“In a recent poll, more Iraqis, who live in Iraq, say Iraq is headed the right direction than Americans who merely watch TV reports about Iraq or read newspaper reports about Iraq.”
A bracelet campaign I can finally get behind.
The risks of marrying a “career” woman;

If a host of studies are to be believed, marrying these women is asking for trouble. If they quit their jobs and stay home with the kids, they will be unhappy ( Journal of Marriage and Family, 2003). They will be unhappy if they make more money than you do ( Social Forces, 2006). You will be unhappy if they make more money than you do ( Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001). You will be more likely to fall ill ( American Journal of Sociology). Even your house will be dirtier (Institute for Social Research).

Robert Marshall asks a pretty simple question of media.
Add your own in the comments.

Beach Boys … sand … glass. I think you know where this heads.
Security breach at an Indian nuke plant.
The existence of “dark matter” – confirmed.
Fallout from the Lefty Lexicon. Shameful.

Another weekend on the road. You can use this thread for reader tips, and related comments.

No Speed Bumps;

It seems this USA country has acquired the name The Great Satan. On more than one occasion Satan could be heard saying, “What? That is ridiculous. Let me tell you about being a Great Satan.”

G&M;

The Canadian Auto Workers union has declared political independence after delegates to the union’s constitutional convention voted to formally sever ties with the New Democratic Party.

Well, that frees them up to join Hezbollah!
The “diverse” Front Range Coalition for Justice and Peace in the Middle East held a rally in downtown Denver on the weekend.

Diversity? Yes, the crowd ran the gamut all the way from the genocidal to the merely anti-Semitic.

A very good little video roundup of photo fraud in Lebanon to pass along to your non-blog reading friends.
Add yours in the comments.

I’m pretty tied up today with work, etc. So a quick readers tips post to keep up with items coming in while I’m otherwise occupied.

An open thread for your tips, blog posts, and related comments. Plane connections from San Francisco willing, I’ll be back later this evening.

It’s another long weekend of travel for me (yeah, I’m flying. Ugh). I have no idea if I’ll be able to get online when I do have free moments. (Which will be few and far between.) So, until I’m back, it’s an open thread for your readers tips. And be sure to check out the other blogs on the sidebar!
Chinese organ harvesting practices – a reply to the Chinese government by David Kilgour and David Matas.
Hezbollah stronghold – Dearborn, Michigan? (registration may be required)
Powerline;

I don’t get this. First, CAIR endlessly tells us that Muslims are peaceful and not terrorists. But then, in the next breath, it sticks up for the terrorists and objects to their being called fascists. Second, CAIR seems to object to any pejorative reference to Islamic terrorists. If we can’t call them fascists, or militant jihadists, or Islamic radicals, or totalitarians or imperialists, what on earth are we supposed to call them?
Personally, I generally just call them terrorists. They clearly have some qualities in common with the fascists of the 30s and 40s, but, frankly, calling the terrorists “fascists” does a disservice to the fascists. In my opinion, today’s Islamic terrorists are worse even than the Communists, who previously held the record. Worse qualitatively, that is; the difference is that the terrorists don’t yet wield the kind of power that the Communists once did.

The US Army is is reaching recruiting goals again.
Strong Conservative thinks Bush is “Looking Less Than Presidential”.
If your comments get caught in the filter, try posting again without a href tags, etc. And avoid words that are common to spammers – like “casino”, “online”, “credit report”, etc. Note that I’m not going to be around to clear them, so check carefully before you hit the post button. Yes, I know it’s frustrating.
Please restrict your comments to tips or related discussion.

One more day of dog showing, and then I hit the road for home. A little something for everyone. Use the comments for your own – and then get away from your computers, dammit, and enjoy what’s left of this great long weekend!
A Promise kept
And now, for something completely different…
Via Memri

The war between Israel and Hizbullah has revealed profound disagreement in the Arab world concerning the legitimacy of Hizbullah’s activities against Israel. Two major camps have emerged.

