Citizens of Maine Greet Returning Heroes

BLACKFIVE: Citizens of Maine Greet Returning Heroes

Good for these folks.
A good read.

You Big Mouth, You! has their final “Stingy” list update. A slap on the back for Chuck Simmons for a job well done.

By the way, stop by there and wish him well as he celebrates 4 years of blogging there, this week.

Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) tells his district in the Sun-Times this morning what I’ve been saying for years; The Democrats are the cause of at pump prices.  A MUST READ.

“LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Reuters) –: An aspiring physicist was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on Monday and ordered to pay $3.5 million for his role in a spree of arson and vandalism that targeted gas-guzzling Hummers and other sports utility vehicles. “

This amounts to a slap on the wrist.

I’ve an idea. Let’s put this clown into one of the thimbles he expects everyone else to drive. Then, let’s put said thimble in a line of junk cars at a monster truck show.. with him inside it. I’m willing to bet lot of people would come to see and cheer on the trucks.

And, no my friends, I’m not backing off this one. If you think what I propose is violent, I suggest it’s mild in comparison to the deaths he proposes for millions of American drivers…. and as such I would propose the same to ANY idiot complaining on the topic of what others drive. And all of that says nothing of the kind of deaths he could have caused with the stunt he pulled.

You want to exchange your life for a few gallons of gas? Fine. You do that.  Just don’t expect me to be as stupid as you are.

BBC NEWS (alog with everyone else… it just happened to be on the top of the search engine) is saying this morning that

The 67-year-old actress was in Kansas City as part of a book-signing tour for her new autobiography when it happened.

Police said the man queued for 90 minutes before spitting a “large amount” of tobacco juice into her face

Now, this is of interest to me, because among other things, of a John Leo column of last week.

How many years have we watched abuse pouring out of the left? It’ll be interesting to see the reaction of the MSM now that the tide is moving the other direction.

Patrick at OxBlog is apparently a bit more unbalanced than I’d noted previously. He’s planning a trip, he says.

in summer of 2006 I’m planning to celebrate long-overdue completion of my D.Phil. and a numerologically significant birthday by driving the Silk Road together with a dear friend, and we’ll be writing a book together about the people (and changing polities) we meet along the way.

The historical signifigance of this area is high and seems interesting.But I wonder about the sanity level.  He’s considering running in the Mongol Rally, but the chances of survival for such a trip seem dim…

Is it safe?
No, not completely

What lovely tropical diseases can I collect?
This is NOT a comprehensive list so for real information contact your local travel clinic who can also tell what to do about minimising the risk, but here’s a guide:

Hepititis
Cholera
Diptheria
Meningacoccal meningitis
The plague
Rabies
Typhoid

Now, I suppose, I can show this to my wife when I explain to her how mild railfanning trips with my boys really are.

Republican ad for 2006:

(Video and audio fade in, tape of Howard Dean, doing his “I have a scream speech”)

(Tape runs a few seconds.)

Voice over: ” Do you really want this guy telling you what is and is not patriotic? Do you really want this guy telling you what is an is not a valid religious belief?”

(Fade up on audio:to…) “Yeeeeeeeeaahhhhhhhhhhhhh……”

(Freeze on Dean’s face, yelling, over 5 seconds, dead silence.)

VO: “Isn’t it time people trying to judge your values, actually….”

(Sudden BlackLevel=100%)

VO: “..HAD some?”

Chrenkoff comments on the irony involved in the left wailing about…..

….a “missed opportunity” to elect a representative of the developing world (most likely a Latin American) who would have a better understanding and better outreach to the world’s poor. Conservative German apparently simply won’t do.

True… and I’ve commented here as well.

One of Arthur’s commenters adds a question:

To which I respond:

For the same reasons Homosexuals have been trying for years, against the tide of public opinion, to get homosexual marriges made legal, both in the secular world and within the church itself; SELF-JUSTIFICATION.

It’s true that many within (And more without) the church will not be able to get their mind around those facts,(Usually responding with charges of rampant bigotry within the church) but those ARE the facts.

