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Tuesday, March 6. 2007

More Tuesday Links

I feel badly for Scooter. Also, surprised by the verdict.

Girl Scouts still selling sin, door to door.

Where did this Iranian general go? ABC. Hope we have him.

Individual choices drive most American income disparities. Villainous

Filler news and real news: The owner of FARK at Instapundit

More reporters take on advocacy role. Duh

China and the stock market wobble: The Chinese banking system, and the problems with investing in China. Samizdata

Canadian diamonds? Yes.

Hirsi Ali is a "bombthrower"? So what is a real bombthrower?

America's favorite sport: beating up derelicts (scroll down). If you read Der Spiegel, you might think so. Admittedly, I do it once in a while when I am bored - but not daily.

New Jersey wants to ban .50 caliber guns. Reason: People don't need them. No, nor do the people "need" free speech or habeas corpus. They are just those obsolete constitutional rights...Indeed, government would be far more efficient without that Bill of Rights, wouldn't it? Left, right, or middle: anyone can come up with reasons to chip away at our Bill of Rights.

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Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 16:06 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Speaking of sin, we already have the Thin Mints, which my wife insists on keeping in the freezer, and I believe that one or two other boxes are on their way.

The neighborhood jungle telegraph informs me that there is a new lemon cookie. I'll have to hunt those down. If they don't find me first.
#1 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-06 18:54 (Reply)
I feel badly for Scooter as well. Some have said that the composition of the jury may might/will be a factor. I wonder. A reverse OJ. I hate making such a comment, but yet...

Long live the Girl Scouts. Though I evidently have none in my immediate location, they will surely hit me up as I shop.

No link on the Chinese banking problem.

Hirsi Ali is a stupendous human being. Brave beyond words. So should we all be. I fall short.

Spiegel, in my imperfect translation, stands for s**t.

My nomenclature is outdated I'm sure, but an M-79 in every house. If a chicken is good, a 300 yard explosive projectile is even better.
#2 Luther McLeod on 2007-03-06 21:06 (Reply)
Dang it, I forgot to add, style stolen from Habu.
#3 Luther McLeod on 2007-03-06 21:09 (Reply)
Fixed that link. It's interesting: China needs money in the banks to prop up the banks, so restricts investment. They are in the sort of bind that controlled markets always fall into.
#4 BD on 2007-03-06 21:23 (Reply)
We have tied ourselves to the Devil, in this instance China. A chimera within a fantasy. Just wait, when the next East Asia monetary crisis appears we will be sending them billions to support their banks. Some will say the positive is that we are all interlinked, no choice but to support one another, can't let them self-destruct, etc., etc. I say, we have'm hooked. Bad for us but much, much worse for them if it all goes to hell. The world would die without us. But no one will admit it.
#5 Luther McLeod on 2007-03-06 21:58 (Reply)
This is one of the most perspicacious comments I've read about China in a long time. I've said the same myself but usually get ignored. You have it down, Luther. Perfect. We are China's soul, and they know it.
#5.1 anonymous on 2007-03-07 00:16 (Reply)
It's those damn Girl Scout Cookies! Do know what it's like to be a parent of a Girl Scout when Cookie Days roll around---cases and cases of the things squeezing out oxygen from the rec room store area--and adding to global warming through high caloric intake and resultant watercloset output. And when one eats them--and has anyone eaten one Girl Scout cookie--lest it was the last one in a box--there is a sudden craving to go out and mug a derelict Der Spiegel reporter snoozing under the nearest viaduct.
By all means ban them, along with reindeer meat cheeseburgers and sauteed brain tacos!!! ASAP
#6 John Hetman on 2007-03-06 23:18 (Reply)
Cookies, derelicts, and China. Wonderful how our readers can weave a cloth from such unrelated threads.
#7 The NJ on 2007-03-07 21:33 (Reply)

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