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July 13, 2005

The Irish-Haters in Ireland

All over the rest of the world, Catholics and Protestants are able to make common cause on all kinds of issues. All over the civilized world, priorities have shifted and people are united against Islamo-fascism.

But not in Northern Ireland, where the attitude is one of preaching hate and passing it along to their children.

It's the "lite" version of Palestinian culture, with poisonous attitudes passed along from generation to generation.

We all deserve to be left alone. I come from a free society, and I think it should be legal for the Orangemen to march. But when they do it year after year through Catholic neighborhoods, yelling "F--- the Pope," burning Irish flags, and hoisting the Union Jack (which should not be associated with that kind of thuggery this week—or any week) they halt human progress and disgrace all that is good in English society.

The English were the first people to organize to abolish slavery. Despite the dark side of England's Imperial period, it's done a lot of good throughout human history. To remain in the shadows of its legacy and refuse to step into the light is dispicable in the age of terrorism.

These people are living in a sick and twisted past.

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1 The Irishman now our contempt is beneath. He cheats when he can, and lies in his teeth. He blows up policemen, or so I have heard, And blames it on Cromwell and William the Third. The English, the English, the English are best! I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest!

Posted by: Casca at July 13, 2005 05:36 PM (qBTBH)

2 One of the best sites for stuff on N. Ireland is www.nuzhound.com. It's non-partisan and links to articles from both loyalist and republican newspapers. Unfortunately, you have to register.

Posted by: Daniel at July 13, 2005 08:17 PM (fsAHR)

3 People can be bastards. On the other hand, when you figure that all they have to do is go 50 miles or so and they are with their kin, why stay?

Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at July 13, 2005 10:01 PM (xX0fS)

4 Presumably, they want to keep their existing houses and lifestyles. I'm not asking that they leave--only that they STFU.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 14, 2005 09:42 AM (RGWNz)

5 There's a lot to be said for dealing with Islam in such a way that people don't pick up the same kinds of multigenerational grievances from our actions. Or at least, making sure that a manageably small number of people do.

Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf at July 15, 2005 04:25 AM (IZsbU)

6 Celts love a good fight. The tint of blood keeps the hair red.

Posted by: Ciggy at July 15, 2005 07:45 AM (0B3lJ)

7 Neil, the implication is that we can do something that will make a difference in how Islamic extremists see us. Not likely.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 15, 2005 09:21 AM (RGWNz)

8 I was talking about the Greens going South. Sometimes it is better to move. I can't imagine what my life would have been like if my daddy had not tie a mattress on the roof of his car and brought us out of the dust bowl in 1936.

Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at July 15, 2005 11:04 AM (xX0fS)

9 There's no way we can convince Islamic extremists to like us. But we have to convince moderate Muslims not to become Islamic extremists.

Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf at July 15, 2005 01:14 PM (IZsbU)

10 Alternatively, they can wake up and smell the coffee.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 15, 2005 11:14 PM (RGWNz)

11 "There's a lot to be said for dealing with Islam in such a way that people don't pick up the same kinds of multigenerational grievances from our actions. Or at least, making sure that a manageably small number of people do. " Lets pretend that we've done something to make the Arabs 'mad' at America for the sake of argument. Just because the Arabs may be mad at the United States, they have no right to kill Americans. America has to teach these Arabs that they have no right and no business murdering Americans and those who persist in believing that they have such a right will be eliminated.

Posted by: Daniel at July 20, 2005 08:36 PM (jaHXU)

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July 12, 2005

There Are Dark Moments

. . . when I consider the possibility that the West is every bit as decadent as Bin Laden maintains, and that his forces will kill most of us, enslaving the rest and taking most of the world back to the Middle Ages.

And then I think, "not everyone is a lefty moonbat; they're just louder than everyone else."

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1 Not on my watch, my dear. Three generations of sergeants - probably another one to follow when my boy gets bigger in a few years (and maybe the little girl, too). "Thus is dreamed the dream of soldiers in time eternal; we hope to awaken one day and find a world that needs us not. And thus is found our calling - the striving to render the world into this dream. Until that day we shall stand ready to do what is necessary to foster the dream for ourselves, our neighbors, our children, and even those who oppose us in noble cause. The barbarian shall not pass; we will not allow it." - SGT Dave, with portions attributed to 1SGT Jim (Dad), and SGT William (Grandpa).

Posted by: SGT Dave at July 12, 2005 01:23 PM (jPvjS)

2 See what happened-- I listened to the MSM for a few minutes, and it WARPED MY MIND! How does anyone make a steady diet of that??????

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 01:10 AM (RGWNz)

3 They're just louder because they speak through every editorial in every paper across the United States.

Posted by: Mike Marden at July 13, 2005 07:53 PM (9yPEb)

4 My thoughts exactly. We've got to face it - a substantial proportion of the population of the West wouldn't know what to do with a fact if it bit them on the foot. The question is only "How substantial?"

