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Senate Rejects Elena Kagan Nomination
Excuse me. Did I say "Senate Rejects Elena Kagan Nomination." No, no. I mean "Senate Rejects Robert Bork Nomination":
A fascinating clip. Not only do we see Senate Joseph "Bloviator" Biden in his prime grandstanding days, the segment is introduced by correspondent Judy Woodruff in her pre-CNN days (she's now back at PBS, which is the rest home for former news-anchor hotties). And notice dignified former Senator John Danforth (who was Clarence Thomas' sponsor during the 1991 nomination battle under Bush 41). Danforth is quite restrained. If it were me, I'd have stuffed a vuvuzela down Senator Bloviator's throat.
RELATED: At Weasel Zippers, "Kagan Evasive When Asked by Hatch if She Changed Language in Partial-Birth Abortion Findings, Refuses to Say She Wrote Memo, But Admits It's in Her Handwriting…" Yet, "Confirmation all but sure, Kagan ends testimony." Somthing's FUBAR.
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Labels: Law, Obama Administration, Politics, Radical Left, Supreme Court
Elena Kagan's Partial Birth Deception
Saw this last night, at Astute Bloggers, "COULD THE KAGAN NOMINATION BE ABORTED DUE TO KAGAN'S NEWLY DISCOVERED PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION DECEPTION? YES!"
But see Byron York, "Slick Elena? Kagan evades questions on abortion memo" (via Memeorandum):
The memo, reported yesterday by National Review, has caused a stir in conservative circles because it appeared that Kagan, then a White House policy aide, put words in the medical group's mouth in order to soften its position on the controversial procedure. But when Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch brought the subject up with Kagan, he had a hard time getting her to admit that she did, in fact, write the document in question.
"Did you write that memo?" Hatch asked.
"Senator, with respect," Kagan began, "I don't think that that's what happened — "
"Did you write that memo?"
"I'm sorry — the memo which is?"
"The memo that caused them to go back to the language of 'medically necessary,' which was the big issue to begin with — "
"Yes, well, I've seen the document — "
"But did you write it?"
"The document is certainly in my handwriting."
More at the link.
And Kagan's been all over the place on "forthright" testimony, against her previous writings as well: "Change! Elena Kagan Backs 'Vapid and Hollow' Hearings at Her Own Confirmation!"
Labels: Abortion Politics, Moral Bankuptcy, Obama Administration, Pro-Life, Radical Left, Supreme Court
Charles Johnson Hearts 'Palesquishian Activist Rachel Corrie'
Hey, not exactly the language I would use, but you gotta love it when directed at the Madness of King Charles:
RELATED: In case you missed it, "Right Wing News vs. David Frum, Little Green Footballs, Media Matters, & Excitable Andy!"
Labels: Blogging, News, Radical Left
Wednesday Diversions
Snagged straight from Theo's:
See also, Bob Belvedere, "They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore: Elaine Paul."
Labels: Babe Blogging, Weekday Hotness, Women
'Al Gore Is a Pervert & Sexual Predator'
Hey, that's my kind of headline!
At National Enquirer, "NEW EVIDENCE REVEALED: GORE SEX SCANDAL VICTIM TELLS ALL!!!":
AL GORE SEX SCANDAL ACCUSER reveals shocking NEW EVIDENCE -- ONLY to the NATIONAL ENQUIRER in a bombshell world exclusive interview!
"AL GORE is a pervert and sexual predator," declares MOLLY HAGERTY, 54, the massage therapist who told Portland, Ore. police that the ex-VICE President sexually assaulted her.
"He's not what people think he is - he's a sick man!"
Al Gore was unavailable for comment.
Yeah, but doubts persist, at Saberpoint, "Al Gore: Should Be Presumed Innocent Unless Further Support for Sexual Assault Tale is Forthcoming." Also at Memeorandum.
Labels: Democratic Party, Global Warming, Radical Left
My oldest son is excited. The film opens on November 19th. "Deathly Hallows Part II" is expected July 15th, 2011:
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Labels: Celebrities, Movies, Popular Culture
"Eat Shit and Die, 'Blue Commie Texan'"
I can't recommend Melanie Phillips' new book enough: The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power. Those of us on the side of right are endlessly smacking down the upside-down destroyers of America. Phillips writes that the radical left possesses an "infallible" sense of certainty through which no amount of reason or evidence can penetrate. "It is hard to overstate the influence on our culture that is wielded by the doctrines of anti-imperialism, multiculturalism, feminism, environmentalism and the like." These are the foundations of the left's bankrupt "unchallengeable orthodoxy."
I mention this with reference to yesterday's beauty of a post, "Blue Texan at Firedoglake Trashes Right-Bloggers for Criticizing Senate Majority Cyclops Robert C. Byrd." It turns out that "Blue Texan" runs the asinine "Instaputz" blog, whose mission is in "Systematically documenting the putziness of Glenn Reynolds, Pajamas Media, and various other Putzen."
I guess it takes a putz to know one, given this case of classic upside-down leftist infallibility. Check the post. Blue Texan suggests I'm not very bright and then offers this epic-fail excuse of racist hypocrisy on the late KKK Senate Majority Leader: "Byrd renounced his past racism, and became a true champion for civil rights. Lott's voting record on civil rights sucks, and he's never renounced his ties to the CCC."
I'm tempted to dismiss Blue Texan as stupid, but that'd be getting off too easy. Blue Texan's in fact a morally decrepit liar. There was no Trent Lott renunciation of CCC? Well, yes there was, actually: "Lott Renounces White 'Racialist' Group He Praised in 1992." (This is what leftists do: lie and then lie some more as part of the never-ending campaign of death, denial, and destruction.)
And don't forget, Robert C. Byrd, that "true champion of civil rights," actually continued to slur "niggers" as recently as 2001. And let's remember, Blue Texan's Firedoglake patron never really did renounce her racist bona fides:
So let's sum up: Obviously, Blue Texan's one sick lying motherf***ing hypocrite.
And while I suggested yesterday that "words fail" with the deceit and depravity of Firegdoglake, Mike at Cold Fury disagreed:
Not me, they don't. Eat shit and die, "Blue Commie Texan." Everything you toss at us, we toss back from here on in. Don't like it? I hate it for ya, you fuckin' punk. Cry me a river, why don'tcha.
No links from me to the FDL sewer, but Donald has 'em, along with screencaps.
Civil discourse? Here's all the civil discourse these Red-toothed, America-hating douchebags deserve: fuck every last one of them. In the heart, railroad spike, cayenne pepper in the Vaseline; you know the drill.
Mofo! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!
RELATED: From John Hawkins, "Right Wing News vs. David Frum, Little Green Footballs, Media Matters, & Excitable Andy!"
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Labels: Democratic Party, News, Racism, Radical Left
Russian Spies on Facebook?
The social networking cold war, you might say.
Hot alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman is on Facebook.
A new era in espionage, that's for sure. See LAT, "Alleged Russian spy ring members led typical American lives":
Richard and Cynthia Murphy grew lettuce in a backyard garden, walked their daughters to the school bus each morning, and swapped Christmas cards with neighbors who had moved to Texas.
Their modest three-bedroom house sported maroon shutters and a wrap-around porch, and sat on a winding street in a well-heeled suburb across from Manhattan. They drove a green Honda Civic.
To all appearances, the Murphys were a typical, child-obsessed American family — not deep-cover Russian spies straight from a Cold War novel.
Their arrests, along with those of 9 other alleged Russian spies, has exposed a surprising side to modern espionage: The group led mundane lives far from the James Bond image. Instead of car chases and shootouts, they paid taxes, haggled over mortgages, and struggled to remember computer passwords.
As a result, the 11 — the biggest alleged spy ring every broken by the FBI — blended into American society for more than a decade. They joined neighbors at block parties, school picnics and bus stops. Four of the couples were married, and at least three had young children.
One suspect wrote columns for a Spanish-language newspaper in New York. Another ran an international consulting and management firm in Boston, while his wife sold high-priced real estate near Harvard University. Yet another drove a shiny blue BMW to his investment banking job in Seattle; he regularly updated his status on LinkedIn, a social networking site.
If their cover jobs were ordinary, their secret lives had a humdrum side that sometimes seems more like Woody Allen than John LeCarre.
One suspect, Anna Chapman, bought a Verizon cellphone in Brooklyn, N.Y., with a patently false address: 99 Fake Street. She also posted sultry photos of herself on Facebook and videos on YouTube. Another, Juan Lazaro, used a payoff from Moscow to pay nearly $8,000 in overdue county and city taxes, according to court documents.
Donald Howard Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley, the alleged spies in Boston, filed regular expense reports to Moscow Center, headquarters for Russia's foreign intelligence agency, called the SVR.
"Got from Ctr. 64500 dollars, income 13940, interest 76. Expenses: rent 8500, utilities 142, tel. 160, car lease 2180, insurance 432, gas 820, education 3600," plus medical, lawyers' fees, meals and gifts, mailboxes, computer supplies, and so on, they wrote in one, according to an FBI affidavit.
And the lettuce-growing Murphys of Montclair repeatedly argued with Moscow Center in encrypted computer messages last summer about who should legally own their $400,000 house — them or the SVR.
"From our perspective, purchase of the house was solely a natural progression of our prolonged stay here," the Murphy's explained, apparently after being reprimanded. "It was a convenient way to solve the housing issue, plus to 'do as the Romans do' in a society that values home ownership."
Murphy later whined to another spy about their bosses back in Moscow: "They don't understand what we go through over here."
The group allegedly attended one of Moscow's most elite spy schools before landing in America. Their mission was spelled out, somewhat awkwardly, in a 2009 message to the Murphy's from Moscow Center.
RTWT.
RELATED: Speaking of hot spies, maybe Donna Dixon will make a comeback.
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Labels: Cold War, News, Russia
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2010 Teaser #1
Continuing our series on Sports Illustrated 2010:
See also "Wedneday Wenches," at Theo's.
List of French Citizens Who Collaborated With the Nazis During WWII to Be Published Online
At London's Telegraph, via Theo Spark.
One day, we'll also see a list of Americans who collaborated with global jihad in the post-9/11 era.
Labels: War on Terror, World War Two
Justice Thomas's Finest Hour?
His concurring opinion in McDonald v. Chicago, at WSJ (via Insty):
Down in our nation's capital, the day belongs to a lot of people: To retiring Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, who Monday capped his lengthy career on the court; to Elena Kagan, who survived her first day of Senatorial grilling; to Robert Byrd, an institution within the institution, who died on Monday at age 92.
But in the mind of some law professors and Supreme Court watchers, the day belonged to Justice Clarence Thomas, for his concurring opinion in McDonald v. Chicago. (Click here for the opinion; here for Nathan Koppel's writeup in the WSJ; here for Adam Liptak's treatment in the NYT.)
Understanding why requires us to back up just a bit.
In the McDonald case, the justices were asked by the plaintiffs to strike down Chicago's gun-control ordinance as a violation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
In order to do so, the justices would have to make two maneuvers. Of course, they'd have to rule that the ordinance runs afoul of the Second Amendment's prescription that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." But they'd also have to rule that the Second Amendment restricts not just Congress's ability to make laws controlling the use of guns, but that of state governments as well. Remember, the Bill of Rights, as originally constructed, only applies to the federal government ....
Labels: Conservatism, Law, Supreme Court
Toward an International Relations Theory of Zombies
Seriously. (Or not.)
From Daniel Drezner, at Foreign Policy:
This zombie boom is -- and should be -- taken seriously. For some international relations thinkers, the interest in all things ghoulish might represent an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once referred to as the "unknown unknowns" in international security. Or perhaps there exists a genuine if publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from their graves and feasting upon our entrails. Major universities have developed mock contingency plans for a zombie outbreak, and an increasing number of college students have been found to be playing "Humans vs. Zombies" on their campuses, whether to relieve stress or prepare for the invasion of the undead. The Haitian government takes the threat seriously enough to have a law on the books to prevent outbreaks of zombiism. No great power has done the same publicly, but one can only speculate on what plans are being hatched behind closed doors.
From a public-policy perspective, zombies surely merit greater interest than other paranormal phenomena such as aliens, vampires, wizards, hobbits, mummies, werewolves, and superheroes. Zombie stories end in one of two ways -- the elimination/subjugation of all zombies, or the eradication of humanity from the face of the Earth. If popular culture is to be believed, the peaceful coexistence of ghouls and humans is but a remote possibility -- outside of Shaun of the Dead, at least. Such extreme all-or-nothing outcomes are far less common in the vampire and wizard canons. Indeed, recent literary tropes suggest that vampires can peacefully coexist with ordinary teens in many of the world's high schools, provided they are sufficiently hunky. Zombies, not so much. If it is true that "popular culture makes world politics what it currently is," as a recent article in Politics argued, then the international relations community needs to think about armies of the undead in a more urgent manner.
