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When
a Republican governor quits his job to be Obama’s ambassador to
China,
as John Huntsman did, and then magically appears among the top GOP presidential candidates,
as proclaimed by the media— puh-leeeeze.
Nice try Captains Obvious.
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I've been posting less than usual lately
as some may have noticed, and even rejoiced over. And my E-mail is just clogged. Because Poppy
(that's me, so I guess that makes MoSup "moppy?") is
taking care of the princess granddaughter #2. Her mommy and
daddy are celebrating their anniversary the old fashioned way, by
riding a train to New York City and spending lots and lots of money for
everything. We too are having great fun and adventure. Here
I'm teaching her how to eat fried potatoes on the couch; it's something
I invented. Sometimes she makes me sad, because even at two years she's
smarter than me; she can speak Spanish. Well, it's time for my mid-morning nap.
Hah. She heard me and is
saying "Have a nice nap Poppy" (Grammy dijo que si se queda dormido otra vez deberÃa llamar a la policÃa Poppy)
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Yes, we are all pissants
some more than others
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Obituary
of Common Sense
On BBC Radio Stoke's Mid-Morning show, presenter
Stuart George mourned the death of 'common sense'. So many people asked
for a copy of what he read out, we thought it only fair to re-produce
it here...
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 Today
we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common
Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how
old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic
red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the
rain; why the
early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair, and maybe it was my
fault.
Common sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend
more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults are in charge
not children)
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but
overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of an 8 year old boy
charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate ~ sob
... I can't go on - you'll have to finish it
here, or listen to
it below. Damn You Liberalism! He was so old.
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And
verily, it came to pass that on the 10th year after the terror, the people of Gotham turned to the greatest and wisest among
them for guidance.
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MAYOR
BLOOMBERG BANS CLERGY FROM NEW YORK 9-11 REMEMBRANCE - AGAIN!
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reason for banning clergy of course is he doesn't want the specter of
Islamic ministers pontificating over the disaster scene their own
wicked beliefs produced, and he'd feel obligated to include the filthy brigands if Christan and Jewish clerics were allowed. But, Bloomberg will again take
the opportunity to push for the 9/11 Mosque, lest the Mohatamen take
offense at his failure to submit, and lop his head off. Which might be a good thing.
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Do
you have any more stories Grampy? Perhaps with a bit of irony?
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Cathedral was the only building that suffered significant structural
damage as a result of the earthquake. |
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It is because of beyond
stupid fear mongering like this: Are Category 6 Hurricanes coming soon?
 Really?
Lest people think this is some sort of “new” fear, I’ll remind them of
this from 1969, well before CO2 was bogusly posited by Al Gore and
other alarmists to be a “hurricane amplifier”:
From Yahoo Answers:
Hurricane Camille in 1969 broke the equipment at
Keesler Air Force Base (home of the Hurricane Hunter aircraft) in
Biloxi, MS when her winds reached somewhere around 205 to 210 mph. So
we’ll really never know just how high her winds were. [Full]
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Speaking of Anthony Watts, here's his
understandable nutshell summary of Mann’s
Hockey Stick, Climategate, and FOI
I mention it only because I've noted a real spike in Global Warming
crap on the various Hitler and HBO channels. I attribute this to
Penn State (again) clearing Mann of scientific misbehavior by inventing
the "Hockey Stick." That seems to justify a continuation of the stale
Goreon-Wacko claims about farts and exhaling melting ice and
killing polar bears.
I will here offer my own 6 word abstract of Watt's abstract for youse
what want it all now.
Mann lied;
No polar bears died.
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Physicist: Woman's Boobs &
Underwire Bra Good As Seismograph at Detecting Quakes!
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Casca
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I really do like Christie, but not as
president. In fact, I think I'd be disappointed if he
flip-flopped on global warming and guns for rank political gain.
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President
Barack Obama has taken a decidedly low-key approach to racial issues
since he became America’s first black president two years ago. But in a
hallway outside the Oval Office, he has placed a head-turning painting
depicting one of the ugliest racial episodes in U.S. history.
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Rare White
House message on race? Obama is nothing without
racism. His political bones were made using race. His
early speech and writings were steeped in racial hatred.
