tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post115871323790859575..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Time For a Benediction? (Update)Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158771022556800442006-09-20T12:50:00.000-04:002006-09-20T12:50:00.000-04:00whut do 'shift click' mean?whut do 'shift click' mean?buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158762743756364962006-09-20T10:32:00.000-04:002006-09-20T10:32:00.000-04:00stavr0s,Unless and until they do,you can always "S...stavr0s,<BR/>Unless and until they do,<BR/>you can always "Shift Click" to the same effect.<BR/>(windows, Apple, you probably have to give up and Algore Global Warming Coupon)Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158761579379408902006-09-20T10:12:00.000-04:002006-09-20T10:12:00.000-04:00Please change the code so you links on th left sid...Please change the code so you links on th left side of the page open in a new window. Thanks.stavr0shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10517612947952978651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158748669953570232006-09-20T06:37:00.000-04:002006-09-20T06:37:00.000-04:002164th,Sorry for my absence. As you know, life has...2164th,<BR/><BR/>Sorry for my absence. As you know, life has the nasty habit of intruding into the perfect meme.<BR/><BR/>You have done us all a great service. Whit has been a worthy second. If you all can muster the strength, this place has real curb appeal.<BR/><BR/>Whatever your decision, thanks again.<BR/><BR/>Oh, I think I drove off all the girls. Let's hope some women arrive soon enough.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798524644256471907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158743850306154222006-09-20T05:17:00.000-04:002006-09-20T05:17:00.000-04:00The Confederacy Stands. In a unanimous vote, with ...The Confederacy Stands. In a unanimous vote, with a few absent, the "House of Words" has spoken, we go on.......Long Live The Elephant.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158741588611013822006-09-20T04:39:00.000-04:002006-09-20T04:39:00.000-04:00ENEMIES - By Bill Gertz - THE WASHINGTON TIMEShttp...ENEMIES - By Bill Gertz - THE WASHINGTON TIMES<BR/><A HREF="http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060920-123737-3755r" REL="nofollow">http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060920-123737-3755r</A><BR/><BR/>Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, describes a growing threat posed by foreign agents and terrorists who exploit U.S. weaknesses in this second of three excerpt from his new book,<BR/>"Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets -- And How We Let It Happen" (Crown Forum), out this week.<BR/>Read <A HREF="http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060918-124646-8530r.htm" REL="nofollow">Part 1 here </A><BR/>and <A HREF="http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060919-122106-4692r.htm" REL="nofollow">Part 2 here</A>Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158733322518841062006-09-20T02:22:00.000-04:002006-09-20T02:22:00.000-04:00I hope this blog group finds a way to keep going. ...I hope this blog group finds a way to keep going. As an occasional poster and regular reader, i know of no other blog with the same high level quality of discourse among its contributors. I also find the freewheeling nature of it more interesting, nott less so, and prefer it to the "structured" approach that Wretchard seems to prefer (perhaps to get higher page rankings in the search engines and therefore higher ad prices for Pajamas Media sponsors). Perhaps a group blog might make more sense. I think one can be set up easily (and freely) on Wordpress.com. Just my $.02j williehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351257651406475696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158728408014349242006-09-20T01:00:00.000-04:002006-09-20T01:00:00.000-04:00How Bad Is the Senate Intelligence Report?:And lat...How Bad Is the Senate <BR/>Intelligence Report?:<BR/><BR/>And late last week, following the release of the Senate report, Barham Salih, deputy prime minister of Iraq, had this to say: "The alliance between the Baathists and jihadists which sustains al Qaeda in Iraq is not new, contrary to what you may have been told." Salih continued: "I know this at first hand."<BR/><BR/>Some day there will be an authoritative and richly detailed history of the nature of the relationship between the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and other Islamist terror groups. This latest product of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is unlikely to merit even a footnote in this history.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/710goolj.asp" REL="nofollow">Senate Intelligence Report</A>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08208259520563205356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158727325067157962006-09-20T00:42:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:42:00.000-04:00zai gezunt!zai gezunt!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158727227199345522006-09-20T00:40:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:40:00.000-04:00Hyphen? I thought I was a colon!Hyphen? I thought I was a colon!