Labels: International Politics, Political Science
Individual Rights and the Authoritarian State
Via Blazing Cat Fur, in the comments at Small Dead Animals (re. Toronto G-20 protests):
Well Kate, the same question might be asked of you. People stand up for their rights and you have a hissy fit.
Sure Arnie and Kathy and Mike and thousands of other Torontonians could have sucked it up for the greater glory of PMSH's billion dollar photo op. They could co-operate by pretending not to notice when some cops beat up a visiting British journalist.
They could forebear from wearing black.
They could have ID cards hanging from their necks to make the cops tough job easier.
They could leave their cameras, cell phones and backpacks at home.
In fact, if they wanted to really co-operate with the authorities, they could have just stayed inside their own homes. That way the police could easily tell who the criminals were.
There is a strong cleavage within the conservative interest between people who assert that individual rights and autonomy matters and those who believe in order and an authoritarian state.
It is pretty clear which side of that divide you come down on Kate.
Labels: International Politics, Radical Left
If I Could Fall Into the Sky...
Some morning music, from Vanessa Carlton:
And related diversions at Washington Rebel.
Labels: Music, Weekday Hotness, Women
Dragonfly Blogging
Wonderful story, so check the links, at Tigerhawk (and I love the camera work):
Labels: Blogging, Nature, Photography
When Ann Althouse Gets Ahold of Those Archives...
Here she is, on the news of the $100K bid for JournoList, "Andrew Breitbart offers $100,000 for the full Journolist archive — with a promise to keep the source secret":
Surely, somewhere among the 400 members of that former discussion group, there is someone who feels motivated to fulfill the desire of the information to be free. I've listed reasons why I think it would be doing a good thing to make the archive public, and now there is an additional motivation — $100,000. Now, virtue is mixed with venality. But virtue is mixed with venality when it comes to keeping the archive private. The motivations for not disclosing are not pure. People are protecting their careers, hoping for favors from powerful and well-placed co-Journolisters. Breitbart has added economic incentive to the other side of the balance, and he fortifies his offer of payment with an ethical....
Lots more at the link.
100K is a lot of dough, but even the most self-interested might not want to get on the receiving end of Althouse's wrath (or at least Garance won't sell out):
RELATED: "'Welcome to the Journolist Top Secret Progressive He-Man Wingnut Haters Club and L33t H4xoR Chat Room'."
Labels: Ann Althouse, Blogging, Mass Media, News, Radical Left
Change! Elena Kagan Backs 'Vapid and Hollow' Hearings at Her Own Confirmation!
The main story's at NYT, "Kagan Shifts on Disclosure of Legal Views at Hearings":
At the opening of questioning in her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Solicitor General Elena Kagan quickly backpedaled from her past call for nominees to speak more openly and in specific terms about their constitutional views.
Under questioning by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, Ms. Kagan said she thought it would be inappropriate for her to talk about how she might rule on pending cases or cases "that might come before the court in the future" — or to answer questions that were "veiled" efforts to get at such issues.
Moreover, she said, she also now believed that "it wouldn't be appropriate for me to talk about past cases" by essentially grading Supreme Court precedents, because those issues, too, might someday come again before the court.
In a 1995 book review, Ms. Kagan wrote that recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings had taken on "an air of vacuity and farce" because nominees would not engage in a meaningful discussion of legal issues, declining to answer any question that might "have some bearing on a case that might some day come before the Court." She called on senators and future nominees to engage in a much more open and detailed discussion of legal issues.
Actually, Kagan was a little more elaborate in her 1995 article. She attacked what she called a confirmation process that was a "vapid and hollow charade."
Check the link and note (in the last few pages) how the public is served with a "serious" and "substantive" discussion of the constitutional issues when the nominee is Robert Bork (who threatened to bring about "Bork's America") and not someone like Elena Kagan (who took $20 million in royal Saudi money to establish a gender-oppressive center for Islamic studies at Harvard).
And check Neomi Rao, "Elena Kagan and the 'Hollow Charade': Progressive views of judging are difficult to defend. That's why no recent nominee has tried."
This woman is a disaster: Dishonest, indecent, and extremely radical. The public would be well served by an open and frank airing of Elena Kagan's views. Instead we get the vacuous spinelessness that is the essence of confirmation to the High Court in the post-Bork age.
Thanks Democrats.
More at The Hill and Memeorandum.
Labels: Election 2010, Election 2012, Law, Obama Administration, Political Polarization, Politics, Radical Left, Supreme Court
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2010 Brooklyn Decker Diary
Brooklyn Decker at Sports Illustrated:
And check out Daley Gator while you're at it!
Campaign Contributors Sue Charlie Crist for Return of Donations
At the Fox News clip, and also Legal Insurrection, "Charlie Crist Sued For Return of Donations - Copy of Complaint Here."
RELATED: At Miami Herald, "Tom Grady files lawsuit demanding Charlie Crist return donations."
Labels: Congress, Election 2010, Mass Media, News, Politics, Republican Party
The Second Amendment and the Incorporation Doctrine
From Glenn Reynolds, at Pajamas Media, "The New Normal: The Second Amendment After Heller and McDonald":
Following Monday's McDonald decision, gun ownership by law-abiding citizens is the new normal, and the Second Amendment is now normal constitutional law.
I've been interested in the Second Amendment for a long time, but for a long time, it wasn't really part of the Constitution.
Oh, I mean it was part of the Constitution — right there between the First Amendment on one side, and the Third Amendment (the only part of the Bill of Rights that really works — when did you last hear of troops being quartered in someone's house?) on the other. But in "mainstream" constitutional discourse, it just didn't exist.
Courts routinely rejected Second Amendment claims, frequently with atrocious misstatements of what little caselaw existed, and usually with almost no discussion. Popular discussion was, if anything, even more dismissive. Former Chief Justice Warren Burger said that the notion that the Second Amendment protected individual rights was a fraud, and that it only protected "state armies." (And wouldn't that have been interesting if it had turned out to be true. …) The general position taken by most mainstream media types, and most academics, was that the Second Amendment didn't protect individuals, only the right of states to have a national guard, a right that was obsolete anyway. It had nothing to do with individuals owning guns.
There wasn't actually much support for this "collective right" position, in terms of scholarship or caselaw — the 1939 case of United States v. Miller, often cited for that position, doesn't actually say that, but for many years, unanimity substituted for understanding, and ridicule substituted for research. (Burger's "state armies" claim appeared not in a law review, but in Parade magazine.) That began to change with Don Kates' article, "Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment," in the Michigan Law Review, and really picked up after the publication of Sandy Levinson's "The Embarrassing Second Amendment" in the Yale Law Journal. Soon, scholarship accumulated, and it was possible even to speak of a "Standard Model" of the Second Amendment, in which the linguistic, structural, and historical elements came together to explain, in a widely accepted way, why the Second Amendment did, in fact, protect an individual right to own guns.
Opponents continued to criticize this view and to characterize its proponents as shills for the NRA, but it was a rearguard action — especially as polls continued to show, despite contrary media efforts, that around three quarters of Americans believed the Second Amendment gave them a right to own a gun, and that legal efforts to limit gun ownership were unconstitutional.
RTWT at the link.
Professor Reynolds argues that the Second Amendment has now been incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment, and thus made a normal part of constitutional law.
RELATED: "5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes." And see all the discussion at Memeorandum.
Labels: Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties, Law, Politics, Supreme Court
Jennifer Love Hewitt Encore!
A sizzling hot encore to my recent Jennifer Love Hewitt blogging, posted at Theo's.
Labels: Babe Blogging, Blogging, Full Metal Saturday, News, Women
Elena Kagan Confirmation Hearings — Day 2
Picking up from yesterday, at USA Today, "Kagan Promises 'Impartiality' as Senate Hearings Begin."
And this morning at Daily Caller, "Republicans Bring Up Kagan's Record on Military":
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on Tuesday defended her policy of barring military recruiters from the Harvard Law School career counseling office, saying the 'don't ask, don't tell" policy violated its anti-discrimination policy.
"We were trying to make sure that military recruiters had full and complete access to our students," Kagan told Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, "and we were also trying to protect our anti-discriminatory policy. So we were trying to do both of those things."
Kagan repeated before the Senate Judiciary Committee her opposition to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and said she subsequently eased the policy at the request of the Department of Defense.
Kagan said that as dean of the law school, she never totally cut off military recruiters' access to students, but rather encouraged military veterans' organizations, rather than the school, to sponsor these efforts.
"I said on many occasions that this (military service) was a great thing for our students to think about doing in their lives," she told the Alabama senator. Kagan said that Harvard had a strict anti-discriminatory policy, "and the military could not sign that pledge."
The recruitment matter is one of the few points on her resume that Republicans have been able to use against her. Her policies and writings on the issue call up broader themes of patriotism and equal rights, both emotional topics at a time when the nation is at war and both parties are gearing up for the midterm elections. In some measure, the November balloting will be a referendum on her patron, President Barack Obama.
But see John McCormack, at Weekly Standard, "Kagan Defends Discriminating Against Military at Harvard" (via Memorandum). And at Weasel Zippers, "Kagan Defends Discriminating Against Military at Harvard... Had No Problem Using Saudi Money to Establish an Islamic Law Program..."
Plus, live-blogging at Althouse.
RELATED: From Ed Morrissey, "Kagan's SCOTUS Deception to Defend Partial-Birth Abortions."
Labels: Law, Obama Administration, Politics, Radical Left, Supreme Court, U.S. Military
Blue Texan at Firedoglake Trashes Right-Bloggers for Criticizing Senate Majority Cyclops Robert C. Byrd
This is really rich.
Yesterday left-wing extremist Blue Texan at Firedoglake erupted in outrage at the right's relatively mild reaction to the death of former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. See, "Conservatives Trash Robert Byrd While His Body is Still Warm." Check the link. For reminding folks of Senator Byrd's disgraced past as an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, Blue Texan writes, "As always, the right remains a paragon of class."
But back in January, Blue Texan attacked former GOP Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott as "chummy with racist hate groups." See, "Senate Majority Leader was Affiliated with White Supremacist Group."
Words fail.
Screen caps below.
I can't speak for fellow right-bloggers, but my personal policy is to denounce racism when I see it. That's apparently not the way it works with Blue Texan and Firedoglake. The hypocrisy is stunning of course. FDL is home to at least two of the biggest racist bigot bloggers on the web, Jane Hamsher (more here) and Tom Boggiani.
All in a day's work, I guess. Don't rest, friends. Expose these people for the enemies of truth and decency that they are.
Added: Cold Fury links with, "Death becomes them."
Labels: Congress, Conservatism, Democratic Party, News, Racism, Radical Left
Sports Illustrated 2010 Anne V Model Diary
Following up from last night's entry ("Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2010 on Location — Lisbon, Portugal"), here's Anne V in a special clip:
David Weigel Joins MSNBC!
I saw some of the buzz on Twitter earlier, and tweeted:
So, I'm getting a kick out of this now as the news is confirmed. See Dan Gainor, "Weigel Goes Even Further Left, Signs as MSNBC Contributor."
Since I've been accused of leading "something of a crusade" against former Post blogger Dave Weigel, how could I resist this announcement? Weigel, who left the Post amidst a controversy where he bashed tons of conservatives, has joined the leftwing convention at MSNBC (video right).
According to a Tweet from "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann, Weigel has come on board as a contributor. "And confirming, @DaveWeigel is now MSNBC contributor @DaveWeigel Welcome aboard and my condolences, uh, congratulations!" wrote Olbermann.
