Browsing the Archive
January 2006
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Happy Birthday Wolfgang!
by Tammy on January 27, 2006Today is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday. Thank God for Mozart and every other genius who has gifted this world with classical music, a living illustration of what beauty sounds like. Here's a bit of coverage and odd bits...
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Maker of “Grand Theft Auto” Gets Sued
by Tammy on January 27, 2006In an example where government can do good, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is suing the maker of the obscenely violent video game "Grand Theft Auto" not because they don't like the content, or think it should be censored....
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Tammy Meets Algonquin Cat–Causes Open Thread To Occur
by Tammy on January 26, 2006Mathilda, The Algonquin Cat My time in New York has come to an end. I'm now headed to the airport but wanted you to see my portrait of Mathilda, the Algonquin Hotel's official lobby cat. Via the Motorola Razrphone,...
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Merkel Shines Again, Now At Davos
by Tammy on January 26, 2006DAVOS, Switzerland - In astonishingly short time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has emerged as the most dynamic leader in Europe. That at least seemed to be the verdict of the applause meter at the World Economic Forum in Davos...
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Under Pressure, Judge Cashman Increases Child Rapist Sentence
by Tammy on January 26, 2006After facing a massive public outcry, including your outrage and Gov. Douglas' call for him to resign, Judge Cashman of Vermont has changed his obscene 60 days sentence for a child rapist to 3-10 years. Via Fox News: BURLINGTON, Vt....
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Pajamas Googles China
by Tammy on January 26, 2006Now where else but the blogosphere could you get that headline? The issue at hand is Pajamas Media setting up "China Syndrome," a special blog listing dealing with the coverage of Google pandering to totalitarian China. Google's hypocrisy could not...
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Bush Basher Kanye West Addicted to Porn
by Tammy on January 26, 2006Surprise. I noted Joel "I Don't Support the Troops" Stein's love for porn here, and now it seems another Bush-bashing moralist has a need for images that subjugate and humiliate other human beings. Can you say "projection"? Here's another little...
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Another Good Reason Why We Fight
by Tammy on January 25, 2006So Andrea Marcovicci can perform in something other than a burqa. Right now I'm enjoying--guess what--a Martini--at the Algonquin, after which I will go shopping. I'm near Fifth Avenue so God help me. I know Mr. American Express will...
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French Soup Nazis
by Tammy on January 24, 2006Bad soup! Bad, bad, bad soup! Serve the soup, be a racist. Serve the soup, be insensitive. Soup good, pork bad. Pork soup bad. Serve the bad soup, you bad. Racist soup! Mon dieu....
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The Most Optimistic People in the World
by Tammy on January 24, 2006In all of their leftist MSM cynicism, the BBC is "surprised," but we aren't. If you had just been liberated after generations of oppression, and the future is finally bright and holds promise and hope only freedom and liberty offer,...
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Triumph of the redistributionist left
by Tammy on January 24, 2006With analysis like this, Is time everyone re-read, or read for the first time, Hayak's "The Road to Serfdom." Especially with all we know, it's never been more relevant....
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Fixes Considered for ‘Broken’ Supreme Court Confirmation Process
by Tammy on January 24, 2006Sure, but wouldn't that require shutting down the entire Senate? ;) Actually, this is rather amusing--the blowhards who made the confirmation process a joke are now calling for it to be "fixed." That's like the clowns at the circus protesting,...
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Jacksonville School District Goes to Mexico
by Tammy on January 24, 2006And why are they doing that on the taxpayer's dime? To hire Mexicans to teach in their school district, that's why! And why is that you ask again? Because.... Speaking Spanish has become an indispensable attribute, according to Marianela Bowen,...
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As Hillary Whines About the Bush Administration
by Tammy on January 23, 2006Saying as she did at last Monday's MLK celebration in Harlem: "We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down on history as one of the worst...
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Canada Chooses Conservative
by Tammy on January 23, 2006Oh, Canada! Great work! But just like the Germans, they're doing it with a tiny baby step. It's better than nothing, though. As of this writing the Conservatives in Canada lead the election with 125 seats to the Liberals...