Posted by: MaxedOutMama at July 13, 2005 10:09 PM (67Fzi)

5 > There Are Dark Moments . . . when I consider the possibility that the West is every bit as decadent as Bin Laden maintains, and that his forces will kill most of us, enslaving the rest and taking most of the world back to the Middle Ages. And then I think, "not everyone is a lefty moonbat; they're just louder than everyone else." =================== I would not worry about this. The Arabs are wholly dependent on Moonbats for their support. Granted, there are far more moonbats than there is any intelligent reason to be, but that is a function of excess liberalism in the West. IF you were going to worry about anything, worry instead about a China with an excess of males and a newly developed industrial might. Historically, an excess of males has led -- every time -- to an increased militarism... and with a few hundred million excess males, that's a hell of a lot of increased militarism... just when they are breaking out of their century-long rejection of technology use. Fear not -- but worry for your children. This, not Islamofascism, will be their problem.

Posted by: Nick B at July 14, 2005 01:53 AM (4Iq2D)

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Steyn on Islam

When we get too politically correct, he suggests, we undercut support for the moderate Muslims who must begin to speak up about the evils of jihadism.

You must marginalize the Islamo-fascists. You must shun them.

It is the only way.

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1 In PC speech it's not islamo-fascists. It's "emotionally enhanced and differently ethicized".

Posted by: Ciggy at July 12, 2005 06:53 AM (0B3lJ)

2 I won't go there, but I'm open to "murderous assholes." Will that work for you?

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 12, 2005 11:09 AM (RGWNz)

3 Wow that has really worked for Isreal. Keep up the genius commentary.

Posted by: nobody at July 13, 2005 05:15 AM (UVu43)

4 It is up to decent Muslims, moderate Muslims if you prefer, who must morginalize their killer brethern. More than that, decent Islam must condemn and bring to justice the killers in their midst. Decent Islam, decent people of all persuasions will more and more come to realize the stupidity of murder in the name of hatred. Hatred itself is ultimately self destructive.

Posted by: Daniel at July 13, 2005 08:27 AM (2hSwl)

5 "Nobody"-- the only thing that will "work" for Israel, as far as her neighbors are concerned, is to cease existing. A lot of Arabs simply want all Jews dead, for that matter. And Israel must, in their minds, be wiped completely off the map. So accommodating these nice murderers won't really work.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 08:33 AM (RGWNz)

6 Gene Byrnes, local libertarian talk show host, discussed the need for Islam to purge herself of this evil. Not one of the Moslems calling in could bring themselves to criticize the London bombing. If Islam cannot cure this disease of terror, then Quarantine is the only solution.

Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at July 13, 2005 09:35 AM (xX0fS)

7 Islam is in need of reform. But we must not take the attitude that moderate Muslims don't exist. I'll bet if Mr. Byrnes had canvassed Muslims living in London, he would have heard a different take entirely.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 12:57 PM (RGWNz)

8 If massive measures need be undertaken, quarantine is too expensive and for all the expense not workable. Instead, all the Muslims should be sent to where they came from. If they want to live under Muslim law in particular than they belong in the Muslim countries.

Posted by: Daniel at July 13, 2005 08:04 PM (nNgvA)

9 Not my vision of a true melting pot, but thank you for playing.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 09:25 PM (RGWNz)

10 The melting pot worked in the past; people became Americans in the process. Now there are people, the Muslims in particular who don't melt. They stay alien. Islam forbids assimilation. Islam hates Isreal and hates Jesus, even if not actively preached on any given day. Muslims come to America to take advantage of its promise, it's opportunity like those who have come from all over the world through the centuries. Muslims wish to 'take America' and make it theirs, make it Muslim. That attitude spells conflict for America.

Posted by: Daniel at July 15, 2005 11:32 AM (WgPll)

11 If Islam itself forbids assimilation, how do you explain the traditional attitude among Muslims that Jews and Christians have a special kinship with them--that they are also "people of the book"? I see that you and I disagree on this point: I say the mainstream Muslims are being too quiet, and must make a stand. You say they don't exist (at least in statistically significant numbers). Time will tell which one of us is right.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 15, 2005 11:28 PM (RGWNz)

12 There are at least a million Muslims living in the USA. Had they been the Jesus-haters Daniel talks about, I'd be willing to bet on at least a few post-9-11 terrorist attacks in our country. But nothing happened. Every immigrant group makes America theirs, at least in some little way. This post is 4 months too late, but look at the Irish!

Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf at July 16, 2005 10:34 PM (IZsbU)

13 Hi, I just linked myself here. Don't remember how. I think I remember Attila Girl from Beautiful Atrocities comments(?). Re People of the Book: this is a two edged sword in Islam. Christians and Jews are monotheists who possess a previous revelation from Allah --so far so good-- but they have distorted it and been rejected by Allah; hence the need for a Muhammad. This is the nub. When Islam takes over a society --as it did the Christians societies of North Africa, Near East in 7th Centuries, and later parts of Spain and Eastern Europe-- the People of Book are (officially) spared the choice given to polytheists (submission to Allah or death) and are instead allowed to live in a Jim Crow/South African apartheid world as dhimmis, "protected people" (a kind of Muslim pc bullshit). Check out the Sharia prescriptions. The periods of Muslim "tolerance" all followed Muslim military conquest and were the result of Islam's complete ascendancy. After all,when you are in control, you can afford to institutionalize submission and inferiority and call that tolerance. Here endeth the lesson.