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726879062244652006-09-20T00:34:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:34:00.000-04:00well, as i say when i doze off and fall into the s...well, as i say when i doze off and fall into the spaghetti, "Chow".buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726705767306652006-09-20T00:31:00.001-04:002006-09-20T00:31:00.001-04:00Rufus, better the meat of a tusked Eurasian.Rufus, better the meat of a tusked Eurasian.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726671217454912006-09-20T00:31:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:31:00.000-04:00yes, I'd spell it for him but too many letters in ...yes, I'd spell it for him but too many letters in Mohammmadan.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726552380235022006-09-20T00:29:00.001-04:002006-09-20T00:29:00.001-04:00Rat should know the answer to that.Rat should know the answer to that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726543536432572006-09-20T00:29:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:29:00.000-04:00rufus--that's a good question.rufus--that's a good question.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726485063847862006-09-20T00:28:00.001-04:002006-09-20T00:28:00.001-04:00seven weeks 'til the election, matt. the next mil...seven weeks 'til the election, matt. the next milestone.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726431011078692006-09-20T00:27:00.001-04:002006-09-20T00:27:00.001-04:00yeh, me too--sandman again--every damn nite. be we...yeh, me too--sandman again--every damn nite. be well, all--buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726422576722762006-09-20T00:27:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:27:00.000-04:00elaborateelaborateAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726330606859592006-09-20T00:25:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:25:00.000-04:00matt, 12:21 -- seven weeks--?matt, 12:21 -- seven weeks--?buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726187754078822006-09-20T00:23:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:23:00.000-04:00AKA "postmodernism"-- the flattened, timeless endl...AKA "postmodernism"-- the flattened, timeless endless gray moral landscape. Soon to be slanged "postmurdernism" as eventually the only thing the heart can believe in is murder, and the best hope is that it come quick.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158726063884565132006-09-20T00:21:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:21:00.000-04:00I think it a matter of showing a little more serio...I think it a matter of showing a little more seriousness on Iran. Assad will get to keep his toilet seat, if he plays nice. That's all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158725766099639642006-09-20T00:16:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:16:00.000-04:00Wretch:"How has it happened that the most unlikely...Wretch:<BR/>"How has it happened that the most unlikely persons are speaking on what is apparently the most volatile of subjects? <BR/>It is doubly surprising because there is a powerful reluctance within the organizational culture of Christian churches to voice any criticism of another religion. The statements by Pope Benedict XVI, Lord Carey and Cardinal Pell are really near-despairing expedients <B>to fill the aching void left by Western cultural and political leaders -- a vacuum which has emboldened militant Islamic preachers to cross boundaries they would have respected until recently. This erasure of cultural borders caused by the near total desertion of the frontier by the so-called opinion-leaders has invited the most reckless elements of Islam</B> across and raised the risk of real clash of civilizations. <BR/>As Lord Carey put it: "We are living in dangerous and potentially cataclysmic times". <BR/>It is a time made perilous not only by the absence of moderate voices within Islam but by the even more conspicuous absence of any leadership among Western politicians. <BR/>It is a failure which will sooner or later lead to what military historians call a "meeting engagement" in which two forces, each possessed of its own momentum, blunder into each other with catastrophic results. <BR/>A false kind of tolerance has abolished the fence between the piggery and mosque, the adult video store and the cathedral, the flaming match and the stick of dynamite and called it progress. It is no such thing. It is called stupidity."Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158725536907845422006-09-20T00:12:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:12:00.000-04:00They want the Golan--you Haifans know that. Hey, i...They want the Golan--you Haifans know that. Hey, if you're from Haifa, are you a Hyphen?buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158725431615360422006-09-20T00:10:00.000-04:002006-09-20T00:10:00.000-04:00I think they can do ALL that, matt. Is it a matte...I think they can do ALL that, matt. Is it a matter of gold?buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1158725322635309322006-09-20T00:08:00.001-04:002006-09-20T00:08:00.001-04:00Ruins, you ain't, by a long shot--Yep, old Verc, t...Ruins, you ain't, by a long shot--<BR/><BR/>Yep, old Verc, the Sergeant Major of the North Woods--great writer. And Lab Rat, too, from those days. Outta Houston, was lab rat.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.com