Some Christmas photos with corrected captions.

Pope Benedict tries to take little girl's candy

Palestinian "policeman" aims AK-47 at Christmas ...   more »

There ought to be a law passed, 1st Amendment be damned, that the press can no longer run Arab claims ...   more »

Steven Spielberg's new film "Munich" about Israel's undercover assassination campaign against the PLO in the wake of the Olympic Massacre ...   more »

What if the Christmas story took place today?  Mary and Joseph would be Israeli.  They would be driving ...   more »

       

Marine sniper in Fallujah.

 

        “No True Glory” by Bing West, a writer who previously authored an ...   more »

    

The battleship Wisconsin heads to final decommissioning.

 

 

     Recently the Navy announced the final decommissioning of its ...   more »

This Israeli F-15i and other weapons will not by itself deter Iran.  The government has to be willing to use ...   more »

Supporters of so-called "intelligent design" are licking their wounds after a federal judge in Pennsylvania not only ruled against the ...   more »

There is a move in Washington to raise the top grade of the military's JAG officer corps to the three ...   more »

The Jerusalem Post reports that a recent poll of Israelis shows that 50% would agree to talks with Hamas, the ...   more »

Another very worthwhile Daniel Pipes article on the West's ongoing abandonment of the war on terror here http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3218.  Pipes doesn't mention Germany's just concluded trade with Hezbollah (which probably occurred after the piece was set for publication) but you can add that into the laundry list Pipes provides of how the West has returned to a pre-9/11 mentality.  It will probably take another, but even larger 9/11 type outrage to galvanize the West's public and elites, for however short a time, once again.

Germany has released a Hezbollah terrorist convicted of killing a US Navy diver David Stethem in 1985 reported by Debka.com ...   more »

The hypocrite of the day award goes to the unbearable Brittany Spears, who is suing US magazine for reporting that ...   more »

This is pretty amusing if you haven't seen it as a convenience store clerk, and martial arts practitioner confronts a knifewielding robber.  What's funny about it, is that there is no real fight.  Once the clerk gets into his kung fu stance the robber just runs away.  The only blow is struck to the would-be thief's backside as he is fleeing.

Moral of this story is don't bother to go through all the trouble to learn kung fu, etc., just practice the stances and a convincing glare, and scare you opponents away.  Video clip at this link          http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&guideContext=65.73&pmmsid=1443982

A Kassam rocket like the ones the Palestinians have been launching at the major southern Israeli city of Ashkelon only ...   more »

 

Some bobsled guys.  Do you have what it takes?

 

 

Congratulations to the US four man-bobsled team which ...   more »

Sleeper Cell--the undercover agent is top right.

I say this with a heavy heart, speaking as the keeper of the ...   more »

There is continued teeth gnashing over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadimanidiotandafreakejad most recent comments concerning Israel.  In his latest diatribe he denied that the ...   more »

These bizzare but true stories are interesting.  Some things you just can't make up http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles?id=n20051214232409990003&cid=936.

Bichon Frise--fierce French war-dog

French astronauts land on the moon.

 

The Washington Post reported today on a new mandate ...   more »

Is a billboard that suggests that terrorists are Arab racist?  That is what Arab-American civil rights groups are claiming about a billboard in North Carolina (story here http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051216035509990004&ncid=NWS00010000000001) and Arab ire.  The poll attached says most Americans don't agree.

Not every Arab is a terrorist, indeed, only a tiny percentage are.  But most terrorists running around today are either Arabs, or Muslims from the Middle East.  Look at it this way.  Technically, most Germans during WWII were not Nazis, yet almost all Nazis were Germans or Austrians.  So would a billboard connecting Germans with Nazis have been unfair?

Marines in Ramadi.

The History Channel's "Shootout" series continues to be good when dealing with battles in Iraq.  "Shootout Fallujah" ...   more »

 

Baldwin and Bassinger--Happy again

This just in--only to the select few who read and cherish this website--actors Alec Baldwin ...   more »

Naomi Watts takes on big ape.

Peter Jackson's King Kong is one movie I don't have to see to know ...   more »

In "A Unit's Fitful Year at War" the Washington Post describes the adventures, or lack thereof, of a Cavalry battalion ...   more »

A cell phone detonated bomb.

