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August 31, 2008
What they do in the cockpit to land you safely in the rain. A great bit of writing about another day on the job as a commercial airline pilot."Rolling onto final, the co-pilot calls for "flaps three". I can see the runway; it is raining ahead, but looks OK. "Flaps full, landing checklist" I call out the items on the landing checklist like a good little non-flying pilot. There is a heavy shaft of rain east of the control tower, but our runway still looks good. Lightning bolts flash east of the airport boundary." -- Flight Level 390: TABIR intersection (N28 25.2 W083 00.2)
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Morgan is searching... searching... searching...Like Diogenes searching for an honest man, I’m looking for the liberal who wants to engage in an honest, free-form, even-playing-field discourse examining, with intellectual sincerity, the achievements of the Governor of Alaska who’s been in office nineteen months, versus the achievements of the House Speaker who’s been in office nineteen months. Leave the bumper sticker slogans and sound bites from Howard YEEEEEAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!! Dean at home, and just compare those two stewardships. Problems fixed…people unified…approval ratings sustained. Then get back to me on which female-selection was cynical, desperate, bald-faced, sneaky, pandering, deceptive, superficial, cheap, calculated and condescending. -House of Eratosthenes
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Breaking! The current New York Times Champion in the Auto-Fellatio Marathon is still Maureen Dowd - Vice in Go-Go Boots?Posted by Vanderleun at 1:06 PM | Your Say (0)
Worth repeating:Best Palin Reaction Line of the Day: "The smart liberals are worried. The dumb ones think they've won." - AMERICAN DIGEST
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We're all Truman now:If you think someone is watching you, you're probably right. But this doesn't mean you're not also crazy, according to psychiatrists who say that our surveillance and reality TV society is spawning a new kind of psychosis. They're calling it the Truman Show delusion. - Surveillance Society Sparks Psychosis | Threat Level from Wired.com
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"If you can just get your mind together
Uh-then come on across to me
We'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sunrise
From the bottom of the sea...
But first, are you experienced?"
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The Sun is Superclean:"On August 31st, at 23:59 UTC, just a little over 24 hours from now, we are very likely to make a bit of history. It looks like we will have gone an entire calendar month without a sunspot. According to data from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center, the last time that happened was in June of 1913. May of 1913 was also spotless." - Sun poised to make history with first spotless month since 1913
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Compare and contrast:The Left "would respect her and think she was just great if she'd never married, her 5 kids were by different fathers, none of which were still around, and she was living on public assistance in low income housing. Then she'd be the bees knees." - Sister Toldjah - PLUS: Other vicious far left attacks on Palin
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August 30, 2008
And for the gun-totin' Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who's done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of "community organizer" and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy.
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This just in: Palin's not woman enough for The National Organization of Women ...in comfortable shoes. Instead "Sen. Joe Biden is the VP candidate who appeals to women."Posted by Vanderleun at 1:35 PM | Your Say (0)
Argument #386,772 that western civilization needs to be reduced to piles of smoldering dust: Follicle Reference Hats
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Doing the jobs Palestinians can't be trusted to do:"The 250 kilometer border with Egypt is becoming more of a problem. That's largely because Egyptian smugglers are more active with moving illegal African migrants trying to get into Israel to find work. There's plenty of work, as Israel cannot trust Palestinian workers to cross from the West Bank without some suicide bombers coming with them. So foreign workers have been replacing over 100,000 Palestinians who used to work in Israel. - Israel: Hezbollah Attacks Via Venezuela
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"Barack Obamaloves the future because that’s where all his accomplishments are.... We got to know Barack and Michelle Obama, two tall, thin, rich, beautiful people who don’t perspire, but who nonetheless feel compassion for their squatter and smellier fellow citizens. We know that Barack could have gone to a prestigious law firm, like his big donors in the luxury boxes, but he chose to put his ego aside to become a professional politician, president of the United States and redeemer of the human race. We heard about his time as a community organizer, the three most fulfilling months of his life."David Brooks - A Speech to the Delegates
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About time: "The good news here is that come November 5th, this country will have chosen either its first African-American president or its first woman vice president. So 45 years after the I Have a Dream speech, and 80 years after the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, the face of American presidential politics is about to change forever." - The Speculist: Better All the Time #35Posted by Vanderleun at 8:21 AM | Your Say (0)
August 29, 2008
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"Bite that, Dixie Chicks!":"Oh, the pain of being a good liberal woman today. Hillary Clinton dissed and passed over, Nancy Pelosi a checkmated figurehead in her over-hyped post, but a politically incorrect former beauty queen who chose life for her Down's Syndrome baby is on the really big ticket. When women really want to get ahead, the conservatives of this country put their money where the bigmouth so-called "feminists" have gone nowhere." - NeoRedneck
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Palin Pick Crashes Alaska:Safari could not open the page “http://gov.state.ak.us/” because the server is not responding.
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August 28, 2008
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P. J. O'Rourke On God:"I have some idea what God does. I have no idea what scientists do. My entire store of information about scientific activity comes from what I've seen in the movies. There, scientists used to be represented as men in white coats busy with incomprehensible jumbles of glass tubing connected to foaming beakers and bubbling test tubes. Now, scientists are represented as men (and women) in white coats busy with incomprehensible jumbles of numbers on computer screens. All I can really tell you about science is that its set designers aren't as good as they used to be."
