EN 466: History of the English Language Spring 1007 WF 1-2:15 Bey Hall 231 Office Hours: WF 11:30-12:30 and by appt. Course Overview and Objectives What is “English”? From its origins as an obscure Germanic dialect to its present status...
Posted in Dr. Sue Starke on January 15, 2007 04:52 PM
EN 311: The Renaissance in England Spring 2007 WF 10 Bey Hall 231 Office Hours: WF 11:30-12:30 or by appt. Course Description: The period between 1530 and 1660 saw the transformation of the English language into a vehicle for some...
Posted in Dr. Sue Starke on January 15, 2007 04:45 PM
Do we have sufficient resources in theatre for the Afghan surge? KABUL, July 12 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed two U.S. Marines in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday, the latest deaths in an escalation of violence...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 13, 2009 06:01 AM
...says the chairman/CEO of American Express. (And the Obamacans are gonna have a hard time calling his views a racist distraction.) But I'd be VERY wary of the bus that was taking me back to the resort if I were...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 8, 2009 03:30 PM
...when somebody lays numbers out that way/people can SEE what's going to happen? Obama's Budget: Almost $1 Trillion in New Taxes Over Next 10 yrs, Starting 2011 President Obama's budget proposes $989 billion in new taxes over the course of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 6, 2009 08:16 AM
Seriously. if it wasn't for her I probably would not have heard of or bought Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, and I would have missed out on the funniest book I've read in a long long time. Now I freely...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 6, 2009 07:40 AM
Obama's "false Spring" may be ending (Reuters) - Stock futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Monday following a long weekend, as oil tumbled nearly $3 a barrel on mounting doubts over a quick economic recovery. At...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 6, 2009 06:54 AM
And they can't read... U.S. misread scale of Honduran rift Zelaya's ties to Venezuela's Chávez was source of concern for opponents TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Although the U.S. government knew for months that Honduras was on the brink of political chaos,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 5, 2009 07:57 PM
it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 4, 2009 07:30 AM
...It’s not unusual to see a flag in liberal provinces, of course. But in the Bush years of sanctioned torture and war built on deceit, many Americans withdrew from overt displays of patriotism. Some said they were ashamed of their...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 2, 2009 08:31 AM
Mr. President, I am writing this letter as a citizen who is appalled by the message my government is broadcasting to the world. Since it’s inception, the United States has stood as a beacon of freedom to the rest of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 1, 2009 05:50 AM
We've been out of town for a few days at a family get together. We got home at, oh, 9:30 Sunday night and were greeted by this That's an 8' patio umbrella. Or was, I should say. It seems that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 30, 2009 06:00 AM
I have no idea what Bingley's miserable excuse will be....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 28, 2009 08:23 PM
Man, how terrible WASHINGTON - An inbound Metro train smashed into the back of another at the height of the Monday evening rush hour, killing at least nine people and injuring scores of others in Metro's deadliest ever subway accident....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 23, 2009 06:52 AM
They're my new favorite band TORONTO (AP) - Police have charged the tour manager of the Black Eyed Peas with assault after he allegedly gave celebrity blogger Perez Hilton a black eye outside a Toronto nightclub. Hilton said he got...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 22, 2009 03:07 PM
When it's a NYT employee who's in danger, well, golly, they're just all mum and agonized and the very souls of discretion NEW YORK (AP) - Deciding not to report initially on reporter David Rohde's capture by the Taliban for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 22, 2009 06:25 AM
Eddie Bauer files for bankruptcy protection As I said in this post about A&F: FYI: Eddie Bauer used to be as revered. At one time they were THE outfitters for all the major Himalayan expeditions and the quality was unsurpassed....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 17, 2009 02:21 PM
My friends call me Snow Miser WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBS) ― Parts of New Jersey were pummeled by a massive hail storm on Monday afternoon, leaving it looking as if a June blizzard blew through with inches of dime-sized pellets...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 16, 2009 06:16 AM
...that's undoing all the damage that Chimpy McHitler did to our relationships with key allies. Key allies like, say, Britain Senior aides to President Barack Obama accompanied four Uighur prisoners as they were flown from Guantanamo Bay to the British...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 15, 2009 12:41 PM
The murder of the guard is horrible beyond a doubt, but I'm somewhat struck by the coverage WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A rifle-wielding white supremacist entered Washington's Holocaust museum on Wednesday afternoon, fatally shooting a security guard before being wounded himself...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 11, 2009 08:55 AM
Bravo to Lebanese voters and may we support you against Hezbollah with everything we have. BEIRUT — Lebanon's pro-Western coalition declared victory early Monday, as local television stations reported the faction had successfully fended off a serious challenge by the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 7, 2009 09:51 PM
...quack ups. I won't miss it next year. [June 5] Today is Dead Duck Day. Like last year, the short open-air ceremony is open to the public. Please come and commemorate the sudden and dramatic death of the mallard duck...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 6, 2009 10:56 PM
...One dinner snub at a time The Obamas turn up in Paris this evening, but have declined a dinner invitation from the couple next door: the Sarkozys. President Obama’s reluctance to spend more than minimum time with the French leader...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 5, 2009 01:14 PM
The French government expressed deep disappointment Friday over the news that ocean debris recovered by the Brazilian military this week appeared to be the remains of a shipwreck and not from an Air France jet that crashed in the South...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 5, 2009 09:25 AM
via our friends at Babalu as he really gave it, 65 years ago today Be seated. Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 5, 2009 08:09 AM
Oh my gosh, what a nightmare At 11 p.m. (10 p.m. EDT), pilot Marc Dubois sent a manual signal saying he was flying through an area of "CBs" -- black, electrically charged cumulonimbus clouds that carry violent winds and lightning....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 4, 2009 11:52 AM
...please turn off the lights? In a move that left the Prime Minister fighting for his political future, rebels claimed that as many as 50 Labour MPs were prepared to put their names to an email demanding that he step...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 4, 2009 06:53 AM
Well, shit howdy ~ something useful this way comes. I Googled me a question: What the F*CK are these frickin' bubbles doing in my manicure?!?!?! ...and Uncle Sam answered....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 3, 2009 03:24 PM
It's that crippling disease that causes you to forget you were a Muslim....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 3, 2009 12:20 PM
I was in the mood for shrimp and scallops...but somehow this seems to be a bit beyond the word "shrimp" Geeze Luise those things were ginormous. So I took four of them and plopped them in a big honking ziplock...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 2, 2009 09:44 PM
Those poor poor folks RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Search planes scoured the waters of the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, looking for the remains of an Air France jetliner that disappeared in a storm with 228 people on board. The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 2, 2009 09:02 AM
...Spokesman Robert Gibbs, keeping the White House press corps in stiches, as he always does, said the Obamas would have preferred using a commercial airline shuttle to New York and back, but the Secret Service would not allow such unprotected...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 2, 2009 08:19 AM
This is not good (CNN) -- A French passenger aircraft carrying 228 people has disappeared from radar off the coast of Brazil, airline officials say. Air France told CNN the jet was traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Charles de...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 1, 2009 06:19 AM
Because all those electoral votes are coming to Washington with their hand out SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - If AIG was too big to fail, how about the world's eighth-largest economy? In a move with only one modern-day precedent, California Gov....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 29, 2009 07:05 AM
Why, yes we are (CNN) -- President Obama marked another 100-day anniversary Wednesday -- this time the anniversary of the enactment of his $787 billion economic stimulus package. Addressing a crowd of military servicemen and women at Nevada's sprawling Nellis...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 28, 2009 07:39 AM
Most Glorious Leader finally set one off SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea fired two short-range missiles from its east coast Tuesday -- a day after conducting a nuclear test -- South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 26, 2009 06:32 AM
"...When the first government-mandated fuel-economy standards went into effect in the 1970s, cars got smaller and lighter, and traffic fatalities increased. The National Research Council estimated that the CAFE standards contributed to about 2,000 additional deaths per year. If these...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 22, 2009 07:41 AM
Oops, sorry, I meant "Man-Caused Disaster Averted" The FBI and NYPD busted a four-man homegrown terror cell Wednesday night that was plotting to blow up two Bronx synagogues while simultaneously shooting a plane out of the sky, sources told the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 21, 2009 06:32 AM
The Hawk Checks Out May 18, 2009: The American carrier, USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), after a four month delay, was finally decommissioned in Bremerton, Washington on May 13th. The Kitty Hawk served for 48 years and 13 days. That...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 18, 2009 10:29 AM
A room with a flu Hotels in Mexico’s coastal resort of Cancún, one of the world’s most popular getaways, are adopting extreme measures as holidaymakers scramble to cancel bookings in the wake of the swine flu scare. Visitors to one...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 18, 2009 06:57 AM
Do you know where your kids are? TIJUANA, Mexico — The bodies of four U.S. citizens were found strangled, beaten and stabbed in a van in this border city, two days after they reportedly left their Southern California homes for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 15, 2009 11:07 AM
In times like these, it's good to know who's on your side. We can eliminate a couple agencies, Congress and the President right off the bat, thanks to articles like this. And recent testimony from bail-out-ees like AIG's Liddy, which...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 15, 2009 09:36 AM
Silly me! I thought you said Eroto-Pilot LOS ANGELES — A helicopter pilot who was videotaped receiving oral sex from a woman as he flew her around San Diego acted so recklessly that his license must be revoked, the National...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 13, 2009 09:02 AM
(Or so they tell me) it seemed only fitting that I make some fine swine baby backs for my Bride for Mother's Day...9 pounds worth these porcine suckers were large enough that I figured it was best if I cut...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 13, 2009 07:25 AM
Cool wind in my hair Warm smell from the tapas, rising up through the air Far behind in the mirror, I saw a blue flashing light My foot grew heavy and my grip grew grim Then I flew out of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 8, 2009 08:36 AM
This is the bold response of the Obama Navy (CNN) -- Pirates off the eastern coast of Somalia picked the wrong target this week when they tried to attack a U.S. Navy ship, the Navy said Thursday. ...The Lewis and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 8, 2009 06:21 AM
...on fire? U.S. to Condemn Land for Flight 93 Memorial The government will begin taking land from seven property owners so that the Flight 93 memorial can be built in time for the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 7, 2009 07:56 AM
But I wanted Will to know how very sorry we were. Good dog, Bob. Biggest hugs to you both....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 4, 2009 04:45 PM
I mean, goodness! Perish The Thought. But I do find it...shall we say somewhat curious that there is something lacking from their diligent and impartial reporting now BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three U.S. troops were killed in Iraq on Thursday,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 1, 2009 06:21 AM
Watching CNBC this morning, the Power Lunch crew ~ especially Sue Herera ~ WERE vociferously snortin' fire about the fly-over photo jaunt. And I told Bingley as much when he called (on his way to the bus) to say he...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 27, 2009 04:57 PM
Really, guys, we appreciated this this morning: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL April 27, 2009, 10:27 AM EST By WSJ Staff A plane circling Lower Manhattan escorted by two fighter jets is part of a "photo op," said Federal Aviation Administration...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 27, 2009 11:17 AM
And that means romance. You know what I'm talking about, guys. Meeting the one you love for a leisurely meal, lingering over that last glass of wine as the warm rays of the sun slowly sink beneath the western horizon....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 27, 2009 07:21 AM
Drudge is in full porn mode. And CNN, while saying "there's no reason to panic," devoted essentially their entire broadcast to it last night. MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Health officials around the world worked to contain what appears to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 27, 2009 06:47 AM
...Hillary upped it by one yesterday during her testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Even as she came out strongly against the Pakistani establishment for lagging willingness to take head on the terrorists, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 24, 2009 08:13 AM
The pizza was so good they left the kids for the tip A German couple who abandoned three young children in an Italian pizzeria on Sunday have told police they fled because they had no money, reports say. Ina Caterina...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 24, 2009 07:49 AM
It's more "making him an offer he can't refuse" (since "saying no" is interchangable with "garbage"). There seems to be quite a lot of that Barack Soprano negotiating method going on. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Department chief...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 23, 2009 07:59 AM
Way to mend our relationships with other nations there, Janet The U.S. Homeland Security chief has clarified earlier remarks that suggested the 9-11 terrorists entered the U.S. through Canada. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made the comments during a media...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 23, 2009 06:10 AM
You know, I don't agree with her one iota, BUT. She gets FULL marks in my book for being true to her beliefs, when it most certainly would have been both lucrative and expedient to throw them under the bus....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 22, 2009 08:06 AM
...in a "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" kind of way, what in the sam HELL was going on in Albuquerque? Police ID 7th body found at construction site Medical examiners have identified a seventh woman whose remains were uncovered from an...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 22, 2009 07:57 AM
...came to town. Pirate Suspect's Dad Says Voyage Was Boy's 1st Of course it was. ...the pirates lied to his son, telling him they were going to get money. Of course they did. The family is penniless, he said. Of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 21, 2009 07:46 AM
...NADA?!? Gotta say, them outlaw bikers had some fine cribs. Police wipe Hells Angels off Quebec map When about 2000 police officers yesterday rounded up 156 Hells Angels and their associates from across the province, what they were really doing...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 16, 2009 01:02 PM
...kick-back scheme? ...Under its terms, local companies can receive tax breaks of $10,000 a year - for three years - for each ex-offender working at least six months as of Jan. 1, 2008. ...To receive the credit, companies must provide...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 16, 2009 07:11 AM
It was a GORGEOUS day and this turned out to be a great little crowd considering the weekday/workday time frame. Three or four hundred folks together in this humble burg is nothing to sneer at. Our narrow old downtown streets...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 15, 2009 11:41 PM
"Didn't you notice the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?" Apparently young Ronulan Mr. A* turned "Can you watch my mail?" into a Paul-nut manifesto/organizing drive and now there's no time to even partially undo the damage....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 15, 2009 07:38 AM
...lemme just toss some more greasy bad peanuts on the fire. The Ronulans sliding in off of Facebook in the comments have kindly (See? I can be polite!) confirmed something my sneaky, slanderous cerebrum had been stewing on. The aforementioned...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 14, 2009 08:55 AM
And marinated for my meal. Ah, Easter! Sure, there's the whole "Resurrection of our Lord" stuff; don't get me wrong, that's big! But really...it's all about bonnets! And flowers! And springtime allergies! And food! Isn't it? Anywhooo, for Easter this...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 14, 2009 06:05 AM
So, me and Leigh bond in snarling last night over our mutual Tea Party hijacking outrage. Apparently, the Ronulan operative A*-hole (snicker) doesn't realize who he's dealing with. He sent a disingenuous, smarmy slap directly at her this morning......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 10, 2009 11:13 AM
We're pullin' for ya. Report: American Ship Captain Held Hostage Failed in Escape Attempt UPDATE: WHAT?!?!?! ...Around midnight local time, Phillips jumped off the lifeboat and began swimming, according to Defense Department officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 10, 2009 07:12 AM
"Release the Captain or you die. Harm the Captain and you die" (CNN) -- A U.S. warship arrived before dawn Thursday near a 28-foot lifeboat holding four pirates and the kidnapped captain of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, officials said. Also...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 9, 2009 06:23 AM
...and it's from an 805 area code, saying "Hey sexy". Well, who wouldn't want to wake up to that, right? But I'm thinking I don't know this person, so I send back: "Kinda early 4 that. Who this?" "It's Angela....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 8, 2009 08:56 AM
Not surprisingly, the government feels it hasn't spent enough money that it, er, doesn't have Though some economic measures are improving, the financial crisis "is far from over" and "appears to be taking root in the larger economy." This, despite...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 8, 2009 06:15 AM
Via our bud Kae meet the Johnston family of Mermaid Beach (I think it's close to Porpoise Spit) after their drive into the hills for some hiking A GOLD Coast family of four pulled off a miraculous mountainside escape when...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 7, 2009 08:30 AM
...20 years ago, then never heard of them again (although I'd check the "Obscure Shit" section in music racks). It had been a pretty magical performance, but what had stuck in my mind was the last song they'd played. It...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 6, 2009 01:08 PM
Of course, the end rips your heart out and we were both in tears ~ mine were noisier. (Okay, the technical term is "blubbering"). Not just for Marley, you understand. But for Pignose and Schmacktion and Budgie...for all our puppies...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 6, 2009 10:05 AM
When I first heard about the amazingly thoughtful and appropriate gift that President Obama gave to the Queen of England I was somewhat afraid they would leave out some timeless and vital examples of towering American thought and expression that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 2, 2009 07:15 AM
Some may recall a few weeks ago where I vowed to subject myself to a Plonk-a-thon for you, Dear Readers, to see if there were some hidden gems to be found in the wilds of the box wine world. I...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 31, 2009 09:35 PM
This headline makes me want to barf Aging Manson 'Family' members long for freedom (CNN) -- Susan Atkins is terminally ill; Charles "Tex" Watson is an ordained minister. They and other members of Charles Manson's murderous "family" now shun him....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 30, 2009 12:58 PM
How else to account for this OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - As the city prepares for a massive public funeral for four police officers slain in the line of duty, dozens took to the streets in a show of support for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 26, 2009 07:02 AM
...can ruin your day. The Huntsville Housing Authority buys an apartment complex in southwest Huntsville, and that move has a lot of people fired up about it. Folks in the neighborhood said they just found out about over the weekend...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 25, 2009 09:53 AM
I'd tell Congress to get stuffed NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Executives at American International Group have started giving back their bonus cash in full, according to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. On a conference call with reporters Monday, Cuomo...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 24, 2009 07:00 AM
TULSA, Okla. — One of the most deadly spiders in the world has been found in the produce section of a Tulsa grocery store. An employee of Whole Foods Market found the Brazilian Wandering Spider Sunday in bananas from Honduras...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 20, 2009 07:15 AM
Carl Hiassen exposes the Sunshine State's livestock and legislative underbelly, in all its darkness. Sometimes it's not easy to admit that you live in Florida. Last week, our state Senate boldly took the first step toward making it illegal for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 19, 2009 07:42 AM
This Dodd is some piece of work. I love how he's twisting in the wind. And give CNN some credit for nailing his ass (CNN) -- Senate Banking committee Chairman Christopher Dodd told CNN Wednesday that he was responsible for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 19, 2009 07:00 AM
Remember just a few short months ago how all the media were agog about the wonders of "The First 100 Days" of the Age of Obama? CNN had a big splashy fawning banner "Obama: The First 100 Days" with the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 18, 2009 12:32 PM
...Obama was informed of the bonuses on March 12, before they were paid. After the funds were disbursed, the president ordered his economic and legal teams to determine if there was a way to recoup the money, according to the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 18, 2009 11:35 AM
If they did they could have published this yesterday WASHINGTON – If not distancing itself from Treasury Secretary and noted tax cheat Timothy Geithner, the White House is placing firmly on his shoulders responsibility for how the government handled the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 18, 2009 10:40 AM
Because the 'Hoos were sooper schtinky this year CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Dave Leitao has resigned as Virginia's men's basketball coach after the team's worst season in decades, according to an athletic department official familiar with the decision. The person...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 17, 2009 11:28 AM
Perhaps. I don't want to get too hopeful, but maybe a few of these goddamnedincompetentidiots very busy Legislators might actually start reading the bills before they pass them? WASHINGTON -- Eight Senate Democrats are opposing speedy action on President Barack...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 17, 2009 07:28 AM
File this under "What The Hell Were They Thinking" Maryland State Police airlifted the 27-year-old woman to Prince George's County Hospital Center early Sunday morning after she was injured in an incident involving a sex toy attached to a saber...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 13, 2009 08:02 AM
the new, wet behind the ears kid on the block A potential conflict was brewing last night in the South China Sea after President Obama dispatched heavily armed American destroyers to the scene of a naval standoff between the US...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 13, 2009 07:30 AM
"...for not having a leg to stand on" plan. Yeah. It sucks. Even the thought of them THINKING it...sucks. But, speaking as both a prior 12 1/2 year active duty Marine and as the wife of a recently retired one,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 12, 2009 09:47 PM
Crappy, as you would expect: WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. employers axed 651,000 jobs in February, pushing the unemployment rate to its highest in 25 years, as companies buckled under the strain of a recession that is showing no...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 6, 2009 08:50 AM
Understaffed Geithner can't keep up, critics say ...With an awkward first television appearance, a bank rescue plan that lacked promised specifics and two restructured bailouts that raised taxpayer risk, Geithner has failed to calm financial markets desperate for answers. Critics...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 5, 2009 09:14 AM
My Bride and I were talking last night about how low and, well, petty Obama is. Seriously. With all the insanity and uncertainly in the world at the moment what is required is a calm, reassuring, firm hand on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 4, 2009 08:13 AM
The bull-necked president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon prayers at the mosque and with chilling composure explained why seven young women who had been shot in the head deserved to die. Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose bodies were found...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 1, 2009 11:22 AM
...her off the island. And all this time I thought she had a halo and everything ~ "Newspapers dubbed her the new Joan of Arc, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy greeted her with a hero's welcome in Paris and a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 1, 2009 11:13 AM
And according to the EPA we're liable for it, too DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Nothing says summer in Iowa like a cloud of dust behind a combine. But what may be a fact of life for farmers is a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 27, 2009 06:51 AM
Well, technically it's the Hugh Moore Historical Park's asses WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal anti-terror law that requires longshoremen, truckers and others to submit to criminal background checks has ensnared another class of transportation worker -- mule drivers. Mule skinners...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 26, 2009 07:38 AM
The more I read about stories like the one below, where the guy in the cave house has to sell, the more annoyed I get. Look, as Ed at HotAir pointed out the other day, you do not get foreclosed...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 25, 2009 09:27 AM
Remember all the uproar about how arctic sea ice levels were at their lowest ever, causing all the cute cuddly polar bears to die of starvation and drowning because they couldn't traipse about on the ice while looking for fish...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 22, 2009 07:57 AM
I'd be laughing my ass off At a forum with reporters on Thursday, (Steven Chu) the head of the department that has traditionally taken the lead on global oil-market policy, was asked what message the Obama administration had for the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 20, 2009 03:13 PM
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday. In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 20, 2009 07:54 AM
Well, maybe a better term is nightmare Reporting from Sacramento -- With lawmakers still unable to deliver a budget after three days of intense negotiations, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger prepared to lay off 10,000 government workers and his administration said it...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 17, 2009 07:20 AM
Their goose is cookedcuisinarted WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Canada geese got into both engines of US Airways Flight 1549 and forced the plane to ditch into the Hudson River last month, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The flight crew...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 13, 2009 07:32 AM
Good for him Sen. Judd Gregg abruptly withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary Thursday, telling Politico that he “couldn’t be Judd Gregg” and serve in Barack Obama’s Cabinet. The White House — where some aides were caught off guard by...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 13, 2009 06:49 AM
Thank God you were there when we needed you....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 12, 2009 09:01 AM
Attacked by the Greens, guess whose house is still standing THEY were labelled law breakers, fined $50,000 and left emotionally and financially drained. But seven years after the Sheahans bulldozed trees to make a fire break — an act that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 11, 2009 02:25 PM
via Kae, the death toll is now pushing 200 Firefighters are battling 25 bushfires across Victoria, as the death toll rises to 181, making it the country's worst bushfire disaster. Victorian Premier John Brumby says he expects the death toll...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 10, 2009 06:46 AM
***Please donate what you can to the Australian Red Cross. Sure, the economy sucks, but our dear friends in Australia have always been there for us; I'll be god-damned if I'm not going to step up for them.*** Via Tim,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 9, 2009 06:27 AM
...should actually be able to READ the religious ramblings. ...The book appeared among gifts left for the cleric at a major Kabul mosque after Friday prayers in September 2007. It was a translation of the Quran into one of Afghanistan's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 6, 2009 01:09 PM
There's this guy. The ex-husband of one of the nine people killed at a Christmas Eve party has been asked by a landlord to pay the dead woman's rent. Broadcrest Foothill Apartment Homes claims Alicia Ortiz broke her lease and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 5, 2009 09:33 AM
Sure it's a populist sop (but I'm a populist sap), sure it's a ploy to distract attention from all the disastrous pork in the stimulus crap sammich', sure it's a ploy to distract attention from the complete laughable/cryable mess that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 5, 2009 06:19 AM
...I can watch ebola's head explode. The Legal Standing of Climate Models "Climate scientists have created a unique institutional system for assessing and improving models, going well beyond the usual system of peer review. Consequently, their conclusions should be entitled...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 4, 2009 01:40 PM
The Bear growls, and the country whose name sounds like an angry growl jumps CNN) -- The Kyrgyz government is planning to close a strategically important U.S. military base that Washington uses as a route for troops and supplies heading...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 4, 2009 06:58 AM
Climate change, that is Heavy snow has fallen across large parts of the UK, disrupting travel and closing hundreds of schools. South-east England has the worst snow it has seen for 18 years, causing all London buses to be pulled...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 2, 2009 06:26 AM
From a guy who, ya'd think, SHOULD BE "MISTAKE" proof, with all his years doing what he does. All his years being a "man o' the people" AND an OUTSPOKEN advocate for those same "people". A "MISTAKE" that ~ coincidentally...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 30, 2009 11:25 PM
Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But, we've never lost an astronaut in flight; we've never had a tragedy like this. And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 28, 2009 12:30 PM
Nice to know someone's lookin' out for us... ...If you were one of the many of us who thought that government's eminent domain powers only applied to real property, I have some bad news to report. As it turns out,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 21, 2009 04:47 PM
Lincoln this, Barack and Michelle that...sweet Mary, Mother of God, get the coronation over as quickly as possible. I love the thought of a black man as president. I love the thought of little girls in the White House again....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 19, 2009 12:15 AM
..."Jo"...wait. (I have to rephrase. My niece reads this. Got it.) ..."Me Down. That's Just WRONG." ...In October 2008 a judge in the Bayou case, Adlai Hardin Jr., ruled that investors who cashed out their interests within two years of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 13, 2009 06:07 PM
Probably not quite what he had in mind, though The body of a Somali pirate who reportedly drowned soon after receiving a huge ransom has washed ashore with $153,000 in his pocket, his uncle says. The man was one of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2009 09:47 AM
His trademark phrase "billions and billions" would be appropriated by the Governments "trillions and trillions Obama also confirmed that he plans to lay out a roughly $775 billion economic stimulus plan on Thursday but indicated that the amount could grow...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 8, 2009 07:49 AM
HBO and the "star-studded event" can kiss my ass NEW YORK -- HBO will kick off coverage of Inauguration Week with an exclusive Sunday, Jan. 18, telecast of the star-studded opening ceremony, two days before the saturation coverage of President...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 7, 2009 07:01 AM
(With apologies to The Limeliters.) In Illini's fair city, Where pols are so pretty, There once was a gub'nor named Roddy Blago. He strolled halls of power, And charged by the hour, Crying, "Cough up the moolah! To D.C. you'll...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 2, 2009 04:53 PM
(and I'm not talking about me) For Christmas dinner this year I decided to smoke a turkey using the easy and tasty recipe by Keri C Here. This is a high-temperature smoke, so it really takes the same amount of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 26, 2008 08:02 PM
In Seattle, capital of Granolastan, they have wisely decided to protect fish in the salty ocean from, well, salt The icy streets are the result of Seattle's refusal to use salt, an effective ice-buster used by the state Department of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 23, 2008 12:47 PM
The Troy New York Sentinel published a well researched, unbiased, first person story called "Account of a Visit From St. Nicholas". Unlike today's New York reporting, the facts were never in doubt, which is why, I'm sure, we still enjoy...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 23, 2008 09:31 AM
...I guess. Fifty eight percent of Wall Street office workers surveyed say they would take valuable company data with them if faced with a layoff, if they knew could get away with it. ...The survey found that many office workers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 23, 2008 09:06 AM
I'm normally not a big 'meme' poster, but I saw this over at Nightfly's this morning and liked it, so thanks to Tracey here we go: 1. Opening presents: Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? Morning. Christmas Eve is Christmas Eve;...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 23, 2008 06:42 AM
I'm very glad that no one was killed in that plane crash in Denver. My god, what a horrifying experience that must have been. But I have to admit, naughty person that I am, I laughed when I read this...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 22, 2008 02:18 PM
...of wonderments. The Las Vegas Bowl is going to have the burliest, manliest, sexiest national anthem ever, and there's nothing you can do about it. Sure, the matchup of BYU and Arizona may seem like the odd couple of bowl...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 20, 2008 11:55 PM
But some of us more than others New potential victims emerged of Wall Street veteran Bernard Madoff's alleged giant Ponzi scheme, with international banks, hedge funds and wealthy private investors among those sorting out what could amount to tens of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 15, 2008 07:18 AM
I just can't wait POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will let President-elect Barack Obama sign up to a U.N. pact to fight global warming in late 2009 even if U.S. climate laws are not yet in place, U.S....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2008 07:36 AM
There are strains that can no longer be papered over Without wanting to rehearse all the pros and cons of euro membership yet again, or debate whether EMU is a "optimal currency area", there is obviously a problem for countries...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 11, 2008 07:34 AM
Well, this is a relief, isn't it? As gun sales shoot up around the country, President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that gun-owning Americans do not need to rush out and stock up before he is sworn in next month. "I...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 9, 2008 07:20 AM
So the CEO of GM made his pilgrimage via auto back to DC to genuflect and kiss Pelosi's ring (for his sake, I certainly hope he bathed and splashed on a extra dose of Paco Rabanne before coming within olfactory...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 4, 2008 07:56 AM
So cultured! So refined! And, as European Unionists in the very highest of standing, so sensitive and attuned to the subtle nuances of different cultures from their own. Like, for instance, that happy-go-lucky party-til-you-drop playground that is Afghanistan First they...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 3, 2008 01:45 PM
And no questions, either; his judgment is beyond reproach by us mere taxpayers WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department has failed to address a number of critical issues while implementing the $700 billion financial rescue plan, including how to ensure its...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 3, 2008 07:42 AM
I wanted to revisit a beloved favorite, but was unwilling to spend the 3 hours doing so. This answered the call nicely... ...UNlike THIS stoopid exercise, which engages braincells I haven't even BIRTHED yet. I mean, really!!! WTF IS that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 30, 2008 09:58 PM
Friends, meet David Boon Boon achieved much fame and notoriety for consuming 52 cans of beer on a flight from Sydney to London before the victorious 1989 Ashes tour that saw Australia regain the trophy after five years of English...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 28, 2008 11:43 AM
And one of them was the driver. Argh......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 28, 2008 08:23 AM
Ummmmm, what better way to start the day than a nice platter of Vienna Sausage nachos? although, to be honest, they weren't nearly as good as the pulled pork nachos I made two weeks ago......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 27, 2008 01:40 PM
Well, I guess I'll give this ass points for clearly saying what he thinks (CNN) -- The Indian city of Mumbai exploded into chaos early Thursday morning as gunmen launched a series of attacks across the country's commercial capital, killing...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 27, 2008 08:16 AM
As I've mentioned before, there's a huge looming problem with the under-funded State employee pensions, and given their strong support for the incoming administration you know they will be a main concern. But there's also a big problem in the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 26, 2008 07:57 AM
You were right, you know. And to those of you who haven't seen "Streets of Fire"...do. But make sure you can CRANK the sound. You'll probably recognize quite a few of the fresh YOUNG faces in it, too. Michael...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 25, 2008 09:53 PM
Don't be slipping Rover ANYthing under the table. Surprising dangers for pets during the holidays ...Macadamia nuts can cause a short-term hind-limb paralysis, and bread dough, if eaten before baking, can expand rapidly once ingested and cause ethanol poisoning. MacKinley...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 25, 2008 02:19 PM
via RealJeffS, here's a story to make us all even more grateful this Thanksgiving FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In the city of Shewan, approximately 250 insurgents ambushed 30 Marines and paid a heavy price for it. ...“The day started out...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 25, 2008 06:24 AM
I beg to differ. ...Members of Congress were clearly looking for sacrifice from the union's older workforce and retiree pensioners. "The average family of four in my district makes $36,000 a year, and I find it difficult to ask them...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 20, 2008 07:32 PM
...Like its more moderately priced rival American Eagle (NYSE: AEO), Abercrombie has a strong brand name status among teen shoppers. However, teens and young adults are moving away from the herd mentality where all the "cool" kids show off identical...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 17, 2008 05:15 PM
Ding-dong went the doorbell, the dogs go apesh*t and...there's an Edward Jones type at the front door with a pamphlet and business card, asking major dad to give him a call if he needs any advice. On, you know, like...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 14, 2008 11:14 AM
Via Insta, she's got to be one of the last, if not the last, child of a slave still alive Along a rural highway in central Texas sits a small white house with some cows grazing out back and a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 5, 2008 08:56 AM
"Sunday: Live From Scranton" I am at Democrats for McCain Headquarters in downtown Scranton [ths: and SHE'S from FLORIDA!] and this place is buzzing. There are a LOT of people in this little office. We are waiting for the canvassers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 3, 2008 09:27 AM
With a deer she has shot and cooks it for dinner. Both she and Todd decide that they won't tell the kids what kind of meat it is, but will give them a clue and let them guess. The kids...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 3, 2008 08:29 AM
It would be that the election indisputably ends tomorrow. The electorate is pretty evenly split as the last few elections have shown, and the last thing we need is more drawn-out questions and debates and legal challenges out the yin-yang....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 3, 2008 06:39 AM
I don't know about you, but I am so tired of all this election stuff that I just want to laugh, drink, and forget about anything to do with these races. So to lighten the mood I'm going to post...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 31, 2008 08:02 AM
...we'd see censorship on the internet. And they were right! AUSTRALIA will join China in implementing mandatory censoring of the internet under plans put forward by the Federal Government. The revelations emerge as US tech giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 30, 2008 09:22 AM
...I'll share a little 'happening' from the campaign office yesterday. First, let me remind you what our facade looks like: Got that? Well, I guess the three well dressed, middle-aged ladies who came in mid-afternoon didn't. They asked in ~...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 29, 2008 03:31 AM
So, back in July we moved to St. Louis, as the firm I work for has moved its headquarters here. After looking around, we decided to buy in Illinois. Higher taxes, but cheaper houses, and an easier and shorter commute....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 28, 2008 09:03 PM
about this guy's seeming endless need to speak before adoring masses CHICAGO (CBS) ― Construction is underway for a massive stage in Chicago where Barack Obama could declare victory on election night. Tens of thousands are expected to gather in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 23, 2008 08:04 AM
You know, where folks were all polite about Palin. ...There was, of course, a time when Democrats tiptoed around Palin. But since... ...Mean old John Lewis called us racists, which hurt our feelings. So now, we're going to ... play...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 23, 2008 01:54 AM
Screw the election; today we're all about weird science NEW YORK (AP) - Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter:...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 22, 2008 01:41 PM
So now the word "socialist" is actually code for "black;" in fact, it's an "old code word." Who knew? It really is stupidity beyond belief, well, it should be beyond belief; I'm not sure anything is beyond belief these days,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 22, 2008 07:12 AM
Maybe they read The Protocols Of The Elders Of Flyin' Security forces in Natanz have arrested two suspected "spy pigeons" near Iran's controversial uranium enrichment facility, the reformist Etemad Melli newspaper reported on Monday. One of the pigeons was caught...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 21, 2008 07:08 AM
So naturally Trenton demands that every child get a flu shot As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day-care centers. The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 17, 2008 08:04 AM
Man, this past week sucked, didn't it? I found that I was very very tired and really just drained by Friday, so I knew for the weekend I needed to follow my own advice and spend as much time in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 15, 2008 07:35 AM
You had to think it might come to this, you know? The eyewitness account she sent: Subject: Jumper My friend was in traffic all morning trying to get across the Tappan Zee Bridge into NYC. Once he was able to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 10, 2008 11:30 AM
That's how it looks at the moment, my friends LONDON (Reuters) - Europe joined Asia's panic selling in stocks on Friday, knocking the benchmark world equity index to a 5-year trough, while the low-yielding yen jumped as fears grew that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 10, 2008 06:15 AM
We'd had thunderstorms since 0230 and over 6 inches of rain by 1000 and it was STILL pouring, but no matter. Getting inside seemed tantalizingly deLIGHTful. And we weren't disappointed. The stage was set......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 8, 2008 08:26 PM
Futures and overseas markets are down again PARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures were sharply down on Wednesday as deepening fears that the credit crisis would make more victims and drag the global economy into recession sent equities plunging around...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 8, 2008 06:41 AM
That seems to be their go-to response these days, isn't it? If you dare to question The One's record or policies, well you're a racist, natch. And if you dare to question the wisdom of the folks who "encouraged' banks...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 7, 2008 06:35 AM
Silenced?!?!?! I KILL THEM!!!!! Comedian Defends 'Achmed the Dead Terrorist' Puppet Routine Against South African Ban It's no laughing matter. Funnyman ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is fuming after a ringtone advertisement based on his popular comedy skit, "Achmed the Dead Terrorist,"...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 6, 2008 10:05 AM
Good thing we just dumped $700 billion in, ain't it? ATLANTA (CNN) -- The major markets of Europe and Asia were sharply lower on Monday as traders looked past America's bank bailout bill and focused on Europe's growing financial crisis....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 6, 2008 06:12 AM
IV. Summary and Conclusion: My conclusions were that Coke and Dr. Pepper dissolved the most. I found out everything I wanted to know. I expected Coke to dissolve the most and 7-Up to dissolve the least. I was right. ...somehow,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 5, 2008 10:19 PM
Move right along WASHINGTON — Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s. So did Frank’s partner, a Fannie Mae executive at the forefront of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 4, 2008 08:29 PM
Wise leader Harry says "We don't have a lot of leeway on time," Reid told reporters in the Capitol. "One of the individuals in the caucus today talked about a major insurance company -- a major insurance company -- one...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 1, 2008 06:44 PM