He was elected because of race. He as been a
(aggressively) passive-aggressive racist since coming to the
White House, and this is just another example. Barry whatever his
real name is has set the country's race relations back 50
years, and I'm pretty damned sure it's intentional. There
are myriad reasons to despise this man; this is just one of them.
In 60 years people will be referring to what they watched on "the Obama
Channel," if you know what I mean. Sheesh.
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Have any of you bought a "Woot! Mystery
Box?"
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This wasn't me. It was a neighbor. When she said she was just 19 he sent it back because his wife told him the legal age was 35. It wasn't me though.
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Barn Army Book Club
Defending the Undefendable
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THE FAT CAPITALIST-PIG
EMPLOYER
If not for the minimum wage law and other progressive
legislation, the employers, the fat-capitalist-pig exploiting
employers, to be precise, would lower wages to whatever level they
wanted. At best, we would be pushed back to the days of the sweatshop;
at worst, to the days of the industrial revolution and before, when
mankind waged an often losing battle with starvation.
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So
goes the conventional wisdom on the merits of minimum wage legislation.
It will be shown, however, that this conventional wisdom is wrong,
tragically wrong. It assumes a villain where none exists. What does the
law actually accomplish and what are its consequences?
The minimum wage law is, on the face of it, not an employment law but
an unemployment law. It does not force an employer to hire an employee
at the minimum wage level ... . |
[Defending
the Undefendable, p. 223]
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Economist Walter Block's book "Defending the Undefendable"
is in many ways a validation of what many of us suspect is true,
but find ourselves running instead with the herd. Books
that challenge your beliefs are a good thing. It's my real and
true experience that Democrats I know never explore themselves, at
least outside of the bathroom.  For instance I know
for a fact that not one Liberal read Arthur
Herman's book about Joe McCarthy, but it did not stop them from paroxysmic attacks on Herman for deigning to
write it. So they continue to look and act silly.
John
Stossel introduced Block's book to me, and he cites David Boaz of
the Cato Institute and Nick Gillespie of Reason. in support of Block's
chapter on THE EMPLOYER OF CHILD LABOR (p. 243).
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"If we say
that the United States should abolish child labor in very poor
countries," Boaz said, "then what will happen to these children? ...
They're not suddenly going to go to the country day school. ... They
may be out selling their bodies on the street. That is not an
improvement over working in a t-shirt factory." |
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Since this is about the joy and
benefits of free markets, you'll be interested to know that you can
- buy Block's book
from Amazon
for $15, or
- read it for free -
HERE
You're welcome.
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You can’t buy a Big Mac in Kenya. There are no Burger Kings. But
there’s good news for chicken lovers: KFC just opened its first
restaurant in East Africa.
Consumer Research - Test Market
 
Men Only
ROLL OVER HELP WANTED
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If you want to know why $800 billion in government stimulus spending
has created 9 percent unemployment, all you have to do is look at the
windmill in Milwaukee.
The project involves a single wind turbine 154 feet tall (small by
today's standard) that is supposed to supply some electricity to the
Milwaukee Port Authority. The $500,000 project is being built with
$400,000 in federal stimulus money and another $100,000 from the
Wisconsin Focus on Energy Program. It's been several years in the
making but things finally seemed ready to go last month when the city
finally put the project out to bid. The winner, Kettle Renewable
Enterprises, had small subcontracts of $2,000 for
women-and-minority-owned firms in its $500,000 offer. However, city
alderman Robert Bauman decided this wasn't enough. He vetoed the
project, saying more woman-and-minority firms should have been
included. "If that means losing $500,000, then we'll lose $500,000,"
Bauman told the press. [full]
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Green
Lantern says it's not the women-and-minorities part—
it's that with government everybody has to have a say in what gets
done. That's true enough, but in his example it's clearly that
there are people in government who care more about diversity than
outcome. And those people are always, like Bauman,
Democrats. Always. Conclusion:
- The reason why only private enterprise creates
jobs is simple. Business decisions are made by one person. If the product or service has a market,
production expands. Enough bad
decisions and the business disappears.
- Governments should
probably only make about a dozen decisions (legislation) a year;
none of them concerning private enterprise.
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Petty Officer Jon T. Tumilson
and friend "Hawkeye"
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Hey
Rodg- Don’t know if you've seen this one but break out your
Kleenex.
