November 8, 2007
If you must 11/08/2007
If you haven't read Michael J. Totten's What the army wants you to see; you must.
And if you're intrepid enough to see what's really going on in Iraq like Totten did, you might be surprised.
If you haven't read Dead but not in the Red at the Fire Ant Gazette; you must.
If you're a celebrity dying may not hurt your earning power too much.
If you haven't read Gen Paul Tibbetts, RIP at a View from a Height; you must.
Obituaries made the point that Tibbetts had no regrets over the loss of life he caused. But this obituary had a friend give the context for the American decision.
Her grandfather's longtime bomber buddy, Tony Mazzolini of Cleveland, said of Tibbets: "The current generation doesn't know, can't conceive of what the country was going through when Paul flew that mission. We had been at war for so long. The sacrifices had been huge. You have to understand the mind-set of the Japanese. Their military was calling the shots. It was a different culture. Sure, life was important to them, but they were willing to lose it -- hundreds of thousands of them -- in a last stand to defend their homeland.
"We didn't have a choice, but that gets lost when people today look back on the bomb from the vantage point of the 21st century. It's easy to look at that old picture of a mushroom cloud in a history book and say, 'My God, how could we have done that to those people?' But, some of the people saying that today wouldn't be here if their grandfathers or great-grandfathers had been part of an offensive on Japan designed along the lines of the D-Day landing at Normandy."
If you haven't read Musings on Mukasey at the Hedgehog Blog; you must.
If you haven't read Instapundit's Pro-torture Democrats; you must.
If you haven't read Oh please at the Volokh Conspiracy; you must.
No, killing an enemy combatant is not the moral equivalent to administering the death penalty.
If you haven't read US probing Saudi Oil Profits at Elder of Ziyon; you must.
With the recent spike in prices you must think that's a good idea. Well it might be a good idea, but this happened 60 years ago.
If you haven't read Leading the Jewish Vote out of the Democratic Party at Daled Amos; you must.
Given recent electoral results I'd have to agree that the headline was a bit premature.
If you haven't read She is a few of her favorite things at Dr. Sanity; you must.
If you haven't read Don Surber's John Edwards meet King Tut; you must.
A couple of political song spoofs.
If you haven't read Sarcastic Pundit's Greatness Recognized; you must.
It's easy for a celebrity in this country to disagree wtih the President. In Cuba, criticizing the leader is a crime.
If you haven't read Bjorn Stark's Lesser known Nobel Peace Prize winners; you must.
h/t Secular Blasphemy
If you haven't read the Clock is Ticking at the Ignoble Experiment; you must.
Say you're Jack Bauer and a situation is developing what do you do? OK, let's say you're Jack McCoy instead, Jack Bauer would just blast his way out of the problem.
If you haven't read Bravo to this UD student at the Colossus of Rhodey; you must.
Very politically incorrect. But refreshing comebacks to intrusive questions.
If you haven't read about Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds day at the almanac of Miscellaneous Merriment; you must.
What does your choice of chocolate say about you? An excellent post for this week one of the prime candy buying weeks of the year.
If you haven't read Spotting the unforeseen secondary effects at the Glittering Eye; you must.
Last time it was "reality" shows this time ...?
If you haven't read Just one Minute's Rational Speed Dating; you must.
Don't assume that you know what prejudices people have for and against others.
If you haven't read Ocean Guy's Democrats and National Security; you must.
I'm not as optimistic about Republican chances of retaining the White House next year. However, I think this observation is spot-on.
Without a credible strong voice as the Party’s nominee, the Democrats are doomed to be shut out of the White House again. The most credible Democratic candidate on Security issues is Hillary. She is the ONLY one on the Democratic side, at the moment anyway, with a chance of winning a general election… but will the left allow her to have the nomination? Even if she makes it through the primaries, her Democratic opponents will have stocked the Republicans with all sorts of anti-Hillary material. Her other big problem is having a small margin for error.
With such a large number of voters, many moderates included, who would NEVER vote for her, she needs to attract a larger percentage of those remaining voters in the middle. She cannot afford to alienate any more voters.
If you haven't Scales at Not Quite Perfect ; you must.