...anticipating the occasional blood pressure spike. But we know that. On last Monday's broadcast, they did the first of their candidate "leadership style" profiles: McCain. And it was pretty stunning, even by their standards. There were the obligatory GOP fellows...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 1, 2008 11:06 AM
Yeah. That one. Rest in peace, Mr. Newman. You were a fine, fine figure of a man human being....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 27, 2008 10:27 PM
As I talked about below I'm very much against this bailout, as it seems many of you are too. And as I feared it now seems that those bastards sorry I meant really smart and terrific folks in the Treasury...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 24, 2008 07:29 AM
I am really disgusted by this whole bail-out by the Federal Government. I strongly believe in capitalism, but I also believe that people are fallen and greedy and need to be restrained; that's why in spite of Marx's Utopian dreaming...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 23, 2008 08:41 AM
...hit you in the caboose. Muslim leader says 150 workers fired at Neb. plant About 150 Muslims were fired from a Grand Island, Neb., meatpacking plant that has been embroiled in a prayer dispute, a Somali-American leader said Friday. Mohamed...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 19, 2008 07:14 PM
...for risky behaviour. Hundreds of people whose beachfront homes were wrecked by Hurricane Ike may be barred from rebuilding under a little-noticed Texas law. And even those whose houses were spared could end up seeing them condemned by the state....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 19, 2008 09:41 AM
As an Ike survivor -- one who lives WAAAY inland, where it was relatively safe to "hunker down" -- I agree that the Galvestonites who stayed are a burger short of a Happy Meal. And worse is the PRESS who...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 17, 2008 08:13 PM
So I know y'all have been anxiously awaiting word on how Bingley Vineyards were doing. When we got back from Alaska things were looking pretty good The grapes were growing nicely and starting to deep purple-ize. I'm not sure why...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 17, 2008 06:53 AM
Look for even more bankruptcies NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Oil prices plummeted Tuesday in Asia, falling briefly below $92 a barrel as investors feared the U.S. credit crisis that brought down brokerage giant Lehman Brothers will drag on global...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 16, 2008 06:04 AM
So, there we were, leisurely perusing the Sunday NYT when a name in the wedding announcement section caught my eye. Serena Torrey, Theodore Roosevelt V Having seen it before I, major dad confirmed that it was, indeed, that Roosevelt. I...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 14, 2008 08:41 PM
(with apologies to Tom Lehrer) The loveliest girl in Wasilla The best shot with balls or a gun Of moose and incumbents a killa' She's gutted both during her run Granny-glassed Gibson derided As he queried 'bout Anwar Sadat She...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 13, 2008 04:39 PM
To our dearest friends Sharon and Julie, Our thoughts and prayers are with you and yours. Treat Ike like you were Tina in divorce court ~ let him have it! And keep yourselves safe....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 11, 2008 10:22 AM
(originally published 9/11/06) We all know the story of how they and so many others died on that day, but we must never forget how these wonderful people lived, either. John and Sylvia adored life, and they adored each other....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 11, 2008 06:07 AM
...the "who's your buddy, who's your pal" cartel helps out the Republicans. I think. OPEC oil ministers agreed Wednesday to trim overall output by more than 500,000 barrels a day in a compromise meant to avoid new turmoil in crude...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 10, 2008 09:10 AM
...quite so much, considering everything. ...But the campaign is struggling to meet ambitious fund-raising goals it set for the campaign and the party. It collected in June and July far less from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's donors than originally projected....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 9, 2008 08:38 AM
Why on earth would you tune in to someone who gets paid to be obnoxious? MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 7, 2008 10:19 PM
Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush's tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 7, 2008 09:11 PM
..this thought from the Corner. ...He is standing in the way of the first black president. That is a ticklish, ticklish position to be in. He should find a way of acknowledging it, mitigating it, etc. First, McCain PAID for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2008 11:05 AM
I find it deliciously ironic that the man who chose Joe Biden as his running mate would complain that parts of Sarah Palin's speech were written by someone else. Maybe it's because she paid her speechwriters....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2008 05:57 AM
Sarah Palin is pretty universally tut tutted by Democrats for: ...Palin's on the ticket because she's a woman and she isn't afraid to engage in the Republicans' mean-spirited personal attacks. Is it me or did Sarah Palin come off as...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 4, 2008 09:30 AM
"Navin, I'd love you if you were the color of a baboon's ass." MUST See TeeVee....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 3, 2008 05:39 PM
...I'm not sure (were I a machinist) what part of this I would have turned down... ...In a high-stakes struggle between the Chicago-based aerospace giant and the Machinists union, Boeing's three-year "best and final" offer included $5,000 in signing bonuses,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 3, 2008 05:00 PM
And have someone else paying the bills for the roadtrip, yo. Young Republican Road Trip ..."People don't realize the Republican Party is very appealing to young people," says Donnelly. "The Republican Party is not just one demographic, it's not old...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 3, 2008 01:09 PM
Obama's Years at Columbia Are a Mystery He Graduated Without Honors Senator Obama's life story, from his humble roots, to his rise to Harvard Law School, to his passion as a community organizer in Chicago, has been at the center...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 3, 2008 10:38 AM
It can't have been much of a party if we weren't invited....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 3, 2008 09:03 AM
major dad and I spent a quiet ride home from Mobile, just now. On I-10 East, we were surrounded by Mississippi and Louisiana license plates, the shoulder was dotted with broken down vehicles carrying the same and the Welcome Center...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 30, 2008 06:26 PM
Brilliant. Absolutely fucking brilliant. Agreed. Once I got done crying (which has NEVER happened in a political sense EVER.) (Okay, when Fred! f*cked things up, but that was RAGE.), I thought "Dang! I can relate to this chick." I mean,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 30, 2008 12:40 AM
Everyone is confirming it's Palin. And daggum. They had to call her parents while they were caribou hunting. What a hoot. Man. I am CHARGED UP! Bingley Update: She has more executive experience than McCain, Obama and Biden combined. ths...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 29, 2008 10:46 AM
So after spending several hours toodling around in Disenchantment Bay in front of the glacier it was time to say "aw reservoir" and start the trip to Juneau, where we were scheduled to dock at 6 am or so. So...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 25, 2008 10:06 PM
So we left Sitka in the early afternoon and slowly steamed our way north overnight towards the Hubbard Glacier. The next morning we got a special treat, for the day dawned warm and clear. There she was, twenty miles ahead...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 24, 2008 05:51 PM
Vacation. That magical word that conjures up images of endless hours stuck in traffic trying to get to the Shore, fighting with your siblings for precious square inches of backseat real estate, painful sunburns chafing under shirts that somehow aren't...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 24, 2008 12:07 PM
...I was reminded of a magical vacation we took in the early 60's, when Bingley was just a Brussell sprout. He developed chicken pox while we were there. In answering a customs officer's question about the origin of the puling...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 18, 2008 10:41 AM
...one of my favorite summer treats has always been a re-reading of this: Louis L'Amour's Haunted Mesa. It's just the right mix of mysticism, fantasy, detective story and old time Western. The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the “ancient enemy,”...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 15, 2008 11:47 AM
...except when it doesn't. Highway crashes kill more than 41,000 in 2007 Traffic deaths in the United States declined last year, reaching the lowest level in more than a decade. Some 41,059 people were killed in highway crashes, down by...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 14, 2008 11:32 AM
And I do mean "in" and not "of." Seriously. I walk by here every day, and the crowd of tourists is many deep and never ending...and they are having a great time getting their pictures take next to it...embracing it...caressing...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 12, 2008 08:17 PM
That would be the Archbishop of Canterbury's view of Communist China. ...But one of the things which struck me there was that we were not talking just about a moral vacuum in general, but a vacuum in what was once...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 12, 2008 05:13 PM
Not good at all. DZHAVA, Georgia (AP) - Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a major military offensive to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 8, 2008 11:44 PM
SCORE !!! Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate In ABC News Interview, Edwards Says He Cheated, but Did Not Father Child Not so silky now, are we? UPDATE: Oh, God, it's Ace and it's rude, but it's also...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 8, 2008 03:09 PM
...Of mine Testimony Wednesday afternoon revealed his wife, 25-year-old Rebecca Bargy, tied up her husband for sexual pleasure Thursday night after he asked her to, and then went to the airport to pick up a man from Arizona she had...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 6, 2008 07:20 AM
...for Number 1. To Daryl Johnson of Orange, Tex., work as a rigger on pipe-laying barges seemed like a pretty sure bet. The pay was good -- $18.50 an hour -- and with oil exploration booming, Johnson felt secure with...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 4, 2008 03:54 PM
...would be as obliging. More than 180 Fatah supporters who fled into Israel from the Gaza Strip were in Israeli custody Sunday, after a dramatic escape from a Hamas crackdown that left nine people dead in fierce fighting. ...The incident...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2008 09:39 PM
...I can not see how Dudley Do-Right can say this (Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Steve) Cowell said there was no immediate indication of what prompted the attack. He said he didn't know how many times the victim was stabbed....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 1, 2008 09:18 AM
I played in the church Manna softball game last night, where everyone who plays brings canned or boxed food that the church then distributes to folks in need. This is probably only the second time in 20-odd years that I've...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 1, 2008 09:06 AM
How completely barbaric and disgusting A passenger traveling on a bus across Canada's vast Western plains stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him in an unexplained attack, a witness told media Thursday. The victim had been sleeping...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 31, 2008 02:15 PM
It's good to see the top guys going down over this WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy fired the captain and executive officer of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington on Wednesday because of a massive fire that damaged the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 31, 2008 06:41 AM
...just fine? Salmonella outbreak tied to irrigation water CDC says it has found 'smoking gun' that led to 1,300 people falling ill The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 30, 2008 06:24 PM
This just in: Ice Melts In Summer! EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -- A chunk of ice spreading across 18 square kilometers (seven square miles) has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday. ... Mueller said the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 30, 2008 08:10 AM
Here we go. House poised to apologize for slavery, Jim Crow ... The resolution will not be the first time lawmakers have apologized to an ethnic group for past injustices. In April, the Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Sen....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 29, 2008 03:10 PM
major dad points us to this Susan Estrich column. It sounds a warning chime for Team Obambi, but I'll betcha they're not listening. ...The problem with all this fawning is threefold. First of all, the fact that the press doesn’t...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 25, 2008 12:48 PM
And if he is elected, don't worry, we're still all racists (CNN) -- "We had a dream. Now it's a reality." That's the slogan on a popular T-shirt linking Sen. Barack Obama's presidential run to the Rev. Martin Luther King's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 22, 2008 12:39 PM
I may have to start watching Philly TV PHILADELPHIA - A fired TV newscaster was charged Monday with hacking into the e-mail of his glamorous younger co-anchor hundreds of times for more than two years, as leaked information about her...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 22, 2008 07:00 AM
...And then in early 2007 came the surge, which so many of us in the antiwar left of the Democratic Party predicted would be a failure, throwing good men and women and billions of dollars after futility. We were wrong....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 22, 2008 12:06 AM
Eight women and one man convicted of adultery are set to be stoned to death in Iran, activists said Sunday. Lawyer and women's rights activist, Shadi Sadr, said the nine were convicted of adultery in separate cases in different Iranian...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 21, 2008 09:48 AM
...turn, turn, turn. ...I've never had any doubt that the U.S. military would defeat Saddam Hussein's army. There was never any doubt that if we poured enough resources in there, that we could lock down Iraq. There is a season...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 16, 2008 12:05 AM
The unbridled arrogance of this man never ceases to amaze or entertain. Except now he's cost us billions The federal government took control of Pasadena-based IndyMac Bank on Friday in what regulators called the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 12, 2008 07:57 AM
...of the autopsies. Missing soldiers' bodies recovered in Iraq Pentagon confirms the deaths of men who were seized in 2007 ambush Dear God, the possibilities are so horrific and I hope against hope that the animals who held them went...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 11, 2008 03:12 PM
...over "Yo Quiero Taco Bell", considering the Mexican attitude? A comic-book character popular in Mexico for generations has run into a cultural barrier at the border, where Americans see him as a racist caricature. ... "This is absolutely insensitive toward...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 9, 2008 04:22 PM
...add yet another entry. BP's rivals shift in Russian tussle The fate of the second biggest foreign investment in Russia hangs in the balance amid signs of a shifting mood in the Kremlin which may have wrong-footed investors and one...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 7, 2008 12:01 AM
NPR (!?!?!?!) lays a verbal hurt on Weasley Clark. ...When you yourself were a candidate for president, you touted your own military service. And I seem to remember you saying that that was part of what made you a well-qualified...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 2, 2008 03:16 PM
We're having our great Liberty Extravaganza at church and, given the insanity coming out of the Presbyterian General Assembly, I sent Tim a note letting him know that there were still some sane Presbyterians left in the world (he was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 2, 2008 11:36 AM
But it sounds like they only hit the "hostages" PARIS — A military shooting demonstration in southeast France on Sunday left 16 people wounded, including children, when real bullets were used instead of blank ones, officials said. Four of the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 30, 2008 12:42 PM
At least that's what I learned from all the "no blood for oil" bumper stickers. It seems to me we've given some blood, so let's get that oil flowing A group of American advisers led by a small State Department...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 30, 2008 08:44 AM
Geesh, he was only 71 LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 23, 2008 06:57 AM
I saw this yesterday morning down by the Battery Tunnel Aside form the very patriotic tableaux of the Red, White and Blue vehicles you have 3 cars that are literally touching each other. The white SUV is completely hemmed in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 17, 2008 07:55 AM
Every public group of people has one. Well, at least every random group of commuters into Manhattan that I've ever been a part of does. Along with Young Intense Guy and Cranky Immigrant Guy and Shriveled Old Lady there's always...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2008 11:45 PM
It's gobschmacked I am. Shock and awe. Report: Troubling texts at Va. Islamic school The books say it’s OK for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts McLEAN, Va. - Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 12, 2008 12:24 AM
And they are so proud of their British traditions and heritage that they've spent an astronomical amount promoting the holiday. Or not They were happy to fly the flag of St George on the patron saint's day. But it seems...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 11, 2008 08:57 AM
That would make life rather...messy, wouldn't it? The Russians undermined Opec's attempts to talk down the oil market yesterday by warning that crude prices could almost double to $250 a barrel within 18 months. The prediction from Alexey Miller, chairman...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 11, 2008 08:10 AM
...else to do. Antarctica base gets 16,500 condoms before darkness One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported Monday....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 10, 2008 10:22 AM
Well, actually, it's taxpayers' money The BBC paid expenses to a disgraced academic who has pestered families bereaved by the 7/7 bombs, claiming the attacks were an intelligence agency plot. Nicholas Kollerstrom was recompensed by the corporation for his part...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 10, 2008 10:00 AM
Break a rock. Myanmar's military regime has forced cyclone survivors to do menial labor in exchange for food and has stepped up a campaign to evict the homeless from aid shelters, an international human rights group said Thursday. ...In mid-May,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 5, 2008 03:11 PM
For your joints People who drink alcohol are less prone to the sometimes crippling disease called rheumatoid arthritis compared with non-drinkers, according to a Scandinavian study published on Wednesday. People who had a moderate alcohol consumption were 40 and 45...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 5, 2008 07:11 AM
Could you lend me a few quid? Britain's banks faced a black Monday today as a £4 billion shares sell-off was prompted by a major lender warning of plunging profits. Bradford & Bingley's drastic trading statement said more customers will...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 2, 2008 09:58 PM
...whose only interest in 'the bottom line' starts at the top. Around the country, Washington Mutual (WM, news, msgs) regularly plays the tough guy with homeowners who fall behind on mortgages. This as foreclosure filings overall rose 60% nationwide in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 30, 2008 04:34 PM
And attack immigrants. The racist, hating Bastards. You knew it would come to this. In Rome. Balaclava-clad gangs, some wearing bandanas emblazoned with swastikas, smashed shop windows with iron bars and baseball bats and beat up shopkeepers in a hitherto...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 27, 2008 08:08 AM
(here are your winnings, Sir) Oh, thank you very much. OPEC chief Abdala El Badri on Thursday said members were unhappy with surging prices he blamed on speculators and a weak US dollar. "We are not very happy with this...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 23, 2008 07:29 AM
That's what it's coming to. American Airlines to cut capacity, charge for bags ...The company plans to charge $15 for many passengers' first checked bag starting in mid-June, an unprecedented move by a major U.S. airline as it tries to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 21, 2008 01:51 PM
They manage to top all expectations and come up with this WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 21, 2008 06:42 AM
...You can be assured Greenpeace is against it Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not doing enough to eliminate potentially harmful chemicals and metals from their games consoles, Greenpeace has said. The body examined materials used inside the Sony PlayStation 3...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 20, 2008 07:28 AM
Via Ace, I mean, I know the winters are mighty long up in The Great White North, and Canadians are upset about polar bear testicles and stuff, but it seems to me that this is carrying their carvingcraving for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 15, 2008 02:01 PM
Here. Let me help you with that: A vicar is to apply for a drinks licence so he can sell wine and beer at his small village church. The Reverend Geraint ap Iorwerth could be made licensee of St Peter...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 13, 2008 03:30 PM
So said 78 year old WW2 vet Dale Davis, who on Saturday night bowled his first perfect 300 game. Oh, by the way, he's blind A perfect game. The most difficult achievement a bowler can accomplish. It’s even more impressive...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 9, 2008 09:40 AM
My god, those poor people in Myanmar. The dictatorship is stealing the aid The World Food Programme has halted aid shipments to Burma after the contents of its first delivery were impounded on arrival in the military-ruled country. The UN...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 9, 2008 08:29 AM
Frustrated owners try to unload their guzzlers After paying $75 to fill his black Dodge Ram pickup truck for the third time in a week, Douglas Chrystall couldn't take it anymore. Feeling pinched at the pump, and guilty as well,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 7, 2008 02:21 PM
...I'd watch my ass. Florida Substitute Teacher Fired, Accused of Wizardry ...Jim Piculas said he made a toothpick disappear and reappear in front of students at the Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes, Fla., Local6.com reported. He said he...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 7, 2008 02:05 PM
...this sweet, brave lady personified both. In the name of love. For marrying the only man she ever loved, Mildred Loving paid a price: She was arrested, convicted and banished from her home state. ...[But] in Caroline County word spread...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 7, 2008 10:59 AM
...today it's more than 22,000 dead YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- A Myanmar government radio station said Tuesday that more than 22,000 people are dead and the U.N. estimates up to a million could be homeless after the catastrophic cyclone that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 6, 2008 08:18 AM
Born in New York The 1990s were a decade of brilliance for Boris, capped in 1999 with the editorship ofThe Specator.He was still only 35 but this prize was far from the limits of his ambition. As a youngster, he...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 5, 2008 07:04 AM
...this is not surprising Some computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, research has suggested. Consumer group Which? said tests at its London offices found equipment carrying bugs that could cause food poisoning. Out of 33 keyboards...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 1, 2008 09:10 AM
Ah, kids these days and their text messages ANN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) -- Thirteen members of a high school lacrosse team have been disciplined for dropping their pants to send a prom invitation from one player to a girl. The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 30, 2008 07:27 AM
...The regional insurance company Pemco Insurance knows all this, and it’s created a brilliant ad campaign around it.[Ed: hit 'View the Ads'] Using the tagline “We’re a lot like you,” Pemco manages to poke fun at residents of the Pacific...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 29, 2008 05:41 PM
...compared to some other folks around the world One of Australia’s most senior conservative politicians broke down today as he tearfully admitted sniffing the chair of a female colleague shortly after she vacated it. Troy Buswell, the leader of the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 29, 2008 12:01 PM
But I've got a real good feeling about this couple's chances of success together ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Police said a couple brawled with one another, then members of another wedding party, just hours after they repeated their vows and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 29, 2008 11:52 AM
Crusader pointed this out to me; it's just too funny Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say. The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 29, 2008 08:03 AM
...that the women of Iraq get to pay for. Barbaric 'honour killings' become the weapon to subjugate women in Iraq Murder of a girl who became infatuated with a British soldier highlights a disturbing new trend At first glance Shawbo...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 28, 2008 07:28 PM
I'll admit it from the get-go: I am from rural New Jersey. I grew up in Sussex County. We had a party-line phone until the late 70s. Our power used to go off every year when the ski slopes would...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 28, 2008 02:53 PM
I freely admit that I have not paid enough attention to the details of this case to form an opinion about the officers' guilt or innocence. I certainly can understand the cops' feeling threatened, but 50 shots seems a bit...much....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 25, 2008 11:53 AM
They need to dump whoever's playing Bad Bad Leroy Brown. 5 Shot Dead On South Side Three men and two women were fatally shot Wednesday afternoon inside a home in the Chatham neighborhood, police said. CBS 2's Kris Habermehl reports...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 23, 2008 08:00 PM
I damn near forgot! And this is cheerful news, especially if it signals a trend... ...April 23 is St. George's Day, England's national day. But it's not a public holiday, and for decades it passed largely unnoticed — a far...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 23, 2008 07:49 PM
...got me thinking. Why is he, as a Republican, considered 'brave' to go and met by only 100 or so white folks, when Democrats are lionized and met by adoring crowds of all colors? I decided to research something I'd...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 23, 2008 05:41 PM
Terminator anyone? Looks like a prior Marine in Atlanta has finally figured out how to make the neighborhood safe at no cost to the taxpayer and no bodily harm to anyone and he's being sidelined for it. He built the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 23, 2008 10:54 AM
No wonder Obama wants to bring the troops home; he's got a fancy house that needs protecting CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Nine people were killed in 36 shootings over the weekend in Chicago, reflecting what some community leaders say is...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 22, 2008 10:09 PM
Lovely. But WHAT to have for dinner with it?! Having spent the whole day in the car, we were loathe to climb in again. So. Improvise, adapt, overcome! We did a little kitchen reconnoitering to see what we could...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 22, 2008 03:06 PM
If you were a Brazilian priest who wanted to raise money for a spiritual rest-stop for truckers, wouldn't you naturally strap hundreds of helium party balloons to yourself? SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A Roman Catholic priest who floated off...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 22, 2008 08:00 AM
...no daily bread? Could we really run out of food? ...The very idea that the modern world could run out of food seems ludicrous, but that is the flip side, or cause, of the tremendous recent increase in the cost...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 21, 2008 11:20 AM
This is really rather creepy MINNEAPOLIS - The number of mysterious neurological illnesses among workers who processed pig brains at pork plants in three states has grown to as many as 24, and other possible cases are being evaluated, researchers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 18, 2008 03:13 PM
...can be a bad thing LONDON, England (CNN) -- Taking antioxidants like vitamins A and E to prolong life may actually have the opposite effect, new research has found. Taking vitamin supplements in large quanities may actually prove detrimental to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 16, 2008 10:48 AM
Just because no one ever called you on it didn't mean it was okay to begin with. The head of the Smithsonian Latino Center resigned after an investigation found she abused her expense account to fund her extravagant use of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 15, 2008 10:55 AM
Capt. Ed at HotAir has a couple of posts up this morning on some recent discoveries in energy. One is the finding of a large oil field off the coast of Brazil (something like the 3rd largest known) and another...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 15, 2008 07:41 AM
...EXACTLY. First off, I'll apologize for not noticing this story until I hit my favoritest trashy gossip site today. But the story was so compelling... Former cycling champion Tammy Thomas seemed to be in the midst of shaving her...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 10, 2008 04:46 PM
...only hurt themselves? Marion Jones' teammates stripped of medals Disgraced sprinter's relay teams won 1,600, were 3rd in 400 in 2000 Games Marion Jones’ former relay teammates paid the price Thursday for her doping offenses, losing their medals from the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 10, 2008 10:50 AM
It seems there may be an increased risk of lung cancer with inhaled insulin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and Nektar Therapeutics said on Wednesday clinical trials of the inhaled insulin Exubera found increased cases of lung cancer, leading...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 9, 2008 09:54 AM
...[aeronautical engineers] decided to combine these features into one death-filled, high-flying hayride called the V-22 Osprey. (The proposed name, the V-22 OhJesusIdon'twanttodietellmywifeIloveher! didn't panel well.)" Genius. - A V-22 Osprey completes a fully-automated landing via its advanced autopilot system. ...Numerous...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 8, 2008 02:01 PM
Ken tagged me a week ago with a food meme that Brian had tagged him with. The rules are quite simple: "The basic requirements were that the food be "peasant" food (or the American equivalent), that it be delicious, simple,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 5, 2008 10:36 AM
...cease? Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete has condemned witchdoctors who kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope it will bring prosperity. He said 19 albinos had been murdered since March 2007, and another two were missing presumed dead...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 4, 2008 01:05 PM
And they couldn't pay me eNOUGH to be there. God help those folks. Police take journalists from Zimbabwe hotel Troops surround hotel housing foreign reporters covering election Security agents and paramilitary police in riot gear surrounded a hotel housing foreign...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 3, 2008 02:53 PM
Or should I say Lorry Pigs have escaped after a lorry carrying them crashed on an Aberdeenshire road. Drivers have been warned to expect delays after the accident happened on the A92 at Lathallan, Johnshaven, at about 0830 BST. Injuries...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 3, 2008 08:14 AM
We have a running joke in the coffee business about China, and most industries share some variation of it. People look at China and think “If I could get everyone in China to drink just one cup of coffee per...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 2, 2008 01:14 PM
So Friday I started out with the decent Portuguese wine below, but as it took me a little longer than I had reckoned to get the burgers ready I had to open another bottle. I hate that. Anyhow, in keeping...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 2, 2008 07:32 AM
Powered By Shop for Toys That's right, yo! I'm worth lots for sex yo, cause I like, talk like an idiot, homeslizice!...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 1, 2008 06:19 PM
April Fools U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, (D-N.J.) plans to make it official today: He is running for re-election. A news conference is scheduled this afternoon in Trenton where Lautenberg will be surrounded by the top brass of the state Democratic...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 31, 2008 01:39 PM
Not a whole helluva lot, evidently British Airways admitted that the Terminal 5 chaos is set to last into the weekend as the airline put its hands up to a string of blunders. The carrier is facing a wave of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 28, 2008 01:38 PM
The girl on the left was her. 18. Bless her heart. Judging from the picture, I would have to say her parents were out of their friggin', permissive, keep-up-with-the-other-tarts minds. You can justify giving in to your daughter all you...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 27, 2008 10:14 PM
But with all his experience you'd think he'd at least wear it correctly A 58-year-old man who fed pigeons wearing only a skimpy thong which was back to front has been fined £150. Neighbours spotted David Batchelor in his street...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 27, 2008 07:13 AM
...and the wrong Rev. Wright off the front page. Obama passport files violated; 2 State Department workers fired Sometimes I think somebody pays these assh*les to be this stupid (Witness the Abu Ghraib cretins). UPDATE: Whew!! He can't get much...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 20, 2008 09:27 PM
...instead of your own craven stupidity. Democrat Barack Obama suffered in the polls Thursday after a much-acclaimed speech on race that, pundits said, had failed to defuse voters' anger over rage-filled sermons by his former pastor. And check this out,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 20, 2008 03:09 PM
Gov. Paterson admitted Wednesday he may have improperly billed his campaign for at least one hotel tryst with a girlfriend. The hotel tryst was apparently listed as "constituent services." I think they meant to say "constituent services the Lt. Governor"....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 20, 2008 12:51 PM
More crap in the courts WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday stepped into a legal fight over the use of curse words on the airwaves, the high court's first major case on broadcast indecency in 30 years. The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 18, 2008 08:37 AM
...and sniffling like a baby. Because they were singing what I used to sing to my baby at night. I found the video so you could hear it, too. It's the perfect lullaby. Happy St. Patrick's Day....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 17, 2008 01:13 PM
Would you believe that criminals don't want to get shot? When sexual assaults started rising in Orlando, Fla., in 1986, police officers noticed women were arming themselves, so they launched a firearms safety course for them. Over the next 12...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 14, 2008 10:38 AM
Yet someone else in politics helping himself to the till The former treasurer for the National Republican Congressional Committee diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars -- and possibly as much as $1 million -- of the organization's funds into his...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 14, 2008 10:08 AM
...of PIG POOPIE flowing downstream to know that THIS: Neb. corporate farming debate revived The Legislature could debate whether to revive a ban on corporate farming this year. ...is a GREAT idea. ... Sen. Cap Dierks has introduced a bill...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 13, 2008 04:29 PM
This is bad. Severed fingers of 5 hostages delivered to U.S. officials in Iraq BAGHDAD _U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian who were taken hostage more than a year ago...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 13, 2008 09:15 AM
So now we have some pictures. Dude, she's basically the same age as your oldest daughter. Blech. I mean, while I certainly don't condone having an affair when your marriage has broken down at least Rudi took up with a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 13, 2008 06:55 AM
...all the cool kids are doing it. So is Cullen....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 11, 2008 09:18 PM
With his track record, I kind of expected to see Mr. Spitzer's name show up too: Bill Clinton Link in Ethanol Probe (SAO PAULO, Brazil) — A team from Brazil's Labor Ministry found "degrading" living conditions for 133 sugarcane workers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 11, 2008 09:49 AM
Well well well, now we know how jealous you New Yorkers were of us with McGreavey ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 10, 2008 02:19 PM
Well, I spent another bike ride with the Mamas and the Papas. Until I heard the song "Creeque Alley" lo these many years ago, I didn't know that the M&tPs were so closely connected with the Lovin' Spoonful, whose songs...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 8, 2008 08:23 PM
Pelosi points finger at McCain on Boeing ..."My understanding is that it was on course for Boeing before. I mean, the thought was that it would be a domestic supplier for it," Ms Pelosi told reporters. "Senator McCain intervened, and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 7, 2008 10:23 AM
In a new venue this week through the kindness of Mr. Bingley and THS! And this week, there are so many fuck offs and so little time. But here's a small list off the top of my head: Fuck off...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 7, 2008 08:32 AM
And justice has been served: Big breasts win verdict for Japanese pin-up TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese pin-up model says that her big breasts have not only boosted her career -- they also helped her overturn a court verdict. The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 6, 2008 09:00 AM
From our good friends at Bloody Scott A junior schoolteacher, in Wiltshire gave her class a year 2007 assignment... get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. So, the next day the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 4, 2008 09:35 PM
Nude man in gas-mask at large Police in Massachusetts are hunting a mysterious naked man, who was seen by several witnesses wandering around town wearing nothing but a gas mask. ...Bingley seems to have gone missing. ...The naked man and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 4, 2008 05:30 PM
That would be me doing my Barrack Obama imitation at his impromptu news conference today. Silver tongued devil he weren't sans tele-prompter. Then the word "skitter" comes to mind, because that's what he does to exit the stage. To a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 3, 2008 07:24 PM
Thank God he's not running for president or something ~ such behavior would be intolerable. White House Aide Accused of Plagiarism WASHINGTON (AP) - A White House aide accused of plagiarism was chastised Friday and his actions were criticized as...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 29, 2008 05:30 PM
...And in Muslim lands? There has been silence about American deeds in the Balkans. The drums of anti-Americanism are steady, and no one has stepped forth to acknowledge American mercy and American protection. Precious few, even in "moderate" Muslim lands,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 29, 2008 11:36 AM
Sulzheimers. I mean really, doesn't Pravda realize how silly they look now? WASHINGTON — The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 28, 2008 09:08 AM
But I can own them A pair of slippers worn by Sir Walter Scott is expected to fetch several thousand pounds at auction. The famous writer's footwear will go under the hammer at Edinburgh's Shapes auctioneers on 1 March. The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 25, 2008 09:27 AM
Protesters break into U.S. embassy in Serbia Support for Kosovo independence raised tensions with Balkan nation A handful of protesters broke into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, cheered on by crowds outside, in a protest at U.S. support...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 21, 2008 01:08 PM
I mean I guess the Chinese are feeling a little put-out since they got used to their friends in the Clinton Administration just sending them the information( in exchange for meals at Buddhist Temples, naturally) China called on the United...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 21, 2008 06:46 AM
1 of 2 F-15 pilots rescued in Gulf of Mexico dies Pair of single-seat fighters likely collided during training, Air Force says Eglin's local. And we were tickled when we'd heard they'd pulled both them out of the Gulf. We...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 20, 2008 09:55 PM
...now. A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago — intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad. But its size...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 19, 2008 12:11 PM
Which costs the US taxpayer more: The entire US military establishment, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, or benefits for elderly citizens? For 2007 total military related expenses were a tad over $626 billion. Total benefits to the elderly...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 15, 2008 08:59 AM
...these guys. Saudi Arabia to execute woman for 'witchcraft' ...The Saudi court cited an instance in which a man allegedly became impotent after being bewitched by Falih, the rights group said. An appeals court ruled in September 2006 that Falih...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 14, 2008 09:23 AM
Several papers across Europe have reprinted these cartoons following the arrest of several Presbyterians who were plotting to kill have a chat with one of the cartoonists. Shockingly, once again CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all wimp out and show...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 13, 2008 09:01 AM
...is that the majority of those workers arrested were using stolen SSN's (mostly children's). Victimless crime my ass-cienda. ..."Hate is growing in our community," said Grace Resendez McCaffery of Pensacola. "The Latin community is outraged. They're seeing this community reverting...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 12, 2008 10:59 AM
Police foil plot to kill Muhammad cartoonist Cartoonist and his wife living under police protection COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 12, 2008 09:31 AM
It's bad enough that they 'recruit' these suicide bombers to slaughter people while they try and shop and get on with their lives in a reasonable facsimile of normalcy. Yeah, that's one hell of an effective strategy to advance your...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 12, 2008 08:53 AM
...put a shot in that big mouth of yours. Athletes face Olympic ban for criticising China British athletes will be banned from competing in this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing if they criticise China's totalitarian regime. The gagging order has...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 10, 2008 03:07 PM
if the buddies of the ArchMoron of Canterbury have their way as he proposes BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion -- some strangled to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 8, 2008 02:35 PM
In the control group, as those getting the "new treatment" didn't fare so well WASHINGTON - An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 6, 2008 01:00 PM
At 11 am. It's in the mid-40s, I guess, with some on and off showers. And there were already a bunch of folks on my boat at 5:45 am to get the "good spots" on the sidewalk to watch. Absolutely...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 5, 2008 07:00 AM
Again from Kcruella, in an email just now. Think I made a hillary volunteer cry. I answered the phone and got the Hi this is Julie calling for hillary, told her I would vote for whowever called the least and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 4, 2008 01:50 PM
...if we weren't in an election year, with all its heaving, hyperventilating hyperbole (i.e.: recession, apartheid, ad nauseum). December durable orders rose 5.2%, larger than the expected 1.6% rise. Excluding transportation, orders still rose a healthy 2.6%. This strong level...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 29, 2008 10:13 AM
...foul? Tyson Wins Court Victory Against Poultry Competitors ...Sanderson Farms, Foster Farms and Perdue Farms filed a motion Friday for a temporary restraining order prohibiting Tyson from continuing its "Raised Without Antibiotics" chicken marketing program. They claimed the program, which...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 27, 2008 10:51 PM
...and it's straight from the horsey mouth. (Proving, yet again, there is nothing too small for the maestro's evil Rovian machinations.) ...Last spring, you were held up as a parody of environmental correctness when you proposed restricting the use of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 27, 2008 07:38 PM
That was the nurse asking. ...Gavin Dempsey and James Alexander were serving on flag duty at Jackson Elementary School Friday morning, with the job of raising and lowering the school's flags. They decided to see if their tongues really would...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 26, 2008 08:15 PM
Via an email from our Secret Correspondent: FRIENDS of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last night blamed his $7 billion losses on unbearable levels of stress brought on by a punishing 30 hour week. Kerviel was known to start work as...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 25, 2008 11:32 AM
...in this article about Obama not being Muslim. ...Kerry's note was titled "Swiftboating" -- a reference to Kerry's own presidential campaign in 2004, which was famously sunk by falsities spread by the lobbying group Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 24, 2008 04:14 PM
I'm sure we've all known someone at places we've worked who has cheated the company, be it via creative fudging on expense reports, using the company credit cards for private purchases or other forms of, well, stealing. But all of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 24, 2008 07:22 AM
...or whack job Huckabee. Well, shoot, it's only Presidential Candidate Obama's church. Peace, my brothers. As long as you're the same color as everyone else. And unless you're one of those filthy 'middleclass' types....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 14, 2008 09:44 AM
Always a tad LATE with their concern. PETA Requests Vegetarian Diet in Jail for Cannibalism Suspect But at least they're helping. I supposed it was because no bunnies, moo-cows or piggies were harmed during the making of this particular dish....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 11, 2008 10:02 AM
The iPod Nano or the Tata Nano Amidst all the glitz, glamor and horsepower that surround the Detroit auto show, we’d almost forgotten that a motor show was being held in New Delhi, India. The most notable unveiling, Tata’s Nano,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 10, 2008 06:54 AM
And I'm shocked, shocked! at what they found If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that appealed to you. Paul describes himself...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 9, 2008 07:05 AM
...signed a contract that says you "can be required to serve anywhere in the world under penalty of dismissal with limited exceptions", still take your paycheck home every other week and use your bountiful benefits, you DON'T get to decide...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 8, 2008 10:55 PM
60% reporting and she's still got a 2 point lead. Old girl may just be on the verge of pulling this out of her support hose. Chingao...62% and she's back up to a 3 point lead. Obama JuggerNOT. Who loves...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 8, 2008 10:07 PM
Ken passed this along to me Women and gay men are likely to be the worst drivers, a new study has shown. Be afraid: Women or gay men could be behind the wheel of any car Research has revealed that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 8, 2008 09:30 AM
In a 50 year old hand built race car Call me old-fashioned, but I like a car to have a few niceties about it. I don't expect sat-nav or even electric windows, but seat belts and some sort of heating...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 8, 2008 07:36 AM
OUCH. ...The Clinton industry, encrusted with the beneficiaries and acolytes of the first and probably only Clinton presidency, has turned Hillary into a product whose sell-by date has passed. UPDATE: When it comes to dissecting Hillary's 'who-did-her-in'... ...Ignoring Obama In...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 7, 2008 12:07 PM
