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Tuesday, March 20. 2007

Tuesday Lunchtime Links

Tool humor. Cramer

The documentary Indoctrinate U is trying to build an audience via an internet campaign. Let's help. Hey, here's the trailer for the movie. Actually, the YouTube works better.

There is no such thing as a "global temperature." Of course not. How could there be? Meanwhile, the global warming hoax is gradually unravelling.

Zimbabwe. Inflation heading towards 4000%

The wealthy: Why not just paint a target on their forehead? Luskin

A Kennedy says Chavez "is a true friend of American and social justice." Blue Crab

Do expensive weapons systems make us impotent? A case for simpler, less costly military hardware.

This is what nation-building looks like. Totten via SDA. Malls?

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 11:31 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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"Meanwhile, the global warming hoax is gradually unravelling."

Indeed, we may so hope.

But know that down in the great swindle workshop operated by tiny elfen liberals, another great disaster and need for government intervention is in the works.

How long has it been now when radon was ravaging our poor civilization? Or tainted spinach destroying families of all six (or is it now seven) genders? Now just when is that asteroid, meteor or comet going to collide with Earth?
#1 John Hetman on 2007-03-20 11:56 (Reply)
Good tool humor. :0)

One fellow I know, Tony, loved to tell people who had to buy another expensive piece of finishing lumber because they had cut the first one too short, not to worry about it because he had a lumber stretcher. People would be so happy to hear that. And then Tony would start to laugh and he would laugh and laugh and laugh. He loved that joke and he never got tired of it.

Also Tony considered any request for a 'stud finder' as a good opportunity to call for Barb the secretary to please come to the front because somebody was looking for her.
#2 Patina on 2007-03-20 13:01 (Reply)
Re stud finder: Seems everything in construction has a double meaning- always fun for the guys.

As for me, I actually get a little embarrassed when having to ask for male or female fittings at construction supply stores. The really helpful clerks smirk.
#3 anon on 2007-03-20 13:51 (Reply)
yep, every time my kid asks me where the ruler is, I say "I'm right here, my child".
#4 buddy larsen on 2007-03-20 15:24 (Reply)
John H--remember "Alar"? Alar-the-Apple gonna getcha!
#5 Alar Appleman on 2007-03-20 15:27 (Reply)
#4- That’s a fair and good play. Strong all ‘round :)
#6 anon on 2007-03-20 16:21 (Reply)
I'm still trying to figure out what is in each of the little sandwiches. And exactly what does that garnish consist of, anyway?
#7 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-20 16:57 (Reply)
well, pimento is in there, I'm almost certain I spy some of the stuff here n there.Garnish looks like a broccoli top. or a brocolli top, one of the two.
#8 buddy larsen on 2007-03-20 17:09 (Reply)
RE: The wealthy...

Interesting how Lord Conrad Blacks' trial is such big news that the Australian Press and the British Press and the Canadian Press have all descended on Chicago but the USA press seems uninterested. Steyn is blogging the trial for Macleans if any one here is interested. Also Trump is in a Globe & Mail article with some of his views about the trial today. Here is a snip.

"With the emergence of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation -- a 2002 U.S. law that tightened standards for all public company boards, management and public accounting firms in the aftermath of major corporate scandals -- "they make you sign documents that basically say every transaction made by everybody in your company is 100 per cent honest. If it isn't, you go to jail for the rest of your life," he (Trump) said."

Also, I was reading an interesting article from a collectors site, about the prosecution of the CEO of World Com (I think, I cannot find the article). It was written by a lawyer who said that in his opinion, if the CEO had incorporated a separate company for dealing in art (for a cost of about $1200) then the illegal deals that were made buying and selling art ( much of which I gather he kept in his various homes) would have been legal.
#9 Patina on 2007-03-20 17:10 (Reply)
The old saw sez "good cases make bad law". Fits, esp to that one section of SarBox, if the fact that London just today surpassed NY as the world leader in IPOs. Seems like an arcane measurement, but Wall Street powers lots of economic activity that improves life on Main Street.
#10 buddy larsen on 2007-03-20 18:21 (Reply)
There is ham, maybe roast beef, possibly a slice of salami. But is it chicken salad / tuna salad / egg salad? If we had higher resolution photos taken in stereo, we could with appropriate equipment make contour maps of the various sandwich fillings, which might help us in determining their composition. And I maintain it is pimento, yes, but with a slice of tomato, plus red lettuce and green. Is it dinner time yet?
#11 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-20 20:33 (Reply)
yum--thank goodness for FOOD!
#12 buddy larsen on 2007-03-20 20:46 (Reply)

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