Now Weigel has joined the team of Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz. This from the guy who just today told the world of his wonderful career saga that started out as editor of a campus conservative paper at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. "Was I really that conservative? Yes," he wrote, somehow expecting readers to believe him. While he admitted some of his troubles came from "hubris," much of what he wrote most already knew, that he was no friend to the right. "At Reason, I'd become a little less favorable to Republicans, and I'd never been shy about the fact that I was pro-gay marriage and pro-open borders."
Throw in Weigel's parade of assault on conservatives, prominent figures on the right from Rush Limbaugh to Matt Drudge and Newt Gingrich and the bigger question becomes, does he agree with the right on anything? The answer is: it doesn't matter anymore. He's gone from an organization fighting to keep its credibility to one fighting to lose what little it has.
More at Mediaite and Memeorandum.
AND PREVIOUSLY: "Updates on the David Weigel 'JournoList' Scandal."
Labels: Blogging, Conservatism, Mass Media, News, Radical Left
The Enemy's Best Friend
At Bosch Fawstin:
RELATED: Jennifer Rubin, "Wanted: Grown-Ups to Take On Obama's Iran Policy." And Bret Stephens, "Iran Cannot Be Contained."
Labels: Barack Obama, Moral Bankuptcy, U.S. Foreign Policy
Immigration Sob Story of the Day: 'Students Face Deportation to Countries They Don't Remember'
At LAT:
Early one morning in March, two Chicago-area brothers were dozing on an Amtrak train when it stopped in Buffalo, N.Y. A pair of uniformed Border Patrol agents made their way through the car, asking passengers if they were U.S. citizens. No, the vacationing siblings answered honestly, with flat, Midwestern inflections: We're citizens of Mexico.
And so it was that college students Carlos Robles, 20, and his brother Rafael, 19 — both former captains of their high school varsity tennis team — found themselves in jail, facing deportation.
Their secret was out: Despite their upbringing in middle America, their academic success and their network of native-born friends, they had no permission to be in the United States. Their parents had brought them here illegally as children.
The Robles brothers, now out of jail but fighting removal in Immigration Court, are among thousands of young illegal immigrants in similar situations, living at risk of being expelled to countries they barely remember.
Two weeks ago, a Harvard University student who came from Mexico at age 4, Eric Balderas, joined their ranks after he was arrested by immigration agents at an airport in San Antonio.
They are known in some circles as "Dream Act" kids, named after proposed legislation that would grant them legal status.
Their cases underscore a contradiction in the Obama administration's approach to immigration enforcement. Even though the president supports the Dream Act — which would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought here as children who enroll in college or the military — his enforcement bureaucracy continues to pursue deportation cases against the increasing number of students who would be protected by it. It's part of a push that is on track to remove a record 400,000 illegal immigrants this year.
Sorry. Don't feel sorry for these people. Here's what's really happening behind the media's sob-story headlines. It's the "Dream Act" immigration scam. First they come at you with cap and gowns and sad faces. Then once they suck some of the undocumented into the program, they pump them full of indigenous supremacy indoctrination. It's all of a piece. You can see how it all comes together. The "Dream" activists work side-by-side with the left wing extremists, working to delegitimize the U.S. and advance the Democratic Party's neo-socialist agenda. And despite the media spin, it's hard for Americans to be sympathetic in the face of crass exploitation of the migrant poor for the communist reconquista agenda:
Labels: Arizona, Immigration, Obama Administration, Radical Left, Socialism
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2010 on Location — Lisbon, Portugal
Sports Illustrated on Location in Portugal with Anne V, Cintia Dicker, Jessica Gomes, and Jessica White:
PREVIOUSLY: "Sports Illustrated 2010 Esti Ginzburg Photoshoot."
Obama's Racist Government
From Barbara Simpson, at WND:
For a president and an administration with the media in its pocket, it's amazing they haven't convinced the American public that it's OK to protect lawbreakers by racial profiling.
I know, I know – if you believe the left's rant, only conservatives are racist bigots. But the truth is, the liberals lead on that one, and they're proud of it.
When they demand special rights for a certain class of "brown" people, they're racially profiling and are bigots.
They should be ashamed. Not only have they opened racial divisions in this country that were virtually closed decades ago, but they cater to it and are moving this country to the breaking point.
The issue is illegal aliens: foreigners who cross our borders illegally, stay in this country illegally, take jobs using fake identification – both of which are illegal – and feed at the trough of American generosity for food, housing, medical care, education and whatever else they can get.
On top of that, too many get involved in criminal activities from petty crimes to felonies. The costs to the criminal justice system and the numbers of incarcerated illegals prove the point.
Arizona hit the breaking point: bankrupt hospital emergency rooms, overcrowded schools, enormous social costs on every level, escalating crimes, record-setting kidnapping rates and violence against private citizens as well as police officers and Border Patrol, including murder.
It's a basic responsibility of the federal government to protect the borders and the citizens living within them. There are laws on the books to accomplish that.
But for political and philosophical reasons, politicians for decades have chosen not to enforce the law. They've chosen not to think first of the welfare and safety of the country and all Americans. They do what they please, hoping it will buy them votes and change the face and culture of this country permanently to their advantage. Their attitude is: The country be damned.
Labels: Arizona, Democratic Party, Immigration, Obama Administration, Racism
Updates on the David Weigel 'JournoList' Scandal
Ann Althouse has been raising some big questions about the secretive JournaList. For example, "The entire Journolist archive needs to be made public."
Now there's an initiative to raise money and buy the JournoList archives so Althouse can open up that can of worms.
Meanwhile, Weigel offered a "weasely" explanation for the affair at Big Government this morning. Plus, Robert Stacy McCain's got an interview with Andrew Breitbart on what's up with all of this.
And recall my warning's about Weigel's progressivism over a year ago? Well, check this out at Politico, "On Right, Opinions Mixed on Weigel":
Starting last month, Dan Gainor, vice president for business and culture at the Media Research Center, the conservative media watchdog group, went on something of a crusade.
Angered by a joke that David Weigel made about Matt Drudge on his Twitter feed, Gainor contacted conservative groups asking them to stop cooperating with Weigel, who had recently taken his blog about the conservative movement to the Washington Post.
"We encouraged conservatives not to deal with him," he said. "We contacted other conservative organizations and said, 'This guy is no friend of the conservative movement. We recommend that you deny him access.' Some did."
When MRC asked the Heritage Foundation to disinvite Weigel from its weekly Tuesday blogger briefing, Rob Bluey, the briefing's organizer, said the meeting was on the record and occasionally attended by liberal journalists, and declined to go along with the group's request.
Most of the group's other efforts also failed, but the MRC's reservations about Weigel — voiced in an early letter to Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, and given public airing on Post Ombudsman Andy Alexander's piece on the affair on Friday — have played a major role in shaping the debate over whether the Post made the right move in accepting Weigel's resignation in the wake of leaked emails in which he disparaged prominent conservative figures. Alexander wrote that the "biggest loss" from the whole affair was "The Post's standing among conservatives."
But even as MRC and its fellow conservative media watchdog group Accuracy in Media enjoyed a "we told you so" moment over his resignation, other conservative voices — including many of those conservatives whom Weigel covered — have come out supporting his work.
And actually, the rest of of the piece cites commentators and journalists who're all backing Weigel. Maybe Politico's looking to hire Weigel as well!
Folks should read Dan Riehl for what's been consistently the best commentary on Weigel's failings. And Mike at Cold Fury's got a related piece that's worth a look as well.
My position, at this point in politics, is that it's pretty much impossible to be friends with someone who's simultaneously working to utterly destroy all that I hold vital in culture, politics, and national security.
Melissa Etheridge - 'Come to My Window'
Melissa Etheridge has a new album, "Fearless Love."
I've loved her music (and I'm always moved by cancer survivors --- cancer's a relentless killer). I'll update on the new release later. Until then, enjoy "Come to My Window":
Labels: Music, Pop Rock, Rock and Roll
Elena Kagan Confirmation Hearings
I'm getting to this kinda late, but there's a some kind of video feed here.
And at the New York Times, "Kagan Promises Impartiality as Hearings Open."
Check also Politico, "GOP plans attack on Kagan" (via Memeorandum.)
Added: I don't think Kagan's nomination will be defeated. Still, the Politico piece suggests Republicans will get mileage from trashing leftist judicial activism. There's also the threat of a filibuster. See The Hill, "Sessions leaves Kagan filibuster on the table." And while yesterday's Los Angeles Times sough to paint Kagan as a centrist ("Kagan's a not-so-leftist liberal"), the only thing that's changed since her socialist college days is the scale of her naked ambition and bogus appeals to moderation. The American Prospect is setting up some defensive talking point, in any case. See, "A Guide to the Kagan Smears."
And Ann Althouse has all kinds of Supreme Court blogging here.
Labels: Democratic Party, Law, News, Obama Administration, Politics, Supreme Court
John Hawkins: Why I Denied David Frum at Blogads Conservative Hive
Via Ann Althouse, just lovin' John Hawkins' post:
Now, as a general rule, I try to be very open minded about who gets into the Blogads Conservative Hive. If they're generally friendly to conservatives and seem to have a mostly conservative audience, I don't mind having them on board. So, aside from conservative blogs, there are Libertarian blogs in the Hive and there are blogs I'd call center-right. It goes without saying that there are plenty of issues where members of the Hive, myself included, don't see eye-to-eye.
Still, to the best of my recollection, there have only been two bloggers ever denied a spot in the Blogads Conservative Hive for ideological reasons. One of them was Charles Johnson from Little Green Footballs whom, ironically, I sponsored at Blogads and invited to the Hive, and then later booted from the Hive after his blog went completely off the rails to the Left. In that case, I didn't even get to discuss it with Charles because my emails bounced (I assumed he blocked them -- yes, I've been told he does that sometimes)...although I really tend to doubt that he cared since I'm undoubtedly just conservative creep #8,642 to him at this point.
The other blog denied entry into the Blogads Conservative Hive for ideological reasons was FrumForum.
Charles Johnson and David Frum get the RWN boot. Talk about delicious fail!
Lots more at the link. Added: Now a Memeorandum thread.
Labels: Conservatism, Democratic Party, Mass Media, Neoconservatism, Republican Party
Daisy Lowe at Esquire UK
It's scandalous.
See, "UK Model Daisy Lowe, Topless, Fab in Esquire."
Hat Tip: Theo Spark.
Labels: Babe Blogging, Women
Robert C. Byrd, Longest Serving KKK Leader in U.S. Senate, Dead at 92
God rest his soul.
At the video, former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, in a 2007 floor speech, decries as barbaric Michael Vick's dog-fighting operation.
Byrd was 92 and the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate. A former member of the Klu Klux Klan and "Exalted Kleagle," Bryd was the only senator to vote against both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas for confirmation to the Supreme Court. As late as 2001 Byrd was known to still deploy the epithet "nigger" in political debate. But the Democratic Party and leftist leadership groups nevertheless championed racist Senator Byrd as a lion of the Senate. The man should have retired decades ago, along with the hatred with which he represented.
RELATED: At Fox News, "Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving U.S. Senator, Dies at 92" (via Memeorandum). And Moonbattery, "Item #3: White Sheets to be Flown at Half-Staff Today."
And nothin' but encomiums for Exalted Kleagle Byrd at the racist Daily Kos. Go figure.
Labels: Democratic Party, Racism
'Imma Be'
Some Black Eyed Peas to get readers hip-hoppin' this mo'nin', yo!
Labels: Orange County, Pop Rock, Rock and Roll
Decentralized Democracy: The Way Out of Afghanistan
Lots of coverage on Afghanistan today at Memeorandum. Of special note is Jules Crittenden's post, "Quagmire!" (on the Christian Science Monitor).
If it was me in charge, I'd be making the case to stay in Afghanistan as long as necessary --- it's the central front in our ongoing GWOT (with AFPAK). It's been a long time, though, and with Barack Hussein in power, we have no leadership in foreign affairs.
In any case, check out the useful analysis from Stephen Biddle, Fotini Christia, and J Alexander Thier, at Foreign Affairs, "Defining Success in Afghanistan: What Can the United States Accept?"
We won't build a centralized democracy in Afghanistan, but a decentralized model might work:
