JunkYardBlog

• Didn't mean to tease y'all

  ...but I'll be out for the next week, with an uncertain blogging future thereafter. I'll definitely try to get back to it, and get some posts up here - JYB is too venerable a blog to let it simply languish... [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2008, 11:59am EDT
  by Geoff

• Barack Makes Me Dizzy

  How many times have you heard this line? "In his latest reversal, Barack Obama..." Here's today's:In a dramatic reversal of policy, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Saturday told supporters on the Space Coast he no longer favors slashing NASA's... [...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2008, 2:14pm EDT
  by Geoff

• Pelosi's new tack: Lie about the surge

  Nancy Pelosi tries floating a new meme on the surge: President Bush’s troop surge in Iraq has not been successful, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday. ... “The purpose of the surge,” which started in January 2007, “was to... [...]
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  Posted: August 01, 2008, 11:39am EDT
  by Geoff

• "We Can't Possibly Deport Them All"

  That's what we've heard, over and over, with respect to the problem of illegal immigrants. John McCain said it, Barack Obama said it, and even George Bush said it. The implication being that because we can't deport them, we must... [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2008, 11:23am EDT
  by Geoff

• Boneheads at Rand

  The press is excited about the new Rand study that says that military intervention isn't the best way to fight terrorism. "In most cases, military force isn't the best instrument," said Jones, a terrorism expert and the report's lead author.... [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2008, 11:31am EDT
  by Geoff

• "Obama Denies"

  I was struck by the number of times I've read "Obama denies this" and "Obama denies that." Poor guy - he must be the most misunderstood man in America, forced to constantly deny peoples' interpretations of his statements and actions.... [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2008, 9:42pm EDT
  by Geoff

• Did Kim come clean?

  For a man whose approval rating rests at a chilly 23%, whose second term can be charitably called a mess, and who may go down in history as having breathed new life into moribund big governmentism at the price of... [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2008, 11:55am EDT
  by B. Preston

• Drill. Now.

  One would think that in a world full of the likes of Hugo Chavez, Vlad Putin, Mahmoud Achmadinnerjacket, the Saudi monarchy etc - all sitting atop or in control of vast underground oceans of oil - that ramping up US... [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2008, 3:15pm EDT
  by B. Preston

• Hey, Where's See-Dub?

  I'm around, and posting a little bit every day at michellemalkin.com. It's an outstanding opportunity and I'm very grateful for a chance to hector her enormous audience. JYB will remain open and the archives will be accessible. I may be... [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2008, 1:19pm EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Over at Malkin's

  I was there yesterday and I'll be there today and tomorrow. Check me out over there if you get a chance...she could use the traffic. She's just getting, like, 200 hits a day. Oh, wait, that's two hundred thousand.... [...]
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  Posted: April 04, 2008, 2:09am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Lunch Lady Doris, Have You Got Any Grease?

  Then steal it, lassie! We'll be rich!... [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2008, 12:58am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Lawyers Suing 9/11 Victims

  John Conyers' words, not mine: Rep. John Conyers Jr., Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said construction workers were sent into the disaster without protection in a "do-it-yourself approach." "Now cancer and lung disease is ravaging these survivors,... [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 7:30am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Cat's nine lives almost up

  The LA Times has a good backgrounder piecing together what we know about a fairly elusive, but fairly senior, Al Qaeda terrorist who had a hand in the 7-7 bombings, the airline bombing plan of 2006, and the recent attempts... [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 7:10am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Who loves ya, baby?

  See-Dub does. I'm sorry I went away like that, baby. Here, let me make it up to you: New zombie shootin'. Part of the popular Boxhead series. I'm good like that. Oh, if you're a lady-type and like interactive mysteries... [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 7:00am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• "Security" guards

  Michelle has a great catch: thirty-odd security guards who were not especially secure, seeing as they were actually illegal aliens. Thirty is a lot; I'll give this some scandal points for quantity, but as for quality, it just doesn't fall... [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2008, 6:33am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Grrrrr: Why my new Dell sucks and insults me

  Sorry to ease back into this with such a prosaic topic, but I am grumpled. Today I got a beautiful new Dell laptop. Beautiful, eyesight-saving display, nice springy keyboard, all kinds of cool gadgets. I've taken a great pleasure in... [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2008, 5:01am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Back, sort of...

  Howdy friends--those of you who still bother to come by. My road trip's done, and it was very successful. Found those three wise men. But now I found myself without regular internet access, a situation that should remedy itself by... [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2008, 7:50pm EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Road Trip

  A long expected journey. I must seek out three wise men. (Plus I have tomany things to do. You know, tomany.) Back soon, but here's a clip of Johnny Cash singing "Were You There" to take you through Holy Week:... [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 3:12pm EDT
  by SeeDubya

• JYB News Bureau interviews Obama's grandmother

  The JYB News Bureau was intrigued by Barack Obama's description of the complex figure of his own grandmother in the speech he gave today about his association with the odious Rev. Wright: I can no more disown him than I... [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 1:01am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Breaking: Water still wet, sun still coming up in east

  Conservatives remain scarce in the news media landscape. Only 6 percent of the national press corps describe themselves as "conservative" in a population that includes reporters, editors and producers from major television and radio networks, daily newspapers, news wires and... [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 4:29am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• The pipes, the pipes are calling...

  In honor of Saint Paddy's day, my favorite version of Danny Boy: Content warning. A guy gets kind of shot.... [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2008, 10:51pm EDT
  by SeeDubya

• The Banality of Perversion: TGIFreekay's

  Okay, with the Spitzer thing...I guess I understand: high priced call girl, top hotel, minibar, you've got a weird power-trip going down, you're buying her silence as well as her service....it's reprehensible, yeah, but comprehensible. But then there's this, from... [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2008, 2:00am EDT
  by SeeDubya

• Governor Sanford urges we bite the McCain sandwich before securing our condiments. No deal.

  Interesting. Well-liked South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has endorsed McCain and urges other conservative holdouts to do so as well: The process of iron sharpening iron is good for the GOP. But now, I believe, the time has passed for... [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2008, 3:19pm EDT
  by SeeDubya