Posted by: EssEm at July 17, 2005 10:35 AM (IStcG)

14 Is it just me, or is there a slight difference between treating someone as a second-class citizen and cutting his/her head off?

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 17, 2005 11:19 PM (RGWNz)

15 Moderate Muslims exist but they are have a similar attitude towards the Islamist powers that non Muslims have; they live in fear. All human beings tend towards decency but the innocent must by necesity be afraid of the powers that run Islam. For instance, Muslim women must be afraid of even looking like they are unfaithful to their husbands because they know they can be killed. If the local imam has his eye on you, than you had better act enthused and raise your arms in rage at the proper cues like 'death to Israel.' If the imam is evil the innocent are in trouble because the imam is very powerful. He can coerce his subjects to do evil. Islam is in an awkward position. The Arab Islamic nations have enjoyed being on the receiving end of the greatest transfer of wealth in history and yet Arab/Islamic influence and culture on the decline despite their great wealth and their great population. Their money has allowed the Arabs to send their children to the finest schools in the world for many generations now but in science and manufacturing innovations they stand virtually nowhere. By now the Arabs could have built their own car industy and aviation industry and cell phone industry and computer industry, etc. Instead they have squandered their wealth and their minds. The know they look like losers and they have to ask why. Why do the infidels of the West continue to excel? Rather than seek to lift themselves up, many Arab Muslims would prefer to bring the West down. Typical lazy evil attitude than the sinful can fall into.

Posted by: Daniel at July 18, 2005 10:10 AM (y9h0g)

16 To address Attila on the idea of the difference between treated like a second class citizen and being killed: Certainly their is some difference there but I think one of the major flaws of Islam is that it teaches such discrimination. It teaches that the infidel is as dirty as a pig. The Saudis treated the American Army stationed there to save Saudi Arabia from Sadam in the early 90's as so many pigs penned up. Even the most ignorant pigmy knows instinctively that this is wrong. Islams flaws mattered less when Islam was hidden in its own corner of the world. Yes, they enslaved many and sold humans on the worlds slave market but now the world has shrunk too much. We here in the Denver area had a situation pop up: A nice Muslim couple had a slave in their house for four years. The light of day is more and more shining onto the flaws of Islam. What was once quaint and quirky is now on the world stage. There to be judged for what it is. Islam is fatally flawed.

Posted by: Daniel at July 18, 2005 10:26 AM (y9h0g)

17 Same thinh happened with me onne time. It is very much embarasse to go through this sitiuation onve time i thought to sucide but somebody told me that be someone with hard work to do this with that person.

Posted by: Rose at July 19, 2005 02:36 AM (lul6E)

18 The one thing I will concede is that the Islamo-fascists are harder to fight than even the Nazis, and make the Nazis look human--they had a moral code. It was sick and twisted, but at least semi-comprehensible. Now we have "we love death more than you love life," and an attempt to bring the entire world back to the Middle Ages.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 19, 2005 09:56 AM (RGWNz)

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Hitch.

He's just so good; he manages to slap Galloway as if he were a sort of irritating mosquito buzzing through the woods in the summer.

And he explains what is at stake in the War on Terror: everything.

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I'm Confused.

I thought Karl Rove was a modern-day Rasputin.

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July 11, 2005

The Name-My-Business Contest!

So I've decided to expand my copyediting business, because I know several other top-notch L.A.-based copyeditors who are all as hungry as I am. If I can hustle together a few more editing/proofreading clients, we should have enough work to go around. I hate marketing myself, however—so I need a name for the business other than "Joy McCann: editing, writing." And of course it makes more sense to use a neutral name if I may need to subcontract some jobs to other copyeditors.

My existing logo is from a rubber stamp; it's a stylized circular picture of a koi fish (we're without a scanner at the moment, but I'll post it once I get it scanned).

So I was going to file my DBA as "Koi Pond Copyediting," but my business advisor vetoed it: too "passive." (I had thought it was serene, myself.)

I do like water imagery, though: perhaps a stream or creek would pass muster.

A friend of mine is marketing her business (very different from mine) using the imagery of an eye, which would make even more sense for my line of work—but, hey. It's her idea. So if you want to suggest something unrelated to koi fish, that's fine as well. My mood is Eastern/Chinese, but my business advisor wants more yang and less yin.

If I use the name you suggest, I'll send you a copy of Mark Steyn's book (or a suitable namby-pamby pacifist BS volume, if that's what you prefer).

Thanks. May the best reader win.