Jason Hayes suggested last night that

He’s Catholic, he’s conservative and he’s German.

Throw in the fact that he’s pro-life and I give it a week before someone in the MSM or the Democratic Party calls him a Nazi.

Of course all those points were out as of this morning. A look at he covers DRUDGE is running at the moment tells the story…

“From Hitler Youth to Papa Ratzi”
“God’s Rottweiler is the new Pope”

What I’m waiting for is someone to blame George W. Bush for the selection of Pope. Given he claims to be Catholic, Kerry would be a fair enough bet for that nonsnese…. Or, Even more logically… Sullivan.

Orin Kerr seems to think it amusing that Tom Delay doens’t think much of Justice Kennedy’s use of international law to decide cases.

I’ve got a new flash for you, Orin… MOST people don’t like his doing that, either. Do we next, simply disregard our own constitution, our own Bill of rights, etc, in favor of international law?

Your former Boss is so far off on this one, I’d not be quite so proud of having worked for him, if I were you.

Yes, I’ve seen it.
As to what I tihnk, it was a bad move. THe Republicans let themselves get suckered, here, by the left… These ‘accusations’ come from a political activist against W…. Gee… ya think she might have political motivations on this?

And I want that idiot from Ohio…Voinovich… strung up by his ears. At the very least he should be removed from any comittees where he holds a shred of power.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the strict defender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23 years, was elected Pope on Tuesday despite a widespread assumption he was too old and divisive to win election.

Which goes exactly to what I stated on Sunday night:

“Now, it should be noted as a practical matter, that the chances of any Pope being elected out of this conclave being significantly more approved of by say, an Andrew Sullivan type… is very small indeed, given that the vast majority of the Cardinals now in Rome deciding this matter are appointees of Pope John Paul II, and so are likely to be following in his footsteps. ”

And as I suggested also, that blithering dolt, Sullivan, is beside himself;

THE FUNDAMENTALIST TRIUMPH: And so the Catholic church accelerates its turn toward authoritarianism, hostility to modernity, assertion of papal supremacy and quashing of internal debate and dissent.

Translation: The Cardinals made the right move, and sent the right message. You’d think that, eventually, Sullivan would get the message that he’s the one out of step…

Update: Goldberg suggests that perhaps we’ll now hear about the new pope qustioning subordinates roughly, ala Bolton. (Snork!)

Son of an Update: He also suggests that

On Friday, Dean declared: “The issue is: Are we going to live in a theocracy where the highest powers tell us what to do? Or are we going to be allowed to consult our own high powers when we make very difficult decisions?” And yesterday the former Cardinal Ratzinger decried a “dictatorship of relativism” which “does not recognize anything as absolute and leaves as the ultimate measure only the measure of each one and his desires.” It seems to me that Dean and Ratzinger aren’t merely dissimilar, they’re polar opposites.

Given the broader measure of support for the Pope’s predecesor, who also held as the new Pope does in the matter, I’d say the Jury in the case of which stance is the more valid, is back from it’s deliberation.

The Register is reporting:

A statement from NHS Connecting for Health said: “David Kwo, regional implementation director for the NHS Connecting for Health London cluster, was suspended from duty on Thursday, 14 April to enable an investigation into certain allegations that have been received. He will remain suspended until such time as the investigation has been completed.

The suspension is not a judgement but a precautionary measure to ensure that an appropriate and fair investigation can take place, the statement said

Given the central role the NHS is playing over there in next month’s election, my guess is this will play heavy on the election results. I’d not be shocked to see this raised at the PM’s question period.

Chrenkoff notes that Canada wasn’t the only one directing illegal money toward leftist political parties. Seems France was into it at about the same time. Perhaps now we better understand what motivated Chirac…. Errr… Chrétien, oui?

Captain Ed… Take note…..

Engadget has the ultimate in shopping carts designed for the residency challanged. Rush Limbaugh, are you paying attention? This deserves a homeless update.