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Saturday, April 26. 2014

Saturday morning links

A reader sent that pic of an Osprey last week


Pet duck attack leads to neighbor's $275,000 injury lawsuit


Warren: Of music & politics


Code Duello: The Rules of Dueling


McInnes defends drug use


FDA Rule Seeks Broad Regulation Over E-Cigarettes Because They Might Make People Want Real Cigarettes


Traditional taxi cartels are doomed as on-demand ridesharing services take off


AVI:  Only very recently has anyone in human skin imagined that people generally being good and getting along is their usual state.


Vanguard’s Bogle: “It’s Better To Have High-Frequency Trading Than Not”


The Folly of Germany’s Plan to Lower Its Retirement Age


A brief summary of Cultural Marxism


Warmists Attempting To Kill Ikea Store In California


Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Western Feminists Life Safe, Soft Decadent Lives,
and Focus on the Trivial at the Expense of the Profoundly Important


Why Does Nation Tolerate A Habitual Liar As President?


Hamas TV celebrates jihad murder of Israelis: “Our harvest is your heads”


Williamson on the politics of poverty


Student Loan Forgiveness--A Get-Out-the-Vote Rip-off


Time to Rethink Basic Logic of
Peace Process



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If Israel wants peace, it should annex the West Bank and Gaza and expel all the Arabs, including those who currently have Israeli citizenship.

Israel should also build ICBM's that car reach Washington so that in a show down (which will come someday regardless of annexation) it can face down the US, its real enemy.
#1 bob sykes on 2014-04-26 07:24 (Reply)
E-cgs, its all about control. I mean how dare some one seel something that has not be vetted by the G?

Code duello, for fun look up 19th century criminal codes, things like a a year in prison for posting a notice someone is a coward, serving as a second, out right bans on duelling, etc.

Speaking of Ali's statement, anyone else see where a PhD in Feminist Biology is now being offered? First world problems indeed.
#2 walt moffett on 2014-04-26 09:44 (Reply)
Economics tells us that if someone tries a device that delivers a flavorful hit of nicotine, they are bound to think, "hey, I can pay a lot more, have smelly clothes and breath as well as all the carcinogens if go raw.

I fear this has more to do with the old joke about why Baptists don't have sex standing up. They're afraid people might think they are dancing.
#3 JKB on 2014-04-26 10:06 (Reply)
Rules for dueling

It ain't over till Ned Beatty is in the woods squealing like a pig. Oh, wait, that's dueling banjos.
#4 JKB on 2014-04-26 10:09 (Reply)
Duels also require a guest list, choice of weapons, rules for the activities of any on-site physician.
#5 rhhardin (Link) on 2014-04-26 11:42 (Reply)
Re: Warren: Of music & politics

I have no idea what point he's trying to make, but I'm absolutely certain he's never actually played an instrument.
#6 The Ka of Morello on 2014-04-26 11:52 (Reply)
For years now I have been trying to tell MF folks about the network between the women of WA state the women of AZ and the mob in Chicago. It is a well documented fact that these women's networks have put females into positions for which they were not prepared. Women who had no sense of a moral code or ethical behavior--they are however, women who will do as they are told by their "handlers". Do anything for those prestigious "leadership" positions. Well MF--here is another great example of that network and their connections to evil:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/24/arizona-va-boss-accused-covering-up-veterans-deaths-linked-to-previous-scandal/
#7 faculty wife on 2014-04-26 12:23 (Reply)
Code Duello

Some good depictions of the culture of dueling are found in C.S. Forester's Mr Midshipman Hornblower; George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman (both rigged, both delopements); Joseph Conrad's novella, The Duel, stylishly redone by Sir Ridley Scott as "The Duellists" with Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine; and in David Weber's space opera, Field of Dishonor.
#8 The Duellist on 2014-04-26 12:45 (Reply)
Do we know how many of those 40 veterans who died waiting to be seen at VA hospital in AZ were white?
#9 another one on 2014-04-26 13:03 (Reply)
Makes me remember this piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1sWsn1Q8lk
#10 apple pie on 2014-04-26 13:05 (Reply)
Student Loan Forgiveness--A Get-Out-the-Vote Rip-off

QUOTE:

An op-ed the next day in the Journal explains how it works. In certain cases, students may borrow as much as they need or want,


But nobody teaches these idiots how to want. So even if their loans are forgiven paid off by their as yet unborn children, they'll still never find work with that libtarded arts degree.
#11 Nobody loves you but your mama, and she could be jivin' too. on 2014-04-26 13:39 (Reply)
E-Cigs and the FDA: Cigs are BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD, and E-Cigs likely are too. But they won't ban cigs/cigars/snuff/chew--too much tax money. Money trumps health.

Germany: Not usually stupid; this time, unusually stupid.

Ali: First world problems are so overwhelming to our Feminists, they cannot even see, let alone comprehend, the problems of women eleswhere.

Al Qaida: Lefties will not listen to them, lest they hear what AQ says.

The logic of the Peace Process? There. is. NONE. There will never be; the Palis hate too much, and the PA/Hamas/Hezbollah hate even more.
#12 Sam L. on 2014-04-26 21:03 (Reply)

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