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1 Maybe something like: 1) Horizons Editing 2) Springbrook Editing, Inc. (or something) OR something along the lines of: President George Bush is totally awesome Editing, Inc.

Posted by: DeoDuce at July 11, 2005 06:23 PM (WPlHl)

2 How about "Professionally KOI"(quote-marks to be inclu.) with the single word EDITING (all caps, no quote-marks) centered underneath.. with a logo of a KOI wearing large, out-sized reading glasses glasses centered below the word EDITING with contact info at bottom right and left.

Posted by: RVD at July 11, 2005 06:41 PM (zRLds)

3 PS: Sorry--should be COPYediting, I realize. My son used to raise Koi--named all of his--Samaurai, Hirohito, Seczuki.Sho-Gun, Banzai, etc. They all really do end up having different personalities.

Posted by: RVD at July 11, 2005 06:57 PM (zRLds)

4 Killer Koi Editing

Posted by: Justene at July 11, 2005 08:32 PM (vca18)

5 The Real McKoi. (Okay I admit that was really bad) Peeking Koi Copyediting. ....and I give up (for now), I'm an engineer I need numbers and equations!

Posted by: the Pirate at July 11, 2005 08:42 PM (Rg0+S)

6 i hate to sound completely dumb, but what does a copyeditor do? i really don't know.

Posted by: annie at July 11, 2005 10:37 PM (iXY4D)

7 We read stories and find mistakes: misspellings, grammatical problems, places where the essay or whatever doesn't fit the "house style." We upgrade the punctuation. We flag any concerns we think the editors ought to think about. Often we make other suggestions about phrasing that strikes us as awkward. When we do that, we either get lauded as heroes or fired.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 12, 2005 12:25 AM (RGWNz)

8 Kwik Koipy

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 12, 2005 03:44 AM (/HD5E)

9 Try this: Golden Script Editing Possibly use a background of Japanese letter (such as "luck", "peace", or "opportunity") as a backdrop for the fish. Carries the concept, ties the fish in (koi are indeed goldfish here in the midwest to us rednecks!), and tells about your business while implying the sucess of your input. Wow, what a run-on sentence that was. SGT Dave

Posted by: SGT Dave at July 12, 2005 05:01 AM (jPvjS)

10 Excuse me - but why in the world are you doing a DBA?!? PLEASE incorporate! PLEASE! You really can do it dirt cheap, often for as little as $100, and you usually don't have to do it in your own state if CA is a beastly place to incorporate. Want to avoid the double taxation? Do an S-corp. Lord! An LLC if notihing else! Don't you realize that if you're NOT protected from personal liability by incorporating, just one weirdo client, or one traffic accident in the course of business, can take your house and everything you own? Whether they win or lose? If they win, you're personally sunk. If they lose, you're sunk anyway, because you lose it all to legal fees. If they just sue your company, let the company go under and start another. No biggie. And your personal assets are protected. We're talking, what, usually a couple hundred bucks to incorporate - through a lawyer, so no hard slog through business laws for you - and that buys you something just like insurance. It protects you from losing everything you own. Just...think about it. Please! Pretty please!

Posted by: k at July 12, 2005 11:07 AM (M7kiy)

11 Okey-doke. I'll think about that. Any suggestions on names?

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 12, 2005 11:13 AM (RGWNz)

12 And then you could be: Kwik Koipy Inc.

Posted by: k at July 12, 2005 11:40 AM (M7kiy)

13 Joy...since you like the "water" idea, and since you are editing...how about "Watermark Editorial Services?"

Posted by: The Anchoress at July 13, 2005 08:42 AM (Sp817)

14 "Copy That"

Posted by: Momma K at July 13, 2005 09:42 AM (VR337)

15 I dont know whether your comment screen will permit html tags or not, so first I will describe what I am saying, and then write it in HTML The code for strikeout, the word Koipy, the code for end strikeout, then CopyEditing KoipyCopyEditing

Posted by: Don Singleton at July 13, 2005 09:43 AM (EhFBY)

16 Since you're contemplating subcontracting work out to others, incorporating is even MORE important, and s-corp more better. And...an editorial suggestion from me to me on the name: not Kwik Koipy Inc. but Kwik Koipy Ink. ('scuse please pixy misa!)

Posted by: k at July 13, 2005 10:22 AM (M7kiy)

17 SEA CHANGE EDITING, INC. There's a nice definition of Sea change at: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sea1.htm from Shakespeare's The Tempest Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Lynda

Posted by: Lynda at July 13, 2005 10:43 AM (dOmxI)

18 Oh, I Like Lyndas. It's punny.

Posted by: The Anchoress at July 13, 2005 10:49 AM (Sp817)

19 How could you possibly choose a better name for an editor than "Little Miss Attila"?

Posted by: Colin MacDougall at July 13, 2005 11:24 AM (4GfbF)

20 Use a logo of a rabbit, and call it "Attila the bun". That will be not only fun, but also memorable (which is one factor in business success") :-)

Posted by: Seahawk at July 13, 2005 12:35 PM (te2CY)

21 Brainstorming here: Fish or Cut Copy Big Fish Little Fish Koincidence Small Pond Sink or Swim Fishwrap Alpha Koi (substituting Koi for the greek letter Chi to name your "fraternity/sorority" of editors, also suggests "alpha" dominance--no more "passive" koi fish for you!) Immersed Deep End Etc...

