"Candied bacon martini"Did you know there are bacon-of-the-month clubs?
The Pig Next Door
Zingerman's
Coastal Vineyards
The grateful palateOMG! That's it. I'm toast. Bacon beer!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Swine for all!!!
No Silence Here:
The price of action?
Althouse:
It's Barack Obama, scary us into accepting whatever it is he thinks must be done."I don’t believe it’s too late to change course, but it will be if we don’t take dramatic action as soon as possible. If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years. The unemployment rate could reach double digits."
If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years.... and if something is done?
You think the "media" gives a hoot if their numbers are correct?
Reporting Palestinian Death Tolls: A Math Question:
...In reporting these death tolls, does the media include the dozens of Palestinians executed by Hamas as suspected collaborators? I suspect they do. Is anyone besides Power Line asking?
Because, if the death tolls include those executed by Hamas, then it’s not the “Israeli assault” that killed them. I mean, that’s sort of obvious . . . but Big Media doesn’t seem to understand it, regardless.
Quote of the Day:
GayPatriot
"The Israeli military has clear plans. It has a strategy for victory. Something which Norm Coleman lacked in the Minnesota recount. And John McCain in the most recent presidential campaign."
Amen...
When politicians declare war on something, it's not usually a good sign.
"Politicians are fond of comparing things that aren't war to war. It's both an abuse of language and a rhetorical trick. We hear about war, and we think whatever bold actions this politician is asking us to take must be worth it because, well, it's war. But a lot of the things presidents have declared war on are still with us."
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
It is ALWAYS about goaltending!
What Went Wrong at the World Juniors
A great article, though, that should be read by anyone really interested in hockey. At least, the NY Times always has good and balanced junior coverage.
"The failure in Ottawa was simple. They had average goaltending, couldn’t overcome some adversity against Canada and Slovakia, and their depth was exposed. To complicate this further is unfair."
A great article, though, that should be read by anyone really interested in hockey. At least, the NY Times always has good and balanced junior coverage.
Ain't THAT the truth...
The World's Pornographic Interest in Jewish Moral Failure
"Okay, yesterday I was depressed. Today, I'm just pissed off. It's absolutely astonishing to me how interested the world is in Israel's failings. This is the source of a bitter but hilarious observation I once heard a Kurdish leader make: He was complaining to me that his people were cursed, and I asked him what he meant: Cursed by geography, cursed by their proximity to Kurd-hating Arabs, what? He said the Kurds were cursed because they didn't have Jewish enemies. Only with Jewish enemies would the world pay attention to their plight."
Via Instapundit...
SO DON’T GIVE ‘EM ONE: Hamas Desperate for Lull.
Remember: "We're going to attack this army, cut it off from its supply lines, and then kill it."? This is no time to be nice....
This is the stuff that real, BIG wars are made of...
Russia Cuts Gas, and Europe Shivers:
"Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, halted nearly all its natural gas exports to Europe on Tuesday, sharply escalating its pricing dispute with neighboring Ukraine. The cutoff led to immediate shortages from France to Turkey and underscored Moscow’s increasingly confrontational posture toward the West.
Across Europe, countries reported precipitous drops in gas pressure in their pipelines at the peak of the winter heating season in a bitterly cold January."
Who are you rooting for?
Iran's Postmodern Beast in Gaza:
Very much in line with what Tom Friedman has to offer this morning.....
Israel’s attack on Gaza is, in effect, an attack on Iran’s empire, the first since its offensive on Iranian-backed Hezbollah in 2006. That attack failed for a number of reasons, not least of which was Israel’s poor intelligence on Hezbollah: historically, its intelligence on the Palestinians has been much better. Moreover, this attack seems more deliberately planned, with narrower, publicly stated aims – all in all, a more professional job. But there is a fundamental problem with what Israel is doing that goes to the heart of the postmodern beast that the Iranian empire represents.
Very much in line with what Tom Friedman has to offer this morning.....
Nancy Pelosi - War criminal?
What Congress Knew About 'Torture':
"Barack Obama's choice of former Congressman Leon Panetta to lead the CIA at least puts a grownup, if also an intelligence rookie, in that crucial job. It also means that Mr. Panetta and Director of National Intelligence-designate Dennis Blair will soon have to decide if they want to join the left-wing crusade to purge their agencies of anyone who had anything to do with 'torture.'
In particular, at their nomination hearings they're likely to be asked to support a 'truth commission' on the Bush Administration's terrorist interrogation policies. We hope they have the good sense to resist. And if they need any reason to push back, they could start by noting the Members of Congress who would be on the witness list to raise their right hands."
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
More and more of the same....
Clinton's Iranian Connection
"On Dec. 19, 2008. at 2 p.m., the New York-based Alavi Foundation, which supports Iranian causes, contributed between $25,000 and $50,000 to the William J. Clinton Foundation. This can be best described as the ultimate chutzpah, for on the very same day, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York indicted the president of the Alavi Foundation, Farshid Jahedi, 'on a charge of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying documents required to be produced under a grand jury subpoena concerning the Alavi Foundation's relationship with Bank Melli Iran and the ownership of a Manhattan office building.'"
"Change" to make you nauseous...
So Glad It’s a New Political Era:
"We are the party of Barack Obama and the Daley Machine; the party of the Clintons and their amazing alchemistic Library, which turns Saudi dross into altruistic gold; the party of Tony Rezko and Norman Hsu; the party of vaporizing fundraisers, absconding bagmen and sitting New Mexico governors (and a recent presidential “candidate”) currently under federal investigation for allegedly steering a state contract in the direction of one of his big backers, David Rubin of CDR Financial Products in Beverly Hills. Now comes word that Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state-designate, Congress and the Emoluments Clause willing, got millions of dollars for a mall in Syracuse shortly after the developer coughed up a hundred grand for the Bill Clinton “Foundation.” That’s what I call commerce!"
Monday, January 5, 2009
Give 'em a country!
The Brave Resistance
From the JPost:
[IDF officials] said that it was likely that a number of senior Hamas operatives and terror chiefs were hiding and conducting their operations from within Shifa Hosptial in Gaza City.
“Hamas operatives are in the hospital and have disguised themselves as nurses and doctors,” one official explained.
Now the Israelis have done it — they’ve forced Hamas leaders to dress up like nurses. Zionist cruelty knows no bounds.
He'll be bankrolling MoveOn, too....
Look Who's Buying IndyMac
So much for history. George Soros is in on the deal to buy IndyMac from the FDIC. Soros has a long history of making loads of money by first creating a financial crisis and then stepping in to grab up the bargains. Perhaps the most famous example of this tactic is "Black Wednesday," when Soros nearly sunk the entire economy of Great Britain through currency speculation.George Soros has helped bankroll the campaigns of the Democrats in Congress who created this mess. Now, it appears, he is cashing in on his investment.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Worth the long read... but scary
Portrait Emerges of Anthrax Suspect’s Troubled Life
"Dr. Ivins, who had helped develop an anthrax vaccine to protect American troops, had spent his career waiting for a biological attack. Suddenly, at 55, he was advising the F.B.I. and regaling friends with scary descriptions of the deadly powder, his expertise in demand.
One recipient of his e-mail message, however, a graduate-school colleague, looked at the photograph of Dr. Ivins and leapt to a shocking conclusion.
“I read that e-mail, and I thought, He did it,” the fellow scientist, Nancy Haigwood, said in a recent interview."
