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Friday, March 5. 2010

Friday morning links

Want more kids to graduate from college? It can be easily done: just lower the standards even further.


Speaking of college, look at these ungrateful crybabies


Muslim group moves to ban burka


How loopy is Liu? He is a real live moonbat.


Legal aspects of the digitus impudicus


The NYT finally deigned to do an obit for Arnold Beichman. Final paragraph:



Socialism is dictatorship, he told Columbia College Today, the alumni magazine, in 2005. “The control of wealth is the control over human life,” he said. “So if a centrally planned economy decides how wealth is to be created and how it is to be distributed, then they really have a control over human life.”



Like we said:



In a private meeting with House progressives, President Obama said that this bill is just a foundation for future reform, and could pave the way for a later push for the public option and even single-payer systems at the state-level.



Hurricane Katrina Victims to Sue Oil Companies. That defense team is going to have fun.


From OMG! Global warming!!!



 

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:12 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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From OMG! Global warming!!!

"Climate change is HAPPENING believe it or not...ice berg breaks off...Haiti...now chile can't we have like a no driving or no motor day?"

This is what we're dealing with folks - undereducated, emotional and intellectually crippled morons. Yes, I meant that to be harsh - intellectually crippled morons who have zero grasp of science and reality.

Maybe my age has something to do with it, but it seems to me that we've lost the concept critical thinking in our basic education.
#1 Tom Francis on 2010-03-05 07:44 (Reply)
re Arnold Beichman's quote --a life is made out of limited time --so stolen time is stolen life, and stolen life is murder.
#2 buddy larsen on 2010-03-05 08:14 (Reply)
"Who's Schools?"
--socialistworker.org placard

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/95047/

lordy lordy lordy. no ignorance like compleat ignorance. but yet they are allowed to vote. say goodnight, Gracie.
#3 buddy larsen on 2010-03-05 10:56 (Reply)
Interesting article on the Burkha ban.

People seem to think it's a Muslim v. Everybody struggle we're in, but it's a Crazy Muslim v. the Rest of Islam + Everybody fight. Things might go easier if our grand strategists - both of the put-em-to-the-sword variety, and the surrender-now sorts - would figure that out.
#4 jim on 2010-03-05 14:04 (Reply)

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