Bring back the Arrow.
“Canada’s new PM is, quite clearly, a splendid fellow” (link fixed)
Quite!

Another long day at the show ahead – use this thread for your own tips and followup commentary.
Also, please stop engaging the trolls.

Dog show weekend, so things will be slow until Monday. I’ll be hitting the road shortly, so will let you amuse yourselves with reader tips for the time being.
National Post;

In the days leading up to his death, Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener was a soldier under siege, trapped in his UN compound as the war closed in around him.
But even as the bombing intensified, the Canadian peacekeeper managed to send a letter from the front lines.

Regular readers may have noticed I don’t link to Mark Steyn’s stuff very often. The reason? He’s so good, I know half the blogosphere will beat me to it!
Maurice Strong is hiding from American justice – in China.
Leave your own in the comments.

An open readers tips thread for you to use to share items on your own blog, or those you’ve found elsewhere. I’m still enroute home, so regular blogging will resume later today.

I’ll be mostly offline for the weekend, so until Monday afternoon things are going to be relatively slow. If your comments are held up, be patient – I’ll release them when I’m able. Avoid using smammer language (like “sex” “online”) and live links and you’re more likely to remain unfiltered. The spam filter is “learning” to recognize regular commentors, so it’s less of a problem than it used to be.
A few items sent along in past days;
Apollo 9 fakery – more evidence.
STrong Conservative examines the fallout of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld – giving terrorists status they don’t merit.
Forget MAWO’s terrorist sympathies – taxpayers should be ticked off about sponsoring the pro-criminal culture of hip-hop in the first place.
Why Israel’s Reaction is Right – in Spiegel, of all places.
It’s just not us here nuance-challenged racist rednecks sounding the alarm… From Citizen to Subject: The Rule of Experts and the Rise of Transnational Anti-Democrats

At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that we had arrived at “The End of History”, and that capitalism and liberal democracy would now be the only global system left. But when I look at Europe today, I see democracies under threat because of an elaborate Eurabian bureaucracy and Islamic fanaticism. I see countries unwilling or unable to defend themselves against massive immigration/colonization.

Add your own in the comments.

My isp seems to be down this morning and I’ve got a full day of work ahead (and then some). So, until it’s back up this is all you get. You can use this thread for reader tips until I’m back.

I’m heading out to Regina today, so a reader tips post is all you get until tomorrow.
Terror From The North – a Frontpage symposium interviews Rachel Marsden, Stewart Bell, Patrick Grady, Michael Marzolini, and Robert Spencer.
Iran, North Korea, Syria – The Axis Of Nutcase.
Victor Davis Hanson;

Finally, the world is accepting that the Middle East problem was never about so-called occupied land — but only about the existence of Israel itself. Hezbollah and Hamas, and those in their midst who tolerate them (or vote for them), didn’t so much want Israel out of Lebanon and Gaza as pushed into the Mediterranean altogether. And since there will be no second Holocaust, the Israelis may well soon transform a perennial terrorist war they can’t easily win into a conventional aerial one against a terrorist-sponsoring Syria that they can.”

No Joe, No!

In a written statement released late Friday, Volpe said Jim Karygiannis, a controversial Toronto MP, “has left the campaign as a result of the position taken by the candidate on the current crisis in the Middle East.”

Supporting the troops – James is giving away yellow ribbon car magnets. He writes;

I started this site after my ribbon was stolen from my car as a way to get back
at those “tolerant” liberals that didn’t like my politics.

Share yours in the comments. Keep the chatter civilized and on topic, please.

