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Monday, February 1. 2010

Monday morning links

NH teacher, 100, gets degree a day before dying


The O admits he lied about "If you like it, you can keep it."


Roger Simon: Climategate: Al Gore and the politicization of science


Spiro Agnew: Prophet


Homosexuality in Afghanistan


Ugh. Awful RINO Lindsey Graham Pushes Climate Policy Because “Congress Needs a Win”


Like the slave trade: Americans arrested taking children out of Haiti


UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article


Union greed has dismembered Michigan


The O: Let's work together, you f-ing bastards


Payoff: Sugar Tariffs Cost Americans $2.5 Billion in 2009. I thought we had free trade.


Via SDA:



Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!


Carol Platt Liebau (Harvard Law Review), February 2009 - "[Tom Pirelli] did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he'd leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done."


Byron York (National Examiner), January 2010 - Many observers have remarked that, even when dealing with the most momentous issues facing the country, Obama has seemed oddly removed from the hands-on work of making policy.


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Homosexuality is an expression of an uncontrolled desire for dominance--that is what anal sex is about.
#1 another one on 2010-02-01 08:20 (Reply)
Homosexuality is a different expression of sexuality but I don't believe it has anything to do with an uncontrolled desire for dominance. Once I understood what the word meant and I had some experience of people, I lost any idea that homosexuality is filthy or cruel.
I'm thinking that the Taliban suppressed homosexuality because of their devotion to Sharia and that they cared very little about who kidnapped whom. I'm opposed to any form of sexual predation. I don't think the Taliban care about sexual predation, as long as it's a young girl being preyed on.
#2 Geoff Brown on 2010-02-01 09:41 (Reply)
With regards to the 100-year-old woman who got her degree the day before she died:

I wonder how long it'll take the alumni office to stop sending her fund-raising letters?
#3 RonF on 2010-02-01 10:42 (Reply)
ROTFL!!!
#3.1 Tom Francis on 2010-02-01 11:44 (Reply)
My goodness, another one. Thanks for explaining that ...

Marianne
#4 Marianne Matthews on 2010-02-01 12:30 (Reply)
I still marvel at homosexuality migrating from "deviant behavior" to "acceptable lifestyle". I'm just waiting for all those Uncle dad's in Appalachia to band together and move incest to the acceptable category, or for NAMBLA to become acceptable mainstream.......... Hey, all the over 21's could pass the "old enough to bleed, old enough to breed" law! What could be more natural than that?

Going this way we are truly screwed as a nation, no longer able to differentiate between the wierd/fantasy and losing the ability to isolate deviant from the mainstream. I already fear we have degenerated into hedonistic "me first" and screw you!
#5 JoeC on 2010-02-01 14:01 (Reply)
having lived in cities and worked in industries that have been dominated by the homosexual community for a long time--I witnessed many times that being homosexual was a job requirement. The money and power of Hollywood has paved the way for the current thrust (pun) to bring homosexuality into a status of "normal". The fact is there is no gene for walking bare assed down the street dragging some guy along with chains hooked to his nipples! Nope that ain't genetic!
#6 another one on 2010-02-01 15:55 (Reply)

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