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Friday, September 21. 2007

A few more Friday Links

Mexican illegals flee to Canada. And France puts a halt to immigration. Raven

Ahmadinejad and ROTC at Columbia. Tigerhawk

The NYT presents amazingly biased scare article about the Arctic summer ice melt, but concludes with this sentence (h/t, piece at Wizbang):

Sea ice around Antarctica has seen unusual winter expansions recently, and this week is near a record high.

Hillary: "I am not a lesbian."

From Insty:

KATHLEEN PARKER: "The latest smack-down of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers should extinguish any remaining doubt that political correctness is the new McCarthyism."

Under-read rant of the week: The News Junkie on Big Soap, Big Tractor, etc.

Image:  From Theo's When it is OK to use the f word

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That WAS a good rant. Yep, "big" everything, as soon as it gets 'big', seems to grow toward the dessicating sun of new-competition-killing regulation. It's the biological imperative, as expressed by the bureaucracy organism.
#1 buddy larsen on 2007-09-21 15:15 (Reply)
LOL. But what happens if pounds and inches melt away? Orgs go back to fundamentals of basic common decency and sense.
#1.1 tom hanks in Big on 2007-09-21 16:24 (Reply)
''what happens if pounds and inches melt away?''

Great things happen when excess is jettisoned.

But, who gonna make that happen?

Only a "small government" mutation, and that's tough to do, since it takes a big government to create a small government.

It's a conundrum. A con un-drum.

rented-a-tent, rented-a-tent, rented-a-tent-tent-tent
#2 buddy larsen on 2007-09-21 17:10 (Reply)
For once you lost me on the punning. Were you just trying to be mean w/ the "rented-a-tent-tent-tent" syllabic elaboration, b/c that's not my first take on things usually, which i've come to realize is wholly naive, or is it percussive somehow?
#2.1 rin-a-tin-tin-tin on 2007-09-21 17:41 (Reply)
naw, it was a drum. when a pun seems stupid, go with that--
:-D
#2.1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-09-21 17:44 (Reply)
also there was 'spose to be a little 'inexorable march of big government' allusion there, but it's tenuous for sure
#2.1.2 buddy larsen on 2007-09-21 17:47 (Reply)
March of Big gov.

OK, a counter image. This evening, while sitting outside looking at a female goldfinch on a feeder in competition w/ a chickadee and a territorial hummingbird, life was fine until it was excellent, when on a nearby table could be seen a bowl of ripe figs I’d just picked, the light catching it and the dozen stragglers that lay about it, a cat in repose, and a glass of water. Classic still-life. The glass of wine that should’ve been there was in my hand, but that’s the only reason why you’re having to read this.

My rant antidote.
#2.1.2.1 rin-a tin-tin- cab on 2007-09-21 18:38 (Reply)
And i forgot the cardinal pair, hopping on the garden cages. Like winged tomatoes.
#2.1.2.2 rin-a-tin-tin-roma on 2007-09-21 18:52 (Reply)
--wow--great autumnal imagery, finely writ--
#2.1.2.2.1 buddy larsen on 2007-09-21 19:48 (Reply)
Re the link to the Columbia contraoversy--actually, 'travesty' is the word--give this a read.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/usmilvetscu/Co%20-%201.The%20First%20Conflict.htm

The university stands on the ground of the Battle of Harlem Heights (or was it 'Haarlem" then?), the signal early tactical victory of Gen Washington's brand new Continental Army.

Appears that Columbia's precursor, King's College, sent its volunteers into the Redcoat army, for the most part. Seven generations, as the Owner's manual says.

read more:

http://www.thebattlefornewyork.com/walking_tour.php
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-09-21 17:24 (Reply)

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