Just as homelessness was rediscovered under President Bush's watch, global warming histeria has increased as well. Or is that global warming research grant histeria? Investor's Business Daily: Bipolar Disorder

After watching the near riot that accompanied today's burial of Arafat the murderer, inspiration to UBL and his contemporaries, I noticed that a certain someone was apparently not present at the "ceremony". Of course, she has a lifetime income in Ter-ray-sa's league to spend back in Paris now. So many salons to visit, so many chocolates to eat... Jerusalem Post: Mrs. AraFAT gets her payday; Palestinians continue raggedy existence

Not Mary Mapes, but an interesting rapid fire decision to fire a news producer for interrupting a fiction crime drama. Broadcasting & Cable: CBS fires producer for preempting final five minutes of CSI: NY

Watching CNN International’s coverage of Arafat’s funeral was like watching a bizarro world rendition of the Reagan funeral. The commentator, the now thickened ultra lefty Christiane Amanpour, narrated an out of step undisciplined horse drawn cortege while using words like “statesman” to describe the old murderer. The Palestinian spokeswoman continues to blame Israel for their woes before the casket reached the Egyptian C-130 that would take the body to Ramallah for internment. The discussion of Palestinian elections without a Palestinian government added to the other worldly atmosphere of the event. Clearly the coverage didn’t belong on CNN; it should have been on Cartoon Network.

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While he had no message, he had a crazy wife and some very strange outfits that he wore in his equally strange hobby photo ops. The New Republic Online: Bad Message

And no, I didn't mean this couple

Strap him up in a Full Metal Jacket, or maybe go R. Lee Ermey on him. New York Post Online: VINCENT D'Onofrio a D'Offrio with Criminal Intent...his co-stars, that is

Arafat, the old monster, is dead. He scammed untold millions--if not billions--in aid from the west into private accounts. He kept his wife in a life of Heinz-scale luxury in France while denying his countrymen hospitals, schools, and investment in an economy for the Palestinian demi-state. If his people truly saw what he had done, they would denounce him as one of the greatest demagogues the world has ever known. Statement by the President

Happy 229th to the USMC! Ooo-rah! Semper Fi! Power Line: Honoring the few

The red gets redder.

The President did better, actually, everywhere in '04 than in '00.

Take that, Zogby! 7-Eleven: "7-Election outcome reflects current actual election results"

This cracks me up:


Read the whole thing.

Butt-face, rendered nicely. HOG ON ICE: Infan-Tile

This is my favorite quote by Thomas Jefferson, "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."Thomas Jefferson Quotes - The Quotations Page

Barbra "Babs" Streisand, on the other hand, likes this one she found and published as part of a rant on her...blog. It is part of a letter Jefferson wrote to John Taylor Philadelphia on June 4, 1798. She conveniently ignores the entire thrust of the letter, which advises Philadelphia to stay the course--continue the struggle for independence from England as a united republic composed of the original 13 colonies. Jefferson writes, "But who can say what would be the evils of a scission, and when & where they would end? Better keep together as we are, hawl off from Europe as soon as we can, & from all attachments to any portions of it. And if we feel their power just sufficiently to hoop us together, it will be the happiest situation in which we can exist."

Perhaps all those Hollywood and media types who are screeching about secession from the U.S. can read Jefferson's advice and just--stifle themselves.

"Solar sails" have been popular concepts in science fiction for years. Finally, a solar sail experiment is in the works that may lead to the use of the technique in future missions to Mars.

"Love is stronger than hate", says Michael Barone of U. S. News & World Report. That may very well be the story of the 2004 Presidential election. USNews.com: Republican turnout makes for a 51 percent nation (11/15/04)

The Corner on National Review Online

The Corner opines on watering down good whiskey--it's a good thing, if the water is of quality. The Corner on National Review Online

The final electoral vote count: President Bush, 286; Senator Kerry, 252

Little Green Footballs has more, including the complete county by county map shown below.

Instapundit alerts us that the popular vote tally now exceeds 4 million votes in the President's favor, and that Iowa and New Mexico are officially part of Bush Country. The Electoral College totals are 286 for the President, 253 for Kerry. Yahoo! News - Elections

THE MESOPOTAMIAN

Salaam, a courageous Iraqi blogger, says, "All those who have been following my blog from the start should know how I feel towards El Bush, the Avenger, the Lion-Heart and I cannot hide my happiness for this outcome, purely from a personal feeling of gratitude for what he has done for us, despite all the pain and hardships that we suffered and still do." THE MESOPOTAMIAN

Bush Country

USATODAY.com: County map of the vote



Churchill said, speaking to the British on VE Day in May 1945: "We may permit ourselves a brief period of jubilation."

Well done, Mr. President, well done.