Bill Roggio, embed blogger/journalist in Iraq, for instance: Fair play? From the NYTimes? You’ve got to be kidding.
Via Instapundit
Bill Roggio, embed blogger/journalist in Iraq, for instance: Fair play? From the NYTimes? You’ve got to be kidding.
Via Instapundit
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Posted in Blogosphere, Iraq, The War, Troops
Tagged Bill Roggio, Iraq, Iraqi Army
Interesting how radical a departure the blogosphere sometimes takes from the specific wording of a police press release that "foul play is not suspected," to "found dead, probably murdered," in this case of an Austin man who ran a charity for Gaza children said to be mainly interested in teaching them to hate Jews.
Via Instapundit, who also decided, against the police evidence, to call the death "suspicious."
UPDATE: Solomonia has now linked to the police release and changed his headline to "probably suicide." Of course, the police could be wrong, but with no evidence to the contrary…
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Texana
Tagged NGO Monitor, Riad Hammad, Solomania
Glad to see somebody is trying to save it. I rather like XP, but I clung to Windows 98 until support for it was almost non-existent. I hope to do the same with XP. Microsoft doesn’t like you to do this, of course, but doing it is more common than not–especially when Windows Vista already has spawned a book of workarounds for its various headaches. Yech.
Among them, ah, yes, the famous ungrateful English. But these ones do have an excuse:
"Like many other Germanic and Scandanavian tribes, the English have been cowed by self-doubt in recent decades, and have turned from be[r]serking empire-hurlers into a nation of social workers, drones and emigrants."
Actually, they have many more than just one excuse. Quite a lot, really.
Via Simply Jews
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles
Tagged Angleterre, No Good Boyo, Simply Jews, Yank Bashers
The killing of the Shaw boy–by all accounts a straight arrow with promise–by an illegal Mexican immigrant gangbanger just out of jail, is very sad. But, hey, L.A. is a "sanctuary city" with a Hispanic mayor and a liberal daily who both promote illegal immigration from Mexico. Undocumented workers, they want us to call them. When they work. Most of them do, here. Taking jobs whites don’t want, they like to say. Bull, I say. But the street beggers here are always black or white. Never Hispanic. Gangs? A few. Nothing like East L.A., of course, but where else is like East L.A.? Calcutta, maybe. But while Austin is not officially a sanctuary city for illegals, that is definitely the political preference. This stuff is getting way out of hand, and, like so many other American trends, the backlash seems to be getting strongest in California. Maybe Shaw’s death will do some good, so to speak. Bless his heart. Cobb, who prefers Mexican national to illegal immigrant (might as well be specific) has a lot more.
UPDATE: Austin, indeed, is not a sanctuary city in the sense that police jurisdiction over them is limited, but is in the sense that no public services may be denied them based on their illegality.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, South of the Border
Tagged Cobb, Jamiel's Law
"As far as I could tell, I was the only black man in the company, a source of shame for me, but, hey, let’s face it: pretty good job security. After a while I realized I didn’t even have to hide the Tetris games."
Much better than the rewritten autobio that was finally published. More true-to-life, you know?
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles
Tagged Dreams From My Father, Iowahawk, Obama
If the weekend show that starts today wasn’t on the other side of town, I might actually drop by to see the satire master of the Web. As it is, I have Mr. B. to tote around to Little League stuff and etcetera. So I’ll wait to read his followup post on how he found our fair city.
Meanwhile, you shouldn’t miss this profile of the show’s host, Continental Club owner Steve Wertheimer. For a hole-in-the-wall that’s hard to turn around in even when it’s not crowded, CC is an international legend.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, Texana