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Re: That Self-Fornication Festival in Denver:"Who can say what goes on inside the head of someone who idealizes these phonies, knaves, liars and and con artists? The key point is that these processes primarily take place in the head. But when you're in a group of thousands of others sharing the identical projections, it no longer feels as if it's in the head. Rather, it feels real. And the whole point is to make the fantasy seem like reality, which is why people get so glassy-eyed and ecstatic at these events. But enough about the MSNBC hosts." - One Cosmos: Demasking the Messiah on the Road to St. Paul
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August 27, 2008
"The Ralph Nader for President campaign in Colorado revved up to start its demonstration march at the onset of the Democratic National Convention. All six supporters were ready to go, leaflets in hand, their 15-foot-tall brown beer-bottle protest balloon was inflated and tied down on the trailer behind the 18-year-old silver Ford F-150 pickup. Then disaster struck -- the generator powering the air-pump that kept the balloon afloat died. Out of gas. The giant balloon shriveled and went limp. One of the Naderites sprinted off for the nearest gas station." - Nader rally -- and balloon -- runs out of gas | ScrippsNews HT: Tim Blair.
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Blue Screen O' Death as Hundreds of flights grounded:"This was a failure mode we've not seen before," said Hank Krakowski, chief operating officer of the F.A.A.'s Air Traffic Organization division.... The software snafu happened while the F.A.A. was upgrading Nadin. Its mission-critical system appears to rely on Microsoft Windows, and who of us has never suffered a computer outage while upgrading to a new version Windows?" - F.A.A. Computer Snafu
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Killer App -- Msoft's IE8 top feature - Safe Porn Browsing:Microsoft’s “InPrivate Browsing” tool has caused quite a kerfuffle among bloggers over the past few weeks. Dubbed “porn mode”, the feature, when enabled, will switch off cookies, browsing and search history, and it won't save form data and passwords. In addition, it will automatically clear the cache at the end of the browser session. - The Register
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England's naval theme park selling rum and buggery is back. Big time: Portsmouth punts naval boy-on-boy to innocent kiddiesPosted by Vanderleun at 9:42 AM | Your Say (0)
"It's the "first-ever" Elvis illuminated porcelain Christmas tree. It's a limited edition presentation, restricted to "95 firing days." It costs $119.94, but it rotates and plays "Blue Christmas." -- copyranter: Elvis Christmas Creep.
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Everything you need to know about the internet:"People have all sorts of information available to them now, and not much of it is very good. And some of it is good, but not useful. To paraphrase Mark Twain: stay away from the internet and television, and you're uninformed; go there, and you're misinformed."- Sippican Cottage: Ramshackle Is (Still) My Middle Name
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Who's that knocking on my door ... my door... my door... my door?Howard Dean: “This election is not going to be about great speeches. It’s going to be about having people knocking on doors, not once but two, three and four times. This is how Barack Obama won the primaries. He’s going to take that model and use it for the entire country.” - Dean: Obama will change message for general election
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August 26, 2008
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Two gibbering numbskulls:"I don’t want either of these men in charge of the federal government, neither the crazy old fool nor the simpering sophomore. I don’t want either the moralistic imperialism of John McCain or the welfare-state-to-the world sentimentalism of Barack Obama. I don’t want my country represented by either a Compassionate Crusader or by Oprah Winfrey in drag." -John Derbyshire on Conventions 2008
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Russia to call for preemptive veto strike on Obama:Obama- "The United States should call for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to condemn Russia's decision in coordination with our European allies." - Obama Condemns Russia Can somebody on the Obama squad please clue their genius candidate about the powers held by Russia as a permanent member of the Security Council? This constant beclownment has got to stop. Thank you.
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How Free Speech Became a ZonePrior to 1968, such precautions never occurred to anyone because the culture of the time abhorred the idea of actually attacking someone engaged in political activity. For the narcissistic lefty boomers, that wasn't good enough. As individuals gifted with intellects and morals far beyond those of mortal men, they had the inherent right to impose their will on others by force. Ever since then their intellectual progeny have attacked every major political event in the North America
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Why Dems don't need to study war no more:"If a person believes that war is obsolete and nearly always avoidable, and that Presidential diplomacy is the invariably correct answer to solving international conflict involving the US, then good judgment in the prosecution of a war becomes irrelevant. The only decision that matters is the decision to go to war in the first place, and if a person believes that decision can and should nearly always be answered in the negative, then good judgment in war strategy becomes mostly unnecessary." -neo-neocon Judgment and war: Obama and the Democratic party
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Global Warming & Sushi science: Japanese study says loss of fat in whales may be result of climate changeJapan's scientists claim their controversial whaling programme has produced a key finding. Measurements taken from more than 4,500 minke whales slaughtered since the late 1980s reveal the animals have lost significant amounts of blubber, and are getting thinner at a worrying speed.As are the herds.
