My brother turned me onto Mystic Moods Orchestra. It’s an acquired taste to be sure, but I find the music very relaxing and restful. This track is called Come Saturday Morning, from the album Stormy Weekend (1970).

Come Saturday Morning [5.6MB mp3]

The U.S. clearly has lost sight of who is the underdog in the cartoon jihad. But Christopher Hitchens gets it right:

And there remains the question of Denmark: a small democracy, which resisted Hitler bravely and protected its Jews as well as itself. Denmark is a fellow member of NATO and a country that sends its soldiers to help in the defense and reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. And what is its reward from Washington? Not a word of solidarity, but instead some creepy words of apology to those who have attacked its freedom, its trade, its citizens, and its embassies. For shame.

For shame indeed.

Found via Michelle Malkin.

Leave it to the Nigerians to do it up right. Sigh.

Michelle Malkin reported the lack of concern regarding the proposed management of six of the United States’ major ports by a Saudi-controlled agency.

The Port of Miami has now drawn its line in the sand.

I’d wondered from the first time I read about this which six ports were involved. This story names them: New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia. Did I read that right? New York? New York has already experienced terrorism of unparalleled proportions. How can any New Yorker not in a coma or living at the bottom of a well not be up in arms over this prospect? New Orleans? It’s still reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and, hot on her heels, Rita.

Perhaps this lawsuit is the catalyst that will prompt the other Port Authorities to legal action. Especially if Miami is successful in stopping this, even temporarily, while the powers that be come to their senses.

New Jersey lawmaker Frank LoBiondo (R), chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, cited “significant” security worries over the sale to Dubai Ports World. He has proposed a bill that would amend federal maritime laws to require facility security officers, which operate at terminals in every U.S. port, to be American citizens. LoBiondo said there are presently no citizenship requirements, which he said permits foreign companies who are or become partners in domestic terminal operations to employ security officers who are not Americans.

We cannot be lax about our nation’s security nor fail to recognize that our ports are realistic targets of terrorists.

This kind of comes under the category, “No Shit, Sherlock!”

I can take my right wrist in my left hand and my thumb and middle finger will touch each other. But if I take my left wrist in my right hand, the fingers don’t touch. Are the fingers on my right hand too short or is my left wrist too big?

Robert has a saying when he thinks I’m staying up too late and need to go to bed. He tells me it’s time to logon to www.gotosleepho.com. I think he’s right!