Thank you Coastwatcher for forwarding me this very cool calf photo from somewhere else in the world.
I told you calf blogging was going to be big! Even the military gets it!
Archive for February, 2008
It’s not nice to steal. I think it’s even a sin. However today is Friday and there are two blog posts up that
a) are too good not to read in their entirety and
b) too short to try to parse and
c) I know that most people don’t click through to links.
So with that introduction here are a couple of links/posts that I um want to showcase here. (Showcase? That’s better than stealing, right?)
From Glenn at Instapundit:
That’d be a ‘no’.
From Harrison Bergeron at Three Sources:
“Every so often I just wish that it were a little more of an even playing field,” she said, “but, you know, I play on whatever field is out there.”
Ah yes, if only she were a black man, things would be so much easier.
Thank you gentlemen – excellent, excellent posts!
I don’t usually link to Drudge stories on purpose, because, if you’re on the internet and you’re reading me, you are also checking in with Drudge. If you wanted to read the Drudge story, you already would have.
However – today you need to read this story about Mr. Drudge. (if you haven’t “met” him in the past)
Here’s a story on the bad Heparin coming out of China.
They use the mucous membrane of the intestine of slaughtered pigs to create this.
(Who thinks of these ideas?)
Just an fyi, most of these stories talk of heart disease patients getting heparin. However, if you’ve ever been to the hospital and had fluids, you’ve had heparin.
(if my vast veterinary experience is useful anyway-you use heparin to keep that point of entry of the catheter from clotting)
I look forward to the stories out of Iraq after today when Mr. Ahmadinejad visits.
Amir Tahiri shares his thoughts about how Iran is working to keep things in Iraq in disarray until Obama becomes the President and leaves. It’s not like the President of Iran to have much humility so we’ll see what happens when plan A doesn’t come to fruition!
raq still depends on the United States for protection against domestic and foreign enemies. As long as a danger existed that Iraq might fall to radical Arab Sunni groups led by al Qaeda, Tehran didn’t object to that dependence. Now, however, the picture is different.
As the possibility of al Qaeda and its allies winning recedes, Iran is starting to focus on the prospect that a Shiite-dominated but pro-American Iraq might offer Iranians a rival model. So the Islamic Republic has determined not to let the Americans and their Iraqi allies succeed beyond defeating al Qaeda and the Sunni insurgency.
As Ahmadinejad has put it several times, Tehran won’t allow Iraq to have an “American future.”
and
Ahmadinejad believes the United States lacks the staying power to consolidate its victory in Iraq. Encouraged by Sen. Barack Obama’s promise to withdraw all US troops by the end of 2009 if he wins the White House (which the Iranians expect him to do), Ahmadinejad’s message to Iraqis is simple: The Americans are leaving, wouldn’t you like to join our side?
Uh, that’d be “no”.
Good Lord, do they ever learn??
Gateway Pundit in onto a new 60 minutes “allegation”.
(ht Instapundit)
Arriving late at his ideas, I didn’t know him well. However, Powerline has a nice writeup.
Rest in Peace sir.
Vodkapundit gives the play by play.
My thoughts: This was the first Democratic debate I saw and a few things struck me.
1) Obama’s policy ideas aren’t much different than Clinton’s, so I’m not sure how she can claim he’s all hat. He didn’t sound any more empty to me than any other politician. But then again, I’m a swooning girl.
He’s so smooooooth. Seriously, he thought on his feet, while Clinton made certain she got certain lines in.
2) Obama did very well at trying to hold the Democrat party together. He’s the only one who brought up McCain and he gave Clinton the benefit of many doubts. He also made some motions about being “centrist” vs an outright socialist. That probably won’t stand in the general but it was a hand out to independents.
3) Clinton has whined more than once about how tiring campaigning is. No one likes a whiner. It wouldn’t matter if it was her voice or a deep male voice. She’s complaining about doing something she has chosen to do. Shut up. (this in regards to her “it’s hard to have fun on the campaign trail” line. [paraphrased])
4) Add in another whine about SNL and feeling “trapped” when asked about Putin’s successor and you have a person really wants to be the President without having to go through all the hard stuff to get there. Not a winning line. Especially when Obama is saying more than once he understands that sometimes that’s how hard campaigns go.
Clinton is over. The good news is that without her in the running we’re actually going to get a real person for President again. I have a lot of respect for Obama even though I won’t be voting for him. The country is not going to fall into tiny little bits if he wins. Yes, there will be changes
Powerline doesn’t underestimate the man.
Obama’s appeal lies, in part, in his ability to make liberalism seem palatable. Unlike Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, he is generally not shrill or hectoring. He comes across as calm and reasonable. In this, he really does resemble Ronald Reagan.
Exactly. Obama is likable. I’d be happy to argue with him on policy and I suspect he’d listen. (assuming I knew what I was talking about) Hillary would pat me on the head and John would call me names.
UPDATE You’ll want to read this about race baiting in this race. By Obama’s camp.
History will remember that George W Bush made a difference in Africa.
Click here to read of his latest trip and see a slide show.
(ps – I have no idea how to get a permanent link to the White House website, so click soon, or you’ll miss it!)
In my previous post I noted that the examples used concerning the housing crisis by the MSM have been idiotic. Just like the examples used during the SCHIP debate were idiotic.
Yes, there is a mortgage situation. Yes there is an uninsured health situation. However, by writing stories using specific single examples you degrade the problems. And you miss the beautiful forest for the one dying tree, as it were.
On the 23rd Excalibur’s Otto Pernotto posted about a story in the NYTimes by Elizabeth Rubin. (disclaimer: I haven’t read the story yet) Otto notes that Ms Rubin writes about a situation in Afghanistan where civilians and Americans were killed. She uses that one unit’s actions as an example of total military incompetence.
Here’s Otto:
This is one small unit action witnessed by one reporter and yet, this will be extrapolated to the greater incompetence of our military, to our impending defeat, to our blood thirstiness, to every modern military stereotype imaginable. What would have happened had there been a reporter at Kasserine Pass, or covering the bomber war over Europe in WWII and allowed to report the full nature of our losses? What about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the loss of over 800 men or the Battle at the Chosin Reservoir, or as the Marines called it, the Bloody Chosin?
Great post Otto. (even worthy of a Blackfive link!)
(I’ll read the link later today and update if needed)
