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Ace may boot me off his blog for this one, but I've got nothing else and it being Saturday night, I figured I would give you guys something to talk about.

Which is better?

Mac

or

PC

Discuss.

BTW....still check out the gang at It Comes In Pints? They are a great bunch of folks!

Update Of The Previous Update: I give up. I know it is loading and I know it is a large file, but this is ridiculous. I wish it had a download option, but it doesn't.

Update: This was working earlier today. I swear. It seems to be a bit slow. If it does not get better, let me know and I will just toss this whole post altogether.

So people in the UK will not be able to see the South Park episode making fun of Tom Cruise and his *cough* religion *cough*

Pity.

Never fear!

The internet is here!

Yes, I know this aired in the U.S. last year, but consider this to be an Ace of Spades public service for Ace's British readers.

Hat tip to Emily at It Comes In Pints?.

This post was never here...

Posted by: WunderKraut at 12:18 PM | Comments (36)
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At least you don't play professional tiddlywinks.

If you do, and you're male, please, for God's sake, turn in your man card.

(via NRO's Corner, where Mr. Miller also points out that, yes, Virginia, there is a professional tiddlywinks association.)

Excuse me, I need to go and kill some Nazis in Call of Duty 2 to make up for reading the article.

Posted by: Harry Callahan at 06:39 AM | Comments (11)
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Huh. Didn't know these guys were still pursuing this. Tilting at windmills, of course, but the press coverage still helps to make their point: eminent domain in 21st Century America sucks.

CONCORD, N.H. - Angered by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sided with a Connecticut city that wanted to seize homes for economic development, a group of activists is trying to get one of the justices who voted for the decision evicted from his own home.

The group, led by a California man, wants Justice
David Souter's home seized for the purpose of building an inn called "Lost Liberty Hotel."

Because, let's be honest: nobody likes David Souter, but EVERYBODY loves Fry's.

Posted by: Dave From Garfield Ridge at 06:21 AM | Comments (31)
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Or, gay bashing, that is.

Officials at the Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) were appalled by homophobic remarks made by judges SIMON COWELL and RANDY JACKSON on the first show of the new season, which aired in America on Tuesday.

On the programme, Brit Cowell told one effeminate wannabe to "shave off your beard and wear a dress," while Jackson asked another audition hopeful, "Are you a girl?" Both contestants were rejected.

But in all fairness, one of those contestants looked like this:

"Idol" ended on a cruel note: after a young man named Zachary Travis, who had a high voice and high heels, sang Whitney Houston's "Queen of the Night," Simon Cowell called the performance "atrocious" and "confused." As Mr. Travis cried to his family afterward, the show itself piled on, playing the theme song from "The Crying Game," the 1992 movie that featured a transgendered character.

Then again, how homophobic can American Idol be? They already have two gay men working for them, Ryan Seacrest and Paula Abdul.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.

Posted by: Dave From Garfield Ridge at 05:51 AM | Comments (50)
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I have been covering the whole Iran-wanting- a-nuclear-bomb-to -wipe-Israel-off-the-map-and- usher-in-Islam's-version- of-the-Apocalypse quite extensively over at my site. Each time I read or post something about this whole situation, I get further depressed. There have been many great thinkers pontificating on this subject. Their various approaches are:

1. Heavily bomb Iran now - Even if we do not get all the nuke sites, we will set them back a few years.
2. Conduct limited strikes - Hit the most important aspects of their nuclear program while stressing to the Iranian people that we do not want to fight them and wish to help them overthrow their tyrannical leader.
3. Conduct Special Forces Operations - This would be similar to the campaign in Afghanistan. Our Opps would join up with the various opposition groups and provide funding and other resources to help overthrow the government.
4. Economic sanctions - Cut off oil exports from Iran and hope it will foment revolution.
5. Really, really, really, REALLY tough negotiations - France will get tough!
6. Threaten to turn Iran into a sea of glass - My personal favorite as outlined in The WunderKraut Doctrine.

Each of the above options have drawbacks, some potentially disastrous.

