Weekend open thread

Enjoy your Saturday, ya’ll – I’ll be back tomorrow.

FYI, I hope to have the link up to the mountain pix I took a few weeks ago by tomorrow. I had a little trouble uploading them last night, and will try again later today.

13 Responses to "Weekend open thread"

NC Cop says:

November 3, 2007 at 11:47 am

Here’s an interesting story:

Al Qaeda Deputy Leader Takes Aim at Libya’s Gadhafi In New Video

So it seems our Al Qaeda friends are now going after other countries in the Middle East…as well as North America, Europe, and Asia.

In the audio recording, al-Zawahri also calls on followers to defeat other North African leaders including Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Moroccan King Mohammed VI and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika — as well as Gadhafi.

But remember, there is no such thing as Islamofascism. It’s merely a paranoid, delusional, creation of the radical right.
NC Cop says:

November 3, 2007 at 11:49 am

That should have read “going after countries in Africa as well as the Middle East”.
PCD says:

November 3, 2007 at 12:06 pm

Maine Prof Gives Extra Credit for Flag Burning

And who says that there isn’t something wrong with the professors at taxpayer paid universities?
steveegg says:

November 3, 2007 at 3:54 pm

Feel-good story of the day – We’re twinseparable! Happy with his brother, the boy who refused to die

Gabriel Jones was diagnosed with an enlarged heart during his mother’s 20-week checkup, and she was told that not only would he likely die in the womb, but that his death could cause twin brother Ieuan to also die in the womb. Doctors tried to abort Gabriel, but he turned out to be too strong.

He and Ieuan were delivered at 31 weeks via caeserian, and after the usual premature issues, both Gabriel and Ieuan are very healthy.

As Michelle said, “Get out your Kleenex.”
forest hunter says:

November 3, 2007 at 8:17 pm

This report by Steven Hurst must just about kill the AP handlers to have to print it, but naturally they have to close it with

Across Iraq Saturday, 18 people were killed or found dead in sectarian violence, well below the year’s daily average.

…..and whether it’s sectarian or not goes unchallenged but apparently it’s the closest to the narrative found on short notice.
forest hunter says:

November 3, 2007 at 9:29 pm

Belly intelesting!

For the fools still in denial…..a must read.
NC Cop says:

November 3, 2007 at 9:33 pm

Great story, forest, I was just about to post about it.

This was my favorite part:

The 40-year-old al-Azawi, who has gone back to work managing a car service, said relatives and friends persuaded him to bring his family home.

“Six months ago, I wouldn’t dare be outside, not even to stand near the garden gate by the street. Killings had become routine. I stopped going to work, I was so afraid,” he said, chatting with friends on a street in the neighborhood.

I hope the good news continues for them, they have certainly earned a reprieve from the recent violence.

And, as always, a big THANK YOU to all of our military who made it possible!!
PCD says:

November 4, 2007 at 5:11 pm

Sheboygan, WI, Mayor orders blogger to delink from PD website in a fit of using Government against a private citizen.

take a peek. A “La Raza” mayor seeks to make a Wisconsin city a santuary city and terminate all scrutiny.
Great White Rat says:

November 4, 2007 at 6:43 pm

A front page story in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer gives us a few peeks into the moonbat mentality. The villian this time isn’t George Bush, or “Christianists”, or FIRE. It’s bottled water, a much safer adversary.

Bottled water, once an icon of a healthy lifestyle, has become a pariah, the environmentally incorrect humvee of beverages.

(snip)

Not just among enviros who decry the 1.5 million barrels of oil used to make a year’s worth of bottles. (Plus more to transport it from, in the case of Tasmanian Rain, the end of the Earth.)

So now the environmental wackos are willing to consider production costs – but only when it comes to water. Pity they can’t apply the same logic when it comes to ethanol fuels, or the Prius.

Dreamalee Brotz, a special-education teacher at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, only had to look at her family’s water bottles piling up in the recycling bin to reconsider what on earth she was doing.

