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Thursday, October 18. 2012

Thursday morning links

ADMISSIONS OFFICER: Here's What They Don't Tell You About Getting Into An Ivy League School (h/t Vanderleun)

The State Gambling Addiction - Politicians are bleeding problem gamblers to fix their budgets—and it isn’t workin

Gummints would do better opening pot and coke shops the way NH has its state liquor stores.

Australian Schools Teach That Thinking Normal Sex Is Normal Is Abnormal

Does New York's Board of Health Really Have the Authority to Regulate People's Diets?

The Failure of the American Jewish Left

Jewish groups pull out of interfaith dialogue over Protestants’ letter to Congress

How the Democratic Party Exploits Women

Gallup: Romney 51, Obama 45

Threats to Assassinate Romney Explode After Debate

Er, no, Obama didn’t win the debate last night

Can Romney Expand the Map?

A President Without a Plan - A more spirited Obama, but he still has no agenda for the next four years.

Obama fashions himself as a defender of coal, oil, gas, Romney calls foul

Romney’s main problem is a chronic one. While he intuitively understands what Bush Sr. used to call “the vision thing,” he can’t articulate it.

DECKER: Obama’s doom and gloom - Romney’s winning message: ‘We don’t have to settle’

Obama’s Auto Bailout Was Really a Hefty Union Payoff

The Better Solution for 'Pre-Existing Conditions' - There's no need to turn the entire system upside down to help the people who can't buy private insurance.

Bill Clinton: 'Don't Worry Yet' About Debt Crisis

The State by State Impact of ACA Regulations

German renewable surcharge to rise by 47 percent

The Powerlessness Excuse: Debunking the Claim that Obama Could Not Have Affected the “Arab Spring”

European Military Decline Accelerating?

Hunt for notorious Ugandan warlord Kony loses momentum

Plan Is Mulled To Give Jews a Place To Pray at Holiest Site — Temple Mount in Jerusalem

The Coming Collapse: Authoritarians in China and Russia Face an Endgame

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When the cartoon came out I adopted the usenet .sig "On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk."

#1 rhhardin (Link) on 2012-10-18 08:11 (Reply)

Hey!! Maggie's Farm is ranked 114th of 150 "conservative" web sites!!

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-top-150-conservative-websites.html

Woot!!!

I find the whole Israel jewish prayer thing interesting. Just the other day, a Reform Rabbi, Anat Hoffman, was arrested at the Western wall for "praying". It seems to me that with all the various forms of Jewish faith, that their world is fraught with constant conflict even within their own society never mind trying to get Arabs to agree to building a synagogue at Temple Mount.

#2 Tom Francis on 2012-10-18 08:24 (Reply)

Here is the link to HR 35 (amended) as it was passed.

http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/hr_35_bill_20120823_amended_asm_v98.html

#3 faculty wife on 2012-10-18 11:22 (Reply)

As a Lutheran, I am so upset that the Lutherans are idiotic enough to side with the Palenstinians against the Jews. The Bible constantly emphasizes that God wants Palestine to be for the Jews. Does the Bible mean nothing?

This is the kind of nonsense that leads to empty churches. The people in the pews do not agree with the leadership on many issues, including this. WE take our Bible seriously.

Down at the church level, nobody pays attention to the national leadership, and the churches, the services, the Sunday School, the adult Bible study, etc are inspiring and profound. But how long can this continue with such awful leadership at the top?

#4 Park Slope Pubby on 2012-10-18 13:07 (Reply)

That's the sort of reason our Congo church quit the UCC. Nobody liked anything they did on a national level, with our money.

#4.1 Bird Dog on 2012-10-18 13:19 (Reply)

Can Romney expand the map?

And

Obama's doom and gloom

I see these two being very much related - think Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

Jimmy Carter had a lot of folks support him the first time, yet the second time a lot of his supporters just vanished.

The same is true about Obama - only the diehards are still willing to openly support him (there is a serious lack of bumper stickers where I live in NJ) Many states that Carter won the first time easily went for Reagan the second time.

True there is no John Anderson this time to pull votes away from Obama; but, maybe many previous Obama supporters will simply not bother to vote thereby having the same effect as a third party did in 1980.

Lastly, the doom and gloom is too much like Carter's "tighten your belts" mentality vs. Reagan's "morning in America" which was a bit stronger than Romney's "we can do better." Hopefully, "we can do better" will have the same effect.

Or maybe I am just too optomistic to hope for a landslide with Obama only winning a couple of states (you know, the places where dead people vote)

#5 Charles on 2012-10-18 15:53 (Reply)

I have always thought it entirely reasonable that the US not be too involved with arguments elsewhere and try to maintain an even-handed approach.

The the Palestinians and their supporters state their case and it is vicious, deceitful, and asinine. Not so hard to support Israel as long as that's the case.

#6 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2012-10-18 19:00 (Reply)

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