Ut Humiliter Opinor

Jeff at Caerdroia has graciously asked me to start posting at his blog. Look for me there.

Thanks!

Cori Dauber at Rantingprofs points out this Washington Post article: Security Tight After Beheading of 3 Indonesian Girls

The bodies of the girls, dressed in brown school uniforms, were left at the site of the attack. Their heads were found at separate locations two hours later. One student survived the attack, which police said was carried out by six men wielding machetes.

My first reaction is just sheer anger. al Qaeda has made beheadings of “infidels” a vogue statement of Islamist faith. I can only assume that these six men are now looking forward to their rewards of virgins in paradise.

Once again, we see evil staring us in the face. It’s not because of Bush or Iraq or oil that this happened, and no amount of left-wing spin can make it so. This is sick, twisted behavior instilled in men by those who are using them to inject themselves into power.

Why should we even try to appease this “philosophy”?

Update: If you have the stomach for it, pictures are at Dog Pundit (hat tip: Foreign Dispatches).

Movies.com has the Muppet balcony hecklers Statler and Waldorf doing a movie review feature akin to Siskel & Ebert. This week’s installment reviews Zorro and Jarhead. I’m still not sure what either movie is about, but they said Rumsfeld is still in the theater watching Jarhead because “he doesn’t have an exit strategy!”

Ouch! What good fun. Go check it out.

Ouch - now it’s really getting bad for Bush. From The Miers Blunder:

…so far the lesson we draw from this nomination is this: Bad things happen when a President decides that “diversity,” personal loyalty and stealth are more important credentials for the Supreme Court than knowledge of the Constitution and battle-hardened experience fighting the judicial wars of the past 30 years.

(Hat Tip: Captain’s Quarters)

I guess it’s time to pile on. The initial spin from the White House was that you don’t necessarily need great judicial experience on the Supreme Court. There is no Constitutional requirement to be a lawyer. Okay, that’s true. The assumption is that a person who can bring “real world experience” to the Court is a good thing.

I can support it under the following condition: that the nominee - instead of being an extraordinary legal mind - is an extraordinary citizen. Harriet Meirs’ background, while impressive, is not so extraordinary to place her above so many others in the country. I would expect someone to be a major national business or political leader to be considered over the many qualified jurists. Head of the Texas State Bar and being a one-term city council member just doesn’t impress me much.

For me someone “from the street” would have, for example, been a school superintendant for several years, been the a mayor of a major city for a decade or created and operated a large business. That would impress me a bit more, and make me think that a person from the street with have valuable insight the other Justices might lack.

Meirs hasn’t come across as impressive and just doesn’t seem like anything other that a stealth, crony pick.

Think this will be the end of the jihadist conspiracies at Powerline and Michelle Malkin?

Yeah, I’m kinda doubting it.

OU student wrote death note

Joel Hinrichs Jr. said he understood investigators found the message on the computer screen when they arrived at the apartment. “It was a single line of text on his computer,” his father told The Oklahoman. “The cursor was still blinking at the end.” The elder Hinrichs said he could not recall the exact wording but said his son used profanity in the message and was obviously very angry. “He wrote he was dissatisfied with the situation and was going to quit living,” the father said. Investigators have said they might never know whether the student wanted to get inside the stadium. The student did not have a season ticket. FBI officials also have said the investigation has not found any links between the student and terrorist organizations.

Now, Michelle is taking the University to task for publishing an evacuation plan. Can you imagine the response if they did nothing? By taking sensible precautions and telling people how to handle themselves (which they have been doing before games since 9/11), and they are hiding a plot. Doing nothing, however, would probably be seen as burying their head in the sand.

It’s amazing to me that these people still exist. Frankly, the only reason I even wish to comment on them is to point out what real racism is. It’s not the arguments over quotas, team names or hurricane response. It’s this:

Another meme of the week from Poliblog:

How many of the Top 100 Challenged Books does our family own or I have read:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Brave New World by Aldous Huxley James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

How can people object to Brave New World, Mark Twain and Steinbeck???

I’ll admit that I haven’t seen the movie, but this is really an unfortunate turn for their company, especially just as the movie was coming out and doing so well:

Fire destroys ‘Wallace and Gromit’ warehouse

BRISTOL, England — The company behind the new “Wallace and Gromit” film said Monday its “entire history” has been destroyed in a fire at a warehouse containing props and sets. … “Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” Wallace and Gromit’s first full-length feature, was released in the United States on Friday and topped the U.S. box office over the weekend. (Full story) “Today was supposed to be a day of celebration, with the news that ‘Wallace and Gromit’ had gone in at No. 1 at the U.S. box office, but instead our whole history has been wiped out,” Aardman spokesman Arthur Sheriff said. “It’s turned out to be a terrible day.” .. Wallace and Gromit’s creator, Nick Park, said the earthquake in South Asia helped put the loss into perspective. “Even though it is a precious and nostalgic collection and valuable to the company, in light of other tragedies, today isn’t a big deal,” he said.

Yesterday was my sixth time to attend an OU-Texas game - and the first time I have witnessed an OU loss to the Horns in person. After the last few years of handing the Horns their backsides, they got to return the favor.

45 - 12. Ouch.

The first time Vince Young played in the RRR (65-13 in 2003), I saw him slip through our defenders throughout the game. I knew he could beat us once he got experience. However, I thought he’d do it with his legs, not his arm.

OU’s freshman QB, Rhett Bomar, showed the same type of problems yesterday in his first outing. He could run, but he couldn’t throw. At this point, with the season approaching disaster at 2-3, now it’s the Sooners that are in the position of saying “Wait til next year” on Bomar. What struck me about Bomar was how much he was trying to force things. He keeps throwing to well-covered receivers (credit the Longhorn D for that) hoping to make a play. His accuracy wasn’t that great, either. It’s hard to make plays as an offense when the Quarterback is in such a state.

Mack Brown finally has the monkey off his back. The only good news I can see about this is that since the North and South divisions keep alternating years in the Big XII Championship, Mack Brown may still be denied his conference championship