What a powerful picture. With one click they captured the sadness
of
losing such a great man. These pictures were taken at the funeral of
Navy Seal Jon Tumilson. His canine Hawkeye would not leave the
casket.
jodi
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Petty Officer Jon T. Tumilson, 35, a native of Rockford, died
Saturday, August 6, 2011, while conducting special operations
combat in Afghanistan. He was born July 1, 1976, at Osage,
Iowa.
[Site]
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Having an Earthquake Here
Stuff i9n the hoiuswe craching - cairr rocking
2:11 Won't let planes take off from local airports. WTF? It's an "earth" quake asshats.
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DETROIT
— A national drive against citing “foreign” laws in U.S. courts - one
that critics say is a veiled attack on Islamic Shariah law - has
reached the state with the nation’s largest concentration of Muslims.
The Michigan bill, which mirrors “American Laws for American Courts”
legislation introduced in more than 20 other states, was introduced in
June by state Rep. Dave Agema, Grandville Republican. He has argued
that it has nothing to do with Islam or the faith’s Koran-based Shariah
law, but is designed to stop anyone who seeks to invoke a foreign law
in state courts. [Muslims
see ‘foreign law’ bill as attack on Shariah]
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Top
Left, Justices
Ahmadinejad, Putin, King Ubangi, Mugabe
Bottom Left - Justices Sarkozy,
Jong Il, Chief Justice Omar, Scalia, Barbara Mikulski's girlfriend
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recently a majority of the present justices, and maybe all, have
written and joined opinions that rely on foreign materials, including
opinions written by Justice O'Connor, Justice Kennedy, and Chief
Justice Rehnquist. And one journalist was quoted as saying, there is
now a new attentiveness by the Supreme Court to legal developments in
the rest of the world, but not so fast.
[...]
Strong voices, including most notably Justice Scalia's, have
protested to what some suggest an expanding trend in U.S.
constitutional law. It is important to recognize that it is not only
conservatives who have taken this position. A prominent liberal law
professor has recently written that any effort to import international
norms into American constitutional law is largely a waste of time. [Transcript of
Discussion Between U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and
Stephen Breyer -- AU Washington College of Law, Jan. 13 (1995)]
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I cannot believe that more than the 22% or so of
the population who want the US Constitution abolished, would agree that
our courts ought observe foreign court precedent. Anyone pushing
this idea ought to be, and I hope is, on someone's "bad" list for being
dealt with after this Obama
regime terror is over.
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As if we didn't already know this, now
we know:
A standard, even boring, piece of Chinese
military propaganda screened in mid-July included what must have been
an unintended but nevertheless damaging revelation: shots from a
computer screen showing a Chinese military university is engaged in
cyberwarfare against entities in the United States...
The screenshots appear as B-roll footage in the
documentary for six seconds—between 11:04 and 11:10 minutes—showing
custom-built Chinese software apparently launching a cyber-attack
against the main website of the Falun Gong spiritual practice, by using
a compromised IP address belonging to a United States university. As of
Aug. 22 at 1:30pm EDT, in addition to Youtube, the whole documentary is
available on the CCTV website.
The screenshots show the name of the software and
the Chinese university that built it, the Electrical Engineering
University of China's People's Liberation Army—direct evidence that the
PLA is involved in coding cyber-attack software directed against a
Chinese dissident group.
More links at JAWA |
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Prompting the question "WWRD?"
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Gallup poll? Oh. Nevermind
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TheDC's Alexis Levinson reports:
"President Barack Obama would
tie with Rick Perry, lose to Mitt McCain and face a tough race against
Ron Paul or Michele Bachmann in a head-to-head race, according to a
nationwide Gallup poll released Monday.
Romney is the strongest candidate against the sitting president,
leading Obama 48 to 46 percent among registered voters. Perry, who has
been in the race for just over a week, ties with Obama, both receiving
47 percent of the vote. Obama narrowly beats out Ron Paul, 47 to 45
percent, and holds only a slightly larger lead against Michele
Bachmann” 48 to 44 percent." Maybe Obama shouldn't have worked so hard
to knock Trump out of the race. He was doing fine against that dude.
[Jim
Thatcher]
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Voting For Obama Means Having To Say
"I'm Sorry"
Somehow
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This
was at a local Walgreens. Note the partial bumpersticker...
Looks like Hope/Change is ending...
--Chris
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