...in a plain brown wrapper? ...That is not what this DVD is about. What it is exactly is hard to pin down. On the surface, it looks like a yoga video – for about the first 15 seconds. It starts...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 4, 2008 01:51 PM
First off, I need to say it seems insane to me the amount of attention and weight given to the votes of 116,00 people on the Republican side (and I'm assuming a similar number for the Democrats) in a nation...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 4, 2008 08:18 AM
I thought all these damned glaciers were supposed to be gone by now INDIANAPOLIS -- An Antarctic cruise turned scary for former Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan when a Norwegian cruise ship on which he and his wife were passengers lost...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 31, 2007 09:12 AM
This frankly stuns me. One of the country's leaders is assassinated...and the doctors don't perform an autopsy? New Delhi: Mystery shrouds the death of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto. In an explosive revelation, Pakistan's Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 28, 2007 11:25 AM
"Mommy, Niko is on my side of the seat" Seven people were injured on Thursday when Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Following the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 28, 2007 07:26 AM
...When he sleeps with sheep." Truer words were never spoken....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 26, 2007 07:24 AM
Where women are men and men are nervous Women Charged With Sexually Assaulting UNC Football Players Hillsborough — Three UNC football players were the victims in a kidnapping, robbery and sexual assault incident involving two women, the university confirmed Thursday...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 21, 2007 07:16 AM
...and so seldom never seems to. Bear Stearns (BSC, news, msgs) has reported its first quarterly loss in the company's history. The financial-services company this morning reported a loss of $854 million, or $6.90 per share in its fiscal fourth...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 20, 2007 09:53 AM
and plunks down into a chair. She lets out a sigh heavy with frustration. What troubles you, Sister?" asks the Mother Superior. "I thought this was the day you spent with your family." "It was," sighed the Sister. "And I...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 20, 2007 09:53 AM
...fumes. ...Now since the Democrats insisted on keeping the tax increase in the bill, it meant that they were going to have to get 60 votes to invoke cloture before they could try and pass it. Then the bill would...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 18, 2007 03:43 PM
As King Abudullah pardons the poor girl who got raped RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes for being alone with...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 17, 2007 07:56 AM
...that were treated as gospel. It is one of the most remarkable—and enduring—statistics about the way men fight war: in combat no more than a quarter of fighting men, even disciplined and well-trained soldiers, will fire their weapons. The claim,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2007 10:47 PM
You know, I really hate how the word "hero" has become frankly debased in our society. Damn near everyone who does anything is called one now. Well, here's more on two folks who've earned that title in my book Larry...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2007 12:28 PM
...that he's going to catch himself some flack for this. ... Now, I don't know what it means not to have a father in your life. I'm not familiar with a mom being strung out on a crack binge. And...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2007 10:51 AM
We can thank Michael Schumacher for living out our dream A taxi driver in Germany was left shaken and stirred after handing his keys over to seven-times Formula One champion Michael Schumacher. Schumacher, 38, asked to take the wheel as...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2007 07:05 AM
...we were having a contest. 3 finalists named for state song, Floridians now will vote ...- "Florida My Home," music by Carl Ashley, of Boynton Beach, and lyrics by Betsy Dixon, Lantana, including "Moonlight on the Suwanee River, Turns the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 11, 2007 05:31 PM
...in 2002??!? In this cruel world of lying, hypocrat Democrats, I have that beat for strangeness. So there Kcruella and I were, in New Orleans for a chi-chi cocktail party, where we met (!) and hobnobbed with book writing Brennans,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 9, 2007 09:14 PM
Maybe I can pick this up for my Bride 1279 Magna Carta expected to fetch $30 million NEW YORK (AP) -- In the year 1215, a group of English barons handed King John a document written on parchment. Put your...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 7, 2007 02:09 PM
And she lets them know BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- An earthquake on Friday rattled Indonesia's resort island of Bali, where thousands of people were gathering for a U.N. climate change conference. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 7, 2007 09:09 AM
...is a powerful tool. (Plus, when LCpls sit around, they always get into trouble.) ...Conway hinted at those differences, saying Marines prefer serving under fire in a combat zone to performing nation-building duties in Iraq. He said that in his...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 5, 2007 11:47 PM
...and the war economy is lost" from our feckless Senate leader. Futures jump on strong economic data Wall Street rose sharply higher in early trading Wednesday after a pair of reports indicated the economy is in good shape but also...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 5, 2007 09:50 AM
As many of you know this summer we were blessed to have a certain friend from Down Under stop by for a weekend, and we had an absolutely wonderful time. I wish I could say the same was true of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 4, 2007 08:09 AM
'Tis the Season to be jolly! Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la! You can tell the Holidays are upon us, as the joyous gallic tradition of the Car-B-Q has returned Dozens injured in Paris rampage Rioting youths in Villiers-le-Bel Rioting youths blamed the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 27, 2007 08:04 AM
When will people say "enough is enough? (CNN) -- A Federal judge sentenced Democratic leader George Clooney to five days in jail Sunday, a day after the actor-turned-politician and other protesters were arrested at a pro-democracy demonstration in Washington. Clooney...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 26, 2007 10:29 AM
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we were unable to travel to Sis's house for Thanksgiving. We are having the CAGs father and wife over, along with a coworker and his wife. Well, our table does not have a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 22, 2007 08:35 AM
And the salmon sleep with the fishes DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- The only salmon farm in Northern Ireland has lost its entire population of more than 100,000 fish, worth $2 million, to a spectacular jellyfish attack, its owners said Wednesday....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 21, 2007 02:55 PM
...if not 'clear'. The Saudi Justice Ministry Tuesday issued a "clarification" of a court's handling of a rape case and the increased punishment -- including 200 lashes --meted out to the victim. ...The woman was originally sentenced in October 2006...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 20, 2007 09:17 PM
....Megan's parents had been storing a foosball table for the family that created the MySpace character. Six weeks after Megan's death, they learned the other family had created the profile and responded by destroying the foosball table, dumping it on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 19, 2007 01:58 PM
..."if that's necessary to set our fiscal house in order." So says our illustrious Governor Corzine, in yet another effort to paint himself as some type of fiscally responsible defender of the common man. In a speech Thursday to hundreds...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 16, 2007 08:50 AM
"Jack never did anything wrong, and the whiskey itself is innocent." I'd say it's like throwing away the money if you were banking without a license, or bulldozing a national treasure. Shoot, SELL that stuff as a fundraiser for law...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 15, 2007 04:21 PM
far exceeded what would have happened had he stood his ground and 'fessed up to the police MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. -- A man who allegedly was fleeing police was attacked and killed by an alligator in a pond, Local 10...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 13, 2007 08:04 AM
...Their immigration service is as screwed up as ours The Tories say it appears the Home Office put "spin" before public safety in a row about 5,000 illegal immigrants wrongly cleared to work in security. They say leaked papers show...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 13, 2007 07:07 AM
... to love the Corps....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 11, 2007 11:45 PM
...on Friday's NBC Nightly News Grinch and I were tickled watching. One more thing we hadn't known about him. If you remember, we've actually met that remarkable American. Helluva fellow. But they all are, really. Happy Veterans Day....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 11, 2007 11:36 PM
"Clinton Stiffs Iowa Waitress" I sure didn't think they were talking about Hillary... But this is one of those stupid stories, as "In fairness to Clinton, the article also notes that the meal was on the house. " I shudder...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 8, 2007 11:53 AM
Just walking along, maybe going to buy a present for the wife, and WHAM A woman died and a man was knocked unconscious, apparently after the woman leaped from the roof of a department store in Tokyo and landed on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 6, 2007 12:59 PM
His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen, Who never thereafter were heard from again, Did Sweeney, Sweeney Todd! The Demon Barber of Fleet. Street. I can't believe they frickin' left the ballad...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 5, 2007 10:10 AM
Well, we were all on the edge of our seats about this, especially given a Certain Person's* disappearance of late, but rest assured: according to (and I kid you not) KENS-TV SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) -- The results are in:...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 2, 2007 07:07 AM
Maybe he powered the Hindenburg It may sound like a Woody Allen scenario, but medical historians are unanimous that Adolf was the victim of uncontrollable flatulence. Spasmodic stomach cramps, constipation and diarrhea, possibly the result of nervous tension, had been...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 31, 2007 01:01 PM
...one of Charlie Rangel's concerns 5 years ago... ...Service in our nation's armed forces is no longer a common experience. A disproportionate number of the poor and members of minority groups make up the enlisted ranks of the military, while...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 30, 2007 09:24 AM
Forecasters Blow It, Again: '07 Hurricane season may rank as most 'inactive' in 30 years... ...is okay by me in WHAT it says, just not HOW it says it. I want Dr. Grey and all the weather guys doing their...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 29, 2007 11:44 AM
"...that regular Americans just would not consume." Touché!...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 25, 2007 03:51 PM
Insta linked to this and comments hadn't really been completely partisan hack-ups. Then I read Bill Bradley's comment: Bill Bradley* : Jeff, or should I say, dorsai, and I do catch the reference, you're trying to flip Katrina into an...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 24, 2007 06:22 PM
Fiasco inferno! ... The documents appear to expose that once the veracity of Beauchamp's diaries were called into question, and an Army investigation ensued, THE NEW REPUBLIC has failed to publicly account for publishing slanderous falsehoods about the U.S. military...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 24, 2007 01:39 PM
Comes to us via our naughty friend Theo Spark A U.S. Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist, badly injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of the road was an American Marine...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 18, 2007 11:07 AM
...is the A[ss- kissing] P[ornographers] workin' Gorezilla over tag-team fashion. Nobel Vindication for Gore, Scientists For years, former Vice President Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 12, 2007 07:35 PM
Marines Press to Remove Their Forces From Iraq The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send Marines instead to Afghanistan, to take over the leading role in combat there, according to senior military and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 12, 2007 05:37 PM
Oh Jimminny H Christmas on a pogo stick, what has he actually done to deserve this? (CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 12, 2007 06:50 AM
Many Americans have a blind spot when it comes to black conservatives. They don't have the foggiest idea what makes these people tick. And they blew their chance to learn more during the October 1991 confirmation hearing for Supreme Court...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 9, 2007 08:16 PM
A very surprising article in today's Pravda on the way herd mentality and public fear of rebuke, and frankly very sloppy and lazy 'research', led to widely praised "consensus" that was, well, wrong In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 9, 2007 10:18 AM
I love a logical, calm discussion. All eyes are on Greenland's melting glaciers as alarm about global warming spreads. This year, delegations of U.S. and European politicians have made pilgrimages to the fastest-moving glacier at Ilulissat, where they declare that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 8, 2007 10:42 AM
And by god they were right! During the nearly two hour service that featured a rock band and hip-hop dancers, Obama shared the floor with the church's pastor, Ron Carpenter. The senator from Illinois asked the multiracial crowd of nearly...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 8, 2007 07:11 AM
...the way we were... Tryphorgetin...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 5, 2007 01:05 PM
This is your head on potatoes SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Customs officers discovered nearly 10.5 ounces of ecstasy tablets hidden inside a Mr. Potato Head toy sent to Australia from Ireland, the agency said Thursday. Upon opening the parcel, the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 5, 2007 07:41 AM
I mean, who knew? A daring ambush of bombs and gunfire left Poland's ambassador pinned down in a burning vehicle today before being pulled to safety and airlifted in a rescue mission by the embattled security firm Blackwater USA. At...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 4, 2007 10:15 AM
From Cathy Buckle's blog, how would you like this plumbing bill? A geyser in my roof burst this week and when the plumbers got it out the original price was hand written in marker pen on the side of the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 3, 2007 04:26 PM
...of his own making. Ringed by a clutch of Zimbabwean soldiers clicking automatic weapons, Charles Lock handed over the keys to his farm and drove off his land for the last time. Scores of white farmers, the last survivors of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 2, 2007 04:16 PM
...right off his expensive counter-tops. Religious hatred law in force ...There were two attempts by the Government to introduce it, first in 2001 and then later with the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. They faltered because of the concerns....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 30, 2007 11:14 PM
To borrow a theme from Insta..."They said if Bush were re-elected the Government would seek to criminalize and control thought, and they were right" WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-led Senate on Thursday voted to let federal law enforcement help states...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 28, 2007 08:02 AM
...talk to Robb. People say the strangest things to him... The reason gun nuts are the laughing stock of the sentient universe is that there is no more transparent intellectual dishonesty than that of pro-gun propaganda. Is it because if...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 25, 2007 11:02 PM
Sorry GEELONG beat Collingwood by five points in a classic AFL preliminary final, putting it within one win of its first premiership in 44 years. The Magpies were again magnificent, but the Cats held on in a nail-biting finish at...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 21, 2007 01:40 PM
Now, I will admit that all I've seen on this is what's contained in this article, but based on this I don't see what's so faux pas-ian about it JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 21, 2007 09:25 AM
...got us going on this. Not to mention a 'Record Lows' headline on Drudge ("Chicago Record COLD TEMPS!"). So, right this minute mind you (9:09 p.m.CST), it's 52.8 ° in Chicago, with the following addendum : Clearing this evening. Unseasonably...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 14, 2007 10:09 PM
At the airport? THREE Norwegian tourists who had planned a holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes landed in the southwestern French town of Rodez yesterday after mistyping the destination on an internet booking form. The trio appears to have...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 7, 2007 09:20 AM
...'conspiracy' and media witch hunt continues to fall apart, thank God. A two star general and two other officers were censured Wednesday for failing to promptly investigate the killings of 24 civilians at Haditha, Iraq, but were cleared of a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2007 06:38 PM
....Dream Dream Dree-eem... New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Said to Be Considering Run for Governor Mayor Ray Nagin could be days away from announcing he will run for governor of Louisiana — a move many in this stricken city regard...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2007 11:58 AM
Is that the politicians and bureaucrats decide to only treat those who are healthy Failing to follow a healthy lifestyle could lead to free NHS treatment being denied under the Tory plans. Patients would be handed "NHS Health Miles Cards"...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2007 07:32 AM
...Hillary's handlers must be happy this slipped through the cracks, notice-wise. Former NJ Governor's Wife Recalls Ordeal ...Matos McGreevey said in the midst of her personal turmoil she called Hillary Rodham Clinton for advice. The former first lady also had...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 2, 2007 05:52 PM
With apologies to Nightfly for not extending an invite, I had the day off and as my Bride missed our last trip to Genos Daughter and I thought it only fitting to end the summer with one last joyful artery-clogging...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2007 07:49 PM
How long do you get to live someplace else, but still vote in New Orleans? NAACP Challenges Louisiana Voter Purge The NAACP filed a civil rights lawsuit Thursday challenging a purge of Louisiana voters believed to have registered in other...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2007 10:16 AM
Princess Isabelle: Peace is made in such ways. William Wallace: Slaves are made in such ways. It's not the only way. I think the Scots could stand to see the movie again. How Societies Commit Suicide Scots and Italians surrender...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 29, 2007 07:54 PM
Once the secret weapon of the Byzantine Empire it now may be a new weapon in Greek politics ATHENS — More wildfires broke out and others rekindled Tuesday as anger rose over the government's handling of catastrophic blazes that have...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 29, 2007 07:47 AM
So Idaho Senator Larry Craig was arrested in Minneapolis for lewd behavior in a men's room U.S. Sen. Larry Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct this month after his arrest in a Minneapolis airport men’s room by an undercover officer...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 28, 2007 06:54 AM
I guess his lawyers looked at Pete Rose and "morality" clauses that NFL contracts must have because his plea deal to my mind effectively kills his career forever (CNN) -- NFL star Michael Vick has admitted that he and two...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 24, 2007 02:43 PM
Those eagle-eyed protectors of impressionable youth at the FCC strike again THE call letters KUNT have landed at a yet-unbuilt low-power digital television station in Wailuku, Maui. Alarmingly similar to a word the dictionary says is obscene, the call letters...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 23, 2007 03:27 PM
...as a brilliant, talented, drunken, drug addled genius. The common take is that, while someone who is dope FREE might be smart, an equally gifted dope FIEND is intellectually deep by virtue of his habits. I mean, I never wanted...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 22, 2007 10:26 AM
I don't even know where to begin with this one A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal apparently tried to have sex with her. The woman was found dead at the family's sheep...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 20, 2007 07:13 AM
Not surprisingly, most of the weekend consisted of this combined with a lot of this Mind you, those sad few whose joys are found in somewhat shallower pursuits were also not forgotten...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 15, 2007 05:57 AM
You self-centered idiots, because they are a private company and not the government NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pearl Jam fans and Internet watchdogs were up in arms Thursday after it was revealed that AT&T Inc. censored portions of the rock...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 9, 2007 02:41 PM
This is so symbolic of how completely retarded our system has become The first 2008 presidential votes may be moving into 2007 after all, making a race that has started earlier than ever even more intense. South Carolina Republican Party...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 9, 2007 07:10 AM
And Nightfly and Ladybug got married and it was a truly moving and wonderful wedding and reception. Barking Spider and Prussian Tiger were there as well. It really is a treat to meet other bloggers that one has developed a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 6, 2007 07:35 AM
Someone(s) launched a private sub into the east River today, and the police are not amused New York- WABC, August 3, 2007) - Several people are being questioned by police after being stopped apparently attempting to set sail off...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2007 02:26 PM
...and I'm not talking the cyclonic kind. Forecaster lowers year’s hurricane prediction ...“We’ve lowered our forecast from our May predictions because of slightly less favorable conditions in the tropical Atlantic,” said Philip Klotzbach, a member of Gray’s team at Colorado...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2007 01:44 PM
I got this recipe from a dear friend of mine who is from Angola, so i guess it should be called Angolan Chicken. But when I saw what I was doing to the poor buzzard, all I could think of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 2, 2007 08:24 PM
Toke for your health. A single joint of marijuana obstructs the flow of air as much as smoking up to five tobacco cigarettes, but long-term pot use does not increase the risk of developing emphysema, new research suggests. ...However, the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 31, 2007 12:12 PM
...combined with talking the talk. Amazing concept, n'est pas? As the Blogfaddah noted, Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institute had a joint NYT Op-Ed piece this morning, with a pretty astounding headline: A War We Just Might Win But major...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 30, 2007 12:48 PM
The number of Atlantic hurricanes in an average season has doubled in the last century due in part to warmer seas and changing wind patterns caused by global warming, according to a study released on Sunday. ...From 1900 to 1930,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 29, 2007 10:16 PM
Why wasn't anyone bemoaning the broken families left on the Mexican side of the border when Juan scuttled over the fence initially? An estimated 1.6 million children and spouses have been separated from family members forced to leave the country...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 18, 2007 12:38 PM
Which is also why it's probably the most dangerous Imagine LaGuardia sitting on a little hill in the center of Manhattan and that's Congonhas and these poor people A passenger plane has crashed and burst into flames at Brazil's busiest...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 18, 2007 06:44 AM
...will be crushed to hear this. IHOP to buy Applebee's for $2.1 billion The last time Kcruella and I were in a IHOP, it cost an arm, a leg and three quarts of blood and ~ both service and meal...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 16, 2007 11:59 AM
Lord knows we've taken our share of heat for it. But dang if parents and their late children don't keep lining up to be examples for our next futile rant. Text messages were sent and received on a 17-year-old driver's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 16, 2007 11:52 AM
Court of Appeals takes up Corrie lawsuit The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments Monday whether there is merit to a lawsuit by the family of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old activist from Olympia killed by...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 13, 2007 11:11 AM
...who sucks. State Rep. Bob Allen was arrested Wednesday afternoon at a local park after offering to perform a sex act on an undercover officer in exchange for $20, police said. ...Titusville police were at Veteran's Memorial Park on East...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 12, 2007 10:21 AM
To go tragically wrong MANILA, Philippines - Philippine troops recovered the bodies of 14 marines, some of them beheaded, after clashing with Muslim insurgents while searching for a kidnapped Italian priest, a marine spokesman said Wednesday. ...About 50 troops went...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 11, 2007 08:58 AM
I mean, sorry but yawn. Oh sure, rags like the Grauniad would love to see some christian infighting Protestant churches yesterday reacted with dismay to a new declaration approved by Pope Benedict XVI insisting they were mere "ecclesial communities" and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 11, 2007 08:03 AM
There. I said it. And it's late and this kind of weasel speak makes my head spin. For the record, more American service members died during the Clinton years than have left us so far during Bush's tenure. Well, okay....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 9, 2007 11:55 PM
...with this picture? ...Rebel leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi told the private Geo TV network that his mother had been wounded by gunfire. “The government is using full force. This is naked aggression,” he said. “My martyrdom is certain now.” To...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 9, 2007 11:12 PM
..."Two faced, but in a good way." I think that's probably open to interpretation. Sprint hangs up on ‘excessive’ complainers Drops 1,000 customers who company says call customer service too much Sprint Nextel Corp, which recently launched an advertising campaign...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 9, 2007 05:31 PM
Hopefully they'll rot some where for a long time Three defendants in the 21 July terror trial have been found guilty of a plot to bomb London's transport network. Jurors found Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, and Ramzi...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 9, 2007 08:33 AM
...and see if you were as surprised as I was. The setting? A round table on CNN's "This Week at War". The participants? BRIG. GEN. David Grange, U.S.A.(RET), Jamie McIntyre, the usual CNN suspects, including...correspondent Michael Ware. I was already...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 8, 2007 10:19 PM
...again. Some 50 masked attackers smashed cars and clashed with police in northeast Paris on Friday night. Three officers were injured, police said. ...Tensions have remained high between police and French youth, especially minorities in rundown housing projects, since riots...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 8, 2007 04:24 PM
While Gorezilla was jetting about telling us to use less fuel and our own Governor Corzine was signing and touting some legislation to ruin our economy EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - New Jersey became on Friday the first U.S....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 8, 2007 09:46 AM
With a space sponge!* One of the strangest moons in our solar system is Hyperion, a Saturnian satellite so pockmarked by deep craters that it looks like a giant, rotating bath sponge adrift in space. New image analyses suggest the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 5, 2007 07:26 AM
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Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 4, 2007 10:02 AM
...saves gas and the environment. One of the seven people arrested in last week's failed car bombings in London and at Glasgow's airport is believed to be have been involved in the incidents at both locations, ITN reported Monday. Also...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 2, 2007 02:30 PM
...hanging out, just down the road. I thoughtfully emailed this to Kcruella two seconds after I snapped it and what do I get in return? "Bitch." Which, sad to say, I had predicted before her terse little text even hit...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 1, 2007 06:01 PM
Homicides soar in second-tier East Coast cities Lack of immigrants, shift to anti-terrorism cited as possible explanations Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities in a bloodstained corridor along the East Coast are seeing a surge in killings, and one of the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 29, 2007 11:04 PM
Thank God they found them. Police have confirmed that not one, but two massive car bombs were set to explode in the heart of London's West End. The first, in Haymarket, was packed with petrol, gas cannisters and nails, and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 29, 2007 04:11 PM
In a manner of speaking ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- An attorney for a former astronaut wanted to set the record straight Friday: Lisa Nowak didn't wear diapers during the 950-mile road trip to confront a romantic rival. "The biggest lie...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 29, 2007 11:42 AM
I know it's all cartoons and staged mayhem with steroid monsters. But ya think maybe there'd have been one braincell left between the lot of them that might have kicked in and whispered "Maybe a three hour tribute to a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 29, 2007 09:07 AM
Looks like someone thankfully lost their nerve Car bomb found in central London Haymarket Police say the area will be closed for some time Police have disabled a car bomb containing gas cylinders in the heart of central London. Officers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 29, 2007 06:36 AM
Rubber Ducky I'm awfully fond of you Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey By BEN CLERKIN They were toys destined only to bob up and down in nothing bigger than a child's bath...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 28, 2007 08:41 AM
Can you imagine a police chief in the US making a statement like that? RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Police killed at least 13 suspected drug traffickers in a huge operation Wednesday aimed at ending a war between authorities...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 28, 2007 08:00 AM
I'm so disgusted and dispirited by this immigration shamnesty sellout that i just can't even post about it; the folks at HotAir have got it much better covered than I ever could. It seems appropriate to me at this time...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 26, 2007 11:06 PM
...this... Police on Wednesday were pleading for witnesses to help them track down members of an angry mob that beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck and injured a child. Investigators were struggling...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 21, 2007 11:16 AM
...was from Gaza at first. Texas Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid Then the 'Texass' clicked. A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday. Police believe 2,000...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 20, 2007 12:36 PM
Finally someone in Buckingham Palace shows some cojones The Government has expressed its "deep concern" over reported comments by one of Pakistan's ministers which suggested Salman Rushdie's knighthood could justify suicide attacks. The announcement comes amid continuing protests in Pakistan...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 19, 2007 01:24 PM
Keep their families in your prayers CHARLESTON, S.C. - Nine firefighters perished in a blaze that swept through a furniture warehouse, Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley said Tuesday morning. The mayor called the dead firefighters "brave, heroic and courageous," as...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 19, 2007 07:25 AM
The Military.com email I just got with...Video: Gay Bomb...as the subject line, or the fact the dweebs actually considered it to begin with. In either case, it's old news and purloined goods, because a fellow named Harlan Ellison came up...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 15, 2007 03:16 PM
His 14 year old was killed when the vehicle she was a passenger in struck a freight train parked on a country road train crossing at night. It had no warning lights or cross bars. I can understand and feel...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 15, 2007 01:03 PM
...But you know they will make him pay for saying it Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told a gathering of Hispanic journalists that immigrants should avoid Spanish-language media if they want to learn English quickly. "You've got to turn off the Spanish...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 15, 2007 09:29 AM
UPDATE and BUMP: Oh, the weaselly son of a bitch. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers last week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is "incompetent." Reid acknowledged similarly...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2007 08:18 PM
Waldheimers, just lost its founder VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German army unit that committed atrocities in the Balkans in World War II, died Thursday....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2007 12:05 PM
The Preacher's wife sentencing is insane, no doubt. But let's not trivialize what this women in Virginia did. It's not like she innocently let the kids have a sip of beer. She planned for the kids to drink Elisa's crime...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2007 10:47 AM
The RoPs are shooting Captives in Gaza "We are telling our people that the past era has ended and will not return, " Islam Shahawan, a spokesman for Hamas' militia, told Hamas radio. "The era of justice and Islamic rule...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2007 07:37 AM
...New Jersey campus. Larry Peterson fought for more than 17 years to overturn his conviction on charges of rape and murder. DNA testing led a judge to do just that, in 2005. ...after DNA testing of the physical evidence used...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 13, 2007 06:13 PM
Out go the lights. An explosion, apparently from a bomb-rigged car, rocked Beirut's seafront Wednesday, killing an anti-Syrian lawmaker and three others, local media reported. The lawmaker, Walid Eido, was the seventh opponent of Damascus to be killed in two...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 13, 2007 12:18 PM
Just standard "Peaceful People Oppressed By Those Zionists" hijinks GAZA CITY (AP) -- Rival Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza on Sunday, killing two militants by throwing them out of high-rise buildings. Hamas militants kidnapped an officer in a Fatah-linked security...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 11, 2007 08:08 AM
...and were suddenly silenced. Until they suddenly showed up on millions of boards, bitching about the Sopranos series finale. Snap to black. I loved it. major dad is bitching....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 10, 2007 10:08 PM
...gets VIRGINS!! The New York Times thoughtfully prints a few jihadi rules. Of course, not without the obligatory whacko-scary moment while interviewing these scary whackos. We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 10, 2007 06:46 PM
...Muqtedar Khan, an assistant professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware, said it’s important to consider how the question was framed: whether suicide bombing could be justified “in defense of Islam,” a powerful phrase for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 7, 2007 11:21 PM
...associated with this day in June. The Japanese were buggering out of Midway...and then there was this guy. At Belleau Wood. In 1918. Who had something to say. War Correspondent Roy Floyd Gibbons lay surrounded by the dead, pinned down...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 6, 2007 10:40 AM
Someone is going to have an interesting meeting with their boss... HONG KONG (Reuters) - A young clerk with no knowledge of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown allowed a tribute to victims slip into the classified ads page of a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 6, 2007 07:26 AM
They call this a consensus? ...Today, Al Gore is making the same claims of a scientific consensus, as do the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of government agencies and environmental groups around the world. But the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 3, 2007 12:35 AM
Duh. Empowering Arab women would help prevent increased radicalism within Muslim society in Israel and the Middle East, according to Ephraim Halevy, a former head of the Mossad and the National Security Council. "If women are truly empowered in politics...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 2, 2007 04:45 PM
I'll have to ask my pastor about this NEW YORK -- As first reported by NewsChannel4's Jonathan Dienst, three people were arrested and one other was being sought Saturday in connection to a plot to blow up jet-fuel lines at...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 2, 2007 03:58 PM
...and the LOOOONNGGG pause before he answered the question. My first thought was, "Holy scha-MOLY! Is he gonna catch it!" NASA administrator Michael Griffin is drawing the ire of his agency's preeminent climate scientists after apparently downplaying the need to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 31, 2007 01:34 PM
Months of planning go down the YouTubes. From the crippling amounts his people spend on weddings to the local fashion for gold teeth, Tajikistan's leader is on the warpath against extravagant spending. ... He criticized the teachers' gilded dentistry, saying...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 25, 2007 10:05 AM
Studious Swillers will recall that equine love affair in Washington (Washington State, mind you; in DC there's only swine) which we have reported on occasionally in order to fulfill our commitment to Reader Knowledge, but it has taken a far...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 23, 2007 08:12 AM
...for all the Dunkin' Donuts in China. What a thankless frickin' job. Artillery and machine gun fire echoed around a crowded Palestinian refugee camp Tuesday as the Lebanese government ordered the army to finish off the Fatah Islam militants holed...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 22, 2007 08:03 AM
...went off his meds. ...Interviewed on the TODAY Show about the comments, Carter said, "They were maybe careless or misinterpreted." He said he “certainly was not talking personally about any president.” When pressed by NBC’s Meredith Vieira as to whether...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 21, 2007 11:22 AM
...there should be more Canadian strippers, not fewer, and they wouldn't need special visa programs to entice them in Under the current law, the onus is on strip club owners to prove there is a shortage of Canadian dancers each...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 17, 2007 06:55 AM
Last year over the course of the four rounds of the Player's Championship 57 balls were hit in the water at No. 17. In yesterday's first round, thanks in large part to Andrea, 50 balls went swimming PONTE VEDRA BEACH,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 11, 2007 07:10 AM
I'm shocked, shocked, at the composition of these folks here in Jersey Federal investigators last night arrested six Islamic radicals who were planning a heavily armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix as part of a jihad against America, according...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 8, 2007 11:53 AM
That's what one does with looters GREENSBURG, Kansas (AP) -- Four soldiers and a reserve police officer were arrested Sunday on suspicion of looting cigarettes and alcohol from a store in this tornado-ravaged town, state officials said. Bastards....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 7, 2007 09:41 AM
Ken has been so quiet of late JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A gang stripped a South African man before supergluing him to an exercise bicycle while they ransacked his house, according to a report Thursday. SAPA news agency said the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 3, 2007 12:47 PM
...to Turkey? Maybe they should be. Turkey's financial markets remained nervous on Tuesday ahead of a decision by the country's highest court that will determine the future of a controversial presidential appointment. Stocks and the lira were slightly weaker, although...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 1, 2007 07:55 AM
Gasoline can do a number on steel. A stretch of highway near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed Sunday after a gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames, leaving one of the nation’s busiest spans in a state of near...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 29, 2007 06:52 PM
Well, twig, really HORRIFIED diners watched in shock as a maniac sliced off his manhood in a crowded pizza restaurant. The 35-year-old Pole burst into the Zizzi eaterie in central London and grabbed a knife from the kitchen. He then...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 24, 2007 01:20 PM
This was really nice of CNN. Who woulda thunk it and I got the screenshot before they could change their minds. Reports are his folks were in the stands and I hope they get some comfort from knowing he was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 23, 2007 12:38 AM
We've managed a World Record here in Bangla-cola, although one might wish it were for something else. 1,063-pound shark may earn crew a place in the record book ...The four people aboard the Sea Ya Later II were cobia fishing...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 21, 2007 07:56 AM
...now fuck off. So, basically that's where we stand. It's been 50 plus days since he headed off to retired land. Didn't see a check his first month and, being the patient sorts we are, asked his old group S-1...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 20, 2007 06:11 PM
Let's say you were head of a state college in New Jersey and you wanted to hire someone to teach a course on law, ethics and leadership; what qualities would you look for in the candidates to best impress on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 19, 2007 01:29 PM
...our odd little matrimonial experiment got started. I was 'out to here' pregnant with Ebola and we still hadn't been able to commit to giving it a legal whirl. Lounging around one morning, major dad asked "Well? We gonna do...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 19, 2007 09:59 AM
Here's what he has to say on the SCOTUS decision on PBA: Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Senator John Edwards released the following statement about today's 5-4 Supreme Court ruling upholding the federal abortion ban. "I could not disagree more...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 19, 2007 09:01 AM
Jonathan Adler at the Volokh Conspiracy has an excellent post up this morning about Sen Harry Reid's comments on SCOTUS' ruling on the Partial Birth Abortion Bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was among those who denounced yesterday's Supreme...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 19, 2007 07:50 AM
...Screams followed an instant later, and the banging continued. When students realized the sounds were gunshots, Calhoun said, he started flipping over desks to make hiding places. Others dashed to the windows of the second-floor classroom, kicking out the screens...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 17, 2007 10:17 AM
I spent six hours today cooking tagliatelle with bolognese sauce, and I took a zillion pictures that were going to be part of my Saturday Night Drunken Post...but then I read this and I realized that the cooking maladventures of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 14, 2007 10:42 PM
...don't waste your sympathy. Or your outrage. Because they were piggish college and had rented the strippers to begin with. (At least I have a feeling Terry Moran wrote this on his own. If it's been Katie Couric...)...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 13, 2007 10:37 AM
Seems like someone was not wearing their seatbelt CAMDEN, N.J - Gov. Jon S. Corzine was critically injured Thursday when his motorcade crashed en route to a meeting between radio personality Don Imus and the Rutgers women’s basketball team, a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 13, 2007 06:42 AM
I just need someone to offer it. ..."He got $20 million just to walk in the door," Moynihan said. "He has 3 million options that are time based. Assuming he stays around for three years, he has all those options....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 9, 2007 11:23 PM
You Hollywood types over analyze everything. Think what you were releasing there, bub. It wasn't the length ~ Lord of the Rings, Dances With Wolves ~ there's tons of pictures that have done well at 3 hours or so. It's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 9, 2007 05:17 PM
...about the 'backlash' among Americans in uniform regarding their released British counterparts brought to mind an old axiom we had hammered into us at Parris Island. It might help explain the way we would expect to act given the same...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 6, 2007 08:53 PM
And hath ended up at my ShopRite I can't attend the Maundy Thursday service at church tonight, so what better way to spend the evening than cooking some lamb?...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 5, 2007 10:33 PM
...to leave that stuff at home? Top-secret data on an advanced US military system was leaked because Japanese officers were swapping porn files at work, a newspaper said Thursday. Japan is questioning a naval officer on charges he obtained confidential...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 5, 2007 06:01 PM
This is a real tragedy LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Film director Bob Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story," was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle that a drunken...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 5, 2007 08:06 AM
Since Friday, eight people have been murdered in New Orleans despite the addition of National guard troops, state police and Federal agents. And the killing is done at point-blank range in broad daylight, leaving neighborhoods fearful and police frustrated. What...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 4, 2007 12:24 PM
There's only one roblem with feijoada: it takes so darn long to cook that I end up having far too many caipirinhas to post anything that night. And that may be a good thing. Anyhow, when we last saw our...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 1, 2007 11:00 PM
Bottles in the middle of the week are a bad idea, especially when you have to get up at 4:30 like I do. But sometimes you and your Bride have such stressful days that you need to declare a Wednesday...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 31, 2007 11:15 AM
At least I'll give them credit for being aware of the irony here Arab lesbians hold rare public meeting in Israel Women quietly gather in Haifa; homosexuality strictly forbidden in Islam HAIFA, Israel - Arab lesbians quietly defied Islamist protesters...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 29, 2007 10:51 AM
As expressed by this neighbor of Billy Bob Peep “All I want is to be able to sit on my front porch and not smell sheep poop,” said Angie Fowler, who lives across the street. Just across the street from...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 28, 2007 06:50 AM
I think the world's coming to an end. Merck's Vioxx did not cause woman's death: jury ... Plaintiff Frank Schwaller sued Merck after his wife, Patricia, took Vioxx for 20 months for shoulder pain before dying from a heart attack...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 27, 2007 12:28 PM
Iranians seize 15 British sailors Fifteen Royal Navy sailors have been seized by Iranian warships in Iraqi territorial waters, the Ministry of Defence said. Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has summoned the Iranian ambassador in London to demand their immediate release,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 23, 2007 08:44 AM
The French Paper Charlie-Hebdo bears the headline "Mohammed stressed out by the fundamentalists" and a cartoon of the prophet in tears uttering the words "It's hard to be loved by fools" back in February of 2006. (AFP) Thanks to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 22, 2007 11:06 AM
