Monthly Archives: November 2006 «

 

Microsoft Zune vs. Apple’s iPod

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2006 at 4:33 pm » 10 Comments

I was just reading about Zune, Microsoft’s version of Apple’s iPod, and sales in the first two weeks of its release are impressive. If you’ve been reading this blog for at least a year, you may remember a post I wrote back in January about how I knew next to nothing about Blackberries, how they [...]

 

VIDEO: Drunk Danny DeVito goes on anti-Bush tirade on “The View”

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2006 at 2:27 pm » 13 Comments

What the heck is going on with Hollyweird these days? First there was the Michael “Kramer” Richards N-word incident, now this. Update: If you have trouble accessing the above link to the DeVito clip, visit Newsbusters to see the video (hat tip: Allah).

 

NYT involved in another leak of classified info

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2006 at 11:34 am » 9 Comments

And Gateway Pundit pegs the story accurately: Is there anything about this memo that is so critical that it had to be leaked? …Besides, of course, that it will undermine American efforts in Iraq? For a different take, read Rick Moran’s post over at Red State. My take is this: Yeah, it’s good that the [...]

 

We’ve come a long way from Vietnam, but that doesn’t stop certain anti-war folks from acting like editeds

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2006 at 9:19 am » 2 Comments

You can insert your own word in place of where you see the word “edited” in the thread title above. Grim at Blackfive has a couple of posts up this week about soldiers here in the US and in the UK being treated like second class citizens after going to a bar/pub and trying to [...]

 

About that federal judge who ruled that Bush can’t designate terrorist groups

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2006 at 8:57 am » 2 Comments

By now I’m sure you’ve already heard the news that U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins, in a ruling against the government, ruled that the President doesn’t have the Constitutional authority to designate terrorist groups. Via AP: LOS ANGELES – A federal judge struck down President Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. [...]

 

Senator Jim Webb starts off his tenure in the Senate on the wrong foot

Posted by: ST on November 29, 2006 at 8:41 am » 77 Comments

And in the process has no doubt endeared himself to the MSM. Why? Read on: At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia’s newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his picture taken with the man he [...]

 

Christmas and what it’s all about

Posted by: ST on November 28, 2006 at 9:12 pm » 10 Comments

Just got done watching the classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” – it’s my favorite of all the half hour to hour Christmas classics (over Rudolph, and the others), and the original soundtrack to the show, composed by Vince Guaraldi, is a staple in my Christmas CD music collection. All too often, the real meaning of [...]

 

RIP, Army Sgt. 1st Class James Priestap

Posted by: ST on November 28, 2006 at 8:32 pm » Comments Off

I’m a frequent linker to Wizbang, and Kim Priestap – who blogs there – is one of the bloggers I enjoy reading the most there. Her family recently received some bad news: her husband’s cousin, Army Sgt. 1st Class James Priestap, was killed by a terrorist sniper while he was working at Checkpoint 17 in [...]

 

Newt Gingrich on the Baker-Hamilton Commission

Posted by: ST on November 28, 2006 at 4:50 pm » 5 Comments

ST reader Fat Tone sends along this must-read link to a piece written by Newt Gingrich on the much-talked about Baker-Hamilton Commission (aka the Iraq Study Group). Newt’s recommendation? They ought to visit Mount Vernon before coming to any definitive conclusions on what we need to do in Iraq. Read it, and let me know [...]

 

Keith Olbermann denies he’s courting the Nutroots

Posted by: ST on November 28, 2006 at 4:23 pm » 3 Comments

Via Greg Tinti, I read this gem of a link on some recent comments made by Keith Olbermann about, well, Keith Olbermann: The 47-year-old broadcaster’s “special comments” are not a regular feature on “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the dramatically intoned, fast-paced mélange of politics and pop culture that he has anchored since 2003 and that [...]