July 2005 - Posts

• Prime Minister John Howard's Brilliant Response

  to stupid media questions about whether policies of Australia, the UK, or the US were responsible for these countries being targeted by terrorists. (Source: National Review ; From InstaPundit ). PRIME MIN. HOWARD: Could I start by saying the prime minister Read More... Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:29 PM by ssmith | 1 Comments

• Google Earth

  If you haven't played with it yet and you have a decent computer, download Google Earth . It's very cool. It's a desktop application that lets you view aerial imagery of the planet. You can basically fly around and zoom in and out, and it downloads the Read More... Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:00 AM by ssmith | 2 Comments

• London Attacks

  Instapundit has lots of coverage and links here . One that caught my eye was this arabic article on alarabiya , which has a number of comments in English, including this one: This is WRONG!!! The Iraqi Lion | 07/07/2005 ?? 17:3 (????????)? 14:3 (???????) Read More... Posted Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:10 PM by ssmith | 1 Comments

• Happy Independence Day!

  Today is definitely a much happier Independence Day than I was having a year ago. Woke up in bed with my wife as our three-year-old climbed into bed with us. Planning on a relaxing day with the family. A year ago on this day, I was up well before dawn, Read More... Posted Monday, July 04, 2005 7:36 AM by ssmith | 2 Comments