As Patterico noted, Allah has been on a roll with the good stuff. As I noted earlier, McCain is going to go from media darling to main dish at a feeding frenzy from now until November.


Good luck with that Senator.
 

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Muqtada Al-Sadr has ordered his Mahdi Army militia to observe another six-month ceasefire in Iraq.  Isn't this the same guy who was indicted for murder and then hid in Iran while his thugs got stomped by Coalition Forces?


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Thought so.  Why aren't these things mentioned anymore, and why are we praising him in the AP article?

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I have two Zune 30 media players and will be getting at least one Zune 80 sometime this year and give the 30GB Zunes to the kids.  I love the Zune for my music and podcasts, as a portable radio, and have all my digital photographs saved for viewing as well.  Video support is weak compared to some of the other players and the Zune software is a little clunky for some tasks (not anywhere near as bad as iTunes, but could stand some improvement).  While I will probably do a more in-depth review of the Zune later, I just finished putting together another playlist and wanted to share a bit of that.

This one has 2,289 songs from a wide variety of artists and genres.  When I put it on random play I haven't heard a song repeated yet.  I confess that a lot of my listening is influenced by the kids, but in fairness, they like a lot of the stuff I grew up with too. So what kind of list has almost 2300 songs on it?  Here is a partial list below the fold:


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Without food-delivery and waste-elimination systems in place, this stays in the "close-but-no-cigar" category.

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Via Medscape, a free subscription with loads of fine medical- and health-related articles. 

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From the AP:

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On the blogroll, you'll see "Teh Squeaky Wheel" and are encouraged to check it out.  It's like a house where everyone in the family can just walk in, take off their shoes, chat for a bit, and take off to continue their day.  It's what the web should be like all over.  It doesn't matter what your politics, religion, orientation, shoe size, or anything else may be... you're welcome at teh Wheel.  (Most often, the word "the" is spelled "teh", along with many other endearing idiosyncrasies that you will pick up quickly.  I'm still getting a sense of "Brenda's Dryer", but I was gone for a while... so there's that)
 

Some history... my first exposure to blogs was when Deb Frisch had her meltdown over at Protein Wisdom.  I'm not going to link anything to her directly, but if you're not familiar with this psycho, Google and Wikipedia are good places to start.  An exceptionally fine man called Sinner started "Don't Hire Dr. Deborah Frisch" to help the academic world avoid a huge mistake in letting this horrible excuse for a human being (and I don't say that lightly) come anywhere near children again.
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I don't remember where I saw this first, it was sometime last year.  Very funny and great song, even if I'm not a huge fan of the apparent sponsors.  Mild content warning at some of the pantomime gestures.  Nothing terrible, but some may be uncomfortable explaining to their boss or children what is meant (I wasn't... I showed my boss and my kids.  They all laughed, hence the mild warning.)

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And the hits just keep on coming in the Democratic Party primary race as Karl from Protein Wisdom posts about superdelegates receiving
"campaign donations" from the two remaining party candidates.  It's no surprise to me that this is going to be a bitter fight with accusations flying back and forth constantly.  It doesn't matter if these accusations are even true.  If they are, it's just business as usual on the Democratic Party Campaign Trail.  If they aren't, it's just business as usual on the... you get the idea.

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As a companion to the earlier post, I was thinking about my memories of JFK and Ronald Reagan.  Specifically, the pride I felt in America and a sense of hope for the future.

How is this different than what we see with Barack Obama?  I think of it as a matter of style over substance.  With JFK and Reagan, there were specific reasons and policies that engendered those good feelings.  Based in reality, they were healthy and developmentally sound.

I don't get the same feeling when I hear Obama.  He's a nanny-stater who has not been very specific in what his vision of the future might be, other than Hope and Change.  The Democratic nomination is (IMHO) still very much up for grabs.  Obama has an almost cultish following with swooning fans.  Hillary has a political machine and a "scorched-Earth" mentality that historically she has used without compunction.

This is Democratic Party politics at its finest.  Identity trumps platform, race and gender are more significant than policy.  "Chickens coming home to roost" is the order of the day and there will be screeching no matter who comes out on top.  If leaving the Republican Party was preferable to supporting a candidate that I can't trust, why would I even consider a political philosophy that is anathema to me?

I've mentioned to my parents more than once, "This is not the Democratic Party you grew up with."  I'm glad to say that they're starting to see the light.

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