Posted by: Matthew at July 13, 2005 02:40 PM (ozXPk)

22 MasterCopy

Posted by: Rodney Dill at July 13, 2005 05:22 PM (tGTSA)

23 Copy Cat Copyous Copy Right (two words)

Posted by: Rodney Dill at July 13, 2005 05:27 PM (tGTSA)

24 Word Wright Word Right Depending on which way you want the pun to go.

Posted by: Rodney Dill at July 13, 2005 06:33 PM (tGTSA)

25 The Joy of Editing, Inc.

Posted by: Daniel at July 13, 2005 08:25 PM (fsAHR)

26 How about CopyWrite?

Posted by: mark maness at July 13, 2005 09:45 PM (M7kiy)

27 Yeah, I know, it's a book title, but how about: The Joy Of Lex? or, alot more seriously: 10-4 Proof (as in CB lingo:'copy that, good buddy')

Posted by: Muzzy at July 13, 2005 10:10 PM (QVCHB)

28 The term copyediting seems a bit dated in the age of blogs, doesn't it? Why not something more like: Express Text Detailing Express Text Enhancement Body Text Beautiful Good to Great Copy Better Body Text Rapid Revisions Masterpiece Prep Rapid Text Retouch and of course, the gratuitous: Pimp my Text!

Posted by: a Roma Tomato at July 13, 2005 10:12 PM (JqyIl)

29 I'll have to have Attila the Hub go with me when I get the business cards printed, so I don't end up going with "Pimp My Text." At the least, it deserves some sort of honorable mention. Some great ideas here; keep it up!

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 10:19 PM (RGWNz)

30 I'm on a roll... Body Text Massage Rapid Text Renovation Prose polished by Pros Text touched by Talent Revisions ready to read Text made ready Letters made better

Posted by: a Roma Tomato at July 13, 2005 11:56 PM (JqyIl)

31 Joy Koi Wordsmithing, Inc. The Hungarian Hatchet Text Editor Attila, Proprietor The Zen of Edit "Total enlightenment, by eraser" Naiad Wordsmithing, Inc. Naiad Copyediting and Writing

Posted by: Desert Cat at July 13, 2005 11:58 PM (xdX36)

32 Attila Cuts Down the Koi Polloi! Inc.

Posted by: k at July 14, 2005 06:14 AM (6krEN)

33 Playing off your koi fish/nature/water preference: "Haiku Fountain" ... A disciplined form of writing that must convey its message with an economy of words, plus the word "fountain" is active -- flowing water/ideas without end. Colors -- think soft sagelike green background, printing in metallic copper. Logo very simplistic, stylized koi fish, viewed mostly from above, in a "J" position overlapping and around a combined asymetrical "HF" (I can visualize it, haven't had a chance to sketch it yet) can ya tell I'm the daughter of a advertising man????

Posted by: Darleen at July 14, 2005 06:35 AM (FgfaV)

34 Koi Frog Pondering Attila The Koi (gets you upfront in the phone directory) Edit Head Amphibious Koi Koi Poi Poi Koi Edit Me Koi Hunt(takes care of passive!) Pond Off Spot-On Editing Koi Girl High Watermark(HT to the Anchoress) LMA Editorial Services Koi Watermark Best wishes for your business, no matter what name you use! The quality will be there, you prove it everyday!

Posted by: Darrell at July 14, 2005 08:31 AM (4KEXn)

35 Rapid Revisions Tighter Text Pages with Punch Polished Pages Better Books Revisions on Demand Spotless Scripts Confirmed Copy and for grins: Counter-Errorist Strike Force

Posted by: a Roma Tomato at July 14, 2005 08:34 AM (JqyIl)

36 Niagra Koi

Posted by: Karl the Krud at July 14, 2005 09:21 AM (0sooI)

37 Pages with Polish Urgent Text Upgrades Text Tune-up

Posted by: a Roma Tomato at July 14, 2005 10:03 AM (JqyIl)

38 Sea Change Copy Joy Proof Joy McCann, Readability Engineer

Posted by: Matt at July 14, 2005 11:05 AM (Xqaon)

39 Orca Inc Copy editors Koi for lunch? TG

Posted by: TonyGuitar at July 14, 2005 11:22 AM (rmMzv)

40 How about 'The Editorium'?

Posted by: A. Nonymous at July 14, 2005 12:08 PM (zL70j)

41 Koi Inspirations Inc. Is this too english major-esque playing off of Coy? I like it Better Than Koitus - ok that was just a joke

Posted by: Doug at July 14, 2005 12:51 PM (1rr7m)

42 Deepwater Copy, Soul of Koi copyediting, Ripple Effect Copy... Led Fish productions, Zen Pond... I dunno... =]

Posted by: Jeremy at July 14, 2005 01:31 PM (rUjds)

43 The Neurotic Editor 'We will get it right.' The Koi Emendator (latin for editor) Emendator Humanus (latin, pertaining to man, humane, humane, cultured, refined.)

