Isaac Schrödinger

The Nature of Man

Peter Robinson interviews Victor Davis Hanson:

• Part 1 of 5.
• Part 2 of 5.

The rest will likely be up before the weekend.

A Powerful Capture

A photo that's, fortunately, difficult to take in the Western world.

Focusing on the Baby

What is it thinking?

Only A Joke

For a second there, I thought someone was hunting Siberian Huskies!

Mocking The Big Zero

A link for Dana Carvey at Instapundit.

It's cute when Carvey calls Obama "smart" and then portrays him as incompetent. Though, to be fair, none of the other living ex-Presidents are good either. After Reagan, America has had okay-to-mediocre communicators.

What's the Subject?

It's quite simple: wind.

Silent Victims

Vox Popoli:

if I genuinely hated women, then surely I would celebrate the ongoing destruction of millions of baby girls instead of opposing it so vociferously. And it is eminently fair to ask, in return, how anyone can reasonably be considered a supporter of women's rights when they are in favor of permitting literally millions of baby girls to be put to death around the globe.

To them, licentiousness is more important than life.

Also, read the first comment there. I have trouble deciphering its nature; is it straight seriousness or parody?

"Staring At The Motherboard and RAM"

I assemble my own PC. So, I definitely understand his pain.

Robin?

Vox Popoli: Hitchens outs himself.

The best comment is by clark:

I bet most of you don't know that the original title of his book was 'God is NOT Fabulous'!

Son of Hamas

The Wall Street Journal:

'I absolutely know that in anybody's eyes I was a traitor," says Mosab Hassan Yousef. "To my family, to my nation, to my God. I crossed all the red lines in my society. I didn't leave one that I didn't cross."

Now 32, Mosab is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Throughout the last decade, from the second Intifada to the current stalemate, he worked alongside his father in the West Bank. During that time the younger Mr. Yousef also secretly embraced Christianity. And as he reveals in his book "Son of Hamas," out this week, he became one of the top spies for Israel's internal security arm, the Shin Bet.

Wow.

At the end of the day a traditional Muslim is doing the will of a fanatic, fundamentalist, terrorist God. I know this is harsh to say. Most governments avoid this subject. They don't want to admit this is an ideological war.

"The problem is not in Muslims," he continues. "The problem is with their God. They need to be liberated from their God. He is their biggest enemy. It has been 1,400 years they have been lied to."

He just shaved off 50 years of his life.

At 1000 FPS

Caturday fanatics may be disappointed by the lack of felines but that's life.

The best part is at 00:58 to 1:00.

ROFL

Try not to laugh after reading the caption under the photo.

Via Instapundit.

God Bless Geeks

You know the guy has studied economics when he writes:

There are very few equity investments I would advise making in this economy. AI-controlled sexbots, preferably with a solar-powered option, is definitely one of them.

The Rise of the Sexbots: Feminists Cry. Coming soon to a theater near you.

What A Schmuck!

Aaaiieeee via Hardocp:

Israel's military has "unfriended" one of its own - after a combat soldier potentially updated Israel's enemies on Facebook.

The military said Wednesday that a planned raid on a West Bank village was called off after the soldier disclosed its details online. The military said the soldier posted the time and location of the raid on his Facebook page, saying that troops were planning on "cleaning up" the village.

This is not going to look good on his resume.

Ultra Alpha

So much badassness (badassery?) in one shot.

The Bum One

Glenn Reynolds posts about The Big Zero and his virtual colonoscopy. What's interesting is the comments by readers who say that regular Americans don't have the procedure covered under Medicare.

Infidels Submit

A Danish newspaper has apologized for recently re-printing the cartoon of doom.

Diana West fisks the appeasing language of said newspaper.

Link via Mark Steyn:

During my difficulties with the Canadian Islamic Congress, some leftie commentator would occasionally wonder how it came about that some rightwing loudmouth like Steyn got to appoint himself the champion of free speech. Well, that's because, as Politiken's weaselly "settlement" makes plain, when it comes to upholding bedrock principles of liberty before their avowed enemies, the nancy boys of the left fold like a cheap Bedouin tent.

