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Monday, February 15. 2010Now it's Hurricanegate
It's like a full-time job trying to keep up with all of the debunking of the IPCC report. Today, Hurricanegate. There has been no increase in tropical cyclones, contrary to the IPCC claims.
Melody GardotShe's my new favorite chanteuse. Here's a snip from the unembeddable My One and Only Thrill TV ad. Here's another song:
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How do you move from Socialism to Capitalism?From Glucksman at City Journal's The Velvet Philosophical Revolution -Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the battle for political freedom goes on.
If a tree fell...Dylan art show in LondonStory here. His pictures kind of pleasantly remind me of 1950s illustrations. Image is his Motel Pool: From IkeFrom Mrs Ike: Memories of the Life of Mamie Eisenhower, which contains a lot of letters Ike wrote to Mamie during the war. A quote from one of them:
Maverick Surfing Contest
Monster waves. Wonderful photos.
America's Cup videosFor those unfamiliar with sailboat racing, it's not just about a faster boat. It's about strategy, tactics, boat-handling, seamanship, fine-tuning, luck, and lots of other details. Here's some dramatic footage from this year's race.
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America's Cup #33Image is Currier and Ives' 1851 portrait of "America," the first boat to win the famous race. The America's Cup (named for the sailboat, not the country) is now sailed with multi-hulls with 17-story masts. 33 knots out of a 10 knot wind speed. Here's winner US-17: h/t, SDA, with links to more details of the race
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Monday morning linksWhat happens when you get drunk? DC Post Runs With Climategate; NY Times Still in Tank. Says Mead:
New TSA Training Video - Hug A Jew Surber: Downside of school lunch programs Not Your Father's Britain Department: Health and Safety regs prevent rescue How the secular progressives have developed a political viewpoint into a religious experience. Schools: Only School Choice Will Keep Them Honest Russian Leaders Order the Privatization of Industry – Will Punish Bureaucrats Who Hamper Investment Lots of $ at stake: Following Obama Comments, Corporate and Environmental Special Interests Scramble to Lobby Administration Officials on Global Warming Legislation During the Olympics, The Feds Will Be Reading Your Tweets – And the Blotter. Related: Cell Phone Records: “No Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy”
Rep. Bill Delahunt (D, MA): why did you put Amy Bishop back on the street? I doubt that he will run again. U.S. Unemployment Compared to European Unemployment Why Cheney attacks Barack Obama:"Americans Are Tired of Politicians Who Don't Walk the Walk on Fiscal Responsibility." Kudlow: The Washington, D.C., Disconnect Something good: Obama Nuke Plant Loan Reflects New Energy Strategy
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Sunday, February 14. 2010Valentine's Day RewardAnyone who has coached or tutored their child knows how much resistance they meet. I call my sons the "mother's curse": "You should have children like yourself." I do, in trumps. My mother is surely laughing her head off, above. Still, after the daily battles, and perseverence, a light shines.
Keep on truckin', parents. And, thanks Mom. Couldn't do it without remembering you. For my ValentineI am making my usual St. Valentine's Day day steamed mussels and lobster feast, but I did at least one other act of love today - remembering that love is action, not sentiment. Carpet cleaning done! (They have a special spray for dog pee bedroom carpet spots. Isn't it romantic? Carpet sucks, in my opinion.)
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Valentine's Day free ad for Bob: I'm sick of love, and I'm in the thick of it...Campus Intifada: Where are the adults?The Martin Solomon posted a video of the action. More details at Solomon’s post. Oren conducted himself with dignity in not backing down from free speech. This key question: “Where are the grownups in the UC Irvine administration?” The usual suspects defend the protestors as somehow engaged in rightful “civil disobedience.” Max Boot, a graduate of "Berzerkley", wrote at Contentions, of this and similar campus attacks, “Anything short of expulsion, or at least suspension, would seem to be a wrist-slap that will only encourage more such misconduct in the future and make a mockery of the free speech that universities are supposed to champion.” The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial read: “It was an embarrassing display of inhospitality [at By contrast, Ambassador Oren appeared at the
Though the Q&A was dominated by pro-Palestinian students, “Ambassador Oren responded to each question with the knowledge of the accomplished historian that he is and with the wisdom of a true diplomat.” The audience and the subject were treated with respect and benefited from civil discourse. University administrators or others who are willing to forfeit that freedom of speech and minimal manners themselves do not belong on campus.
