kate; does this mean you get a free trip on the annual WS cruise?

It MUST be the huge staff of publicly funded "investigative journalists" running around digging up stories that are responsible for you continuously scooping WS

I have noticed a few cases, but it's not like the entire magazine is CC'ed from this or any other blog.

I enjoy receiving the Western Standard -- the design is excellent, and the stories are interesting, well-researched and diverse in nature. Best of all, it's a perspective the MSM rarely gives us.

In any case, I strongly suspect Ezra is not making the big bucks off this venture (especially given the recent bogus Human Rights complaint and Indigos' shameful little censorship game). I wish the WS well as the best right wing magazine in Canada, and SDA as the best right wing blog.

Throw some ads up Kate, and I'll click on them!

The W/S is a bi-weekly news magazine. SDA is a semi-daily web site. Logically, it is natural for current events stories to appear here first. However, the W/S does have the resources to conduct detailed investigations into some of these topics, and we have seen much good work from them on that front.

I'm certainly glad to have both of them. As always, thank you Kate.

Oh, and, Atwood, are you any relation to Margaret Atwood, the distopianist? I'm just wondering because if you are, maybe you could ask her for me: since she likes writing so much, and is so keen on distopia, why doesn't she just write an autobiography?

"I Won't Pretend I haven't noticed."

I'm sure the stories all come 'from a broad strata of our community'. Or perhaps it's just 'common association within a community'?

*coughcough*

"I have noticed a few cases, but it's not like the entire magazine is CC'ed from this or any other blog."

True, but if there's breaking news that those of a Libertarian or Conservative bent need to know about, you're going to read it on SDA long before it appears in the WS.

I find I wind up skimming and ignoring the WS because the majority of its content has already been so thoroughly covered by the blogosphere. I didn't even bother reading the last one. I saw the cover on TC Douglas, remembered reading the wealth of material on Saint Tommy over at CJunk that Kate linked to some time ago, and passed my copy of WS straight off to my father-in-law without even peeking inside.

This will be page one in WS within two months. Tracking same. ...-

Dualies

Jay Currie recently expressed some incredulity that I run with dual 19 inch LCD monitors on my system. I made the move to dual monitors as I found that I was wasting too much time flipping back and forth between windows on my desktop. Adding the extra monitor gives me additional real estate to work with and accelerates my workflow. ...- urbanrefugee

"This will be page one in WS within two months."

:-p~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OT: North Korea just fired off test missiles that range from 2400 - 6200 miles "taep'o dong 2" long range capable of carring nucular weapons.

MaryM: Apparently, the test was a dud as it failed and dropped into the sea about 375 miles from Japan.

They should have hired Werner von Braun and company.
Looks like a V2 like failure. I am sure the US satellites orbiting were tracking the launch and flight into oblivion.

...oOOOOoohhh pick me, pick me!

Hans Rupprecht: Even though it was a dud, this is not something the rest of the world is taking very lightly. There will be serious ramifications for this action.

Mary M:

I'm sure the Security Council at the UN will be taking a somewhat dim view of Kim Jong Il; exercising more advanced sabre rattling.

Most likely this was done out of North Korea's diminished sense of self worth, in an effort to bolster claims at the negotiating table for the six party talks.

When N Korea threatens 'nuclear annihilation', this is the kind of talk that gets diplomats to stand up and take notice.

Heating up the BBQ to 10 million degrees doesn't fall into most peoples idea of relaxing summer diversions.

Note to Kim Jong Il...

As an alternative to demanding attention and respect by threatening the rest of the world with nuclear war and big,powerful missiles,may I suggest you consider penis enhancement instead?

Hans said:

"I'm sure the Security Council at the UN will be taking a somewhat dim view of Kim Jong Il; exercising more advanced sabre rattling".

OOoooooo ........ I'll bet Kim is scared shitless of the UN Security Council being upset.

United Nations ....... what a joke.

BCer: Well George W Bush has to go thru the motions.

On the other hand GWB could "accidentally" send over an ICBM with a MIRV warhead and incinerate North Korea.

GWB could then say it was just all a mistake, as it was one of those 4th of July 'crackers' that went astray.

Another likely scenario?

He'll be inviting Hans Blix for a visit to the Imperial Palace any day now....

It seems to me that the wrong publication is raking in all that subscription money. At the very least, Ezra Levant (the Western Standard’s publisher), should be cutting Kate a big phat cheque each month given that she seems to be doing the lion’s share of the Western Stanard’s story research for them.

Yes, so it seems.

I noted in the runup to your election, Kate and Angry ( and a few other blogs of note ) seemed to lead the pack, breaking new stories and expanding on old ones.

A tip O' the hat to ye...

Kate said:

"He'll be inviting Hans Blix for a visit to the Imperial Palace any day now...."

See, I knew it, another "Hans Conspiracy"!!

the funniest rocket vid I saw was some redstone or something where the emergency booster took off and then to a 'pop' sound effect the capsule let go after the escape rocket had gone.

10 years later the americans had put themselves within striking distance of the moon.

some of Goddard's early rockets were duds.

the russians which did a lot of firsts blew their own launch complex to smytherines in the late 60s.

the early early V1s continually missed their targets but not the later V2s.

this launch failure will cost the future of the scientists in charge but others will step in and not make the same mistakes. no doubt they were watching the telemetry very closely.

its a matter of time. they do after all, have the nuke to put on the top of it all on their own, and if worse comes to worse they just may trade a wee bit of their weapons know how for some rocket know how.

who knows? maybe dubya's gang will come up with a variation of the 'merlin' plot whereby they GAVE the iranians flawed but complete blueprints of The Bomb in hopes they would follow it exactly and be disappointed. didnt count on the russian 'defector' quickly spotting the flaw and nudge nudge wink wink telling his iranian contact if they needed 'further technical assistance' he was available.

read 'state of war' by James Risen for the details.

after all, iran and n korea are part of the 'axis of evil' so the n koreans qualify on those grounds.

"Note to Kim Jong Il...

As an alternative to demanding attention and respect by threatening the rest of the world with nuclear war and big,powerful missiles,may I suggest you consider penis enhancement instead?"

Methinks that'll be the 'Type o' Dong III'. (Long stroke, short fuse)

Brian M. That is the quote of the DAY!!!! Make me laugh!!!!!

Perdiction: The following crib will not be seen in the WS, ever; not in the next 2 months, ever.
Only on free republic. As Zerb said: What? Me Lie? ...-

That was no mistake. It was a lie. (the msm: beyond mere bias)
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