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Thursday, June 16. 2011Thursday morning linksToon from Ace last week PRINCE Harry is going back to war in Afghanistan as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, The Sun can reveal. There may be some life left in the Windsors. Our President Really, Truly Does Not Understand The Economy Big Corn Eats GOP:
Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade Why gay men don't get fat. h/t Vanderleun If You’re Worried About Crime, You’re a Racist Reason: Forty years after Nixon declared war on drugs, it's time to give peace a chance. Am Thinker: The Sorry State of Liberal Compassion In Rehab Nation, sin becomes addiction Dartmouth: Conan O’ Brien’s Brilliant Commencement Address Liberals in Media Lament Lack of 'Dirt' in Sarah Palin Emails Wind Turbines Blamed for Mass Slaughter of Protected Golden Eagles When it comes to fighting unionization, Subaru's story is an instructive one Land of the Free? New York and California come out at the bottom of individual freedoms study Doug McIntyre’s Red Eye Radio, Monday - Friday: 1:00 AM - 6:00 AM (Eastern) on WABC - 770 Smart, knowledgeable, and entertaining - with superb bumper music Wednesday, June 15. 2011Connecticut on the road to troubleFrom Malanga's The 'Anti-Christie' Agenda Driving Connecticut:
Lovely state, insane politics. Economically, it could be another Texas if it wanted to be. From an income standpoint, it's the richest state in the US (but that mostly comes from the comfortable NYC suburb of Fairfield County). Instead, it keeps trying to kill the geese that lay the golden eggs to buy votes in its forlorn dying cities from which industry has fled. That's a long-term death spiral, just like the one New Jersey was in.
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Weds. morning linksWomen are BORN to be moody VDH: The Art of Appreciating America from Abroad Electric cars not so green after all? Rubio: ‘The World Still Needs America’ The Democrats' Ridiculous Double Standard on Weiner and Clinton Lib Media Slams Sarah Palin for Writing Emails at an 8th Grade Level… Ignore Obama’s 7th Grade Level Speech Pa. judge: No expulsion for kindergarten touching Ace: Mitt Romney's Devious Debate Performance (And I Actually Mean That In A Good Way) The men who are killing New York Re: Bachmann Smart, Media Dumb 63% say government does too much What's your race? Disgusting Little Boxes Tuesday, June 14. 2011Turkey and the FrogAs I have twice before (here in June 2010 and here in September 2010), I asked my friend Gerald Robbins, the Turkish-speaking expert and a Senior Fellow at Philadelphia’s Foreign Policy Research Institute, to comment on this past weekend’s parliamentary elections in Turkey. In brief recap of prior posts: Turkey’s AKP political party and its leader Prime Minister Recep Erdogan have held parliamentary power since 2002. Their program has been a combination of several elements: successfully encouraging economic development in the interior which has also benefited the usual coastal economic centers, and pursuing a gradual turning from the secularist path set almost a century ago for modern Turkey by Kemal Attarturk. AKP’s Turkey turned to a more Islamist focus aligned with Ottoman-like pretensions of influence throughout the Middle East. Turkey’s former closeness with the West via NATO membership has become an empty promise, as shown in its refusal to allow Western forces to enter Iraq via its territory in 2003 and subsequent footsy with radical states in the Middle East and support for anti-Israel propaganda and actions. Facing strongly entrenched business, secular and military interests, like a frog in slowly warming water, these interests have had their power sapped (coopted in the case of many traditional business interests, whose social-democratic/statist linkages make them particularly susceptible to AKP blandishments and programs). Now, for Robbins latest: Continue reading "Turkey and the Frog"
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Tuesday morning linksThe Latest Government Solution to a Non-Problem It makes a mess of miles of natural environments Palin’s emails: The world’s biggest story! Bill Gross: US Is in Even Worse Shape Financially Than Greece UK business poised to flee green carbon tax In the midst of terrible economic times, let’s raise energy prices dramatically and lay people off … Re the FBI: Writs of Assistance Are Back Not funny: Obama Jokes at Jobs Council MOYAR: Why we must persist in Afghanistan
Monday, June 13. 2011Monday morning linksAs Promised, Obama Is Destroying Coal Industry Dude, Where’s My Freedom? The government tightens the noose on guns, health, travel, and more. Scrutinize the president, not Palin Steyn: Obama’s Road to Nowhere - This is Main Street, Obamaville: All bumps, no road. Fanning Imaginary Flames: A Look Back At The Great Church Fire Propaganda Campaign:
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Superb Chris Muir toon below the fold (totally SFW) Continue reading "Monday morning links" Sunday, June 12. 2011Political quote of the day, but from 2006“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006 Interview with David Mamet
