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Saturday, September 29. 2012Saturday linksRamirez toon above from IBD via NYM Curiosity Nails It: Mars Used to Have Flowing Water Climate change! An Economic Primer: Why Americans Won’t Invest in Themselves The Scottish Enlightenment, Darwinism, and golf? Caddell: ‘The media have become an enemy of the American people’ A good rant from Dem Caddell Dems Apparently Blind to Bad Economic News As is the press School Cafeteria Employee: 'Seconds' Banned, Extra Food Thrown Away Under Obama Rules Guns don’t kill people, printers do! Crazifornia: How California Is Committing Suicide Regulation and the International Competitiveness of the U.S. Economy France goes for the gold with a 75 percent income tax on high earners Here are two reasons most Americans don't trust the mainstream media Allen West ad: Hey, guess where I was while my opponent was drunk and disorderly? Get Mad Now, Mitt - Sorrow over Bam isn’t enough Don’t Look Now But… Obama’s Approval Rating Matches 2010 Right Before Historic Thumping Dan Mitchell Talking about Elections, Competitiveness, and Protectionism on Fox Poll: Nearly 80% Think Everyone Should Pay Some Income Tax Spain Doubles Down on Austerity Israel: August sets new record for incoming tourists Egypt’s Christians facing the fate of Egyptian Jews Jewish reaction to thousands of antisemitic Arab cartoons: No riots, no injuries, no deaths Friday, September 28. 2012Friday morning linksCheating at Highly Competitive High Schools How Group Learning Invites Cheating The Most Boring Man in the World (video) The Silence that Preceded China’s Great Leap into Famine ‘Won’t Back Down’ stars undaunted in face of union protests of school-choice movie American Taliban lawyer appointed to third-highest Justice Department position Growth higher in red states than blue, swing states Pethokoukis: Year Of Sub-2% GDP Growth Signals A Recession 70% of the Time Snacks: The USDA's Solution To Student's Healthy Lunch Complaints Barone: Obama's war on young voters who elected him Billionaire Soros Gives $1M to Pro-Obama Super PAC Obama: Industrial Age Solutions to Information Age Challenges 55 percent of small business owners would not start company today, blame Obama It's Always the Economy, Stupid - Barack Obama wants to talk about his windmill economy. Next week's debate should discuss the one we've got now. Poll: Obama's Policies Make It Tougher for Small Business to Succeed Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone Lowry: End of the referendum Tibet’s Transition: Will Washington Take a Stand? 'The Endgame’ Is A Well Researched, Highly Critical Look at U.S. Policy in Iraq Why a Special Issue on UNRWA? Thursday, September 27. 2012Thursday morning links Coyote has fun in NYC on $20 Open Season on Salt: What the Science on Hypertension Really Shows - Shedding pounds may be a better way to promote cardiovascular health than avoiding the saltshaker The police blotter in Fort Kent, Maine Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting The Poor Get Poorer: 3 Character Traits That Undermine Prosperity Rescued 655-pound sea turtle released off Cape Cod Parents: How Much College Do You Owe Your Kids? Christians, The Second Amendment And The Duty Of Self Defense Paddling could soon be back in Marion County (FL) Schools Violent mobs erupt in Wisconsin after the publication of crude Vince Lombardi cartoons. Markets vs. central planners … learning the lessons all over again Democrat Senate Hopeful Warren Exposed As Complete Fraud $1.8 trillion shock: Obama regs cost 20-times estimate The Morning Plum: Mitt Romney’s conundrum deepens Gerson: Republicans are missing an opening with Hispanic voters Howard Fineman: Gee, It Sure Seems Like The Press Should Question and Criticize Obama Like a Regular Candidate At Some Point In His Career Kudlow: Mitt’s Take-Home-Pay Message How to Make 2012 into 1980 Wednesday, September 26. 2012Free Speech is bad for the masesU. of Chicago professor claims America ‘overvalues’ free speech Is this all simply about fear of Muslims, or do they really believe what they're saying? Regardless, their speech is offensive and should be banned. So should offensive Jihadist speech and the speech of all crazed Left-wing moonbats.
