Maggie's Farm

The really good news - I've scavenged a lot of free firewood from the so-called storm. (It was a ton of rain and a stiff gusty breeze.)

I am with Vanderleun on this (listen to the music):

Me? I'm a believer because... well because I've really got Nothing Better to do. That's because measuring myself against even the smallest, most finite, and bounded idea of God I can conceive I'm about gnat size in relation to that. I wish others saw it that way, but among the smart monkeys most of us think of ourselves as some sort of gigantic intellect -- at least in comparison to, say, a clam. Those who are long on stupidity are always short on humility.

This is how to sell real estate

Incredible stuff: On its way to being the most perfected yet bankrupt and unlivable state in the nation.

A law that says you have to hire two babysitters?

Good news: Obama halts controversial EPA regulation

US economy created no job growth in August, data show

After calling for his kids and hearing no response, Jeremy grabbed his daughter’s rifle.

As many as one in 25 company bosses could be a psychopath, according to a new study.

Surber speaks:

America is more than just her president or her federal government. Liberals do not see that. They see government in every facet of life and thus politics everywhere. They cannot see a nation where people do not care about Washington. If people did care about Washington, then the Tea Party would be twice as large and twice as angry. But Americans are a tolerant people whose patience stems from the knowledge that this too shall pass. Barack Obama caved because a president is not omnipotent. He thought he was when he controlled Congress. He no longer does. It is no fun any more being president. He caved because he no longer wants to be president. Expect more, not less, of this stuff over the next year as the man who once smiled becomes a frowning, scornful and mocked man. The beauty of the American system is that, so far, it is bigger than any one man and it can — and will — correct itself.

York: Left paints the campaign as a religious war

Unions go nuts over successful charter school

Investigators Probe White House Role in Massive Energy Loan

Greedy Greenies

THE WIKILEAKS CABLES ON TURKEY: 20/20 TUNNEL VISION

Turkey's Akyol, An Apostle Of The Third Way

Maggie's Farm loves going to that country, regardless of the politics

Gore: Global warming skeptics are this generation’s racists

Study: Half of Hired Stimulus Workers Were Already Employed

S.C. Gov. supports crippling ‘un-American’ NLRB, including resignation of lone GOP member

Fast & Furious scandal may have its first cover-up

The Prof: 10 Things I Think I Think about Obama's Job Speech

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: one of history's myths?

Israelis seek EU passports amid existential angst

Massive NSA Spying Program Challenged by EFF in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

The Costco king checks out

Impressive fellow

Maxine Waters Advocates Taxing Banks “Out of Business”

In His Activist Days Obama Sued Banks to Ease Lending Practices… Now He’s Suing Banks For Risky Mortgages

BBC: Climate Pravda

How Bad will the Job Picture Get?

Fascism and socialism

MI Bars Ban Lawmakers for Banning Smoking

The O: I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”. As Knish says,

The modern liberal is wedded to a thoroughly reactionary worldview in which he worships the institutions he controls and is full of paranoia and suspicion of those he does not. He disdains the common man and longs for enlightened leaders to uplift him and to transform his country into a messianic vision of a kingdom of heaven in which no one ever goes hungry and everyone is perfectly equalized-- a pseudo-religious vision of government as religion that is wholly primitive in its conflation of theology and civics.

A windy, rainy day called Irene, via Kimball: