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Friday, December 24. 2010Christmas Eve morning linksI know everybody is doing their Christmas shopping today, but I have some links anyway if you have time. I am heading up to MA to see the family, with my sack of goodies for them.
Cal Thomas: What if the Christmas story is true? Kimball: ’Tis the Season to Be Politically Correct.
Gerald goes to WalMart Wind power? It's a scam. The rent-seekers are all over it. How Democrats gave up on religious voters It’s official: Polar bear not an endangered species He knows what is best for you. All about Cass Sunstein: A Czar is Born 45 people lynched amid Haiti cholera fears. Haiti's real problem is cultural. Iran Just Shipped Missiles to Venezuela. Hello? Is This Thing On? Buying up the entire Western world at discount prices: Fresh humiliation for eurozone as China says it will bail out debt-ridden nations Malpractice costs and defensive medicine costs, in NY Pajamas: American Leftists Refuse to See the Handwriting on the Wall in Europe -Our domestic lefties have been pushing for decades to turn us into the type of society that is now crumbling before our eyes in Europe. Not All Global Warming Skeptics Are Crackpots?!? Slate: Whose Internet Is It, Anyway? Let's drive 'em all out of business: UAW’s King Announces 2011 Goals: Target Foreign-Owned Auto Plants. No, they'll just move their factories to Mexico. After predicting a mild winter, the British weather service is profoundly embarrassed by the current deep freeze Uncle Sam Will Help Buy You an Alpaca - How the government produces negative unintended consequences Q&O: Is access to the internet a “civil right”? Driscoll: Global Warming Died; Women, Children, AlGore Hardest Hit Other McCain: Class Warfare vs. Economic Facts Neptunus on ROTC:
Obama Administration Admits Polar Bears Are Not ‘Endangered’ But Sets Aside 187,000 Miles For Them Anyway. Very scientific. Pilot exposes TSA baloney, gets in trouble:
We misunderestimated him: Bush's memoir sells 2m copies in a month - nearly as many as Bill Clinton's sold in six years The Krautman says something people don't want to hear: Obama's new start
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A Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all the best in 2011 to the crew at MF. You provide a generous forum for discussing whatever and some very thought-provoking experiences in so many fields. Our day is much enriched by you and your commentators. Life-long learning at it's best. Cheers to all!
I've noticed a continuing trend with the "progressives": the crowing and cheering for Venezuela becomes exponentially more muted each time their dear Bolivaran comrade Hugo comes up with something new and nuttier.
Some "progressive" sites have adopted the Stalinesque methodology of simply omitting any mention of him at all. So much more convenient to ignore the topic completely, eh? It sure beats the back-breaking flip-flops any Chávez apologist must perform daily now. From your avid fan up here in the Dominion of Canada, I wish you all:
Bon réveillon et joyeux Noël à tous ! Re: the Haiti lynching article:
"Haiti's real problem is cultural." Well, that -- and a distinct lack of foresight. When I read this yesterday I was left with one burning question: "We have counted 40 people dead in Grand'Anse department alone, where people are attacking natural healers they accuse of cholera-linked witchcraft," said communications ministry official Moise Fritz Evens. "The victims - most of them voodoo priests - were stoned or hacked with machetes before being burned in the street," added the official. Okay, so they're killing all the voodoo priests who cursed the island with their black magic. But if they kill all the voodoo priests, who's going to LIFT the curse?! Like I said, a distinctive lack of foresight on the islanders' part. Re: the article on wind power, here's your schadenfreudelicious article of the day: Environmental groups sue to block wind farm Because, as everyone knows, there simply aren't enough rodents in the world. Re: the article on wind power, here's your schadenfreudelicious article of the day:Environmental groups sue to block wind farm. Because, as everyone knows, there simply aren't enough rodents in the world.
Dr. M, the article talks about BATS, not rats. To the best of my taxonomical knowledge, the only flying rodents are to be found in cartoons. Ya know, Mighty Mouse and all that. Rats and mice: Order Rodenta. Bats: Order Chiroptera. Maybe there is a Monty Python hybrid, Battus Rattus. Or was that Rattus Battus.[Genus /species] Here is the definitive scientific study on wind turbine damages to birds and bats- and Mighty Mouse:Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects. [page 72] May the krewe at Maggie's and all the posters and lurkers have the merriest of all Christmases and the Happiest of all New Years!
You too, mudbug! And to all the rest of maggiesfarmers and commenters, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Hang in there, my dears... next year has got to be better than this one. The grown-ups have marshaled their forces and good changes are on the way.
i used to sing The Holly and the Ivy on Christmas Eve. Bird Dog ... do you have access to a good recording of that? It's lovely... Marianne Marianne, courtesy of Assistant Village Idiot, Steeleye Span does the honors. AVI has been know to comment here.
I am a recent retiree from the aviation industry, a mechanic, and can vouch for the pilots comments on the TSA theatre at all the airports. Virtually every mechanic has tools in his toolbox that would give TSA a heart attack. I have shears in my toolbox for cutting composite fabric that have about 8 inch blades and enough sharp knives to arm a dozen people. Not only that but we used to make Bowie knives for retiree gifts from material in the structures shop. Not much in the way of "weopons" that can not be made in the machine shop and structure shops. Every time they start talking security we would just smile.
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