US hands control of Anbar province to Iraqi military.
And may I take this opportunity to send this little shout-out to my friends on the chickendove left – I hope the sonsabitches among you who gloated (yes, you did) over every “flag draped coffin” and murderous suicide bomb enjoy that special spot in Hell that has been reserved for you.
You’ve earned it.
Librano Vineyards
Every bottle comes complete with its own paper bag.
Y2Kyoto: Sam Branson’s Arctic Diary
“I am spending my days paddling in ice-cold water with a frozen, painful backside, trying to bring to the attention of the world and its leaders the necessity of stopping the world heating up.”
May a polar bear put them out of their misery.
h/t
The former Democrat VP nominee is endorsing the Republican candidate for President
That’s your headline all you Obamedia journalists. It is not really all that difficult to grasp. Just think about it this way. Pretend that the former GOP Vice Presidential nominee was speaking at the DNC and endorsing Barack Obama and cover it that way.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here is Meade “Lux” Lewis performing Whistlin’ Blues (1937, 3:30).
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How to Properly Field Dress a Moose
Fred Thompson addresses the RNC tonight…
Here’s a few excerpts;
“Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit. Well, give me a tough Alaskan Governor who has taken on the political establishment in the largest state in the Union — and won — over the beltway business-as-usual crowd any day of the week.”
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“Now, being a POW certainly doesn’t qualify anyone to be President.
But it does reveal character.”
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“To deal with these challenges the Democrats present a history making nominee for president.
History making in that he is the most liberal, most inexperienced nominee to ever run for President. Apparently they believe that he would match up well with the history making, Democrat controlled Congress. History making because it’s the least accomplished and most unpopular Congress in our nation’s history.”
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“They say they are not going to take any water out of your side of the bucket, just the “other” side of the bucket! That’s their idea of tax reform.”
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“We need a President, and Vice President, who will take the federal bureaucracy by the scruff of the neck and give it a good shaking. And we need a President who doesn’t think that the protection of the unborn or a newly born baby is above his pay grade.”
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I urge you to read the whole speech, but to really get a feel of what Thompson said and how he said it, you have to watch it. It was truly impressive. I’ll post the video here when I find it.
Palin/Thompson in 2016!
UPDATE: The complete Fred Thompson speech at the RNC 2008
The Hypocritical Right?
Several liberal and “progressive” bloggers are gleefully pointing out the supposed hypocrisy that Sarah Palin represents because she believes in abstinence as a means to battle teen pregnancy.
“It didn’t work for her daughter, did it?”, they point out.
I won’t jump on the fact that they’re using a single point of reference to belittle a society-wide education plan, that’s neither here nor there. What I will question them on is if they believe that education is the be-all, end-all to combat teen pregnancy?
I ask, because on Page 25, (pdf, 6.7M, 145pp) of the State of Alaska, Department of Education & Early Development, Content and Performance Standards for Alaska Students (Revised Mar 2006) it says this under Skills for a Healthy Life:
7) understand the physical and behavioral characteristics of human sexual
development and maturity; and
8) understand the ongoing life changes throughout the life span and healthful
responses to these changes.
I’m guessing that abstinence isn’t the only piece of the system that failed in the case of Bristol Palin, eh?
Update: Damian is on the education theme too.
Cheers,
lance
Canadian Jihadists Killed in Pakistan
Some Canadians come to a fitting end … in this case it was a merciful end for the rest of us because we were spared the weeping and moaning of the Canadian Left had these traitors been captured and either interned in Club Guantanamo or handed over to Afghan authorities:
And, if they come from Canada to fight our own soldiers (as evidence suggests) it is imperitive that they end up as atomized vapour wafting through the Pakistan air. They must not become trophies in prison where the Canadian Left can turn them into heroes. I can think of no better end for Muslim traitors who have found a home in Canada, only to turn on us, than to find themselves at the receiving end of a JDAM.
As an aside, there has to date been no confirmation that those killed were in fact, from Canada. For now, we have the word of Pakistani authorities.
Update: Canuck government checking it out.
Only Communists Can Kill That Fast
A repost, but I thought it might interest some people
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones performing Alabama (1963, 5:54).
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Which VP Would You Want Answering The Phone At 3AM?
Maybe the correct question should be “which VP would have difficulty picking up the phone at 3AM?”.
“We kill him,.”
… she says, “kill him, kill, kill… You have to kill him, you understand?”
The Politics Of Personal Destruction
Writ large.
(I will confess, however, to watching Fox News this morning in the sole hope of witnessing Geraldo Rivera and his wind-speed-thingie swept out to sea.)
Happy Labour Day
It’s the day we play “uterus politics”!
Apparently, since the left can’t really go after Palin on her experience (Obama has equal or less, and he’s running for the TOP job, not the bottom) or her record, which seems very appealing to a reform-minded electorate, the left has settled on the uterine comings-and-goings of not just Sarah Palin but of one of her “witchy-named” daughters, too.
Yes, the washerwomen are whispering and what they’re whispering is imaginative: According to them, Little Trig, (aka “that seriously disabled” Down Syndrome Baby that should have been aborted) whom Palin seems to have taken to the office and breastfed is not Palin’s son but her grandson. One of her daughters, you see, is the actual mother, and oh yes…some of these whisperers even suggest that the baby has an extra chromosome because of…wait for it…incest.
I trust you ladies out there in progressive land are taking notes?
Women being bashed for their right to choose having a family and a career with the support of their spouse.
Women being called sluts, bimbos and brood mares.
Women having their appearance dissected and witchhunts for compromising photos.
Innocent young girls being slandered with rumors & innuendos.
Via Maxed Out Mama – “This stuff really, really convinces women that Democrats are for women:”
Some of us have been pointing this out for a while, you know.
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and I suggest they replace them with seal fur;
Military chiefs are to meet with an animal rights group on Tuesday to discuss alternatives to the traditional bearskin hats famously worn by the guards at Buckingham Palace.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) are to hold talks with Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials to put forward what they say are ethical alternatives to the 18-inch (46-centimetre) tall fur hats worn by army guards.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is the New York Philharmonic Orchestra performing the fourth movement, Allegro non Troppo, of Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich‘s Symphony #5, Leonard Bernstein conducting (1979, 10:39).
Update:
Lisa Schiffren, City Journal, 2008-08-31
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