Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. ~ Isak Dinesen

Probably not this morning. I woke up around 3am and took some cough medicine…

You can figure out the rest.

LATE AFTERNOON SUBSTITUTE

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) A Rough Start For Mahmoud’s Festival Of Ignorance — “Pity poor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Here he goes to all the trouble of serving up some prime red meat to the Jew-haters of Islam, and they treat him like … well, like an ignorant and dangerous dictator. In the opening moments of the Holocaust Festival of Ignorance in Teheran, during which he called the Nazi genocide a “myth”, students made it clear that they weren’t buying what Mahmoud was shoveling:”

Iowa Voice (Brian) This Is Why We Don’t Take Global Warming Seriously — “See, the problem is that not enough people remember thirty years ago when we had some bad winters, and all the kook scientists were crying that we were entering another ice age. Now, because we happened to have had a few hotter summers than usual, it’s global warming and our skin is going to burn off. In another thirty years, they’ll be either back to the ‘ice age’ theory again, or they’ll have moved on to something else. Global milding, maybe?” [And for a good laugh make sure you read all the comments from the outraged. lol. Jim]

Blue Crab Boulevard (Gaius) Feel The Love — “If there was any real responsibility at the UN, Kofi Annan should have been turned out of office on his ear a long time ago. His continued tenure there for two terms is, I suspect, a direct result of his kissing up to some of the worst governments in the world. His relentless attempts to undermine anything America has tried to do in the decade of his control of the UN made him the darling of dictators everywhere.”

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Right Wing News (John Hawkins) The Ceasefire Continues To Disintegrate — “The UN ceasefire is now on the brink of total disentegration. Hezbollah has been refusing to disarm or go South and they’re continuing to attempt to rearm. Moreover, it’s now starting to look as if the international troops that are supposed to be supplementing the Lebanese army in the South may not be forthcoming at all:”

In The Bullpen (Chad Evans) Annan Wishes to Give UNIFIL Teeth — “According to the Jerusalem Post, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is expected to recommend giving UNIFIL the ability to fire upon Hezbollah when deployed in Southern Lebanon. This would seem like a no-brainer considering two resolutions have now called for the disarming of Hezbollah, but this is the United Nations we’re talking about.”

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) UNIFIL Teeth Sharpened? — “The public acknowledgment of 1701’s inherent flaw of credible enforcement comes as a pleasant surprise, as does the proposed solution. If we had a hope in Hades that the UN would actually deploy the kinds of troops that would execute such orders, we’d almost say this was progress.”

Michelle Malkin Missing Fox News crew: Blogburst — “Fox News Channel reporter Steve Centanni and freelance cameraman Olaf Wiig are still missing. It has now been more than a week since their kidnapping at gunpoint in Gaza by unknown terrorists. FNC top management, the journalists’ families, and Palestinian journalists continue to press for their release.”

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~ Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr.

The Anchoress Hillary’s Bust? Egad! – UPDATED — “It’s…well, it’s pretty hideous. For some reason, Hillary – who is an attractive woman – here looks like the love child of Jimmy Carter and Eleanor Roosevelt, but wearing the breastplate usually associated with Brunnhilda in Die Walkure!”

In The Bullpen (Chad Evans) UNIFIL: Good God Ya’ll. What is it Good For? — “The bombing of a United Nations (UNIFIL) outpost in Southern Lebanon was tragic without question, but the immediate reaction by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was despicable. Annan claimed, or as widely reported, Israel “deliberately” attacked this UNIFIL outpost without any proof mind you. Annan is sure to be featured in the next set of Hezbollah recruiting videos.”

Ankle Biting Pundits (Patrick Hynes) The Democrats’ Contempt for Iraqis — “Some time ago I observed that the Democrats’ attitude toward the people of Iraq had evolved from disinterest to outright contempt. I think this was on pretty clear display yesterday when Howard Dean called the elected Prime Minister of Iraq an “anti-Semite” and several Democrats skipped the PM’s address to Congress:”

ScrappleFace (Scott Ott) Bush Finally Speaks Out on Israeli Aggression — I’m not going to spoil this by offering up a quote. Read it. Laugh. Then realize that (once again) Scott has absolutely nailed it. Jim