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Saturday, February 22. 2014

Saturday morning links

My pic is a cocoa bean pod (aka Cacao), growing in a jungle area which was once a plantation


Remembering the indispensable man


The Problem With Little White Girls (and Boys)


And Capt. Capitalism takes a shot at the topic:  Leftistwhitegirlsaveafricavolunteer-itis


Escape from New York - with a twist


9 Reasons the U.S. Ended Up So Much More Car-Dependent Than Europe


Who needs it?  The Copernican Theory


Jimmy Fallon, Democrat Political Asset


Cultural exemptions for Muslims?


An argument against Favored Tax Treatment of Capital Gains


Fred Singer: Climate Consensus Con Game


The Moment When The Fed Admits It Has Become The Market's Muppet


Leading
Free-Market Activists Score Major Concession on Global Warming-Related Spending
from General Electric


McGill student who apologized for Obama GIF now undergoing mandated sensitivity training


Good grief, what a joke


Obama defenders deny pain of job losses



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Copernican Theory - well, so many get in a twist over people who believe in Creationism, we might as well make fun of their ignorance of the solar system. Being a creationist is unimportant unless you are a genetic scientist.

My view is the 25% who didn't know couldn't conceive that the world did not revolve around them.

But it does illustrate the lack of curiosity at the wonderment of the world these days. The movement of the sun through the seasonal sky being of no interest. The parade of stars unnoticed.

It is not unrelated to "The Problem with Little White Girls". No awareness of the world out side their vanity. A world organized to let them feel 'useful' in order to profit from their desire for adventure.
#1 JKB on 2014-02-22 08:41 (Reply)
Car-dependency - what a frankly ridiculous article that presumes that the infrastructure of a country growing from essentially a small populated coast and spreading out into a vast undeveloped area would/should evolve in the same manner as the infrastructure of Europe, which in essence you have 50 historically established centers and no open areas.
#2 Mr. Bingley (Link) on 2014-02-22 09:48 (Reply)
Well said.
FWIW, I'd tear each of these idiotic "points" into their respective bits of trash, but it's the "atlantic", otherwise known as "we think we saw this in euuurope once so it must be cooler than those other stupid 'mericans".

The idiot author never heard of the Autobahn? Ever sat thru a Saturday AM traffic jam on the A8? Ever try to drive/ride/walk/fly whatever south on holiday?

What a maroon. And BD does buy into this a bit, seemingly...
#2.1 Jess1 on 2014-02-22 10:01 (Reply)
We don't have a car dependency, we have freedom of movement, the exercise of power.

QUOTE:
Similarly the American who has been humbled by poverty, or by his insignificance in the business order, or by his racial status, or by any other circumstance that might demean him in his own eyes, gains a sense of authority when he slides behind the wheel of an automobile and it leaps forward at his bidding, ready to take him wherever he may personally please.
...

In 1950 the civilian labor force of the United States was estimated to number a little less than 59 million men and women; in the same year the number of drivers in the United States was estimated to be a little larger: 59,300,000.
...
Never before in human history, perhaps, had any such proportion of the nationals of any land known the lifting of the spirit that the free exercise of power can bring.
#3 JKB on 2014-02-22 10:19 (Reply)
"we have freedom of movement"

Which, like all other manners of "freedom" is always under assault from those who "know better" or "have our best interests"...

Feh.
#4 Jess1 on 2014-02-22 10:25 (Reply)
Jimmy Fallon, Democrat Political Asset

See, see what they did there? They added the "et" so as obscure the truth.
#5 JKB on 2014-02-22 11:26 (Reply)
I always though an "asset" was a young female donkey...
#5.1 Mr. Bingley (Link) on 2014-02-22 13:54 (Reply)
Little White Girl: Took long enough, but she learned a good lesson.

I do hope Donna and Frank wise up as the LWG did, but given their ages, it will take much longer to break their programming.

Europe: Roads have been there since before Roman days. America: Trackless waste (mostly) until the 1700s. E: Compact in comparison. A: Settled by those not happy with Europe. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks; diff'rent loads for diff'rent toads. The Atlantic hates difference, favors "diversity"?
#6 Sam L. on 2014-02-22 16:31 (Reply)
I was in agreement with her narrative. My church sends groups to Guataemala. I've never gone, but I will support sending the guy who is an actual carpenter, knows what he's building.
The girls story? Shame on the people who were not Teaching during the day, instead of wasting every bodies time rebuilding it in the night. I have to remind myself to do that with my employees on non critical stuff.
#6.1 Jerry on 2014-02-23 06:10 (Reply)
Not even a week in and Fallon has ensured that I will never watch him.

...and that's a good thing.
#7 New Yorker on 2014-02-22 16:51 (Reply)
Donna and Frank
Hate to say it but the interstate highway system is going to kill this country. And I say this even though I hope to make my escape from the Northern People's Republic in a few years.
I will be forever tainted by my current zip code, as I should be. Yes, I'm a conservative, yes, I voted for the American in the last two elections, but I may have lived here too long. On a trip down to FL years ago, as I entered a restaurant I was taken aback by the sign on the door,"Please leave long guns in the vehicle, holstered handguns OK.". Intellectually I may support the 2D, but deep down on that and other things, am I damaged?
#8 John the River (Link) on 2014-02-23 11:16 (Reply)
John, I do not understand. What does it mean when you say the interstate highway system is going to kill this country?

And what about the the bill of rights damages you?

Is all this a joke that I just don't get?
#9 GoneWithTheWind on 2014-02-23 11:56 (Reply)

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