An American Traitor

Looks pretty much like this. And when we catch him, I want the interogators to fill him full of sodium pentathol until he spills all his beans, and then when he's all used up and wrung like a dishrag, dispose of the mothereffer.

Geneva convention protections? Yeah, just like these guys. Back in the forties, during WWdeuce, German nazi-spies dressed up in American uniforms were pretty much shot when they were found out. Same should go for this guy. Scum.

How stuff is made

From the National Association of Manufacturers comes this link with clips of how stuff is actually made. Pretty cool stuff. And I think the Discovery channel has a show on exactly this.

Hat tip Instapundit

"We told you so"

I don't think the Europeans had this in mind when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten came out with the Muhammed-cartoons.

Jyllands-Posten, on the other hand, couldn't be more on the mark:

"Here we go again. It's like deja vu...This is exactly the kind of self-censorship I and my newspaper have been warning against," said Flemming Rose, culture editor of Denmark's Jyllands-Posten paper, which met a storm of Muslim protest after publishing satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad last year.

He said bowing to fears of a violent Muslim reaction would only worsen the problem: "You play into the hands of the radicals. You are telling them: your tactics are working. This is a victory for the radicals. It's weakening the moderate Muslims who are our allies in this battle of ideas."

With the exceptions of a couple of countries over in Europe, I've come to expect nothing but cowardice from over yonder.

Hat tip Peaktalk

Where Porn and Art meets

There's an interesting article in Slate called Dirty Pictures, about art-movie directors making explicit art-movies. The article itself is interesting, but the links in the article are NSFW.

The question: "Should Rumsfeld retire?"

I think Redstate has the issue covered.

What is currently playing

A couple of new additions to the music-collection, most notably The Sam Roberts Band. I heard these guys at ACL fest last weekend. Just about a fluke that I managed to catch them, but the discovery is definitely one I'm pretty happy about.

Also bought a record from What made Milwaukee famous, as well as a Saint Etienne compilation. All in all some good stuff.

Now, if I could only figure out where all the music I had stored on my computer went....

Lebanese rally against Hezb'allah

From Gateway Pundit comes a nice post about ananti-Hezb'allah rally.

I wonder if the national media will pick this up? They seem to always know when some miscreants abroadd are burning American flags and effigies of the Pope.

hat tip insta-Glenn

Environmentalists' impact on poverty

Check out youtube for the trailer to Mine Your Own Business, a documentary about the environmental movement's negative impact on poverty reduction.

You can find more info at Mine Your Own Business' website.

The director states "[the movie] will make a lot of comfortable western people very uncomfortable indeed. It will show them the consequences of their blind faith in our new religion-the religion of environmentalism."

I'm going to have to disagree with him on that one: Comfortable westerners will ignore the movie, as it doesn't conform to most people's view or the accepted narrative.


Hat tip Austin Bay and Rocky Mountain News.

The Pope's speech

So lately the Pope has caught a lot of flack for reading what a guy said a long time ago about Islam spreading nothing but violence.

Some said the Pope has already apologized. Jim Treacher has the real story. Pure comedic genius.

Just when you thought the internet couldn't get better

Hatemongers Quarterly comes along.

Via The Corner

ACL fest '06

So I went to ACL yesterday, even though I had told myself I wouldn't go. I bought a two-day ticket for $70 from a scalper, and promptly went to check out the Shins. I'm not a huge fan, but I ended up being thoroughly impressed. Also saw a couple of songs from explosions in the sky and kings of leon, who tend to rock pretty hard. Also checked out the secret machines which were really impressive, and caught some of Calexico's set. Finished up with massive attack, which sounded pretty cool but at that time we were exhausted and decided to hop in barton springs (its free from 9-10pm: Spread the love).

The recent SIC findings

Christopher Hitchens takes the latest SIC findings regarding the Niger/Iraq/yellowcake controversy to task in this Weekly Standard article. I love Hitchens, if only for the fact that he was 100% for the removal of Saddam Hussein.

If you have time, you should also read a couple of pages of this report, which basically details the whole yellowcake-from-Niger issue in the president's state of the union address.

And lets not forget this CIA report on Iraq's nuclear weapons program. It supports the notion that Iraq would reconstiture its nuclear weapons program once UN sanctions were lifted.

The skinny? Joseph Wilson is a self-serving, self-aggrandizing chump.

Parking Perfection

Once in a while a beautiful little game comes along. This is no different.

Enjoy, droogies.

Hat tip Jonah G. at the corner.

The impending collapse of North Korea

Browsing The Corner this morning, I came across a blurb regarding the current situation in/regarding North Korea. The blurb pointed to this article, which basically makes the argument that North Korea is on a converging path with capitalism. The money, you ask?

As is often the case, technology has played a prominent role in fomenting this change. In the USSR and other countries of the former Communist bloc, the constructed vision of the world was largely supplied by short-wave radios; in North Korea this alternative vision has manifested itself through videotape. VCRs were present in the North beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but initially could only be bought in hard-currency shops for a price beyond the reach of even relatively affluent North Koreans
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As a result of the spread of such technology, South Korean actors and actresses are now well known in North Korea, and Pyongyang youth eagerly imitate their hairstyles and fashions. There have been reports of competition between them to see who is able to reproduce the fashions and mannerisms from recent South Korean shows with greater precision.15 There have even been a few North Korean students who have begun to dye their hair in the style fashionable in Seoul currently.16 South Korean polite forms of address, once anathema, are also becoming widespread in the North, replacing the older Communist forms of address.17 As was once the case in the USSR, the more affluent, better-educated, and younger sections of the population are quicker to adopt such outside influences. The youth from the best universities, and raised in well-connected families, are the ones who now sport the most eccentric haircuts and outfits straight out of the Seoul television shows.

Once MTV starts being streamed in, the heat is on.

Iraqi links to international terrorism

So after all the brouhaha over ABC's "The path to 9/11" on the five-year anniversary of that day, I came across a post onPierre Legrand's Pink Flamingo Bar, where he lays out what he sees as connections between Iraq and international terrorism.

Draw your own conclusions. I'm just glad we got rid of the guy.

Update: hat tip Fausta's blog.