Power sharing would be easier under a decentralized democracy, in which many responsibilities now held by Kabul would be delegated to the periphery. Some of these powers would surely include the authority to draft and enact budgets, to use traditional alternatives to centralized justice systems for some offenses, to elect or approve important officials who are now appointed by Kabul, and perhaps to collect local revenue and enforce local regulation.
Increasing local autonomy would make it easier to win over Afghans who distrust distant Kabul and would take advantage of a preexisting base of legitimacy and identity at the local level. The responsibility for foreign policy and internal security, however, would remain with the central government, which would prevent even the more autonomous territories from hosting international terrorist groups or supporting insurrection against the state.
A decentralized democracy along these lines should be an acceptable option for the United States. Its reliance on democracy and transparency is consistent with American values. Individual territories with the freedom to reflect local preferences may adopt social policies that many in the United States would see as regressive. But the opposite could also occur, with some places implementing more moderate laws than those favored by a conservative center. By promoting local acceptance of the central government, this option would remove much of the casus belli for the insurgency. And it would preserve a central state with the power and incentive to deny the use of Afghan soil for destabilizing Pakistan or planning attacks against the United States.
A decentralized democracy would comport with much of the post-Cold War experience with state building elsewhere. A range of postconflict states in Africa (Ethiopia and Sierra Leone), Europe, (Bosnia and Macedonia), the Middle East (Iraq and Lebanon), and Asia (East Timor and, tentatively, Nepal) have used some combination of consociationalism, federalism, and other forms of decentralized democratic power sharing. Although it is too early to make definitive claims of success, to date not one of these states has collapsed, relapsed into civil war, or hosted terrorists. And some, such as Bosnia and Ethiopia, have remained tolerably stable for over a decade. This is, of course, no guarantee that decentralized democracy would work in Afghanistan. But its track record elsewhere and its better fit with the country's natural distribution of power suggests that it offers a reasonable chance of balancing interests and adjudicating disputes in Afghanistan, too ....
Afghanistan is not ungovernable. There are feasible options for acceptable end states that would meet core U.S. security interests and place the country on a path toward tolerable stability. The United States will have to step back from its ambitious but unrealistic project to create a strong, centralized Afghan state. If it does, then a range of power-sharing models could balance the needs of Afghanistan's internal factions and constituencies in ways that today's design cannot, while ensuring that Afghanistan does not again become a base for terrorists. In war, as in so many other things, the perfect can be the enemy of the good. The perfect is probably not achievable in Afghanistan -- but the acceptable can still be salvaged.
Labels: Afghanistan, Obama Administration, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy, War on Terror
Badge No. 3478
I had a feeling they'd be down there today...
At Five Feet of Fury, "My blogger-husband & I ordered to stop videotaping on public sidewalk, by Toronto cop today, badge #3478."
And Blazing Cat Fur, "Five Feet of Fury Meets Badge No. 3478":
This is pretty funny. Sadly it's the missed photo-op of the day. I only caught the tail end of our conversation with Badge No. 3478, an arrogant boob too dim to understand that he serves the public and not the other way around. Read 5 Feet's account for the details ....
Actually, be sure to RTWT at both links.
Labels: Blogging, Canada Human Rights, News
Charles Johnson's Got Nothing Left
Charles Johnson's not well, seriously:
Robert Stacy McCain has some background, "A. Charles Johnson."
And all of this is just rehash. I wrote about it here: "A Theory* of Racist Smears and the Case of Robert Stacy McCain."
Labels: Racism, Radical Left
'Restrepo'
Didn't get a chance this weekend. It's playing up in L.A. and my wife's been working. Might get there later in the week. The homepage is here. And from LAT:
From the frightening chaos of daily firefights to the backbreaking boredom of digging bunkers in unforgiving terrain, in "Restrepo" (pronounced re-STREP-o) which deservedly won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this year, the filmmakers have given us war at its most elemental. For all the high-tech equipment and the precision of high-flying bombers that have come to define modern warfare, the film is a reminder that much fighting is still done if not quite hand to hand, then alarmingly close enough to see the enemy's breath fog the frigid mountain air.
Labels: Afghanistan, Movies, News
Sports Illustrated 2010 Esti Ginzburg Photoshoot
"Esti Ginzburg, 19, is a native of Tel Aviv, Israel. " Well, hey, I'm a Zionist already!
Labels: Babe Blogging, Full Metal Weekend, Women
Amanda Marcotte is Mad – Mad!! – at the 'Haters' Who Destroyed David Weigel
You can't make this stuff up:
In case it's not obvious, Jesse and I are both on Journolist. Unlike a lot of people, I have no doubt that it was someone on the listserv --- someone who agreed to keep the listserv private --- that leaked the emails to the gossip blog Fishbowl. I know back-stabbing hater behavior when I see it, and this is textbook. Dave rather recently got the plum job at the Washington Post, and that's the sort of thing that brings haters out of the woodwork. Whoever decided to ruin him probably thinks of him or herself as a good liberal, and probably thinks they deserve the job that Dave got. Well, you're not, and I'll bet a million dollars that you don't. So congrats. Enjoy your moment of successful hating today. Tomorrow morning, whoever you are, you're going to wake up the same hack you always were. Except now you'll be covered in slime and responsible for taking someone out of a job where they were actually doing good, useful work. You fail on every level, asshole. Maybe if you spent more time working and less time hating on people with more talent than you, you wouldn't be driven to perform gross acts of haterade.
More talent?
Right. At, uhmm, teabagging them before they teabag you, I guess:
Labels: Conservatism, Mass Media, Radical Left, Tea Parties
The 'Homeless Guy' Slam on American Power!
God, this hilarious!
It turns out the STFUSexists has a pretty good readership, mostly college-age feminists, from what I gather. And what holds these youngins together is summed up by Robert Stacy McCain, who notes:
Anyone who has read Thomas Sowell's The Vision of the Anointed (as everyone should) recognizes in this a signature trope of elitist liberalism: "We are enlightened and sophisticated, whereas conservatives are benighted and bigoted."
In other words, the little women at STFUSexists are intolerant know-it-alls who know little when it comes to conservative ideology and politics.
And on that note, looky here: One of Miss Olga's readers was moved to write a full post after skimming my blog, and then writes:
I just got done looking at his blog as well and that was the first thing that struck me, how naked Katy is fine and dandy on a cover because she is 'classy' to Lady Gaga's dead-body using weird. I also noted the obligatory nods to 'Socialism' without any clear understanding what that is or intelligent tying of it to our current president. My favorite had to be the pic of him outside of Kohl's buying 'patriotic clothes', stocking up for the 4th as he puts it. Normally, I wouldn't notice or care, other than to remark that he looks a lot like a homeless guy in that get up, but on a tea bagger's, lefty watchdog blog I kind of take it more as it was intended-as in that he is more patriotic and therefore more deserving of having a voice in this country. This is my biggest angst/source of hilarity with these assholes, that they claim so much love of our country while having absolute disdain for the election process and for the rights and freedoms that this country actually stands for (or should be).
Well, first I'm dyin' to know what's the "homeless guy' tip off at the pic. I mean seriously ... I just shaved, LOL!!
And I know GSGF is lovin' it:
Besides that, well, no need to go on too much about all of this. I would like to know the basis for our friend's claim that I haven't "any clear understanding" what socialism is, nor an "intelligent tying of it to our current president."
I guess our little one didn't spend much time in the archives. One of my widely read posts during the campaign was "The Ideological Foundations of the Obama Phenomenon," illustrated with a cartoon that might well describe the thinking of Miss Olga's followers:
And if I don't mind saying, I know a thing or two about ideology, and one thing I know is that my knowledge is most assuredly not based on the same kind of self-annointed omnipotence we find among leftist little tikes like these.
For edification, here's a few suggestions, since I doubt our little know-it-all is quite as versed on Marxist theory and praxis as she implies.
Let me recommend:
David Priestland, The Red Flag: A History of Communism.
Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror.
Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders - The Golden Age - The Breakdown.
BONUS: Walter Russell Mead, "Literary Saturday: The Communist Manifesto."
And here's the perfect quote (at Hole Snipe):
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
-- Winston Churchill
Labels: Blogging, Feminism, Ideology
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Area book focuses on Wheaton football success
By NATHAN LURZ - nlurz@shawmedia.com
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DuPage County author Thom Wilder interviewed two dozen players, coaches and staff from the 1992 state championship Wheaton-Warrenville South High School football team for his new book "The Ghosts of Wheaton."
"Ghosts of Wheaton" by Thom Wilder will be released Sept. 5.
WHEATON – In recent memory, Wheaton Warrenville South High School has been high school football royalty with seven state championships, four second-place finishes and several trips to the semifinals.
All that success has come since 1988, the year after the school was opened to replace Wheaton Central.
Bensenville author and one-time Wheaton newspaper reporter Thom Wilder's new book, "The Ghosts of Wheaton," traces the program's successful run dating to its heyday of Red Grange in the early 1900s through its rise to prominence in 1992 with its first state title.
He recently spoke to Suburban Life Reporter Nathan Lurz about his book and the process for researching the stories.
Lurz: So what does this book actually cover?
Wilder: It's really two stories: the 1992 championship game, which was a great game – double overtime, back-and-forth, the kicker had to kick a field goal not once but twice to tie the game. ... It's also a story of how the program got there. From 1988 to 1992 is where the program really turned itself around. For the 19 years before that they were really lackluster and mediocre – really, 4-5 one year and 5-4 the next, never really got out of that range.
[In the 1988 season], there came a truly seminal moment in the program's history. The team started 0-3, fumbled in each of the first three games and people were calling for [Coach John Thorne's] head, and he even thought about quitting. But a player stood up in the locker room and said enough is enough. They won the rest of the games that season and went 6-3 ... and made the playoffs for the first time.
Lurz: How did you come upon the story?
Wilder: I've never been a sports writer, and especially never been a football writer. I made my entire journalism career out of politics, life, business – what my mom would call "the truly boring things." But I've always done things on my own creatively ... and my first book, "The Road to Paradise" was written from my own firsthand knowledge, because it was my high school and my senior class.
I didn't plan to do another football book, but this fell in my lap because of people who read my first book and it really grabbed me.
Lurz: Obviously some of the storylines can be gleaned from box scores, but how did you track down the actual players and coaches?
Wilder: The first two people I reached out to were Chuck Baker, the former principal, ... and Coach Thorne.
Then I literally buried myself in the library for several months, burying myself in newspapers going back to Grange's day. That gave me the framework for the story I wanted to tell, then I started calling players, coaches, administration. ... I ended up talking to about two dozen people for the book.
Thank goodness for Facebook, that was a huge start. Through that I met a handful of players through a Facebook Tiger Alumni site. Through that connection I found more and more people, word spread and somebody always knew how to get a hold of somebody. And I got some incredible personal stories. ... I think that's what makes the book a little bit special. It's more than a football book. They all really opened up about growing up in Wheaton in the late '80s and early '90s.
Lurz: It obviously might have appeal for those on the team, alumni or in the Wheaton and Warrenville communities, but why might others want to read it?
Wilder: It's very much a DuPage book. Each time the Tigers played a community, I talk about the community and the school and what rivalry there was if there was any.
But what makes it a special story ... is that it was about that first championship. Now today the Tigers have won seven and it's old hat. But then they were still the underdogs and still the team expected to lose the title game. And they found a way not only to meet that goal but exceed it with a lot of titles over the years.
Thom Wilder's new book, "The Ghosts of Wheaton," will be released Sept. 5 and will be available at thomwilder.com and select bookstores.

