Michelle Malkin has a roundup of links on what’s increasing looking like Islamic terrorism in Oklahoma. This seems to be a story where the blogs are way ahead of the MSM. It would also be interesting to see if Jayna Davis comes up with any ties to the events of ten years ago.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Here’s more.
I know you’ll find this hard to imagine, but Louis Freeh says that the Clintons’ closets were full of skeletons. And in this case, it’s probably not just a figure of speech.
What do you do when you’re the FBI director for a president so corrupt? I would have stepped down, and said why. It certainly would have done the country a service to know at the time (of coure, much of it prefers to remain in denial now). It’s hard to work up much admiration for him at this point (particularly seeing what a mess he left the FBI in, including his aversion to computers and technology). But at least this might be one more wrench in the spokes of Hillary’s candidacy.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Oh, I hadn’t read this part:
Freeh says he was determined to stay on as FBI director until President Clinton left office so that Clinton could not appoint his successor.
For the first time in a long time, from the president about the war, and the enemy:
Over the years these extremists have used a litany of excuses for violence — the Israeli presence on the West Bank, or the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia, or the defeat of the Taliban, or the Crusades of a thousand years ago. In fact, we’re not facing a set of grievances that can be soothed and addressed. We’re facing a radical ideology with inalterable objectives: to enslave whole nations and intimidate the world. No act of ours invited the rage of the killers — and no concession, bribe, or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder.
Well, that’s not quite true. Maybe if we all converted and instituted Sharia, they might stop trying to murder us. At least not as quickly. Under those circumstances, of course, they could do it at their leisure, and whim.
Now if only the administration would stop calling it a War on “Terrorism,” and give it its true name.
[Update on a rainy south Florida afternoon]
A bleg: what did people, including the press, call World War II during World War II? Did they call it that? Or just “the war”? Or something else? I always thought that the terms World War I (the Great War) and World War II were terms that arose after the war, in the context of both of them. After all, it would have made no sense to call WW I WW I before WW II, because that would imply knowledge that there would be more to come (not necessarily a tough prediction, given world history, but still). And anyway, WW I was the “war to end all wars.” Woodrow Wilson said so himself…
But now, in the context of past century, why can’t we just call this one World War IV (and the third one straight against a form of totalitarianism)?
I’m going to be attending this conference in LA in a couple weeks. Those who are interested in the other space program may want to do so as well.
Did the head of the DNC really say this?
MATTHEWS: Do you believe that the president can claim executive privilege?
DEAN: Well, certainly the president can claim executive privilege. But in this case, I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can’t play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it’s called. He’s got to go out there and say something about this woman who’s going to a 20 or 30-year appointment, a 20 or 30-year appointment to influence America. We deserve to know something about her.
Emphasis mine.
Howard Dean. The gift that just keeps on giving.
Alan Boyle (who is on his way to check out the rocket racing exhibition in New Mexico), talks about advances in adaptive optics, with a spectacular picture of a sunspot.
You know, if Tom Hanks could stop being so enthralled with NASA, and use his money and influence to help out some of the private players in space, he might actually be able to get to the moon before 2018. And they’d even be willing to build a vehicle that can handle his 6’1″ frame.
[via Fred Kiesche]
Kathleen Willie is writing a book. And we can be sure that the junior senator from New York will claim that this (Democrat’s) new tome is just part of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy:
The upcoming book
Clark Lindsey just got back from the Air and Space Museum. He’s got pictures.
Here’s an interesting new theory–the large mammals of America may have been wiped out by a storm from a supernova:
Richard Firestone, a nuclear scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who formulated the theory with geologist Allen West, told Discovery News that a key piece of evidence for the supernova is a set of 34,000-year-old mammoth tusks riddled with tiny craters.
The researchers believe that in the sequence of events following the supernova, first, the iron-rich grains emitted from the explosion shot into the tusks. Whatever caused the craters had to have been traveling around 6,214 miles per second, and no other natural phenomenon explains the damage, they said.
Interesting, and as the article says, it’s testable. If it’s true, it’s a new kind of threat to worry about. I wonder if there would be any warning?
I don’t think that the precision in that paragraph makes sense, though–“around 6,214 miles per second”?