...that we made them do it. Iraqi Police Say Children Used As Decoys Police said Wednesday that children were used in a weekend car bombing in which the driver gained permission to park in a busy shopping area after he...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 22, 2007 08:21 AM
This horrible incident is partly the result of a corrupt city government. Look at the video if you can. How can those people there not attempt to help this poor woman? CBS) CHICAGO A woman was injured during a frightening...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 22, 2007 08:06 AM
...for today, from day before yesterday, dovetailing nicely with Bingster last week. ...Who are these guys who are getting all flushed over our cultural insensitivity? People who want to blow Jews off the face of the earth. The regime that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 21, 2007 12:44 PM
...and bacon-free. ...A customer's personal preferences is usually not a factor in deciding whether a religious practice is protected in the workplace, noted Khadija Athman, national civil rights manager for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington. The customer in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 15, 2007 02:30 PM
(with apologies to Warren Zevon) I saw a werewolf with a Mersey Beat in her hands Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain She was looking for the Squire of Mull of Kintyre Planning to get herself pounds...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 15, 2007 01:08 PM
Israel has to say "ExCUSE me...", 'cause, like, the U.N. says so. A UNESCO panel has urged Israel to immediately halt archaeological work at a Jerusalem holy site that has angered Muslims around the world. ...A report for the U.N....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 14, 2007 11:43 PM
This from the people who destroy ancient relics and sites because they have statues An Iranian official on Sunday lashed out at the Hollywood movie "300" for insulting the Persian civilization, local Fars News Agency reported. Javad Shamqadri, an art...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 13, 2007 07:57 AM
...in a place no one's given much thought to in quite some time. N Ireland 'wants return to power-sharing' Voters have sent a clear message that they want parties on both sides of Northern Ireland's political divide to unite to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 12, 2007 12:03 PM
I thought Moses led his People out of bondage: Israel is replacing its ambassador in El Salvador after the envoy was found outside the embassy, drunk, wearing only bondage gear, officials said. "Our ambassador has been recalled immediately," a foreign...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 12, 2007 09:28 AM
...draining on the countertop, we WERE settling in for a delightful dinner of Jamaican jerk pork loin chops, black beans and rice, a major dad avocado/heirloom tomato/Maytag blue cheese stack... ...and delightful quaff, when WHAT should come ringy-dinging at the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 10, 2007 08:59 PM
I'm told those magnetic wrist bracelets help arthritis, but as for this... What the heck was this guy up to and why did he think that flying on a plane with an electronic device stuffed up his rectum was acceptable?...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 7, 2007 09:12 AM
"...and I don't care about that 'ho Gaia" LONDON, England (AP) -- If Kanye West were to walk into the British Raj's dining room and order dinner, it would cost the rapper about $17.50. But since the restaurant is delivering...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 5, 2007 12:54 PM
It seems that some people are upset by the term "illegal aliens" TALLAHASSEE -- A state legislator whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the term "illegal alien" from the state's official documents. "I personally...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 28, 2007 03:16 PM
I wonder how many more cases like this are out there TACOMA, Washington (AP) -- A woman admitted Monday that she coached her two children to fake retardation starting when they were 4 and 8 years old so she could...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 27, 2007 09:39 AM
Quien es mas macho now, hombre? SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- A tour bus of U.S. senior citizens defended themselves against a group of alleged muggers, sending two of them fleeing and killing a third in the Atlantic coast...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 23, 2007 07:03 AM
And I bet we can guess who they voted for SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) -- Three CD players hidden under a cathedral's pews blared sexually explicit language in the middle of an Ash Wednesday Mass, leading a bomb squad...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 22, 2007 02:27 PM
Imagine getting some of this on your plate WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 22, 2007 11:18 AM
...to, probably, the color of the vegetables on their plastic tray ~ and then indulged during their predictable, juvenile histrionics when someone dares proffer a choice based on qualification without consulting said student body ~ what would you expect? Commission:...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 22, 2007 08:50 AM
Anybody remember in the dim far distant past when a certain party bitterly attacked another certain party for its arrogance and presumption in interfering in the internal affairs of other nations, for its cultural insensitivity and lack of nuance in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 19, 2007 10:55 AM
Global warmering has gotten so severe that it is directly affecting established scientific standards of measurement! It's true! In a normal, idyllic, happy Gaia Pre-Bushitler world, a 3 degrees Fahrenheit change would be the equivalent of a roughly 1.7 degree...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 16, 2007 08:25 AM
So it seems that, shockingly, al-Qaeda has called for attacks on oil suppliers to the US CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuela's defense minister said Thursday that the nation would reinforce security measures after a branch of al Qaeda called for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 15, 2007 02:27 PM
...Marines from Golf Company said they recently fished two bodies out of the local river: a man had been decapitated, and his 4-year old tied to his leg before both were thrown into the river and the little boy drowned......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 10, 2007 11:54 AM
You either hand out money willie-nillie in the aftermath of a natural disaster or you keep track of where it's going and get tarred with the 'racist, class warrior' brush. In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 6, 2007 09:07 AM
In this life there are times when you can ignore that rattle in your basement, and times when you can't: Estate agents are used to talking up the good points of a property while drawing a veil over its less...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 5, 2007 03:33 PM
...how nice to start with the biggest one of all. And how nice it was a team mostly full of...well...nice people, from the coach, to the quarterback... ...The AFC’s Colts are loaded with Louisiana boys. Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne, Joseph...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 5, 2007 05:55 AM
Reading about Insta's Lamb Stew got me hungry and made me want to try his recipe. It's 23º degrees outside and this stew sounds yum. More importantly, it gives me a chance to indulge in New Kitchen Pørn! C'mere, Fluffy......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 3, 2007 04:14 PM
...because of a terrible night on the USS Dorchester in 1943....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 3, 2007 10:54 AM
A recent standoff between National Guardsmen and heavily armed outlaws along the Mexican border has rattled some troops and raised questions about the rules of engagement for soldiers who were sent to the border in what was supposed to be...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 1, 2007 09:04 AM
Student Forced To Remove "Gang-Style" Gators Shirt Two Osceola County parents said their son was humiliated at school when he was suspected of wearing "gang-style" clothing. Saint Cloud Middle School said only a handful of students were searched last week...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 31, 2007 09:25 AM
...'fuzzy'. Parents left in a lurch by new city school-bus routes refused to roll with the changes yesterday, with some defiantly sneaking their children onto buses and others keeping their little ones home in protest. ... "I'm not taking any...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 31, 2007 08:02 AM
...and someone who worked for me had the nerve to appear on TV and say something like THIS... Times editors have carefully made clear their disapproval of the expression of a personal opinion about Iraq on national television by the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 28, 2007 08:07 PM
NOW... ...he decides to grow a pair. UPDATE: In a further spin on this concept, Allah has posted on this WaPo story about the authorization to terminate Iranian agents with extreme prejudice. I would offer that, as major dad has...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 26, 2007 10:41 AM
Man, I am so tired that this crap is still going on In the past five years, 5,400 would-be taxi passengers at the airport were refused service for this very reason, said the Metropolitan Airport Commission, or MAC. Last May,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 26, 2007 07:31 AM
...EE-VILLE. Gnome, gnome on derange. It's being called the "Gnomesville Massacre" and emergency workers in Western Australia are offering a reward for the capture of vandals who smashed their way through a local tourist attraction. An unknown number of attackers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 25, 2007 09:32 AM
Federal agents taking a break from an unrelated assignment yesterday arrested 24 illegal aliens at a Fells Point 7-Eleven after the men attempted to solicit "underground" employment from the agents. ...Of those arrested, 10 were Honduran, eight were Mexican, five...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 24, 2007 02:13 PM
...the avaricious charismatic evangelicals across the street from us. Snake charmers hold council for survival They danced in a trance, writhing serpents draped around their necks, oblivious to the fear -- and venom -- their cobras, vipers and boas impart....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 23, 2007 08:52 AM
...has more on the al-Qaeda exchange student program. Mimicking the hijackers who executed the Sept. 11 attacks, insurgents reportedly tied to al Qaeda in Iraq considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the United States to orchestrate a new...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 22, 2007 03:20 PM
...WOW. From: SGT Jason Hess Sent: Tue Jan 16 3:25 Do you ship to APO address? I’m in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for who ships...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 22, 2007 02:32 PM
...to the world's complete shock and awe, Moqtada has directed his minions in a ad-hoc production of his"Scuttle Off to Mosquello" routine. ...In a desperate bid to fend off a feared all-out American offensive, the cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, last Friday...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 22, 2007 09:13 AM
...Really annoying is the woman who, as soon as she takes her place on the dining couch, praises Vergil, excuses Dido's suicide, compares and ranks in critical order the various poets, and weighs Vergil and Homer on a pair of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 19, 2007 11:56 AM
...I think al-Maliki is tucking all these guys away now, just in case the rest of Fat Boy's minions get blasted. ...Maliki, however, has said this month he will crack down on Shi'ite militias and said 400 Mehdi Army members...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 19, 2007 10:02 AM
At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed's message to nonbelievers is: "I come to slaughter all of you." I am GOBSCHMACKED CNN chose to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 18, 2007 06:02 PM
...in the a$$, you a$$. Duke Professor Quits Committee Assignments Over Lacrosse Players Being Invited Back A Duke University professor resigned from her committee assignments, saying she was upset by the administration's decision to invite two lacrosse players accused of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2007 06:21 PM
ALL these people are crazy with the heat... Gore's 'Truth' restricted at schools The school board in this suburb south of Seattle has restricted showings of Al Gore's movie on global warming, including requiring that it be balanced with an...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2007 01:03 PM
...you GO, girl. ...The fact that Nifong withheld the information and knew it before he indicted their sons has outraged the parents of the accused. "You felt like someone hit you with a baseball bat. … It was almost too...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2007 11:21 AM
...yes, you did. Sergeant in trouble for Playboy photos Air Force blasts her steamy pictorial as ‘not representative’ of service "Drop and give me 20!" is something you might hear Air Force Staff Sgt. Michelle Manhart yell to airmen trainees...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2007 06:49 AM
...after you've been hung out to dry, huh? New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki After President Bush told the nation on Wednesday night that he was ordering a rapid increase of American forces in Iraq, Gen. Eric K. Shinseki was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2007 06:35 AM
Investors Sue to Block Former Home Depot CEO's $210 Million Severance Package Home Depot Inc. (HD) investors on Wednesday asked a Georgia state court to issue an injunction blocking the retailer from paying former Chief Executive Robert Nardelli a $210-million...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 11, 2007 03:52 PM
...the defense once again throws the bullsh*t flag. Motions Call for Dismissal in Duke Lacrosse Case Accuser changes story again about who, where and what happened. ...Based on today's motions, Reade Seligmann could be off the hook -- The Duke...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 11, 2007 10:56 AM
Global Positioning Coins? In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside. The government...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 11, 2007 10:22 AM
...or "Emerald City"? Irish banknotes massively tainted with cocaine Irish researchers found traces of cocaine on every single banknote contained in a random sample tested in a study of drug contamination of currency, Dublin City University (DCU) has said. Researchers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 11, 2007 08:59 AM
Although contained in George Will's excellent "The Last Word" column this week, it's NOT the MacArthur quote: ...And if it is judged a disaster, that will be because the responsible officials were too late in remembering what Gen. Douglas MacArthur...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 10, 2007 05:11 PM
I mean, they were (no pun intended) WHACK bastards already, but enough is EEEEEEnough. Yale barbershop singers recovering after ambush Members of a close-harmony group from Yale University are recovering after being ambushed and beaten up while on tour in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 10, 2007 12:11 PM
I saw this and I thought, wait a minute New Jersey Ranks 2nd for People Moving Out ST. LOUIS (AP) -- New Jerseyans appear to be on the move -- out of the state. An analysis of migration trends by...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 10, 2007 07:56 AM
...they were. Helicopter gunships attacked suspected al-Qaeda fighters in the south Tuesday after U.S. forces staged airstrikes in the first offensive in the African country since 18 American soldiers were killed there in 1993, witnesses said. Witnesses said 31 civilians,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 9, 2007 01:45 PM
...says it all. With at least eight slayings [ths note:our morning paper says 9 now] in the city in the first week of the new year, officials are considering a curfew to help stem the violence, the police superintendent said...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 9, 2007 09:34 AM
Like we've talked about before, the Russkies have one weapon these days and they ain't afraid to use it Europe’s oil supplies from Russia were being held to ransom last night as the Kremlin fell into bitter dispute with a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 9, 2007 06:57 AM
...takes out the weasels. A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively. The targets included the senior al Qaeda leader in East...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 8, 2007 08:37 PM
...your bleu'. A Paris tourism agency is ready to concede what many Americans and Britons have long contended: The French are rude. ...France's famed indifference toward outsiders is actually part of the country's charm and can be a marketing asset,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 8, 2007 08:58 AM
Police found new caches of explosives in the Basque region Friday, nearly a week after a massive car bomb at Madrid's international airport killed two people and ended a nine-month cease-fire that separatist group ETA had said would be permanent....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 5, 2007 02:22 PM
Days after the police chief said he believed his department was bringing murders under control in New Orleans, the city logged at least five killings in 14 hours. They brought the 2007 total to six, including one on New Year's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 4, 2007 11:17 AM
Pakistani loses ears, nose for love marriage Members of wife's tribe assault man for marrying without family's OK Armed men cut off the ears and nose of a Pakistani man who married one of their tribe for love after he...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 3, 2007 10:28 AM
...this guy should die. But I think this way is a huge mistake. Why hasn't he been in the Hague like Milosevic or just about any other dictator guilty of heinous crimes? I'm especially concerned about quotes like this: "We...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 29, 2006 01:40 PM
Don't you just feel better already? Former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards is running for president for a second time, his campaign said Wednesday. The former North Carolina senator plans to formally announce his candidacy Thursday from New Orleans'...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 28, 2006 08:08 AM
Man, when I got in to the office this morning there were over 18,000 spam emails in the filter! No wonder the internet is mighty slow. Anyhow, here are some of my favorite "friends" whose messages I've deleted: Extinguisher P....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 26, 2006 06:59 AM
Some lovely hyperbole here SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 22, 2006 01:44 PM
...they weren't talking about warnings on Christmas cookies. ...On December 21, Bastogne was isolated. The Germans' encirclement was complete. Panzer Lehr blocked Bastogne on the south, and the 2nd Panzer on north. Some elements of Panzer Lehr remained with the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 22, 2006 09:52 AM
On the list of contradictions in terms. This is completely insane A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 20, 2006 09:13 AM
...baton twirling passing. ...Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, once the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday that he didn't see how a troop surge would make a difference because there was a minor surge in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 19, 2006 09:39 AM
Daughter told me this last night, and I thought I would share this heartwarming tale with you in the Spirit of the Season... Once upon a time, many years ago, Santa was having a very, very bad Christmas Eve. Rudolf...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 19, 2006 07:24 AM
Hurrah for red hot chile peppers In a discovery that has stunned even those behind it, scientists at a Toronto hospital say they have proof the body's nervous system helps trigger diabetes, opening the door to a potential near-cure of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 15, 2006 12:43 PM
I meant to put this up the other day. Insta linked to a shocking editorial in the Washington Post on the legacy of Pinochet that is well worth reading. It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 13, 2006 07:18 AM
But his killer's the one with her name on a NYC College community room. New York City college students who share a community room named for an escaped cop killer called the fugitive their hero Tuesday as the school's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2006 04:02 PM
...because the moron isn't helping, with laughable whines like this: ...The rabbi had received "all kinds of calls and emails," many of them "odious," Grad said, adding he was "trying to figure out how this is consistent with the spirit...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2006 03:33 PM
How else do you explain something like this BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber targeting laborers killed 60 people Tuesday in Baghdad and wounded 220 others, Iraqi officials said. A pickup truck, loaded with about 440 pounds (200 kilograms)...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2006 11:04 AM
And almost were. Hamas gunmen fire on Fatah protesters Hamas gunmen opened fire on demonstrators from the rival Fatah movement in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, wounding four people in the first factional violence following the deaths of three...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2006 09:06 AM
You have to give Putin credit for knowing what Russia's cards are these days and for not being afraid to play them Shell is being forced by the Russian government to hand over its controlling stake in the world's biggest...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2006 07:34 AM
...comes up a little...well... Condoms a big problem for men in India Most men's *p-words* are an inch too short for popular prophylactics Condoms designed to meet international size specifications are too big for many Indian men as their *p-words*...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2006 04:56 AM
Incognito as it were MUSLIMS, socialists, unions and other groups will conduct a counter-rally against bikini protesters who plan to march on a Brunswick mosque on Saturday. Police will monitor the demonstrations, with white supremacists claiming to have infiltrated bikini...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 7, 2006 08:59 AM
So now our friends the Taliban have come out with a 30 point rule book Now, the Taliban has put out a code of conduct for its commanders and fighters -- including when to kill teachers and how to prevent...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 7, 2006 08:03 AM
...and hit the streets! (Or, at the very least, publishers' offices.) BLOGGER-turned-author Jessica Cutler pulled out of next Monday's Mediabistro panel on how bloggers can land book deals. Her "blowoff" prompted Mediabistro to remind readers that Cutler is "someone known...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 6, 2006 02:11 PM
Hot Air... Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning. American Flight 1053, from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, made an emergency landing here after passengers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 5, 2006 08:52 PM
My cooking of late has been severely restricted around the house, as we have been redoing our kitchen. In fact, I have personally been responsible for the 15% rise in restaurant spending in New Jersey over the past month. But...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 5, 2006 07:31 PM
It was a routine patrol, in the third week of June -- if, in fact, there is such a thing as a routine patrol in Fallujah, in the Anbar Province of Iraq. Chris Walsh, a Navy medic assigned to a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 4, 2006 11:53 AM
It's a headline linked on Drudge... Sundance picks Seattle film on horse-sex case; Snoop Dogg arrested ...and there must be thousands of Drudgites scratching their heads and not trusting their lying eyes. In a quest for knowledge, they Google and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 30, 2006 04:11 PM
Here's more scary news from our closest allies on the other side of the pond: Islamic sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain, a report claims. Sharia, derived from several sources including the Koran, is applied...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 29, 2006 07:48 AM
Part Deux. Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted "Allah" when passengers were called for boarding US Airways Flight 300 to Phoenix. "I was suspicious by the way they were praying very...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 28, 2006 11:52 AM
The 'cookie monster' in question refers to a particular confection a California chain called 'Baxter's' used to have on it's menu ~ a LARGE chocolate chip cookie covered with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge. They were divine and, in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 27, 2006 10:54 AM
There's a bit more information coming out about your prayer flight. And it's looking like you might not be the innocent, aggrieved holy men you claim to be. Airline checks claim of 'Muslim while flying' discrimination A passenger who had...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 22, 2006 10:18 AM
...as God intended, n'est pas? A man who mailed a bomb to a doctor because he was angry about how his penis enlargement surgery turned out was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 22, 2006 09:18 AM
...Three of them stood and said their normal evening prayers together on the plane, as 1.7 billion Muslims around the world do every day, Shahin said. He attributed any concerns by passengers or crew to ignorance about Islam. ...Shahin expressed...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 21, 2006 09:43 AM
...play Lestat. Jackson bids farewell to The Hobbit He is the flamboyant director whose The Lord of the Rings trilogy picked up 17 Oscars. But Peter Jackson has been cast out of Middle Earth after a row over profits from...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 21, 2006 08:02 AM
...was a big deal. Kimberly Stewart - Rod's 27-year-old daughter with Alana Stewart... ...In addition to being healthier, Kimberly also seems to have rekindled an old flame. The blond rock scion turned up at Light in the Bellago in Las...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 20, 2006 09:54 AM
While completely disregarding Cracker's fevered, feigned umbrage at just the dang cutest little email I sent her (You know ~ one of those rare gems that manages to tell the truth but induce thigh slapping hilarity at the same time?),...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 17, 2006 10:39 AM
Sort of sums up Washington these days, doesn't it (Or at the very least how the Giants played against the Bears last week)? But that's actually what John Murtha, Mr. Abscam - to - Okinawa himself thinks of Nancy Grapes...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 16, 2006 06:57 AM
And probably a little more than they deserve A couple's ill-concealed sexual play aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles got them charged with violating the Patriot Act, intended for terrorist acts, and could land them in jail for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 15, 2006 06:56 AM
This is not encouraging: The first cracks in the united front over Iraq between Tony Blair and President Bush appeared last night as the Prime Minister offered Iran and Syria the prospect of dialogue over the future of Iraq and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 14, 2006 07:06 AM
...and Peter Arnett's a frustrated has been, thank GOD the U.N. can pick up interviewing murderous dictator/rebel leader/fascist thugs where they left off. It's always good to have your replacement in the bag. 'Most wanted' man meets UN envoy Talks...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 13, 2006 09:22 AM
...but it's delicious they were. (Via Insta) They had to run that clip because the much of the rest of his speech was an absolute riot. He started off by mentioning that "tomorrow is an extremely important day for America,"...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 11, 2006 09:42 AM
Not hugely, mind you, but a few percentage points here and there and the country remains pretty evenly split. The Senate seems to be 50/50 at this point, and in the House it seems to be 52%/48% more or less;...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 8, 2006 06:48 AM
Many older workers who get laid off face a tough time replacing their salary, and Michael in California is wondering just what is happening to workers who lose their jobs as they near retirement. ...There's no question that some people...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 6, 2006 03:11 PM
...SURPRISE! Unemployment rate lowest in nearly 5-1/2 years The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to a 5-1/2 year low in October as 92,000 jobs were added and hiring in the two prior months was revised up, the government said on Friday,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 3, 2006 10:21 AM
Yup. UPDATE: Wow. This shot as of 7:50 a.m.CST. They've dropped the "look at all sides" line. EDITOR'S NOTE: A warm Swill Welcome to Gateway Pundit and Hot Air readers. Thanks for stopping by. A note concerning our post:...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 2, 2006 05:46 AM
...corporate whore that he is. Those annoying television commercials that told parents to talk to their teenagers about not smoking were especially annoying to the kids they were meant to help, an upcoming article in the American Journal of Public...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 1, 2006 10:28 AM
If your stomach is strong enough, or if you just need to have your hair dried by a gale-force blast of outraged hubristic blowhardity, mosey on over to the oh-so-appropriately-named-in-this-case HotAir and be amazed. You see, quoting JFK verbatim is...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 31, 2006 06:06 PM
...speaks. ..."Kerry then told the students that if they were able to navigate the education system, they could get comfortable jobs - "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq," he said to a mixture of laughter and gasps....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 31, 2006 12:32 PM
So I BET they were happier than dogsh*t to get these orders. U.S. Obeys Order to Abandon Checkpoints U.S. troops on Tuesday abandoned checkpoints around the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City on orders from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 31, 2006 10:46 AM
Via Michelle Malkin comes this story concerning the College of William and Mary: WILLIAMSBURG -- Officials at the College of William and Mary have removed a 2-foot-high gold cross from a campus chapel they say is increasingly used for nonreligious...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 30, 2006 07:38 AM
And I did, too, until reminded by Dave's post about St. Crispin's Day. And I have to share why I have such fondness for Branagh's "Henry the Fifth". It's not all the magnificence of a truly magnificent film. In all...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 27, 2006 02:02 PM
She's a pistol. Selected gems... ...Since when does the Democratic Party use any gay issue in this coldblooded way as a token on the chessboard? You'd expect this stuff from right-wing ideologues, not progressives. ...I kept hearing on the radio...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 27, 2006 11:57 AM
...weren't such a great idea. She was up in the polls by 9 points a week ago....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 26, 2006 02:15 PM
Maliki gives the old trusim life for the 21st century. Does Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have the political spine to deal with Iraq's No. 1 problem — the Shi'ite militias? There's a growing suspicion in Baghdad that he does not....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 26, 2006 10:13 AM
When it's a family member, it can tear your heart out. "Then, late one night after I'd put the dogs out, Lady wouldn't come in," Laura Mirsch says. "She finally staggered over to me from the cattails. She looked up...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 26, 2006 09:58 AM
...in living color. Black: ...The UN came into existence on 24 October 1945, after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council — Republic of China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 24, 2006 11:00 AM
...at the bottom of the column. CORRECTION: We said official Army photos appear at the end of Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers." A Marine points out "Army" is not generic and the Iwo Jima photos were taken by Marines,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 23, 2006 10:57 AM
...THIS cool... Thieves lead to discovery of Egypt tombs Curse protected 4,200 year old graves of royal dentists ...The thieves launched their own dig one summer night two months ago but were apprehended, Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 23, 2006 08:59 AM
Even thought it WAS legal...and NO ONE's personal data was compromised...and maybe terrorists really DIDN'T already know about it...I was just so durned mad at the mean way Bush and his guys talk about my newspaper. So in an emotional,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 22, 2006 03:48 PM
...but "HELL NO", "F@CK NO", "NO WAY" and "NO HOW". Army Corps proposes easing Gulf wetlands rule Anger greets plan to let developers skip permits to speed Katrina recovery Federal wetlands regulators have dropped a bombshell on environmentalists with a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 19, 2006 03:25 PM
Aishah Azmi, the Muslim teaching assistant suspended for her sack cloth, says everything's brilliant, so what's the problem? ...Ms Azmi told the BBC her veil had not caused problems with the children, with whom she had a "brilliant relationship". ..."If...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 18, 2006 10:23 AM
But it's wonderful. Christmas at Arlington Every December since 1992, volunteers have laid wreaths donated by the Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, Maine, at the headstones of over 5,000 of America's honored dead....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 18, 2006 09:49 AM
Ask any 'Rumsfeld doctrine'/neocon analyst. The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan failed to follow through as it should have after ousting the government in 2001, said the NATO commander in the country. The mistake — adopting "a peacetime approach" too early...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 17, 2006 09:31 PM
You would have thought that meant the American public. SICKENING VICTIM ACT FOOLED JUDGE IT WAS all just an act. Lynne Stewart, a former lawyer who specialized in spreading terror and hate around the world, lumbered into a courtroom looking...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 17, 2006 02:53 PM
"Were you interviewed face to face by a male governor of the school for this job? It's a simple question...To assess your suitability for this job? And you did not wear the veil for that interview?" Taking the veil to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 17, 2006 10:27 AM
Blustering hot air and typical classless Miami bullsh*t. From the BROADCAST booth. Comments made by TV analyst and former Miami player Lamar Thomas during a sideline-clearing brawl involving the Hurricanes and Florida International will be edited out before the game...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 16, 2006 05:42 PM
Root causes, and such: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- More than 90 Sri Lankan sailors were killed Monday afternoon when an explosives-laden truck rammed into their convoy, Defense spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told CNN. "These men were all unarmed. This is...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 16, 2006 07:31 AM
Red wine may help prevent stroke damage A couple glasses a day could protect the brain, mouse studies suggest Red wine might work to protect the brain from damage after a stroke and drinking a couple of glasses a day...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 15, 2006 10:30 PM
Round 2. Feds probe trip that Kolbe made with pages NBC exclusive: Congressman alleged to have been inappropriate in '96 Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took 10 years...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 13, 2006 07:22 PM
In Democratic minds, why is it 'no holds barred' to dig up and claw through a Republican candidate's personal ancient history... ...Democratic candidate Kirsten Gillibrand is calling on GOP Rep. John E. Sweeney in Upstate New York to explain a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 13, 2006 10:35 AM
No sooner does openly gay REPUBLICAN Rep. Kolbe offer his official version of what prompted him to alert the Clerk of the page program, then this little number appears on MSNBC: Rep. Kolbe visited Grand Canyon with pages Park Service...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 10, 2006 11:45 PM
...to have the Chinese onboard. North Korea must face “some punitive actions” for testing a nuclear device, China’s U.N. ambassador said Tuesday, suggesting that Beijing may be willing to impose some form of Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang. China’s U.N....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 10, 2006 05:25 PM
...in this CBS/NYT poll for 6 Oct. Bush gets HAMMERED when people are asked about his handling of the economy, 34% approval to 57% disapproval, fails MISERABLY when asked about Iraq ( 30% to 66% ) but comes out a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 10, 2006 02:21 PM
...to me! Alaska Villages Reject Venezuela Oil In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating-oil prices are among the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 9, 2006 05:10 PM
Don't let your "perfect" 6-0 record fool you. As "SPORTSMEN" ~ which is what I thought high school sports were really all about ~ YOU SUCK. Chiefs roll to perfect 6-0 The numbers game certainly fell in Northview's favor Friday,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 7, 2006 10:56 AM
Do police in the UK have to take an oath to uphold the law? A Muslim police officer who asked to be excused from guarding the Israeli embassy was married by the radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, The Daily Telegraph...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 6, 2006 07:33 AM
Oh man, what a mess: APEX, N.C. -- Shifting winds forced Apex officials to expand an evacuation area early Friday to protect residents from a chemical gas plume that continued to spread from an industrial fire that has raged since...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 6, 2006 07:16 AM
The bravest, most loving sacrifice and the most incredible, loving gift. The oldest of the five Amish girls shot dead in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse is said to have stepped forward and asked her killer to "Shoot me first," in an...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 5, 2006 08:32 PM
Being the considerate soul I am, I refrained from comment the night of the Saints' return to the Superdome. I didn't have a problem with FEMA (read:our money) dollars being spent to refurbish a New Orleans landmark, even though it's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 5, 2006 10:36 AM
Buy This Mug!! Wear This Shirt!! Bush Derangement Day (Hey Michelle, let us know ~ we'll send ya one!) Man, we'd be FOOLS if we weren't ALLLL over this, 'cause, like, we have been since the beginning....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 4, 2006 02:54 PM
...to 'religion of peace'. ...‘God’s blessing to everyone’ Back in the pumpkin patch, the midday sun was getting hot. John had work to do. Pumpkins are a cash crop, unlike most of the corn and alfalfa in many of the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 4, 2006 10:55 AM
State-run radio: Commercial airliner hijacked in Greek airspace. No link yet just a headline. I'm looking. Nothing anyplace else. FOX has the headline now, too. And now Drudge has Turkish Airlines spokesman says hijacked aircraft has landed at an airport...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 3, 2006 11:53 AM
...(North Korea and rumors of a drunk Hasselhoff not withstanding) then I find this. Top 204 Star Wars Lines Improved... ...By Replacing A Word With "Pants"...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 3, 2006 11:00 AM
I wouldn't try gambits like this... Breaking news, male prostitution ring being run out of Democratic Congressman's apartment In reality, this is not breaking news. It's old news about Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney Frank. In this Washington Post story, Congessman...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 1, 2006 03:28 PM
(And probably should have waited until the red glaze cleared from my eyes, but I've never had that kind of self control.) Don't let the headline fool you. 'It is Time for Muslims to Reciprocate' This week a Berlin opera...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 29, 2006 11:33 AM
...you know, the mostly air-conditioned office type ~ to get a 2.7% pay raise in January. A pittance and fair enough. Until you realize the Senate also thinks the military's worth only a 2.2% pay raise for what THEY do....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 29, 2006 07:48 AM
...cuts out the middle guy. EU starts social allowances payments to Palestinians at the start of Ramadan The European Commission announced Monday that it started the payment of social allowances to 40,000 of the neediest Palestinian families through the Temporary...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 28, 2006 06:17 PM
...betcha they hook me up for something. Radical Muslim who made death threats against Pope escapes prosecution A furious row has erupted after it emerged that a notorious preacher will not be prosecuted for issuing a death threat to Pope...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 28, 2006 03:23 PM
...of Imagination. ...As we approach the fifth year without a second successful terrorist attack upon U.S. soil, a chorus of skeptics now suggests that 9/11 was a 100-year flood. They conveniently forget the deadly explosions in Bali, Madrid, London, and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 28, 2006 01:28 PM
...cured cancer? WINE EYED AS BRAIN BOOSTER Giving mice with Alzheimer's-like disease the equivalent of a couple of glasses of red wine daily slows memory loss and brain-cell death, a study shows. Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine found...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 28, 2006 09:04 AM
Looks like the CarBQ season has started early for the Ramadan Roilers United Yutes It looks as if immigrants youths want to turn nightly rioting during the Islamic holy month of ramadan into an annual tradition. Around 8:30pm last night...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 28, 2006 07:03 AM
Should we not allow Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor to run for public office? The MSM has been all a-twitter about what George Allen did or did not say whilst at the University of Virginia in the 70s, and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 27, 2006 08:28 AM
Okay, well, maybe where YOU live. But here in Bangla-cola, it's a delightful 75 and the house is wide open. (Just like it was into the beginning of summer, which never happens, mind you.) This after last night's ABC News...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 26, 2006 11:45 AM
...is at it again. This time she's, well, going on about the 'rift' her book (on life as a military wife) 'created'. It's been nearly a year since my book, "Going Overboard: The Misadventures of a Military Wife," went on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 26, 2006 09:54 AM
You just have to wonder "why" after you recoil from the horror of this: EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois (AP) -- A woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and her fetus told police she drowned the woman's three young children...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 25, 2006 07:17 AM
...for the great Americans quoted over at Brendan Loy's. A sample... MrMichaelMT blames Bush: “While Chavez’ tone is undoubtably uncivilized, and his machinations are certainly detrimental to pan-American relations, it’s important to realize whose behavior enabled his tirade. Had Bush...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 21, 2006 07:56 PM
I heard him on WCBS on the way home. He said (and I paraphrase) that he didn't mind him giving it, and that in fact he wished he had walked a few blocks over to Central Park, because he has...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 20, 2006 05:27 PM
To great applause Chavez addressed the UN today: 'THE DEVIL CAME TO THE UN YESTERDAY... It Still Smells of Sulphur here... Bush, I have the feeling you are going to live the rest of your days as a nightmare... We...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 20, 2006 01:18 PM
Of course, Option B is that the school officials are complete morons. Blind morons, at that. That's as charitable as I can be after reading this: A veteran teacher used the font — depicting quasi-anatomically correct male and female stick...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 20, 2006 06:52 AM
Where the good Lord split 'ya: The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial has been replaced, Al-Iraqiya state television reported Tuesday. The station did not say why the change was made, but the Arab satellite stations Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 19, 2006 02:27 PM
Let's stop this sh*t from EVER repeating... US Treasury Sets New 1-Day Tax Receipt Record Of $85.8 Billion ...Total tax receipts were $85.8 billion on Friday, compared with the previous one-day record of $71 billion on Sept. 15 of last...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 19, 2006 01:24 PM
Willie's stoned out on the road again: LAFAYETTE, Louisiana (AP) -- Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop Monday morning on a Louisiana highway, state police said....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 18, 2006 03:35 PM
...a timely Bill Leak cartoon. It's not funny because it's true. An Al Qaeda-linked extremist group warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed," as protesters raged across the Muslim world to demand more of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 18, 2006 11:48 AM
...have bean proven horribly wrong. Big Dig project managers persuaded the designer of the Interstate 90 connector tunnel ceiling to reduce by half the number of bolts supporting each ceiling hanger, The Boston Sunday Globe reported. The newspaper reported it...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 18, 2006 09:24 AM
Man rejects first penis transplant Ian Sample, science correspondent Monday September 18, 2006 The Guardian Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 18, 2006 07:54 AM
...my little Muslim friend. "We hope that Pope Benedict XVI will follow the steps of Pope John Paul II, who carried out a series of constructive steps to conduct an interfaith dialogue," Al Sabah said. Perhaps it wasn't in your...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 17, 2006 09:53 AM
...with his thoughtful post on not-so-thoughtful dressing by teenagers or of small children by parents who should know better but wish only to be known as 'with it', regardless of the cost later down the road. This photo of local...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 16, 2006 11:24 PM
Sorry about the delay, but here's Day Four in Scotland. As always, I'll put most of the pictures below the fold to save both of us on bandwidth. Anyhow, if you're not going to be golfing or distillerying (neither of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 16, 2006 10:37 PM
Pope sorry for remarks This al-Reuters headline is a little misleading. Lemme guess why... Pope Benedict is sorry Muslims were offended by a speech on Islam that provoked fury around the world and led to calls for the leader of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 16, 2006 11:18 AM
...Ivan was busy blowing through major dad's office....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 16, 2006 08:34 AM
Muslim leaders demand apology for Pope's 'medieval' remarks The words he quoted...were. Any excuse for a street riot and a helluva way to demonstrate the modernity and tolerance of your beliefs. UPDATE: Hmmmm. I wonder how this Islamic cleric meant...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 15, 2006 11:20 PM
Dear Holy Father ~ Tell them to piss off. Anyone who could read understands what you were saying and the jihadists fanning the current flames prove your point. The shrieking blind sheep of the Muslim street prove your point. Apologize...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 15, 2006 11:13 AM
I should have said "Don't use your 14th century quotes on 14th century neanderthals mentalities". Yes, yes ~ they're burning sh*t in the street YET again ...to prove how advanced and tolerant Islam/Muslim culture really is. Turkish official......compares pope to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 15, 2006 10:39 AM
the nail on the head. The damning evidence was on the front page of yesterday's Post: A dra matic photo showing more than 100 Taliban terrorists in formation last July for a graveside funeral for one of their own in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 14, 2006 11:15 AM
Henry the K says WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger warned that Europe and the United States must unite to head off a "war of civilizations" arising from a nuclear-armed Middle East. In an opinion column...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 14, 2006 10:44 AM
Muslim religious leaders have accused Pope Benedict XVI of quoting anti-Islamic remarks during a speech at a German university this week. Questioning the concept of holy war, he quoted a 14th-Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 14, 2006 09:11 AM
Looks like this a$$wipe just punched his ticket for the World Court in the Hague: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial said Thursday that he does not believe Saddam was a dictator. ...Questioning a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 14, 2006 07:12 AM
My day started at 7AM; I worked for Bank of America on the 81st floor of 1 World Trade Center – the North tower.
