Here is an interesting video at youtube of various images of Caesar.
Here’s the link to the earlier posts…and the pic of the recently discovered bust appears below them…
Update on Caesar’s bust found at Arles
“Divers find Caesar bust that may date to 46 B.C.”
For those of you who missed Obama’s speech this afternoon griping about the President’s comments to the Knesset yesterday, here is the video link…
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/16/obama.bush.mccain/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
Here’s a link to the Hannity and Colmes interview with Newt about the Knesset “appeasement” flap…
Here’s a juicy excerpt…
NEWT GINGRICH, “DAYS OF INFAMY” AUTHOR: All Barack Obama had to say was, “I agree with the president.”
COLMES: Yes.
GINGRICH: I don’t think we should talk with terrorists, I don’t think you can negotiate with radicals, and I think that the president made a very good point about 1939, and I don’t think you could have talked Adolf Hitler out of being evil. That’s all he had to say.
Here’s a little more info on Caesar’s bust found at Arles from Angelique Chrisafis (in Paris) in yesterday’s Guardian UK.
Here’s an excerpt…
“The important thing is that this is a bust taken from the living man,” said Michel L’Hour, head of the French government’s team for subaquatic archaeological research. “It’s done in the republican tradition of realism from real life - he looks aged, lined and balding. It’s extremely rare and most likely unique.”
The riddle that remains is why the bust ended up at the bottom of the river in the town dubbed “Little Rome in Gaul”.
“Perhaps this bust was thrown into the river after Caesar was assassinated because that was a difficult time to be considered a follower of his,” L’Hour said. “Or was it dumped because Caesar was becoming a tyrant who wanted to kill the republic and become emperor? It could have belonged to an important person, or it could have been placed on a public building.”
We’ve been following the on-location reporting of Richard Spencer of Telegraph UK and here is an excerpt of his current installment (read the entire story at link below)…
A total of 4,807,200 people have been forced into “temporary shelter” in Sichuan, said Li Chengyun, the province’s vice-governor.
The figure is comparable to the combined population of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands.
More than 50,000 people are estimated to have died in Monday’s 7.9-magnitude earthquake, China’s deadliest natural disaster in a generation.
Click here to read the full story…“China earthquake: Nearly five million homeless” by Richard Spencer
Map Source: cartographia.files.wordpress.com
Charles Hurt in the NY Post writes a follow-up article to yesterday’s “appeasement uproar”…HUGS FOR THUGS COULD SINK NAIVE OBAMA.
Here is an excerpt…
What is it about the word “appeasement” that got Barack Obama’s ears ringing?
Without once uttering the freshman anti-war senator’s name, President Bush warned against negotiating with terrorists on the futile hope that a little more dialogue will turn these satanic beasts from their death pact to wipe Israel off the map and kill as many American men, women and children as possible.
Obama, who has proposed meeting with the leaders of Iran, Syria and North Korea just as soon as he gets into the White House, heard his name somewhere in the president’s speech and quickly issued a press release.
The White House insisted Obama was simply suffering from the narcissism that convinces so many politicians that everyone is talking about them.
Here’s a link to our comment yesterday…Bush accuses “unnamed” appeasers of “appeasement”…and Obama is offended (heheh)
Scott Johnson at Powerline blog also covers this matter nicely in “The lad he doth protest too much”
Excerpt of Reuters article by Michael Kahn…
Obesity contributes to global warming, too. Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says.
This adds to food shortages and higher energy prices, the school’s researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in the journal Lancet on Friday.
“We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility,” Edwards said in a telephone interview. “Obesity is a key part of the big picture.”
Read the entire piece at…
You don’t suppose this pic has been photoshopped, do you?
Whether you agree with him or not, you must admit that Charles Krauthammer is an American Treasure (well, another Canadian/American…like Steyn). Here are a few excerpts from his piece today, but read the whole thing at Real Clear Politics (link below)…
Before sending Lewis and Clark west, Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis to Philadelphia to see Dr. Benjamin Rush. The eminent doctor prepared a series of scientific questions for the expedition to answer. Among them, writes Stephen Ambrose: “What Affinity between their (the Indians’) religious Ceremonies & those of the Jews?” Jefferson and Lewis, like many of their day and ours, were fascinated by the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and thought they might be out there on the Great Plains.
They weren’t. They aren’t anywhere. Their disappearance into the mists of history since their exile from Israel in 722 B.C. is no mystery. It is the norm, the rule for every ancient people defeated, destroyed, scattered and exiled.
With one exception, a miraculous story of redemption and return, after not a century or two, but 2,000 years. Remarkably, that miracle occurred in our time. This week marks its 60th anniversary: the return and restoration of the remaining two tribes of Israel — Judah and Benjamin, later known as the Jews — to their ancient homeland.
