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Friday, August 19. 2011Warmists have now totally lost itNot from The Onion - from NASA (correction - not exactly NASA itself but NASA-affiliated scientists): Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report. So now we have the boy who cried "Aliens!" You really just have to laugh and, anyhow, I kinda like aliens. Bring 'em on!
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Friday morning linksSippican's Handy Guide To Writing On The Internet I spose we follow Sipp's advice... English: The Inescapable Language Too bad that many Americans cannot really speak it, much less write it. Wants to be world's fattest woman In 1938, Roosevelt's New Deal produced the nation's first depression within a depression. Obama Doesn't WANT You To Have A Job Obama: The Affirmative Action President Eco-Fads: Feel-Good Policies Replace Science Vanderbilt University to Observe Witches’ Holidays Sheesh. It's about time. Bubble, bubble... It's about time: A Federal Dept of Diversity $20 Million for 14 Green Make-Work Jobs If they like their health care, can small businesses keep it? Drilling Rigs in Pennsylvania! Hide the Womenfolk! These evil ones will drill anything Self-defense illegal in England The UK: America’s lost ally Wisconsin Teachers' Union Lays Off 40% of Staff SPIEGEL Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev - 'They Were Truly Idiots' Crown Heights: 'His Vile Rhetoric Incited the Rioting' Big Sis’ Latest Terrorists: More White Americans Aborting one of your twins: Selective Reduction’ and Self-Indulgence U.S. Government Loaning $500M for Solar Power Projects—In India Ace: I Think We're In A Second Recession The truth about government energy subsidies NYT: Exceptions to Keynesian Theory Saturday Is Lemonade Freedom Day! New paper from Lindzen and Choi implies that the models are exaggerating climate sensitivity. Driscoll: The Community Reinvestment Act Comes Full Circle The Higher-Education Bubble Has Popped Mead: Erdogan’s Big Fat Turkish Idea Hoyas try to start WW 3 Where have all the rich folks gone?
Thursday, August 18. 2011Taranto amusing hereTaranto: The Five Stages of Obama - The New York Times offers therapy for a gravely ill presidency:
"Dare them to block it"? Is this Kindergarten? Everybody knows what things the economy needs to be unleashed, but the Dems will never do them. Growth industriesA short while ago, Arnold Kling wrote a good piece about the growth industries in Western countries, especially the US. I cannot find that link right now. They turn out to be Government, Education, and Health Care. I find it illuminating to view these sectors of life as industries: consumer-oriented service industries, largely unproductive, with the first two pandering to and trying to manipulate their customers and the third, well, in flux but it actually does produce things: artificial knees, medicines, treatments, stents for my friends, etc. - things that might help people be productive and independent. All three have brilliant, expensive marketing machines - and all three are heavily subsidized if not totally paid for by the taxpayer. Who is paying the bills for these subsidies now? The Chinese - the reason we were supposed to eat our spinach as kids. They are paying those bills. We owe them, big time. Or do they own us? Think about it: Chinese people are paying for our Medicare and our "stimuli"... It is pathetic. Who is listening? The country is freaking out, and DC is totally unawareFrom the admirable Sultan's The Not Listening Tour:
People are hurting out there, and it is because the government has gotten in their way. People are fearful of what the government plans to do to them, and to their businesses, next. My take is that the entire US economy is holding its breath until 2013. In the meantime, people will hunker down and try to survive the economic plague. Thursday morning linksThe right way to fell a tree Do it wrong and you might die The Old Urbanist is exploring Seaside, FL with bike and camera:
