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Monday, July 27. 2009

Monday morning links

Good summary of the legislative stumbles re health care, at Hennessey


World's fastest home internet connection (fixed) 


Brit gummint keeps their climate data secret. Why? Related: Some reality about Greenland's ice


Obama care is worse than you think. Wkly Standard


Ben Stein: We've figured him out


What's up with New Jersey? NYT 


Shoot the messenger. WH attacks the CBO. I thought the CBO was sacred.


I know adults who could probably use this book too, which Insty mentioned: You Don't Have to Learn the Hard Way: Making It in the Real World: A Guide for Graduates


Is it a crime to have a fat kid? I don't think so. How do you control what a 14 year-old eats? The world has always had fat people. Some people like to be fat, like Pres. Grover Cleveland who admitted to only a prosperous 307 lbs but was probably well over that.


Why the Ricci case complicates - but doesn't kill - affirmative action. Related: Prof. Gates says he's 57% white. Lucianne comments "Guess there's no money in White Studies."

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 05:47 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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"World's fastest Internet connection" links to a NRO Corner article on global warming. Was this intentional?
#1 Gringo on 2009-07-27 09:10 (Reply)
woops. will fix
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2009-07-27 09:14 (Reply)
"World's fastest Internet connection". Thanks for fixing it.

It's insane, 40GBs. But I lust for it.
#2 Luther on 2009-07-27 11:24 (Reply)
Gates has reaffirmed that only 100% whites can cut the mustard.

57% percent a man doesn't.
#3 Leag on 2009-07-27 12:01 (Reply)
Actually, I know Peter and his mom currently has to suffer with only a gigabit of bandwidth to her home - the (very expensive, to the tune of over $250k) equipment needed to terminate a 40 Gbit/sec connection is loud and power hungry - not a good roommate.

This is apparently a re-post of the original story from a couple of years ago. When Peter first did his publicity stunt, his mother did not have a computer, and I took great glee in insinuating (in his presence) that Peter clearly didn't love his mother because he forced her to use Vista.
#4 RS on 2009-07-28 23:29 (Reply)

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