Posted by: Sigmund, Carl and Alfred at July 14, 2005 04:03 PM (dHZc2)

44 Alright, Attila - lots of good choices here - what is your decision? I like the Editorium...but then I would, since it sounds like scriptorium. :-)

Posted by: The Anchoress at July 14, 2005 04:43 PM (Sp817)

45 Not sure if anyone's said these yet: (I just sort of breezed down the list of comments) Kreative Kopyeditors Carpe Diem Copyeditors (Or "Carp A Diem") Coy Koi Copyeditors Proof-Positive Copyeditors Wordstream Copyeditors (With a flowing Hawaiian waterfall.) I've got more, but have to go now. Hope these help.

Posted by: B.C. at July 14, 2005 05:43 PM (wPQJl)

46 I like Rapid Revisions: it's not too clever-sounding and pushes a universal selling point for clients: you're fast. Even if you're not fast, it will give your tardiness a sheen of promptitude. In my heart, I want the Editorium, but it sounds like something my wife would talk me out of ("No, darling, it's too pompous." "Shouldn't I try to play to my strengths?" "No.")

Posted by: Chris Burd at July 14, 2005 05:57 PM (UHOpB)

47 Blue Pencil Editing -- we cross out your mistakes

Posted by: Portia at July 14, 2005 08:04 PM (xlEaU)

48 Well I doubt this is a winner, but how 'bout "Larry's Greater San Antonio Illegal Chink Indoor Imported Carp Shotgunning Club LLC" I doesn't have anything to do with editing, but it WILL get your business cards shown around A LOT !!!! And yes, Larry and I were stone cold sober when we came up with it. :-) Good luck on your venture !!!!

Posted by: Chip Thome at July 14, 2005 09:31 PM (ODexe)

49 There is an indigenous pasture grass of the western U.S. called gramma. So Koi Gramma or Koi Gramma Constructions

Posted by: EBD at July 14, 2005 09:33 PM (CNTBP)

50 But I can't decide till next Tuesday! Before I finalize my decision, I have to 1) see if I can find a public domain image that can go on the business card (other than the existing koi) and/or 2) talk my friend, the illustration expert, into creating one for me for cheap. For marketing, the image and name and slogan (if I decide to have one) must all work together. I'm not sure I'm likely to use it, but "counter-errorist strike force" was just wonderful.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 14, 2005 10:32 PM (RGWNz)

51 Orca Copy Edit Inc Typos vs Atilla the Hun Raw Copy to Finished Work

Posted by: TonyGuitar at July 15, 2005 04:20 PM (rmMzv)

52 Koi and Unassuming

Posted by: Rodney dill at July 15, 2005 07:22 PM (tGTSA)

53 Articulata or, if you have a customer base with a sense of humor, "The Articulatrix"

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54 Koi Shui Copyediting Feng Koi Copyediting Words rearranged to achieve total harmony and clarity... The Real McCann Copyediting Joy of STET Copyediting Words of Joy Copywriting Koi 'Tis Bliss Copyediting Your Words, Only Better! Hope you can substirute an autographed copy of your Avatar for that book!

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55 Linked in from SDA "Joy of Text" "Text Tickle" OK, so I'm a smart ass. You want Chinese? "Lo Fan Flaw Fragging" People will spend so much time trying to say it, they'll have to remember. "Clear Copy" or even "Crystal Clear Copy"-- works well with water theme.

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56 Koi and Chips Copy

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The Scotsman Lists

. . . five Scumbags of Interest with respect to the London bombings.

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Draft Volokh!

The time has come.

Via Insty.

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Ties Between AQ and Saddam

They were there, but with all the intelligence gaps we've been looking through a glass darkly. And now (almost), face to face.

Via Goldstein.

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The Evidence Builds Up

. . . as I tick down the list of things I'm interested in: cars, trains, guns, military strategy. Motorcycles.

I'm clearly not a middle-aged woman, but rather a 16-year-old boy trapped in a middle-aged female body.

I'm not just a candidate for gender-reassignment surgery, but age-reassignment as well. Especially age-reassignment.

I believe I should demand that Medi-Cal provide me with a face lift and change my driver's license to reflect my true age of 16. Naturally, I'm not willing to pay teenage rates for car insurance, and why should I?—I'm 43 years old. It's not like I'd do anything reckless at this point.

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July 10, 2005

I'm With Gerard.

This shit is offensive.