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And the beatdown goes on:
The New York Times Company announced today that in July total Company revenues from continuing operations decreased 10.1% compared with the same month a year ago. Advertising revenues decreased 16.2% and circulation revenues decreased 0.5%. - New York Times Company Reports July Revenues
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No truth. No consequences.:"We have reached such a dizzyingly high level of comfort in our modern society, that our parasites are allowed to act, without consequence, like hosts; and they are allowed to treat, without consequence, the real hosts as if they're the parasites." -- Morgan Freeberg commenting @ Brutally Honest:
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August 25, 2008
Support the troops:"There is one lesson we learned in Iraq. The US Marines don't need a lot of troops to kill a lot of people, they just need a lot of support." -- Information Dissemination: Observing the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group
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The effete elite"[These young leaders] are the cream of Georgia's new generation of globalized elite, almost all educated abroad and plugged into the most influential global networks of finance, law, media, trade, and NGOs. Thus, they've enjoyed tremendous press coverage from similar folks in the prestige media. These are the kind of people who will be running the world for the next generation, making Georgia a harbinger of what's in store for all of us. And what did these exemplars of the globalized Best and Brightest do when they got power? They started a tank war with Russia. --Steve Sailer
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Gentlemen, start your engines. Gas falls below $3.00 in Mississippi via Carpe DiemPosted by Vanderleun at 8:55 PM | Your Say (0)
Lost in translation:
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There's a tramp sittin' on my doorstep
Tryin' to waste his time
With his methylated sandwich
He's a walking clothesline
And here comes the bishop's daughter
On the other side
She looks a trifle jealous
She's been an outcast all her life
Me, I'm waiting so patiently
Lying on the floor
I'm just trying to do my jig-saw puzzle
Before it rains anymore
- The Rolling Stones
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August 24, 2008
First, we kill all the fear merchants:"Too many of our decisions are held hostage by people who make their living selling hypothetical fear. They pursue their own personal interest at the expense of the lives of others, in a way that would shame the worst corporate criminal. These hypocrites need to be put down and put down hard." - Chicago Boyz Real vs. Hypothetical Deaths
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Your Teachers Unions Hard at Work:"In Chicago from 2003 through 2006, just three of every 1,000 teachers received an "unsatisfactory" rating in annual evaluations; of 87 "failing schools" -- with below-average and declining test scores -- 67 had no teachers rated unsatisfactory; in all of Chicago, just nine teachers received more than one unsatisfactory rating, and none of them was dismissed." - George F. Will - Where Paternalism Makes the Grade
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August 23, 2008
No Obama Drama:"One of the keys to a certain kind of dramatic structure is that the climax occurs at the moment of maximum suspense. The arrival and duration of that particular moment is determined by the ways in which the preceding conflicts have been developed until the opposing forces have reached the point where the conflicts must be resolved, at least in significant part. The climactic moment cannot be prolonged beyond what the accumulated weight of the dramatic structure will bear. If it is prolonged too much, drama and suspense begin to ebb. When it is prolonged far too much, then what had been rigid goes slack; what had been stiff hopes, if you will, begin to droop."- Once Upon a Time...: Death Match: If the Words Don't Kill You, the Bombs Will (I)
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Depressing things about being a D-List blogger in a D-Cup world:From my email today comes this brutal fact: "Hello, my name is Adam Ross and I am an internet marketing specialist. I was looking at websites under the keyword red bra and came across your website http://americandigest.org. I see that you're not ranked on the first page of Google for a red bra search."Well, I'm not going to take that lying down!
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Biden Prepares 50,000-Word Acceptance SpeechSenator to Address Convention on Wednesday, Thursday - Borowitz Report
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August 22, 2008
He shoots.... he scores!"Frankly, I think McCain embraces the REAL American dream - having the freedom to marry any hot-looking, cash-soaked heiress you damn well please." -IMAO
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Lest we forget:Taps for Ia Drang Medal of Honor recipient Ed “Too Tall” Freeman -- "As we speak, mild-looking old men are limping through airports all over the United States. Each wears a black Stetson cavalry hat, and each is making his way to, of all places, Boise, Idaho. If their fellow travelers ever knew.... " - Jules Crittenden
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No matter who Obama chooses, this is STILL the political headline of the month:Biden and Bayh and Chet, Oh My! Obama's Veep-Pick Arouses Public Interest Not Seen Since Chupacabra Fever Last Week
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No matter who Obama chooses, this is STILL the headline of the month:Drunk, High, Naked Driver Crashes Into Parked Car While Masturbating... But Wait, There's More!
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Obama's got questions. Peggy Noonan's got answers."As to the question when human life begins, the answer to which is above Mr. Obama's pay grade, oh, let's go on a little tear. You know why they call it birth control? Because it's meant to stop a birth from happening nine months later. We know when life begins. Everyone who ever bought a pack of condoms knows when life begins." - Declarations - WSJ.com
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August 21, 2008
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It's over between Seinfeld and Mac. Over. As dead as Jerry's relationship with Elaine. Jerry Seinfeld: Mac-Loving Seinfeld Endorsing Microsoft For $10 Million Not that there's anything wrong with that.Not a cheap date, even for Bill Gates. (Well, maybe for Bill.)
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Those babies are especially crunchy. Fresh too:
“I kind of look skinny, don’t I?” Mr. Obama asked a gathering of shoppers and a pool of reporters traipsing after him at the Farmers’ Curb Market. The normally abstemious candidate picked up biscuits, zucchini bread, pound cake, bread, tomatoes and peaches, and paid for them all. He also picked up a baby for a photo op." - Shopping for Snacks, Dodging V.P. Questions
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Intellectual Insanity in Our Time. Failed author and weird historian Allen Lichtman says McCain sparked the Georgia War. Maybe. Sort of."If this information is correct, then, by inference, John McCain emerges as the most likely suspect as agent provocateur." -John McCain as Agent Provocateur in the Georgia/Russia Crisis? Allen LichtmanI just love it when they punch in that little question mark right at the end, don't you? That way when the lunacy is revealed the claim is, "Who me? I was just asking a question." Lichtman's "questions" are of course followed at the end by a host of demands: "McCain must explain... must explain...." McCain must reveal...." "The American people deserve no less...." We're sure Senator McCain will be getting right back to you on that, Professor. Stay by your phone. Sadly, this heap of Pecksniffian innuendo is brought to you via "The Britannica Blog - Where Ideas Matter." Another example of runaway brand deflation. Lichtman is more at home on the odious Counterpunch.org where conspiracies go to die. There he also brings you When General Petraeus Speaks, Don't Listen ... and explains why he's just like Martin Luther King except that he's white, Allan Lichtman: Letter from the Baltimore County Jail. Lichtman, for whom it will always be 1968, has also committed a book to showcase his deeper obsession, “White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement,” which is ably eviscerated by David Frum HERE. All of which proves once again that the groves of academe now contain vast forests of petrified wood.
