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Thursday, December 9. 2010Thursday morning linksHeads up! Meteor showers and Lunar eclipse this month And later in the month, heads up for Santa and reindeer. Concerning Wikileaks, Governor Mike Huckabee said: "If we want to keep our nation's secrets 'SECRET,' store them where President Obama stores his college transcripts and birth certificate." The American: Demography vs. Geography: Understanding the Political Future Hot New Fashion Trend: The Femiman Trolls, Spoiled Boys and Tired Women Chart below via Shrinkwrapped's Misunderstanding the Tea Party Movement: Waivers Double to 222 as More Unions ‘Opt Out’ of ObamaCare Honey, I got trapped in the pub by the snowstorm Yes, the Gore Effect is on track this year. Record chill for Cancun. Also at Watts: Cancun COP16 attendees fall for the old “dihydrogen monoxide” petition as well as signing up to cripple the U.S. Economy Harsanyi on the O:
There - he said it again. The long game, the long march. Pure Gramsci/Alinsky. Obama Opens The Door To Raid Social Security Noemie Emery: Obama, Palin met fame before they could grow Pajamas: Net Neutrality: Treating the Internet Like a Utility Sorkin has never gone a-hunting. I can tell. Michele Bachmann: New Congress Should Defund Planned Parenthood Same issue as PBS - government should not be picking our charities for us. Also, "If you want to give to a charity... UNICEF is a poor choice" Surber: The problem is regulation, not just taxes Book Review: “The Perils of Diversity”. Quote:
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Back in the day when I still had my VHF/UHF satellite station (amateur radio), I had a ton of fun using meteor scatter - it was a blast. The Perseid shower gives you a little better signal path, but the sheer quantity of the Geminid shower allows for a lot of contacts in a short period of time. Best ever in terms of distance - 1240 miles transmitter-to-transmitter.
Used to do low power moon bounce too, but that became boring - not many hams were into moon bounce. Re trolls:
I had skipped over that link this a.m. but then someone emailed the link to me, so I had to read it. I don't think the defects cited in the rant were sex specific. For every dead beat husband out there I bet I can show you at least one wife who stays at home and spends every damn dime her husband makes. As for who hurls the most personal insults in the comments section, I find it curious that the author can discern the sex of the commenter. Can the author also determine the religion and ethnicity from the comments as well? Arghh!! The insulting commenter on AVI's site presents himself as a male. Of course, "on the internet, nobody knows if you're a dog"...It might be a female who hates women...My post was just a rant in response to the fellow's vitriol about women. I take people at face value, don't have time to second guess them.
Cassandra of Villainous Company had some good comments on the post in which she agreed about types of hostile commenters she has also encountered blogging. And had some interesting observations of her own that are well worth reading. You're right, of course, that plenty of women waste their husbands' money. I do write about my own, and other women's failings (tho I don't spend a penny of my spouse's money, as I earn my own), and am not usually in the habit of male bashing. My gripe was with a particularly churlish troll who insulted friends of mine. And most of the female bloggers I know (none of them timid creatures) are less tolerant of the kinds of gratuitous insults and abuse and sabotaging remarks of trolls. We females want people on our blogs to be civil to each other, even when vociferously disagreeing. Because the worst part of being around a dog with fleas is that some of the fleas jump onto you as well: you find yourself starting to itch and snap too, like them. One becomes as rude as the troll, if one stays around them too long... As an experiment, ask your wife or sister or daughter to read the full thread in the link on AVI's site, and give you their impressions of the character and manners of "Anonymous". Perhaps I am too prudish. Perhaps I am spoiled because my husband and son are chivalrous and would never say such things to any female... On Palin's hunting. I thought the shot she was taking, with the caribou standing on the ridge, was somewhat reckless. I know that even if the animal was lower there is always the chance of a ricochet, however, she was throwing rounds over that ridge with no idea of what was over the hill.
Seemed fine to me. Not like there was an elementary school playground over the ridge.
By the bye Huck, el presidente doesn't have a birth certificate which makes it quite easy to hide.
Noemie, me thinks yall are correct these two, are over blown and over done and that they are headed for history's dustbin works well for the rest of us.
government should not be picking our charities for us.
I got into a discussion on this on a leftist blog. I was told in all seriousness that because individuals may not be aware of deserving charities, it is most efficient and desirable if a strong central government does the research and decides who are the most deserving charities out there. Actually, there's an app for that. It's called "United Way". Private sector donations to private sector charities; targeted if you choose or let it go to a general fund for distribution to charities you may not have heard of.
thanks for the meteor and moon links, looking forward to watching them
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