So what should the world do to counter this very real threat?

By all appearances their President is beyond reasoning with. A fact that should have been apparent last year.

Victor Davis Hanson, as usual, has some very eye opening things to say:

Mr. Ahmadinejad magically entrances even foreign audiences into stupor. Of his recent United Nations speech, he boasted: "I felt that all of a sudden the atmosphere changed there. And for 27-28 minutes, all the leaders did not blink."
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He has studied the recent Western postmodern mind, nursed on its holy trinity of multiculturalism, moral equivalence and relativism. As a Third World populist, Mr. Ahmadinejad expects his own fascism will escape scrutiny if he just recites enough the past sins of the West. He also understands victimology. So he also knows that to destroy the Israelis, he -- not they -- must become the victim, and the Europeans the ones who forced his hand
---

Money, oil and threats have brought the Iranian theocrats to the very threshold of a nuclear arsenal. Their uncanny diagnosis of Western malaise has now convinced them that they can carefully fabricate a Holocaust-free reality in which Muslims are the victims and Jews the aggressors deserving of punishment. And thus Mr. Ahmadinejad's righteously aggrieved (and nuclear) Iran can, after "hundreds of years of war," finally set things right in the Middle East.

Ok, am totally depressed now.

So what should we do? What CAN we do?

Discuss.

I need a beer.

Wacky Crazy Looney-Tunes Iranian President Update From Dave At Garfield Ridge: Iranian President Ahmadinejad (rhymes with "Eichmann") says that Europe should welcome the Jews back from Israel.

Hmmm. I wonder, is that before OR after Ahmadinejad nukes as many Jews as he can? I mean, is this like one of those "for your own good" offers?

If so, Israel should extend its own offer to Ahmadinejad, something like "This will hurt me a lot more than it hurts you, except that it won't."

Posted by: WunderKraut at 04:14 AM | Comments (301)
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I have been covering the whole Iran-wanting- a-nuclear-bomb-to -wipe-Israel-off-the-map-and- usher-in-Islam's-version- of-the-Apocalypse quite extensively over at my site. Each time I read or post something about this whole situation, I get further depressed. There have been many great thinkers pontificating on this subject. Their various approaches are:

1. Heavily bomb Iran now - Even if we do not get all the nuke sites, we will set them back a few years.
2. Conduct limited strikes - Hit the most important aspects of their nuclear program while stressing to the Iranian people that we do not want to fight them and wish to help them overthrow their tyrannical leader.
3. Conduct Special Forces Operations - This would be similar to the campaign in Afghanistan. Our Opps would join up with the various opposition groups and provide funding and other resources to help overthrow the government.
4. Economic sanctions - Cut off oil exports from Iran and hope it will foment revolution.
5. Really, really, really, REALLY tough negotiations - France will get tough!
6. Threaten to turn Iran into a sea of glass - My personal favorite as outlined in The WunderKraut Doctrine.

Each of the above options have drawbacks, some potentially disastrous.

So what should the world do to counter this very real threat?

By all appearances their President is beyond reasoning with. A fact that should have been apparent last year.

Victor Davis Hanson, as usual, has some very eye opening things to say:

Mr. Ahmadinejad magically entrances even foreign audiences into stupor. Of his recent United Nations speech, he boasted: "I felt that all of a sudden the atmosphere changed there. And for 27-28 minutes, all the leaders did not blink."
---

He has studied the recent Western postmodern mind, nursed on its holy trinity of multiculturalism, moral equivalence and relativism. As a Third World populist, Mr. Ahmadinejad expects his own fascism will escape scrutiny if he just recites enough the past sins of the West. He also understands victimology. So he also knows that to destroy the Israelis, he -- not they -- must become the victim, and the Europeans the ones who forced his hand
---

Money, oil and threats have brought the Iranian theocrats to the very threshold of a nuclear arsenal. Their uncanny diagnosis of Western malaise has now convinced them that they can carefully fabricate a Holocaust-free reality in which Muslims are the victims and Jews the aggressors deserving of punishment. And thus Mr. Ahmadinejad's righteously aggrieved (and nuclear) Iran can, after "hundreds of years of war," finally set things right in the Middle East.