Ouch.

No Caturday

It's the golden theme edition. First we have the king and then a, er, jester.

Are You Tendulkar Big?

Sambit Bal on Cricinfo:

As he stood a couple of runs away from making history, so many of you logged in together that our servers blinked. It was a desperate few minutes, but in a sense, it was also a moment of vindication of your faith in us. Many of you got on Twitter to vent your frustration, and there was one post that stood out: “You know you are large when you crash Cricinfo.”

We hope to be ready for the next peak. We have just ordered some Tendulkar servers.

After 200

Harsha Bhogle:

Inevitably the question will be asked: what next? I know there is only one thing he genuinely covets, and that is not in his hands. In 12 months Tendulkar hopes to play his sixth and last World Cup. So far his relationship with the World Cup has been like that of a child who scurries to the rossogulla shop only to find it shut every time. If he was a golfer seeking a Masters win or a tennis player hoping to win another Grand Slam, he could plan for it but he doesn't hold the key to a win in a team sport. It must happen, he cannot make it happen. But what else? Frankly, I don't care.

Tendulkar's journey is about joy and purity and a landmark is merely a comfort stop.

Oh but how glorious it would be: The greatest Indian cricketer wins the World Cup for his team in his home city of Bombay and over a billion people celebrate!

200

2961 ODI cricket matches have been played in the past four decades. For the first time, someone has scored 200 runs in an innings.

He definitely earned it.

At 36, Tendulkar hasn't shown signs of ageing, and his sparkling touch in both forms of the game has ruled out all possibilities of him checking out anytime soon. Fatigue, cramps and paucity of time have stood in the way of batsmen going that extra mile to get to the 200-mark. Tendulkar did cramp up after crossing 150, but he didn't opt for a runner. His experience of 20 years at the international level came into play in this historic innings, staying at the crease from the first ball to the last, never once losing focus. There were no chances offered, no dropped catches, making his innings absolutely flawless.

For my readers who don't know, Sachin Tendulkar is one of the greats; in my opinion, the greatest player in the sport today. When I started watching cricket in the early 90s, nobody played shots as beautifully and smoothly and as tactically well as Tendulkar. He was doing all that in his teens!

He has many records in the game. Though, there is one big flaw in his resume: The World Cup -- which will be played next in 2011 in his home country.

The stage is set. Let's see how the pieces move.

Oh, a sweet slice of time:

the crowd were on their feet as they watched him make history. It was all the more fitting for another reason because it was on this very day, back in 1988, that he and Vinod Kambli added a mammoth 664 - then a world record - in a school match.

Fascist Pigs!

Mens News Daily via Vox Popoli:

How far out of touch with reality are women legislators anyway?

That’s exactly the question being asked by citizens (women and men) regarding a proposed bill in the Maryland General Assembly, that would restrict men’s rights to use dating sites to meet foreign women and will likely spur copycat legislation in other states.

Delegate Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio, Vice President of the women’s caucus is leading 35 other delegates (all women) on a campaign for passage of HB 65, that would shockingly require Maryland men to submit their fingerprints and other background information before they can initiate communication with a foreign woman if they use an “International Marriage Broker”.

A commenter, Desert__Cat, at Vox says:

I'd call these legislators a c-word that is not 'cougar', but that word seems to get comments deleted.

Oh, The Drama

Four perfect shots.

No Love for Infidel Brother

Compass Direct News via Jihad Watch:

The four older Muslim brothers of a 26-year-old Christian beat him unconscious here earlier this month because he refused their enticements to convert to Islam, the victim told Compass.

Utterly horrific. His own family wants to shed his blood. They were Christians once; now they want to kill their brother because he refuses their death-cult.

The victim:

said Akram-Ullah and his brothers offered him 1 million rupees (US$11,790), a spacious residence and a woman of his choice to marry in order to lure him to Islam, but he declined.

May he be protected.

New Slogan for Toyota

Read it here.

A True Beast

It looks magnificent. I've always wanted to pet one of them but at the same time I don't want to be the main course.