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August 20, 2008
Update-- Speculating in Stupidity Futures Poll Now Missing from Home Page of The Speculist: The Speculist Poll
Guess the missing choice ... perhaps somewhere under "Other." Vote at the link.
Update: Perhaps the small mistake caused "The Speculist" to vanish the poll. Up this AM, gone now. Still visible at the link... for now.
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WHEN YOU TEE YOURSELF UP...:"Yesterday, Senator Obama got a little testy on this issue," McCain is set to say at a town hall in New Mexico. "He said that I am questioning his patriotism. Let me be clear: I am not questioning his patriotism; I am questioning his judgment."...you can't complain when your opponent hits you 350 yards down the middle of the fairway....
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Leave Oprah ALONE!... and her little dogs too!"Oprah can rest well now knowing that her dogs will not have to pay inheritance tax over the next four years if she dies. However, in 2012, when dean pelosi and the rest of the traitors are out of jobs, and Hillary again runs for president, wins, and changes inheritance taxes to cover health care costs, we will have a nice drink to the end of the Oprah Winfrey "pray to angels instead of protest injustice" method of female stinkthink. My great hope is that the green party will have overrun the democratic party by that time, and made its entire platform green instead of corporate controlled. I am voting for cynthia mckinney for president." - Rosanne Barr AKA "Chunky"Would the last person out of Roseanne's room please remember to empty her drool cup?
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Truth Will Out: China Fakes Entire Olympic Games“I think that the ‘Free Tibet’ banner was my favorite part,” said the anonymous Politburo leader. “If anyone did suspect our lies, that really would have thrown them off.” - The Naked Loon
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Translation: "Keep 'em starving, stupid, and in the bush where they belong.""Africa should make more use of the skills of its nomadic peoples to help combat the challenges of climate change, the aid agency Oxfam says." -- BBC NEWS | Africa | Maasai 'can fight climate change'
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"My name is Major Greg Boner ....In 2003 I left earth aboard the Mars Rover, Spirit. Seven months later I arrived on Mars. Prior to departing earth, I deposited the amount of US$ 11,600,000 (Eleven million, six hundred thousand United States dollars) in four safety galvanized boxes in a European financial institution which will be disclosed to you upon your acceptance of my proposal.... Last year, during the course of my research on Mars, I was ambushed by a group of analdwelling rebel Martians who inflicted great torturous pain upon my body with anal probes." -- Blame it on the voices
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You can't always get what you want... :"The Democrats wanted a cigar-chomping populist who could portray the Republicans as elitists who stomped on the Joe little-guy. Once again they got a flashier version of a John Edwards-John Kerry-Al Gore preachy liberal, who whines about the price of arugula and thinks stepping off a jet in shades and polo shirts is an Esquire photo-op." -- Victor Hanson, Victory Laps for the Hare, as the Tortoise Crawls On
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The Russian Connection:Russian General Vyachislav Borisov in Gori, Georgia: "We summoned the Israeli Foreign Minister to Moscow. And he was told that if he continues to supply arms to the Georgians we would continue to supply Hezbollah and Hamas." -Bernard-Henri Levyy: Georgia at War: What I Saw
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It's not whether you're a winner or a loser, but how good you look:Denver's homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his Democrats"This way to the showers, ladies and gentlemen...."
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You can lead a whore to water but you can't make her think:"You have to wonder about the collective intelligence of the journalistic classes don't you? You can tell them till you're blue in the face that small farms are more inefficient than big ones; that this means that they use more resources than small ones, and that this is bad for the environment; and that all of this goes doubly for organic farms. And no matter how hard you try to ram this simple fact into their dull heads, they just don't get it. - Bishop Hill
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The Hollywood Party Line:"Capitalism is evil and America is a horrible fascist place, the argument goes, except for my lucrative studio contract, except for my fat bank account, except for my mansion, my swimming pool, my ranch, and my luxury cars." -On Trumbo
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It was forty years ago today...."The students of Chicago streets are now the old men of the Democrat Party. They blame America, somehow, for Russian tanks in Georgia, just as they blamed America, if they blamed anyone, for Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia. Frozen in time, immune to reality, they tear and claw at the nation which gave them everything. They lived as they lived in 1968 -- reveling in the bloodying of America, chanting praises of Marxist monsters, pummeling anyone within their party who did not toe the party line." -American Thinker: Forty Years after the Death of a Party
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August 19, 2008
The invaluable Doug Ross supplies The only Obama poster you'll ever need
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Vote for McCain if you must, but whatever you do...DO NOT PISS OFF THE CAT PEOPLE.Rachel Lucas Most volatile flame war ignitor ever:Cats are assholes.
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Keith ("Worst Pussy on TV") Olbermann gets new life partner:Rachel Maddow to Replace Dan Abrams on MSNBC Mr. Griffin said of the selection of Ms. Maddow, "This just completes our prime-time lineup. Our lineup makes sense now."It does if draining money into your communal drool cup makes sense.
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Come and get your love!
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Pigment isn't policy:"At some point, though, we need to hear where candidates stand on policy. This is where Obama struggles. Politics is about divisions." - RealClearPolitics An Election Just Like Any Other
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Making kids morbidly obese one plate at a time:
The Most Disgusting School Lunches
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Absolute Fools"At the very heart of a philosophy of deterministic, self-engendered moral standards stands the individual. The rejection of moral absolutes is nothing more than radical individualism broadcast across society -- the notion that we are the sole arbiters of our behavior and morality, that we alone determine what is right and what is wrong. As a corollary, there is another assumption underlying this one: that others should bear the consequences, especially adverse consequences of our actions. Those who reject moral absolutes gravitate to a nihilistic narcissism, where there are rights but no responsibilities, demanding freedom to act as they please without thought for anyone else, all the while demanding that others rescue them from wreckage their behavior has wrought."