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Barbora Malíková (* 30. prosince 2001 Opava) je česká atletka-běžkyně. Pochází z Oldřišova a závodí za TJ Sokol Opava, její trenérkou je Jana Gellnerová. V roce 2017 vyhrála ve svých 15 letech Mistrovství světa v atletice do 17 let na trati 400 metrů a stala se tak nejmladší vítězkou na této trati v historii. Ve stejném roce a na stejné trati vyhrála i Mistrovství ČR žen, o rok později vyhrála Mistrovství Evropy v atletice do 17 let. Po Zuzaně Hejnové, Kateřině Cachové a Michaele Hrubé se stala teprve čtvrtou českou dorosteneckou mistryní světa.

S časem 51,65 je držitelkou českého juniorského rekordu na trati 400 m, dosavadní rekord Naděždy Tomšové překonala po 29 letech, když v roce 2017 v čase 52,74 vyhrála Mistrovství světa do 17 let. O rok později rekord o osm setin vylepšila výhrou na Mistrovství Evropy do 17 let.

S časem 2:03,51 je také držitelkou českého dorosteneckého rekordu na trati 800 m, zaběhla jej v roce 2018 na českém dorosteneckém mistrovství.

V roce 2017 byla v české anketě Atlet roku vyhlášena objevem roku.