And I'm speaking as a chick who isn't positive that white people wearing blackface is necessarily meant in a bad way. (It often is, but it really depends upon the spirit in which it's done. When my friends who were a heterosexual couple cross-dressed to attend a costume party as Ozzie and Sharon Osborne, were they putting down each other's gender? Of course not. Masquerade is about getting out of our own skins, if only in a superficial, symbolic way. There's nothing more natural than using such occasions to escape the limitations of race, class, and gender.)

There's simply a line that's crossed when an "artist" gives animal features to one race, and one race only. This is not subtle, or difficult to understand. Use your eyes.

The Mexican authorities ought to be ashamed of themselves.

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Via Everybody

. . . the video (at Political Teen) of Christopher Hitchens hitting Ron Reagan, Jr., with a rolled-up newspaper.

It was the finest of guilty pleasures; Hitchens is a lefty I love to love.

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July 09, 2005

More Attacks on Britain?

Holy shit.

I hope this is just British hysteria, a la all those bogus Jack the Ripper letters in the 19th century. I'm going to assume some joker just sent a prank warning.

But it's very worrisome.

UPDATE: It looks like most of the suspicious packages have been dealt with, and it was just the "centre" of the city that had to be evacuated. So there have been confused tourists heading back to their hotels much too early—not a bad tradeoff for public safety.

I'd still like to hear what happened to that last suspicious item.

Authorities are stressing that this isn't connected with events in London, but I'm not sure they wouldn't say that anyway.

UPDATE: Looks like everyone is safe and sound, but some people did have to sleep outside. That last package was determined to be harmless.

The authorities defend the incident by saying their intelligence was "specific," and "credible."

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The Bear Flag League Conference Is Next Weekend!

Via Patterico, a reminder about the Bear Flag League blogging conference next Sunday the 17th at 1:00 p.m.

This is a reminder that the Bear Flag League Conference will be on July 17 at the Avery House at Caltech in Pasadena.
$50 gets you lunch, the chance to hear Dan Weintraub, Bob Hertzberg, Ted Costa, and others Â— and the chance to meet some of your favorite Southern California bloggers, including Gerard Vanderleun of American Digest, Xrlq, Baldilocks, Gay Patriot, BoiFromTroy, members of Local Liberty Blog, Little Miss Attila, and others. Including me.
And the invitation is open to anyone! You donÂ’t have to be a blogger.
If you are a Hugh Hewitt listener, I can get you in for $40. Just write me . . . and IÂ’ll make the arrangements for you.
UPDATE: Offer extended to readers of CaptainÂ’s Quarters (though I believe there is substantial overlap between his audience and HughÂ’s).

It's worth noting that people are going to be coming from all over California to participate in this. I would encourage residents of Arizona and Nevada to consider it as well. It's going to be a very solid conference, and a lot of the libertarian heavy-hitters of the blogging world are going to be there—both attending and speaking.

The Calblog master post has the details, and you can sign up there (also, send me a note if you're one of my readers registering through me; I get "credit").

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Ted Costa, Fair Districts
Allan Hoffenblum, California Targetbook
Bob Hertzberg, former L.A. Mayoral candidate
Joseph C. Phillips, of the Conservative Brotherhood

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A Day Off

I'm going to take it easy today, since it's my birfday. (Not barfday—birfday.)

I'll be listening to the compilation CD a good friend sent me, and heading out to a real estate investment workshop in Santa Monica. Then I'll grill some chicken for my husband. (No, we're not going out this year. We're nesting.)

Please send prayer/positive energy to London and the Miami area.

P.S. What year? Same year as the Seattle Space Needle; we're only a few months apart. I'm what they call, in the design trade, a mid-century piece.

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July 08, 2005

Girlcott!

That's my new idea for supporting Britain. It's shallow, it's fun, and it involves spending money. What could be better?

For the next four weeks I intend to buy as many British products as possible. Especially Tanqueray Ten gin and Twinings Earl Grey tea. I'll replace my Ketel One vodka with Three Olives, and load up on mustard, chutney, marmalade, and lemon curd.

(For a crime writer, Colman's mustard is a two-fer: Dorothy L. Sayers headed up one of Colman's most successful advertising campaigns before she quit advertising altogether to devote herself to writing mysteries.)

Maybe next winter I'll even buy a bottle of Bushmills, though I tend to prefer Jameson, because it's Irish Irish. (And I don't drink whiskey during the summer, because that's a yucky thing to do: summer calls for gin or vodka drinks. Just like I would never wear high heels with shorts, because that's too slutty even for me.)

Gluttonous lushes of the world, unite and support the British in whatever way you can.

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1 Excellent idea. God save the Queen - at least until her mule-eared boy passes out of the line to the throne.

Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at July 08, 2005 03:03 PM (xX0fS)

2 ..."Gluttonous lushes of the world, unite"... now that is a battle cry I can groove with..

Posted by: Eric at July 09, 2005 11:28 AM (YlwMq)

3 As an American expat living in the UK, I fully support this action! However, you're really missing the boat with the gin and the Earl Grey. The real peak of gastronomic excellence here is -- and I kid you not --- potato chips flavored with lamb and mint. The locals like to eat them while simultaneously riding their bikes, smoking a cigarette and talking on their cell phones.

