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Saturday, June 4. 2011

Saturday links

Focus on the Family: Foundations of a Lifelong Marriage


Detroit: It Was Necessary to Destroy the Town in Order to Revive it


McArdle: Why Hasn't Anyone Signed Up For the High-Risk Health Insurance Pools?


Cupcakes? British Intelligence Still Has a Sense of Humor


Dino: The continuing structural instabilities in the banking system


UK update: Proposals include ban on sale of 'adult' pre-teen clothes, and requiring 'lads mags' to sell in brown covers


Old Blighty continues to beclown itself.


Beavers ripped my flesh


"The world is getting warmer": Romney


Says who? The guy who invented Obamacare?


Obama pal Fareed Zakaria Castigates Constitution, Founding Fathers:



Liberals just love hearing America denounced as "parochial." It makes them feel worldly and superior. This phony posture in part explains the tasteless joke we now have in the White House.



Goldberg is amusing: Is Weiner Being Frank?


Powerline: In Defense of John Edwards


Politics sure does attract slimeballs


PJ: How Not to Choose a Presidential Candidate


My Dad-in-law and I were mentioning last night that, at this point in the last cycle, nobody had ever heard of Obama


Sipp:



Every tree has end tables in it. You just have to let them out.



Blame Breitbart for Weiner


Punishing Sleep-Rape?


The devil made me do it

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Well Candidate RINO Romney, you never had my vote and you just took a huge step further away from it. Thanks though, for being somewhat transparent for what you really are.
#1 william on 2011-06-04 11:41 (Reply)
Armed rabbits in Italy, killer beavers in Philly: what is this world coming to?
#2 Gringo on 2011-06-04 11:57 (Reply)
I blame it all on either global cooling, or George Bush.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2011-06-04 12:23 (Reply)
Focus on the Family doesn't consider dogs.

The disadvantage is that dogs don't live as long as people, so you'll go through a number of them.

But you can pick up more or less where you left off until one day you die first.

Very few dogs are actresses.
#3 rhhardin (Link) on 2011-06-04 15:08 (Reply)
"My Dad-in-law and I were mentioning last night that, at this point in the last cycle, nobody had ever heard of Obama"

I must be nobody, then, along with most reporters, anyone who had heard of his speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, GOPers who keep an eye on the opposition, etc.
#4 Nobody on 2011-06-04 21:02 (Reply)
Now why would anyone subject themself to such drivel as the Democratic convention, unless they were--gasp--one of them?!
#4.1 Big___Al on 2011-06-04 21:25 (Reply)
Mcardle writes: " I don't understand how the estimates could have been so far off."

Surely she jests and that whole column was sarcasm. The estimates were wrong because the assumptions were wrong ( but good politics), the bureaucrats--academics, lawyers, and social workers--who collected the data are corrupt, and the politicians who passed the laws had pork, not efficiency in mind.
#5 ErisGuy on 2011-06-05 07:14 (Reply)
That does it for me. I voted for Romney last go round, won't be getting my vote again.
#6 phil g on 2011-06-06 13:33 (Reply)

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