She bought a refillable Nalgene bottle – the new icon of a healthy and an environmentally correct lifestyle.

“I feel better about myself, and I’m saving money.”

OK, in this case she’s actually doing something – but have you noticed that to the left-wing mind, all that counts is how something makes them feel, instead of whether anything’s accomplished. Carbon credits, for example, make them feel good, even though they do nothing for global warming.

It gets better:

Bottled water – a $10.9-billion-a-year industry in the United States – has even emerged as a moral issue, a peace issue.

“We are called by our faith stance,” said Sister Sharon Dillon, a former executive director of the Franciscan Federation in Washington, as she pledged to forgo Deer Park, Poland Spring, and all the others.

For her, it’s a matter of equitable access. A billion people worldwide don’t have safe drinking water, one in five of them children.

Americans, on the other hand, with near total access, are binging on bottled of every sort, from the handheld variety to the office jugs. We swigged 8.25 billion gallons in 2006 – an average of 28 gallons per person.

Dillon spoke at a teleconference organized by the advocacy group Corporate Accountability International, which sees bottled water as a corporate abuse – the takeover of a natural resource that should belong to everyone.

(snip)

The Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom has launched a three-year “Save the Water” campaign, on the notion that drinking bottled water encourages privatization, which can lead to wars over water.

So Sister Dillon thinks that because corrupt dictators around the world don’t care whether their subjects have safe drinking water, Poland Spring should shut their doors. And there’s the usual leftist pitch for the resource “belonging to everyone” – code for U.N or other government control, and for robbing Americans to work harder to bail out the local dishonest bureaucracies. Did Karl Marx write a gospel no one but Sister Dillon knows about?

And then we find water causes wars, but only when the eeeevil capitalists are involved. Because we all know there have never been wars because a government wanted control of something its neighbor had, right? Or complete control over its neighbor, period.

Just more evidence that leftist thinking is an oxymoron.

LINK
forest hunter says:

November 4, 2007 at 8:21 pm

That’s rich GWR!

Oddly that entire bottled water thingy was for me a joke from the onset. We somehow managed for several hundred years that I’m sure of, w/o little plastic jugs to fill up, recycle and yadda yadda. Clay, wood, leather and glass and then along came the thermos style containers of varying sizes, filters of coal and other products, enough to alter the flavor and quality and so on.

Is bottled water still more expensive than fossil fuels?
Great White Rat says:

November 5, 2007 at 8:03 am

Is bottled water still more expensive than fossil fuels?

Sure is, forest. Lots more expensive, in some cases, depending on brand of water and transportation costs. The article I linked mentioned one brand of water sold in a Philly restaurant retailing at $50 a bottle. That’s for people who have waaaaaay more money than brains, I suppose.
Great White Rat says:

November 5, 2007 at 8:14 am

Interesting article at Opinion Journal this morning pointing out how the usual hatemongers on the left have focused their attentions on Rudy Giuliani lately. There a nice selection of quotes from leftist columnists, pundits, and bloggers showing the growing hysteria, and a segment detailing a blatant anti-Giuliani lie by Keith Olberman. Not that catching Olberman in a lie is anything new.

This part should provoke some thought:

The irony, of course, is that the more vocal, vicious and unfounded the liberal attacks on Mr. Giuliani become, the easier it is for him to make his case to conservative primary voters that they agree on a lot more than they disagree. Mr. Giuliani has often cited his liberal foes to burnish his own conservative credentials.

“I find it difficult understanding those who try to make me out as an activist for liberal causes,” Mr. Giuliani said at his recent speech to the Family Research Council’s Value Voters Summit. “If you think that, just read any New York Times editorial while I was mayor of New York City.”

Whatever you may think of Giuliani, it’s clear the leftists are terrified of the idea that he could win.
forest hunter says:

November 5, 2007 at 8:06 pm

Can 12 million illegals be wrong?

Pander at your own peril you progressive clowns and leftover fools.

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