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Weds. morning linksMillenials Learning to Save Is Portland Really Where Young People Go to Retire? Who was Clarence Birdseye? Handy Infographic on Lawyer Glut, Outsourcing, Other Happy Topics via Insty, Working with Someone You Don't Like? Harry Reid says Mitt is not a good Mormon France to Eliminate Words ‘Mother,’ ‘Father’ From Documents Planned Parenthood: 'There's A Little Bit of Slut In All of Us!' Spawn of Pigford Lives… Obama USDA Offers Women, Hispanic Farmers Over $1.3 Billion in Redistribution Payouts Gov. Cuomo not living up to promise Fracking causes WHAT?¿?¿ Washington DC living off the fat of the land Romney sees debates as 'breakpoint' Barack Obama Floating Like A Butterfly: Countdown Day 43 Mitts message of economic growth is utterly irrelevant to non-Whites and most women. Mia Love Comes From 13 Points Down to Take Lead in Utah District 4 Race! Judicial Watch Sues U.S. Secret Service for Records Detailing Security Costs for Obama Daughter’s Spring Break Trip to Mexico Tuesday, September 25. 2012Children Protest Against Michelle Obama's FastKilling some time before preparing my last meal........that is, the last meal before fasting for Yom Kippur until tomorrow night, I looked for videos about fasting at Youtube. I came across this parody video about the semi-fast imposed on our school children by Michelle Obama. Her "brainchild" is the national school lunch policy, limiting calories and pushing foods that children often don't care for. Children protest that they are being starved. OK, a bit of exaggeration from the younguns, but not too far off the mark for growing kids and teens' needs. Here's their video:
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The University of California backs a tax hike to support its ever-expanding bureaucracy.Heather MacDonald on UCSD's expensive new Diversity Czar:
Hall Monitors, at $250,000/yr. It reminds me of how every Russian vessel used to have a Political Officer on board.
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Tuesday morning linksPlease, No More Apologies For Free Speech Complaints Mount Against Michelle Obama’s New Lunch Menu German Catholics lose church rights for unpaid tax The Wall Street Journal’s Primer on Capital Gains Taxation The official TigerHawk plan for restoring private sector job growth in the American economy Confirming US Dumbification, Verbal SAT Scores Just Hit Record Low Social Justice at the University How the AARP Made $2.8 Billion By Supporting Obamacare's Cuts to Medicare Elizabeth Warren Admits She Is Not Licensed to Practice Law in Massachusetts VDH:The Fantasy House of Barack Obama Romney gives impressive ’60 Minutes’ interview Obama’s ‘60 Minutes’ wipeout Shameless, ObamaZombie Media Reaching New Heights in Hackery Barone: Obama's Unfulfilled Promise of Change Obama Press Votes Early - Never has the media been so supine. Howard Stern Exposes Obama 2012 Supporters Hillary Clinton: Raise Taxes On The Rich EVERYWHERE Arab Nations Hire 10 New PR Agencies Since Last Year – PR Firms Assist In Selling Terror And Brutality
Monday, September 24. 2012The Obama Record: 1 in 7 on Foodstamps – 1 in 16 on Disability – 1 in 12 Out of WorkIt's been a total, shameful failure. Here. Why would anybody vote for more of the same? Seems insane to me. Government needs to get out of the way of the people.