V červnu 2018 vyhrála na Zlaté tretře Ostrava juniorský běh na 300 metrů s časem 37,86, což je nový český dorostenecký rekord a čtvrtý nejlepší čas ve světových tabulkách závodnic do 20 let. Ve stejném roce si také vylepšila osobní maximum v běhu na 100 metrů (12,08) a 200 metrů (24,40).

Na Mistrovství ČR v Plzni 9. srpna 2020 zvítězila v běhu na 400 metrů, když zaběhla nový český juniorský rekord v čase 51,65. Dne 6. září zvítězila na Mistrovství ČR juniorů v Ostravě v běhu na 800 metrů v novém českém juniorském rekordu 2:03,14.

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  Barbora Malíková na stránkách Evropské atletické asociace
  – rozhovor s Barborou Malíkovou a její trenérkou Janou Gellnerovou o sezóně 2017

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Mistryně České republiky v atletice
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Atleti z Opavy
Narození v roce 2001
Narození 30. prosince
Narození v Opavě
Oldřišov
Žijící lidé
Ženy
Čeští olympionici

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Selkirk lay low until he could ascertain the visitors' nationality. A landing party sent ashore after Robers' crew sighted a light ashore at night time returned towards nightfall with 'a Man cloth'd in Goat-Skins, who look'd wilder than the first Owners of them [who] had so much forgot his Language for want of Use, that we could scarce understand him, for he seem'd to speak his words by halves'.
As some of Rogers' men suffering from scurvy recovered, the process was assisted by two or three goats a day caught by the man that Rogers was playfully referring to as the 'governour' of the island.
When they set sail again on 13 February Rogers appointed the former castaway second mate on the Duke, based on Dampier's rating of him as the best man on the Cinque Ports.
Selkirk was subsequently appointed as master of a prize taken near the Isle of Lobos on 26 March and renamed the Increase and formed part of a detachment exploiting areas beyond the town when the privateers launched their assault on Guayaquil on 25 April.
After the privateers withdrew from the town on 28 April, Selkirk continued in command of the Increase until the Spanish authorities came up with a ransom for the vessel.
After a spell in the Galapagos in late September to refit ships that were becoming worm-riddled, Rogers moved on to Cape St Lucas in November to intercept the inbound Manila galleon.
When she had not appeared by 20 December, Rogers' three ships were about to head for Guam and the Marianas, but the richly laden 450-ton frigate, Nuestra Senora de la Disengano came into sight the following day. She proved to be no match for the privateers, and by 22 December she was in their hands.


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Home Manufacturers Airbus CIT firms up order for 15 A330neo and five A321ceo aircraft
Aircraft Leasing Companies
CIT firms up order for 15 A330neo and five A321ceo aircraft
Strong momentum growing for Airbus' new A330neo Widebody
CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT), a global leader in transportation finance has firmed up its order for 15 A330-900neo aircraft and five A321ceo aircraft. CIT became one of the launch customers of the A330neo after signing its initial agreement in July 2014, at the Farnborough International Airshow.
"Given our long-term leadership on the A330 program, we are proud to be one of the first customers to sign a purchase agreement for the all-new A330neo aircraft," said Jeff Knittel, President of CIT Transportation & International Finance. "These agreements will enable us to provide fuel efficient solutions to our customers as CIT continues to be a leader in providing early access to the most sought after aircraft for our customers."
"When a leading lessor, CIT, adds the A330neo to its already extensive Airbus widebody portfolio of A330ceo's and A350-900s, we take that as clear confirmation of our widebody family strategy fully meeting the requirements and expectations of the market," said John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers. "CIT's repeat order for A321ceo's, is further evidence of the continuing high value placed by the market on this largest member of our popular A320 Family, which offers the best seat-mile costs of any single-aisle aircraft and the lowest fuel burn, emissions and noise footprint in its class."
The A330-800neo and the A330-900neo are two new members of the Airbus Widebody Family launched in July 2014 with first deliveries scheduled to start in Q4 2017. The A330neo incorporates latest generation Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines, aerodynamic enhancements and new cabin features. Benefitting from the unbeatable economics, versatility and high reliability of the A330, the A330neo reduces fuel consumption by 14% per seat, making it the most cost efficient, medium range Widebody aircraft on the market. In addition to greater fuel savings, A330neo operators will also benefit from a range increase of up to 400 nautical miles and of course all the operational commonality advantages of the Airbus Family.
The A320 Family is the world's best-selling single aisle product line with almost 11,000 orders to date and over 6,200 aircraft delivered to 400 customers and operators worldwide. Thanks to its widest cabin, all members of the A320 Family offer the industry's best level of comfort in all classes and Airbus' 18" wide seats in economy as standard.
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Старі Бейзи́ми — село в Україні, в Ленковецькій сільській територіальній громаді Шепетівського району Хмельницької області. Населення становить 161 осіб.

Географія
Село розташоване на правому березі річки Хомора.

Історія
У 1906 році село Сульжинської волості Ізяславського повіту Волинської губернії. Відстань від повітового міста 20 верст, від волості 5. Дворів 80, мешканців 543.