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August 18, 2008
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How well is South Africa working out? So fine that it has its own line of designer bullet-proof garments:Mr Caballero's clothes can withstand shots from 9mm pistols to AK-47s and clients fearing knives can pay extra for stab-proofing." - BBC NEWS | Africa | Bullet-proof fashion for S Africa
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What it is:"Yes, the United States is a great country, not in some liberal politician’s Utopian vision, but as you see it right now, in the moment in which you’re reading this sentence; and yes, it is very cool to think so." - House of Eratosthenes
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August 17, 2008
Olympic Synchronized Diving Summarized:
Theirs is a sport not without beauty, but it always seems to have a homoerotic whiff about it as well. It all looks like a wonderfully elegant gay suicide pact. - The joy of Michael Phelps' epic demented journey - Times Online
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August 16, 2008
Not getting the memo:"What went wrong is that someone forgot to tell Osama Bin Laden that religion had been abolished; and someone similarly forgot to tell the Russians, South Ossetians and Georgians that there are no more countries. If 9/11 was a visit from the 8th century, Russia's incursion into the near abroad was blast for the 19th century past. " - Belmont Club ｻ The last nation
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Playmobil Presidents:"Can anyone imagine Clinton or Obama doing anything... alone? Government is, to them, a toy, an object of amusement, a super-sized television set." - American Thinker: How the East Was Lost
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The deeper suck of light rail:"Light rail will not be the death of America. But the attitude behind light rail â that we can and should spend billions on every feel-good project that comes along without evaluating its cost effectiveness -- may very well be the death of the democracy and freedom we cherish. - The Future of Democracy » The Antiplanner
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Don't Ask, Don't DrillBarack Obama says tire inflation would replace all the new oil to be found offshore. How does he know, when he sponsors a bill forbidding us from even finding out how much is there?
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How long can Uranium last for nuclear power ?5 billion years at double current world electricity usage. - from Next Big Future
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still in print from Amazon and available online in full text since 1995, is now available as a FREE download PDF with a twist. "In many ways, this version is better than the book. It is searchable, it has color illustrations, it has better navigation, it is free, and it has surprising contextual ads, which I find interesting."
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Tbilisi today, Paris tomorrow:"Once again, the Europeans, and their friends in the pusillanimous wing of the US Left, have demonstrated that, when it come to those postmodern Olympian sports of synchronized self-loathing, team hand-wringing and lightweight posturing, they know how to sweep gold, silver and bronze. - Georgia: Europe wins a gold medal for defeatism | Gerard Baker - Times Online
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August 14, 2008
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The Job:"It's a solitary thing, to write. I hole myself up in a place that's illegal to put a murderer in --too small. But you have to get away from the wrong kind of noise. Cicadas are OK. The wheezing of the refrigerator cycling on and off is not. A lawnmower four blocks away is delightful. Next door makes you dream of slitting throats." - Sippican Cottage: Holding It Back
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The Goods:Buy evidence of my husband's adultery on eBay
"They are so huge I thought they may make someone a nice shawl or, even better, something for Halloween perhaps." The eBay listing, entitled "Empty condom packet & a photo of 'The Tart's' knickers," also includes a detailed account of the events leading up to the discovery."
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August 13, 2008
Exxon by the second:"I saw someone characterize our profits the other day in terms of $1,400 in profit per second. Well, they also need to understand we paid $4,000 a second in taxes, and we spent $15,000 a second in cost," [ExxonMobil CEO and chairman Rex Tillerson] told ABC News' Charles Gibson. "We spend $1 billion a day just running our business. So this is a business where large numbers are just characteristic of it." -ABC News: Oil Exec: Energy Independence Unrealistic
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Great Expectations:"I've also directed Secretary of Defense Bob Gates to begin a humanitarian mission to the people of Georgia, headed by the United States military. This mission will be vigorous and ongoing. A U.S. C-17 aircraft with humanitarian supplies is on its way. And in the days ahead we will use U.S. aircraft, as well as naval forces, to deliver humanitarian and medical supplies.
We expect Russia to honor its commitment to let in all forms of humanitarian assistance. We expect Russia to ensure that all lines of communication and transport, including seaports, airports, roads, and airspace, remain open for the delivery of humanitarian assistance and for civilian transit. We expect Russia to meet its commitment to cease all military activities in Georgia. And we expect all Russian forces that entered Georgia in recent days to withdraw from that country. " - President Bush Discusses Situation in Georgia, Urges Russia to Cease Military Operations
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August 11, 2008
The Tipping Point. This time for real:"Russia will have its way, whatever its way actually is, and the US and the West will do exactly nothing. The US will not go to war to turn Russia back (nor would the US be able to do so even if it wanted), and Europe can't go to war without the US. Absent a credible threat of force, the protestations of diplomats mean precisely zilch because there are no sanctions that are remotely possible that Vladimir Putin et. al. will think more painful than the benefits of enforcing their will against Georgia. The balance of power just tipped, folks, and there is not one darn thing we can do about it." -Donald Sensing - Sense of Events: Russia's the hare, the UN's the tortoise
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August 10, 2008
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When will the Pentagon's discrimination against fabulousness stop? Bastards!
Our position is that crack troops should be allowed to wear what they like as long as they leave the President alone.
