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Wednesday, December 23. 2009

Weds. morning links

Toon via Theo -



Like we said yesterday, the Dem bill is just the launching pad. Yes, that's the whole point.


Trial Lawyers Win Added Clout From Democrats In Health Bill. Wonderful!


How China sabotaged the climate talks


Va. Republicans aim to take 4 Democrats' congressional seats


The happiest states in the USA


ObamaCare designed to be un-repealable


Similar message from Betsy


Nelson Says More Senators Seeking Special Treatment in Light of Nebraska Deal


It's getting hot out there. Better DRIVE TO THE HIGHER LATITUDES


Not your grandfather's England:



A millionaire businessman has been jailed for two and a half years for taking on a knife-wielding burglar who held him and his family hostage in their home. Munir Hussain, 52, was told he was wrong to take the law into his hands and attack Walid Salem, 56, after the masked intruder threatened to kill him.


That's why we refer to Europe as EuroDisney. Not a serious place. It was, for a short while in history. Now it's just a cool vacation destination.


Even the Huffpo is disenchanted with the O (h/t, Winds):Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator


Related: Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man?


Fun with Hugo! First - Was it Santa? Second: Hugo renames Angel Falls

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:07 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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As an Englishman who lives 4-5 months a year in america I can say that both countries suffer from many of the same problems...I would write off neither place as I have faith in both nations resiliance.
#1 Thud (Link) on 2009-12-23 07:25 (Reply)
Probably true - to some extent. We have a milder case of the disease.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2009-12-23 07:28 (Reply)
Nice tooN -- except the wrong entity is in the water. It's Reid that's about to be flushed, and the floating entity that will continue stinkin' up da country --
#2 buddy larsen on 2009-12-23 09:22 (Reply)
1. If China fouled up the Copenhagen conference, their team served our nation better than our team did.
2. Montana is a happy state? I live here and I like it very well. But the dadgum liberals that have fouled up their own dadgum states are showing up, especially in Missoula and Bozeman, and they're electing people like Jon Tester and Brian Schweitzer to do to Montana what already happened to the Left Coast and Taxachussetts.
#3 Geoff Brown on 2009-12-23 09:43 (Reply)
Amen about China.

IMO the UN is wrong bunch to oversee the world about fixing any problem. It just isn't a good mechanism.

And Copenhagen was more about giving authority to the UN than about climate.

Besides the power grab there was the insanity of handing billions to poor countries, mostly in Africa.

Experience has proved that money will disappear into a few pockets and nothing will improve.

Gee, I wonder if the Chinese say that about buying our treasury bonds?
#3.1 K on 2009-12-23 11:56 (Reply)
You know, it is a standard axiom that liberals and progressives lie all the time, lie every second of every day. If that's true, why do so many believe them now when they say they are upset about Obama's policies and actions?
#4 vanderleun (Link) on 2009-12-23 10:27 (Reply)
That's why all the 'transparency' --oops! --had to scuttle behind locked doors --Dems who need for re-election purposes to scrub a little of the redicalism out of their rhetoric, need to get together and work out precinct-by-precinct who's principaled rhetorical positions need to be adjusted to who what when where why and how much.

This exercise of course requires all the privacy the body can lay its hands on.

After all, to willingly absorb the damage of having so cleanly broken such a bright-edged promise as legislation transparency ("...on C-Span!"), there has to have been a powerful reason. Maybe.

Or maybe it ain't that deep, but just convenient, because the only people who count happen to be not all that curious.
#4.1 buddy larsen on 2009-12-23 12:59 (Reply)

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