EU Ref: The fantasy of wind Q: What Causes Professors to Think About the Business Model of Higher Education? Allen West: I’m Here as the Modern Day Harriet Tubman to Lead People Away From the Plantation Wow Surber on Obama: Why is he running for re-election? My answer: it's about the free golf Looking for Limits - The power to mandate health insurance is the power to mandate almost anything. Scapegoater-in-Chief: President Obama Blames Tea Party for High Unemployment A Child Prodigy Under the Welfare State Low-life Mom is pleased with low-life kid: government gives her a bigger house and a bigger check What's Behind Israel's Middle-Class Revolt? The Claims of Grievance-Bearing Identity Groups Will Always Prevail Over Fairness Turns Out Head Start's as Bad as It Always Was:
Billions for nothin and the checks for free Playing The Odds: Hedge Funds Finance Medical Malpractice Claims (h/t Dr. Bob) I suggest that Docs hold their noses and invest in these NY Times, Wash. Post ignore rocket fire from Gaza, pounce on Israel for retaliating Perry: “I’ll promise you this, “I’ll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.” Wednesday, August 17. 2011Weds. morning linksKrauthammer's Take Energy in America: Dead Birds Unintended Consequence of Wind Power Development The Myth of Pristine Nature - A review of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World:
Harsanyi: The Department of Failed Ideas Observations from a White House insider, September 2010 Paris and Berlin launch a coup to control eurozone, demanding rights to dictate economic policy Tuesday, August 16. 2011How the Michigan-Midwestern union model failedBarone in the WSJ:
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Tuesday morning linksHow to Survive an Elevator Free Fall Am Thinker: The poisoned fruit of social democracy:
Magnet: Bring back Stigma - anything doesn't go Massachusetts update: Sometimes, Ignorance Can Be An Excuse Nanny State Madness: California‘s Proposed ’Fitted Sheet’ Law Expanding Arctic ice proves global warming Everything proves global warming Young Americans: Luckiest Generation in History “You Lie!” Rep. Says He Was Right All Along – Obamacare Does Cover Illegal Aliens On Friday evening, Chris Matthews said of Texas governor Rick Perry: “He looks like a clown. . . . He dresses very fancy. There’s something about the way that he puts himself together that doesn’t look authentic. Why Obama Looks So Bad - It's the economy, stupid. Yes, but it's more than that Report – CNN, CBS and NY Times polls show CNN, CBS and NY Times anti-Tea Party strategy working How to Win When You’re Unpopular: What Obama Can Learn From Truman Steyn: A Compassionate Big Gov't Rewires A Nation Of Brutes:
The fight deepens over the Carbon Tax in Australia That Archibald speech pulls no punches Via Norm on Liberalism:
If the grownups don't provide the guardrails, who will? KC Johnson: Campus Freedom, AAUP-Style Sudduth: Health Reform That Could Have Been The Obamamobile, looks a little Darth Vader menacing but I'm sure it's a slick ride with a good shower and bathroom: Perry's first campaign ad (h/t Jammie)
Monday, August 15. 2011"We have nothing..."Dalrymple on the rioters:
It's about the unintended consequences of undiscerning compassion. Or, to be a bit more cynical, vote-buying. Genuine gratitude is the rarest of human sentiments. Monday morning linksImage on right from Knish's Future Newsweek Covers On The Irrational In Public Affairs Who is God? Jesus and the “Ogre” Waivers for schools where kids don't learn Gates: The Sanitization of History The cause of the Brit riots was a failure to shoot the looters: Causes, More Causes and the Politics of Trainers Powerline: How to close the BS gap Berlin mayor criticizes nostalgia for Berlin Wall The Credit Downgrade: Symptom of the Marxist Disease Like a Texas storm, Perry swamps Iowa straw poll Star: Why Romney is the wrong guy for the GOP Cameron: Riot-hit UK must reverse `moral collapse':
