the “æ” is “æ”. Here’s a good reference.

I’ll leave it as a exercise how I got it to give both “æ” and “æ”.

Wow, Ralph Peters says it all in the NY Post today.

But thanks for the kind words (and I’ll hereby reveal that I shamelessly link whored by sending Roger a link to that article) and don’t worry, you ain’t getting rid of us that easy. It just means we don’t have to hijack one of your threads when we have something come to mind.

Which is plain downright insane.

Then, History came to my rescue. Republicans literally HATED FDR in the 30s. And Southerners HATED Kennedy in the 60s.

Bush is President during a time of very rapid change for a lot of Americans (let alone people in the Middle East.) Facts do not matter to Crazy people, though. People with FAS cannot become President of the USA. That is a Fact. The invasion of Afghanistan has been successful, both for many people in that country, and certainly for the American people. Iraq is becoming a success for the Americans, and it will very probably become a functioning democracy, after a lot of false starts (check out Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries…); These are Facts. The American economy is in excellent shape, at least in part because Bush’s administration has reduced taxes. That is a fact.

America is not a Fascist State. That is a fact.

But Hate makes people Crazy. And change makes some people Hate. And that is a fact.

But you guys need to remember that blogspot is not available to us over here in that biggg country that starts with a “see”. Can’t you find another free way?

“PERHAPS THE biggest weapon in the arsenal of America’s critics is carefully selective amnesia. Conveniently forgetting important historical facts enables tactical amnesiacs to make claims about US policy that seem to support their contention that the country’s government is uniquely evil.”

Every Left/Dem and Dem, among others certainly, seemingly needs their pantheon of gods and demons, selected on an ad hoc and du jour basis. I also like this quote from the editors of The New Criterion, albeit directed at a different topic, it’s suitable here as well: “… if the forces of political correctness had had their way, their deed would have been airbrushed into the amnesiac limbo of ideological expediency.”.

h/t to a consistently great blog, American Future, who has recently downloaded a few hundred NYT editorials from 1993, the beginning of Clinton’s tenure, through to 2003, the beginning of the end of Saddam & Sons, and will shortly be providing an analysis/synopsis of those editorials. Likely to be interesting.

Few of us are irreplaceable. Perhaps there will be a bit more space for a new crop of commenters to grow and ripen. The soil here is fertile and the climate salubrious.