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Monday, May 18. 2009

"Hey, dude. Where's my warming?"

43 degrees here in central CT this morning. Definitely still too cold to plant the cukes, peppers, melons, squash, and tomatoes I like to grow. But look at Saskatchewan 2 days ago:

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Monday morning links

Invasion of the Lionfish (photo). Sheesh. But they are highly edible.

The Alinsky explanation for the O and the Dem agenda. Dino

The humiliations of the modern Dad. Dr. Helen. Lucky Glenn.

Moslems call for Jihad in NYC. No wonder they have a lousy reputation. Did these jerks ever hear of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington?

Europe's recession much worse than ours has been.

Pelosi. For the good of the Party, the MSM ignores another giant story.

Dems splintering on national security.

Repub cage match: Crist vs. Rubio

An end to the War on Drugs. I say End it. It's a quagmire. All the War on Drugs has done over 30 years is to make them more expensive, requiring more expensive crime.

The Marsh Arabs are back home, and they are taking over. Good to see those marshes restored, too. A major world ecological spot, like the Everglades. I read that Ducks Unlimited consulted or assisted in the restoration.

How the wamingists are dealing with "slight" global cooling.

Nice butt. Looks like a bottom to me, too. Man, that stimulus package worked great.

Bush's gutsiness on Social Security. He had nothing to gain.

Jerks in Santa Monica

There's a plan for Pakistan. Cool.

Travesty. Obama at Notre Dame

Good home security sign

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Sunday, May 17. 2009

QQQ

It is a wonderful day indeed when we stop working for God and begin working with God.

Anon.

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This is superb: The History of Political Correctness, with "Cultural Terrorism"

All readers should listen to this piece of history, in which a disappointing "proletariat" - which refused revolution - was replaced by a Gramscian program for an intellectual elite-driven neo-Marxism designed to bring down Western civilization to replace it with...whatever...run by them.

(For Marcuse, it seems to have been all about random sex with interesting strangers rather than anything economic, which is fine with me but Mrs. B., who I am quite fond of and to whom I am quite attached and comfortable, would never go along with that idea. Therefore I comply with her wishes and am not a sexual revolutionary despite my many and almost continuous adventurous and curious thoughts about all of the charming females one encounters in life. That was the deal I made with her, and keeping my word is important to me. I guess that makes me a reactionary.)

A big wave of an old Montecristo and a glass of single malt to Thompson for finding this excellent 20-minute piece:

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Calling Dr. Freud

Dino is trying to understand what makes Obama tick, and he rightly wonders what would cause a 33 year-old to write an autobiography. Dino is looking for clues to the man's underlying personality structure.

He is especially puzzled by this recent O quote:

Many of you have been taught to chase after the usual brass rings: being on this �who�s who� list or that top 100 list; how much money you make and how big your corner office is; whether you have a fancy enough title or a nice enough car�such an approach won�t get you where you want to go; that in fact, the elevation of appearance over substance, celebrity over character, short-term gain over lasting achievement is precisely what your generation needs to help end.

Puzzles me too. It does sound like transparent preaching of the "Do what I say, not what I do" variety. Anyway, I have no interest in trying to analyze the guy's character nor am I qualified to try. I just wonder two things: 1) Where does he smoke in the WH? and 2) How is he going to try to screw me next?

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A "Tutela valui" tattoo, and other things about the uses of Latin

One quote from the NYT Op-Ed:

When one Dickinson College alumna recently applied to work at a public school, she had a photocopied version of her Latin diploma returned as foreign and illegible.

All of my kids took Latin in grade school and high school. Good fun, and it has served them well. I took ancient Greek instead, plus French and German. Only fairly fluent in French now. Sorta-kinda. Can still read French or German OK if it's non-technical. Struggle with the Greek but have a feel for it, I think.

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From today's Lectionary: "Greater love..."

John 15: 9-17

⁹"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. ¹¹I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

¹²My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit�fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.

¹⁷This is my command: Love each other.

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Saturday, May 16. 2009

How Can a Poor Man Stand Such times and Live?

Ry Cooder, 1987:

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1936

Negro Barber Shop, 1936, Atlanta, GA. Walker Evans. (h/t Dr X, who likes the kind of photos I like.) In 60 years, a photo of your barber shop will be just as interesting.

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Tomatoes

I am putting mine in the ground today, after using my car as a greenhouse for a couple of weeks. I have 6 varieties this time. Always those Sweet Million cherry tomatoes, and always the classic Beefsteaks, even though they aren't ready around here until mid-late August. Still worth it for a few weeks of them. Some yellows. No plum tomatoes - the canned are fine with me if they are going to be cooked anyway.

Are yours in yet?

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The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth -- After This Guy's Done With It, No Sooner

People join PETA because they think they understand the relationship between man and nature better than a guy who goes out in a rice paddy, at night, with a spear, to kill the feral hogs that are trying to eat every last grain.

