The Maryhunter

Monster.com and other Job Boards are stealing your personal identification

With so many millions who are out-of-work and signing up on job boards, I believe it’s downright disgusting criminal behavior how these companies steal identities of those who are unemployed … below is just part of the story — the link will tell you more…
Cyber crooks are targeting a wave of new attacks at people [...]

A Thankful and Resolute Iraq

Perhaps a few people noticed that, when President Bush took responsibility for the federal response to Katrina, he was being visited by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. I find it of extreme importance to maintain focus on Iraq and the Global War on Terrorism, especially given the other happenings of national importance in recent weeks — not to diminish Disaster Katrina or the Roberts hearing, but to elevate Iraq.

Tony Blair Says RIP to Kyoto Treaty

From Jim Pinkerton, at TechCentralStation: “Tony Blair Pulls the Plug on Kyoto at Clinton Summit.” The article opens:
Kyoto Treaty RIP. That’s not the headline in any newspaper this morning emerging from the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative, but it could have been — and should have been.
Onstage with former president Bill [...]

Respectful Party Guests, Babies, and Blog Etiquette

A concise summary of blogging etiquette can be found at Info Theory today, with links to previous such posts. In “A Suggested Protocol for Blog Communication” the author, Paul Deignan, lays out five proposed principles of blogging protocol that seem quite reasonable. He is seeking out comments from the blogosphere as well.
The one [...]

“Brother Against Brother” Authors Kit and Heidi on Kender Uncensored, Thursday 8 am Pacific

Kit Jarrell and Heidi Thiess of Euphoric Reality are the authors of the phenomenal seven eight-part Vietnam war report “Brother Against Brother,” published this week.
Kit and Heidi are the special guests on Kender Uncensored at xradio.biz, Thursday 28 July at 08:00 PDT (11:00 EDT). If you heard them earlier [...]

Preservation of San Diego’s Memorial Cross Supported by Voters

This just in from KESQ NewsChannel 3 and other sources:
SAN DIEGO San Diego voters have approved a ballot measure aimed at keeping a 29-foot cross erected to honor Korean War veterans at its location on a city-owned hilltop.
A judge ruled that the measure needed two-thirds of the vote to pass. With 68 percent of [...]

Listen Up: Roberts Is a Conservative

Rightwing pundits extraordinaire Ann Coulter and Charles Krauthammer have each expressed reservations regarding the nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr., as the proper Supreme Court Justice to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. I believe that Ann’s and Charles’ concerns regarding Roberts’ “blank slate” record and potential for “doing a Souter” should be allayed some, by [...]

View from Iraq: Battling Both Fronts

Caelestis of The Makaha Surf Report (Forward Deployed) can’t post a lot these days, seeing as he’s deployed in Iraq and waging the Global War on Terrorism as a defense contractor. But he’s keeping up with the blogosphere, especially those lunatics who would rather condemn our brave fighting forces than thank them for their service [...]

Spain, Britain, and Terrorism

Food for thought:
Spain killed those fifty Brits, from the way they voted. It’s Spain’s shame.
–John Gibson, filling in on The Tony Snow, Fox News Radio, 22 July 2005.
Gibson’s comment was in reference to the recent London bombings on 7 July 2005 and the voters in Spain, following al Qaeda’s bombing of commuter [...]

The “We” in “We the People”

I read this inspirational quote tonight over sushi and sake in a very chic liberal East Coast city, and I smiled.
When Reagan and his team had been in Sacramento six years, they began to realize that some of the staff were saying “we,” referring to the government. They figured those guys had been there too [...]

Pray for Our Troops

The second reading in the Roman Catholic Mass today got me thinking — as all good scripture readings should, to those so inclined. In fact, I shall tack on the two previous lines to the short but evocative passage from the Missal. From the Letter of Paul to the Romans:
For in hope we were [...]

View from Iraq: Terrorists Yes, Heroes Never

Caelestis of The Makaha Surf Report (Forward Deployed) is in Iraq and is blogging from the front lines of the War on Terrorism as a military contractor. He has important insights on what separates the terrorists from the U.S. and coalition military. In his post “There Are No Heroes Among Insurgents” he clearly delineates us [...]

China and Unocal: National Security IS the Issue

I am wondering just why it is that we are still discussing this ludicrous idea of selling a United States-owned oil company to a state-owned Chinese interest. For those who refuse to see this as primarily a national security issue and not an economic issue, I share some thoughts on the proposed China-Unocal deal. [...]

ACLU, SCOTUS, and Our Religious Heritage

Gribbit of STOP THE ACLU posted today on this article by Lee Ellis (a retired journalist and a former vice president of both CBS and Gannet), which was published on 29 June 2005 at ChronWatch.com. In the wake of the recent, perplexing decisions by the Supreme Court with regard to the Ten Commandments, I [...]

9-11/Iraq Linkage? Sure. Next Question.

To hear all the groans from the left today about Bush’s sin of “linking 9-11 to Iraq,” you would think that they had something new with which to skewer President Bush in the wake of his outstanding and moving speech last night. In reply to the condemnations of self-important yet forgetful liberal elitists, I [...]