Old theory, new doubt - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The Single Bullet Theory Takes A Hit

Old theory, new doubt - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

"Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory studying the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have done what many thought impossible -- their research suggests that the single-bullet theory is even less credible than it seems."

Damaged people belie nostalgia - Miranda Devine - Opinion - smh.com.au

Damaged people belie nostalgia - Miranda Devine - Opinion - smh.com.au

The 60s changed everything, only it was less the Age of Aquarius than the age of self-destructive indulgence.
Read the story of the Hughes family and understand the 60s.
I a student once submitted a paper to me which purported to demonstrate how Woodstock had been the genesis, rather than a product of the 1960s. She romanticized the period and was mentored in this project by another teacher who had himself been shaped by that culture. He was the very model of excesses, none of which were admirable.The paper was a mess, and deserved the poor grade it received. The student, and the teacher were appalled, and somehow came to believe that I was somehow prejudiced against her, him or the 60s. That I suppose was apredictable outcome of 60s culture.

America's Muslims Aren't as Assimilated as You Think

America's Muslims Aren't as Assimilated as You Think

This from the WaPo. If the picture we're getting is wrong, why doesn't the WaPo and the rest of the MSM correct it?

Lucky for me I don't rely on mainstream media, therefore I don't have this "assimilated-Muslim" image in my mind.

Of course, the WaPo finds any fault here to be America's.

"It is too soon to say where the growing alienation of American Muslims will lead, but it seems clear that the factors contributing to it will endure. U.S. foreign policy persists in dividing Muslim and Western societies, making it harder still for Americans to realize that there is a difference between their Muslim neighbor and the plotter in London or the kidnapper in Baghdad."

Nerves - or Something Else?

Another jet is diverted to Bangor on its way from Manchester, UK to Chicago. Maybe we are all starting at shadows, or maybe airline crews have been alerted to keep their guard up. Something's in the wind, and it ain't honeysuckle.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/08/25/national/a103730D30.DTL

Oceans Cooling

Well, goooolly," as GomerPyle might have said, or even, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
The American Spectator carries news that the oceans are registering cooling factors, going back say, thirty years, that are just being recognized.

"But the ocean is so vast and slow to change that it takes several decades to realize the heating caused by carbon dioxide. Consequently, a change in the rate of carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere wouldn't be noticed for 30 to 60 years, depending upon whose calculations one believes.Between the time atmospheric carbon dioxide was first directly measured, at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, in 1957, and 1975, it clearly increased exponentially. And once the ocean temperature began to rise, it did so at a constant rate.Then, about 30 years ago, something very peculiar began to occur. Since 1975, it has been impossible to tell whether the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing at an exponential or simply a constant rate.Because of the lag time required for the oceans to register the change in carbon dioxide, it may not be a surprise that an interval of cooling has been detected. The timing is about right: around 30 years.But that's just another climate change hypothesis that time will test. Be forewarned, though. As we've learned from the completely unexpected cooling of the deep ocean that began in 2003, we know a lot less about climate change than we think."

Might this be part of the inconvenient truth that we don't know nearly as much about planet change as we like to think.
Al Gore, call your office.

AMIR TAHERI About that Hezbollah Victory...

OpinionJournal - Featured Article

"The way much of the Western media tells the story, Hezbollah won a great victory against Israel and the U.S., healed the Sunni-Shiite rift, and boosted the Iranian mullahs' claim to leadership of the Muslim world. Portraits of Hassan Nasrallah, the junior mullah who leads the Lebanese branch of this pan-Shiite movement, have adorned magazine covers in the West, hammering in the message that this child of the Khomeinist revolution is the new hero of the mythical "Arab Street...
In Lebanon, the Middle East and the broader Muslim space, however, the picture is rather different."

August 23rd

The Terrier notes that the 22nd passed without Armageddon being trigged by Iran. Nothing much came out of Iran. We all knew that the Iranians wouldn't accept the packeage of incentives in exchange for ending their nuclear enrichment program. They did get three months of more enrichment time out of the deal, and the Bush Admin has tossed a bone to potential allies in pursuing sanctions against Iran, otherwise we're back to where we were three months ago. The world has to decide whether we can tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran, and if not, what we' are prepared to do about it.

