Dec

31

New Computer

December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

After the kids got their PLAYMOBIL® and Susan her boots I had just enough money left over to get a new computer…or “new to me”.
I managed to find a used “gaming rig” with one of those video cards which arrives with a fan bigger than your last video card for playing Counterstrike and […]

Dec

31

Down Home with Fred

December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

There is a lot about Fred Thompson’s social policy which I am not wild about. But I am loving his campaign and I am hoping he surprises people coming out of Iowa.
In a sense this is artificially hokey. They could have ironed the American flag and a professional actor can look at both cameras. No […]

Dec

30

Kylie Minogue, O.B.E.

December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment


Dec

30

Tip-Top People Agree!

December 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

That is not to say that social scientists and computer programmers have nothing to offer the world, or the IPCC process. They are crucial in fact. What it is to say, however, is that, when social scientists, computer programmers and administrative assistants comprise a significant proportion of IPCC contributors, the global warmer mantra that the […]

Dec

29

Quick Reviews

December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

At one point a few years ago I made much of my living reviewing books for newspapers. Mainly history, biography and science but i was perfectly willing to review novels or whatever came to hand. The reviewing market has pretty much vanished in Canada and in much of the United States and I have moved […]

Dec

28

Alert the CHRC

December 28, 2007 | 13 Comments

This Dutch Ad makes fun of Muslim terrorists…

Yo, LawisCool dudes…I laughed. File a complaint.
For more fun check out the fireworks jihadi site LAAF.info
Boom!
Update: the humour challenged and resolutely anonymous commentor from Lawiscool wants to make it clear that Lawiscool and the complainants in what I am assuming the the Steyn case and the people at […]

Dec

28

Post Bhutto Pakistan

December 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

There are a lot of sharp comments on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. I think Wretchard at Belmont Club covers the democratic implications pretty clearly and Andrew McCarthy nails the inability of the West to actually understand what Pakistan is and how it operates.
al Qaeda has claimed credit and there, perhaps, is the critical […]

Dec

24

A Good Man

December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

On Sept. 6, 2003, halfway through his 13-month deployment, Southworth and his military police unit paid a visit to the orphanage. They played and chatted with the children; Southworth was talking with one little girl when Ala’a dragged his body to the soldier’s side.
Black haired and brown eyed, Ala’a spoke to the 31-year-old American in […]

Dec

24

Wow, this is a surprise

December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money. The strategy to improve the Pakistani military, they said, needs to be completely revamped.
In […]

Dec

24

More Human Rights Insanity

December 24, 2007 | 3 Comments

Catholic Insight has joined a range of Canadian publications, groups and individuals who have become targets of human rights-based legal attacks recently.
In February 2007, Rob Wells, a member of the Pride Centre of Edmonton, filed a nine-point complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, alleging that C.I. has targeted homosexuals as being a powerful […]

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