Besides restoring Jewish sovereignty, the establishment of the State of Israel embodied many subsidiary miracles, from the creation of the first Jewish army since Roman times to the only recorded instance of the resurrection of a dead language — Hebrew, now the daily tongue of a vibrant nation of 7 million. As historian Barbara Tuchman once wrote, Israel is “the only nation in the world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same religion and same language as it did 3,000 years ago.”
Here’s the link to Real Clear Politics…“The Miracle, at 60″ By Charles Krauthammer
Here is a short excerpt from a piece by Gerard Baker, the Times UK Washington Editor, on the media’s anointing of the new messiah. If you read the entire article (link below), I think you’ll agree with me that it is an almost, if not an absolute “must read.”
Excerpt:
Every decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet.
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But by the 1990s a new Democrat, or rather a New Democrat, was come among us, a man the media told us would lift our eyes from our selfish greed and rid the world of the ineffable misery left by 12 years of reactionary rule. It’s hard to imagine now, after the battering he’s taken from his old friends in the press these past few months, but Bill Clinton was once their idol. His cleverly cynical balancing act - promising a return to high-minded tolerance while executing mentally ill prisoners in Arkansas, for example - was lauded as a brilliant synthesising of traditional liberal ideology with the political realities of the modern age.
The alert among you will have noticed by now that what all these spiritually uplifting leaders have in common. They are all Democrats. Never in any of the chapters of this hagiography does a Republican, a conservative, appear in a remotely similar light. These alien creatures by contrast have always been portrayed as cartoonish representatives of the Dark Side of humanity, or, if they were really lucky, simply idiots, failed B-movie actors and irredeemably ignorant hicks with embarrassingly neanderthal views on women, religion and communism.
It’s been a while coming - neither Al Gore in 2000 (before the luminescence created by his recent joint Nobel/Oscar triumphs) nor John Kerry in 2004 quite fit the bill. But it’s fairly clear now that, with the near-certain nomination by the Democrats of Barack Obama everything is in place for the media to indulge in one of the greatest, orgiastic media fiestas of hero-worship since Elvis Presley.
Read the rest at…
I now know infinitely more about Mark Salter and his role within the McCain campaign…that is, since reading this article in the Wall Street Journal.
Here’s a brief excerpt, but do yourself a favor and read the whole thing…
Now that Sen. Barack Obama has emerged as the likely Democratic nominee, Mr. Salter is poised to play a large role in a general-election campaign filled with potential land mines, from race issues to Sen. McCain’s age, which is 71. Early signs are that Mr. Salter will urge a feisty campaign — in character for a man who once wrestled a persistent critic of the senator to the floor of a congressional hallway.
In recent days, both the press and the Obama campaign have gotten a taste of Mr. Salter’s hair-trigger response to criticism of the senator or his campaign. Over the weekend, he fired off a three-page email to the editor of Newsweek slamming the newsmagazine for what he said was a “biased” cover story on Sen. Obama that “framed this race exactly as Sen. Obama wants it to be framed.” He threatened to throw the magazine’s reporters off the campaign bus and airplane, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Salter says he expressed the campaign’s displeasure and is talking to the publication about future access.
Last Thursday, he came out swinging against Sen. Obama after the Democrat said Sen. McCain was “losing his bearings.” Mr. Salter complained publicly that the Democratic front-runner’s comment was a “not particularly clever way of raising John McCain’s age.” The jab, he said, was “typical of the Obama style of campaigning.”
Here’s a bit from the brief Salter bio that gives some insight into his character…
When ad maker Mark McKinnon wanted to use newly discovered footage taken when Sen. McCain was captured during the Vietnam War, the candidate refused, saying it was exploitative, and that his visible injuries made him look vulnerable. Mr. Salter “was my ace in the hole,” Mr. McKinnon says. “He persuaded John — and he’s the only one who could have.” [Mark Salter]
Similarly, after Sen. McCain was criticized for his remark that economics isn’t his strong suit, policy director Douglas Holtz-Eakin asked him to quit making the comment because opponents were using it against him. The candidate continued until Mr. Holtz-Eakin asked Mr. Salter to intervene, both men recall. Sen. McCain dropped the line and began talking about his longtime experience on the Senate Commerce Committee.
On the campaign trail, Mr. Salter has chased away hecklers. Once, he ran down a man handing out fliers near Sen. McCain’s children. Another time, he took a punch from a POW activist who was hassling Sen. McCain’s staffers, then fought the man to the floor outside the senator’s office until the Capitol police intervened.
Read the rest at the WSJ here…McCain Aide Trains His Sights on Obama” By MONICA LANGLEY