Mamet is late to the party, but better late than never. I don't think he thought much about politics before. Sunday morning linksThe 50 Best Books for Urban History Buffs. h/t, Old Urbanist Sayet: Why Jews Support the Democratic Party More Marriage Advice from the Media "Amoralising"? Good neologism I completely agree with NYM re the candidates Via Dr. Merc, Worldwide ages of consent Cocksure Weiner MOCKED Larry Craig Sex Scandal Teachers’ unions will never willingly give up their power, says Terry Moe. Krauthammer: 'Keep it Ideological' Y’Know What I See? I See Dead Donkeys. Advice from Dr. Sanity:
Kamikaze government in the UK O'Reilly: Obama sees rich as his to plunder Actress defends Weiner, says 'everyone lies about sex' When the 2-year hate of Palin starts losing Left-feminists … This is not a witch-hunt Teachers’ unions will never willingly give up their power, says Terry Moe. China ratings house says US defaulting: report Will: Obama and free trade: Appease big labor
Saturday, June 11. 2011Liberal media hate on paradeFrom a piece at IBD:
Also, LA Times Won’t Release Obama-Khalidi Tape But Posts 24,000 Sarah Palin Emails
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A few Saturday morning linksAbove pic from my visit to Newport, RI, last summer Big return of Little Anthony Many of us won’t be able to retire until our 80s Retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway Prison Math - What are the costs and benefits of leading the world in locking up human beings? We lock up too many people for non-violent crimes. In the end, it's the taxpayers who pay for it. Let them pay for their errors with money or work instead of residing on my nickel. Negotiator for CT State Employees Brags: ‘They Want to Know How We Did It’ Easy as pie, if you own the governor. Government unions elected this guy, so he is paying them back. Infantilizing the Culture - Our students may have stopped working, but they have not stopped playing. A clever diversion: "It wasn't indecent" It's indecent on the face of it, for heaven's sake. Even Bill Clinton left the charming high school girls alone. Adults just aren't supposed to do that, Humbert Humbert: it's not "sick" - it's plain old bad. The guy has a pattern of bad, of all sorts. Media Darling Chris Matthews: Weiner in Trouble Because his Behavior Offends“Culturally Backward” Christian Conservatives Darn uptight Christian Conservatives don't think guys should be hitting on high school girls. It's somebody's daughter. Sheesh. I guess it is not unseemly, in the view of like really hip dudes like Matthews. Is "unseemly" obsolete? Friday, June 10. 2011The World Bank and the mess in EuropeMr. Strauss-Kahn is leaving a mess for his successor. A quote from the essay at The American:
Friday morning linksObama Proclaims June 'Gender Confusion' Month Up To 8-Foot Long, 160-Pound Mountain Lion On The Loose In Conn. Mitt Romney Endorses Global Warming Hoax 'Kill a camel' to cut pollution Even Iowans don't care about ethanol subsidies anymore. Obama’s EPA Regulations Will Cost Coal Industry $200 Billion & Cause Electricity Rates to Skyrocket Naked therapy for Weiner? Remind me why we are at war with Gadhafi Thursday, June 9. 2011A few Thurs. morning linksFeldman: The Economy Is Worse Than You Think Judges sharply challenge healthcare law Medicare pay board is losing vital support Fanniegate: Gamechanger For The GOP? Dead bodies demand organic food moratorium More killed by organic foods in Germany than Gulf spill or Japan meltdown. Time for a moratorium on organic food!
Rudy is running Wednesday, June 8. 2011Weds. morning linksWindmills slaughtering Golden Eagles. Isn't it illegal to kill an endangered species? Suburban Follies: The Rear Alleyway Driscoll: ‘Terror is Glamour’ NYC NAACP President Accuses Pro-Charter School Parent of 'Doing the Business of Slave Masters' Freedom is Slavery, etc. Hayward thinks the Central Planners are clueless Why Can’t More Poor People Escape Poverty? A radical new explanation from psychologists. Circular argument, seems to me. Most everbody starts out adult life poor. Furthermore, wealth is not everybody's life goal (tho few would reject it if it landed in their lap). Bookworm: A sentimental service in a cynical society — our Navy Mexico: kindergarten teacher keeps class calm with song as narco gun massacre rages outside Mankiw: The Next Step on the Road to Serfdom From One Cosmos:
Thanks Barack… Class of 2011 Faces Highest Unemployment Rate For College Grads in History
Connecticut Decriminalizes Real Pot, Criminalizes Fake Pot Surber again:
Klavan: I blame the women Tuesday, June 7. 2011Benefits of climate warmingI don't think you can attribute all of the prosperity of Medieval Europe to the Medieval Warm Period, but surely some of it. At Maggie's, we retain a healthy skepticism about AGW just as we do about most or all scientific theories - and especially those driven by political or economic agendas. What we mostly hear from the Climate Change propagandists are the terrifying effects of some planetary warming. We never hear about the benefits. I took a minute to google "advantages+global warming" and "benefits+global warming," and found tons of links. A few samples of them: Special Report: Global Warming Benefits May Exceed Risks The Bright Side of Global Warming Global Warming Health Benefits By coincidence, I see that SDA had the idea of googling "climate porn."