Another Blue Pension Crisis: In San Francisco neo: Taxing the wealthy is popular US Consumer Confidence falls to levels not seen since Carter Administration Reverend Al and Media Manipulation David Limbaugh: There Is Just No Satisfying Liberals:
Obama tries to turn the tables on GOP with call for tax cut extension CNN/ORC Poll: Dem support for Obama's re-election fades Sunday, August 14. 2011Sunday morning linksPeter the Wild Boy Men Living Longer: Women and minorities hardest hit? United Nations Affirms the Human Right to Blaspheme Wehner: The GOP’s Philosophical Straitjacket Noam Chomsky: Conservative Christians Support Israel Because They Want Jews Exterminated Will: JFK’s Berlin blunder Video of speech: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Announces Presidential Bid Berkeley-CAIR Islamophobia Report: 'No There, There' Jacobson: A voracious appetite for class warfare Tierney: The Left-Leaning Tower Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Aug 11th 2011 (h/t Doug Ross) Saturday, August 13. 2011Saturday morning linksFrederick James creates iPad covers from Madoff clothes Mike Adams - This Year Keep Your Kids Home From College Can We Make Jurassic Park Yet? Rome police arrest Colosseum 'gladiator' gang Krauthammer: The system is not broken Anti-Semitism, Political Correctness and the New York Times—20 Years Later George Soros Sued for $50M by 28-Year-Old Ex-Girlfriend; Says He Slapped, Choked Her While in Bed VDH: The President's Stale Sermons Surber: Double-down Democrats:
'Britain needs to ask itself why it is so hated' says New York Times The Left Owns the Election Law Industry Morning Jay: Obama Has No Clue What To Do With Himself Kling: The New Commanding Heights The Smithsonian Life List: 43 Places to See Before You Die Tyrrell: The Growing Bipartisan Consensus on Obama Via Michelle:
Friday, August 12. 2011Hey, you Obama- voting college studentsAfter Graduation, Get a Job Immediately, or Else:
There always were consequences. Adult life is not child's play unless you have a good-sized trust fund. Of course, you can always do liberal arts grad study in England: they are desperate for suckers. Afterwards, you can wait tables or join riots to burn down some entrepreneurial Paki's fruit stand or some struggling family's haberdashery. The academic bubble is not bursting, but it is a slow, steady leak which will leave many would-be paid scholars unemployed. My best advice, which is worth exactly what you pay for it, is to get a real productive job and to pursue your scholarly interests on your own, as most people have done in the past. It's going to be difficult to get paid for a hobby in the near future. No free ride unless you are a Talmud scholar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, married to a rich wife.
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$97 per hour (US)Picked up my car from service today. They charged me $97/per hour for labor. I remember when auto repair was $17/hour, 20/hr if you watched, 25/hour if you helped. Well, my gunsmith charges $150/hr, and my local electronics repair joint charges $200 now. There definitely is an economic case for learning how to do something that people need.
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Best newspaper in the State of MaineThe Rumford Meteor, of course. Maine's Here's a story: Let He Who Has Never Waved A Gun At A Stranger In A Dunkin’ Donuts Parking Lot Cast The First Stone And Resign Your Seat In The House or this: Elderly Maine Residents Always Seem To Be In The Last Place You Look For Them. or this: Cape Elizabeth Man Is Granted Wish, Will Receive 46 Blissful Months Without NPR It's the real Maine: warts, Welfare, meth labs, lobsters, and all.
