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Wednesday, February 8. 2012

Weds. morning links


Peru: Hell and Back


Let's Be Frank about Anti-Asian Admission Policies


Homosexuality: What’s Choice Got to Do With it?


Get Your Own Damn Constitution


Stossel: Government Can't Make Us Happy


No, but it can make us unhappy


Who’s Afraid of Dirty Harry? Well, this didn’t take long. Clint Eastwood is going to regret doing that “halftime” ad after all the parodists get done with it.  (link fixed)


New Yorkers: Curb the pensions!


House Bans EBTs At Strip Clubs, Senate Won’t



Why has the collapse of Communism had so little impact on political discourse in the West?


Knish: A tale of two Republican parties


The Hoosier State's historic vote may be a tipping point in the battle against Big Labor.


Douthat: The media's blinders on abortion


Lying about job growth


The job-killing med-tech tax


French Court Finds Google Maps Compete Unfairly With French Mapping Company


Successfully = unfairly


Murray: The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them


I don't dislike them. Maybe I envy them a bit, though.


As re-election donations stall, Obama embraces wealthy Americans’ super PACs


Seven things I learned about transition from communism


At last: Regulations.gov website makes it easy to track the millions of pages of edicts levied upon us by our fede


Scientist: global warming causes worst winter in years


Global warming causes everything



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re. Who's Afraid of Dirty Harry? "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (ttp) isn't associated with any program." I think Firefox is trying to say the link is busted.
#1 BillH on 2012-02-08 10:05 (Reply)
Global warming can do just about anything. I wonder how it works on stains. All this Clint Eastwood talk reminded me of that snake oil salesman.
#2 JKB on 2012-02-08 10:17 (Reply)
I'm sure Bird Dog appreciates the notice. If you just can't wait for him to fix it, this common error can be easily rectified by yourself for your own viewing by:
right-clicking the link to copy it,
pasting it to the address bar,
and then adding the missing 'h' to the front.
--- Or instead of adding the "h" just delete everything before "www", your browser will figure out the rest...
#3 Douglas2 on 2012-02-08 10:18 (Reply)
That "New Upper Class": I don't despise or want to join them. but they seem not to care much about me. This reminds me of a PBS show (one-off) of a few years ago called (IIRC) Class In America. Comment by some rich parent about a child's prospective marriage partner (from the west coast), to the effect of "I don't believe I know his/her parents".
#4 Sam L. on 2012-02-08 10:49 (Reply)
Re Google being sued.

Didn't the US government sue Microsoft in 1998 for including a free browser in windows 98? Microsoft was competing unfairly and taking business from Netscape. It's understandable that Netscape lost business. If I recall, in 1996 the world wide web consortium revised the HTML specification. Microsoft put lots of programmers to work revising IE and by 1998 it was mostly compliant with the new specification. Netscape did not update Navigator. I used and liked Netscape Navigator, but I went with internet explorer in 98.
#5 Ray on 2012-02-08 12:02 (Reply)

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