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 13, 2006 06:26 AM
Japanese bow and grin for the camera but get nowhere in Washington. Out of Washington last week came definite word that the U.S. is talking very tough to Japan. The talk went on between Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, who had...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 12, 2006 09:36 AM
Yesterday was a very draining day. While it's vital and important that we remember our friends and fellow citizens who were murdered that day it is hard. Man. We honor our friends by remembering them, and by going on, by...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 12, 2006 07:26 AM
We all know the story of how they and so many others died on that day, but we must never forget how these wonderful people lived, either. John and Sylvia adored life, and they adored each other. They were...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 11, 2006 11:22 PM
Here are some other folks you should honor and remember as you go about your life on this day: Benito Valentin Emilio Pete Ortiz Donna Bernaerts-Kearns Nicolas John Joanne Rubino Douglas Stone Kevin H. Bracken Rahma Salie Giovanna Porras Michael...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 10, 2006 10:54 PM
...doesn't have Alzheimer's and can publicly dispute the network's version of her and her cohorts' colleagues' conversations Susan Lyne knew it was a bad idea. That's why the ABC Entertainment president passed on what morphed into The Reagans, CBS's now...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 8, 2006 11:20 AM
So now Armitage is saying he made an innocent boo-boo In July 2003, Armitage told columnist Robert Novak that Ambassador Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, and Novak mentioned it in a column. It's a crime to knowingly reveal the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 8, 2006 06:59 AM
...were talkin' sh*t. Cell phones, complete with a charger and data chips, were found in the body cavities of four inmates at a maximum-security prison, and they had used the phones to direct criminal activities on the street, officials said...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 7, 2006 09:11 PM
There's really nothing else you can say about these people: The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was an "inside job", according to a group of leading academics. Around 75 top professors and leading scientists...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 6, 2006 10:31 AM
He is getting out of control (AP) -- America's hard-line president urged students Tuesday to push for a purge of liberal and secular university teachers, another sign of his determination to strengthen Christian fundamentalism in the country. ...Bush's call was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2006 09:32 PM
I think Bill's take on this story is exactly right: "A joker". Yeah, right. The mere presence of these plants is proof that the Duluth police are running a marijuana distribution ring. They should be required to prove in court...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 30, 2006 06:39 AM
I am a silly man. Anyone who knows me will readily vouch for that, as will many who hardly know me. But I am exceedingly blessed in my Bride, who indulges in my silliness, and this drive was one such...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 29, 2006 09:00 PM
There's an amazing article in the latest Weekly Standard that, if it is accurate, should remove all doubt on where the UN stands: DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 28, 2006 02:30 PM
The next day we decided to go to the Edinburgh Zoo in the morning and then take a bus out to see the Royal Yacht Britannia in the afternoon. We spent quite a bit of time at the Zoo. I...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 28, 2006 10:39 AM
Well, I've congealed a lot of the nearly 400 photos I took, so here's the first part of the trip. I'm putting most of the pictures below the fold so as not to tie up the bandwidth of folks...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 27, 2006 10:25 AM
Contrary to major dad's expectations, I'm gonna let my favoritest mayor slide, since he seems not to need my help publicizing his pearls o' wisdom at the moment. No, I'm gonna stick up for another Democrat ~ yes, I am....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 25, 2006 03:36 PM
...or are you just happy to see me? The 'Not-Too-Bright-Bandit' ...yes, that's really his name ~ is off the streets, capping this week's edition of "I'll Take My HamBurglar Well Done". Police have captured the Not-Too-Bright Bandit, whose attempts at...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 24, 2006 12:41 PM
...in one article, in an attempt NOT to say 'Muslim'? Asian students' shock at ejection from jet by passenger mutiny Two Asian students have revealed their shock and despair after being thrown off a plane because other passengers feared they...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 23, 2006 03:29 PM
...who were passengers on a diverted Northwest flight. Dutch police said Wednesday that 12 passengers were in custody after a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Mumbai, India, returned to Amsterdam when several people on board aroused concern. No formal charges...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 23, 2006 02:40 PM
...keeping your dues current. Conflict of Interest Is Raised in N.S.A. Ruling The federal judge who ruled last week that President Bush’s eavesdropping program was unconstitutional is a trustee and an officer of a group that has given at least...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 23, 2006 09:08 AM
...but it's a subject near and dear to my heart. I've decided to let Max Mayfield talk today. Looking back nearly a year to the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, and the third-worst hurricane in terms of American lives...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 22, 2006 10:04 AM
...without a really good answer. Israel is still in Lebanon, and Hezbollah is more powerful, thanks to Israel's lack of resolve and our pitiful support. More roadside bombs were exploded in Iraq in July than in any month since we...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 22, 2006 08:53 AM
"We're actually not sure why some of these are not developing," he said. STFU, already. Seriously. Now, on a lighter note. Swillers are very familiar with my 'tale of woe' radar shots of hurricanes and tropical storms pounding the hallowed...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 21, 2006 04:10 PM
...there is opportunity. Equipment stolen from Katrina memorial site Thieves make off with $100,000 in building equipment in New Orleans Thieves hauled off $100,000 worth of heavy equipment that was being used to help build a Lower Ninth Ward memorial...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 20, 2006 11:12 PM
Excuse me? New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Friday blamed racism and government bureaucracy for hamstringing his city's ability to weather Hurricane Katrina and recover from the disaster that struck the Gulf Coast nearly a year ago. In remarks to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 19, 2006 05:59 AM
...just now [ed note: refers to broadcast of 17 Aug.]: After discussing Iran's attempts to rearm Hezbollah, the conversation shifted to troop allocations for the U.N./Lebanese ceasefire force. Brit asked why France has volunteered such a 'puny' number of troops...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 18, 2006 11:13 AM
From TCS Daily. ...Hurricanes require warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), and last year the tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures were running well above normal. Global warming was the explanation given by most 'experts' the media interviewed. And since global warming...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 18, 2006 08:00 AM
...confirms they had every reason to divert into Boston. A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 17, 2006 12:39 PM
...and John "I Wouldn't Buy a Cambodian-Made Magic Hat There" Kerry very angry ~ two gaZILLIONAIRES who don't have a clue. Welcome to one of the Democratic Party's whipping boys. [In 2004]..."Every consumer should know when they walk into Wal-Mart...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 17, 2006 11:05 AM
...sh*ttin' me! Report: Arrest made in JonBenet case Suspect detained in Thailand in connection with ’96 murder, DA source says The family of slain 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey expects arrests in the ten-year-old mystery surrounding her murder, NBC News...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 17, 2006 09:30 AM
You can separate, but you can't lift. And you can thank the baby bombers. Authorities Warning Women Not to Wear Gel Bras As Worries of Possible Female Bombers Increase U.S. authorities are advising women not to wear gel bras on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 16, 2006 01:06 PM
Hezbollah balks at withdrawal from south Lebanese officials work on compromise Hezbollah refused to disarm and withdraw its fighters from the battle-scarred hills along the border with Israel on Tuesday, threatening to delay deployment of the Lebanese army and endangering...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 16, 2006 12:28 PM
...rumbling with the flight crew is a bad, BAD idea... London Flight Diverted Over Disturbance A flight from London to Washington, D.C. was diverted to Boston Wednesday morning after the pilot declared an emergency because of a passenger disturbance, the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 16, 2006 11:32 AM
~ I am going to be forced to post on this, thanks to Bingley yesterday and now, FIRST thing this morning, the lovely Susanna. Australian farmers called to report ugly sheep Yes, yes, they're on the prowl for ugly...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 16, 2006 09:30 AM
...THIS might be true? Charities fail to attract cash as 'human crisis overlooked' CHARITIES are facing difficulties paying for humanitarian relief work in Lebanon because the public has shunned their appeals. ... Mark Astarita, the director of fundraising at the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 15, 2006 08:34 AM
This news certainly makes me think that there is: Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown By Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent THE Government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 15, 2006 07:36 AM
...just... Serbs suggest partition of Kosovo The head of Serbia's delegation on the future status of Kosovo has suggested partition of the disputed territory if no way can be found for ethnic Albanians and Serbs to live together ...all... Nigeria...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 14, 2006 01:13 PM
Via Tim Blair, go read this: THE apparently successful pre-emptive strike by British and Pakistani police against a home-grown terror cell in Britain should raise the concern of every decent patriotic citizen in Britain, Europe and Australia about their long-term...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 14, 2006 07:12 AM
Not only have we started to see women suicide bombers; now it seems that islamic women were going to use there own children as covers for the bombs: HATE-filled mums willing to sacrifice themselves and their BABIES are being hunted...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 14, 2006 06:48 AM
The theory at the moment is the guys in Michigan with 1000 cell phones were targeting the Mackinac Bridge: Federal authorities helped with the investigation into a possible terror threat to the Mackinac Bridge. The FBI office in Detroit worked...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 14, 2006 06:38 AM
...says he's just a singer in a rock and roll band simple civil defense worker. The AP does some spin control. (click through photo) They ALL could use some. UPDATE: WOW! Lucky thing AP got it's puff piece done!! He's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 13, 2006 01:15 PM
No kudos for the operation that busted this plot, no acknowledgment that listening in on trans-continental phone calls yields invaluable intelligence or that international financial transactions might lead to someone with a bomb in his Kos-KoolAid bottle. Nope, none of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 13, 2006 09:22 AM
Waldheimer's, that tragic disease that causes people to forget they were Nazis, claims another victim: Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen-SS. He told a German...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 12, 2006 10:34 AM
Muslim groups say British policies fuel militancy ...In an open letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, leading British Muslim groups and politicians said his foreign policies on issues such as Iraq and the Israel-Hizbollah war were putting civilians at...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 11, 2006 11:26 PM
Sis pointed out this Manifesto she found over at Slugger O'Toole's. It makes for an interesting read, and to my mind (what little of one there is) it neatly encapsulates a lot of the Left's positions on just about everything....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 11, 2006 03:34 PM
Oh sweet baby jeebus, the West is doomed. I can't believe this crap; actually, sadly I can: Police fears of threat to Muslims It was "totally wrong" to retaliate against Muslims, Mr Fahey said The police have increased their presence...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 11, 2006 01:07 PM
...American style. Analysis: IDF fumes over denied victory ...This wishy-washy decision-making process cost the IDF lives, according to one senior officer. "A military force always needs to be on the offensive, pushing forward and keeping the enemy on its toes,"...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 11, 2006 01:05 PM
...in case you hadn't read it. Hurricane Grants To Fortify Homes Almost Ready To Go The thousands of homeowners eager for a shot at state money to help reinforce their homes against hurricanes may have to wait only a week...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 11, 2006 12:48 PM
Michelle Malkin has the latest updates: A second charged was added for the two Dearborn men who were arrested in Ohio and charged money laundering to support terrorism. Thursday, prosecutors charged 20-year-old Ali Houssaiky and 20-year-old Osma Sabhi Abulhassan with...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 11, 2006 07:19 AM
...in this Sky News leadline. Angry Travellers Hit Out At Plotters It goes to this article... 'Terrorists Must Not Win' ...where the quote in the headline never appears, neither does 'anger' and only one of the interviewed travellers is actually...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2006 11:36 PM
...of the missing eleven Eyptian students. ...El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed Ibrahim, 20, and Alaa Abd El Fattah Ali El Bahnasawi, 20, were arrested at a residence in Dundalk, Md., outside Baltimore, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Chicago police...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2006 06:10 PM
...we could all do without. The suspected terror plotters arrested in Britain had planned to conceal their liquid or gel explosives inside a modified sports beverage drink container and trigger the device with the flash from a disposable camera. ABC...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2006 05:27 PM
Peggy Noonan in the Opinion Journal today touches briefly on the very thing I was thinking watching the news. Last night he ABC Evening news had a round-up of the Lieberman-Lamont bout. They spoke to Lieberman and briefly to a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2006 12:17 PM
...they've got a dapper British guest (Simon Henderson, Washington Institute for Near East Policy) who's explaining how the British goverment takes pains to not to classify their homegrown terrorists as...terrorists. They call them all 'criminals' and, if really pushed, will...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2006 09:02 AM
Here's what they're up to in Ohio: MARIETTA, Ohio - Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car. Deputies...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2006 07:39 AM
The Watchful Babbler and his bride were in town on their honeymoon and I had the exquisite pleasure of a long dinner with them at the Bridge Cafe, which is one of my favorite places to eat downtown. Great food,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2006 07:19 AM
A huge terror plot has been foiled in the UK: A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. It...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2006 06:35 AM
...among the dead. Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have been found among Hizbollah guerrillas slain by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, Israel's Channel 10 television reported on Wednesday citing diplomatic sources. It said the Iranians were identified by documents found...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 9, 2006 07:11 PM
Lebanon's PM: 'Horrific massacre' as 40 killed in airstrike Lebanon's prime minister said Monday an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla left 40 people dead. "An hour ago, there was a horrific massacre in the village of Houla...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 7, 2006 11:51 AM
And gets nailed, blogging style. Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat Worker suspended after telling American blogger: 'I look forward to day when you pigs get your throats cut' A Reuters employee has been suspended after sending a death...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 6, 2006 11:52 PM
...I'm sure he'd feel differently. Former President Carter, who helped broker the historic Camp David peace accord, said President Bush has pursued an "erroneous policy" that has fostered violence in the Middle East. ..."In my opinion, maybe the worst ally...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 6, 2006 03:20 PM
What Tony Blair said, that is. In a press conference early Thursday afternoon, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he finds it astounding that President Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" as a solution...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 5, 2006 01:30 PM
Well, that's what happens. ...A Duke University study demonstrates that it matters whether civilian decision makers have military experience: A review of U.S. foreign policy over nearly two centuries shows that when we have the fewest number of veterans in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 4, 2006 10:59 AM
I'm sure I have no conception of the suffering this little guy and his family have had to endure and I am sorry for it. But the award was breathtaking. An appeals court on Thursday overturned a landmark $105 million...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 4, 2006 09:43 AM
She's out of the hospital. CBS News journalist Kimberly Dozier has been released from a rehabilitation hospital, where she had been recovering from critical injuries suffered during a May 29 car bomb attack in Iraq. "I'm up on crutches and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 4, 2006 09:31 AM
An update to yesterday's discussion. Nazi-Era Victims Can Sue German Firms Victims of Nazi-era crimes can sue for additional money from German companies that paid $2.5 billion into a reparation fund for U.S. claims, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 4, 2006 09:15 AM
To build this The Senate did an abrupt about-face yesterday, voting overwhelmingly to begin paying for 370 miles of fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border, just three weeks after voting against the same spending. The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 4, 2006 07:31 AM
Now I'm not saying that our favorite Cracker is involved, but sometimes ya' just gotta wonder: ST PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) -- A woman and her roommate were charged with starving the woman's 9-year-old daughter, who weighed just 42 pounds when...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2006 02:55 PM
..."you voted for him." Experts excoriate recovery leaders Nagin, council are failing N.O., they say Without a citywide rebuilding plan or a central agency in charge of redevelopment, New Orleans is likely to squander its opportunity to make a strong...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2006 01:22 PM
Teach a man to fish...Israeli commandos made their daring raid on a Hezbollah hospital because they believed that the two soldiers whose kidnapping started the Lebanese war had been treated there, sources revealed yesterday. The commandos didn't find the Israeli...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2006 09:19 AM
...on the Times UK tonight... . ..that I found hugely depressing. "Men 'told to kill all Iraqis'". I knew the commander of the Army Brigade in question was Col. Michael Steele (of 'Blackhawk Down' fame), who is being investigated for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2006 01:27 AM
So, 3 people have died of rabies in China. The obvious response then is to club 50,000 dogs to death SHANGHAI, China - China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies, sparking unusually pointed...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 2, 2006 11:01 AM
...does an in-depth take on the Qana rumors. ...Israel Insider cited a CNN report that, it said, noted the victims had died in their sleep. It seemed highly improbable, the piece asserted, that people could have slept "through thunderous Israeli...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 2, 2006 10:47 AM
...during the Bingley/Diptera Cheesy Fries Road Trip. ...The new poll's results were consistent among drivers of cars, pickups and SUVs. There were few regional differences among drivers, although northeasterners were more likely than drivers in the rest of the country...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 2, 2006 08:59 AM
...I came across this little gem. It made me laugh. 3/31/03: My brakes were squealing like Ned Beatty in Deliverance....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 31, 2006 05:07 PM
...than Michelle Malkin in her post today... "When do terrorists warn civilians?" ...about the leaflets the IDF is dropping to warn Lebanese civilians in Hizbollah target zones. We were watching a FoxNews live report from the scene of the destroyed...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 31, 2006 03:15 PM
...and they don't handle setbacks as well as we do, physically or emotionally. It's fascinating stuff. China's economy is out of control China is growing so fast -- using cheap money to build steel mills, highways and textile factories it...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 31, 2006 02:44 PM
Now it's the fault of those darn Joooos: The Israeli bombs that slammed into the Lebanese village of Qana yesterday did more than kill three dozen children and a score of adults. They struck at the core of U.S. foreign...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 31, 2006 08:11 AM
Foie gras and now...WAL-MART. Brushing aside warnings from Wal-Mart that it might take its business elsewhere, the City Council approved an ordinance Wednesday that makes Chicago the biggest city in the nation to require big-box retailers to pay a "living...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 26, 2006 06:59 PM
...for the soul. Bad guys killed and captured, IED material and weapons snagged and three hostages rescued. All in a day's work. Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5’s, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, and soldiers from 2nd and 4th Brigade,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 26, 2006 02:25 PM
So Kofi is "deeply distressed" by the deaths of four UN "observers": U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was "deeply distressed" by the "apparently deliberate" strike. "This coordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long-established and clearly marked U.N. post...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 26, 2006 08:34 AM
When a life is lost, and a piece of history is gone....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 25, 2006 10:06 AM
Why is this a big deal? Am I missing something? These kids are the ones who are more likely to be killed by one of the Hiz folks, but they are not allowed to express their feelings about the conflict?...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 24, 2006 12:50 PM
...if there were no Citgo to go to. We'd be pretty well f*cked, that's what. Up to and including all the local military installations, whose gasoline vendor is...you guessed it. Richard Lugar, chairman of the US Senate foreign relations committee,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 24, 2006 10:25 AM
...apparently a fair amount of them want a particular Cheese Whiz "Churchilled". Wis. Lawmakers Want Univ. Instructor Fired More than 60 state lawmakers are urging the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fire an instructor who has argued that the U.S. government...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 21, 2006 10:17 AM
At least someone appreciates what's being done for them: "Everyone was pushing and shoving, women were crying, saying, 'Here's my passport, here's my children, take my children, just take them, take them,'" Esseily said. "It was absolutely horrendous." The Esseilys...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 20, 2006 02:53 PM
There's this mildy interesting story in the BBC today: Tut's gem hints at space impact In 1996 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem in the middle of one of Tutankhamun's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 20, 2006 08:10 AM
...that I didn't write this. Damn, I wish the president would swear more. When his private conversation with Tony Blair was picked up yesterday on an open microphone, I was heartened, not shocked. "See the irony is what they need...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 19, 2006 08:20 AM
...keeps killing it's women. How to Avoid Honor Killing in Turkey? Honor Suicide For Derya, a waiflike girl of 17, the order to kill herself came from an uncle and was delivered in a text message to her cellphone. “You...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 17, 2006 10:38 AM
...with Hizbollah. (How amazing is that?) ...But the group did not throw its support behind Hezbollah. Squabbles over the legitimacy of the rebel group's attacks on Israel — including the capture of two Israeli soldiers that sparked the 4-day battle...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 17, 2006 09:56 AM
...from Bob Schieffer this morning. ...The frog agreed and the trip went fine until they got to the middle of the river and the scorpion stung the frog. As they were sinking, the frog asked in his dying breath, "why...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 16, 2006 03:26 PM
There's an interesting discussion going on at Volokh which echoes what we were talking about in the comments below: Why Did Reagan Coddle Iran (and Hezbollah)? I've always been puzzled why Reagan didn't try to punish Iran for taking American...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 15, 2006 10:34 AM
Western Incentives for Iran Released The world powers are prepared to provide Iran with advanced technology and possibly even nuclear research reactors if it agrees to suspend uranium enrichment under a package of incentives revealed in full for the first...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 14, 2006 07:48 AM
Our boy sure does get around! But how is he viewed around the world? Well... If you were German, you saw this: If you are French, you swear that this is what happened: The Italians had a different view:...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 13, 2006 05:55 PM
UPDATE and bump: 4:00 p.m. CST ~ Israel has pasted the airport a second time for good measure. Israel attacked Beirut's airport for a second time Thursday, with helicopter gunships unleashing missiles that set fuel tanks ablaze at Lebanon's only...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 13, 2006 05:22 PM
..as in "Another EU 'OOps'! EW, they stink." For four years, the European Commission has been busy digging itself out of the hole it stumbled into in 2002, when three of its merger prohibitions were overturned in court. This humiliating...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 13, 2006 02:06 PM
UNESCO has postponed a decision on a Polish request to change the official name of the Auschwitz concentration camp after members of the World Heritage Committee could not agree on the issue, U.N. officials said Wednesday. The Polish government wants...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 12, 2006 12:45 PM
Get ready to rumble. IDF issuing callup orders for reservists The IDF began calling up reservists on Wednesday afternoon following Hizbullah attacks on IDF forces along the northern border. Earlier, Israel rejected a cease-fire request made by the Lebanese government...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 12, 2006 10:52 AM
On Brit Hume at 6 EST TOM (Weds.) night*. Let us pray ~ Oh Lord, let this be the end of Thy servant Novak's role in Plame Gate. Let the shining light of illumination and the New York Times cometh...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 11, 2006 05:56 PM
...a winner. ...“Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 11, 2006 04:01 PM
Absolute bastards MUMBAI, India - Seven bomb explosions rocked rail stations and trains in India’s financial hub Tuesday, killing 135 people and injuring 300, officials said. India’s major cities were put on high alert after the blasts. As Confederate Yankee...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 11, 2006 12:49 PM
...POD People? Scientologists Spreading Into Plant City, Beyond...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 10, 2006 11:25 AM
...when the report implies it was the counter-demonstrators. Officer Hurt, Several Arrested During Anti-Immigration Rally ...Counter-protesters stood along the sidewalks shouting as anti-immigration demonstrators, including members of the Minuteman civilian border patrol group, marched along Hollywood Boulevard. The Minutemen, many...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 10, 2006 10:15 AM
...made by Kraft? Reminds me of one of my favoritest songs: When Biscuits Go Wrong ...I thought to run a biscuit shop You had to be a biscuit purist And that such a man could never run a biscuit fraud...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 10, 2006 08:59 AM
...OUT. Houston tells evacuees to find a job or get out...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 8, 2006 10:45 AM
Is it really global 'warming'... Newly Identified Plesiosaur Swam in Cold Polar Waters Scientists have identified a new species of ancient aquatic reptile that swam the seas when dinosaurs still ruled the Earth. Dubbed Umoonasaurus, the creature lived in waters...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 8, 2006 10:13 AM
...before the counter-clockwise spin starts. The June jobs report came in weaker than forecast ~ a good thing from a Fed standpoint. Buried in the report were a couple figures that will probably be lost when the 'Chimpy McHitler struggling...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 7, 2006 09:14 AM
From what I understand 'christianism' is his word to refer to folks who profess christianity but in his opinion act like islamists, and this is declared by him to be "Christianism, Symbolized" As the congregation of the World Overcomers Outreach...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 6, 2006 01:35 PM
...what would happen to "The Sword in the Stone"? (Which is NOT Excaliber, so don't even get me started.) His dragon-slaying heroics have kept his legend alive through the centuries. But the Church of England is considering rejecting England's patron...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 5, 2006 12:07 PM
The Japanese wasted no time ~ Japan, considered the country most vulnerable to a North Korean missile attack, reacted swiftly on Wednesday. Abe Shinzo, chief cabinet secretary, held an emergency press conference at 6am local time at which he lodged...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 5, 2006 10:55 AM
...that they're reporting was the long range one. North Korea has fired a long-range missile, but it failed in flight. Two non-guided, medium-range Scud-style missiles were also fired, North American Aerospace Defense Command confirmed Tuesday. Japanese public broadcasting channel NHK...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 4, 2006 05:05 PM
A reprise of last year's Fourth of July post, as I could never find anything more profound to say than what's on that piece of paper....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 4, 2006 10:03 AM
A Mexican Standoff Runoff: MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Two leading candidates have claimed victory in Mexico's presidential vote, even as the country's top election official deemed the result too close to call. ...With only 52 percent of the vote...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 3, 2006 08:37 AM
...And nobody noticed? TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Atlantic City's casinos were ordered to close Wednesday, the latest casualty of a state government shutdown that entered its second day Sunday after the Legislature failed to adopt a budget by its July...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 3, 2006 06:57 AM
...the other day and it looks like it's stuck. Confession in girl's slaying thrown out Judge does allow discovery of Florida 9-year-old as evidence The confession of a man charged with kidnapping, raping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford isn’t admissible...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 30, 2006 11:39 AM
And you thought 16 year olds running off gave My Space a bad name? I bid you welcome to the online world of the lovely ladies of the Canadian Jihad. When it came time to write up the premarital agreement...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 30, 2006 11:21 AM
The tone of the two reports is so markedly different, one might almost be forgiven for thinking they referred to separate events. I'd noticed a quick turn around in the DOW futures and, knowing they were waiting on the core-PCE...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 30, 2006 10:08 AM
...work ~ they sound kinda stupid to me. ...Researchers at Indiana State University in Terre Haute tried a small experiment to test the effects of having kids play with heavier toys. They found that 10 children ages 6 to 8...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 29, 2006 05:34 PM
Literally. Camp Fallujah, Iraq - Call it a little bit of justice. Marine snipers from 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment shot and killed an insurgent sniper and spotter preparing to shoot at passing Marines, June 16. And the insurgents were...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 29, 2006 04:47 PM
To the English Swillers: ENGLAND's massive army of World Cup fans is drinking Germany dry, it emerged yesterday. Breweries warned beer could run out before the final because of huge demand from our supporters. In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 28, 2006 01:35 PM
I thought this story was about a Weber and was prepared to defend ours to the death. Thank God they're safe. Anyway, the first clue it WASN'T (about a Weber) was...well, you read it. Armed 'Grill' Robbery Missing: A mouthpiece...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 27, 2006 12:59 PM
...maybe he should think about moving. Michael Martino's specialty license plate reads "Helping Sea Turtles Survive." He rents kayaks and bicycles instead of Jet Skis and motor scooters at his eco-friendly beach shop on this Florida Panhandle barrier island. But...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 26, 2006 09:43 AM
...by Susan Estrich. What’s wrong with the New York Times? “A Look at Republican Priorities” said the headline of Friday’s New York Times. And what are those priorities, according to America’s paper of record? “Comforting the Comfortable” and “Afflicting the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 26, 2006 09:37 AM
Aussies abuzz with talk of Kidman wedding Her marriage to Keith Urban expected this weekend in Sydney ...On Friday, Kidman, Urban and some high-profile guests drove out of her waterfront property amid rumors of a ceremony rehearsal. “The nerves are...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 23, 2006 09:21 PM
Stuff bugs me sometimes....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 23, 2006 10:38 AM
Military Says Murdered Soldiers Were Abandoned at Checkpoint, Launches Probe Two U.S. soldiers who vanished during a terrorist attack on a checkpoint and were later found slain had been left alone while other vehicles in their patrol inspected traffic, the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 22, 2006 10:55 PM
...heard 'round the world. Gabriel Whitney says he did not plan to nearly suffocate President Bush in a bear hug. In fact, he did not plan to hug him at all. But when Mr. Whitney, one of 202 midshipmen to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 22, 2006 12:14 PM
...again. Study finds strong warming tie to hurricanes Half of Atlantic temperature increase in 2005 linked to global rise But then why is the Atlantic measurably cooler this year? In 2006, temperatures in the Atlantic were slightly* warmer than average,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 22, 2006 11:38 AM
As if we didn't already know. ...More than 600 people, mostly militants, have been killed in recent weeks as insurgents have launched their deadliest campaign of violence in years. ...“It is not acceptable for us that in all this fighting,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 22, 2006 09:48 AM
I'm just so disgusted by the way those poor men were butchered by the "insurgents" that my usual standards of christian restraint are being sorely tested. I basically at this point still want to turn the whole place into glass,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 21, 2006 12:06 PM
Looks like those poor men have been found. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that two U.S. soldiers missing since Friday have been found dead, Reuters reported. U.S. military authorities in Baghdad told CNN they...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 20, 2006 03:22 PM
And after 60 years, closure. U.S. WWII Sub Appears to Have Been Found For 60 years, Nancy Kenney wondered what happened to her father. The submarine that William T. Mabin was in disappeared while he and his crewmates were on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 20, 2006 10:24 AM
Are they useless or what? NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Acting at the mayor's request, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Monday she would send National Guard troops and state police to patrol the streets of New Orleans after a bloody weekend in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 20, 2006 07:38 AM
...in some deep, DEEP doo-doo. MSNBC's Dan Abrams has gotten his hands on the prosecution documents and they don't add up. VIDEO here. One of his most interesting points? NOT the inconsistencies of the accuser's story, medical reports, etc. but......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 19, 2006 03:22 PM
Good thing it's summer: Football's governing body has explained why up to 1,000 Dutch fans watched a World Cup tie wearing no trousers. Around 1,000 fans arrived for the Ivory Coast tie in their traditional bright orange trousers - but...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 19, 2006 12:59 PM
...I thought they were still talking about Hawaii. But it was Spain creaking at the seams. The wealthy semiautonomous Catalonia region gained sweeping new powers to run its own affairs Sunday, as voters overwhelmingly approved a blueprint that some fear...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 18, 2006 11:40 PM
...yet another weird, historical confluence ~ a Yin and Yang, them and us, as it were. (Pretty appropriate, considering the debate in the House and airwaves lately.) The Yin of it? Bunker Hill. No one of the thousands who crowded...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 17, 2006 07:21 PM
Well, ok, it was lunch actually, but I'm a sucker for a cheap literary reference. Anywho, as I said below I was going to drive to Philly today just to have lunch at Genos. I'm sure you've seen his story...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 17, 2006 03:41 PM
...to the UCMJ. More than two weeks ago, Sullivan said he expected murder and kidnapping charges would be brought soon, and a Pentagon official confirmed charges were imminent. But none has been filed and the delay has not been explained....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 16, 2006 11:07 PM
Katrina certainly devastated a lot of lives, and there are thousands upon thousands of folks working very hard to get their lives back in order who deserve and value what help we can give them. But then there are also...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 16, 2006 07:34 AM
I'm sure you've heard by now about this new 'scandal' involving the Marines, this "Hadji Girl" song. I've refrained from saying anything about it because I wanted to read the lyrics. And I'm glad I did. Thanks to Michelle Malkin,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 15, 2006 07:58 AM
When the U.N. Security Council headed to Africa on a 10-day trip, ambassadors thought their biggest security nightmare could come during a visit to a camp for Sudanese or Chadians caught up in the Darfur conflict and angry at the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2006 09:35 PM
...like THIS. 'This is not normal behavior,' says lead investigator ...According to the report, the crew came in too low and too slow, with incorrect flap settings while making a type of emergency landing regularly practiced by flying crews....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2006 02:06 PM
I guess this won't get too much press: Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives what, for many Canadians, is a surprising assessment: "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2006 12:57 PM
In a shocking development, FEMA gave out lots of money to people who didn't need it WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A $200 bottle of champagne from Hooters and $300 worth of "Girls Gone Wild" videos were among items bought with debit...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2006 09:24 AM
The deaths were from Palestinian mines, not Israeli gunboat fire: JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An explosion on a Gaza beach that killed seven people last week was caused by explosives planted there by Palestinian militants, not artillery fire from an Israeli...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 13, 2006 09:07 AM
That retired old blowhard who keeps blowing: As Tropical Storm Alberto threatened to strengthen into the ninth hurricane in 22 months to affect Florida, former President Clinton predicted Monday that Republican environmental policies will lead to more severe storms. "It...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 13, 2006 07:36 AM
An answer would be good. Why is 'Major Dad' on 'Deadwood'? I clean up the dog puke at 4 a.m. and he gets all the glamour gigs. UPDATE: YEESH! Even sounds like him... McRaney, 57, married to actress Delta Burke...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 12, 2006 03:12 PM
Did you get your POTENTIAL COMPROMISE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION...email from Uncle Sam yet? Major Dad did. We're both locked on and the first bureau contacted has to set you up with the other two. (Kcruella, Cullen, Robb and Beer Brains...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 12, 2006 10:27 AM
The owners of the sagging, flood-stained home aren't in. Above the front door, a banner explains their absence, and the lack of progress: "Allstate paid $10,113.34 on this house for storm damage." ..."I want people to drive by my home...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 12, 2006 08:41 AM
You've made the Humvees more dangerous: DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Thousands of pounds of armor added to military Humvees, intended to protect U.S. troops, have made the vehicles more likely to roll over, killing and injuring soldiers in Iraq, a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 12, 2006 07:49 AM
Because he's a Marine. Thieves of Baghdad : One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasure In April 2003, Matthew Bogdanos was a long way from the courtrooms of New York City...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 9, 2006 11:09 AM
Who are the 56 bastards in the Senate who voted to break up the Union? I want them all to explain wtf they were thinking. Update: roll call below the fold. This failed by one vote, I believe. One. It's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 9, 2006 09:02 AM
Treacher's Teacher's hot for teacher: TAMPA - Two Hillsborough County middle school teachers have resigned after students saw them having sex in a classroom, a report released Wednesday states. Foreign language teacher Frances J. Sepulveda, 30, and physical education teacher...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 8, 2006 02:41 PM
Well, I suppose the MSM is rejoicing in that they've found a Ted Rall of the Right. Aside from the bits I've seen and heard on the radio I must admit I haven't fully read what she said, nor am...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 8, 2006 07:35 AM
It really seems so. Now it's our fault Hawaii's a state. Hawaii Sen. Daniel K. Akaka thinks Hawaiians should be allowed to govern themselves as Native Americans and Alaskans do, and after seven years of pushing a bill to start...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 7, 2006 04:29 PM
...deconstructed. Haditha: Reasonable Doubt Special from Hawaii Free Press By Andrew Walden, 6/5/2006 7:06:33 AM ...The liberal media is chiming in to make sure that Haditha is used to wear down support for our troops in Iraq—just as they did...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 7, 2006 11:49 AM
...did I ever tell you guys how this a$$hole in 1985... 'Night Stalker' wants a new murder trial Richard Ramirez is on death row for 13 Los Angeles murders ...chased me into the garage at 3:30 in the morning? He'd...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 7, 2006 12:02 AM
...who was left behind at a laundromat once, too. In Maine. A 6-year-old boy who was accidentally left behind by his family after they celebrated his birthday at a restaurant will temporarily remain in state custody, a judge ruled Monday....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 6, 2006 08:54 AM
...could have filed a lawsuit, had they known how cruel and unusual it was. Judge Dismisses Double-Bunking Lawsuit A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the state prison system's practice of putting two inmates in cells designed for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 5, 2006 04:18 PM
...from the Sunday NYT. It's a portrait of a culture clash*, but not the one you'd image. Among the Marines, there is a tendency, an eagerness even, to see themselves as the stepchild of the American military effort, sent into...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 5, 2006 09:43 AM
...like, if he wanted one. Jeez Louise, I SO wish I lived in California sometimes. A jury awarded $61 million to two FedEx Ground drivers of Lebanese descent who claimed a manager harassed them with racial slurs for two years....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 4, 2006 12:05 AM
Hurray for the Mounties! But in typical MSM fashion the CNN article, we're the entire thing, fails to mention one thing. Can you guess what? No? here's a clue: in a linked article they list all the 'suspects': CNN) --...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 3, 2006 10:57 PM
I'm starting to think John and Ilyka and Ken were right and I was wrong about these Federal agencies we've got, and how this "republican" administration (and all the liability lawyers) wants to micromanage every facet of our lives. Today's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 2, 2006 02:17 PM
...polar bears gossip about global warming... ...and contemplate their ice pack. The WWF report, "Polar Bears At Risk," cites studies that show reductions in both areal coverage and thickness of Arctic sea ice during the past several decades as evidence...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 31, 2006 05:24 PM
...at times like these. The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed the death penalty for a man who strangled and stomped a 76-year-old man during a robbery, saying the killer's chaotic childhood with abusive parents outweighed the brutality of the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 31, 2006 03:14 PM
Afghan Parliament Passes Motion to Prosecute U.S. Soldiers for Deadly Road Crash Afghanistan's parliament has approved a motion calling for the government to prosecute the U.S. soldiers responsible for a deadly road crash that sparked the worst riot in Kabul...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 31, 2006 02:56 PM
Let's pause the rompings for a moment to remember when your 80's still had some dignity to them. Before he died, Billy [Wilder] talked with Groucho Marx, who said, "I'd pay a million dollars for an erection." Billy answered, "Wish...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 31, 2006 10:14 AM
You know, just when you thought those idiots couldn't get stupider, you read something like , ahref="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/tennis/05/27/iraq.killings.ap/index.html">this: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were killed because they were wearing shorts, apparently in violation...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 28, 2006 07:27 AM