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Friday morning linksWhat is worth preserving? A Preservationist's Dilemma ...once you’re in the world of work, nobody cares about college pedigrees. It's about results. Sipp: Housing Delenda Est Simon: The Mystery of the Forty Percent. It's the cigarettes. Will: Britain tackles the welfare state
Condell: "You are like rats who shit in their own nest.... You pathetic pampered human vermin." Wonderful rant about Britain's pond scum. Obama: Something is wrong with country's politics Or with the country's policies? Rove: What Obama should do...but won't Driscoll: ‘The Sun Never Sets On The British Welfare System’ ‘Made in the USA’ Requirement Pushed As Job-Creator for California Brilliant! Mayor Nutter: Uncle Tom. A quote from his speech:
Insty: ON THIS WEEK’S INSTAVISION, I celebrate 10 years of blogging and talk about where the blogosphere has been, and where it’s going. Via Carpe:
Thursday, August 11. 2011Brit degeneracyImage below via Englishman: Theodore Dalrymple - British Degeneracy on Parade:
From EU Ref: A nation scared of its own children? In Britain, crime is easy Q&O: It’s the collectivist that are the problem, not the individualists Horrid Leftist Erica Payne Defends Rioters, Looters and Thieves in London Thursday morning linksJames Wood: Is That All There Is? Secularism and its discontents. The Etiology and Treatment of Childhood Video: Islam's greatest invention Markets in Everything: Union Strike Services San Francisco hosted its first SlutWalk on Saturday, August 6, and I -- along with two fellow sluts -- simply had to go check out this latest protest fad. Another round of questions for polar bear researcher Exposing the failures of the New Elite I think Bookworm is right: It really does seem to be pointless, done for the thrill of it English Riots, Moral Relativism, Gun Control, and the Welfare State NYM: The Dem Party Left looks exactly like a coyote just now Mike Huckabee Doubles Down: Obama Has A “Different Worldview” From The Rest Of Us Wednesday, August 10. 2011Apparently we, the people, failed ObamaHarsanyi: Sorry, Guys, There Are No More Kings. Oftentimes, like Harsanyi, I cannot fathom the crap I read from the MSM.
As in the case of the pitiful Maureen Dowd. What asteroid does she live on? I don't have the time or the patience to point out every error of logic and fact in her piece. It is just mind-boggling. She needs to get out in the world a little.
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"The breakdown of the family lies behind all other urban dysfunction."From Heather: Back to the Future on Poverty Policy - Mayor Bloomberg’s latest program is a greatest-hits package of failed ideas. One quote:
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Bloomberg, Soros, et al are insane. That's not a diagnosis: it means that they are not in reality. I doubt that either of them have ever sat down and talked to a 16 year-old single high school drop-out mother of three who happily and willingly consigned herself and her kids to a life of dependency and dysfunction. Have a kid? Get your own apartment! And a check from the city! And free medical care and food stamps! Why not? Their moms did the same thing. Normalization of dysfunction and dependency. The government incentives are perverse, and it's on our nickel.
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Weds. morning links2011 Perseid meteor shower is best seen tonight After Attack, Reclusive Amazon Tribe Feared Missing Our reader's pastor is spending his sabbatical riding rails Budget cuts and loss of revenues don’t necessarily mean worse education. Small-business owners say that they have jobs but can't find qualified people. Federal Reserve to Markets: You’re On Your Own Now Wisconsin GOP Holds Off Democrats in Recall Elections. At PJ, What the GOP Victory in Wisconsin Means Mossad's Miracle Weapon - Stuxnet Virus Opens New Era of Cyber War Obama fundraises while markets slide. And, of course, At Fundraiser Obama Blames Bush and Europe For the Country’s Problems Frank Luntz: “I think his re-election is in jeopardy” Barack Obama has led a singularly low-impact life. There are good reasons Psychiatrists should think twice before making sweeping comments about those with whom they disagree politically.. Interview: Mark Steyn on After America (Transcript Added) Obama Gets a Blank Check for Endless War - Record numbers of U.S. troops are dying under Obama, but the anti-war movement is nowhere to be found. On Palin: It ain’t Harvard. But then it ain’t arrogant, condescending, and flat-out wrong, either. Tuesday, August 9. 2011Looting In England Now Entirely Out Of Control
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Wasted And Useful LivesIsn't it time for the New York Times to run another 10,000 word essay about how any minute everyone is going to flee the suburbs and flock to the cities, because we all know the quality of life is so low out there in the sticks? The (Insert name of city) riots.
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Tuesday morning links‘Is Marriage for White People?’ Deaf man complains nudist festival would not provide interpreter Until this week, I didn't know that Israel was once a paradise. Joe Bastardi Calls Manmade CO2 Global Warming “An Obvious Fraud”:
Dino: Two and a half years wasted 30,000 college students kicked out of food aid program in Michigan How Much Should Teachers Make? Who Cares!
A taste of Romney: Obama’s Horrible, No Good Day: Romney Speaks on S&P Downgrade
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