Ok, am totally depressed now.

So what should we do? What CAN we do?

Discuss.

I need a beer.

Wacky Crazy Looney-Tunes Iranian President Update From Dave At Garfield Ridge: Iranian President Ahmadinejad (rhymes with "Eichmann") says that Europe should welcome the Jews back from Israel.

Hmmm. I wonder, is that before OR after Ahmadinejad nukes as many Jews as he can? I mean, is this like one of those "for your own good" offers?

If so, Israel should extend its own offer to Ahmadinejad, something like "This will hurt me a lot more than it hurts you, except that it won't."

Posted by: WunderKraut at 04:14 AM | Comments (301)
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In a column that covers a lot of familiar ground, Peggy Noonan does manage to get a good line off about Walter Cronkite, who recently said the U.S. should get out of Iraq:

You know who else experienced, up close and personal, the end of the information monopoly this week? Walter Cronkite. Once, he said America should leave Vietnam and the president of the United States said if we've lost him we've lost middle America. Now, Walter calls for withdrawal from Iraq and it occasions only one thing: stories about how once such a thing mattered.

Posted by: Slublog at 06:34 PM | Comments (40)
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I love a site that simply reveals the duplicity of those who speak honestly in their native language, which is then whitewashed when they speak in English (or when it is translated for English-speaking media). MEMRI is particularly valuable in this regard.

Thanks to another favorite, I learn of this little gem. You remember Roger Keith Coleman? The TIME Magazine poster boy? You know him, the guy who was actually guilty?

Well, apparently one Roger Willemsen is a darling of the German media, and he was no doubt one of many who hoped with white hot intensity that they could use Poster Boy as a way to bash the United States (the death penalty merely being the convenient excuse de jour). I found the translation of Mr. Willemsen's remarks on Poster Boy to be fascinating on two points:

First, he focuses in on the factoid that Poster Boy's last meal was cold pizza, and fantasizes that one of the corrections officers (a "deeply barbaric ... average man") personally decided to punish a "demonstrably innocent" man by making his pizza "extra cold."

I bet that one will get a LOT of sympathy around here.

The news accounts make mention of his final meal being cold pizza, but that's not good enough for Willemsen. Cold pizza couldn't simply be the result of a the distance between the prison kitchen and Death Row, or a similarly prosaic explanation? Hell, no. That wouldn't give his America bashing enough spice. So, Willemsen kicks it up a notch.

Second, according to Willemsen, Poster Boy was "subjected to every perversion of justice during the trial the likes of which weÂ’d expect from Iran."

That one kind of puzzles me.

Was he sentenced to die for being raped?

Well, no.

Was he executed for being gay?

Well, no.

How about being hanged for "waging war on God" (whatever the hell that means)?

Um, not that one either.

Was he denied a lawyer? Blocked from speaking to the media? Convicted and executed in secret? Tried by legally ignorant jihadi fanatics?

I'm really at a loss here. I can only conclude that Iranian prisoners are routinely fed cold pizza.

Posted by: Harry Callahan at 05:24 PM | Comments (25)
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Buckingham Palace.

Security at the palace was highlighted in 2003 when a Daily Mirror journalist managed to get a job as a footman in the months leading up to a visit by US president George Bush.

Ryan Parry worked for two months in the palace after using a false reference to get the job.

The tabloid breach prompted Buckingham Palace to review security and appoint a new director of security.

Yeah, OK, they caught her.
I don't actually give a whit about British palace security.

The only thing that interested me about this article was the use of the word 'pecuniary.'

Old word. It made me think of Latin class, and it made me think of Monty.

Posted by: LauraW. at 04:21 PM | Comments (3)
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The Jawa Report helps nab a terrorist. No, really, literally.

Oh, and be sure to visit so you can wish the good Dr. Shackleford a happy two-year blogoversary.

Posted by: Dave From Garfield Ridge at 03:43 PM | Comments (8)
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