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Saturday, November 16. 2013

Norway Moves Against Circumcision

Genital mutilation. The Christian view of God does not demand that slicing and dicing but the Jewish view of God does, and the Muslim god requires it of both men and women. What's that all about? Sacrifice?

New Yorkers Paying Through The Nose for Electricity

Can't blame Con Ed. It's the taxes. Only the poor and the rich can afford NYC - and the struggling ambitious youth and new immigrants who will put up with anything to be part of the Big Time. The youth and the immigrants should not care about comfort.

Pope Francis corruption fury: Tie them to a rock and throw them in the sea

Big Ethanol’s bad week just got worse: EPA announces reduction to 2014 biofuels requirements

It's about time

Armed Robbery Spikes in California Gun Control Paradise

Duh. Everybody law-abiding becomes a helpless victim. It's open season on the law-abiding.

Lawmakers Urge Administration to Stop EPA Takeover of Ponds, Ditches, Streams

My ditches? We have plenty of them at the farm. Molon labe.

Dalrymple: I Have Seen the Future, and it Is Idiocy

Nothing new about government idiocy. Everybody knows that governments are idiots.

Niall Ferguson: Paul Krugman Has Gotten Nearly Everything Wrong,
And Yet This Has Only Provoked Further Arrogance, Self-Flattery, and
Sneering At Those Who Got It Right

Ugh!… Obama Bashes America Again – Says ‘The System’ Doesn’t Give People ‘A Fair Shot’

Like who? And what "system"? There is no "system." That's the beauty part.

Syrian Rebels: Hey, Sorry For Beheading The Wrong Person, Our Bad!

Driscoll: Befuddled Central Planner in Chief Discovers Complexity Of Real Life

The city of Bel Aire, Kansas must not have liked its plan…

Krauthammer: Why liberals are panicked about Obamacare

Oprah: Obama’s Opposition Is Racist, Just Needs to Die Already

Sheesh, Oprah. That is not nice. Also, it is pure baloney.

IRS mistakenly sent 'sensitive taxpayer data' to California small business

Palestinian Authority's Double Standards on Prisoners

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Dear MF:

If you want visible proof of the collaboration between the communists and the corporations of Seattle just take your wives and daughters clothes shopping in Seattle, or Bellevue, or Lynnwood, etc. At the end of the afternoon they will say something like this: "wow Nordstrom here is sure not what it's like in LAX". You might also hear "geez every store has the same thing--you can hardly tell if your in Nordstrom's or Macy's !" Do you know why that is?: because the communist women's leadership of the pacific Northwest wants plain women to feel equal to pretty women--even their clothes models all look very plain and similar. No woman should have access to "unique and wonderful styles or fabrics" In fact, I don't believe there is even a fabric shop left open with the exception of JoAnn's nation-wide chain.
Sooo--- if you have a woman in your life who is still thinking that the Dems are wonderful just take them shopping in Seattle! Even in the Nordstrom's home front store--they place where they began--the ladies will be very disappointed!!

#1 Faculty Wife on 2013-11-16 10:27 (Reply)

Speaking of clothing, unisex, and . . .

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20131112/NEWS07/311120001

#2 another one on 2013-11-16 11:03 (Reply)

re ethanol:

From the Daily Caller

The agency has lowered the amount of ethanol that must be blended into U.S. fuel supplies from 16.55 billion gallons in 2013 to 15.21 billion gallons in 2014. The refining industry warned the agency earlier this year that refiners were reaching the maximum amount of ethanol that could safely be blended into the fuel supply, known as the “blendwall.”

The industry welcomed the reduced blending requirements, but warned that this did not address long term problems.

“While we are pleased that EPA has taken steps to avoid the blendwall in 2014, we remain concerned that the proposed rule leaves open the possibility that the biofuel mandates will exceed the maximum amount of ethanol that can be safely added to our gasoline supply,” said Charles Drevna, president of the American Fuels & Petrochemical Manufacturers."

http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/15/epa-scales-back-ethanol-mandate/

So this is either a baby step towards curtailing the use of ethanol or it is simply a concession to reality. I see know effort being put forth to end the program.

