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Just got power back at ye olde Maggie's HQ. Looks like our servers held up with my pre-posts and the other postings. These links are from Bruce, mostly, because I had a productive internet-free, heat-free and electric-illumination-free weekend -

21st Century baby names

Shakespeare, Resentment, Self-Education and Thieves

When women dress as Halloween candy - A faux-ho dressed (or mostly undressed) for Halloween might want to be careful where she turns tricks or treats.

CSU rolling out online undergraduate program

State treasurer of MA absolutely shreds RomneyCare, which “has nearly bankrupted the state” and is surviving solely because of federal aid

Is George Will right about Mitt Romney?

Moral Lessons from Tunisia

Samuelson: The dangerous debate over cutting military spending

The real oil for blood

Somin: Communism and the Jews

Occupy Wall Street Shrugged

Balancing act: Cybersecurity vs. cuts

The Social Security Lies Are Falling Apart

Debt: we are Slouching toward the 1930s

Dems turning against Obamacare

Carpe on fracking:

What is worrying is that almost a decade of energy investing hasn’t produced any home runs -- no green-energy equivalents of eBay, Amazon, Google or Facebook. The modest, incremental advances we have seen don’t perceptibly move the needle on the energy problem.

In the meantime, however, a real revolution has happened in traditional energy -- one that poses a serious challenge to companies and investors betting on alternative energy. This breakthrough is arguably one of the greatest advances in energy production since the 1960s. And it came not from a Silicon Valley company, or from MIT or Stanford, but from George Mitchell, the son of a Greek goatherd who immigrated to the U.S.

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Occupy Wall Street Learning A Randian Lession
Is it possible the Occupy Wall Street protests might succeed where indoctrination has failed? While the OWS protests are obstensively supposed to show "the people" the evils of capitalism, it is having an unexpected side effect. It's teaching the OWS...

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Glad to hear you fared well. Our friends in Woodstock are not supposed to get power back until possibly the middle of this week, one major state road, RT 171 has been closed from Putnam to I-85 and it's iffy when it will reopen and the old giant ash tree at the end of our old home finally gave up the ghost and went straight through the roof of the garage as I understand it - I'm supposed to get pictures today. I may have missed New England Autumn - I don't miss that.

Occupy Wall Street Shrugged

Classic concept - "There are Civil War re-enactors and World War II re-enactors, and now we have 1960s re-enactors."

It is really true - all street theater with agitation mixed in. Here in Columbia, we have the "Occupy Columbia" movement on the state house grounds. I was really amused the other morning when I passed by on my way to the VA to get my flue shot. 8 AM and they were still "sleeping" or whatever. When I passed back by at 9, they were just getting up and somebody had made a Starbucks run apparently because I saw a couple holding three Starbucks bags returning to the protest encampment. I had to return to a sports shop to pick up some rod tips I had ordered about 1 PM and they were still there only now you could see the Chic-Fil-A bags and drink cups.

Some "revolutionary protest".

The whole thing is a joke - they don't realize they are becoming a joke.

#1 Tom Francis on 2011-10-31 08:29 (Reply)

I agree.
But others don't or may not.

So many people still don't understand what this OWS is all about, and remain interested and mildly sympathetic. Once they find out, I'd say roughly 1/3 mistake it for a viable protest movement.

I know, because I have friends who keep telling me "how important" OWS is. I laugh and say no more important than the Tea Party, which they laugh at.

More importantly, I remind them the Tea Party offered solutions with their complaints. These people, confused as they are, reply the OWS is offering solutions and the Tea Parties solutions are unworkable.

It's all posturing. It's all bullshit. They have no idea what they are doing. They are revolutionaries without a cause, but that doesn't matter because they don't want a cause, they just want a revolution.

It's a good thing only 37% of the people in the US are sympathetic. I believe, over the next few months, that figure will fall.

I keep seeing how much money OWS has "raised". I'd like to see how much they've cost the cities they are in, then have the money they've raised used to repay the costs.

