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Wednesday, October 21. 2009

Weds morning links

Outlawing manhood. Human Events


Hurricanes? Global warming. No hurricanes? Global warming.


DOJ: Blacks will only vote for party labels. Unbelievably insulting.


The No Insurance Club. One annual fee to your doc. Basically, the doc takes the risk of his time.


Is it paranoid to imagine that Obamacare is about the government owning your body?


Have fun. It's 1502 pages of bureaucratese.


The Pope welcomes Anglicans back home


Protesting Geert Wilders at Temple:



"The decision to allow Mr. Wilders to share his viewpoints is a danger not only for the public safety of Muslims and the honor of the core principle of Islam, but also for academic integrity and objectivity on campus."



Related: Minuteman's Jim Gilchrist banned from speaking at Harvard. Modern academia is afraid of ideas.


Related: Amherst wants Gitmo detainees.  I guess it's some weird version of Radical Chic.


Polarizing America the Alinsky way.  Related: ACORN vote fraud in NYS

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:46 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Jim Gilchrist was cancelled at the last minute. The geniuses down there had to replace him with a Financial advisor who was going to talk about basic investing 101, or how not to lose 500 million dollars in the derivative market.

That's Americas best and brightest for you.
#1 jappy on 2009-10-21 08:46 (Reply)
It was just a few errant radicals threatening mayhem on the campus if Gilchrist was allowed to speak about free speech. No professors were involved, though a sociology professor who prefers to remain anonymous did tell our reporter, "It's those damn Pell Grant lowlifes feelin' their oats that's causing this ruckus. They're turning this campus into a hip-hop haven and an animal husbandry debacle. Animals!"
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#2 Meta on 2009-10-21 11:08 (Reply)
I have a bit of insight where Harvard is concerned; Dad was a Prof in the Physics Dept.for nearly 40 years. 50's through the '90's.

The hard sciences are by definition somewhat beyond the scope of the libs....a computation is either right or wrong. If it is wrong, no amount of BS, however liberally applied, will make it right.

Dad joked in his retirement speech that the most "The 60's" ever intruded into the Physics Dept. was when a Grad Student dedicated his Thesis to "the struggle of the Proletariat the world over"
#3 NorthCountry on 2009-10-21 14:14 (Reply)
I was fortunate enough to go to a liberal arts college at a time when the only political correctness dispute was whether the Latin diplomas should still be written in the male gender. (I actually don't know how that was resolved; I would guess they probably ended up neutering all the graduates--umm, in the wording of their diplomas I mean.)
#4 Jim on 2009-10-21 14:53 (Reply)
Linking the No-Insurance Club with Dem-care. I retired from the military in 1996 with medical benefits. I haven't had 16 doctor visits, all counted up, since then. I don't know that I'd get to 16 if you included the dentist, who's had a go at me now and then. So I'd be a money maker on the No-Insurance Club (resembles an HMO, actually) coupled with catastrophic insurance.
If Dem-care got its way, I'd have been herded around by now for cholesterol screening, colonoscopy, EKGs and who knows what -- at large cost and no likely benefit. I have made a rational judgment about my health needs. I'll go for healthcare when I think there's a reason. I am opposed to mandatory screening, "incentive" fitness programs and all that brand of nanny-fascism.
I do take care of myself -- 5ft9, about 168 lbs, non-smoker, moderate exercise and diet. Ladies, if that sounds good -- sorry, my sweetheart has the exclusive.
#5 Geoff Brown on 2009-10-21 16:37 (Reply)

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