Posted by: Prof. Purkinje at July 09, 2005 11:59 AM (vVSja)

4 Sounds yummy. BTW, how many hands does the average Brit have? xxoo, AG

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5 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=8262 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=8252 http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-07/09solomon.cfm

Posted by: a at July 13, 2005 09:55 AM (H60lE)

6 Oh, Dear Mr. Fisk. "If we're nicer, they'll go away." After all, the 9/11 attack on New York and Washington were provoked by . . . by nothing, really. The U.S. had sent some troops into Saudi Arabia to save Muslims from a so-called secular leader in Iraq with whom the Left claims AQ had no ties. Or perhaps he's simply suggesting that if the rest of the West isolates the U.S., we will be the targets of future attacks and not them. Won't work, Buddy. "Infidels are infidels." And Paris could well be next, Chirac's collaborationist actions notwithstanding.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 01:11 PM (RGWNz)

7 Great idea What are some good English beers out there? Other than Bass (which is mighty tasty)

Posted by: Patriot Xeno at July 14, 2005 05:18 AM (z4SP5)

8 I like Theakston's bitter, but I'm strange. Prof. P?

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 14, 2005 09:54 AM (RGWNz)

9 Don't forget about things Scottish: whiskey; woolens;as well as Welsh; choirs and aging rockers?

Posted by: The Drill SGT at July 14, 2005 05:59 PM (ZY7em)

10 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15936523%5E1702,00.html

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Rehnquist, Too.

So it looks like Bush will have to appoint his strict constructionist and his moderate to the Supreme Court more or less in tandem. Which will spare us a lot of legislative fireworks.

A shame. I was looking forward to the fight, in a certain way.

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Years from Now

will it be confusing to schoolchildren that on 7/4 they are supposed to celebrate our liberation from the wicked English, and on 7/7 they are supposed to feel bad that some people living in England were killed?

"The ones we killed in the 1770s were bad Englishmen. The ones that got killed in 2005 were good Englishmen. The ones that burned the first White House in 1812 were very bad Englishmen indeed. The ones that oppressed the Irish . . . can you guess? I'll bet you know the answer to that one, right?"

I hope my kids grow up fast enough that I can bring some nuance into the discussion. I'm especially looking forward to explaining "blowback" as it relates to international diplomacy. The discussion of the Hitler-Stalin pact will be fun. My daughter will learn to block out the sound of my voice, just as I blocked out my own mother's voice as she discussed mathematical principles.

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More on 7/7

Malkin's tracking the investigation. Naturally, she includes tart observations about dangerous individuals who were allowed to remain in London despite their terrorist ties.

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The Plots That Get Thwarted

I've heard radically different estimates of how many terrorist plots get foiled every year. It's almost impossible to measure such a thing, and if you did you'd have trouble breaking it down by target country.

Lair has a problem with the "we are all Londoners" meme that so many of us indulged in yesterday (including me). After all, he points out, that means we in the West have to switch nationalities every time there's a successful attack. Sure, it's silly (though I'm sentimental that way).

What we all are, he asserts, is infidels. Correct. And "infidel," by the way, encompasses a lot of Muslims: at least two of the train stations selected were near neighborhoods inhabited predominantly by Muslims.

Measuring how many of these plots are thwarted gets snarled up if you try to figure out which "infidels" they are aimed at. After all, AQ and its allies are perfectly willing to substitute one Western target for another.

The point is, the cells are being rolled up continually, on every continent. California Mafia has an update on the cell in Lodi. It sounds like a joke, until you think of how close Lodi is to Sacramento, and how central it is to the U.S.'s most populated state. Shipping, agriculture, the state government: all were within reach.

Comparing the horror of London yesterday with what these motherfuckers "accomplished" in Madrid leaves one underwhelmed—and almost makes me understand those Brits in the pubs yesterday afternoon, yawning bravely and asking if that was all the terrorists had before ordering another warm beer.

It was a failure. The terrorists brought a knife to a gun fight. We know that their ability to pull these things off depends upon their resources: they will always go for the biggest target, the greatest symbolism, and the highest body count. It was a tiny bloodbath, not even in the same league with 3/11 in Madrid.

Even 9/11 was a failure, measured against its goals: AQ meant to bomb the Capitol building, but failed. Its supposedly brilliant planners hoped that the WTC towers would fall over, and on top of other buildings in the financial district. Most analysts agree that the White House was the initial target of the plane that hit the Pentagon: the hijackers hadn't realized how hard it is to see the White House from the air.

The 9/11 attack was supposed to kill tens or hundreds of thousands, not several thousand. And the U.S. government was supposed to be decapitated, with both the Capitol building and the White House in ruins.

These guys are far from defeated, but they grow weaker every year. It will take many more years, but we are winning.

We are.

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