The initial stage of the Iraqi campaign was one of the more successful military operations ...   more »

 

 

Typical Jihadi fighter, brave, foolish, easy to kill.

 

Throughout the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, and ...   more »

The Czech Republic's team, here celebrating a goal, will be the American's toughest opponent in 2005 World Cup.

 

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When I practiced law I often advised clients on how to beat traffic tickets.  This article http://aolsvc.edmunds.com/ownership/driving/articles/45103/article.html?tid=nc.a.landing.safety..4 gives good advice ...   more »

The snazzily dressed Iranian President meets Saudi Arabs.

Earlier this week Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadimanidiotandafreakejad tried to appear statesman-like by suggesting ...   more »

Continuing on today's theme of "little things" (see previous post) we come again to Richard Cohen, Washington Post columnist.  I've ...   more »

It's often the little things in life that demonstrate larger meaning.  For example, the Palestinian soccer federation is sanctioning Arab ...   more »

Debka.com in a pretty fascinating article here http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1118 reports that Al Qaeda units have penetrated western China and linked up ...   more »

On the continuing theme of my ignored and under-appreciated prescience, is this article concerning the Selective Service's plans to draft women should need arise http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38305.  The Army is also considering lowering enlistment standards by taking a small percentage of lower functioning recruits.  Read this as saying that the Army is now recruiting borderline retarded people, because that is what the lower categories of recruits effectively are, when you convert the Army ASVAB test into a basic IQ test formula.  Go 'tards!

Why I bother I don't know, but again those few discriminating folk who read this blog get a one-up on ...   more »

Twice this autumn I've written about "Curb Your Enthusiasm" the brilliant HBO comedy by "Seinfeld" co-creator, Larry David.  Initially, I ...   more »

This Israeli F-16I could reach Iran but there are too few and the distances are too long for a sustained ...   more »

Scene of most recent suicide bombing in Israel

Remember when British police mistakenly gunned down an innocent Brazilian man they ...   more »

Beethoven before he died.

Continuing today's theme of historical oddities, is the report http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/05/AR2005120501937.html that Lugwig van Beethoven died of ...   more »

People in lifeboats cheer as Titanic finally sinks.

Researchers announced http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051206043309990006&ncid=NWS00010000000001  that the discovery of two previously lost pieces ...   more »

Tomorrow in the case of Fair v. Rumsfeld the Supreme Court will be asked to decide whether universities can exclude ...   more »

Another insightful article by the formidable Daniel Pipes http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3174 on Israel's abject and failed effort to appease the U.N.  This effort routinely fails, no matter how many concessions it offers.  My only comment is that perhaps I have been to hard on Canada.  On one Israel bashing resolution, Canada, along with the U.S., Australia, and some tiny Pacific territories, voted against.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe Canada remembered to take its medication that day.

Zbigniew Brzezinski--Failed National Security Adviser

Mark Brzezicki legendary Big Country drummer

I've written previously about the failed presidency of Jimmy ...   more »

Saturn's moon Titan on left is full of abiotic methane.  Earth's hydrocarbons may be abiotic as well, and not just ...   more »

A random explosion in Fallujah.

The bombing on December 2d that killed ten Marines in Fallujah will undoubtedly bring forth ...   more »

Today (Saturday) the Washington Post ran several letters to the editor concerning the atmosphere at Redskin games.  A couple of ...   more »

Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" has some riveting scence  at the start of the film.  This is a Spielbergian ...   more »

Charles Krauthammer has an unusually upbeat op-ed in Friday's Washington Post lauding the "amazing recent progress in defusing the Arab-Israeli dispute"  ...   more »

Follow this link  http://www.writersweekly.com/contest/fall05winners.html to read "Are You My Wife, Are You My Mother" Jonathan Keiler's second place winning story in Writers' Weekly's Fall 2005 "24 Hour Short Story Contest".  In this quarterly contest writers have 24 hours to pen and submit a story on a topic provided by the magazine.  This was my second attempt--my first story garnered nothing.  It is a fun and worthwhile process though.

Rather predicably, today's Washington Post turns an interesting story about Jerusalem archeology and history into yet another manifestation of the Palestinian-Israeli ...   more »

 

  Muriel before and after.

The small non-country of Belgium (read my previous posts, particularly "The Absolutely True, Little ...   more »