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Like we always said, the O is or was a Marxist-LeninistWhere is the MSM with this story? We never doubted it for a minute: Moonbattery. Manchurian Candidate, thanks to the MSM's homo- or hetero- or Lefto- or whatever-eroticism. I wouldn't mind if he had changed his view of the world since then, but I haven't heard that road-to-Damascus story yet. Emily Dickinson: epileptic nymphomaniac?No more eccentric than the rest of her Amherst family. Indeed, her life has been sentimentalized. Well, always interesting to have an epileptic nympho around the place, especially on St. Valentine's Day when the Christian saint seems to give way to the celebration of Eros.
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News Flash du JourClimategate's Phil Jones Confesses to Climate Fraud. For starters,
All the details at link above. And he said:
Related, IPCC admits that they are not a scientific organization. Related, World may not be warming, say scientists. Al Gore, Call your Agent. Their party is over. My big question is "Why aren't the Warmists pleased and relieved to learn that it was a giant hoax perpetrated by grant-seekers, rent-seekers, carbon-credit investors like Al Gore and the oil companies, greedy governments, and the absurd, corrupt, and amoral UN?" Why not celebrate! They should be thrilled to know that they can quit worrying, and just get on with life. But it just seems to make them more angry. Go figger. Maybe some people just like to be angry and upset about something or other to give life a bigger meaning.
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ErosEros (Cupid) - "desire" - is the mischievous prankster son of Venus who, at the same time, is responsible for keeping humanity thriving. He is, indeed, a troublemaker and a pest, isn't he, with his devilish little arrows and bow? As Kesler and I observed the other day, those little arrows can hit you at the oddest, most unsuspecting moments. Like at the supermarket. You can refresh your memory of the folktale of Cupid and Psyche here. This is Caravaggio's c. 1600 Eros Victorious:
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The Valentine of Maggie's Farm: Marianne MatthewsThe Valentine sweetheart of Maggie's Farm is our dearly loved commenter Marianne Matthews. Marianne is a classically trained musician, among many other wonderful things, with a sane, quick, and fun-loving mind. I share Marianne's love of folk music, she broadening my appreciations beyond the labor and protest songs I was raised with to older and other countries' folk classics. Marianne has been deeply involved with many of the greats. Marianne sent me a disc of some of her recaptured recordings from the 1950's, which you have to hear to soar. We're working on a way to put at least one up at Maggie's Farm. Meanwhile, you'll have to be content with this 1972 photo of Marianne and all-together now wishing Marianne a Happy Valentine. FRIENDSHIP Oh, the comfort -- the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, -Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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Saturday, February 13. 2010If I needed You, for St. Valentine's weekendMagic
Poof! You're in the union. Right when you thought you were your own boss.
h/t, Theo
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Groupthink has never felt so right, and the serfdom mentality of EurolandSteyn. A quote re the USA:
Let's get America smoking again!Somehow, this post got Farked! Just realized it. Hey, Fark friends - check out our site while visiting. You might enjoy knowing us and our free-thinking Yankee site - It's Valentine's Day weekend, so go out and buy your hubby some really good smokes. Get some for your kids, too. Maybe beloved hubby will get a good one for you, too: a pretty lady looks sexy with a cigar. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Why our pro-smoking campaign this week? It's a companion-piece to Michelle O's anti-obesity campaign. A good cigar, which lasts at least quadruple the time of a Wendy's burger (450 calories), has zero calories and quadruple the enjoyment. (By the way, I do not know what the fuss is about childhood obesity. I drive past our local high school all the time, and I have yet to see a fat kid. They all look kinda scrawny to me except for the muscular athletes.) I always told my kids "Do not eat vegetables. They are for grown-ups." That was the truth and it worked well. Still having trouble getting them to enjoy the mystic Indian miracle of organic tobacco, though. They are brainwashed. I plan to light up a tasty, sweet, well-aged and fragrant Dominican Bolivar this afternoon. Bolivar builds a heck of a strong, solid cigar, like a piece of wood. They have become my favorites for the moment. It's fun to rustle through ye olde Yankee humidors to see what you have, and what you forgot you bought online a year or three ago. It is sort of like a wine cellar, filled with interesting, anti-obesity suprises.
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