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Meanwhile, while you were worrying about your weight, your job, and if hope really leads to change, some boffin in Switzerland pushes a button and...Posted by Vanderleun at 10:37 AM | Your Say (0)
August 9, 2008
Quick cheat sheet on the Russia/Georgia War:Russia is being victimized by the nasty evil Western imperialists in the shape of Georgia becoming pro-Western, more or less democratic and, possibly, economically far more successful than Russia itself. Therefore, Russia has every right to assert her influence in the region and protect her interests. The West, on the other hand, has no right whatsoever to support its ally or to ensure that Russia does not control the entire flow of oil from the Caspian region. - EU Referendum: No news is not good news
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"A momentary misunderstanding as to the exact location of the U.S.-Mexican border:"Mexican soldiers enter state, hold border agent at gunpointFour Mexican army soldiers entered southern Arizona and pointed their rifles at a U.S. Border Patrol agent early this week, the Border Patrol said. The incident Sunday was the Mexican military's 43rd incursion across the U.S. border since October, the agency said. However, it was unusual because firearms were involved.
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SO NOW THAT WE KNOW THAT THE PRESS COVERED FOR EDWARDS -- just as, pre-invasion, they covered for Saddam -- that raises a question: What else are they not telling us for fear it will hurt the Democrats' prospects?
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Speeding saves time! New Study Proves the Extreme Benefits of Speeding | The Naked LoonLICK found that the average American travels twenty-nine miles each day in their car at an average speed of thirty-one miles per hour, spending a total of fifty-five minutes on the road. If not for speeding, the amount of time spent daily behind the wheel could likely be fifty-seven or even fifty-eight minutes.
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August 8, 2008
You remember Bush, right? The guy who goes to Asia and tells China to free her people, while the press jeers, the guy who, while in Asia also meets with Democracy Activists in Burma and gets ignored for it, the guy who drew enormous and supportive crowds in Korea, while the American press yawned?
Sure, you remember Bush! He’s the guy whose life was threatened along with Barack Obama’s but only the threat to Obama was newsworthy for a very long time at CNN. Bush? You mean the creepy moron who will be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity as soon as congress can figure out how to do that without exposing itself or having to put some of its own members under oath?
Yeah, that guy! The guy who does more than just talk about freedom and progress. The guy who has brought real hope and change to people all over the world, and yes, here in America. But you don’t want to hear it. It’s the wrong and inconvenient narrative, the embargoed one. -- Linking around @ The Anchoress
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We'd score it 99 and 44/100ths % bullshit:"Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough." -- John Edwards' statement Politico.comOne shoe dropped. One Imelda Marcos closetful yet to come...
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Woof from Above in the Marijuana Wars:Washington State: "Now agents are using extreme tactics to clean out the pot-squatters. Agents recently loaded up with ammo and camo to raid a major marijuana grow operation in Grant County wilderness. Assault teams, hoping to capture the growers, arrived dangling from helicopters. The plan was to be hanging so far down they could easily unclip and run in, using the element of surprise. It's become the preferred tactic. Agents arrive fresh, and with a perimeter of agents on the ground, the growers have nowhere to run. Hiding won't work either. Canine agents also fly in. The dogs are trained to be comfortable in harnesses." -- Agents use extreme tactics to evict pot-squatters KING5.comOkay, this is just getting to be far, far too silly.
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Headlines We'd Like to See -- "Large Hardron Seeks Big Bang:"Off with a Bang
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Technologismis ... a fantasy mindset about the power of technology to solve problems. A Gore follower, to be sincere, must put absolute faith in the ability to conjure a technological solution to any "problem," however stated and however constrained. Power the largest, most advanced, and most complex industrial economy in the world without the use of the world's most copiously available fuel? And without incurring an undesired side effect that's even worse than the ones from using petroleum? No problem! American engineers can do anything...given enough motivation, anyway. To be gentle about it, this is not the case." -Francis W. Porretto - Eternity Road
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First Time, then People, then Ladies' Home Journal and now... "the new Mad Magazine is here!" -Doug Ross @ Journal [HT: Fausta]
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Apple Pie in the face on the news stand. Smells like tween spirit:
Ladies' Home Journal's Sept. issue sports an interview with Michelle and Barack Obama with the picture of both sharing the cover of the magazine. Single copy buyers get an extra inset picture, with not so subliminal message, of an apple pie that readers can "rub and sniff" and the smell of the apple pie sends a wow through the senses of the customers. What can be more American than an apple pie? Well, you do not have to be a genius to add one plus one and the entire cover package is smelling like an apple pie. The subscribers of Ladies' Home Journal have to be satisfied with the smell of ink on paper (and as much as I love the smell of ink on paper, I can't write that the smell of ink on paper is as American as an apple pie!)
In my previous blog, I have asked the question about the coverage both Obama and McCain are receiving from the American magazines, well you can add this one to the Obama camp and you can keep on counting... My guesstimate is the score is at least 4 to 1 in favor of Obama. Have a different theory, please do not hesitate to comment.
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August 7, 2008
Carter throws hat in ring for Obama VP slot:"I've been preparing for this moment during my silence of the last six months," notes Carter. "There should be no Constitutional issue since I am no longer the man I once was.""
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"Obama is the comet that swings around our solar system every sixteen years without fail. Youngest out of everyone running, in fact, out of all who have been running; destined to win; talks about change a lot, with no details, or very few. Obama, Clinton, Carter, JFK." - House of Eratosthenes
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Iraq -- Pssst... we won... keep it on the down-low:"The next time I come across an Iraqi War veteran, I'll not only thank him or her for their sacrifice in defending my freedom, I'll also offer congratulations for winning a war." News & Observer - Raleigh, NC -- You heard it here first: We won the warWell, first if you mean reading it in an actual tree-based newspaper. Mas vale tarde que nunca.
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Is it just me or has the panic over gas costs gotten utterly out of hand?
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Call me old-fashioned but I question their patriotism!
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"With grim crocodile tears, grim the MSM grimly reported that the grim United states grimly passed the grim milestone of grimness in the grim war in grim [Afghanistan] as grim American grim casualties of grimiosity grimly reached the grim number of [500].