Cusack's Round Upon Things African

Please visit Cusack for a trio of Africa-related items. Will the world be outraged? Nah.

http://www.andrewcusack.com/

A Day for Remembrance: Joe Rosenthal RIP

The photographer, Joe Rosenthal, who took this photo on February 23, 1945 has died at the age of 93. This is one of the more reproduced photos of the war, showing U.S. Marines raising the flag on Mt.Suribachi after the bloody Iwo Jima victory.
A great photo, (not photo shopped, or posed) which is the model for the Marine Memorial Iin DC. It also made famous a Pima Indian, Ira Hayes, whose struggle with the bottle would be central to a movie about his life (The Outsider, 1961; Tony Curtis as Hayes) , as well as a song by Johnny Cash in 1964 (The Ballad of Ira Hayes, written by Pete LaFarge).

"Call him drunken Ira Hayes, He won't answer anymore, Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian, Nor the Marine that went to war." RIP, Ira Hayes

BUCHANAN DECLARES: THIRD WORLD CONQUEST OF AMERICA

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpjb.htm

“As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended.”

Follow the link to read other highlights, such as:

"Buchanan warns: “The children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West."One in every twelve people breaking into America has a criminal record.By 2050, there will be 100 million Hispanics concentrated in the U.S. Southwest.Between 10 and 20 percent of all Mexicans, Central Americans and Caribbean people have already moved to the United States.Every month, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehends more illegal aliens breaking into our country, 150,000, than the number of troops we have in Iraq."

In 406 BC the Rhine River froze and the barabarians waiting to enter the Roman Empire could nolongerbekeptout. Of course, conditions in the empire had been decling for some years, Roman citizens felt no duty to the empire, rulers were more concerned with persoanl gain than service to the people, the system was designed to keep the people shut out of the avenues of power and quieted by handouts (bread and circuses.)

Scary? I remember reading predictions of this sort of thing in the 1960s (porbably in the National Review, possibly by Pat Buchanan), and here we are.

If the book takes off (it will), expect the election in November to be about immigration, not Iraq, not terror (barring another attack). Similarly, the election of 2008 will be about this as well. I wonder if we have already made it impossible to counter the votes of illegal persons who are sure to impact the elections?

The Terrier echoes Hugh Hewitt, paraphrasing:

I'll support the political party which will win the war on Islamic Fascism, control the borders, reduce spending and retain (or widen) tax cuts.

British Want to Ditch US in Terror War

Telegraph | News | Ditch US in terror war, say 80pc of Britons

"However - by a margin of more than five to one - the public wants Tony Blair to split from President George W Bush and either go it alone in the "war on terror", or work more closely with Europe."

Interesting; the British want a more aggressive war on terror, but would rather fight it alongside those who don't want to fight it at all. Where do they plan on getting the weapons necessary to fight the baddies? Is this a case of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome)?

Illegal Presence Battlelines in MT Laurel, NJ

I think the phrase "illegal immigration" should be put to rest. The problem is "illegal presence".

'Riverside is going to be ours'

Mulims have a Hard Time Adjusting to Italian Culture...

...it seems that murder is seen as an appropriate remedy for wayward daughters by some Pakistanis. Possibly, such people should stay in Pakistan. How long will Europe put up with this?

Independent Online Edition > Europe

Banfield's Nobel Club

Elliot Banfield provides the New York Sun with excellent illustrations that raise political cartoons to a new level. Here he takes on the Nobel Peace Prize. Considering the past Nobel Laureates one wonders how the Nobel Committee missed out on Hitler and Chamberlain forMunich and Hitler and Stalin for the Non-Aggression Pact. They'dhave fit in nicely with this bunch.