...why is it news when they turn out to be weasels in real life? A former winner on “Survivor” lied to get time off from his job as a state highway worker to join a promotional tour for the reality...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 26, 2006 03:38 PM
So poor old Dr. Death is dying in prison. May 26, 2006 — Today, on his 78th birthday, Jack Kevorkian, the man known as "Dr. Death," is slowly dying in prison. And, according to his lawyer, Kevorkian seems to have...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 26, 2006 12:28 PM
UPDATE and BUMP: So far it's "Move along, nothing to see here." That's a good thing if it turns out to be the case. UPDATE REDUX: 'Twould seem it was a construction hammer of some sort. The whole exercise might...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 26, 2006 11:10 AM
Blood money is pouring into Beslan. Some are spending the largesse in better fashion than others. ...Former hostage Valiko Margiyev, 57, lost his 12-year-old daughter in the tragedy. He said neighbors who received no compensation accused victims of allowing themselves...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 26, 2006 09:27 AM
This guy is really too much: In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 26, 2006 07:35 AM
Subtitle: Never have sister make your Orlando hotel reservations. They'll suck but you'll have stories to tell for years. Let's turn back the time machine to February 2, 2006. Expediadotcom spits out a reasonably priced king/non-smoking hotel reservation for major...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 25, 2006 05:55 PM
Florida Cracker has found some absolutely stunning color photographs from Imperial Russia. This photo was taken in 1909. Old photos like this, especially of children, always give me a bit of the willies because I know that in all likelihood...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 25, 2006 01:57 PM
A hearty welcome and Thank You to the service folks here in NY: NEW YORK - Flying a huge American flag from its mast, the guided missile cruiser USS Anzio led nearly a dozen Navy ships and Coast Guard craft...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 25, 2006 08:58 AM
So now we have Hastert saying the raid by the FBI on "Freezer Bill" Jefferson's office was "unconstitutional" House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) told President Bush yesterday that he is concerned the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) raid on Rep....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 24, 2006 07:38 AM
but I'd love to see them live. To bad ole Layne screwed his life away...... They were always my favs of the grunge bands....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 19, 2006 01:31 PM
Yum-yum! Makes me want to go out and buy some Sunny D: Around 8,000 litres of concentrate used to make the drink leaked into a watercourse on Wednesday morning, turning the river bright yellow. Dozens of fish were found...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 19, 2006 01:03 PM
Michigan is trying to steal Hoffa from Jersey! (CNN) -- FBI agents and local police were searching a Michigan horse farm Wednesday for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa after receiving a tip about his disappearance, the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 18, 2006 08:57 AM
Clear of Pensacola Pass and moving under crystal blue skies, with fair winds and following seas. As it should be. A fitting day for a valiant lady's last sea voyage....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 15, 2006 03:10 PM
Some 60 people have been killed over the weekend in coordinated attacks on police and riots in prisons in Sao Paulo: Violence has continued in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo where a wave of co-ordinated attacks over the weekend...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 15, 2006 07:50 AM
On Feminism: Well, that’s sort of a gimme, being that I’m doing posts on a feminist blog, most likely about issues that would be considered pro-feminist in angle. So am I a feminist? Absolutely - socialist feminist to be more...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 12, 2006 09:14 AM
...in another fondly remembered snake pit. 96 Somalis die as Islamic, secular gangs battle Sides fight for control of capital; Muslim group might have al-Qaida ties ...Most of the victims were civilians caught in the crossfire. Of course they were....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 10, 2006 01:31 PM
Okay, okay, I'll stop after this, but I thought these were too funny: Geometrical T. Pythagorean Tarnishing V. Blowguns Thrush U. Covetously...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 10, 2006 11:34 AM
Bridezilla gonna need her a new gig. JONES GETTING ' VIEW' VAMOOSE STAR Jones Reynolds has been told to hitch up her hefty wagonload of freebies and waddle off into the sunset, sources say. And oh yeah I got a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 9, 2006 12:26 PM
...Geronimo? A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo. The letter, written by one member...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 9, 2006 09:50 AM
This is beyond cool... Deep beneath pavement pounded by tourists on Paris’ Left Bank lies an ancient path — a 2,000-year-old Roman road recently excavated during construction work. Remnants of private houses rigged with baths and ingeniously heated floors were...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 8, 2006 10:22 AM
I love these guys: As Bonds walked out to left field before the bottom of the first, fans in the front row of the bleachers unfurled a huge sign that read: "Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer. Aaron...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 8, 2006 09:02 AM
from Gen Barry McCaffery. Good read on what is happening in Iraq. The morale, fighting effectiveness, and confidence of U.S. combat forces continue to be simply awe-inspiring. In every sensing session and interaction - I probed for weakness and found...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 5, 2006 08:17 AM
I'm serious, the predictive powers of Stone and Parker are amazing. First they called our war with Saddam years ago in their first movie. Now, after correctly identifying our foes, that have actually predicted the words terrorists are using on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 5, 2006 07:57 AM
At least he went happy. Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 4, 2006 07:15 PM
I glanced through Michelle Malkin's this afternoon and noticed her post on gang bangers in the military. I thought "dang, that's old news" because of something that happened in 1996 that shocked the sh*t out of us. It was even...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 4, 2006 03:52 PM
An interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the infighting and theological purging going on in the Academy: ...Instead, in a time-honored ritual of the left, a number of academic polemicists choose this moment to pump up rites...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 2, 2006 03:17 PM
...they were...um...thin. And angry, oppressed, seething Hispanics... ...were damn near impossible to find. Yup. Hiding behind the crepe myrtles ~ all eight of them. (That picture spans the park from sidewalk to sidewalk, just so you know I did'nt crop...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 1, 2006 04:40 PM
Good. God. An aquatic theme park in Australia has renamed a species of penguins on exhibit lest the birds' real name, fairy penguins, cause offense to people in the local gay community, reports the Sunday Mail. Managers at Sea World...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 1, 2006 12:54 PM
Is my punctuality. Actually, if the truth be told, it drives her insane. You see, I really hate being late for anything. I mean really really hate it. If you tell me to be at your house at 7 I'm...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 29, 2006 08:38 AM
Rap superstar Snoop Dogg was in police custody on Thursday after being arrested with five other men following a disturbance at London's Heathrow airport, a police source said. The 34-year-old star, a former member of the notorious Los Angeles...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 27, 2006 02:50 PM
...is he channeling James Frey? Working subtitle: How 'Ha hah ~ Buy This Mug!' became "Bloggers who sell Scottie mugs HATE ANDREW SULLIVAN to a million little PIECES !!!" Which we don't, of course. Our scrupulously researched empirical data flow...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 27, 2006 01:13 PM
"...to the shores of Tripoli" ...hadn't made it to the Marines' Hymn...yet. Courtesy of Lt. Presley Neville O' Bannon and his galiant company, it did so by mid-afternoon. ...At long last, on April 25, they arrived at Derna. Surely by...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 27, 2006 10:12 AM
Oh what are we to do? David Bernstein has a post up at Volokh about a poor harrassed ex-Duke law proffessor who has been hounded out of academe here in the eevull States and forced to return to the safety...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 27, 2006 08:31 AM
It really is amazing when you keep hearing stories like this: NEWARK, N.J. - In the past year, two New Jersey laboratories have been unable to account for plague-infested mice and vials of deadly anthrax spores, and top state officials...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 26, 2006 01:21 PM
Uncle Ivan let the atoms play... I remember taking a Commodity Options Trading course in 1989 or so. The guy teaching it told the story of how he was long some Wheat and Corn Calls one time that were close...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 26, 2006 08:30 AM
...NOW? The blasts that ripped through an Egyptian resort brought calls for an end to violence from Arabs across the region Tuesday, many of whom questioned why Muslims seem to have become a prime target for terrorists. ..."What message are...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 25, 2006 01:05 PM
17 Dead at Just 1 Hotel After Egypt Blasts Egyptian Resort City Blasts Kill at Least 17, Wound More Than 150 at Just 1 Hotel, Doctor Says Three explosions rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab at the height of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 24, 2006 03:19 PM
...from Mash. We have brought democracy to the Middle East. We have handed over Iraq to an Iranian nurtured and funded Islamist alliance (Dawa and SCIRI). I do not believe this is what the American people bargained for when we...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 24, 2006 10:23 AM
Typhoon Monica is really going to suck: Monica is now over Australia's Wessel Islands, making Monica a far worse hurricane than anything seen in the Atlantic last summer. At 879 mb, Monica is stronger than the dreaded hurricanes Wilma, Katrina...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 23, 2006 08:07 PM
The decapitated heads of two police officials were found early Thursday dumped in front of a government building... ...only THIS was in Acapulco, MEXICO. Their offense? The heads of police commander Mario Nunez Magana and officer Jesus Alberto Ibarra were...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 21, 2006 08:55 AM
Sometimes the old folks get the worm. A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 20, 2006 04:52 PM
...with another blogger, I'm running down quotes contained in this RECONQUISTA email I just received from a friend. Since they're scorchingly inflammatory (St. Bingley Bastard's started enough hate and discontent for one afternoon with his geriatric bashing ~ I'd be...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 20, 2006 04:30 PM
They've confirmed the body is his: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Authorities were searching early Thursday for a small plane registered to a famed test pilot that vanished from radar on Wednesday on a flight from Prattville, Alabama, to Manassas, Virginia....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 20, 2006 01:58 PM
...NOT. You know those high school/"college" (and I use the term loosely here) kids who bang on the door, trying to sell magazines to win the "Major Award"? The company that sucks them in has come up with a new...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 20, 2006 01:51 PM
(noted by Miss Emily here.) And I'm not talking Lexington-Concord. 6 Branch Davidians to Leave Prison Thirteen years after the Branch Davidians' armed standoff with federal agents ended in an inferno that killed nearly 80 people, six sect members who...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 20, 2006 10:07 AM
...cretins of monstrous proportions, whose indescribable cruelty knows no bounds. Five dogs and 10 horses were found shot Tuesday in Beulah, where residents are comparing the animal- cruelty incident to a horrendous round of target practice. ...Nearby resident Emily Healy...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 19, 2006 11:50 PM
I'm sorry I didn't get to this great post by John until now. ...If the US, rather than the USSR, had fallen to impotence in the Cold War, I would now be backing the Soviets against the Islamists, because the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 18, 2006 09:01 PM
...Army guard Micky Mallette said. Dixon only spent a half year of her life at West Point, and still the guardians of American power and might decided she should rest right next to Glenn Davis and Red Blaik, the Heisman...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 18, 2006 11:25 AM
Well, so let's see how this plays out now. From what I've seen it sure doesn't seem like there's a lot of evidence to support the charges. But I do sleep better knowing that this high level of MSM quality...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 18, 2006 07:39 AM
Exclusive: Guard Who Saw Alleged Duke Victim Says No Sign or Mention of Rape ABC News has obtained a tape in which a security guard — who may have been the first person to see the alleged victim of a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 18, 2006 12:11 AM
...Sean Salisbury and Mike Golich were "talking" about Brett Favre holding the Packers hostage and/or vice versa. And then it was stated that "c'mon! He's one of the top five quarterbacks of all time." major dad and I were off...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 13, 2006 07:58 PM
...pays that much money for a dog purchased on a street corner? (To be fair, the goofy little couple that originally owned our Ozzie paid twelvehunnert dollah to a BREEDER ~ for a 'companion' dog, no less ~ and STILL...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 13, 2006 08:34 AM
...Nifong's vow, however, did not satisfy angry community members in the audience. Mostly African-Americans, they asked why he had not taken harsher actions against the accused Duke players. The alleged victim is black and a student at North Carolina Central...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 12, 2006 02:03 PM
A lawyer for U.S. Sen. Trent Lott said Monday that State Farm Insurance Co. is destroying documents that could show the insurer has fraudulently denied thousands of claims by Lott and other policyholders whose homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 11, 2006 05:03 PM
That should have been their first clue. Eight sailors were charged Tuesday with fraudulently marrying Polish and Romanian women to obtain an increase in their basic housing allowance from the Navy and allow their brides to apply for citizenship....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 11, 2006 03:45 PM
For er, um, spoiling the Prophet's birthday party (pieces be upon them): (CNN) -- An explosion at a celebration of Prophet Mohammed's birthday has killed at least 40 people and sparked a confrontation between Muslims and Karachi police, according to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 11, 2006 01:07 PM
And, yes, put it on Mr. McCabe's tab; he said it was fine: LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- As if custom-made hats, premium box seats and limo rides weren't enough, the Kentucky Derby will now feature the $1,000 mint julep. Sip...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 11, 2006 11:26 AM
...when we moved here and Earthlink gave Ebola a 'local' number for our internet access. At the time, he was a world famous Jedi Knight and hours online were the norm. Thanks to Earthlink, they were long distance hours online....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 10, 2006 10:03 PM
I took a stroll up to City Hall today to see the big illegal immigration protest. I had to leave my job early, but I figured it might be interesting. I have to say, the NYPD did a great job...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 10, 2006 07:29 PM
...if your sperm wasn't even there. The Duke DNA tests have come back with no matches. DNA testing failed to connect any members of the Duke University lacrosse team to the alleged rape of a stripper, attorneys for the athletes...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 10, 2006 06:33 PM
DATELINE: Pensacola. Yes, I went to our local rally. (To be honest, I didn't even know we were having one until we passed them on the way to the airport. I shot back home and grabbed the camera.) There were...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 10, 2006 01:19 PM
...in the NYT yesterday. ...But I've changed my mind on a guest worker program, because of growing evidence that low-wage immigration hurts America's own poor. The most careful study of this issue, done by George Borjas and Lawrence Katz and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 10, 2006 09:09 AM
...but here at Casa de Major Dad? We're bummed. Federal regulators voted to impose severe restrictions on salmon fishing off the coasts of Oregon and Northern California to protect dwindling populations in the Klamath River. The Pacific Fishery Management Council...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 9, 2006 11:44 AM
...to help out with their 'homeless' problem. The vast homelessness problem in Los Angeles County can be solved in a decade by spending up to $15 billion on affordable housing and other preventative services, officials said Thursday after a three-year...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 7, 2006 09:41 AM
...missing the point. Hundreds of protesters gripped Mexican flags as they marched for immigration reform in the past few weeks, but they say a display of cultural unity is being mistaken as a lack of loyalty to the United States....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 6, 2006 08:42 AM
...if the thing really does take-off and land itself. ...Naval officials looking into last week's MV-22 Osprey mishap are considering whether recent maintenance work done on the aircraft may have somehow contributed to the incident, according to a Marine Corps...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 5, 2006 10:34 PM
Cmdr. Jon Winters was startled last May to see his name on top of the short list to be deployed for seven months to Iraq. It was unusual because he was on shore duty in Pensacola -- traditionally meant to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 5, 2006 01:29 PM
I don't think I agree with this at all. Gun advocates and business owners watched a contested bill to let gun owners bring their guns to work and keep them locked in their cars crawl out a first committee Tuesday....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 4, 2006 11:46 PM
The deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday for using the Internet to seduce what he thought was a teenage girl, authorities said. Brian J. Doyle, 55, of Silver Spring, Md., was arrested on seven...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 4, 2006 10:48 PM
That's the French for vous, cherie. A Paris court fined the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" more than $6,000 Tuesday for saying in a French television interview that terror attacks sometimes were "necessary." ...The court did not convict him...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 4, 2006 05:11 PM
The only conscientious objector to receive a Medal of Honor in World War II has been buried at a national cemetery with a 21-gun salute, although he refused to carry a weapon while serving as an Army medic. ...While under...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 4, 2006 02:52 PM
I am so tired of hearing these Hollywood "artistes" talking about the pall of repression that they are tirelessly struggling under. Basic Instinct 2 had rather...limp box office receipts in its opening weekend. Do they blame the actors? Do they...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 3, 2006 10:10 AM
Very interesting seeing how the MSM has handled the Jill Carroll statements about how her captors were, in fact, scumbags. Is it me or does it seem rather, well, low key? When she was first released the video she made...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 3, 2006 08:00 AM
I am 68% Video Game Addict.Video games are a big portion of my life, maybe too big of a portion. They are not a means of social interaction, despite what I might think. I should just go outside.Take theVideo Game...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 31, 2006 07:54 AM
The first time Rep. Tom Tancredo got really angry about immigration, the year was 1975, and he was a junior high school social studies teacher in Denver. The state had recently passed the nation's first bilingual education law, and Hispanic...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 30, 2006 11:32 PM
...I commend to all those presumptuous senators and congressmen the sardonic and wise words of Edmund Burke in his 1792 letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe: "No man will assert seriously, that when people are of a turbulent spirit, the best...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 29, 2006 10:49 AM
Afghanistan's parliament demanded Wednesday that the government prevent a man who faced the death penalty for abandoning Islam for Christianity from being able to flee the country. Italy granted asylum to Abdul Rahman, 41, and the Foreign Ministry said he...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 29, 2006 10:16 AM
...to tell us Bingley's a rude one. HOW MUCH PROFANITY: About three-fourths of people, 74 percent, said they frequently or occasionally encounter people using profanity or swear words in public. Just over four in 10 of those polled, 42 percent,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 28, 2006 03:00 PM
...it was in 'protest'. Amazing how many converts to a cause you can find if they get to walk out of class to do it. At least 14,000 mostly Hispanic students stormed out of school classes across Los Angeles in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 27, 2006 04:10 PM
Developer Mitch Kass, of Fort-Lauderdale-based Glenn Wright Homes, defends the construction. He is building a dozen houses, some nearly 4,000 square feet, in a neighborhood next to one of Delray Beach's historic neighborhoods. "We're doing a regentrification of the housing...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 27, 2006 10:01 AM
...they go and f*ck it up royally. The Dalla$$ POH-leese are now conducting drunk driving sweeps IN the local bars, before the drunk staggers out to his car. OR his designated driver. OR back up the stairs to his or...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 27, 2006 06:08 AM
...are indicative of the general population: Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 24, 2006 09:52 AM
Really, this ABC series on the documents is fascinating stuff, and ABC deserves a lot of credit for the work they are putting into it. Look at this latest beaut: Document written sometime before March 5, 2003 The first document...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 24, 2006 08:45 AM
Due to warming of the Earth, undisputable warming, factual warming; what would the naysayers say? Nay, no? Will the Bushes and Cheneys of the world be rolling in their graves in shame over all these coastal areas being inundated by...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 23, 2006 03:17 PM
First question: If you were presented with this photo of a significant political personage, would you guess him to be a "confident, resilient, self-reliant kid" who grew up to own a man-purse and vote LIBERAL ? Or would he be...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 23, 2006 02:43 AM
Cold War-era survival supplies found at Brooklyn Bridge In 17 years of working in the darkened nooks and crannies of the city's bridges, Joe Vaccaro has made some unusual finds: a 100-year-old copy of a newspaper, sepia-toned photographs. But none...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 22, 2006 10:31 AM
Probably because I want to hear DEMANDED his release in the name of FREEDOM. The FREEDOM paid for WITH, protected and MAINTAINED by, American lives. Afghanistan said on Wednesday the judiciary would rule on a man facing death for converting...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 22, 2006 09:26 AM
...to this twelve year old? "I didn't expect anyone would help me but God. I was really surprised that there were also nice people: the neighbor, the rickshaw driver, the police," she says. "I pray for those who helped release...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 21, 2006 03:41 PM
...Just 'cos a train may come through: NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- All New Orleans residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina should be allowed to rebuild if they choose, and the city will not stand in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 21, 2006 10:51 AM
...to have to deal with people you so thoroughly despise? ...The Democrats need to go after the group with whom they have not been connecting - the white middle class. No Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson has won a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 20, 2006 12:10 PM
Ho My God was this show phenomenal! The number right before the intermission was one of the finest numbers I've ever seen on stage. Simply awesome. Update below the fold...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 19, 2006 10:18 PM
I guess that sums up this latest scandal in how contracts were awarded on the chaos after Katrina hit. Of course, we mustn't forget that this is all GWB's fault, as the throw-away line at the end of the article...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 17, 2006 09:54 AM
...and it is SOOOO cool! It's an unexpected find that is keeping archeaologists busy at Naval Air Station Pensacola. Construction on a building was stopped today after the remains of what is believed to be a historic ship were found....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 17, 2006 09:10 AM
...so help me, God. They were sent to us. Yup. Pointed in the right direction....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 16, 2006 03:50 PM
I hope she gets a chance to straighten things out. "Mismanagement, corruption, bad governance, massive looting of public treasury and assets," she said. "Unlike the tsunami in Asia, and Katrina here in your own country, where the destruction and human...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 16, 2006 11:47 AM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) -- Before the nearly 4,100 soldiers in the 34th Brigade Combat Team leave for Iraq, family and friends wanted to make sure they were sent off in style - and with a little taste of home. At...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 16, 2006 09:57 AM
As if being a senior wasn't stressful enough. I mean, if you have any ambition at all...which I never have. (Pisces ~ we sorta float through life.) 1,600 More SAT Scoring Problems Found The College Board disclosed Tuesday that an...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 14, 2006 11:36 AM
...and the PhD's post. He was every bit the professional military officer and, for his honesty born of combat experience, treated abomidably by the 'civilians' he was sworn to protect. Whatever their disagreement, for the arrogant BASTARDS to do THIS...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 14, 2006 10:20 AM
The war was barely a week old when Gen. Tommy R. Franks threatened to fire the Army's field commander. From the first days of the invasion in March 2003, American forces had tangled with fanatical Saddam Fedayeen paramilitary fighters. Lt....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 13, 2006 06:35 PM
...they found Uranus. No Klingons were sighted....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 13, 2006 08:30 AM
Sheila* reminds us that on this day the fateful words "Watson, come here" were spoken 130 years ago. The cool thing is she's got pics of Bell's diary and notes of the event. Go read them! *corrected link. I am...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 10, 2006 09:54 AM
In late 2004, Cpl. Jason Watrous spent several weeks of his military hitch in a city west of Baghdad. The work was hard. The hours were long. And that was only the start of it. Watrous left the service in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 10, 2006 12:43 AM
...and now these A$$holes... Two college students arrested Wednesday in a string of nine rural Alabama church arsons told authorities that the first fires were set as “a joke” and later blazes were intended as a diversion, federal agents said....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 8, 2006 01:29 PM
...has their eyes on the prize. Tempers reached a boiling point before the hopes of Walla Walla onion crowd were mashed. Resistance came from the state's spud growers, who weren't happy with an official endorsement of another crop. As Finkbeiner...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 8, 2006 09:38 AM
as THS mentioned yesterday, the Fleet Air Arm is losing the last of its Sea Harriers. Truly a sad year....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 8, 2006 06:15 AM
...then whose do? A Nation of Islam official who serves on a state hate crimes commission said Tuesday it's ridiculous that she has been condemned for remarks made by the religious movement's leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan. Sister Claudette Marie Muhammad's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 7, 2006 02:59 PM
From Varifrank: What I learned from Katrina and the half a dozen other Hurricanes last year is that there is nothing that FEMA can do that if FEMA's funding and mission were given instead to the US Coast Guard, that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 2, 2006 10:54 AM
Ok, so now we've got a video showing how Chimpy McHitler KNEW the levees would fail and did, of course, nothing because, hey, it would only be poor minorities getting flooded. Yep, right there in the transcript it says "The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 2, 2006 08:49 AM
...when reading through her conversion kit. An Islamic association and two of its officials must pay more than $1.7 million to lawyers for a woman who successfully sued the organization for sexual discrimination, a judge has ruled. The ruling is...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 28, 2006 02:21 PM
...Some lawmakers have called for a change to the national response plan that gives the Red Cross the primary role and the dollars that flow with it. I've been saying they were AFU for years. Wouldn't give them a dime...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 27, 2006 04:45 PM
What a lovely sentiment, but an impossible dream where Islam is concerned, I'm afraid. Very afraid. PARIS (Reuters) - After backing calls by Muslims for respect for their religion in the Mohammad cartoons row, the Vatican is now urging Islamic...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 23, 2006 01:13 PM
Ya know, part of the fun of this whole blog thing is the interaction with folks of different stripes and ideas. Sometimes you get comments that are so...so...different in their nature that they deserve to be posts all unto themselves,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 22, 2006 08:38 PM
Just to set the tone for the argument. I will use "mayonnaise", since that is the subject of much ignorant derision, as well as including the brand we all know and love. Using keywords found in the ongoing contretemps, let's...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 22, 2006 04:55 PM
"It's obviously a situation that needs to be corrected." Gov. Pataki is in dire straits. Pataki's intestines aren't functioning and he is being given water and nutrients intravenously,... Let's hope they get a handle on that in a New York...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 21, 2006 04:41 PM
There were about four pissy little stories and opinion pieces on MSNBC.com this morning (all gone now, of course) about how Sasha Cohen had dissed the media and not done a single interview. Well folks, since Sasha Cohen didn't exist...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 21, 2006 02:09 PM
I loved this guy. So long, Curt. You were the ultimate American Sportsman. Thank you, God speed and tight lines....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 20, 2006 06:10 PM
In comparison to THS's elegant meal below, I managed to make a slight mess of things, mostly because of trying to do too many things at once. This also means that I'm missing a few pictures, as there were times...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 19, 2006 08:37 PM
From CNN: CNN) -- Eleven people were killed and an Italian consulate was burned in Libya on Friday night during protests to denounce the publication of cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed, sources in Libya said. There also was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 17, 2006 06:43 PM
I am a religious person. Heck, I reckon by many 'post-modern standards' I am very religious. Not only am I at church several times a week, but I'm also fairly involved in my church's governance. I'm a Presbyterian. I believe...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 17, 2006 11:08 AM
Via our good friend Gateway Pundit: Female Reporter Stoned at Turkish Cartoon Protest "We were doing our job as journalists. But apparently some people found that not covering my head was provocative. They called me a blasphemer while I was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 16, 2006 03:48 PM
...that snake pit of corruption and death has a new President again. I hope the Haitian people finally have someone who works for them, but the reports don't bode well. Earlier in the day, AP journalists saw thousands of ballots,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 16, 2006 11:30 AM
Student senator Jill Edwards, according to minutes of the student government's meeting last week, said she "didn't believe a member of the Marine Corps was an example of the sort of person UW wanted to produce." ...SUCKS. That would not...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 15, 2006 11:08 PM
...were never spoken. Ed Koch quotes Bill Bennett, while adding insight of his own. At that point, Blitzer interjected, saying to Bennett, “You can understand, Bill, that feeling among many Muslims, that this is beyond the pale when you insult...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 15, 2006 09:07 AM
...Queen of Fools. Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan staged a protest at one of the city's shuttered housing projects Tuesday, a day after 12,000 families left homeless by last year's hurricanes were forced to leave their federally funded hotel rooms. With...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 14, 2006 10:09 PM
...little quiz reminded me of something I meant to share with ya'll. Seems they're looking for a little encouragement for a Season Two. UPDATE: As for my score?...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 14, 2006 12:35 PM
And if the uproar over the Danish cartoons were not bad enough, the chasm between the West and the Muslim world is only likely to take a turn for the worse with the emergence of new video footage showing British...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 14, 2006 11:31 AM
QUESTIONABLE police practices??!! "...police tortured the suspects with electric shocks, and hung one suspect by his feet from the fifth-floor of a building" Who do they think they are? The FRENCH? File this under: I Know You Are But What...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 14, 2006 09:38 AM
...in the comments yesterday. Uproar in the Islamic world over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has prompted many in the Middle East to ask why Muslims have rarely mobilized to address other pressing issues such as democracy and human rights....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 13, 2006 04:39 PM
(Or his meds, as the Anchoress speculates.) ...that Arabs in the United States had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 13, 2006 04:20 PM
The silence was deafening and the seats were empty. The western press was nowhere to be found. The location was Baghdad and the event was a February 10th, 2006 press conference announcing the final verification of December's election results. Although...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 13, 2006 12:19 PM
Jim and Sarah Brady have the guffaws covered. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- James and Sarah Brady made comments today related to Vice President Cheney's reportedly accidental shooting yesterday in Texas. "Now I understand why Dick Cheney keeps asking...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 13, 2006 10:49 AM
-Haitham Mussawi / AFP Rage or revenge? A cleric feeds the fires in Beirut ...For Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime is dominated by members of the Alawite sect often seen as heretical by other Muslims, the cartoons are...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 12, 2006 11:20 AM
...(aka: Lying Sack o' Sh*t) has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. By a Swede, no less. John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 8, 2006 04:36 PM
...in order to stick to my tree hugging principles.Tap water comes to us through an energy-efficient infrastructure whereas bottled water must be transported long distances--and nearly one-fourth of it across national borders--by boat, train, airplane, and truck. This ''involves burning...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 8, 2006 09:38 AM
We've been myopic to an extent, focusing on how Hamas would begin to deal with Israel and the world at large. It appears others are concerned about that, too. Israeli security officials told Haaretz that the Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 6, 2006 11:01 PM
Captain Rory Quinn for the Tampa Bay Times. And now, as we head into the last two months, we see signs of real progress going on around us. Some of the progress is beginning to appear in the mainstream newspapers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 6, 2006 03:04 PM
I've travelled a reasonable amount, and I've seen some funny things at airports, both funny people and funny things that they bring on the flights with them. I remember being at the airport in Port Au Prince, Haiti in the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 6, 2006 11:48 AM
And as a Canadian, I just can't believe the Danish would treat their fellow citizens this way.-a Canadian blogger on the current Cartoon Madness. It's a shame he couldn't ask Theo Van Gogh for his opinion concerning those same 'fellow...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 5, 2006 04:26 PM
Because ~ unless I'm mistaken and I hardly ever am ~ This is an Arabic cartoon of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ with Saddam Hussein's Face. Where was the State Department then, with their... "These cartoons are indeed offensive to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 3, 2006 05:30 PM
5 Ala. churches hit by fires; arson suspected Churches had both black and white congregations CENTREVILLE, Ala. - Fires destroyed three rural Alabama churches and damaged two others in a string of suspected arsons overnight. The fires were set “as...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 3, 2006 12:34 PM
Who'd a'thunk it? PARIS, France (AP) -- A French newspaper on Wednesday republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that caused uproar in the Muslim world when they were printed in a Danish daily, saying that religious dogma has no place...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 2, 2006 12:10 AM
You bastards: (CNN) -- A two-year investigation into a Colombian heroin ring netted more than 65 pounds of drugs, resulted in the arrests of more than 20 people and saved the lives of some drug-smuggling Labrador retrievers, the Drug...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 1, 2006 09:14 PM
The last week has been a bit of a blur. My bride's mom died very suddenly and we've just been in the midst of the maelstrom of activity that such an event ignites, especially when occasioned by the passing of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 31, 2006 06:29 AM
...for Hardball?! You have got to be kidding me. The campaign against Chris Matthews has escalated into talk of a boycott, though the would-be boycotters prefer to call it an "appeal to advertisers." Matthews is accused of being soft on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 30, 2006 11:02 PM
But honest to God, what were they thinking? I will state my opinion unequivocally: No 16 year old should ever be allowed to drive someplace 360 miles away. Grief counselors will meet with Milton High School students and faculty today...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 30, 2006 08:16 AM
Ben Stein, in yesterday's NYT. So here it is in a nutshell: employees are goaded into investing a big chunk of their wages and benefits in UAL stock. They lose that. Then they lose big parts of their pay and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 30, 2006 07:38 AM
Because there are NO ATOMIC Fireballs*in Iraq. BUMP...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 27, 2006 05:15 PM
...running. Eight New Orleans gang members who came to Houston after Hurricane Katrina were arrested in connection with 11 recent killings and other violent crimes, police said Friday. Crime in the Houston area spiked in the last few months of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 27, 2006 03:48 PM
Hugh Hewitt to John Podhoretz, via Radio Blogger, concerning the interview noted by Tim. You're referring to Joel Stein. You were very kind over at the Corner last night. Frankly, I didn't think it was all that difficult. But if...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 26, 2006 01:13 PM
...to guard the gate at St. Michael's downtown. To make sure THIS doesn't happen ever again. Archaeologists and crime scene analysts scoured the grounds of historic St. Michael's Cemetery on Wednesday trying to determine the extent of damage to at...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 26, 2006 11:21 AM
The latest weekly jobless numbers also painted a picture of a healthy SPUTTERING underlying economy. The Labor Department said initial claims for state jobless aid rose 11,000 in the week ended January 21 to 283,000 from an upwardly revised 272,000...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 26, 2006 09:35 AM
and came accross this bit of trivia. It is down the page a bit in the 5th comment. Our OIC was LCDR Beam and we had four RF-8G aircraft. I recall one of our pilots was a Lt. Tom...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 26, 2006 08:25 AM
I'm going to use comments I left on a Vodka Pundit post by Will Collier. In a perverse way, I think this might be very enlightening for the average Chinese citizen and a very good thing. If ~ as they...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 25, 2006 04:55 PM
For some male bats, sexual prowess comes with a price — smaller brains. A research team led by Syracuse University biologist Scott Pitnick found that in bat species where the females are promiscuous, the males boasting the largest testicles also...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 25, 2006 09:00 AM
SECRET, startling insider testimony about supply shortages in Iraq: The Atomic Fireballs will come in handy. Not sure if you were aware of the Atomic Fireball deficit in Iraq, but it’s a real tragedy. I check the candy stash on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 24, 2006 09:10 AM
Well, feel guilty no longer. You can't help yourself. Cannibals in the Closet? ...In a paper in Science, Mead argued that the prevalence of these two forms, and a mathematical analysis of other mutations on the same gene, showed there...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 23, 2006 09:37 AM
Our hero, having not learned his lesson, continues to search for a good Zin under $10. Tonight's contestant comes from California, the 2003 Rock River. Price: $9.99. It has a very nice, deep purpley-red color, which gives me hope....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 22, 2006 05:34 PM
...in Miami? A renaissance is under way on Biscayne Boulevard, the central artery of downtown Miami, where derelict motels and strip malls are being tenderly restored and scruffy neighborhoods are striving for cachet. But a defining element is about to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 22, 2006 04:28 PM
...how many merlot snobs frequent this blog, the bilious buggers. But her comment in the post below did remind me to note the merlot ::GASP:: we enjoyed Friday evening. Suffering for a good cause cleanses the soul, believe me. A...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 22, 2006 12:56 PM
...for the Coors Twins. An ancient brewery from a vanished empire was staffed by elite women who were selected for their beauty or nobility, a new study concludes. The finding adds to other evidence that women played a more crucial...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 20, 2006 02:39 PM
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 20, 2006 09:32 AM
He made me laugh by mentioning one of my all time 'stupid' funny favorites. "This is my BOOM stick!" We had a place in New Orleans that sold all sorts of AOD/Evil Dead and Nightmare Before Christmas stuff you couldn't...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 19, 2006 12:01 PM
When it rains, it pours. (Anderson) COOPER: Sean, thanks for that. It was here on the program that we expected to speak with Mayor Nagin, even though getting the mayor to come on the program is only a little easier...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 19, 2006 10:20 AM
...pal? After the longest independent counsel investigation in history, the prosecutor in the case of former Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros is finally closing his operation with a scathing report accusing Clinton administration officials of thwarting an inquiry into whether...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 19, 2006 07:51 AM
Never give a Marine a can of spray paint and say: "Camouflage that thing."...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 18, 2006 02:22 PM
...have been recorded. Tucked away in the basement of West Virginia's gold-domed Capitol, state officials say, an office was secretly transformed into a taxpayer-funded studio that may have been used to pirate DVD videos and music CDs. Administration Secretary Robert...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 18, 2006 12:37 PM
...EVER getting one of these cars. Fuggedaboudit, pal. Woman Poses Naked on Car at Auto Show DETROIT (AP) -- City officials are trying to figure out how a woman sneaked into the North American International Auto Show after closing time...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 18, 2006 11:45 AM
The West Virginia mining disaster (A Swill Salute to Florida Cracker) has something to do with homosexuals burning in Hell. In my limited imaginative capacity, I really have a problem making a connection. Perhaps you do, too. (God, I hope...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 16, 2006 10:44 PM
...since no one's remembered a little number named Ivan, either. Witness how we were left out of the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act. Bangla-cola might as well be in Asia. Many on Miss. Coast Feel Overshadowed GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) -- Nicki...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 16, 2006 05:06 PM
Several Democrats expressed frustration over what they saw as the Republicans outmaneuvering them by drawing attention to an episode Wednesday when Judge Alito's wife, Martha-Ann, began crying as her husband was being questioned. That evening, senior Democratic senate aides convened...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 15, 2006 02:44 PM
...to lose, sometimes. After 155 Years, Marine Sentries Removed ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- A Naval Academy tradition that lasted 155 years has come to an end: The Marine Corps sentries who guarded the gates and the crypt of Revolutionary War...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 15, 2006 10:13 AM
And now it seems there were none in the Sierras, either. There’s no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 13, 2006 01:21 AM
The first big dog show of the year is on this weekend. A warm-up for Westminister. The National Agility Championship is on Animal Planet Feb. 13. Major Dad and I were at our local 'dog fanciers' agility/obedience trials this past...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2006 12:20 PM
I wanted to drop a quick post for those of you who haven't heard from 'your' Marines. It's turned out pretty much like I thought ~ they've been hugely busy in hi-tempo ops and were overwhelmed with the generosity of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2006 10:59 AM
Navy Lt. Bryan D. Black, a U.S. Naval Academy faculty member, thought he was just shooting the breeze when he told a midshipman that getting on a battleship turned him on. Such was the sentiment, at least, though the language...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2006 09:54 AM
