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The Times - Obama: is America ready for this dangerous leftwinger? Listen to the rhetoric of Barack Obama… by Gerard Baker

It [Michelle Obama's never-been-proud speech] was instructive for two reasons. First, it reinforced the growing sense of unease that even some Obama supporters have felt about the increasingly messianic nature of the candidate’s campaign. [...]

Categories: Politics

Peter showed me this last night, technically, surprised that I hadn’t seen it, but I almost died.

Categories: Entertainment

Hilarious!

I don’t think he should be fired, btw. Apparently the officer, Salvatore Rivieri, has been suspended while they do an investigation and 82% of the people polled on the Baltimore Sun’s webpage said he was “way out of line”, but I don’t think so at all. It sounded very parental. Except for the wrestling the [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Macleans - So what would it take to alarm you? Sharia in Britain? Taxpayer-subsidized polygamy in T.O.? Yawn. Nothing to see here. by Mark Steyn

Okay, enough already. I get the picture: alarmist, alarmist, alarmist. My book’s thesis — that most of the Western world is on course to become at least semi-Islamic in its [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I like a man in dress uniform. I’m especially partial to the Marines. I think it makes them look “shiny”.

But that’s because their clothes are covered in shiny metal stuff. I think this guy wins:

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush arrive for a State Dinner in Accra, Ghana

That’s so cool! Curtsy: Wheat & Weeds

And [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

This cracks me up:

Kim du Toit - Why Bother

The non-lawyer half of the InstaCouple says this: “Nowadays, for many men, the negatives of marriage for men often outweigh the positives. Therefore, they engage in it less often. Not because they are bad, not because they are [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

sigh

From Saffron Ten, last two items:

The Times (Oct 10) - Fearful tourists desert Burma after protests – and the economy withers “There were many tourists in the beginning of September but then, after this Saffron Revolution, very few,” says Le Le (a pseudonym is used to [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Here’s another one of these stories (there was a similar story so recently that I wonder if it’s the same family, but without names it’s hard to tell and in any case the search on WordPress is awful so I can’t find anything):

The Times - British justice: a family ruined A chilling example of our secret [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Corner - Some 11th-Hour Advice to the Harvard Power Couple, by Victor Davis Hanson

The problem is deeper than occasional slips. For most of the last 25 years the Obamas’ contacts have been largely confined to universities (Occidental, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Chicago) as both students and employees, or to government-sponsored social agencies, or to [...]

Categories: Politics

RC2 links to this, and I have to ask: what’s with the line drawing of Bush? He looks like how he’d look in that instant if he’s walking down the hall after dinner, pauses, and realizes the soup he just ate had broccoli in it and it’s coming back up, right before sprinting towards the [...]

Categories: Politics

Yay lookit what I found!

Telegraph - Revelstoke Mountain: the world’s best skiing?

In what I consider to be the most exciting development in snow business on either side of the Atlantic over the past 20 years, Canada’s new, billion-dollar Revelstoke Mountain Resort - RMR - is poised to become one of the world’s most [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

Thank god they don’t care about a bunch of Africans. In this case, Tanzanians (I love that name, Tanzania):

I’ve been checking out these pictures from Bush’s Africa trip all week wanting to post them, but this find of RC2’s pushed me over the edge:

Mr. Geldof praised Mr. Bush for his work in delivering [...]

Categories: Politics

Telegraph - The Mohamed Fayed Book of Nursery Rhymes, by Craig Brown

I’m struggling between naming this:

London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, Duke of Edinburgh, he behind it.

or this:

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

So officially, everybody is pedalling furiously away from multiculturalism. Not only government ministers and opposition leaders but even figures such as Trevor Phillips of the Equality and Human Rights Commission have proclaimed the need to dismantle it. But somehow all of this opprobrium does not filter down to the classroom [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Starbucks mother flouted the law, say religious police in Saudi Arabia

A US businesswoman living in Saudi Arabia fears for her life after the religious police issued a rare statement defending her arrest this month for having coffee with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh. [...]

Categories: People and Current Events