"When grimly asked why the grim MSM grimly gives grim front (grim) page grim-prominence to such an out-of-grim-context number while grimily ignoring non-grim grim-type other grim news about grim-positive grim developments since the grim surge grimly started working with grimness or, indeed, why the grim MSM never reports on grim grim milestones of any other grim conflicts or grim armed grim forces (especially those of the grim enemy), the grim MSM just looked grim." - Ephemeral Isle: Grim Reporting
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Shamelessly quoting out of context for the cheap joke:"I'm not home a lot, so Michelle is usually willing to give it up." - Barack Obama in Entertainment Weekly
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Barry, you got some 'splaing to do:Michelle Obama ... on their upcoming vacation: "We're going to Hawaii to visit Barack's grandma" -Playbook 24/7 - Politico.com
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"The Oil Has Hit the Fan:""When Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats spent a week holding the people's chamber under house arrest, they made plain a political vulnerability beyond drilling. To achieve greenhouse gas goals in the out-years, they are willing to risk a slowdown now in the American economy. How else can you interpret what happened this week? These Democrats aren't environmentalists. They're enviromaniacs." -Wonder Land - WSJ.com
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August 6, 2008
Academy award winning actor George Clooney is set to host a fundraiser for Barack Obama in Switzerland next month. - CNN
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Giving you the skinny on race:
"White people spend a significant portion of their time preparing for the moment when they will be offended. They read magazines, books, and watch documentaries all in hopes that one day they will encounter a person who will say something offensive. When this happens, they can leap into action with quotes, statistics, and historical examples. Once they have finished lecturing another white person about how it's wrong to use the term "black" instead of "African-American," they can sit back and relax in the knowledge that they have made a difference." - Being Offended - Stuff White People Like #101
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Defining racism down: 25 Reasons You... Might Be a RacistPosted by Vanderleun at 9:09 AM | Your Say (0)
August 5, 2008
Spirit Airlines current email campaign:We Believe in Offshore Drilling and Fares from $9* Each Way
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The death of 7,000 paper cuts: SF Chron to Lay Off 125 People"The Chronicle's announcement pushed the number of layoffs and buyouts this year above 7,000. (There are more, of course, because some papers have not said how many people have been laid off or have accepted buyouts.) Adding in the cuts at the Chronicle and the Modesto Bee, about 17 percent of all layoffs/buyouts this year have been in California."File under "Who says there's no good news?"
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Shibboleths of our time:"The shamans of contemporary linguistic taboos have adopted nigger, faggot, cunt, and the other forbidden words as passwords, emblems of group membership -- and membership, as American Express has been at pains to remind us, has its privileges. No one outside the shamans' circle is permitted to speak the password; it's an arrogation of a jealously guarded status. He who dares must be cut down, ground into the dust, and forbidden ever to speak at all, to any effect, in any context. For as in all systems of nymic magic, the word is deemed congruent with the thing: the taboo words are at the root of the shamans' power. Failure to enforce the taboo would risk the loss of the group's privileges and immunities, laboriously amassed over the decades of exploitation of others' guilt." -Francis W. Porretto - Eternity Road
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Need to fill up? Get in line at Missouri Gas Prices - Find Cheap Gas Prices in Missouri Sinclair at 1109 E Battlefield Rd & S National Ave(Randy's - In front of bowling alley) in Springfield, Missouri where gas is selling at $3.35 a gallon. (If you just can't wait, hit the "Kum & Go" at Battlefield Road just across from Taco Bell and pay $3.36.)Posted by Vanderleun at 10:08 AM | Your Say (1)
Catfight!: Lesbian bigamy battle unfoldsThe two women married in Canada, obtained identical tattoos and picked out adjoining burial plots with the expectation that they would be together till death and beyond. Then one of them fell for someone else, and without getting a divorce, entered into a Vermont civil union in Stowe with the new woman. Now the woman who says she was left behind -- Laureen Wells-Weiss -- is alleging that her estranged spouse committed bigamy.
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How the mighty have fallen:"On the official website of the United Church of Christ, where there's something called UCC FIRSTS: A Journey through Time -- a list of the historic achievements of the various Congregationalist and German Reformed churches that joined to form the denomination in 1957. The items run from John Winthrop's 1630 prayer that the Massachusetts Bay Colony "be as a city upon a hill" to the 1995 publication of "the only hymnal released by a Christian church that honors in equal measure both male and female images of God." - The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline by Joseph Bottum
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Price Of Gas Rises To Four Expletives Per GallonHOUSTON -- Gasoline prices rose to a record-high four expletives per gallon Monday, a rate of fuel-price-related cursing not seen since the 1979 energy crisis sparked a nationwide obscenity boom.
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August 4, 2008
Just which side is Pakistan on anyway?
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What is there about Obama that renders previously intelligent writers dumb as dirt?"My point is that any discussion of Obama's "skinniness" and its impact on the typical American voter can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race." - When "skinny" means "black." - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
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"Windfall profits" is just breaking wind:"If Senator Obama is as exercised about "outrageous" profits as he says he is, he might also have to turn on a few liberal darlings. Oh, say, Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett's outfit pulled in $11 billion last year, up 29% from 2006. Its profit margin -- if that's the relevant figure -- was 11.47%, which beats out the American oil majors. Or consider Google, which earned a mere $4.2 billion but at a whopping 25.3% margin. Google earns far more from each of its sales dollars than does Exxon, but why doesn't Mr. Obama consider its advertising-search windfall worthy of special taxation? - What Is a 'Windfall' Profit? - WSJ.com
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Orwellian California:"It's clear that in Marin and its environs, Republicanism has become thoughtcrime. This is serious stuff. This is -- if I may use a phrase that has become tainted with controversy -- Un-American. And the only way I can think of to combat it is for individuals to speak out and come out. They may find, as I did, that there's some unpleasantness but that the vast majority of friends and family stick by them, and the ones that don't aren't the finest of the lot. - neo-neocon - A plea to the closet Republicans of Marin: come out, come out, wherever you are
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"We can't drill our way out of this problem." As in:1. The bank account is about to be overdrawn. We can't deposit our way out of this problem.
