The U.S. government made news today by filing a trade violation charge with the E.U. against China at the World Trade Organization.  Its long overdue and nowhere near sufficient to break the many barriers erected to free trade by China, but at least it is a move in the right direction.  Here’s the lede from […]

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The right thing finally happened long after it should have when Rob Reiner finally resigned his position to his expired term as head of California’s First 5 Commission.  It is telling that he was NOT just replaced outright by Gov. Arnold "I hope I’ll be back" Schwarzenager, who had every right to do so since […]

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Long in the waiting it has been, but the day finally came at last that Deep Keel got an icon that shows up at the top of your browser.  If you use Firefox it will show up automatically on the address bar and in your bookmarks after you use them.  If you use Internet Explorer […]

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The bad news about the resolution of the Abdul Rahman case won’t be reported much but it has larger consequences than the life of this one man.  The bad news is that he had to escape Afghanistan at all.  Political pressure and a legal trick was used to release him long enough for him to […]

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Abdul Rahman escaped to Italy with some help from International sources.  Thanks to all involved in making it happen.  The good news from Yahoo News (hat tip to LGF for the link):

The Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity received asylum in Italy Wednesday, despite requests by […]

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The American Left is charging up the hill against the Electoral College again and it is going to have the same result as every other time:  none.  Perhaps its the approaching Spring air and this is sort of the Lefty political equivalent of mating season where all the political animals sort of get wild eyed […]

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Our current immigration system isn’t working for much of anyone, its broken and it needs to be fixed badly.  The current immigration and non-enforcement system both leaves our nation totally unprotected from hostile people and at the same time is enough of a barrier that it is just getting a bunch of people who just […]

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You just have to love it, follow this link to Fark to see many more like it.  A must see for any 24 fan.  Hat tip to Officer’s Club for the link.
 

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If you have been watching the news lately you will have seen a few reports about rioting in France again, this time with the actual native French youth who are upset at a new labor law.  There’s a lot of commentary from the Right side of the blogosphere about how they are misguided and economically […]

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Abdul Rahman might give birth to the new contemporary Crusades.  The Crusades began you will note because of Muslim abuses of the Holy Lands and other arocities against Christianity.  We are very close to the rebirth of ancient Holy War.
The Mohammed Cartoon Controversy that refuses to die is clarifying the truths hiding behind diplomatic […]

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I just got back from a panel discussion hosted by Hugh Hewitt at Chapman Law School on how blogs are effecting or interacting with the law, in which Hugh did a fair job herding the cats (a.k.a. law professors and practicing lawyers) on the panel and keeping it to its alloted two hours.  Hugh’s a […]

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Are you prepared for the Bird Flu?  Or any natural disaster for that matter?  The Bird Flu is different in that we can see it coming from far away, so far away it leads to a false sense of security.  But it is spreading through wild birds worldwide and it will be here in the […]

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The Russian and Chinese governments have come out together to jointly say that they oppose serious measures to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.  They insist on peaceful diplomacy as the only acceptable resolution to the growing crisis, and since both have vetos on the U.N. Security Council they are stopping any attempts to use […]

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What do you think?  This layout is a merging of elements from two different released Wordpress themes, Butterfly/Laila and Red is Nice.  Butterfly forms the modified skeleton with significant graphical enhancements from Red is Nice.  And a lot of really detailed tweaking and a little work editing images.  It is not 100% finished but I […]

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I’ve been investigating new layouts for Deep Keel, and considering some other technology upgrades and changes at the same time.  I am not yet certain which layout I will settle on and will likely try a few out over the next week or so to see how they feel.  I’ll put up a post each […]

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There are times in the diplomatic process of international relations that a nation must expend considerable effort to determine the true intentions of another nation which is keeping its plans and motives secret.  The escalating confrontation with Iran about its pursuit of nuclear weapons is not one of them.  The new Iranian President is only […]

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There’s a really quick way to know if any Immigration Reform is in fact any such thing, and it is this:  the proposed plan is a complete sham, a deliberate scam, if it grants any kind of legal status to current illegal immigrants before effective measures have already taken control in order to prevent even […]

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You could pretty well predict what would happen here beforehand.  Just about anything the US wants at the U.N. gets voted the other way, almost certainly if it is to come to a General Assembly vote.  As did the action to replace the existing shameful joke of a Human Rights Commission that saw some of […]

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You probably won’t hear much on the news about the protests of the ‘French Youths’ this time, because, well… they are actually French Youths this time.  This time the term ‘French Youths’ is not being used in politically correct fashion to describe African/Muslim Youths, but is instead actually talking about ethnic French kids.  Confusing I […]

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Watching the news industry nowadays is perhaps like watching one of those disaster movies where you as the audience know that if the group just walked a few steps that way through the rain that they’d get to higher ground and not keep losing people to the flood.  Only of course they don’t see that […]

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There’s a lot I can take in this world, all sorts of doom and gloom, threats of nuclear annihilation etc… but come on!  This is too much, Isaac Hayes who’s played Chef in South Park since the beginning is leaving the show!  Nooooooooo.  Just say it aint so Chef!  Here’s the lede :

Isaac Hayes has […]

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The recent furor surrounding Rob Reiner as Chairman of the California First 5 commission using his position to fund advertising to support his Initiative for universal pre-school has raised a lot of attention for the issue.  Lots of it not good attention and some are reacting untypically this political season, perhaps because of the stench […]

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Finally.  After years of failed negotiations that the Iranians had no reason to take seriously the Bush Administration is reported to have arrived at the only possible solution:  remove the Mad Mullahs from power and get someone in Iran in charge who isn’t primarily interested in nuking the West and Israel.  Here’s the lede from […]

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If there is anyone who deserves to be protested its evil communist dictator Fidel Castro.  A man was brave enough to do so at the recent World Baseball Classic in Puerto Rico, here’s a little detail and a photo:

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The NYT published a story saying that lawyers, judges, and legislators from various states are upset because there is a "silent" program going on within the Federal Executive branch to enact tort reform.  Translation:  the President’s people are using their lawful powers to change and enforce regulation to reduce the opportunity of lawyers to sue […]

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State legislators of both parties have voted to audit First 5 in the interests of good and honest government, while the Sacramento District Attorney is seriously considering action separately.  And despite broad agreement in the State that Reiner lead the First 5 committee to do imporper and/or illegal things, our Governor Arnold "The Terminator" Schwarzenager […]

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I think we are all supposed to be getting excited about this new gadget, as this is clearly the goal of the marketing campaign trying to make it the newest coolest thing that you have to have when it is still being called by its project name Origami.  You can just hear their ad people […]

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This thing looks like the results of a mad genetic engineering experiment that got loose in the wild, like something out of a bad B horror movie that would grow to the size of a cow and eat people.  Its nothing like that thankfully, just a really strange looking beastie.  Its real, and swimming blissfully […]

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President Bush’s policies on domestic security and international trade create effects that are logically foreseeable and politically powerful.  There are positive benefits obviously, and that is the intention.  But the negative effects have been ignored for many reasons, and in being ignored they have grown in the darkness to be much more powerful than they […]

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The Iranian Mullahs have heard the vague threats coming from the West and the rest, and clearly they are just not impressed to put it mildly.  I think it is fair to say they have contempt for weak Western leaders in general and the U.S. in particular. So they have replied to the Vice President’s […]

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