Here it's communicating, "Come on, I dare ya!"

Poses

This one seems too clinical. This shot is more, er, natural.

Trouble for The Patriarchy

Instapundit:

The best scam ever was when men convinced women that working fulltime is some sort of liberating experience. Alas, they seem to be wising up.

Damn it.

Expensive Glass

One doesn't witness this kind of demo on Earth, literally.

Mimic

The dreaded lens-cap-on phenomenon affects the young a lot more. That's in addition to not-clicking-shutter-release-button.

Ahmadis Are Not Pure

An excerpt of a summary of how Ahmadis lived and died in Pakistan during last year:

On July 1, 2009 Mr Shahbaz Sharif, the Chief Minister of the Punjab province, presided over a meeting of high ranking clerics on the issue of terrorism. At the end of the conference a Declaration was issued and in its clause 2 the conference declared that “Anyone who is guilty, directly or indirectly, openly or by implication, of even minor insolence to the Holy Prophet (PBUH) is an infidel (Kafir), apostate (Murtad) and must be put to death (Wajib-ul-Qatl).” They linked this statement in the text to the ‘end of prophethood’. The declaration was given wide publicity through an advertisement campaign in the vernacular press.

Ahmadis are considered an Islamic sect by some and not-Muslims by most. These clerics, however, want them to be declared as ex-Muslims -- which merits death under Islamic law.

Headline of the Month

Girl On Girl: Dating Women Makes Me Sympathize With Men:

I’ll be the first to admit that we women are strange creatures. Being a girl makes it a tad easier to understand my female friends and colleagues. However, this rule does not hold when it comes to having a girlfriend. Sadly, being a woman and dating women does not give me as much of an advantage as I had hoped. I can only imagine how difficult it is for dudes – like learning a foreign language that changes constantly. You have to interpret long sighs and furtive glances, remember obscure dates and deal with the inevitable “everything’s fine.” I, at least, speak the language. Sort of.

The fault lies squarely with, of course, the Patriarchy^TM.

Link via Instapundit.

Squeaky Clean

I played cricket with taped up tennis balls in Saudi Arabia. This would have been very handy at the time.

Proof of Global Warming

Now that the East Coast has mostly dug itself out of a snowbank and I am not busy on the job attempting to keep (or restore as the case was for several days) minimal capability at a customer site, the pictorial tale of the Blizzard of '10 can be told.

Check it out.

Fuzzy Economics

Business and Media Institute via Gateway Pundit:

Obama’s chief economic adviser Larry Summers appeared Feb. 9 on the Fox Business Channel to discuss the administration’s economic agenda and defended proposed rate-hikes for those making over $250,000. “Almost all economists who studied these things have that kind of view,” he told Fox’s Liz Claman.

Wow. Looking through American history, I doubt one could find a single example of high marginal tax rates leading to high economic growth.

Much Needed Competition

Hardocp:

Google announced plans today to roll out an experimental fiber network to as many as 500,000 people in a small number of trial locations.

So what's the big deal?

According to the blog posting, the new fiber network will provide speeds of 1 gigabit per second at a "competitive price."

Holy #(@! That's more than 200 times faster than what I have.

Batman Vibe

Nice capture.

Another Soul Extinguished

The Guardian:

Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys.

The girl, who has been identified only by the initials MM, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.

The Big Zero

The "lightweight" makes it perfect.

The Land of the Pure

Asia News:

Because of the threats posed by the powerful Lahore Bar Association – an umbrella organization of city lawyers - no Christian or Muslim lawyer is ready to take on the defence in the murder of 12 year-old Shazia Bashir, it was reported yesterday by The Pakistani Christian association that deals with legal assistance.

The girl, of Christian faith, died on Jan. 23 as a result of violence - even sexual – at the hands of her employer, a wealthy and powerful Muslim lawyer in Lahore. The alleged murderess, Chaudhry Mohammad Naeem, is a former president of the Lahore High Court Bar Association. The girl, just 12 years old, had worked as a maid in the home of Naeem in the last six months.

Welcome to Islamic justice.