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The missing woman in Weinergate
If she has any sense, she is outta there. She deserves better than sleazy and dishonest.
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Tuesday morning linksI recently learned that there is software out there to make overly crisp digital images into more film-like images. Here's one of them. Other programs are out there to specifically change your images to Kodachrome-like, Ektachrome-like, etc. New and Improved (Well, Not Really) Justification for Affirmative Discrimination Latest Thing You're Supposed To Be In Carbon-Fear of: Searching For Stuff Online America's Hottest Investment: Farmland NAACP vs. Black Parents - Standing in the doorway to protect failed schools. What Is A College Education Really Worth? Saudi Cleric Warns of Western Conspiracy: Design of Jedda Airport Resembles a Penis And a Vagina… Let them eat cake? President Obama wolfs down TWO chili dogs and fries... the day after his wife unveils new dietary guide Re Weiner, Surber observes:
and in the WSJ: Anthony Weiner now joins a disturbing list of elected officials in our Monday, June 6. 2011UnemploymentChart via Outside the Beltway
Saturday, June 4. 2011The move to make embedding YouTubes a felonyStory here. You can't make this stuff up. What's this country coming to? The government doesn't have enough to do? If something is copyrighted, should it be embeddable on YouTube in the first place? No. Crazy thing is, lots of people use YouTube for self-promotion. If you are a would-be performer or show or whatever, and copyright your stuff, do not make it embeddable. Simple. Can't have it both ways. Can't tell me not to post a photo of your billboard along the road. YouTube is good fun, a vast resource, and one of the best time-wasters ever invented. If George Shearing's estate, or the Feds, come after Maggie's for embedding his YouTube vid, I have good defenses planned already. Make my day!
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Saturday linksFocus on the Family: Foundations of a Lifelong Marriage Detroit: It Was Necessary to Destroy the Town in Order to Revive it McArdle: Why Hasn't Anyone Signed Up For the High-Risk Health Insurance Pools? Cupcakes? British Intelligence Still Has a Sense of Humor Dino: The continuing structural instabilities in the banking system Old Blighty continues to beclown itself. Beavers ripped my flesh "The world is getting warmer": Romney Says who? The guy who invented Obamacare? Obama pal Fareed Zakaria Castigates Constitution, Founding Fathers:
Goldberg is amusing: Is Weiner Being Frank? Powerline: In Defense of John Edwards Politics sure does attract slimeballs PJ: How Not to Choose a Presidential Candidate My Dad-in-law and I were mentioning last night that, at this point in the last cycle, nobody had ever heard of Obama
Blame Breitbart for Weiner Punishing Sleep-Rape? The devil made me do it Friday, June 3. 2011The continuing mystery of Flight 447 I'm an airline disaster buff. They're the ultimate Sherlock Holmes mysteries. You're given mere scraps of information, the wreckage is usually twisted beyond recognition, and you're faced with the knowledge that nine times out of ten you're looking for a chain of failures, not just a single part that suddenly went kaflooey. And unless it's an actual bomb, which is fairly easy to detect afterward because of the micro-pitting that takes place during an explosion, the one thing that modern airliners almost never, ever, do is suddenly just go poof and drop off the radar screen without a peep from the crew. As Air France Flight 447 did two years ago, taking 228 people to a watery grave.
Continue reading "The continuing mystery of Flight 447"
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How's that Obama economy working out for you?People seem to feel it's pretty lousy, unless you are lucky enough to have a government job. Since we all work as serfs for the government from January 'til May, and since the Chinese are loaning us money to pay the bills, no surprise there. Speaking of jobs, Dogs Make Employees More Productive At Work. Perhaps our economy needs more puppies. Or perhaps we need less government: Businesses afraid to hire here Speaking of the economy, my neighbors down the road are adding a fancy new master bath, and I stopped by to take a look. I like construction. Things are not universally bad, I guess. Those are legal Mexicans working on it, of course. The jobs Americans don't want to do.
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Friday morning linksGrade Inflation All the Way Up Brooks to grads: It's not about you Henninger: The economy is flying without instruments because of the White House's policy choices. Chavez vs. Castro in Bourgeois Skins Game Over Golf! Surber: Of course liberals will Rally for the Really Rich Bishop Concerned Over Survival of Christian Community in Nazareth Thursday, June 2. 2011Thursday morning linksWorms from Hell Cool teaching tool: VIDEO: Use Tripline for history and social studies projects Sealed tunnel discovered under Teotihuacan temple The Tappan Zee Is Falling Down Mead: SCOTUS Makes It Official: California A Failed State Sesame Street Spreads Secret Political Messages, Insiders Admit (h/t Doug Ross) Limousine liberals? Number of government-owned limos has soared under Obama Not supposed to entertain such thoughts: Mainstream columnist says blacks and Hispanics are failing in school because they don't have the ability to do academic work True also of lots of white kids from dysfunctional families, it seems to me
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