Jeff Foust has found a story of some people who are clueless on multiple levels:
According to Net#work BBDO
What Is A “Moderate” Muslim?
An interesting discussion over at Winds of Change. Meanwhile, Andrew Bolt says that Australian Muslims have failed the test, and he’s fed up.
Oh, and the Dems will be happy to know that they have the Jihadi vote wrapped up. They could usefully ask themselves why that might be the case.
What Is A “Moderate” Muslim?
An interesting discussion over at Winds of Change. Meanwhile, Andrew Bolt says that Australian Muslims have failed the test, and he’s fed up.
Oh, and the Dems will be happy to know that they have the Jihadi vote wrapped up. They could usefully ask themselves why that might be the case.
What Is A “Moderate” Muslim?
An interesting discussion over at Winds of Change. Meanwhile, Andrew Bolt says that Australian Muslims have failed the test, and he’s fed up.
Oh, and the Dems will be happy to know that they have the Jihadi vote wrapped up. They could usefully ask themselves why that might be the case.
A Brief History
…of rocket cars. From Iowahawk. I missed this when he posted it in April.
Breakthrough
A liver grown from umbilical cord blood. Leon Kass can’t be happy about this.
Throwing In The Towel
Ralph Peters has given up on Iraq. For the sake of the Iraqis, and the larger war effort, I hope he’s wrong.
Is There A Lawyer In The House?
Model rocketeers need some pro bono help against an out-of-control government agency.
The Political Tone Deafness
…of John Kerry. It takes a Brit to point it out:
US servicemen are revered in a way that the British squaddie can only dream of. Soldiers travel in uniform and are routinely ushered to the front of queues and given upgrades to business class with no questions asked. On an American Airlines jet from Dallas last Sunday, a flight attendant made a spontaneous announcement about “the sacrifice our young men and women are making to keep us safe”. The whole plane applauded her.
This is not just rah-rah jingoism. The aching reality of war is also apparent. At Houston airport on Wednesday night I pulled up behind a white hearse with two soldiers in dress uniform inside it. “That’s one of our boys coming home from Iraq,” said a sombre Avis representative, waving me past.
As Kerry has found out, you try to exploit this sentiment for political gain at your peril. The military is the most integrated sector of American society. Poor youths with a bit of get up and go about them use it to get funding for college to pull themselves up a rung on the economic ladder.
I have sat in Humvees and Bradley fighting vehicles with black sergeants from Alabama, marines from Mexico and good ol’ boy snipers from Kentucky in places like Fallujah and Ramadi as they described their hopes with an affecting optimism that belied the mortal danger they were in. In many ways, they embody what is great about America.
The Anglosphere Spreads Further
Will India beat NASA back to the moon?
At a forthcoming meeting of the country’s top scientists on November 7, ISRO will, for the first time, unveil two of its ambitious plans – to send an Indian into space around 2014 and then to have one walk on the moon about six years later. Both missions will be accomplished without any foreign assistance. ISRO will even find a Sanskrit word equivalent for the US’s ‘astronaut’ and Russia’s ‘cosmonaut’ to describe the Indian in space.
They seem to be taking the same high-cost approach, though, so I’m not sure where this will lead, or how affordable it will ultimately be. Of course, they also have to avoid a nuclear war with Pakistan.