Little Bunny Foo Foo

(little girl, front row, second from left) "Don't whack him again. He didn't mean to cry."

I hope that she's thinking back on that time, a year ago, when she damned the torpedoes and full speeded Obamacare down the throats of a populace that clearly didn't want it. She could have still been scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head, but nooo, now she gets this:



second photo via NRO

Wikipedia, Clearing Up Misconceptions

I'd like to read that Wikipedia page in twenty years. I bet half the entries are about erroneous notions from the present version of the page. Still, there are some true ones, probably:

The notion that goldfish have a memory of only three seconds is false. They have been trained to navigate mazes and can recognize their owners after an exposure of a few months. It's politicians that have a memory of three seconds.

OK, I may have added that bit about politicians. But the rest is true. So, apparently, is this:

The claim that a duck's quack does not echo is false, although the echo may be difficult to hear for humans under some circumstances.

So, if you want to record an echoing quack, you don't have to kick the duck at regular intervals with each kick being a little less severe. (unless he, you know, has been just asking for it)

xkcd

By The Way...

The lumbergirl is home from college for the next week or two, so that's the reason for the sometimes light blogging. It takes more time than you'd think to supervise her washing the car, shoveling the leaves, raking the snow, and putting in that drainage ditch and retaining wall.

Ah, quality time.

A Joke

Namaste

No word yet on whether Hillary thought she was in Sri Lanka or not.

Reaction to Attack on Egyptian Christians

Claire Berlinski, at Ricochet, reports on Muslim reaction to that Christian church bombing in Alexandra:

There has, in fact, been protest, and quite a bit of it:

Meanwhile, a few thousand demonstrators gathered in the area of Mar Morcos, where the bombed church and the Mari Girgis hospital are located, chanting “Muslims and Christians will not be disunited”, protestors told Ahram Online that they are residents of the area, and do not belong to any specific group or organization.

Torkeya Abdelsalam, one of the demonstrators and a Muslim, said she lives near the Saints church and has witnessed the explosion. AbdelSalam said, “this is not Islam,” and that she was taking part in the protest to demonstrate this.

The call for protest has been widespread in Egypt:

Different political groups called for a demonstration today at 7 PM in Shubra in front Dawaran shubra square, under the slogan “one nation one country one worry” to condemn attacks on Saints church.

Parties and groups who answered the call and declared that they will be participating include Karama Party, El-Amal Islamic Party, the recently formed leftist group Hashd, The National Association for Change, the Justice and Freedom group, The Revolutionary Socialists and the 6th of April movement.

The condemnation of the bombing has been universal among heads of state in the Islamic world, and in fact, even the most extreme of Islamists have expressed their revulsion...

No doubt some of it is hypocritical, but it's good to see that radical Islam does not necessarily equal Islam.

Happy New Year

Now get back to work.

It Needed to be Done

You may have seen this one - not sure if it has been photoshopped or not:



Well it just cried out for this. Send me mail in the reeducation camp, ok?:



Updated image, by request:

Finally, Graphic Evidence

Hu's on first.

James Cole

Charles Krauthammer on the recess appointment of James Cole as deputy attorney general:

This is a man who denies that the war on terror exists. We heard him write about the rhetoric of war. Well, it’s not just rhetoric. It’s a matter of law. A week after 9/11 Congress passed authorization of use of force against the people who did 9/11, al-Qaeda and those affiliated with them, and indeed the nation of Afghanistan which was harboring al-Qaeda.

So, Congress itself, in a law it passed — not as a matter of rhetoric but as a matter of law — categorized what had happened as an act of war. In modern times the authorization of the use of force is the equivalent of what used to happen in antique times with a declaration of war.

So you’ve got Congress acting as a matter of declaring it war. And here’s a guy who’s saying it’s a matter of rhetoric. And he says because the war on terror is a fiction and only rhetorical, you have to treat these [terrorists] as if they were domestic rapists. In fact, the Congress has categorized these people in a different way. They are essentially enemies of war, they are in fact unlawful enemies of war. And thus, even if you appeal to the “rule of law,” as Cole does, under the rule of law these people ought to be treated differently. His entire argument is bogus.

No, I'm not sure what his take is on voter intimidation. But a guy who's willing to call terrorism a crime should have no trouble supporting the administration's position of candidate specific voter intimidation laws.

Regardless: Happy New Year!