Maybe This Is Where He Gets His Unimpeachable Sources

Excerpt from this Dan Rather interview:

Describing his love of CBS and CBS News, Rather observed in the interview last year: "In my mind and the minds of the people I work with, this is a magical, mystical kingdom -- our version of Camelot. And we feel we are working at a kind of roundtable of King Arthur proportions. Now, it may be that this kingdom exists only in our minds. But that makes it no less real for those of us who live it every day."

And then there was this: "Ed Murrow's ghost is here. I've seen him and talked to him on the third floor of this building many times late at night. And I can tell you that he's watching over us."

So yeah, as LGF says, "Dan Rather Talks To Spirits".

"Episcopal Church Officially Promotes Idol Worship"

I'm about a month behind on this one, but I'll post anyway since this story is very important. If true, this makes the Episcopal's homosexual clergy issue seem small in comparison.

For more info, check out the Christdot post that led me to the story, as well as all of the post's comments.

Something To Do On A Friday Night

Anybody want to check this out sometime? More info here.

Stem Cells A Success

Umbilical stem cells, that is, not embryonic stem cells. Story here.

Hat tip bond_servant at Christdot.

This Blog Has A LiveJournal

Now all you livejournalers can add me as a friend. Someone (my guess is AudioScrobbler friend AdmiralMemo) set up Heroes from the Past's syndicated feed on LiveJournal as a user, and you can check it out right here.

The Great Chicago Fire Sale

So now Chicago is reduced to having a huge garage sale over eBay. Some cool stuff, but the actual auctions don't open for another couple days. I'll check back then.

But I did notice:

Posted by Hello

Hmm. Does that explain this?

Oh, yeah: hat tip ABC 7.

NO!! ONE MORE BAND BREAKUP

The Orange County Supertones are breaking up. Not immediately, but they're saying that 2005 will be their last year.

Google Scholar!

Now this is excellent. Google has just released a new search engine which focuses on "schoarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research." Should be good for college students, peronal study, online arguments, and maybe even commercial research.

Nice work, Google!

Another Good Blog

Check out Digital Branch. Looks like he and I have the same opinion on a lot of things, but he's a thinker and I'm a linker, as evidenced by this post. And check out this celestial simulator, which is linked to in one of Digital Branch's recent posts. Sounds really cool, tho I haven't tested it yet.

UPDATE: Forgot to add in some of the links :P.

The Next Step In The Slippery Slope?

Last month, The UK's High Court ruled that doctors have the right to deny a terminally-ill baby lifesaving (temporarily) treatment. That child, Luke Winston-Jones, died on Friday after doctors, with mother Ruth begging them on bended knee to save his life, refused to give him an adrenaline shot which would have done so.

Please pray for Ruth, as well as the rest of Europe.

Hat tips Roger L. Simon, Barcepundit.

Four More Cabinet Resignations

Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Education Secretary Rod Paige and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham have all submitted resignations from their posts, but the big one is Colin Powell. Story here.

I'd hoped he would stay on -- although I disagree with him on many issues, I think he often played an important role in the Bush adminitration as the principled dissenter. Or maybe my opinion is colored by the media's portrayal of the Cabinet -- I must admit, I haven't really studied Powell's role in the Cabinet, but I'm mainly working off of what I've read while investigating other issues.

THHGTTG:TM

That's right. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is appearing in theaters in MAY! Here's IMDB's and Yahoo!'s pages for the movie.

Sphere of Jihadist Influence World Map

This is a map of the countries in which jihadist activity/presence has been rliably reported. These countries are marked in red. The map was made by the guys over at Jihad Watch through the World66 travel site, and the original post is here. Hat tip LGF.

Nazi 2008

The Nazis are planning to run for President in 08 (hat tip Instapundit). I may vehemently disagree with Democrats, but they're light-years better than some of the possibilities.

RIP Yassir Arafat

Yassir Arafat, arch-terrorist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is dead, this time for real.

Link Roundup

LOCAL
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that casino plans in the Chicago area are hitting a snag: the horse-racing industry wants a piece of the action.

Mayor Daley, having privatized the Skyway, now looks toward privatizing O'Hare and Midway airports. Privatization of a means of transportation seems wierd to me, but my rule of thumb is that taking something out of the public sector is good. Anyone have some good analysis on this?

Chicago cops are finding grenades all over the place.

The Chicago Cubs tap Bob Brenly, former Diamondbacks manager, as color analyst. At least, I believe he'll be doing color; does anyone know whether it'll be color or play-by-play?


NATIONAL
President Bush selects an old Texas friend to replace John Ashcroft as attorney general.

The ACLU is defending street preachers in Sin City.

Christopher Hitchens, a hardcore fire-breathing atheist, defends Bush's secularist policies and condemns the left's defense of religious fanaticism.

Airlines are submitting to random testing of water quality on domestic and internatonal flights.


INTERNATIONAL
Thinklings offers a Christian slant on blogger oppression in Iran.

A senior Iranian official admits to state sponsorship of terrorists.

Don't ever say France's armed forces never did anything useful.

Terrorist Siege in the Hague

Check out Zacht Ei for coverage of what seems to be a police siege of a terrorist safehouse in the Hague.

Fallujah

Check out the Belmont Club for some analysis of the battle of Fallujah.

Resignations from Bush's cabinet

Ashcroft (Attorney General) and Evans (Commerce) so far. Yahoo! has the story here.

New Blog

Hey, all! Go check out my new blog, You've Lost. No, it's not a smug Republican blog bragging about Bush's re-election. It's an attempt to showcases instances where politicians and other figures resort to ad hominem attacks rather than make a reasoned argument.