Defence lawyers had acknowledged this week that the tapes were genuine and that Mr Mohamed expected to be found guilty of people smuggling or other charges, but they denied he was a member of Ansar. "He feels himself committed to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 12, 2006 08:41 AM
With Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito watching the theatrics from his chair, two senior senators on Wednesday engaged in a fiery exchange over a request for records tied to Alito’s membership to a Princeton alumni group more than 30 years...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 11, 2006 01:56 PM
How do you say "Ooops!" in japanese? Firemen in a small Japanese town were left red-faced after a party to mark the end of a fire awareness promotional event ended in a blaze that badly damaged their station. And they...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 11, 2006 12:39 PM
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Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 11, 2006 09:15 AM
...Pies. And Hubig's Said, Let Them Eat Pie This city savors some pleasures not so much for what they are as for what they were. Thus the local esteem for the Hubig's Pie, a glazed turnover of fried dough and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 10, 2006 02:22 PM
...has me dwelling on a particular one of the myriad strange co-incidences in my life. (Major Dad has learned not to question my witchy ways ~ he just shakes his head and says "How do you do it?") She notes...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 10, 2006 12:29 PM
...and it wouldn't cost near what their little forty person jaunt is costing WHO? (Need I say it? Yes, YES, I must!) You and me. Gov. Kathleen Blanco left for Holland on Monday to learn how the Dutch created the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 10, 2006 10:28 AM
...whatever color they come in. I don't give a rat's patootie what you think your God says. If the fella has valid liquor and business licenses (Hell, even if he DOESN'T ~ that's what cops are for. Call them or...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 10, 2006 09:26 AM
When it starts out something like this... The commission will propose that the city should discourage homeowners from rebuilding in the hardest hit areas until a plan can be hammered out, but will not forbid them from doing so. But...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 9, 2006 07:46 AM
Our friend Gunslinger passes along this gem of Solomonaic Wisdom from a Missouri Legislator: A state senator wants to force Missouri stores to sell warm beer. Under a bill by Sen. Bill Alter, grocery and convenience stores would risk losing...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 7, 2006 10:22 AM
The Florida Supreme Court knocked the wind out of Gov. Jeb Bush's education revamp Thursday, ruling that the private-school voucher program violates the state Constitution's promise of a "uniform system of free public schools." Watched nationwide, the 5-2 decision topples...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 6, 2006 09:54 AM
The Reverend Pat Robertson says Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's massive stroke could be God's punishment for giving up Israeli territory. What a buffoon. But of course he's a "major religious leader" here in the States. Update: Boy, it's a catfight...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 5, 2006 04:15 PM
...didn't get the real news in time. "We have an 11 year old son, and I couldn't go home and tell him, 'Daddy wasn't coming home.'" How horrible. Tim is all over this. I knew they'd found the first poor...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 4, 2006 08:36 AM
...(the state) no longer exists to "protect our rights but to do us good or make us good — anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 3, 2006 02:19 PM
...I thought I should pass this along, in case you hadn't seen it. Computer security experts were grappling with the threat of a new weakness in Microsoft's Windows operating system that could put hundreds of millions of PCs at risk...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 3, 2006 02:05 PM
Happy New Year! This week, I'm honored to host the Carnival, and it has the unique distinction of being both the last of 2005 and the first 0f 2006. It also is the 33rd Carnival, that number of mystery...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 1, 2006 12:00 AM
Well, as promised, the much-anticipated turducken was prepared for the Christmas Day dinner! I've waited until now to post this, as I wanted to make sure that everyone got out of the hospital. Well, I'm dressed and ready! Let's go......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 29, 2005 06:45 PM
...got some 'splainin' to do. Though battered by two Category 3 hurricanes in less than 10 months, Escambia and Santa Rosa counties were cut out of Congress' recently enacted Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005. ...Major added that from a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 29, 2005 10:08 AM
It was so WRONG and hideously tragic that my teeth gnash every time I think of the Germans letting that murderer go. But (Holy crap, Batman!) THIS is too deliciously hilarious for words. THE German Government angrily rebuked a former...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 28, 2005 02:45 PM
Man. I'm pi$$ed. Also baffled and bemused. I had to retire a well loved, well worn pair of Tommy Hilfiger jeans last weekend. They were the worn out, pale blue type, already ratty as I paid for them. So when...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 28, 2005 11:08 AM
...but, when you live ON the water, should this be that big a surprise? It is easy to understand what attracted Richard Pinegar and his family to Dauphin Island, Alabama. From the terrace of their elevated seafront home, they look...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 28, 2005 10:14 AM
...like bad pennies. Geesh. ROME - A U.S. soldier is being investigated for his alleged role in the March killing in Baghdad of an Italian secret service agent, who had just secured the release of a journalist held hostage, a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 23, 2005 04:40 AM
Visions of Mordor
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 22, 2005 12:35 PM
I sort of have a problem with this story opening. The folks in it survived a God awful, harrowing Katrina night and have lost everything. My heart goes out to them; truly it does. But the set-up paragraph is just...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 21, 2005 05:00 PM
...she was watching. I could have avoided the Mother Sheehan lovefest I was subjected to night after night. But the peace movement in the U.S. remains small. Why? One thing that has prevented the peace movement in America is the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 21, 2005 04:48 PM
First it was menstrating blondes tormenting allegedly suspected militants in Cuba. Now comes horrific news of single Israeli girls tormenting dead rabbis: HUNDREDS of young Israeli women hoping to find themselves a husband have been placing their underwear on the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 21, 2005 11:02 AM
...the Pilgrims... ...posed for this picture. After a 65-day journey, the Pilgrims sighted Cape Cod on November 19. Unable to reach the land they had contracted for, they anchored (November 21) at the site of Provincetown. Because they had no...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 21, 2005 09:08 AM
George Bush' biggest fan is Don King: DON KING; I love George Walker Bush because I think he's a revolutionary. He's a president that comes in with conclusiveness. What they're doing in tomorrow in Iraq is a demonstration of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 15, 2005 11:01 AM
For the past few years we've been hearing constantly from folks, mostly on the left, about how our essential freedoms were being eroded by the practices and policies of Bush and Blair. Oh, they'd go on about how there was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 14, 2005 01:53 PM
...considering our discussion. This was front page news in the local fish wrap this morning. Man released after judge rules rights were violated Prosecutors to appeal testimony's suppression in slaying Sounds like the typical judicial outrage, right? It was until...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 13, 2005 10:47 AM
...can be a wonderful thing. From the first day of boot camp, a Marine is part of a team, rarely serving or fighting alone. That ends when a Marine is severely injured in combat and rushed from the field for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 12, 2005 10:02 AM
...you'll be very glad you weren't born a penguin. What an amazing flick....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 11, 2005 03:10 PM
Guys who were the bomb in college...and bombed out of it. John William Heisman (1869-1936)...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 10, 2005 01:10 AM
Did any former President ever do any such thing to him while he was in office? What a classless piece of crap attention whore this guy is: MONTREAL - Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 9, 2005 02:50 PM
...I'll have you know. And his deal for Kcruella's house fell through, so she said pi$$ on it, too. Third time's a charm. Aides: Menendez Accepts Corzine's Seat Me? I didn't even know they were giving it away....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 9, 2005 10:43 AM
...no matter how many times I hear this. Come ye cool cool conservative men The likes of which may never be seen again We have land, cash in hand Self-command, future planned Fortune flies, society survives In neatly ordered lives...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 8, 2005 01:05 PM
We were stunned when we watched this last night. Major Dad said "Wow. Not one bad thing or cheap slap." It really was a miracle in broadcasting ~ from Bob Woodruff, to the reporters, to the folks they interviewed, to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 8, 2005 11:35 AM
Shots fired on an American Airlines jet on the runway in Miami. CNN is saying it's an Air Marshal. Breitbart has it as a flight out of Columbia and one person wounded. UPDATE: Fox News is reporting some knucklehead said...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 7, 2005 02:39 PM
I want this job. I heard there were gonna be openings. When engineers and Orleans Levee Board officials gather twice a year to tour the city's floodwalls, records show that the inspection requires less planning than the day's final event:...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on December 1, 2005 01:02 PM
Report: Jackson’s ex says he didn’t father kids The mother of two of Michael Jackson’s children has reportedly said that the babies were conceived from a test tube. I've never been able to reconcile Michael Jackson and procreational sex. The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 30, 2005 09:12 AM
Meanwhile out in Planet Europe, in the Goofball Nebula, French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin (who is a man) spoke to CNN: Amanpour: You know, many people, after hurricane Katrina struck the United States said, that it exposed the poverty...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 29, 2005 01:12 PM
This November 21st article (complete text below) about an Italian "documentary" film, headlined: THE REACH OF WAR: WEAPONS; Defense of Phosphorus Use Turns Into Damage Control ...Daryl G. Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association, a nonprofit organization that researches...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 29, 2005 11:15 AM
...and, baby, all four of us love you. Four Saudi women teaching in a remote village school have married their driver so they can live closer to work, Al-Watan newspaper said on Monday. I suppose there's hope in that these...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 28, 2005 09:32 AM
...and nobody came? BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) - The European Union hopes to finalize an anti-terrorism code of conduct with its mostly Muslim southern neighbours, at the end of a summit clouded by the absence of most Arab leaders. However there...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 28, 2005 09:19 AM
We'd never hear about these guys otherwise. As he approached the town, Ieva was looking into the backyards of the first row of duplexes. The two platoons on the left were coming in from the side. Those men had to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 27, 2005 07:38 PM
...Nick and Jessica have broken up, the Squid Terrorist has a scorched hand from boiling turkey oil...and then there's this... "After being notified of the situation and after researching the matter ... I came to the conclusion that I was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 24, 2005 09:11 PM
The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving By Benjamin Franklin (1785) “There is a tradition that in the planting of New England, the first settlers met with many difficulties and hardships, as is generally the case when a civiliz’d people...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 23, 2005 10:54 PM
from a Marine on the ground. Glad to see they are passing out the M-14s again. About time they woke up and ditched the 5.56mm, sad they are pulling out battle rifles older than the guys carrying them. • The...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 22, 2005 05:21 PM
...with that "personal accountability" and "challenging school curriculums/do the WORK" thingees we're always talking about? America's ability to compete in the global economy is being undermined by a "serious shortage", of skilled workers in manufacturing industries, according to a survey...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 22, 2005 02:15 PM
Returning residents, some who might well have never lived outside New Orleans in their entire lives, are coming home feeling like freshly awakened Rip Van Winkles. Once over their initial astonishment at the world beyond the levees, they are bringing...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 22, 2005 08:56 AM
...in a different time and a different place. Alfred Anderson, the last known survivor of the 1914 "Christmas Truce" that saw British and German soldiers exchanging gifts and handshakes in no-man's land, died early Monday, his parish priest said. He...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 21, 2005 12:34 PM
IT was perhaps a little embarrassing to learn that the British producers of the latest "Pride and Prejudice" released a different ending for American audiences: a swoony moonlit scene of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in dishabille, kissing and cooing...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 20, 2005 04:44 PM
In France, as elsewhere, these places were built as oases of green, Le Corbusier's famous streets in the sky, the diametric opposite of the tight lanes and lightless slums from whence the working class emerged blinking into the light of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 18, 2005 01:01 PM
On MSNBC.com right now, a story about lobbyist Jack Abramoff's efforts on behalf of some LA and MS tribes who also run casinos. They wanted a closed party and greased some serious palms trying to keep it that way. Jeez,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 17, 2005 02:31 PM
But with the exception of the specific timeline language on the end, it was still very much the same resolution. And if you went back and read it, and a lot of us did, it still did...there were intimations in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 17, 2005 01:29 PM
...made front page Drudge again. I am weak and had to click through. (C'mon, I mean it's been weeks without her!) To my utter satisfaction, I found refreshing proof of media bias in the AP story and can therefore claim...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 16, 2005 10:46 AM
"My explanation overall is that when you go somewhere and hire a licensed person to take you on a hunt, you assume that they know the laws and that the State of Wisconsin is regulating them," Sheriff Ron "Elmer...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 16, 2005 09:08 AM
Good stuff!...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 15, 2005 12:10 PM
...but I just couldn't resist this one. You're a guy (or were one, originally), you're in the LADIES ROOM and your staff still gets to rough up someone? Michael Jackson beat it after a startled woman starting taking his picture...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 15, 2005 10:28 AM
UPDATE FROM Lt. SARAH: For many Marines in this unit, including several of my Marines, this is their third deployment in 3 years and at least the second Christmas in a row they’ve missed. I can definitely give you some...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 12, 2005 12:24 AM
Big bombs go off in a hotel in Amman Jordan. The Grand Hyatt, the Radisson and the Day's Inn in near simultaneous attacks. According to the expert on Fox right now, those hotels (esp. the Hyatt) are used for high...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 9, 2005 02:34 PM
After 12 days of riots the French Cabinet considers curfews! "We are composing letters to these youths, telling them how angry we are." "We will now be able to act in a preventative manner to avoid these incidents," Interior Minister...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 8, 2005 09:06 AM
Whatever dope he's smoking, I hope to hell no one else gets ahold of any. Dominique de Villepin, the beleaguered prime minister, announced that officials in riot-hit areas would be authorised to impose late-night curfews "wherever it is necessary" in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 7, 2005 09:50 PM
"[W]e were inundated with hate mail. We were disparaged as 'immoral cowards; a nation of effeminate, improbitive [sic], whimpering, timorous poltroons.' And isn’t it racist to say 'I hope you enjoy Islam. I hope you do not expect to move...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 7, 2005 11:59 AM
I'm not sure "2:10 am in a bathroom stall" is what you envisioned: TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders were arrested after a bar dispute that broke out early Sunday after patrons complained the women were having sex...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 7, 2005 08:44 AM
...last night coincided with a review (by Douglas Brinkley, piTU!) in the NYT of his authorized biography "First Man". CBS mentioned how they were 'strolling on his family farm in Ohio'. One additional, fascinating tidbit noted in the NYT was......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 7, 2005 07:54 AM
Rebels Dressed as Women Attack Iraqi Police Station BAGHDAD, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 5 - Insurgent attacks across central Iraq, including one in which the guerrillas disguised themselves as women, left at least 16 dead on Friday as Shiite Arabs across...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 5, 2005 08:28 AM
...In a speech to a group of conservative academics and policy experts, DeLay blamed the runaway spending of recent years on minority Democrats. When he took questions, the first came from a senior official at the American Conservative Union, who...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 5, 2005 08:15 AM
FBI: Muslims detained at stadium weren't profiled EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) -- Five Muslim football fans were detained and questioned during a game at Giants Stadium because they were congregating near an air duct on a night former President...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 3, 2005 12:22 PM
We had to let him know. Had to make sure his family knew what his life and their God awful sacrifice meant. Little knots of us ~ five, ten, fifteen strong ~ lined the miles from the funeral home to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 2, 2005 04:00 PM
Why does this particular headline aggrevate my acid reflux? US steps up planning for a Cuba without Castro Because this particular bunch of knot-head neo-cons couldn't plan a Bar Mitzvah, that's why. And when someone has a plan that tries...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on November 1, 2005 09:36 AM
Just so folks know what Suzette and I were refering to: The Evil Clown of Middletown....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 29, 2005 11:56 PM
Police were unable to account for 240 officers on the 1,450-member force following Katrina. The force has been investigating them to see if they left their posts during the storm. Well, acting superintendent Warren Riley, I've got a calculator that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 28, 2005 08:38 PM
A great article in the NY Sun on the corruption and cronyism going on between the National Park Service and Circle Line here in NY: Circle Line-Statue of Liberty Ferry Incorporated, which next month will ask the National Park Service...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 28, 2005 09:44 AM
...but the people in harm's way do not? ABC World News tonight had interviews with 'desperate' people on line for supplies in Miami. A young mother who needed milk for her baby. A quick mention that Jeb Bush had said...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 26, 2005 06:40 PM
Well, they did say they trained marine snails... In the snail experiment, researchers put bryostatin in sea water, days in advance of any learning or training, causing certain proteins to be made by the neurons of the snails. When the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 24, 2005 10:21 PM
I know you were hoping that this was your year....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 24, 2005 09:36 AM
...and I'm shocked, SHOCKED!! ABCNews is reporting that the U.N. has released a report on the assassination of the former Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri, stating it was planned by Syrian and Lebanese security forces. "Evidence of Syrian, Lebanese involvement." We'll...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 20, 2005 06:55 PM
We've waited for months for Boston Legal to hit ABC's schedule again. Missed it last week because of base-ah-baw-roo playoffs, but definately wanted to see it last night. They'd previewed scenes of Betty White on trial for head whackinging the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 19, 2005 10:00 AM
The names were changed to protect the horse's identity: An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex with animals — and where a Seattle man died doing so with a horse — was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 19, 2005 09:14 AM
Major Dad said "Come out here and see the moon!" It reminded me of one of my most favorite, romantic, melodramatic poems in the whole world....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 18, 2005 09:45 AM
I've read read this article 6 times and still can't figure out WTF happened. Miller knew and then she didn't. The New Yawk Times thought she knew, but didn't know for sure, so they never knew one way or the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 17, 2005 10:27 AM
Well, to be precise, we're talking 1 chicken and some beer. Yes, it's time to cook the fabled Beer Can Chicken! Let's see, what do we need: 1 whole chicken 1 can of beer 2 tablespoons Worchestershisterinnagoddadavidashire sauce 2 tablespoons...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 16, 2005 10:31 AM
Not having the resources of The Proffessor™, my little digital camera doesn't do 3-D and 40 megapickles, but those are 8 foot swells that we're rolling over off of Sandy Hook during the midst of our 8 Day Storm...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 16, 2005 10:25 AM
...while chanting the mantra "Steinbrenner SUCKS!! Steinbrenner SUCKS!!" It will be a cleansing exercise. ...With general manager Brian Cashman almost certainly and manager Joe Torre quite possibly making their great escape from the Bronx, there will be no obscuring the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 13, 2005 04:26 PM
...marry a guy named "Jim Bob". Arkansas Mother Gives Birth to 16th Child LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Michelle Duggar just delivered her 16th child, and she's already thinking about doing it again... ...The baby's father, Jim Bob Duggar, a former...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 13, 2005 11:23 AM
... So They Only Did the Easy Parts" A bold, plain spoken, widely admired Marine of my aquaintance, who was instrumental in the introduction and stand-up phase of the Osprey, was once queried at a party by exhuberant Bell executives...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 13, 2005 11:07 AM
With much of his city still vacant, Nagin launched his campaign. "My big message is: You can come back to the city," Nagin told a group of about 40 at a shelter here, a three-hour drive from New Orleans. He...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 13, 2005 10:13 AM
...Beldar has some advice for her, which I think should be required reading for anyone having to step in front of those pontificating a$$holes in leather chairs. ...For one thing, not one of the senators likely to be firing off...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 13, 2005 09:27 AM
On this date in 1915, former President Theodore Roosevelt criticized the concept of "hyphenated Americanism", referring to U.S. citizens who identified themselves by dual nationalities. ... There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 12, 2005 08:53 AM
In celebration, may I recommend... As noted critic Pauline Kael observed, "... this first important film of the vampire genre has more spectral atmosphere, more ingenuity, and more imaginative ghoulish ghastliness than any of its successors." Some really good vampire...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 7, 2005 10:55 AM
Some Islamic Nut Job blows himself up at a football game in Oklahoma. There were only 80,000 people there Saturday night. But we can't upset the RoP, now can we?...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 5, 2005 08:01 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - British comedian Ronnie Barker, the big half of the famous duo The Two Ronnies and the indomitable Fletch in prison sitcom Porridge, has died aged 76. I'm not sure how many, if any, of you ever saw...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 4, 2005 09:53 AM
That way this can get settled under the radar. Not being a legal type myself (Diptera, Dave J., NoBrainer?), I throw a question out to our experts. Is this common practice ~ negotiating/sanitizing reports ~ thereby making this news piece...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 3, 2005 04:51 PM
...or "Sink Her Already, Part IV". I'm referring to (of course) the Oriskany. Again. Why is she in the news again? Check your wallets, people. This time last year, Navy officials had hoped to scuttle the aircraft carrier Oriskany 22½...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 3, 2005 08:22 AM
Yup. Muslims win toy pigs ban NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff. Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 2, 2005 12:31 PM
...ain't it ain't half bad. We were all pleasantly surprised by the premiere episode of "The Night Stalker". Hard to believe they could come close to the quirkiness of the original in this day and age, but they did. It...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 30, 2005 08:14 PM
Mayor Koch begs to differ. Many Americans, myself included, now see her as a person who has come to enjoy the celebratory status accorded to her by the radicals on the extreme left who see America as the outlaw of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 30, 2005 07:50 PM
Scientists clueless? When Leonardo was on top of it all those centuries ago? Amazingly, one of the best techniques for measuring Earth's albedo is to watch the Moon, which acts like a giant mirror. Sunlight that reflects of Earth in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 30, 2005 05:39 PM
Ford bids adieu to gas-guzzling Excursion Ford Motor bade farewell on Friday to one of America's most infamous gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles, just days after committing to a sharp increase in more fuel-efficient hybrid and ethanol-powered vehicles. The last 19 ft-long...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 30, 2005 03:03 PM
...he is also not a scientist! No, Hugh, I think you're absolutely right. And it's fascinating to me to see how the pride and the chest thumping that went on after Katrina, the media had finally grown their kumquats back,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 30, 2005 02:13 PM
Remember Bob Livingstone saying whoever the contractor was who built the 17th Street levee had a big problem? Not so fast. They reveal that when the floodwall on the 17th Street Canal was built a decade ago, there were major...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 29, 2005 11:02 PM
New Orleans finest never, ever cease to astonish and amaze. Now they've turned Pet Psychic and are channeling...wait...wait...it's getting clearer...Bill Clinton! [cue: unearthly voice with southern twange]"Depends what your definition of looting is." New Orleans police launch investigation into reports...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 29, 2005 04:38 PM
WHOOPS! Typo. Heh. Goofy me. Minister rejects 'Asterix' image of France Gérard Larcher, France's employment minister, said on Monday that US and UK investors were unfairly writing off France as "an Asterix village" for its outspoken state intervention, even though...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 28, 2005 01:20 PM
"We don't spend a million dollars so we can have an excercise. We spend a million dollars so we can learn." Chris Shays grandstanding to Michael Brown on C-Span just now (no transcripts or video link yet). What a despicable...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 27, 2005 10:05 PM
Today's warm fuzzy. New Orleans police chief resigning Move follows disclosure that many officers left posts during Katrina UPDATE: The Gateway Pundit has put the 'oh, SO did NOT happen' events noted below, Katrina BS-wise, in order. (He's so much...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 27, 2005 04:08 PM
Facial bone loss contributes to aging Study: CAT scans show shrinking volume to blame for wrinkled skin Whew! I thought it was bad surgery. UPDATE: We've identified the source of the disturbing model for this story......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 27, 2005 02:46 PM
Updating our Katrina coverage: The LA Times, of all publications, is jumping into this. Are they channeling Pete King? Other stories that didn't get out... Louisiana National Guard Col. Thomas Beron, who headed security at the Superdome, said that for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 27, 2005 12:52 PM
...the president had no way of knowing that the New Orleans Police and Fire Departments were going to disappear, that the governor wasn't going to adequately use the National Guard, and that the mayor had not put sufficient water and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 27, 2005 09:06 AM
...but it doesn't make it any easier to swallow. WASHINGTON - Whatever the reasons, residents of heavily Republican Texas seemed to get better treatment from the government during Hurricane Rita than the mostly black, poor and Democratic victims of Katrina...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 26, 2005 11:48 PM
Rumors of deaths greatly exaggerated Widely reported attacks false or unsubstantiated 6 bodies found at Dome; 4 at Convention Center In interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Compass reported rapes of "babies," and Mayor Ray Nagin spoke of "hundreds of armed gang...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 26, 2005 09:11 AM
Which is why crime is at a 30 year low: The nation's crime rate was unchanged last year, holding at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday. Because, as we...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 26, 2005 08:30 AM
But in light of self congratulatory headlines like these: Defenders of Iraq war counter-rally Smaller-than-expected gathering follows anti-war protest WASHINGTON (AP) -- Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 26, 2005 01:15 AM
I will never, ever forgive The Gateway Pundit for this horrific vision. Some things were never meant to be seen....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 25, 2005 02:14 PM
...I think Wayne LaPierre is a complete jack-ass. But boy, oh boy, whatever it takes to shut this bullsh$t down, I'm with him. The police superintendent's comments were echoed by the city's Deputy Police Chief Warren Riley, who told ABC...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 23, 2005 11:12 AM
That would be breaking news in New Orleans. Dozens of blocks in New Orleans now under water. Details to come UPDATE: If only more people were like this guy... Glynn Stevenson, who swam out of his New Orleans house with...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 23, 2005 10:54 AM
20 elderly folks killed when the bus they were in caught fire. Tragic. UPDATE: Oh man, it seems the situation went from fire to explosion by virtue of the oxygen tanks exploding that the seniors had with them. Early indications...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 23, 2005 08:56 AM
...and just might keep you out of jail if you're a thief with ADD. Always helps if you can remember where you stole the car from to begin with. Gas station employee Pam Pease recognized her car Tuesday night when...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 22, 2005 01:24 PM
Serving themselves: BATON ROUGE, La. — Police found cases of food, clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb, authorities said Wednesday. Officers searched Cedric Floyd's home because...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 22, 2005 01:23 PM
...the more it stays the same....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 19, 2005 03:33 PM
Via Crusader, an abomination chronicled in print. No one has been able to say how many people died inside the convention center; police, military and center officials estimate the number is about 10. Nor has there been any attempt to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 16, 2005 09:48 PM
The recent outrage at the Islamo-friendly memorial for Flight 93 is just a continuence of the trend. Hell, look at the other 'finalists', if you have the stomach. Any of those designs bring to mind the glory and strength of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 15, 2005 11:12 AM
We're ever so grateful you got here safely. Understanding exactly what you've gone through, we've welcomed you into our community, thrown open our schools, volunteered by the hundreds to see you get all the assistance you need; done our darndest...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 15, 2005 10:25 AM
What a surprise. Carol Mosely Braun is a pathetic race-baiter. The Rhodes' business has to operate at capacity now, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the stunning failure of government to provide for the welfare of the people. No...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 15, 2005 08:59 AM
Two blondes were reading their daily newspapers and one of them sees a headline that says: "TWO BRAZILIAN SOLDIERS KILLED" She thinks for a minute, and then whispers to her friend......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 14, 2005 04:14 PM
Calling Katrina a "national tragedy," former New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial put the primary responsibility for disaster response squarely on the federal government's shoulders. Morial, president of the National Urban League, was New Orleans' mayor from 1994 to 2004....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 14, 2005 02:56 PM
...names. La. nursing home owners charged in deaths Two face 34 counts of negligent homicide for refusing evacuation bus NEW ORLEANS - The owners of a nursing home where 34 people were found dead after Hurricane Katrina have been arrested...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 13, 2005 06:09 PM
Here's a novel child-rearing method: WAKEMAN, Ohio - Sheriff’s deputies found 11 children locked in cages less than 3½ feet high inside a home, but a couple denied they had abused or neglected the children. Nope, no abuse here, move...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 13, 2005 03:19 PM
..if you're a local.But you can't visit the old Girod Cemetery. Abandoned for years, its iron caskets and bones were tossed up by excavation gear in the early 1970s as the crews moved in to build . . . the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 13, 2005 12:22 PM
Chrenkoff's last post is up. He's been an important voice showing us what the Coalition troops were accomplishing these past 18 months, and he will be missed. Best of luck Arthur, and thanks....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 13, 2005 08:07 AM
On January 5, 2005, 3,719 acres of the former MCAS El Toro property were officially made available for sale to the public via an online auction process. After six weeks of active bidding (with very little activity during the first...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 12, 2005 03:42 PM
Courtesy of Jack Kelly. 1.Exhibit A on the bill of indictment of federal sluggishness is that it took four days before most people were evacuated from the Louisiana Superdome. The levee broke Tuesday morning. Buses had to be rounded up...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 12, 2005 03:10 PM
"After 2 weeks, Bush hits ground" reads the headline. Beat that meme! The blood of all those thousands of people who didn't die in NOLA is on Bush's hands! Katrina is blamed for killing 426 people in five states. Most...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 12, 2005 09:40 AM
The Senator continues her Sunday talk show rounds. Chris Wallace: But senator there were hundreds of buses sitting in that parking lot...we're looking at the picture. There were hundreds of buses sitting in parking lots. Mary Landrieu: That is underwater....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 12, 2005 04:29 AM
On Face the Nation this morning. (Bob Schieffer)Of course, Senator Landrieu, let me ask you the question that a lot of people are asking: Do you think that some of these casualties could have been averted had control been turned...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 11, 2005 05:01 PM
I realize there are painful decisions to be made and that copious caterwauling will ensue when the fickle finger of fate points at your base. For instance; when they closed MCAS El Toro and MCAS Tustin. Beyond the historic significance...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 9, 2005 10:51 AM
Man, the weather is gorgeous here right now. There is no finer place on earth than New York City in early September: deep, cloudless sapphire blue skies smile down upon a city basking in warm, radiant sunshine, gently shining...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 7, 2005 11:00 PM
What we've said, for days now. I'm not bitter. Just feeling our little blog has been validated and vindicated. (As walkie-talkie size operations go.) UPDATE (BUMP): He's joined by Jesse Jackson, who said the squalor in New Orleans "looks like...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 7, 2005 11:58 AM
Color me Druid (which is not hard), but even I see a huge inequity in this. If it's lunchtime and okay for her, why can't the Born Agains gather, the Buddhists chant, the Native Americans do peyote? And she gets...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 7, 2005 09:37 AM
Rehnquist’s judicial philosophy was result-oriented, activist, and authoritarian. He sometimes moderated his views for prudential or pragmatic reasons, but his vote could almost always be predicted based on who the parties were, not what the legal issues happened to be....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 6, 2005 04:55 PM
Yup, that's been us since Ivan. No gas has been a problem for ages, especially before and after storms, as everyone's learned to top off. But now it's exacerbated by the poor folks from Biloxi/Gulfport looking to fill up their...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 6, 2005 11:30 AM
The following is an email I received from a guy who own a bunch of warehouses in NOLA. I thought you might be interested in a non-MSM view of the state of things (I have edited out various personal information):...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 6, 2005 08:01 AM
Mississippi could consider land-based casinos Devastation of gulf coast gambling industry could sway legislators ...Mississippi requires casinos to float, either along the Gulf Coast or on the Mississippi River. A state law that took effect earlier this year allows the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2005 05:40 PM
Badly. Residents with cars took to the highways. Others wondered what to do. "They say evacuate, but they don't say how I'm supposed to do that," Latonya Hill, 57, said at the time. "If I can't walk it or get...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2005 09:23 AM
Stuff us walkie-talkie types have been saying for days. Another take that I nod as I read: ...Scapegoating the federal government misses the point. No president can stop a hurricane, or keep people from looting, rioting or shooting at government...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 4, 2005 10:19 PM
Police Shoot 8 on New Orleans Bridge NEW ORLEANS - Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six of them, a deputy chief said. Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said the shootings...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 4, 2005 06:23 PM
...is back from Biloxi. With pictures. And they're horrible. He and his Pensacola crew (Plus one from Savannah they'd worked with during Ivan) left on Tuesday to clear the runways, taxiways and get a functional space running at the airport....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 3, 2005 06:16 PM
Surely not the mayor and governor. I guess they were gonna leave everybody black, white, orange, green and Venusian there while they lit out. The mayor called the order unprecedented and said anyone who could leave the city should. He...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 3, 2005 10:58 AM
So said our favorite mayor today. Hmmm. Why didn't you take these which were sitting in your city on Friday and could have been used in your 'mandatory' evacuation. You know, last week when they weren't flooded. Damn that Federal...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 2, 2005 03:55 PM
Here it starts. But he began facing questions about his leadership in the crisis almost immediately. New Orleans officials, in particular, were enraged about what they said was a slow federal response. Because of the magnitude of the ineptitude that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 2, 2005 02:12 PM
There were plans to make Nawlins secured against a Cat 5, but they were still not sure they would have worked. More here. They were caboshed in 1977 due to the enviro-types, and at other times due to $$$....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 2, 2005 12:31 PM
Nagin blamed the outbreak of crime and violence on drug addicts who are cut off from their drug supplies and wandering the city "looking to take the edge off their jones." On Thursday, Nagin's frustration was palpable. "I've been out...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 2, 2005 09:18 AM
Pathetic. Incompetent. Ineffectual. Woefully unprepared. Sorry, weak ass, finger pointing losers. MSM is seeing a chance to whack away at the Bush administration, while ignoring the responsibilities the Mayor of New Orleans and Governor of LA had to their citizens....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 2, 2005 12:35 AM
Wir (as in all of Pensacola) haben kein Benzin. Nicht eine Scheiβgallone. Verdammt und zugenäht!! UPDATE: I don't think 'unnerved' covers it... "In short, the U.S. is facing a major gasoline crisis and is starting from a nearly empty tank,"...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 1, 2005 02:44 PM
Drudge has the following blurb up: Eyewitness: Sec of State Condi Rice laughs it up at 'Spamalot' while Gulf Coast lays in tatters. Theater goers on New York' City's Great White Way were shocked to see the President's former National...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 1, 2005 01:00 PM
these are just plain spooky. Plus as THS and I were talking about yesterday, the place is going Escape from New York, too. Pray for the poor souls that were unable to evacuate, and are still in what is left...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 11:01 PM
That the governor of Louisiana has NOT declared Martial Law in New Orleans? UPDATE: Well I'll be damned. The mayor JUST DID, at 7:32 local time TONIGHT. WTF was his first CLUE he had a problem??? 7:32 P.M. - N.O....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 10:10 PM
as our gas orices here have jumped $.50 today, and appear to be going higher Thursday. I filled up the Mitsu after lunch today for $2.69, and there was not another soul at the station (this being around 2:30), but...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 09:35 PM
Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing. It has everything to do with the immense forces of nature that have been unleashed many, many times before and the inability of humans, even the most brilliant engineers, to tame...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 05:55 PM
1:20 P.M. - (AP) Mayor Ray Nagin says at least hundreds of people are dead -- maybe thousands -- in New Orleans. "We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water," and others dead in attics,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 03:15 PM
Brits can be thieves, too....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 01:39 PM
...just doing a fly over on the way home to D.C. I know the President and First Lady's heart will be breaking. But I want them to know what the sight of that blue and white plane overhead after Ivan...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 12:42 PM
Four Navy amphibious ships were to leave Norfolk, Va., over the next few days for deployment on the Gulf Coast. The Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida will be a base for the relief effort. And that's a good thing,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 10:15 AM
two people who have truly bleesed my life were born. One, sixty years ago, with his music. The other, thirteen years ago, just with his (older picture) being here. Happy Birthday Van and Crusader II. Poor CAG, we'll prolly be...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 09:00 AM
I wish I could second DaveJ's optimism regarding New Orleans, but I can't. And everyone of my aquaintance knows I am the perpetual ray of sunshine in the midst of any disaster. When Ivan hit here, for example, there was...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 30, 2005 04:27 PM
The bands overhead Sunday night. We were done boarding up. If one could say there was an advantage to Ivan, it was this ~ our electrical grids were completely replaced. New ways of stringing wire ~ taut to hold the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 30, 2005 12:21 PM
...Joan Baez, now 64, has descended from the mists to sing songs at Cindy Sheehan's Crawford ditch in Texas. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, respectively 62 and 61, have decided to cap their careers with a new song called "Sweet...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 26, 2005 10:11 AM
Saving the beer from Europe's floods A German monastery, famous for its brew, is safe for now WELTENBURG, Germany - This was no ordinary day, even for a Benedictine Abbey that has survived 1,400 years, including damage in the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 26, 2005 09:39 AM
You live on a frickin' island. An island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You're so far out you can't even make a map of the U.S.. They give you a little 'Hawaii' box, for God's sake! Things have...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 25, 2005 03:33 PM
...literally!! Scientist finds secret Renaissance ingredient Tiny pieces of glass shown to give paintings special glow ...Using an electron microscope, Barbara Berrie, senior conservation scientist at the National Gallery of Art, discovered one of their secrets: tiny bits of glass...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 25, 2005 12:01 PM
...the Bush Administration has f@cked this one up royally. Iraq secularists denounce "Islamist" constitution Secular Iraqis said on Wednesday a proposed new constitution left no room for doubt about the Islamist path the country was heading down two years after...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 24, 2005 10:07 AM
Boozy Brits most likely to reach for the bottle Britons are drinking more, while alcohol consumption among health-conscious French and Germans is falling as consumers increasingly turn to non-alcoholic drinks, according to new research... ...Volume sales of wine increased by...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 24, 2005 08:56 AM
You could have guests by this weekend. Busloads of them. Courtesy of the 'Hurricane Katrina' travel service. UPDATE: She's already costing you money. Oil's up over $66/barrel today. Stoking bullish sentiment, the AccuWeather forecasters said that a new tropical depression...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 24, 2005 08:28 AM
...I've got a fascinating read for you. ...Nor did he brag about his vast accomplishments. More than 600 patents to his credit. A fortune amassed. Powerful foes toppled. As death approached, he believed his place in history had been secured,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 22, 2005 02:50 PM
My God man, it's not like they were trying to steal tvs or other electronics. No, this was a gift from a benevolent Deity to His people: JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- Hundreds of looters battled police all weekend at...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 22, 2005 10:30 AM
