Daily Archives: December 14th, 2007 «

 

’tis the season (Misc. ramblings)

Posted by: ST on December 14, 2007 at 8:11 pm » 27 Comments

I’m Sickly Toldjah, and I’m reporting for duty. Blogging will continue to be light over the next couple of days, as I continue to fight this blasted cold. Stopped by the drugstore tonight on my way home from the 8-5 (today wasn’t a good day to call in sick) and bought something I never have [...]

 

Every once in a while, a Hollywood actor gets it

Posted by: ST on December 14, 2007 at 2:23 pm » 6 Comments

… and clearly Ron Silver is one of the few. Read this Pajamas Medias piece, where he smacks down wussie NYT columnist Paul Krugman and other like-minded individuals who, 6+ years after 9-11 still don’t get it: In Krugman’s reading of history, our president has damaged our democracy more than the Alien and Sedition Acts [...]

 

Taliban goes down big in Afghanistan

Posted by: ST on December 14, 2007 at 10:52 am » 3 Comments

Awesome – and of course underreported – news from Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s government flag was raised Wednesday on what had been one of the biggest strongholds of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan and a leading world center of heroin production. The town of about 45,000 people was secured at about 9:30 a.m. as Afghan [...]