John Moore | September 24, 2003
Democrats worship Bill Clinton, a candidate and president who certainly had “integrity and character” issues. Now they are falling in love with General Wesley Clark. And it appears he may have the same issues, if you believe his former boss, General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
“What do you think of [...]
John Moore | September 24, 2003
The idiotic 1994 “assault weapon” ban will sunset next year (shhh… don’t tell the lefties). This law, passed in 1994 with the help of dishonest and just plain ignorant media, bans weapons that look evil.
Smallest Minority discovered the following picture of a gun model to be released immediately upon the expiration of the law. I [...]
John Moore | September 23, 2003
From the Wall Street Journal:
Right after that meeting, I was given the KGB’s “personal file” on Arafat. He was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-ops school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future [...]
John Moore | September 22, 2003
From the Arizona Republic:
The ear-blasting takeoffs of military fighter jets at suburban Scottsdale Airport have residents buzzing and city officials flying off.
That’s the sound of people who fight and die for their benefit!Nearby airport neighbor Nick Luongo said his wife was taking a shower when some of the fighter jets passed overhead.
“They scared the living [...]
John Moore | September 21, 2003
Fox News is reporting that Attorney General John Ashcroft is ordering all federal prosecutors to apply the strongest charges (in terms of sentencing) in all criminal cases..
If this is true, then Ashcroft has to go. This would be “justice” by bureaucracy, with no room for judgement or common sense. Sentences have ranges for a reason, [...]
John Moore | September 19, 2003
Glenn Reynolds has commented about the level of hype associated with Hurricane Isabel. However, the comment “Category 2 Storm, Category 5 Hype” betrays a common misconception: that the category rating gives a good approximation of the danger to you. Lots of people say “I’ve ridden out a Category 2 before, so what’s the big [...]
John Moore | September 19, 2003
Edward at Zonitics noticed the enviro-whackos trying to block an improvement to the power grid by using the Gentry Indigo Bush. Apparently the bushes grow only in the path along which the transmission line will go, so building it will wipe them out. Or something like that…
But never fear, the same Tucsonian idiots [...]
John Moore | September 19, 2003
From Al Bawaba
Substitute Leader of Tehran Friday Prayers and Secretary of the Guardians Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati and Chief Looneytune on Friday called for Iran’s withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), reported the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). “The treaty has been denounced by a number of states. Although Iran has signed the [...]
John Moore | September 19, 2003
From Reuters:
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Europe reached an agreement on Thursday to allow China to take part in Europe’s Galileo satellite program, the European Union (news – web sites) said.
Galileo is part of a broader European drive to bolster its role in space and lessen its dependence on the United States, which spends [...]
John Moore | September 17, 2003
No blogging tonite. Too busy providing ham radio communications for the Hurricane Watch Net.