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Saturday, January 14. 2012

Saturday morning links

















Genius! Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan


Neptunus having fun with fighters 


I admire the balls this work takes. Especially at night.


The new addition to Boston's Gardner Museum


A Consumer Report for Colleges?


Head Start A 50 Year Flop? Say It Ain’t So, Joe


It's government day care. Also, day care for the unemployable.


Via Insty, How To Carry a Concealed Gun in a Dress


How Liberals Distort Austrian Economics - The lame campaign to discredit the Austrian school


TCF’s Outrageously Dumb Campus Moments of the Week


Brilliant header: They Took All The Rights, Put 'Em In A Rights Museum


Marines urinating on the dead? This is war. - The video of US marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters has shocked many. But the dehumanizing of the enemy was much worse back in the day.


Allen West on the Marines Incident: 'Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell'


Is George Soros Responsible for Ending Ethanol Subsidies and Brazilian Import Tariffs?


The Taliban and the PLO


“the finest example of fatuous, preening, liberal self-righteousness”


Germany Attempts to Silence Criticism of Islam


Elizabeth Warren Rakes in Wall Street’s Cash While Denouncing It


What Is Private Equity All About, Anyway?


Turnaround expertise is what the US needs


Negotiating peace in Afghanistan without repeating Vietnam


Smart ammunition is about to make things a lot more dangerous for guerrillas fighting regular troops


Al Gore Said North Pole Would Be Completely Melted This Year… Guess Not, Huh?


Maybe next year? He can only hope...


The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression


Civility in discourse, via Hot Air:






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You had me going on the High Speed Bus bit... truth is I wouldn't put it past this vacuous bunch of 'tards to offer such a plan. Score another great satire for the Onion.
#1 Marc on 2012-01-14 08:39 (Reply)
...fun with fighters

Body howdy - ain't that the truth. I really enjoyed the comment about flying a brick with enough thrust. One of my high school buddies flew F-4s in the later stages of Vietnam and that was his exact comment.

How To Carry a Concealed Gun in a Dress

The fire arms instructor my daughters went to uses the same technique and they follow that advice religiously. They are very good at getting the gun out too. No custom holster though - plain simple small of the back holsters for their hammerless .38s.
#2 Tom Francis on 2012-01-14 08:39 (Reply)
--the F4 always reminds me of the nic my dad's gen had for the the similar-concept B-26, built in Baltimore: "The Baltimore Whore" --because of 'no visible means of support'.
#2.1 buddy larsen on 2012-01-14 10:00 (Reply)
Yeah - the "Widowmaker". Interesting factoid about the B-26 - it's original final approach closing speed was 150 mph - faster than any bomber in the fleet at that time.

One of my Mom's brothers was a top turret gunner on a B-26. The other was a Marine Corps B-25 tail gunner. Both served in the Pacific.
#2.1.1 Tom Francis on 2012-01-14 10:47 (Reply)
--B25 gunner --if in Gen. Kenney's command --had about all the guns the B25 would hold --field mods for low-level air to sea gunnery included up to eight .50s in the nose (OUCH!), and on some they just said to hell with it and rigged a 75 mm cannon.
#2.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2012-01-14 15:55 (Reply)
All this controversy about the pissing Marines will go away if they just apply for an NEA grant and call it art.
#3 Gagdad Bob (Link) on 2012-01-14 10:38 (Reply)
Well, that's true, but it would have to have a title - something Avant-garde but recognizable. And I'm all out of ideas.
#3.1 Tom Francis on 2012-01-14 10:49 (Reply)
A Void in the Heart of Darkness

The Whiz Art of Mayhem

Quenching the Fires of the Departed

Streams of Consciousness in the Desert
#3.1.1 Jephnol (Link) on 2012-01-14 11:16 (Reply)
Please forward to Alan West. We need all our ammunition in one place and I don't think the media's following you yet.
#3.1.1.1 jma on 2012-01-14 13:42 (Reply)
"Way Down Upon the Swami River" --?
#3.1.1.2 buddy larsen on 2012-01-14 15:42 (Reply)
This is a one-word comment, which requires a buffer-sentence to elude the MF Spam Prevention monster:

Nice!
#3.1.1.2.1 Jephnol (Link) on 2012-01-14 18:34 (Reply)
Seems ridiculous to me: the liberals want to take control (take away individual choice) in most areas of employment and personal choice. Yet, it is that very loss of motivation (reward) that has led to the failure of the vast majority of the African/American community. Yes, there are many who have jobs, go to school, etc. But, for the vast majority that was not the case for many,many years. In fact, it was not the case until some of them had MOTIVATION. That is to say until some of them saw OPPORTUNITY and had the WILL to reach out for REWARD. What I am seeing and trying to state clearly is this: it is HOPE and the ability to see a great improvement in one's quality of life that leads the individual to work overtime at whatever effort they believe will provide the reward. When the liberals and their unions take away that freedom of individual reward they remove MOTIVE and CREATIVITY. It is a conundrum that liberals find themselves involved in and yet their flawed understanding of systems thinking leaves them unable to clearly identify with flawed reasoning of their own proposed solutions!
#4 another one on 2012-01-14 11:00 (Reply)
Yup--uh huh! Yup that fast bus solution is what the liberals did in Seattle. That gang of hoodlums, who on three occasions stole the money that the taxpayers had given through the electoral process to install high speed rail. The Democrats stole that money and used it to make the unions happy. High speed buses involve years of highway expansion---many, many more jobs that installing high speed rail. End result is an improvement over a flawed transportation system (bus). Does not put us on a level playing field with the Japanese and Europeans. I will grand BD and the Barrister this--the proposed high speed rail was a flawed design. It should have been sent back to the designer's desk--not to the s---can and certainly not turned into "high speed buses". What kind of oxymoron is that?
#5 faculty Wife on 2012-01-14 11:05 (Reply)
Yes, the carry in a dress technique is very good. Not only will she have the means to handle anything that comes at her, she'll also be far less likely to go commando.
#6 JKB on 2012-01-14 11:51 (Reply)
--mercy sakes --the entrapment case the defendant's estate's lawyer would make --
#6.1 buddy larsen on 2012-01-14 16:46 (Reply)
Jephnol ... You devil you. You get the prize today for the funniest post. At least, I think so. But then, I have a weakness for puns and limericks.

Marianne
#7 Marianne Matthews on 2012-01-14 13:02 (Reply)
Why Marianne, you flatter me!
#7.1 Jephnol (Link) on 2012-01-14 18:36 (Reply)

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