Links and Minifeatures 2005 08 09 (Tuesday)
This is one instance where life should imitate Scrappleface: Hiroshima Survivors Celebrate Life-Saving Atomic Bomb
I would really love to have more for you folks on the Illegal Alien who got a job as a Border Patrol agent and was helping smuggle other illegals into the country (as well as being connected to a drug gang), but it's like the story has fallen off the edge of the earth. There is literally nothing. I sent emails yesterday, and I even called to ask OPM exactly how long background checks are taking, how long a typical agent is working before it is complete. Stone wall. Maybe I'll try a FOIA request, but those take a while.
If anybody missed it, start here and read the other articles in the thread.
Iraq/War on Terror
Al Qaeda Magazine Published Openly in Turkey! (HT: LGF)
On the plus side, Captain's Quarters tells of discontent in the ranks in Iraq.
Victor Davis Hanson posted an essay on Saturday with more on more on comparisons between Islam and Christianity, which I covered in this article
I'm thinking this is not a good sign: Mauretania junta frees jailed Islamists. HT to Little Green Footballs
Air America/Gloria Wise
HT to Powerline for directing me to Radio Equalizer who shows that I may have been right in my speculation at the end of this post
Chortle!: "If every one of their listeners gave a dollar, they'd have, like, a dollar" Michelle Malkin has more.
Captain's Quarters shows us exactly how few Legacy Media crickets are chirping on this story, with a comparison to the Martha Steart story.
Michelle Malkin has the smallest violin in the world: It's Alive! Al Franken speaks on the scandal. Macho Nachos has more on Franken not being paid. My hunch is that he's still being paid too much.
Housing Bubble: "statistical canary in a mine shaft".
Given the state of the market here, the canary hasn't exactly died, but it's having difficulty remaining conscious.
Things like this article give me hope that we may conquer poverty and hunger after all.
Holy Shades of Tammany Hall, Batman! Michelle Malkin links to a Newark Star-Ledger about the governor's office steering Homeland Security funds to Donkey districts.
Stop the ACLU has an article about how the Florida ACLU is funded. Why do I feel like Kate Capshaw's character in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Bugs?
La Shawn Barber celebrates real diversity.
Scrappleface has more along the same lines
Amusing timewaster department: Virtual Bubble wrap (HT to Owlish Mutterings)
How did this guy get on the Huff'n'Puff? Greg Gutfeld. It's almost like something out of Sesame Street, "One of these things is not like the others" - amusing, that is. I had no idea who he was until I ran a Yahoo search on him, and I only looked at the first page of results, so that may not be representative, but I guess he's not quite a big enough name to get into a really top notch celebrity lobotomy clinic yet, so in the meantime he may be worth watching.
Powerline debunks a NARAL ad aimed at John Roberts. This is, sad to say, the sort of nonsense I've come to expect of them - "But trust us, it's okay , we're the good guys! Honest! Really! Would we lie to you?"
The background sound you hear is me losing my lunch again. Probably for the best, given my current weight, but it's no fun while it's happening.
Q and O has a good taxonomy of liberal blogs. Time to do a couple of quick adds to the roll. It doesn't cause cancer. I figure a certain portion of the time I will learn something, the rest I'll be able to get a laugh.
And for those who actually are enemies, I'd rather find out what they're up to now than find it out later. Everybody from Sun Tzu to Macchiavelli to Clausewitz and on has things to say about that.
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