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Saturday, October 17. 2015

Saturday morning links

Amazing Flower Parade Photos


5 Ways to Manage the Need for Validation


A Master Swordsman Cuts A 100-MPH Fastball In Half


Guy should play baseball


Man Desperately Trying To Wring Every Last Ounce Of Relaxation From Final Day Of Vacation


Why Doesn't the Jewish Tradition Hold Noah in Higher Esteem? Abraham and Moses are considered wholly righteous men, but Noah isn’t quite. That’s because, unlike them, he does what he’s told without question.


Plastic surgery is a new treatment for mental illness


How Bad Will It Get for American Express? As Costco cuts ties, Amex struggles to hang on.


Greenpeace founder delivers powerful annual lecture, praises carbon dioxide


The Climate Is Indeed Changing: Cooling Ahead


Democrat Warmist Sees Real Data With Open Mind And....
Can you guess what happened next?


Lies about gun sales


The film tries to turn gross errors of journalism and judgment into acts of heroism and martyrdom.


Introducing The ‘Democratic Socialist’ Party - Bernie Sanders is an extremist. So why do so many people in the Democratic Party sound just like him?


The debate: When I flew into the Damascus airport under fire, I remembered what my late mother told me...


Trump is full of it


The Republican Obama? Why his rivals fear Marco Rubio.


Joe Biden is running


They Really Hate Ben Carson - The Left's campaign to destroy another high-profile black Republican is in full swing.




 The left is in full-blown smear-Carson mode. He is, after all, the left's worst nightmare — a black Republican who is brilliant, kind and widely admired, including by many blacks.




He is off the plantation, a runaway slave


Obamacare Delivers. Just Not Very Much


Russia 'tried to cut off' World Wide Web - A failed experiment to cut Russia from the World Wide Web stokes fears of
Chinese-style online censorship


Fed-Up Hungarians Close Border with Croatia Over ‘Migrants’ - Is Slovenia next?


German Schoolchildren Enlisted to Serve Invading Hordes of “Refugees”


Apparently the migrants can't make their own beds or clean their messes


The bloody Palestinian war on reality


The Paranoid, Supremacist Roots of the Stabbing Intifada


Z Man:



From an American perspective, handing the Middle East over to the Russians is not a terrible thing. Americans are far too moralistic to run a proper empire. The Russians are too incompetent to remain a big player in the region in the long run, but in the short run they will be the whip hand that is needed to keep the peace. The Russians will kill everything that moves in eastern Syria, for example, in order to subdue ISIS.



ISIS Fighters Cut Off Beards And Run Away As Russia, Iran Close In


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Have we reached peak plastic surgery?

No, but we've reached peak insanity and peak narcissism. I couldnt' finish the article, what does the guy do for a living?
#1 fjord on 2015-10-17 06:30 (Reply)
Finish the article?! I was totally unsuspecting when I (alas!) clicked on the link, two seconds later that video started running and one second after that I'm running for the eye bleach.

Talk about the need for trigger warnings.
#1.1 John the River (Link) on 2015-10-17 07:42 (Reply)
Conceptually, how does this differ from what Bruce/Caitlin has done? People destroying their bodies to fit a delusion--though in one case we react in horror and in the other we're supposed to buy into the delusion and applaud.
#1.2 jay on 2015-10-17 08:07 (Reply)
You're supposed not only to buy into the delusion but literally to buy it: pay for it with your money, out of "compassion."
#1.2.1 Texan99 on 2015-10-17 11:13 (Reply)
Trump was correct in the statement about Obama prior to taking office. Too bad that Obama chose to follow the course that he has. As Rush said, Nobody but the holder of the office can denigrate the honor and reputation of the Office.

Gun Sales, and for that matter, Politics: In a world where one side has no qualms about lying, and the other side will commit to try not to lie, It's obvious Obama hasn't purchased a gun, and which of the two sides he resides in.
#2 Jerry on 2015-10-17 10:37 (Reply)
The Democratic Party is run by liars. Take a look at this link. You won't believe they would be such blatant liars: http://www.democrats.org/about/our-history
#2.1 mudbug on 2015-10-17 16:19 (Reply)
On the other hand, Noah is included in the list of the faithful in the 11th chapter of Hebrews in the New Testament of the Bible, along with other humanly weak characters.
#3 tnxplant on 2015-10-17 11:48 (Reply)
"Why Doesn't the Jewish Tradition Hold Noah in Higher Esteem? Abraham and Moses are considered wholly righteous men, but Noah isn’t quite. That’s because, unlike them, he does what he’s told without question."

When I was in high school I worked a couple of summers as a general groundskeeper at the cottage of an elderly Orthodox rabbi from Toronto. He was a lovely man and when he discovered we had a mutual interest in European history, he used to bring me - a Catholic teenager - into his study for tea and some terrific discussions. The greater part of his family had the misfortune to have been in Poland when WWII broke out.

He was full of great quips: "Where there are two rabbis, there are three opinions!"

So thanks, your line above made me think of him right away. In my mind's eye I can see him in heaven now, no doubt taking the Almighty to task over some Torah technicality!
#4 JJM on 2015-10-17 14:07 (Reply)
What I liked best about the Zundert Flower Parade was seeing the relatively young winning team. Didn't expect that.
#5 LP on 2015-10-17 16:00 (Reply)
"Democrat warmist sees real data..." is and outstanding read, too many links to digest in one sitting. I bookmarked it for further reading.

The one by the Greenpeace founder is pretty good also.

Both talk about the damage being done to real environmentalism by the Cult of AGW.
#6 B Moe on 2015-10-17 17:12 (Reply)
The Gang of Z is going to be really and truly P.O.d into a classically outrageous hissy fit when they see this! Oooooooooooooh, it'll make them so MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDD.
#6.1 Sam L. on 2015-10-17 18:13 (Reply)
It's bookmarked. I'll be spending some time reading it and the links.
#6.2 John the River (Link) on 2015-10-17 22:50 (Reply)
>Guy should play baseball

Nope. Baseball players should be using swords.
#7 Thon Brocket on 2015-10-17 23:39 (Reply)

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