Oh yes; he's barefoot.

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Saturday links

From TARP to Command and Control. Kudlow

The odd spiritualism of Arthur Conan Doyle

Liberal fantasyland: Hoven at Am Thinker

Newt on Pelosi. Harsh. CIA bites back.

Related: Reality arrives to the Dems. They are supposed to be running the country. They are supposed to grow up now.

Tortured logic re waterboarding. Waterboarding is just fine with me, but I can swim 1 1/2 laps underwater no problem. Not sure how many Jihadists are strong swimmers, but I do not care.

Saving the planet one private jet at a time.

Gun control as "reproductive justice"? I'm confused.

Do you want to know the cost of free government medical care? Related: Obama's health care fraud.

Tort law update: Bite-mark experts. Good grief.

AVI: Same Sex Marriage 2

Tom Hanks: We fudged the facts in Angels and Demons. Of course they did.

Via Insty:

HALF SIGMA: It�s cheaper to own a car than to use mass transit. Conclusion: �A walkable neighborhood, or an entirely walkable city like Manhattan, is a luxury good for rich people (a luxury good that I personally have been willing to pay for) and not an affordable alternative for regular middle class people, and especially not for regular middle class people with children.�

Five reasons political correctness must die. Moonbattery. We're doing our best to defeat it here at Maggie's.

Secular-Socialist Societies Suck out Your Soul. Indeed they do. Who would want to be a European - except for the cool welfare you get just for hanging out?

I noticed it too. Where's Hillary?

From LGF:

California�s going out of business! Everything must go! Unbelievable deals available on San Quentin State Prison, the L.A. Coliseum, and the Orange County Fairgrounds! Don�t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity!

Interesting phenomenon that the USA is becoming more pro-life.

Chrysler and the rule of law.

Any excuse will do: Recession drives women to drink and gambling. Why not wild random sex too? I'm game.

In his debt: Maj. Hutchinson

Yuan set to "usurp" US dollar

Cutting off our nose to spite our face. Trade wars in recession. Stupid as can be.

The O is blowing $100 billion. Like it's his money to blow.

On health care fallacies, quoted at Outside the Beltway:

I�m seeing nascent signs of a new (but actually old) fallacy, namely that since health care costs can (will?) crush the budget, we don�t have to worry so much about other expenditures. The mental story runs something like this: �if we don�t cure health care cost inflation, it doesn�t matter; if we do cure health care cost inflation, we can afford it.� That�s exactly the kind of false mental framing that behavioral economics identifies as irrational in other settings.

Photo: The girl next door, via Theo.

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Despondex, for the Annoyingly Cheerful

FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

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Friday, May 15. 2009

h/t, S,C&A:

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More farm pron - or is it True Love?

Everybody is showing this one, so we might as well too. The old guy is shameless, isn't he? A good thing he prefers elephant-style to missionary style or her riders might be in a heap of trouble.

She is a cute lil' thing, if a bit on the heavy side. They both seem to be smiling, and that's what matters.

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Keep your good rugs clean of dirt and grit

Here's how (h/t, Rug Rag):

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Cracks in the facade

VDH begins:

Oh, I know that President Obama�s approval ratings are still around 62%. But I also remember that George Bush�s at the end of 2001 got even higher � and stayed at or above 60% through most of 2002, explaining why he increased his congressional majority in the midterm elections.

Nevertheless, I think we are beginning � after less than four months � to see fissures in Obama�s Pentelic statuary. And the cracks will widen, because in about six areas he has taken on human nature itself, age-old logic, and common sense-opponents that even a Harvard Law degree and Chicago organizing are no match for.

Whole thing here.

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Galloway follies

h/t, Moonbattery

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The Commons and Stewardship

We have posted many times about the tragedy of the commons here. This handy concept goes far beyond the original meaning.

It is the most basic human nature to take care of your own. Unless you have a close, small, closed society with strong affinity and who are on the same page, people will rape the commons for their own purposes.

We posted the other day about plans to try to maintain the fisheries.

John Stossel discusses Eat the Tigers! Same point. Most people need a sense of ownership to really care about stewardship.

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Forecasting

How good of a forecaster is James Hansen? (h/t, SDA)

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QQQ: Another word to the wise

Never put it in writing.

Unless you want it on the front page of the newspaper...assuming there is a newspaper any more. Writing includes email.

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It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves

Growing new neurons throughout life: Micro mRNA and neurogenesis. Dang brain is quite remarkable.

Current advances in neuroscience go under-reported because the press doesn't understand it any better than they understand any science or basic economics.

Journalists seem, to me, to be the ultimate "I was told there would be no math" people, who should never have been admitted to any college.

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QQQ

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

Mark Twain (h/t, Lib Leanings)

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