Looks to me like ethanol will continue to roll, at least for the next couple of years.

#3 feeblemind on 2013-11-16 11:16 (Reply)

The ironic thing about the corn to ethanol story is it takes about 130% of energy from fossil fuel to create the 100% of energy in the ethanol. To add insult to injury once mixed with gasoline not only does the price of the gas go up but the actual energy in the gas goes down yielding less MPG. The ethanol from corn debacle is a lose/lose/win situation. That is the consumer loses with higher costs, lower net energy and damage to cars and small gas engines. The environment loses with a net increase in energy used with a decrease in utility plus a degradation of the land because marginal lands are planted in corn to meet the need. But there is a win for corn farmers and politicians who have brought this boondoggle to corn farmers.

#4 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-11-16 11:36 (Reply)

Lose/lose is right!

Actually, the corn farmers are not benefitting either as this over-planting of one crop is ruining the soil. Iowa looks nothing like it did a decade ago.

#4.1 jma on 2013-11-16 14:53 (Reply)

Moving during circumcision is very dangerous!

California: As the old saying was, Land of Fruits and Nuts. I hear agriculture paid better, then.

Ah, Paullie "The Beard" Krugman. Get things wrong and won't admit it; changes his mind on things and won't admit it (favors Dems, doncha know).

Obama: "System" at fault--HIS system!

Syrian Rebels: Cut 'em some slack, guys! Preferably at the neck. Ain't nobody perfect!

Bel Aire, KS: When are we gonna call this the Unaffordable Care Act?

Oprah: Why her popularity has slipped, and continues downward.

IRS Screw-up: Not the first, not the last. I'd say something about the unCivil Servants, but don't really need to.

Palis: Not liked by other Arabs for 65 years, except as a verbal club to beat Israelis.

#5 Sam L. on 2013-11-16 12:06 (Reply)

Genesis 17:11--Circumcision is the sign of Abraham's covenant with God.

But you knew that.

#6 bob sykes on 2013-11-16 13:16 (Reply)

The US Government in DC has long coveted the control of water. It will control the people in the West because no one can grow anything without supplemental water. I don't know the status of the 'Law of the Sea Treaty' currently, but it was supposed to snap up all water for UN control. It is a part of Agenda 21 which destroys all private property rights and forces people off the land, into big cities. The EPA is enforcing a defacto Law of the Sea Treaty probably because 'they' can't force the treaty through the Senate.

#7 annieoakley on 2013-11-16 13:29 (Reply)

FYI: Michelle Robinson (Obama)'s thesis at Princeton

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2305083/PrincetonEducated-Blacks-and-the-Black-Community

#8 jma on 2013-11-16 14:58 (Reply)

Sorry, I originally posted this item about Mead in the wrong thread. Repeated here.

Wm Russell Mead: "New York residents are also paying more for utilities than anyone in the country. Consolidated Edison (Con Ed) which supplies electricity to New York City, charges 25.65 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity"

Where does this guy, Mead, get his information from? He doesn't know what he's talking about. The charge for electricity on Oahu in Hawaii is close to 35 (!) cents per kWh. The rate charged on smaller islands like Molokai is even higher. That's why I installed a PV system. With the federal and state tax credits, the payback period of my installation is about 4 years.

Re: Oprah

If white Americans are so racist, who made Oprah a billionaire? Not her brothers and sisters in the 'hood, that's for sure. I'm tired of the whining by AAs and their guilt-ridden white fellow travelers. Oprah, just shut up. Go away. Far away. Just not Switzerland, where you recently falsely claimed a lowly store clerk of racism. Funny that Tina Turner, a long time resident of Switzerland, never reported having problems with the Swiss.

#9 Agent Cooper on 2013-11-16 15:09 (Reply)

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