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Friday, June 17. 2011

Friday morning links

Mrs. BD reminds you, if near Boston, to visit the spectacular WAFA Flower Show this week. Over 600 flower creations from people all over the world, with probably 30,000 visitors also from all over the world. First time this has been held in the US.


Readers remind us of the website of the American Chesterton Society


Readers remind us of the film Into Great Silence


AVI reminds us of his 2006 post, The Big Bad Three, re the Salem Witch Trials, the Inquisition, and the Crusades


A friend likes Female police officers around the world


Gordon Wickstrom writes about writing


One Cosmos on what philosophy needs to be about


A video visit to a sawmill


The Social Psychological Narrative — or — What Is Social Psychology, Anyway?


Should we treat aging as if it were a disease?


Sayet: Why I’m a Global Warming Skeptic


RE: Bring Back the Lash


I'd rather see Bernie Madoff in the town stocks than living in jail on my nickel.


Teaching the Dismal Science


Why 70% Tax Rates Won't Work - Memo to Robert Reich: The income tax brought in less revenue when the highest rate was 70% to 91% than it did when the highest rate was 28%.


Return Of The Dreaded Misery Index


Mead: Is Carter A Best Case Scenario?


Hoover was a Lefty. FDR was a noblesse-oblige Commie. Both had the wrong diagnosis.


Condell on the religion of cultural terrorism:


 


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Just to remind Mrs BD, Boston might be insanely crowded tomorrow.
#1 Ralph Kramden on 2011-06-17 09:42 (Reply)
re 'I'd rather see Bernie Madoff in the town stocks than living in jail on my nickel"

Agreed. One of his investors would have slit his throat the first night. It would have made a grisly example for those that want to steal people's life savings.

re "Hoover was a Lefty.'

How do you justify that comment? Hoover would not allow the government to make wealth transfer payments to the needy because he feared they would become permanent dependents of Government. That is hardly the actions of a lefty.
#2 feeblemind on 2011-06-17 11:42 (Reply)
Well, well, well. PBS (Frontline program) has finally produced a documentary that reveals the Clintons in their true roles. Please go to your computer (woops, you are already on it!) Anyway, go here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/

Press on the "watch full episode". You will be stunned!
#3 another one on 2011-06-17 12:12 (Reply)
The truth about a Democrat comes out on PBS only after that Democrat is no longer useful to the party.
#3.1 John on 2011-06-18 00:36 (Reply)
Not one comment regarding the Pat Condell video describing his take on the Islamic religion?? I say this... I thought it was a brilliant and keenly focussed, honest rant upon the inescapable crimes these thugs are forever delivering to the world at large. What did you all think?
#4 Tom Hyland on 2011-06-18 01:10 (Reply)
I got a kick out of it
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2011-06-18 06:34 (Reply)

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