Clued Right Out

Baiting The Left Baiting the Right 22 Comments

Naomi Wolf has some “interesting” views of what’s happening in the world these days. Here’s an example:

Her initial posts on ISIS repeatedly stated that confirmation of the authenticity of their beheading videos “has not happened yet.” Wolf said that the media was ignoring “journalistic red flags” in that the sole source of the videos had been “SITE, which is run by an anti-Muslim activist with half a million dollars in US funding in 2004.” (In fact, the videos were widely distributed on open-source jihadist online outlets. Maryland-based nonprofit SITE monitors extremist social media.) She also detailed an alleged incident, which I was not able to confirm, of a website “based in Doha, address registered at a private intelligence firm in the UK” that she said had spread news of a Canadian journalist, who turned out not to exist, taken hostage in Syria.

More here.

Operation Empty Chair

I Miss W. Operation Empty Chair Syria The One 40 Comments

Obama’s ‘war’ on ISIS remains strangely nameless.

Right now, there is no specific budget request for Obama’s promised long-term effort to “degrade and destroy” ISIS. A tell-tale sign. Given Obama’s record on veracity, this would seem to indicate “long-term” in his mind means at least through Nov. 5.
Funds for this campaign are being borrowed from other Pentagon accounts. Can a president have a serious war with no budget and no name?

Sure he can. If he’s on the other side.

It’s Probably Nothing

It's Probably Nothing 20 Comments

Don’t panic. It’s really, really hard to catch.

The woman, named by Spanish media outlets as Teresa Romero Ramos, told the paper she took the right precautions in helping to care for a Spanish missionary who was infected with Ebola in West Africa and who died after being brought to the hospital where she worked.
Was she worried she might have contracted the disease after helping with his care?
“Well, no, not at all,” she told El Mundo. . . .
Five people were under observation in a hospital Wednesday — the woman’s husband, judged to be at high risk of infection; a nurse from the same hospital admitted Wednesday morning after showing symptoms; another nurse’s assistant who worked on the same team as the infected woman and was admitted late Tuesday with a fever; a nurse who has tested negative for the virus and is expected to be discharged Wednesday; and an engineer who returned from Nigeria, who also has tested negative and is set to be discharged.

Update: Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy Exhibiting Ebola Symptoms

Montgomery County 2014

Dogblogging 18 Comments

I left the show grounds in Blue Bell, PA at 5pm Eastern on Sunday, and pulled into the driveway here at 7:30pm last night. For our international readers, a map.
It was another successful trip for the Minuteman minis – Ch.Minuteman Toxicology won the MSC of Michigan Specialty and was Award of Merit at Hatboro, while our “Goldikova” daughter, still a puppy, finished her AKC championship title, taking an Award of Merit at the National at Montgomery County Kennel Club to start her “specials” career.
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Grand Champion Minuteman Toxicology at Montgomery County.
But there’s big pile of laundry, dog bathing, trips to the airport, and of course, paying work on my plate over the next couple of days. And if I’m lucky, more sleep. Thanks again to the crew here who kept the site rolling along in my absence! Normal blogging should resume by the weekend.

Roll on, Roll on, Saskatchewan

Gopher News 13 Comments

If you missed the last couple of nights of Byline with Brian Lilley. (umm, you’re not watching?) then you missed his shows on Sask.
This is home to me. I came back in ’95 and have never regretted it, my sister and her family came home a few years ago, my mother is ecstatic. Some of what Brian talks about in his two shows is why.
This isn’t just home, it’s opportunity.
Tuesday nights Byline:

And yes, Chief Bear is that good.

Well, it’s done, and good.

Military 36 Comments

In a vote 157 for and 134 against Canada will once again put our military to task.
In 1990 I was a crewman of HMCS Saskatchewan. The ship was about to go through a refit process and prior to reassignment to HMCS Mackenzie I was assigned to the Saskatchewan’s cleanup crew prior to the docks taking control. Basically I was hauling crap from the boat to where ever it was deemed to go. There was a lot of crap. We were the night crew and started around six in the evening and finished around six the next morning.
One day, while walking into the base, sirens started going off, and kept going.
I walked up to the PO (Petty Officer) in charge of our crew and asked, “What’s going on?” There had been no fire drills, no rushing around the base that would indicate a threat or problem. He replied, “We’re at war.”
This, of course, was Gulf 1.
After my duty was done, and I headed back to the duplex I shared, there were concrete blocks zig-zag’d in front of the base. I turned on the TV. CNN became CNN during this time. The next four months were probably the most stressful period of my life.
They didn’t need volunteers on the boats that went, they were full because many, many of us volunteered.
So we watched. We watched missiles fired on Israel in an attempt to bring them into the war. We watched those civilians donning gas-masks in fear of the chemicals Iraq had poured on Iranian troops. We watched dramatic fireballs behind Peter Arnett and Bernard Shaw.
It was very exhilarating. Except…I couldn’t get over the what-ifs. What if Israel retaliated? What if Iraq used chemical weapons? What if….
Those were my wingers over there.
So, yeah. a vote was held to send our pilots, crews and ground crews over to rain judgment on those who would despoil the gift of life.
But there is no trepidation, no hesitation. They are still my wingers, but they’ll be in far less danger than our ships and pilots during Gulf 1. Far less danger than Afghanistan. Far less danger than Kosovo. And they’ll be on the side of angels.
God speed, men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Nanny and the Inspector

nannystate 17 Comments

From Kevin D. Williamson’s “They Are Coming for Your Children:

“(Connecticut Governor Dannel) Malloy’s committee on the Newtown shootings is recommending that Connecticut require home-schooling families to present their children to the local authorities periodically for inspection, to see to it that their psychological and social growth is proceeding in the desired direction.

That would be the bureaucrats‘ desired direction, of course, not that of the parents.
Read the whole thing.

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