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November 19, 2004
Happy Friday!
Poor Thursday gets little respect, wedged as it is between HumpDay and TGIF. We rush by Thursday as fast as possible, barely looking back on our way to the weekend. Thursday is, at least glad, not to be Monday, the most hated day of the week.
So, Happy Friday, gentle reader. Let's start with a few linkies:
Michele has another post about the grinches who are poised to try and strip Christmas of its joy (as I posted about earlier).
Citizen Smash has a must read about the Rules of Engagement for anyone who is serious about regarding the tragedy of the Marine in Fallujah that Kevin Sites has attacked.
Along with Smash's must read, take a gander at Cox and Forum's take on who the MSM really has in its crosshairs.
Victor Davis Hanson writes about the strange decade we are living in (excerpt)
Oddly, our enemies understand the long-term strategic efforts of the United States far better than do our own dissidents. They know that oil is not under U.S. control but priced at all-time highs, and that America is not propping up despotism anymore, but is now the general foe of both theocracies and dictatorships — and the thorn in the side of "moderate" autocracies. An America that is a force for democratic change is a very dangerous foe indeed. Most despots long for the old days of Jimmy Carter's pious homilies, appeasement of awful dictatorships gussied up as "concern" for "human rights," and the lure of a Noble Prize to ensure nights in the Lincoln bedroom or hours waiting on a dictator's tarmac.
Another bonus of the end of the election season is the return of Peggy Noonan to the pages of the WSJ. Here is a delightful article about
After all the Sturm und Drang of the past few weeks our country would benefit from an absence of sound. Next week we mark Thanksgiving. Today, in anticipation, and after our fractious election, we could declare National Settle Down Week. National Be Still Week. Or National Give It a Rest Week.
And if you haven't found it yet, do read Jeff Goldstein's The Martha Stewart Chronicles.
Posted by Darleen at November 19, 2004 06:33 AM
Comments
- Rueters WNS.... dateline 11/19/04 Alderson, W.Va..."Prison Officials at the Alderson womans facility held a news conference today to shed some light on the early morning massive explosion in the dining wing of the prison. Observers say that the building was completely destroyed during the filming of the Martha Stewart home making show "Living in the slammer with Martha". The exact cause is still being investigated but insiders say its believed to have been caused by the inadvertant detonation of a trey of blueberry muffins that had been laced with Semtek by persons unknown. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt. The show was beig taped for Ms. Stewarts upcoming Thanksgiving edition. Martha was unavailable for comment but a letter from her appeared on her website that thanked her fans for their support and asked them to refrain from trying to spring her.... in other news...
Posted by: Hunter at November 19, 2004 08:18 PM