They laid the series to rest. And did it just right. It made up for the two unspeakably tedious and grinding seasons I missed. When I threw my hands up and said 'I can't watch this crap anymore'...because they were...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 22, 2005 09:42 AM
The trouble started, Mr. Rivers said, when a group of Norwegian soldiers on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo came upon the song in 2002 and decided to make a rock video of it. The video is a tour de force. (Clever...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 22, 2005 09:17 AM
His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen, Who never thereafter were heard of again, Did Sweeney, Sweeney Todd.... ...The Demon Barber of Fleet Street And yaHOO buddy, Mrs. Lovett's (Patti Lupone!! WOO...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 21, 2005 01:16 PM
We were charged when we found out our neighborhood has one. I love that dorky music. Old-fashioned ice cream trucks in demand Booming business sees growing number of new vendors ABOARD TRUCK NO. 95 - As music-box tunes tinkle from...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 21, 2005 10:22 AM
Casey Sheehan's deeds were heroic. By laying down his life for this nation, he delivered the kind of message that is written in blood, that lives forever. Why on Earth would a loving mother choose to refocus the nation's attention...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 19, 2005 02:50 PM
What an awful mess. Oh, I feel for them, dang! Having been through our meesly little tornado here, I need a valium and three quaaludes everytime there's a thunderstorm, less mind when the Alert Radio starts blaring. (As Bingley can...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 19, 2005 01:12 PM
...need not apply. SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — A former personal assistant to Carlos Santana (search) has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the rock star and his company, claiming he was fired after his consciousness was "calibrated" and determined to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 18, 2005 11:32 AM
...and I'm not talking Bingley and David Hasselhoff. No, I'm talking about the ability of the moonbat population to twist anything. In a codicil to my post below on self delusion, I will add this snippet from another site that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 17, 2005 06:42 PM
My picture's on the way: Forget waxed chests and rock-hard abs. A new survey finds ladies like their men scruffy, a wee bit chubby - and definitely not a metrosexual. Chick Magnet, that's me: Playgirl asked 2,000 of its readers...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 17, 2005 01:58 PM
There's an awful lot of emotion ~ anger, suffering, hopes and dreams, realized and not ~ in that word. We're watching it play out across the news channels, talk shows, newspapers and blogs, and everyone's got an opinion on why...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 17, 2005 12:41 PM
Because, I mean, when 350 bombs go off we wouldn't want to profile anyone, now would we? Jamayetul Mujahedin, an Islamic militant group, claimed responsibility for the attacks in leaflets distributed around many of the blast sites. Update: Dang, the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 17, 2005 08:52 AM
First a Catholic Joke: A Catholic man is struck by a bus on a busy street. He is lying near death on the sidewalk as a crowd gathers. "A Priest, Somebody get me a Priest!" the man gasps. Minutes drag...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 16, 2005 08:57 AM
We were young, so in love, exhausted, raising Ebola. Things were ever so much...simpler then. ... I used to go shopping every day and prepare fresh meals. Our favourites were steak and kidney, tripe and onions, cow heel and beef...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 15, 2005 10:52 PM
We're all family. Father of fallen Marine attends homecoming CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina (AP) -- John Prazynski stood in the sea of welcome home signs and wondered why he was there. Prazynski's son, Lance Cpl. Taylor Prazynski, wasn't going to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 15, 2005 01:29 PM
...and perpetual martyrdom. Woe, woe is me... (Brian Williams) I asked the president a blunt question about his legacy and any regrets he may have that impeachment will always play a prominent role in how his presidency is remembered. Clinton:...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 15, 2005 12:31 PM
For all the decades of self flagellation the Germans have gone (and are still) going through, the Japanese seem to have recovered nicely. I've always wondered how that could be. They live with sanitized versions of their history; relegating abominations...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 14, 2005 11:14 PM
...comforting others since 9/11, bless his heart. He's made time to meet more people privately, give more hugs and heartfelt wishes, than any President ever I'm sure, wartime or not. To a one ~ even in Cindy Sheehan's original version...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 14, 2005 06:04 PM
That's the only excuse I can think of for this rather sordid affair: NZ bachelor on rabbit sex charge 13 August 2005 By LES KENNEDY Sydney Morning Herald SYDNEY: A man faced an Australian court yesterday charged with having sexual...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 14, 2005 04:36 PM
...and it hits little towns hard. Death toll for part-time troops in Iraq soars Summer months prove deadly for Reserves and National Guard The National Guard and Reserve suffered more combat deaths in Iraq during the first 10 days of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 12, 2005 12:35 PM
My favorite Dragon Lady (Dorothy Rabinowitz) had a column yesterday that dovetails ever so sweetly with one I found today by Charles Krauthammer. Ms. Rabinowitz notes about the ACLU and bag searching... Taking affront at government security measures in wartime...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 12, 2005 10:18 AM
...were never meant to be broken. Irene broke records Sunday as the earliest ninth named storm in the Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1 and ends Nov. 30. Normally, only two named storms have formed by this time in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 11, 2005 12:44 PM
Airlines Face Growing Fuel Shortage Risk WASHINGTON -- Lost luggage, bad weather and now ... no fuel? While fliers haven't yet had to add that problem to the list of headaches associated with air travel, it may not be far...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2005 10:44 PM
... after they kill five people? To town's dismay, school shooter to be released Former loophole in justice system allows gunman, now 21, to be freed JONESBORO, Ark. - Seven years after taking part in a schoolyard ambush where four...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 10, 2005 11:16 AM
1998 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Michael Shiraz I'm rather disappointed by this wine. I like shiraz that are full of cassis and plummy, chewy fruit, and all the write-ups that I saw on this wine said it was full of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 9, 2005 09:14 PM
I was an active duty Marine Corps Staff Sergeant, the NCOIC of COM/NAV in VMA(AW)242, and we were on a Marine Aircraft Group-70 det. to Fallon, NV. MAG-70 was a huge innovation at the time ~ Marine Aviation's component of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 8, 2005 04:11 PM
...helps when writing headlines. Oil-For-Food Chief Accused of Kickbacks I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you. NEW YORK (AP) - Investigators probing claims of wrongdoing in the Iraq oil-for-food program accused its former chief, Benon Sevan, of corruption for taking illegal...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 8, 2005 01:31 PM
On the face of it, this announcement sounds pretty foreboding... Mr Larijani was appointed by the new fundamentalist president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad to replace Hassan Rowhani, according to a senior Iranian official. "Mr Ahmadi-Nejad has appointed Mr Larijani as the secretary...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 8, 2005 10:59 AM
Well, that's jacked up! Talk about a Rube Goldberg way of getting ripped off: RALEIGH, N.C. - An original copy of the Bill of Rights that was given to North Carolina by George Washington back in 1789 was returned to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 5, 2005 12:19 AM
If you don't know, the New York Times will find out. NY TIMES INVESTIGATES ADOPTION RECORDS OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEE'S CHILDREN **Exclusive** The NEW YORK TIMES is looking into the adoption records of the children of Supreme Court Nominee John...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 4, 2005 01:42 PM
Not that this might be any potential conflict, you know, but shouldn't people be a little concerned about this: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jon S. Corzine loaned the president of New Jersey's largest state workers union $470,000 when the two...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 4, 2005 11:28 AM
This doesn't bode well for an open society. American journalist shot dead in Iraq An American journalist has been found shot dead in Basra four days after he wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times criticising the spread...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2005 08:41 AM
A year later, but better late than never. Now, let's see who reports about these conclusions... WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund ("ACVR Legislative Fund") today released the most comprehensive and authoritative...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2005 12:41 AM
Like me, I'm sure many of you have been looking for that special metaphor to describe the horrid state of affairs here in Bushy McChimphitler Ville. I mean, Theocracy is so 90s, and, while I admit Gulag does have a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 2, 2005 01:29 PM
From The Christian Science Monitor, all the FAQ's answered. Some answers are obvious... What do the militants want? For Islamist militants, the long-term objective is an Islamic superstate, or caliphate. Narrower objectives include the end of the state of Israel...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 2, 2005 01:20 PM
So Barry Bonds says he won't be back this season "because of his injured right knee." Bullshit. He's sitting at home drinking a lot of water and trying to flush all the drugs out of his system so that he...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 2, 2005 11:47 AM
Well, in a Massachusett's Little League game, anyway. Ump's language ban incites protest Little Leaguers told to stop speaking Spanish on field METHUEN, Mass. (AP) -- Coaches on a Little League team filed a protest with the league after an...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 1, 2005 03:13 PM
...been living in a cave or something? What morons thought this was a good idea to begin with? Ford splits with Eminem: report Paper says Ford initially happy when rap star wanted new Ford for video, but lyrics raised concerns....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 1, 2005 11:41 AM
World turning its back on Brand America The US is increasingly viewed as a "culture-free zone" inhabited by arrogant and unfriendly people, according to study of 25 countries' brand reputations. Now that I'd have to agree with that and I...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 1, 2005 09:22 AM
New arrests in failed London bombings Italy says one alleged bomber held; two others reportedly caught in London LONDON - A suspected plotter in the failed July 21 London bombings was arrested in Rome Friday, Italy said in an announcement...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 29, 2005 12:47 PM
Bring a bag lunch with you. It could be a long one, for once. 6-way North Korea talks to hit record 5th day Despite prolonged meetings, few signs of progress in nuclear discussions BEIJING - The top U.S. envoy pledged...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 29, 2005 11:48 AM
crabwise \KRAB-wyze\ adjective 1 : sideways 2 : in a sidling or cautiously indirect manner Would it were going that well......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 29, 2005 09:13 AM
THIS IS A BUMP 'cause they still are, even tho there's lotsa new SwillStuff to read. And please email Bingster or moi~ swilling*at*beegewelborn.com ~ with anything you would have posted. We'll be putting those in the extended sections. And... Would...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 29, 2005 09:08 AM
...would actually die, if the 'fixes' don't work. Discovery commander surprised by debris problem HOUSTON (Reuters) - Shuttle Discovery commander Eileen Collins said on Friday she was surprised the flying debris problem that brought down Columbia in 2003 re-emerged on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 29, 2005 09:06 AM
As Swillers know, I am for restricted drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The 100 mile mark off my beautiful Panhandle and the rest of the state seems eminently reasonable. We all drive our chariots to and fro and, while...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 28, 2005 09:58 AM
...is destroying this country economically and everybody knows it....don't they? Business activity expands in June, July Price pressures eased or were flat across most of country, Fed reports WASHINGTON - U.S. business activity continued to grow in June and early...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 27, 2005 05:22 PM
You do have to wonder what Miami City officials were smoking when they came up with this brilliant idea: Miami city leaders are apologizing for a news release that invited summer campers to a ''Ghetto Style Talent Show'' and ''Watermelon...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 27, 2005 08:58 AM
A Sunday Times Comment piece by Michael Portillo. He manages to ding on everyone from Cheri Blair to Edward Heath and Bill Clinton, and it's marvelous. We all just sat back and let Londonistan rise against us For all our...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 24, 2005 11:12 PM
Kerry seeks release of Roberts' documents WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic Sen. John Kerry urged the White House on Friday to release "in their entirety" all documents and memos from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' tenure in two Republican administrations. "We...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 23, 2005 12:12 AM
Oh. My. Gawd. The Senate International Security Subcommittee was holding hearings on a proposed U.N. renovation in the 1.5 BILLION DOLLAR neighborhood and someone had the bright idea to ask New Yawk's most famous developer his opinion. Man, does he...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 22, 2005 10:23 PM
Otherwise it'll be a big big mess for the cops. Look, I'm not questioning or second guessing what little we know of the situation; if the guy is going to blow up then you shoot him as rapidly as you...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 22, 2005 11:40 AM
"Lt. Dan" has a fine charity rolling. When actor Gary Sinise talks about Operation Iraqi Children, the humanitarian organization he cofounded 16 months ago to provide basic supplies to schools in the war-ravaged country, he does not peddle sob stories....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 22, 2005 11:20 AM
...sell such cool sh$t in the lobby. (Late-night-three-glasses-o'wine photos are so glary. My apologies.) I got this at a double feature in downtown Iwakuni. The movie(s) had Japanese subtitles running down the right hand side of the frame, in a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 22, 2005 12:28 AM
...Walmart looses theirs and the sh$t hits the fan. This column*, dated June 18th, by Pensacola News Journal columnist Mark O'Brien has the world of Walton all up in arms... Wal-Mart mentality keeps us pinching pennies rather than building a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 20, 2005 12:12 PM
They bear watching. Pentagon warns of military threat from China China could pose a future military threat to other Asian countries but its current ability to project power beyond its periphery was "limited", the Pentagon said on Tuesday. In its...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 20, 2005 01:05 AM
Why is it, when I so look forward to these few enough evenings alone, ~ the remotes and all they control are mine, mine alone and I am a chick flick Goddess basking in freedom to choose, with no Law...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 19, 2005 09:58 PM
God, I've always loved that quote*. Almost drove off the US 17 in a laughing fit when I heard it read during an NPR broadcast of Whad'Ya Know. It was the gem contained in an author read excerpt (a most...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 19, 2005 01:00 PM
From Michele is a tool that will come up with the perfect battle cry for each of us... (mine, as befits the battlelust-besodded fool that I am, is not PG rated...)...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 14, 2005 07:59 PM
Than have to have a frontal lobotomy... It really is amazing, and frankly somewhat sickening, that this 'procedure' was done on some 50,000 people in the US alone. Other doctors used a more primitive version than Moniz, punching an ice...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 14, 2005 12:19 PM
Islamic cleric gets life for inciting war Virginia-based scholar says he 'will not admit guilt' ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A prominent U.S.-based Islamic scholar who exhorted his followers after the Sept. 11 attacks to join the Taliban and fight U.S. troops...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 13, 2005 04:15 PM
Home Secretary Charles Clarke has had to address reports that the bombing suspects had been rounded up and released last year. So where'd this 'news' come from to begin with? The French. The claims were made by France's Interior Minister...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 13, 2005 12:33 PM
AS ZIMBABWE COLLAPSES, AFRICAN LEADERS LOOK THE OTHER WAY God bless Bono. He has done more to put Africa back on the map than all the usual advocates -- African heads of state, the Congressional Black Caucus and international aid...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 13, 2005 09:43 AM
Lileks has a wonderful Bleat up today on life, and taking the time to enjoy and appreciate it. Because I’m young and stupid and the wrong things matter? Not today. Today my daughter ran to me with open arms when...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 13, 2005 08:45 AM
Were you shocked and stunned when the BBC refered to the bastards who murdered 50+ folks in London as 'terrorists'? Well, don't despair! Because in the cold, hard, safe light of socialist reflection the editors of the Beeb have gone...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 11, 2005 10:08 PM
...have seen the LIGHTS! They're on and we're astounded. I think all our experiences hurricane wise, colored by Bertha (07/96 CAT2) and Fran (09/96 CAT3) in N.C., were forever altered by the beast that that was Ivan. This was also...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 10, 2005 11:08 PM
It's getting close to crunch time and we're still ground zero. They're even saying 'Perdido Key', which just SUCKs, since we're 6 miles as the SUV drives from there. On the upside, I'd like to thank FEMA for the tarp...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 10, 2005 01:22 PM
Gusts are whistling, trees are bending, rain's a drivin' and the house is starting to creak a bit. Our visitor has picked up speed, praise JEsus, so won't be able to get any stronger if he keeps this up....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 10, 2005 12:54 PM
Wunder Kraut had a post up the other day about an article that one James Carroll of the Boston Globe wrote on July 5th. Typical damp washcloth stuff, really, tying together how evul Bushy McChimphitler and crew are now with...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 9, 2005 10:53 AM
Stores are laid in....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 8, 2005 08:38 PM
Tracing his ancestors' journey from Africa to a slave auction in Charleston, S.C., Richburg concluded: "Thank God my ancestor got out, because, now, I am not one of them [present-day Africans]. ...[T]hank God I am an American."Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 7, 2005 07:08 PM
Rudy Can't Fail
Turns out Rudy Giuliani was in London this morning: "I was right near Liverpool (St) station when the first bombing took place, so I could hear the sirens and then kept hearing reports of different bombing, in different parts of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 7, 2005 02:32 PM
Why Are Some Citizens...
...so much more important than others? My heart breaks for her mother and family. I know I would be foaming at the mouth at the thought that someone could hurt the most precious thing in my life. But now comes...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 6, 2005 11:49 AM
When In the Course of Human Events
It took a little work. And a lot of courage....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 4, 2005 12:08 AM
Don't Cry For Me, Argentina
Just let me buy a comfortable pair of pants without being heckled and ridiculed. This was so appalling, it's all I could do not to scream. Now I know it's a foreign country and I know I could stand to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 2, 2005 12:27 AM
Counter Tenors Unite!
This sure seems like discrimination to me: Singing soprano is for girls only in Texas' elite All-State Choir, eliminating a 17-year-old boy's chance to audition for a statewide honor and raising questions about gender discrimination. As someone who sings countertenor,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 1, 2005 10:51 AM
I Sure Hope They Don't Forget...
...what they were working on over the long weekend. Congress works to blunt court decision DeLay calls Supreme Court ruling on seizing private property ‘horrible’ WASHINGTON - Lawmakers are trying to blunt a Supreme Court decision that says local governments...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on July 1, 2005 09:32 AM
Here We Go Again
New York to unveil redesigned Freedom Tower NEW YORK - After concerns were raised about security at the soaring skyscraper proposed as the centerpiece of the former World Trade Center site, architects went back to the drawing board. On Wednesday,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 29, 2005 09:51 AM
E.T. Phone Home
Steve..Steve Steve Steve: Oscar-winning director STEVEN SPIELBERG is baffled that fewer UFO sightings are made now than were made twenty years ago - because the technology to record would-be aliens is so commonplace today. How to break this gently? Spielberg...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 28, 2005 01:47 PM
Maybe Tom Cruise Will Testify For Him
Scott Krause's defense will argue that the defendant believed he was trying to escape man-eating subterranean beings when he ran into Drew Reynolds' truck on Jan. 6, 2004. Uh, ok. In three court-ordered evaluations, the defendant stated he was fleeing...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 28, 2005 01:15 PM
Some Records Were Never Meant to Bee Broken
Irish Man Fails to Set World Bee Record TIPPERARY, Ireland - An Irish man tried to break a world record Saturday by coaxing more than 350,000 bees to land on his body, but the bees just wouldn't settle. In nearly...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 28, 2005 10:40 AM
Somebody...
...is rolling in his grave. Trafalgar show a poke in the eye for Nelson kin Admiral's family upset over political correctness for bicentennial of battle LONDON - Britain celebrated one of its greatest naval victories on Tuesday but a descendant...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 28, 2005 09:54 AM
MSM and the Connecticut Land Grab
I noticed an odd thing during our weekend viewing, but wanted to check before I shot off my mouth here. Having ascertained that my initial impression was indeed correct, I will share it with you now. KELO has fallen off...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 27, 2005 10:03 AM
Bay-Sah-Baw-Roo
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 27, 2005 12:39 AM
Hanging by a Thread...
...the Democratic Party's integrity, that is. The New Hampshire Union Leader spells out in print what we noted in our 'lynching apology' post last week. Only their eloquence quotient trumps ours, so we felt we had to share. Shifting the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 26, 2005 06:17 PM
I'm Not Dead...Wait A Minute, Yes I Am
From the Land of the Rising Sun we get this tale of a family out for a nice drive...the only problem being that mom had been dead for a few days: A young mother found at the scene of a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 26, 2005 01:25 PM
Hooray For Clarence Thomas
Randy Barnett at Volokh has found a beautiful summation in the dissent by Clarence Thomas of the problems with the Supreme Court in the Kelo decision: "Something has gone seriously awry with this Courts interpretation of the Constitution." If Thomas...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 25, 2005 11:36 AM
Say Hello To MacInslosh™
Friends, summer is upon us, and that means good food, good friends, and lots of drinking, especially drinking of chilled wine. I admit it: in the winter I'm all about top-flight kick-butt reds. In the summer, however, I let my...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 23, 2005 08:30 PM
So, Bingley...
How were the cheeses?...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 21, 2005 12:11 PM
Who's Your Buddy, Who's Your Pal...?
Heard about the four hostages rescued by the Marines yesterday? Gitmo does indeed sound like a Gulag if you've only read the WaPo's version. Jeez, even the headline "At Least 50 Insurgents Killed In Western Iraq, Marines Say" makes no...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 19, 2005 01:57 PM
I'm Sorry Your Life Sucks There
But so does everyone else's, you piece of shit. At least you'll know what's coming at you. And I hope it makes you cry like a little girl. The U.S. military charged a staff sergeant from the New York National...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 17, 2005 11:39 AM
Operation Murambatsvina
What would your local civic leaders name their latest urban clean up campaign? Especially one aimed to "...weed out all criminal elements countrywide"? Well, if your local alderman was Robert Mugabe, and you were poor and destitute and lived in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 17, 2005 10:46 AM
It's Amazing How Ironic Irony Can Be
Two PETA Employees Arrested on Animal Cruelty Charges in N.C. Police found 18 dead animals in the trash bin and 13 more in a van registered to PETA. The animals were from animal shelters in Northampton and Bertie counties in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 17, 2005 09:14 AM
When I Read This, I Was Hoping...
...she was black and then Howard Dean would have to STFU. (As IF that would happen...right.) Oh well. Porn star Carey attends Republican fund-raiser Candidate for California lieutenant governor rubs elbows with D.C. high rollers WASHINGTON - Porn star, political...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 15, 2005 10:10 AM
I Don't Get This 'Lynching' Thing
You mean to tell me that forcibly removing someone from his home, his barn, his street or his place of incarceration to HANG HIM wasn't MURDER until this Senate vote? That a noose around someone's neck by virtue of mob...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 14, 2005 05:26 PM
Looks Like Tomato Juice, Smells Like Tomato Juice...
Like the old Smothers Brothers routine says, not everything is as it seems. RALEIGH, N.C. - 3,800 patients at two hospitals run by Duke University Health System were operated on last year with instruments that were washed in hydraulic fluid...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 13, 2005 12:15 AM
Powerful Words 2
I can't claim that this installment of the exercise came after quiet contemplation under a steaming shower head. No, this frantic scribbling ensued after a commercial during 60 Minutes (don't even start...). It was for a special, airing Tuesday, June...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 12, 2005 09:14 PM
Hollywood Supported Kerry?
Who knew? If only those Tinsletownians, folks whose claim to fame is being able to recite words other people write, ah if only they'd let poor simple fools like me know where they stood in the election then of course...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 9, 2005 03:19 PM
Sheeee's Baaaaack!
Just when it seemed like Hill was staking out Bill's Middle-of-the-Road turf she needed to hit the ATM: "There has never been an administration, I don't believe in our history, more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 6, 2005 06:23 PM
Spot on...
Daddy, Whats a GULAG? Well children, gather ‘round while I tell you a bedtime story of what a “gulag” is. Once Upon a Time, there was a group of people who lived in a far away land called the “Soviet...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 3, 2005 02:26 PM
A Melancholy Juxtaposition
I watched the groundskeepers lifting the 27,000 odd American flags from the graves at Barrancas National Cemetary today. Solitary fellows moving through the white headstones, some heartbreakingly white...new...this war. Their carts were left parked on the driveway as they bent...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 2, 2005 11:59 PM
Powerful Words
I'm talking about the words that stand alone, that resonate within us by their mere existence. By the sight of them scrawled on a sheet of paper or flashed on a TV screen, voiced by a moderator or spoken in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 2, 2005 11:26 AM
There's A Curious And Sad Fact In This Year's Spelling Bee
Look at the kids who've advanced to the 5th round. Look at the words these young great kids spelled! Amazing. Now look at their names and faces. It sort of fulfills all your stereotypes, doesn't it? A smattering of metal-mouthed...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 1, 2005 08:29 PM
Damn! 65 Years To Go...
U.K. Couple Marks 80th Wedding Anniversary. Percy Arrowsmith, 105, and his 100-year-old wife Florence, were married on June 1, 1925, after meeting at their local church in Hereford, western England, where he sang in the choir and she was a...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on June 1, 2005 01:03 PM
"...open war on black males"
Protesting the new "Castle Doctrine" Law. A day late and a dollar short. Instead of slavery, the chains now come in the form of laws that are a threat to the black community, said a number of speakers at the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 31, 2005 05:09 PM
Sink Her, Already ! Part Trois
When last we left our heroine, she was moored at the Port Of Pensacola, waiting a move back to Texass. She's not gone yet, you ask? Sigh. Nothing but nothing is as simple as it seems. But, in the latest...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 31, 2005 12:35 PM
If you have TCM on your cable/sat...
make sure and watch either 8:00 EST Saturday and/or 6:00 EST Sunday for one of my favorite WW II and John Wayne movies. The last scene, waiting for the last C-47, always chokes me up. What those servicemen who were...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 27, 2005 04:29 PM
In the ranks of death you'll find him...
The Minstrel fell! But the foeman's steel Could not bring that proud soul under; The harp he lov'd ne'er spoke again, For he tore its chords asunder; And said "No chains shall sully thee, Thou soul of love and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 27, 2005 09:25 AM
No Speaka De Anglish?
Pravda** tweaka de anguish in a recent piece. Boldly titled 'Language Barrier Called Health Hazard in E.R.', it starts out with a tragic story of communications gone wrong. When a Spanish-speaking hospital receptionist refused to interpret during her lunch hour,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 26, 2005 02:11 PM
Au Contraire, Mon Petite Poulet
Senior politicians and Eurocrats yesterday abandoned their previous chorus of upbeat, inspiring calls to build a new Europe on a foundation of French values*. Seems the chirpy promises of living This Perfect Day haven't persuaded enough French voters to mark...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 20, 2005 12:33 AM
You Can Send Me That Bottle of Opus Now
The Supreme Court struck down the Direct Sales Ban. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - States cannot ban direct out-of-state wine shipments if they allow their wineries to sell directly to consumers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a decision that...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 16, 2005 12:39 PM
The End is Nigh...
...when Jane FONDA gets cut off by an interviewer for...{drumroll}...talking nicely about President Bush. Liz: Yes, publicans and sinners. Or was that Republicans and sinners? Jane: (Laughter) I was at the White House correspondents' dinner the other night, and Laura...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 13, 2005 12:16 PM
The Joy Of Putting A Face To A Name
I had the distinct pleasure last night of getting to meet Nightfly and some friends of his at a local watering hole, where they had kindly invited me to meet them after their bible study group had finished. A sweeter,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 11, 2005 10:05 PM
Wine Lover Update
According to my just arrived Free the Grapes newsletter, Texass has become the 27th state to support limited, regulated direct to consumer wine shipments. Authored by State Senator Frank Madla (D-San Antonio), and signed into law May 9 by...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 11, 2005 12:11 PM
You Get What You Pay For
Here's a fun little factoid: In April, insurgents launched 135 car bombings in Iraq, with half of them being suicide attacks, the U.S. military said. How many of these were funded by Sgrena's ransom?...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 10, 2005 03:42 PM
On Colonel Hackworth
He also seemed to relish stepping on toes. Sometimes, admirals and generals got hurt. But that never stopped Hackworth from telling leaders what he really thought about their operation. General Eisenhower learned that first hand when he was traveling across...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 7, 2005 10:48 AM
On a Lighter Note...
...justice has prevailed as far as the senior troglodyte* at Abu Ghraib. Yes, you guessed it. Army Demotes General in Abu Ghraib Scandal The Army has offered its last word on holding its generals accountable in the Abu Ghraib prisoner...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 6, 2005 01:22 PM
Well Now, THAT'S a Smack Down If I Ever Saw One
From the Appeals Court decision on the 'Broadcast Flag' FCC ruling (page 4 of 34): As a result, the FCC’s purported exercise of ancillary authority founders on the first condition. There is no statutory foundation for the broadcast flag rules,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 6, 2005 12:23 PM
Exonerated!
A Marine corporal who was videotaped shooting an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last year will not face a court-martial, the Marine Corps announced Wednesday. A review of the evidence showed the Marine's actions were "consistent...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 4, 2005 09:50 PM
My Cultural Void, And I'm Proud Of It
Shockingly I am getting grief for movies I haven't seen. Unlike the cowed DaveJ I will not succumb to the dual pressures of wine and women; I will not yield! But to aid in their efforts, here is a list...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 4, 2005 01:38 PM
Oh Puh-Lease
So we find out that the reason that despicable toad Lynndie England did what she did is becaues she was "oxygen deprived at birth"? Give me a god damned break already. The Toadette herself said the truth the other day:...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 4, 2005 08:32 AM
Not Just 'Don't Drink the Water' Anymore
Today's Travel Section in Pravda offers an article on the coming of age of Mexico's viniculture. And a truly horrific explanation for why Mexican wines were so abysmal. Forgive me. I had to share: In the land of tequila and...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 1, 2005 04:46 PM
In Honor of the Big Apple Gathering Tonight
(Which is much nicer than my being pissy about it like Mr. Summers, 'cause I can't go either.) Since Bingley has already posted this week's Swilling entry, I thought I'd pass along a bittersweet but fascinating Pravda Op-Ed piece (lifted...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 29, 2005 02:37 PM
It Went Horribly Awry
We were eating a quiet dinner that was shattered by the ferocious ringing of the doorbell. Our plates clattered to the table as we raced to open the front hatchway, only to be confronted by another piece of duct tape...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 28, 2005 05:13 PM
200 Years Ago Today...
...Lt. Presley O'Bannon added the 'Shores of Tripoli' to the Marines' Hymn. It's a great story. Semper Fi. There, on 27 April 1805, with bombardment support provided by Hornet, Nautilus, and Argus, Lt. O’Bannon led his force through a hail...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 27, 2005 09:38 AM
Again on Parental Responsibility
Remember our ongoing litany? Another former Jarhead who blogs has seen fit to wade into the fray. (Major Dad found him courtesy of FoxNewsdotcom.) See? We're not the only cranky anti-entitled children grouches out there! Ah. Strength in numbers. Read...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 26, 2005 02:45 PM
Redemption? We Don't Believe In No Steenkeen Redemption!
If you're looking for a good round up of the brouhaha about Pope Benedict XVI's past the ever wonderful Baldilocks is a great place to start. What amazes me, and saddens me too, about all these christians who have worked...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 22, 2005 02:35 PM
Rest in Peace, LtCmdr Lipes
Major Dad found this obituary in Pravda today. Holy moly, what a story! (A Pulitzer Prize winning one, to be exact.) Lt. Cmdr. Wheeler B. Lipes, who performed a storied appendectomy while a pharmacist's mate aboard a submarine in the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 20, 2005 01:30 PM
unHook the Line and SINK Her, Already!
Astounding myself yet again with my prescient talents, I have forseen disaster... " And where that historic eyesore is parked happens to be my downtown in Pensacola. They farted around getting her towed here and now it's too late to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 19, 2005 02:32 PM
To The Good People Who Keep Searching For "LOTR"
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but all the linking must have nuked the bandwidth of the folks who were hosting them. If we can find them again I'll host them and put them back up....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 18, 2005 08:43 PM
Guns Don't Kill People...
...poor training and poor firearm discipline kill people, as a little research proved this morning. On the face of it, this local news story last night, with a lawyer money quote like this: Bryan Cigeleske, Attorney for Goodwin says "There...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 16, 2005 02:08 PM
This Saves Alot of Heartache
Eric Rudolph is pleading GUILTY and will serve four life sentences. I understand how angry many will be, but this assures a just outcome and gives no voice to the media circus that was sure to ensue. We've had enough...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 8, 2005 05:25 PM
Thoughts From The First Round Of The Masters
1) Rich Beem is not as fat in real life as he appears on tv. 2) Craig Stadler is fatter. 3) If Craig Parry were any fatter Luke Skywalker would be leading a squadron of X-Wings to blow him up....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 8, 2005 04:59 PM
The Littlest Things Gang Aft Agley
Thank God for the dogs. If it wasn't for wanting to boot them outside to do their thing when the rain slacked off a smidge, I'd have never seen the waves lapping at the base of the patio and the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 7, 2005 09:59 AM
100 Common Sense Rules...
...for a dangerous world. Ten years old, but as valid as the day they were written. A few of the 'easy-to-follow' truisms: 34. I will not turn into a snake. It never helps. 42. When I capture the hero, I...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on April 5, 2005 11:05 AM
A report from the earthquake zone....
I just got this last night from a close friend of Mrs Crusader who we attend church with. One of her co-workers has a son who works with Samaritan's Purse (yup, we would prolly qualify as Fundies in most of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 30, 2005 08:21 AM
Tin Pots, Hot Spots, Tempests and Despots
You're right. Africa. I've been doing an admirable job, blonde-wise, of keeping up with the goings, comings and hand wringings about Sudan, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Chad...the misery list seems interminable doesn't it? Major Dad's photos from Somalia sit framed on our...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 29, 2005 01:30 PM
The Best Laid Schemes Gang Aft Agley
Or maybe I should call this "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished." A coworker whose son is autistic related the story of a local minor league ballpark that had a special event for autistic kids. Very low admission, autographs on the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 24, 2005 03:03 PM
Waiter...
...there's a finger in my chili... *Update: You knew there had to be more, right? The search is on "All employees’ digits were accounted for, officials said, adding that the well-cooked finger may have come from a food processing plant...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 24, 2005 10:47 AM
Jutland: One Of The Greatest Games Ever
Bill has been on quite a tear of late with his "Name That Ship" series of posts, and has provided a lot of fun for us history buffs (though I do prefer the term "buff historians"). It reminded me of...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 24, 2005 09:09 AM
A Swill Exclusive!
Upon hearing that there were tapes of Guantanamo Bay torture our intrepid reporter began digging, and we can now confirm their existence! You heard it here first, folks....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 21, 2005 03:43 PM
Cowards
But what struck us about this as we were talking about it last night ( well, struck my bride, really, because she's the smart one) is the cowardice of it. Your wife is inconvenient? She's a burden? Stop feeding her,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 21, 2005 08:01 AM
Sounds Like a Pete Seger Song...
On a more sobering military note, an amazing piece appears in this month's Marine Corps Gazette's 'Commentary on the Corps' section (unavailable on the web, more's the pity). I say amazing but mean bold, ballsy, forthright, completely unvarnished and 'holy...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 16, 2005 12:12 PM
Being Teresa Heinz
In response to Nightfly's brilliant post below: I hope someone fisks this crap. "Ultraconservative" bishops refusing Kerry communion? Since when is it ultraconservative to actually take a stand in favor of something the whole Church teaches? Or to insist on...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 8, 2005 02:06 PM
The Rachel Corrie Award
I wasn't aware that such a thing existed, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Eugene Volokh reports that one Matthew Abraham, assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, is the recipient of the 2005 Rachel...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 7, 2005 08:56 PM
Wonder Woman
After reading the latest version of the Giuliana Sgrena saga, all I can say is Lynda Carter had nothin' on this chick. Why, we learn that even though she faced, according to her fellow il Manifesto columnist Rossana Rossanda (who...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 7, 2005 07:31 PM
I Guess the VRWC Went After Him, Too
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co. Monday said it fired Chief Executive Harry Stonecipher, after a probe into a personal relationship he had with a female executive that it said ``reflected poorly'' on the No. 1 U.S. aircraft maker. Weird...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 7, 2005 09:24 AM
Tender Harvard Souls, Part II
Further to what THS posted below, what really struck me about this whole "issue" was the way it was first reported by the Harvard Crimson: After some students were offended by Jada Pinkett Smith’s comments at Saturday’s Cultural Rhythms show,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 6, 2005 07:05 AM
Male Teenage Fantasies Come Crashing Down
Well, with all these cases popping up of teenage boys being abused by their teachers: some guys were starting to think that maybe they'd like to go back to 8th grade. Gentlemen, it is my solemn duty to confront you...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 4, 2005 10:11 AM
Fossett's Almost There!
This is just too cool. But can someone clue CNN in that Magellan didn't circumnavigate the globe? As anyone who listens to the Animaniacs knows: Yakko: They sailed due west To the Philippine Islands Magellan was pleased As the natives...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 3, 2005 09:40 AM
More Ward Stuff
David Kopel has an excellent post up at Volokh that provides a great summation of the fraud that is Ward Churchill. As I've noted before, the real scandal here is not what he's said but that he was given tenure....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 2, 2005 08:27 AM
Because of Winn-Dixie
If you recognize anyone, adjust their attitudes immediately. Cashiering Tips 101 Hello, I’m your friendly checker. Maybe you call me “the cashier” or “check out girl/lady/register bimbo/whore/missy. I’m a relatively normal person who, for some reason or other, whether it...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 1, 2005 10:50 AM
Give It A Rest?
I was sitting watching Nickelodeon with my 11 year old daughter the other day, Friday, I think it was, and a particularly sloth-like day at that, and every half hour there'd be one of those "Kids Today!" or "Kids Can...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 28, 2005 12:50 PM
The Real Ward Churchill Scandal
So now there are reports the CU is going to buy-out Ward Churchill's contract in hopes that he'll just go away. Typical. Spend several million dollars of taxpayer money to get out of the mess that the faculty at CU...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 28, 2005 08:30 AM
I Propose a Writing Exercise
The ninehundredpound brains at Powerline have linked to a hilarious scholarly piece by Thomas Lipscomb in Oregon Magazine. A sample: Drowning in Cambodia By Thomas Lipscomb It has been a rough ten days for Senator John Kerry. First Democratic Party...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 23, 2005 08:09 AM
Gosh, Europeans Are So Civilized
It seems those charming Belgians have got a new fad: peeing on Bush' face. And it seems the stickers were created at the Foreign Ministry. Nice. This is the "Euro-Style" of diplomacy, eh? *Correction: they were created in the Prime...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 22, 2005 03:05 PM
60 Years Ago Today
Iwo Jima Uncommon valor was a common virtue. Admiral Chester Nimitz......
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 19, 2005 11:55 AM
Does the company own you off the clock?
Interesting post/comments on the idea. I have mixed feelings, as I see the Companies rights, but also see the potential problems. I do wonder if this is just not another attempt to demonize smokers, as they seem to be the...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 18, 2005 11:46 AM
Oh, beloved fairness....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 17, 2005 12:19 PM
"Sod Off, Swampy"
Tim has a wonderful post up about some Greenpeace morons who invaded the oil trading ring in London and tried to shut it down...only to get the bejeebus beat out of them by the traders. God, it's wonderful. Listen to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 17, 2005 08:49 AM
My Valentine's Day Story
We all can point to one moment in our lives when the world comes crashing down, all of our sugar plum illusions are dashed, and flaming embers are placed in our bowels. Generally this is a good thing, the earlier...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 14, 2005 02:31 PM
Scam Reply Hall of Fame
As promised below, the Watchful Babbler was kind enough to send me his scam-reply-to-end-all-scam replies:...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 8, 2005 11:53 AM
Academic Freedom
Eugene Volokh has a post up in the midst of all this Ward Churchill hoopla where he defends academic freedom. He defines it as follows: By academic freedom principles, I mean First Amendment protection for those of us at state-run...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 6, 2005 01:13 PM
Of Iraq, Athens, and US
From QandO Blog: So died these men as became Athenians. You, their survivors, must determine to have as unfaltering a resolution in the field, though you may pray that it may have a happier issue. And not contented with ideas...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 4, 2005 09:02 AM
Flyin' Down to Rio
So I'm in Rio last week, waiting in the lobby of the Copacabana Palace Hotel to be picked up by my friend (of Tylenol fame). We were going out to dinner at Gero in Ipanema, which is currently 'the' italian...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 3, 2005 09:50 PM