I'm sure the Tea Party has raised far more money than OWS.

But the media doesn't care. It's good sensationalism.

#1.1 Bulldog on 2011-10-31 13:01 (Reply)

Off topic and in the spirit of Halloween, here is a link for the Sexy Witch blog (NSFW), a history of sexy witches. Much to see for those who wish to rummage through it.

http://sexywitch.wordpress.com/page/2/

#2 feeblemind on 2011-10-31 11:21 (Reply)

Not "becoming", TF; "have become".

#3 Sam L. on 2011-10-31 11:21 (Reply)

Why is the vampiress wearing a cross? Doesn't she know that's bad for her health?

#4 SteveN on 2011-10-31 11:41 (Reply)

She's obviously more vamp and ire than vampire. Vamps don't flee from religious symbols, but just about any time they don't get their way they get cross.

#4.1 Jephnol (Link) on 2011-10-31 12:33 (Reply)

A cross must be a sacred object to harm a vampire. The set of objects which are crosses is a superset of those crosses which are sacred. It is not the crossness of a cross but, rather, the sacredness of a cross which renders it apotropaic.

Fortunately our lovely vampire is apparently not wearing a cross of the sacred variety. It would be a shame to burn that lovely skin or frighten her away.

#4.2 Knucklehead (Link) on 2011-11-01 12:17 (Reply)

Perhaps I'm really missing something but I didn't see a link on how to comment on The Anchoress's Shakespeare post. I find it absolutely fascinating that literate people (meaning the Brit Massie whom the Anchoress extracts) continue to refer to Keats's work as "Ode TO a Grecian Urn" when the title is "Ode ON a Grecian Urn."
The difference seems pretty self-evident to me.

#5 BlogDog on 2011-10-31 12:49 (Reply)

I almost forgot to use my comment above for one of my new favorite takes on the old "What's a Grecian Urn?" joke:

New answer: Not enough to pay back the Germans.

#6 BlogDog on 2011-10-31 13:17 (Reply)

Love the pic. She is my new favorite response to OWS.

God bless, you maam!

#7 Dangerous Dean on 2011-10-31 16:47 (Reply)

Just read through Drudge and discovered that the Re-election Flying Squad at the White House had decreed that Barack and Michelle should show some love for the common folk, and offer snacks to Trick or Treaters tonight. Where did they find them, I wonder? The White House is pretty well guarded all the time, by the Capitol Police as well as the Secret Service. Can't picture any little witches and warlocks being able to penetrate the security without being in imminent danger of being shot. Guess they must have sent out secret Service cars to the poorer neighborhoods to recruit some little witches and bring them in to the south lawn.
There they would find Barack and Michelle with baskets full of fresh fruit. "Apples anyone?" Michelle would carol in her sweetest tones.
Oh my. Takes all the fun out of it, doesn't it?

Marianne

#8 Marianne Matthews on 2011-10-31 22:01 (Reply)

Some random thoughts Marianne:

You are quite right. Back in the day, Halloween and Christmas were the two holidays where I raked in a lot of candy. Most of the rest of the year I did without. Coming home with a sack of fruit would have been a huge disappointment. We had fruit at home all the time but no candy.

re "Apples anyone?' What was it the old hag said to Snow White? It was an apple that put her to sleep, yes? Perhaps Michelle would be a good cast for the part?

Or ... given her proclivities, perhaps she (Michelle) ate all the Halloween candy that they were going to give away, and 'healthy snacks" had to be offered as a substitute? ;-)

But I am sure you can remember when apples did have their place on Halloween.

Remember bobbing for apples? I did that once as a little kid before the world discovered how unsanitary the game was. Somehow I was never taken ill from it.

And then there were candy apples/carmel apples, whatever they were called. I never had any use for 'em but other kids liked them.

Fruit for Halloween. Welcome to the politically correct 21st century.

#8.1 feeblemind on 2011-10-31 22:43 (Reply)

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