I Still Can't Cry Hard Enough

Five years down the road I still find this to be the most moving tribute to the victims of 9/11 that I've come across. And I still cry, but it's never hard enough.
Follow the link and give a listen; look at the faces again and remember why we fight.


http://www.cantcryhardenough.com/

Song Info

Performed By: Victoria Williams
Written By: David Williams & Marvin Etzioni
From the Album: Swing the Statue
p & c 1990 Rough Trade Records

Lyrics:

I'm going to live my life
Like every day's my last
Without a simple good-bye
It all goes by so fast

And now that you're gone
I can't cry hard enough
No I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

I'm going to open my eyes
And see for the first time
I've let go of you like
A child letting go of his kite

There it goes up in the sky
There it goes beyond the clouds
For no reason why
I can't cry hard enough
No I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

I'm going to look back in vain
And see you standing there
When all that remains
Is just an empty chair

And now that you're gone
I can't cry hard enough
No I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

MOMENT OF TRUTH By RALPH PETERS - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion

"Bit by bit, the Western mood is turning from disbelief regarding the "terrorist threat" to hard-knuckled realism about extremist Islam. 9/11 taught the terrorists little of use and many wrong lessons. It may be hard for some of us to discern what's really happening, but the Islamists are resurrecting a militant, ruthless West.

The florid American master of horror fiction, H. P. Lovecraft, warned his characters, "Do not raise up what ye cannot put down." Islamist terrorists are reviving the West's thirst for blood. And this time it won't be slaked in Flanders.

Things are going to get uglier east of Suez. And we're going to win."

Let's hope he's right.



MOMENT OF TRUTH By RALPH PETERS - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion

Ben Stein Sounds the Alarm. Again.

Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield - New York Times

"I keep thinking, again, that if Israel, with its back to the sea, cannot muster the will to fight in a big way, then the fat, faraway U.S.A. will never be able to do it. I keep saying this and it terrifies me."

Sense is still alive among the elites. The Terrier is surprised this made it to the pages of the NYT.

DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism Security

While Hezbollah reamrs Kofi Annan scolds Israel for moving to prevent that. Annan would be happy to the chair out from under Israel if she hung herself. Failing that he'll make conditions for her survival ever more difficult. The Terrier never expected to see a day in which Israel's survival (long term) would be in doubt. Yet the world seems ever ready to question her right to survive, and accept Palestinian lies about their claims to the terriroty that is Israel.

DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism Security: "DEBKAfile Reports: Turkey forces one Syrian, 5 Iranian arms planes to land at Diyarbakir military base
August 20, 2006, 11:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Six Iranian ILDT type 4-cargo planes and a Syrian aircraft were forced to land at the southeast Turkish military airport last Thursday after US spy satellites spotted they were loaded with missiles, missile launchers and eight boxes of Chinese made C-802 missiles, dubbed by Iran “Nur.” "

Mark Steyn

World is watching as Iraq war tests U.S. mettle

"I happened to be in the Australian Parliament for Question Time last week. The matter of Iraq came up, and the foreign minister, Alexander Downer, thwacked the subject across the floor and over the opposition benches in a magnificent bravura display of political confidence culminating with the gleefully low jibe that "the Leader of the Opposition's constant companion is the white flag.'' The Iraq war is unpopular in Australia, as it is in America and in Britain. But the Aussie government is happy for the opposition to bring up the subject as often as they want because Downer and his prime minister understand very clearly that wanting to "cut and run" is even more unpopular. So in the broader narrative it's a political plus for them: Unlike Bush and Blair, they've succeeded in making the issue not whether the nation should have gone to war but whether the nation should lose the war.
That's not just good politics, but it's actually the heart of the question. Of course, if Bush sneered that John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi's constant companion is the white flag, they'd huff about how dare he question their patriotism. But, if you can't question their patriotism when they want to lose a war, when can you? At one level, the issue is the same as it was on Sept. 11: American will and national purpose. But the reality is that it's worse than that -- for (as Israel is also learning) to begin something and be unable to stick with it to the finish is far more damaging to your reputation than if you'd never begun it in the first place. Nitwit Democrats think anything that can be passed off as a failure in Iraq will somehow diminish only Bush and the neocons. In reality -- a concept with which Democrats seem only dimly acquainted -- it would diminish the nation, and all but certainly end the American moment. In late September 2001 the administration succeeded in teaching a critical lesson to tough hombres like Musharraf and Putin: In a scary world, America can be scarier. But it's all a long time ago now."
©Mark Steyn, 2006

It's My Life and I Won't Fly If They Do

Be alert, be aware, watch what's going on around you
That's the message and these British vacationers heard it and acted, refusing to board and prepare for flight until two people deemed suspicious were reomved from the plane. I expect we'll see more of this, what is certainly racial profiling at the grass roots level.

Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed the Daily Mail