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Села Хмельницької області
Населені пункти Шепетівського району


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Stockport captain Liam Hogan: We're ready to prove our worth in West Ham cup tie
January 9 2021, 12.50pm
Liam Hogan won promotion to the Football League with Salford in 2019 (Bradley Collyer/PA)
Stockport captain Liam Hogan is adamant the Vanarama National League side will not be overawed when West Ham visit Edgeley Park in the FA Cup third round on Monday evening.
The Hatters are into the third round of the competition for the first time in 14 years and have been paired against a Premier League side who they memorably defeated en route to the League Cup semi-finals in the 1996/97 season.
County won promotion to the old First Division – now the Sky Bet Championship – in that campaign before sliding down the football pyramid, and they were in the sixth tier National League North as recently as two years ago.
A takeover has brought renewed optimism to a club that now firmly have their sights set on returning to the Football League, while a cup run has given them an extra spring in their step, according to Hogan.
He said: "We don't hide in our shells and I'm pretty sure, looking at the lads over the last few days, that's not going to be the case because they've been skipping around training and wanting to show what they're all about.
"For us it's a massive game. The levels between us (and West Ham) are big but we're looking to go and show ourselves in the best way possible.
"A cup upset, I'd love to be involved in one. We'll go out there and complete the job that the gaffer has asked of us to the best of our abilities, and hopefully it will cause West Ham problems and might even be enough on the day.
"They'll have that extra bit of quality but it's for us to show what we're capable of and give the lads a bit of a free reign when we do get the ball."
Stockport, who sit fourth in the National League, edged out League One Rochdale in the first round then overcame Yeovil after extra-time to set up a televised tie against a Hammers side who currently sit 10th in the Premier League.
Hogan, who joined the club from Salford in February last year, said: "The cup run has rejuvenated us.
"We'll be on the telly again on Monday which is really important for the club – not just the players on the pitch but the staff and everybody that has worked to get us to where we are at the minute."
Hogan, who started for Salford as they beat AFC Fylde in the 2019 National League play-off final at Wembley, has never come up against Premier League opposition in a decade-long playing career.
The 31-year-old added: "This is the top of the game, the elite and where the boys are going to be pushing with their own performances and their own careers.
"To go and match yourself against the best that England has to offer – they've had a good start to their season, and we've had a good start to ours, it looks like a great fixture on paper."
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A Meta-Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Incidence and Prevalence Comparing African-Americans and Caucasians
by Nelson Steenland; Felicia Goldstein; Allan Levey; Whitney Wharton
Background: Several studies have shown higher Alzheimer's disease (AD) incidence rates are in African-Americans (AAs) than Caucasians (CCs). If this finding is consistent across studies, it raises important etiologic questions regarding factors responsible for this discrepancy. It also affects the likely public health burden of AD in the US in the future, as the non-Caucasian population becomes the majority. Objective: Estimate the AA/CC rate ratio for AD incidence across all available studies. Methods: We conducted a meta-analysis of population-based studies for the rate ratio (RR) of AD incidence for AAs versus CCs, after identifying six relevant studies from the literature.We calculated an AA/CC rate ratio across all studies using inversevariance weighting, and assessed inter-study heterogeneity. Using these incidence data, as well as data on survival after diagnosis, and on all-cause mortality, we also estimated the US prevalence of AD among AAs and CCs. Results: There were six population-based studies with data comparing AD incidence between AAs and CCs, with an estimated 370 AA and 640 CC incident cases. The meta-analysis RR showed that the AD rate for AAs was 64% higher than for CCs (RR = 1.64 (95% CI 1.35-2.00)), with no evidence of heterogeneity.We estimated the current US AD prevalence for ages 65-90 to be 5.5% for CCs, and 8.6% for AAs (prevalence ratio 1.56). Conclusion: AAs have an increased risk of incident and prevalent AD compared to CCs for reasons which are unknown, but are hypothesized to reflect biological, psychological, and socioeconomic factors.


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New Death Stranding Character Posters and Screenshots Unveiled Following Release Date Announcement
May 29, 2019 1:14 PM EST
Get a look at all of the new characters coming in Death Stranding in these new, individual posters.
After setting the Internet ablaze this morning by revealing the release date for Death Stranding, director Hideo Kojima took to Twitter and began letting loose some new promotional materials for the game.
Death Stranding is Releasing on PS4 This November
Of the new images Kojima released, most of them took the form of new posters for each of the characters in Death Stranding. In the past, these same posters have also been released alongside the reveal of other characters in the game but today's new trailer revealed previously unseen people that will be appearing in the game. The names of some of these new characters include Die-Hardman, Higgs, Mama, and Heartman. We also received new posters for Sam, the main protagonist played by Norman Reedus, and Deadman, who will be the character played by Guillermo del Toro.
In addition to all of these new posters, a whole slew of new high-quality screenshots for Death Stranding were also released. If you watched today's new trailer for the game, you'll recognize all of these new images from the video, but the pics are of a very high quality. Once again, we get to see some of the new characters from Death Stranding in addition to some new clips of gameplay, including that of Sam's newly revealed motorcycle-like vehicle.
You can find all of these new images and posters in the gallery below if you'd like to take a look at them for yourself. For more on Death Stranding, be sure to also check out the game's new collector's edition which comes with a replica life-size baby pod.
Death Stranding Pre-Order Bonuses, Special Editions, and Collector's Edition Unveiled
Cyberpunk 2077 Comes To Death Stranding in Free Update on PC
Kojima's love affair with Cyberpunk 2077 continues.
Kojima Productions Celebrates 5th Anniversary With Art and New Merch but No Game Announcements
Kojima Productions Teasing New Announcement Tomorrow
PlayStation's End of Year Sale Offers Massive Deals on Select Titles
PlayStation Exclusives Fan Art Displays Gorgeous Illustrations as a Homage to PS4
Death Stranding Fan Creates Live-Action Short Film for Its One Year Anniversary
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As with many things, it's swings and roundabouts. Being employed means office pals, rounds of tea and regular pay checks. Self-employment means no office politics, eating whatever you want for lunch (hello, Nutella sandwiches) and doing everything yourself. There are perks (and pitfalls) to both, but here's my take on being self-employed.
Being self-employed means that you are only accountable to yourself (and your clients) but it means that you don't have to ask for time off to do life admin style stuff, like going to the dentist or waiting in for a plumber. You don't have to get permission from anyone; you can plan your day how you want it.
You probably became a freelancer because you want to be your own boss, but it's all the rest that comes with running a business. There's the business planning, the marketing, the networking, the selling, the admin… and then the rest. The variety of the job and the challenges that brings can be the best part of self-employment, because you're not stuck doing one particular thing, and you're having to learn new skills at an incredible rate.
One of the worst things about being self-employed is arranging finance. Whether that's with a mortgage company or so you can get a car, lenders aren't as willing to loan you money when you don't have a solid income. Luckily, there are a number of companies that are sympathetic to the self-employed. Companies like motor finance 4u even provide a car finance calculator to make sure that the loan is affordable.
This is a double edged sword. Setting your own hours means that you can work whenever you want. But, it also means that you could work through the night – and abandon quality time with your partner, friends or family – if you needed to. Be careful to make sure that you are achieving a good work/life balance.
Sometimes you'll be so busy you're turning people away, and other times you'll have nothing and you'll be wondering what you did wrong. While this might be the perfect time to get your hair done or redecorate the home office, it can be hard not to get stressed about it. Combat this by doing the admin that you've been putting off, or the website redesign you've been wanting – something that contributes to your work, but may not necessarily be work for clients.
This is absolutely, positively the truth! Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking walking away from a cushy city job but the freedom, flexibility and being able to make every school play and sports day makes it all worth while!


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Эльбеншванд () — деревня в Германии, в земле Баден-Вюртемберг, входит в район Лёррах в составе коммуны .

Население составляет 166 человек (на 31 декабря 2008 года). Занимает площадь 6,77 км².

История
Первое упоминание о поселении встречается в дарственной монастырю Санкт-Блазиена в 1278 году.

До 31 декабря 2008 года Эльбеншванд образовывал собственную коммуну, куда также входили поселения:
 Бук (, );
 Лангензе (, );
 Холль (, ).

1 января 2009 года, после проведённых реформ, Эльбеншванд вошла в состав новой коммуны Клайнес-Визенталь в качестве района. В этот район также вошли Бук, Лангензе и Холль.

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Emotion recognition from speech plays important role for natural human-computer interaction. This study investigates binary classification performances of 4 fundamental emotion classes in Turkish Emotional Speech (TurES) Database using acoustic features for various classifiers.
Results shows that Angry emotion class has higher classification rate (70%-80%) than others; lowest classification rate is obtained as 64% for Happy-Neutral emotion pair. Best classification results are obtained with J48 (C4.5) classifier for all emotion pairs.


