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Wednesday, July 23. 2014

Wednesday morning links

The power of dust


For the gals, Top 10 Items You're Too Old to Wear


I Saw You With My Wife (video)


Bill Clinton accused of having a busty blonde mistress code-named 'Energizer'


How to Make Introductions Like a Gentleman


The Ambitious Plan To Break California Into 6 States – A Model For The Future?


Oh, by the way: Obama just quietly suspended ObamaCare’s individual mandate until 2016


Burlington, Iowa City Council to Consider Ban on Open Carry of Toy Guns


Keeping Iowa safe from squirt guns


Prof. KC Johnson's closing remarks on his Durham In Wonderland blog


Salon hates "America"


Good news, guys. Feminism is over


Venezuela's Transformation To Socialist Utopia Is Nearly Complete As Its Factories Grind To A Halt


New climate alarm mascot – white ringtail possums


The mascots have to be cute - but isn't it racist that they are always white?


Dalrymple: Practically all journalism is forgotten the day after it was written, even by those who wrote it.


Obamacare’s Meaning Is Not Subject to the President’s Whim - Halbig rebuked the administration's lawlesness, but what happens next is far from clear.


Mr. Z: The Immigration Bomb


Sir Ian McKellen Says Struggling Actors Deserve “Living Wage”


What about struggling poets like me? Why is government so mean?


Is it ever acceptable to talk about "Chinamen"?


For second time, rockets found at UN school in Gaza


Sultan:  The Noose Around Israel's Neck


"Moral Idiots” from Code Pink Disrupt Israeli Ambassador’s Speech at CUFI Gala


Christian purge in the Middle East: The Price of Inaction


An abundance of riches at American Digest



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Re: Open carry of toy guns

This is more lunacy on the left. It's clear that none of these bozos lived in the '50s or knows anything about that time (I was going to say beyond Happy Days or the Christmas Story but they probably don't even know anything about them either). These people are ignorant of history which is one of the reasons they come up with these bone-headed ideas.

It's also obvious they don't know who George Santayana is or what he said.
#1 mudbug on 2014-07-23 10:15 (Reply)
Or is it because they don't trust their cops to know what a real gun looks like and/or won't see to it they do?

Though I remember my favorite toy gun billed itself as a real replica of a Colt derringer and the first real gun I handled was a toy like Raven .25.
#1.1 walt moffett on 2014-07-23 11:21 (Reply)
Interesting angle, Walt. How about these possibilities:

1. The town council doesn't know how to tell the difference between a toy and real guns.

2. The town council doesn't think that citizens would be able to tell the difference between toy and real guns.

3. The town council doesn't think those who carry concealed would be able to tell the difference between toy and real guns.

4. The town council doesn't think there is a difference between a toy and real gun.
#1.1.1 mudbug on 2014-07-23 14:34 (Reply)
Bill Clinton has a mistress, Stop the presses!

One thing I never cared about (really) was Bill or any politician getting a little on the side. Between her, the pol, and the Daily Mail. If it makes them happy, looser, and at rock bottom, its time the politician isn't spending screwing us! It's lying about it that is a no-no. Really it should be included in the daily press briefing for the WH. Of course in that case I'd expect a little "exaggeration" of the Presidential performance. No, I can't go there.

Sam Kinnison had a routine about sex and politicians, can't find it but it fits.
#2 John the River (Link) on 2014-07-23 11:04 (Reply)
RE: I Saw You With My Wife

Pithy is good but a little more description would not be amiss.

I thought this might be a gag video but it turned out to be a depressing commercial for a TV show. My only reference to Satisfaction comes from The Stones. I do not think of a cable network when I see USA.
#3 Freddie Sykes on 2014-07-23 11:11 (Reply)
The power of dust, remember a bit of powder taken from caps, a handful of tossed flour and a match. The eyebrows did grow back eventually.

Top 10 items you're too old to wear. Might make a good post. For men, skinny jeans, visible wife beaters after age 22 (or so), visible neck chains after age 24 (unless worn with a cassock) and so on. Then there are things you should wear after say age 50, trousers with elastic waist bands (don't want to disappoint good cooks), etc.
#4 walt moffett on 2014-07-23 11:38 (Reply)
Interesting that you apparently created a small scale grain dust fire, Walt. The cap powder was unnecessary. Just grain dust mixed with air combined with an ignition source will do the trick. Combine it with a confined space and you get a huge explosion to go with the fire.

Some google images of grain dust explosions here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=grain+elevator+explosion&client=palemoon&rls=Palemoon:en-US&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=tzvQU8_MFdCgyAThpIGIAw&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=658

The destructive power is truly awesome.

Here is a good demonstration of the flammability of grain dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLFUlDv8n8M
#4.1 feeblemind on 2014-07-23 18:57 (Reply)
#2--Clinton and Mistress: One can see why, having seen Hillary!, she whose fury trumps Hell.

#3--Vid says "not available". I'm guessing I don't really care.

Duke U: I look forward to the Wrath of Instapundit descending upon our institutions of "higher learning".

SALON on D'Souza: Clueless progbots.

Venezuela: I've read they've agreed to give $30mil to Lotus F1 team to have Pastor Maldonado drive for them again next year.
#5 Sam L. on 2014-07-23 13:58 (Reply)
dust:

According to the EPA, dust is a pollutant.
#6 Fjord on 2014-07-23 16:41 (Reply)
I agree with Ian McKellen. Actors should have 75% of their wages confiscated by their union to provide for less fortunate actors who can’t command multi-million dollar wages.

Everyone who declares their profession to be acting while struggling as a waiter or pizza delivery driver (for example) should be able to withdraw funds from the actor’s compensation bank until their wages reach the level of living wage.
#7 ErisGuy on 2014-07-24 06:02 (Reply)
California splitting into 6 states? Would that be: Norteno Land, Sudeno Nation, MS13- ville, Methland in the high desert, New China and Gay Geek Land?
#8 bill on 2014-07-24 06:32 (Reply)
I suspect that the purpose of splitting California up is all about having more power in the Senate.
#9 GoneWithTheWind on 2014-07-27 10:57 (Reply)

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