It's Time To Stand Strong For Israel

American policy must be an utter condemnation of Turkey's support of Hamas and Hebollah. The Turks are peddling vicious anti-American and anti-Israeli propaganda at home. Their news reports that our soldiers clogged the Euphrates with Iraqi bodies and that Americans and Jews conspired to sell Iraqi organs. Mein Kampf is a best seller.

America must move our Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. We must move carriers into the Eastern Mediterranean. We must pledge to enforce the blockade ourselves, including sinking any Turkish warships which attempt to defend another flotilla. We must demand that Turkey pay a 200 million dollar indemnity to Israel for their support of terrorists. If the Turks don’t agree (and it is OK to negotiate the amount down to half that) we must demand they be kicked out of NATO. If they are not, we must leave NATO ourselves.

The Turks are showing every sign of becoming genocidal once more – to which I say “Never again”.

A firm hand will prevent much bloodshed – including Turkish blood. As our good allies during the Cold War, they deserve firmness to save their own lives.

All The World's Not A Stage

So Jonah Goldberg points out that following our habitual scripts doesn't make sense. Specifically the liberal script which rapidly condemns bigotry against blacks by a white person, but cannot condemn genocidal bigotry against Jews by a Muslim person. That said, I need to be careful about my own scripts.

Hot Enough To Fry An Egg

James points out that you can cook eggs on a shovel - among other uses.

Rules Aren't Smooth

This Joel On Software article explains why software standards don't work nearly as well as we want. This is also why the rule of law does not work as well as we want. And why Bibles and written constitutions do not work as well as we want.

I like more liberty and less law.

How To Develop A Political Grassroots Movement

I know this article is about software, but I think it can be applied to other problems.

An Important Decision

Here's something anyone who drives a car should know: The Truth About Hiring a Criminal Defense Lawyer.

Persistence Is Good

Read how the rare application of hard work leads to success.

Look Out, Janet!

An Old Comment Thread...

on an idea for a Constitutional Amendment.

Joe Huffman's The Jews in the Attic Test

It also works for slaves in the Barn. The test is:

Will this law make it difficult or impossible to protect innocent life from a government intent on their imprisonment or death?

More here.

Cracking a Bottle

Artificial Wombs?

"We call it cracking a bottle back home."

Read Mass Producing Babies--Toward an Artificial Womb.

Global Cooling On The Way?

Read Eternal Mindshine of the Spotless Sun.

Orson Scott Card on Global Warming

It's worth reading.

In fact, what we have right now, while we are not yet as warm as the peak of the Medieval Warming (a fact that Mann and others have tried to deny or obscure), is a superb climate that is making life better for people all over the world. It's the cold periods that cause famines and population drops, and promote plagues and floods.

We should be grateful.

Instead we are being hit with dire warnings, every one of which is either false or a normal part of the Earth's history; our business should be to adapt to the unavoidable solar-caused warming, not to destroy the worldwide economy in order to prevent something that human activity is not causing.

41 Years a Marine

We didn't quite make it to the ceremony, as we had a conflict, but Master Gunnery Sgt. Kendall Phelps was honored today at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City. So we visited the memorial and it's WWI museum instead. I highly recommend it.

A Sad Day for the ACLU

... ACLU chapter ex-president charged in child-porn case ...

Fox News has video.

O'Reilly says Charles Rust-Tierney had videos showing "pre-pubescent girls being violently raped", and that he coached youth sports teams.

How horrible. How tragic. God weeps for those little girls.

Let justice be swiftly done.

Update: I added the word chapter above, noted by the bold. Thanks, shep.

Equalizer

Mary Katharine Ham points out that women have a right to defend themselves. I have a wife and three daughters. I agree.

The Problem Is Bigotry

I think perhaps we need to recast some this opprobrium towards Muslims in a different mold. The analogy I wish to draw is between rampant bigotry among Muslims towards Christian and Jewish minorities living in their midst and rampant bigotry not so long ago among white Americans towards black American minorities in living in their midst.

The rampant bigotry among Muslims even leads to uppity Christians being lynched.

In this light, Muslims who justify their bigotry and their behavior by referring to the Koran are no different than white Christian who abused the Bible in the same way.

So - all those Muslims who responded to the Pope with violent protests? Miserable bigots, the lot of them. Do you fight bigotry by moderating your criticism of it?

There were plenty of white Americans who did little but quietly say to their kids, "We don't act like that." There were plenty of white American leaders who did nothing effective to fight bigotry for decades after the Civil War.

Take a deep breath here and consider this historical parallel. Change could be a long time coming.

Inspiration from Dean's World and Meryl Yourish.

Well Spent

Be a Boy Scout (prepared) at five dollars a whack.

Not Dames and Gumshoes

The Army is becoming the world's largest detective agency. See Strategy Page on "Police Intelligence Operations," Field Manual 3-19.5.

Porkbusters

I like the Porkbusters. Earmarks? Get rid of them.