root around at Mark’s link, don’t click on any of the highlighted spam links in the comments section, or you’ll catch a virus or three.

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Posted in South of the Border, The War

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Water, water everywhere, in Texas

Posted on September 14, 2007 | Comments Off on Water, water everywhere, in Texas

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This is why the annual fall rains are not going to be as appreciated as usual this year. What do you know? Texas is a blue state, afterall. This year, anyway.

Via Banjo Jones 

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