A short composition on 'Your aim in life'.
My aim in life: Every man has an aim in life. A man without an aim is like a ship without a rudder. A fixed aim helps a man in life.
Many men have many minds. Some want to earn money, some want to earn fame, some want to acquire knowledge, some want to be a teacher, some want be a doctor and so on. It depends on the individual taste.
Like others, I have an aim in life. My aim in life is to be a doctor. For this, I have to study hard so that I may pass the s.s.s examination with a great credit. After passing the s.s.s examination from science group with credit, I shall get myself admitted into H.S.C in the same group. After passing H.S.C examination, I shall get myself admitted into the M.B.B.S course. After passing the M.B.B.S degree, I shall go to my native village and serve the people of my own village. I shall treat medically the poor patients without fees. I know that to serve the humanity is a great virtue. I want to live through the path of virtue.
Most of the people of our village are poor and uneducated. Good doctors are not available in village. So, they do not get help and advice of a good doctor. They suffer from many diseases and die premature death. So, I have decided to be a doctor and serve them. I shall also try to start a charitable dispensary so that the helpless people may not die without medicine.
This is in short,my aim in life. I think my choice is the best one. I shall be a happy man if I can fulfill my aim in life.
My aim in life: Every man has an aim in life. A man without an aim is like a ship without a rudder. A fixed aim helps a man in life. Many men have many minds. Some want to earn money. Some want to earn fame. some want to acquire knowledge. Some want to a teacher, some want be a doctor and so on. It depends on the individual taste. Like others, I have an aim in life. My aim in life is to be a doctor. For this, I have to study hard so that I may pass the s.s.s examination with a great credit. After passing the s.s.s examination from science group with credit, I shall get myself admitted into H.S.C in the same group. After passing H.S.C examination, I shall get myself admitted into the M.B.B.S course. After passing the M.B.B.S degree, I shall go to my native village and serve the people of my own village. I shall treat medically the poor patients without fees. I know that to serve the humanity is a great virtue. I want to live through the path of virtue. Most of the people our village are poor and uneducated. Good doctors are not available in village. So, they do not get help and advice of a good doctor. They suffer from many diseases and die premature death. So, I have decided to be a doctor and serve them. I shall also try to start a charitable dispensary so that the helpless people may not die without medicine. This is in short,my aim in life. I think my choice is the best one. I shall be a happy man if I can fulfill my aim in life.


Without a doubt, this is the best and safest way to get to know Morocco. You will be hosted by a private guide all along the journey.
You will arrive in the city of Fez, where you will spend two nights at the Sofitel Palais Jamais Hotel. You will be able to walk round the city and suburbs. It has proved to be one of the imperial cities with greatest tourist interest because of its history, crafts and one of largest Medinas in the world, the madrasas, the zoco (amazing for its quantity and variety of spices), Karauin, the oldest university of the world, the mosques, the square, the Andalusian and Potters neighbourhoods, palaces and museums. The craft of Fez is famous worldwide.
On the third day, you will set out for the Middle Atlas Mountains. You will stop over in the lovely city of Ifrane, also called the "Swiss of Morocco", the remains of the times of the French Protectorate. You will travel through great cedar forests which are home to communities of nomadic shepperds. To the south, leaving the High Atlas Mountains behind, you will arrive in Errachidia, where the first palm-tree forests start appearing. This oasis creates a perfect microclimate for growing all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Going on our journey, you will reach Erfoud, the economic centre of the Tafilalet region. The fossils found in this area prove that the sea used to cover it in the past. The pavement disappears at this point, and you will get to the adobe town of Merzouga. Before dinner, you will go on a camel ride to watch the sunset. Dinner and accommodation. Dar el Janoub Hotel.
On the fourth day, you will have breakfast and go on a full-day excursion to the town of Risana, ancient Sijilmassa, centre of supply of the ancient caravans coming from the Sahara. Later, you will stop in Goulmima to visit Ksur (an adobe fortified village) of the 15th century, still inhabited by over 2,500 people. You will continue the journey through a semidesert landscape, to reach the oasis of Tinghir, which is probably one of the most beautiful places in Morocco. Going up the river Todra, you will get to the amazing gorges which are over 300 m high. Dinner and accommodation. Kasbah Lamrani Hotel.
On the fifth day, after a short visit round the town, you will depart for Dades River gorges via the Thousand Kasbahs. The river has eroded the rocks to form a peculiar landscape in the rocks. This area has a special microclimate allowing the growth of vegetation and crops in the middle of vast palm-tree forests. Arrival in Ouarzazate, one of the most important cities in the South of Morocco and wordly known because several historical movies were shot there, such as Gladiator, Troy, The Mummy, etc. Excursion to the Taurit Kasbah. Dinner and accommodation. Riad Dar Kamar Hotel.
On the sixth day, after breakfast you will head for Ait Ben Haddou, the queen of the Kasbahs, declared cultural heritage of humanity. You will arrive at the Kasbah of Telouet, ancient palace of Glagui, Pacha Marrakech, by one of the most beautiful tracks in Morocco. Along a meandering road, you will go through the highest mountain harbour in Morocco, Tzin Tichca (2,260 m) to arrive in the imperial city of Marrakech, capital of the Great South. Dinner and accommodation. Sofitel Hotel.
Walking through "Djemma El Fna" square has proved to be a unique experience, the centre where all the life and activity of the city get together: dancers, story-tellers, jugglers, craftsmen, salesmen and snake charmers. Dinner and accommodation. You will spend two nights in this exciting city.
Reception at the airport in Fez and transportation to the 5-star Palais Jamais Hotel, including breakfast and dinner. Afternoon at leisure.
Breakfast. Full-day city tour round Fez, religious and cultural capital city of Morocco. You will visit the mosques, the squares, the neighbourhoods of the potters and the Andalusians, and the Medina.
Breakfast and setting out for the Middle Atlas Mountains. You will stop over in the lovely city of Ifrane, also called the Swiss of Morocco, the remains of the times of the French Protectorate. You will travel through great cedar forests which are home to communities of nomadic shepperds. To the south, leaving the High Atlas Mountains behind, you will arrive in Errachidia, where the first palm-tree forests start appearing. This oasis creates a perfect microclimate for growing all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Going on our journey, you will reach Erfoud, the economic centre of the Tafilalet region. The fossils found in this area prove that the sea used to cover it in the past. The pavement disappears at this point, and you will get to the adobe town of Merzouga. Before dinner, you will go on a camel ride to watch the sunset. Dinner and accommodation. Dar el Janoub Hotel.
Breakfast and full-day excursion to the town of Risana, ancient Sijilmassa, centre of supply of the ancient caravans coming from the Sahara. Later, you will stop in Goulmima to visit Ksur (an adobe fortified village) of the 15th century, still inhabited by over 2,500 people. You will continue the journey through a semidesert landscape, to reach the oasis of Tinghir, which is probably one of the most beautiful places in Morocco. Going up the river Todra, you will get to the amazing gorges which are over 300 m high. Dinner and accommodation. Kasbah Lamrani Hotel.
Breakfast and after a short visit round the town, departure for Dades River gorges via the Thousand Kasbahs. The river has eroded the rocks to form a peculiar landscape in the rocks. This area has a special microclimate allowing the growth of vegetation and crops in the middle of vast palm-tree forests. Arrival in Ouarzazate, one of the most important cities in the South of Morocco and wordly known because several historical movies were shot there, such as Gladiator, Troy, The Mummy, etc. Excursion to the Taurit Kasbah. Dinner and accommodation. Riad Dar Kamar Hotel.
Breakfast. Full day guided tour round Marrakech.
It is said that the city was inhabited by a tribe coming from the other side of the Atlas, who had brought large amounts of dates with them. From their bones, a huge palm-tree forest was born. Also called the red city for the colour of its walls and gardens watered by underground wells (khettaras), built by the Almoravides and nomadic tribes from the Sahara in the 11th century. In the 12th century, Marrakech reached splendour with its unique architecture and culture.
Day at leisure until the scheduled time to leave for the airport to take the flight back to the city of origin. Arrival. End of our services.


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I realize that we are at the tail end of the Winter Olympics, but the little guy had so much fun watching and learning about the Olympics I wanted to do a quick round-up to celebrate. I had no idea how many fun books there are inspired by the Olympic Games for kids. These books all highlighted a lot of the things Aiden saw on TV and I could see him putting things together. He definitely loved skating and ski jumping the best. I figured there is still a day left so Amazon Prime or the Kindle book is an option or if you have bad weather like we do, maybe a fun trip to the local library to see if they have these favorite childrens books about the winter Olympics.
Bunny Slopes: This book is ADORABLE. It's about a bunny who is skiing but it is interactive. It prompts you to shake, tap, and move the book around in order to "help" the bunny ski. The little guy couldn't stop laughing. It's not specifically about the Olympics so it's a great winter book in general and I definitely recommend it.
Max and Marla: This book is about two best friends who are aspiring Olympic sledders. They learn a lesson in the book about preparation, practice, and perseverance — and that friendship is the most important thing. Even though it's about aspiring Olympians it is a cute story that could be read anytime.
The Grizzly Bear Who Lost His Grrrr: This book is about a Grizzly Bear who has the loudest growl and wins a competition every year. One day his "grrrr" is stolen. He learns about the importance of friendship and works together with the other animals in the forest to find it. It's a great story for any time of the year.
Snowman Paul at the Winter Olympics: This book is about a snowman named Paul who is competing at the Olympics. He learns a very important lesson about being truthful and fair competition.
I love that through these books Aiden's memories of the Olympics will live on because it really has been a ton of fun experiencing it through his eyes!
Did you find any great books about the Winter Olympics for your little ones? Let me know in the comments!
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