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Thursday, January 19. 2012

Thursday morning links




Messy links today due to linking problem. Suggest you right-click to read the links today to open them in new windows


Image below via Moonbattery (http://moonbattery.com/)



A strange creature that’s neither animal nor plant is causing researchers to rethink traditional ways of classifying living organisms: http://sciencenordic.com/weird-plant-animal-baffles-scientists


Dumb Campus Moments 2011 - http://www.academia.org/dumb-campus-moments-2011/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=5ad3f04261-email011812&utm_medium=email


Steyn: We are not yet a totalitarian society, but the touchiness of America’s wretched academy is certainly providing a fine pilot program. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288508/last-laugh-mark-steyn


Obama Rejecting Pipeline, blames GOP: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/obama-to-start-advertising-as-early-as-thursday/


McKibben is delighted about it: http://www.350.org/en/about/blogs/bill-mckibben-keystone-xl-announcement


Up Next… Obama’s New Energy Regulations Will Put 32 Coal Plants Out of Business http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/up-next-obamas-new-energy-regulations-will-put-32-coal-plants-out-of-business/


What Would New York Look Like With a Smaller Financial Sector? http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/what-would-new-york-look-like-with-a-smaller-financial-sector/251523/


Vanderleun on going back to school:  http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/schools_out.php 


Here We Go: Romney Has Millions of Dollars Parked Offshore: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/01/18/here-we-go-romney-has-millions-of-dollars-parked-offshore/?singlepage=true


Tough Choices in the Rust Belt: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/12/16/tough-choices-in-the-rust-belt/


Driscoll: Smoke Occupies Your Eyes


DEBT LIMIT - A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FEDERAL DEBT MADE EASY. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li0no7O9zmE


SIMPSON: Bureaucracy killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan - Political correctness keeps Army medevac helicopters grounded - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/16/bureaucracy-killing-us-troops-in-afghanistan/?page=all#pagebreak

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All animals share a bit of DNA called a hox box. So, if Mesodinium chamaeleon has a hox box it's an animal. If it doesn't, it's something else. Photosynthesis doesn't count. Corals are animals that live primarily off the photosynthate produced by their symbiotic algae.
#1 bob sykes on 2012-01-19 09:00 (Reply)
If I can reach down to pick it up, and it doesn't scurry away, it's a vegetable to me.
#2 Hugh Jass on 2012-01-19 10:42 (Reply)
A strange creature

That was interesting. Kind of makes you wonder what else we haven't found yet at the bottom of the ocean.

32 Coal Plants Out of Business

So the EPA is taking 9% of the total national generating capacity of an already overburdened supply chain off line and NOBODY IS SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER!?!?!

Seriously? If I were Governor of West Virginia or Virginia, I'd tell the EPA to bend over and screw themselves - ain't gonna do it until I have something to replace it with.
#3 Tom Francis on 2012-01-19 11:31 (Reply)
Obama rejects the pipeline? Does this come as a surprise to anyone? Before the holiday recess last month, Congressional Republicans proudly declared victory in having forced Obama to make a decision on the pipeline within 60 days. And for that "victory" they caved on every demand the Democrats made to extend unemployment benefits and reduce payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, for the first time in history allowing contributions to the two so-called trust funds to be taken from general tax revenues in order to make up for the shortfall in employee contributions.

Did the Republicans not expect Obama to reject the pipeline and to blame them for forcing him to do so? And did they really, Really, REALLY think labor unions and their members would abandon the Democrats and vote Republican because of that?

Congressional Republicans are truly the Dumb Party. They don't deserve---and are too dangerous---to be in charge of this country any more than the Democrats. The Democrats have put the nation on the highway to ruin out of ideology; the Republicans have put us on a road to the same destination out of cowardice and stupidity. Sorry, Republicans, but I've decided to take a different footpath and go in a different direction. We part company here.
#4 Agent Cooper on 2012-01-19 12:10 (Reply)
There is no practical difference between Republicans and Democrats - none what so ever.

It is all a smoke screen - all the posturing, all the posing, all the "obstruction" is nothing more than an effort to mask the fact that politicians of both parties want to control everything.
#4.1 Tom Francis on 2012-01-19 15:03 (Reply)

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