2. Your bedroom is a mess. You can't tidy up your way out of this problem.
3. I'm hungry. I can't eat my way out of this problem.
4. We're out of food. We can't go grocery shopping our way out of this problem.
5. We are disgusting, fat tubs of goo. We can't exercise our way out of this problem. - Etcetera and so forth @ House of Eratosthenes
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One good thing:"When we are incapable of finding "one good thing" to say about Bush or Pelosi or even someone in our personal lives, we've surrendered reason to repellent hate; the hate owns us. At that point, we are no better than the person we abhor; we may be worse."- Eizabeth Scalia Let's Debate, Not Dehumanize
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August 3, 2008
Seculariasm - A Utopia of Dunces:"When such an overarching absolute standard is rejected -- as it has been by aggressive secularism, atheistic, reductionist, and materialistic to the core -- we can only enforce a form of unity through coercion and power. Inner moral dictates must be subjugated to coerced conformity. It is "acceptable" to hold "values" which are at odds with the secular societal standard -- as long as these "values" are never acted upon in speech or behavior. We may believe abortion to be morally abhorrent -- but must never act to restrain it; we may hold homosexuality to be morally wrong and believe gay marriage to be a threat to a core foundational institution of society -- but to verbalize thus is "hate speech", and "intolerance", and "ignorance." Our unity is the unity of the gag, a multicultural muzzle which celebrates the superficial, elevates the insignificant, tolerates the intolerable -- and punishes the moral. Our unity is the unity of relativism, a superficial solidarity where everything is acceptable but absolutes, where anything is tolerated but truth. Such unity strives for the lowest common denominator, maintaining its forced cohesion by the will to power, destroying in its enslaving solidarity the very soul of freedom and the heart of true human harmony." - The Utopia of Relativism | The Doctor Is In
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August 2, 2008
More to this than meets the eye. Much more. Zombietime took a little stroll through a San Francisco Street Fair and reports back with many pictures from Up Your Alley 2008. So, if you wish to see what passes for acceptable pubic display in San Francisco these days, click the link. Warning. Not work safe. Not child safe. Not safe at all. It is far beyond anything you can imagine. Pretty damning, actually, on all levels: Up Your Alley 2008
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"You might not think that dealing with the ongoing plague of disintegrating parachutists might not be the most important problem of our modern age, but it is one that will grow in size and intensity as the baby boom generation ages. This generational cohort, stuck as it is in a perpetual adolescence, will refuse to grow gracefully as previous generations did and will spend an inordinate amount of time doing things any normal person would think beyond the physical capacity of someone of that advanced age. But the baby boom, for whom life means never really having to grow up, will try to deny the biological effects of time passing and as a result of this denial the skies over this our Great Republic will soon fill with dentures, limbs, pacemakers, walkers, bifocals, AARP membership cards, and the occasional veteran of the Summer of Love raining down upon an unsuspecting populace like so much unwanted space debris. Things will definitely get uglier hereabouts before they get any better, folks." -The Passing Parade: Cheap Shots from a Drive By Mind
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The edge:"Obama should know that for all his own talents, it is rare to have someone with his meager law record selected as Harvard Review Editor, or hired at the University of Chicago Law School, or after a mere two years in the Senate, a presidential candidate. The point is not that his race explains his success, but in America alone it either was irrelevant to it, or, more likely, a great force multiplier. - Works and Days
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August 1, 2008
Making your state-sponsored prison rape just that much safer:Calif. Prison Giving Inmates Free Condoms A union representing prison guard supervisors is opposed to the distribution of condoms. The union said that condoms can be used as places to hide drugs or weapons. "They can put stuff in them and use them to throw at staff or other inmates," said Chris Gold of the Prison Supervisor's Union." Ah, isn't that sort of the idea?
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Room to grow!Jobless rate rises to 4-year high of 5.7 percentStill somewhat behind the 75 year unemployment high of 24.9 percent set in 1933. But where there's Obama there's hope.
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Poor Richard says:"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin 1735
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Change they believed in:"When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said "Praise the Lord." And when the young leader said, "I will be for change and I'll bring you change," everyone yelled, "Viva Fidel!" - Letters To The Editor - Letters to the Editor - inRich.com
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Nothing to see here. Move along: Last tenant 'found decapitated'A man who was found with his head severed by a chainsaw was fighting to stay in a block of 70 flats in Hampshire cleared for redevelopment. David Phyall, 50, was the last tenant at the Atlantic Housing Ltd housing association flats in Eastleigh. His body was found by police on 5 July, who said his death was not suspicious.
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Politics among the brothers: The Vote ReaperPosted by Vanderleun at 8:53 AM | Your Say (0)
Learn the 3 Varieties of Post-post-modern bullshit. There is always a test:"You have your sub-bullshit, your opti-bullshit and your supra-bullshit. We get snookered by this blend time and time again, because we have a tendency to say: I know the sub-bullshit is true; I do not agree with the supra-bullshit, but compared to that the opti-bullshit is believable. And so we believe the opti-bullshit, the bullshit calibrated to the optimum degree of self-reproduction. We will repeat the opti-bullshit to people we know. And if anyone dares challenge it, we will treat the challenge as a challenge to the sub-bullshit. Anytime the sub-bullshit is demonstrated to be true, which it will be, we will take that as further proof of the opti-bullshit, and become more convinced of the validity of the opti-bullshit ... which we haven't even tested, or observed anyone else testing." - House of Eratosthenes
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