I’ve got a busy afternoon ahead, so you can entertain each other on this thread by directing readers to your own posts, or other items of interest.
An item at Debka;

All the world powers assembled in St. Petersburg for the G-8 summit agreed that Hizballah started the war as Tehran’s proxy terrorist arm. They picked up on the attitude of the US president, who is telling Israel: Let it run; but keep civilian casualties down and don’t kick too much Lebanese infrastructure.
Even Arab governments, which automatically fought any Israeli military action in the past, have formed a solid Sunni Muslim front, led by Saudi Arabia, which is content to watch the Shite Hizballah take a beating and the burgeoning Shiite assertiveness in the region squashed.
The Olmert government is eagerly exploiting this leisurely international climate to smash as much of Hizballah’s terror machine as he can before Washington holds up a stop sign. Monday, July 17, a clutch of would-be ceasefire brokers descended on Beirut and Jerusalem. None came with Bush’s nod, so they will not get very far.

Holland’s suicidal tendencies deepen; Dutch Court OKs ‘Pedophile’ Political Party
A painful paper cut at the New York Times.
And if you have a good post you’d like to share, send it in Michael McCullough’s Trackback Tuesday.
Jeff notices that Canadian terrorism legislation is … well … regrettably Canadian. (Language advisory).

Beirut calling.
Israpundit: “Today’s No. 1 Israel-smear word is “disproportionate.” Agreement here – “Where are the rules for a ‘appropriate’ response written? What exactly is the appropriate response to regimes that pose an existential threat to a free society?”
Infozone has links to Middle East streaming television.
Why Tony Blair’s Labour Party needs to go;

Some 2,000 pupils at English state schools are to have special classes in happiness under a pilot scheme aimed at cutting depression, self-harm and anti-social behaviour.”

Globe&Mail:

VANCOUVER – Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice told a gathering of native chiefs that his government will not support a “racially segregated” commercial fishery in spite of warnings that using such language will fuel anti-aboriginal sentiment.

Unlike the “fuel” created by having racially segregated commercial fisheries in the first place, one presumes.
Questions about Phil Fontaine’s well paid longtime companion.
Add your own in the comments.

If it moos, tax it.
If this doesn’t result in a ruling against the CBC by their Ombudsman, then his position is the sham it appears to be.
It’s amazing how often the punditry still mentions American journalism’s crazy old aunt in the attic approvingly. (Of course, they still publish Gwynn Dyer and Robert Fisk, too!)
Who killed Fidel?
From July 8;

… a compilation of selected [Arab] reactions of more than a dozen (out of hundreds) people to one of the hot topics of these days which is the kidnapping of Israeli tank-gunner Gilad Shalit and the Israeli military operation in Gaza strip in the attempt to free him.

At Iraq The Model. Not quite what one might predict.
Add yours in the comments.

Gnotalex has “ noticed that some fashion designers really don’t seem to like women very much.”
Derek Lowe;

When we hold up Erlenmeyer flasks to eye level to see the future of research in them, which we try not to do too often because we usually don’t want to know, rarely is this accompanied by an eerie red light coming from the general direction of our pockets. It’s a bad sign when that happens, actually.

Then again….
Riehl World View asks;

“Is it the spotlight right after YearlyKos that’s leading to this infestation of crazy within the so-called reality-based community, or have they been this bad all along?

They’ve been this bad all along. I think the frustration arising from watching from the virtual sidelines as the right side of the blogosphere gains traction in the mainstream has just pushed them to become more strident – and people are noticing. And it looks good on them, I might add.
Add your own in the comments.

A reader tips – open thread (for discussion arising from tips) for those of you who simply refuse to leave the computer to enjoy a beautiful Saturday evening!

Go Joe Go!

Only Mr. Volpe’s campaign released a figure for how many new members it had signed up across the country: 35,000.

[30,000 of them are Conservative party members. Don’t tell anyone.]
Bill Roggio has created a web page which contains links to the articles, photogalleries and multimedia from the Afghanistan embed.
“Star Wars” critics

… must bear the major burden of responsibility for the delays and setbacks that have prevented the missile defense system from becoming fully operational long before the present crisis with North Korea.”

(click image for link)
Add your own in the comments.