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Monday morning linksOnce again, I forgot where I found the toon above. Prayers for Dr. Merc's surgery this week. The cranky old SOB needs 'em, even if he would not ask for them. The miracle of American farming, illustrated by the amazing 32,000-cow, 25,000-acre Fair Oaks Dairy Farm Your PC may come with malware pre-installed Clint Eastwood - Halftime for Barack Obama (satire) Douthat:
DC is getting rich on our nickels Mead: Americans Turn on MSM: What Does It Mean? Full audio of 1998 ‘redistribution’ speech: Obama saw welfare recipients as ‘majority coalition’ We're getting there Steyn: Bowing to the Mob Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic According to the article, doctors are much of the the problem, billing “billions” of Medicare upcharges according to the center.:
Exchanges: The Achilles Heel of ObamaCare How Canada Has Eclipsed America In the Obama Years States make fake IDs quick and easy - Feds test forged birth certificates Print ads fell 25x faster than digital grew
Sunday, September 23. 2012A few Sunday morning linksPhoto: A Lotus blossom at the NYBG The University of Chicago Chooses Decline Real earnings for young college grads have fallen by over 15% since 2000, or by about $10,000 in 2011 dollars Siemans Plans Large Layoffs Over Wind Power Credit In MA, Prince Joseph III Jonah: Free Speech Isn’t the Problem Gas Prices More Than Double Under Obama… State-Run Media Couldn’t Care Less The U.S. Suffered Its Worst Airpower Loss Since Vietnam Last Week and No One Really Noticed Top 10 bad economic signs for Obama Mitt Romney's vast charitable giving Dem Mort Zuckerman: Romney Can Still Overcome Obama’s Dishonesty and Divisiveness Kimball: President Dukakis Saturday, September 22. 2012Big C update: He's Mexico bound! Just practicing. Actually, I'm going to Georgia first, to visit a whole passelful of relatives I haven't seen since I was a teenager. Wail, howdee, nay-bah! Whuzzup heah in ol' Jo-ja? Just practicing. For those of you just tuning in, I'm off to beautiful Mehico to have a cancerous tumor removed. Or, in doctor's parlance, I'm "being treated for my condition". Doctors never use ugly words like "cancer" and "tumor" because it'll cause me to dwell in the depths of despair forever. The back story is here, and it's not too late to donate a few shekels to the cause. I'm still facing some serious post-operative costs. And certainly my deepest thanks to those who helped make this possible. I honestly thought when I first heard the As for my recuperation and getting back to blogging, I have no idea what to expect. Naturally, I've been hearing wildly different scenarios, although I think the worse ones are referring to a full-fledged colostomy, which is a far cry from what I'm getting, thank God. I have an extremely comfortable computer chair, and, being on a boat, the galley and head are just five feet away, so I should be able to get along just fine. Because the boat's a liveaboard, I've got tons of food and water at the ready should the global warmists be wrong and dirt reaches the point of spontaneous combustion far sooner than expected and I need to quickly head out to sea so I can be boiled alive. (there's something wrong with that last sentence, but I just can't place it) And, of course, no Big C update would be complete without a cartoon or two from my two dear, dear friends who have done their utmost to keep my spirits buoyed by sending me every gruesome, morbid, soul-eviscerating cartoon they come across. Bless their little hearts.
You know all those extra letters Britons use in words like "colour", "neighbour", "programme", etc? Well, all those little seconds it takes to type those extra letters adds up over time. If it takes 1 second to type the 'u' in 'colour', 'neighbour', etc, times one million uses over a lifetime, that's 12 days, or almost two weeks of wasted life. And then we notice the unnecessary upside-down exclamation and question marks in Spanish. Again, countless days, wastefully thrown away. In other words, compared to every Briton, Australian, Canadian and Spanish-speaking person in the world, you just gained 12 days of life. You're very welcome. See you in a week. Saturday morning linksJesuit final exam Who has done more for India? Mother Teresa or Bill Gates? US Corporate Tax Rate Double World Average Romney gave 40% of his 2011 income to charity Dalio Fears Social Unrest That Led to Hitler’s Rise Univision Grills Obama Better job than the MSM Gallup: Americans’ Distrust of the Media Hits All-Time High Why the UN is a disgrace and an enemy of freedom Moon's speech powerfully offends me. Speaking about limiting free speech should be banned. Gang that can’t lie straight - Team O at odds on Libya attack Obama Administration Is Running $70,000 Apology Ads in Pakistan That is an embarassment. It should be an opportunity to teach about freedom. Afghan Surge Ends: Not with a Bang but a Whimper:
Dinesh D'Sousa interview (video) Why does Secretary Clinton regard “F** you, God” as a fun toe-tapper for all the family but “F** you, Allah” as “disgusting and reprehensible”? The Terrorists’ Veto - Around the world, a campaign of religious intimidation and murder intensifies. A Tale of Two Secret Videoshe ASecretary Clinton regard “F*** you, God” as a fun toe-tapper for all the familaker the White House Can No Longer Ignore D'Souza: The Author & Filmmaker the Friday, September 21. 2012Friday morning linksImage via Coyote How Yoox brought e commerce to high fashion The ACLU’s Battle Against “Blatant Gender Stereotypes” Gates of V: Time To Give Up Moral Relativism AVI's wife has had it with the media Chicago Teacher Strike Ends, Pension Crisis Begins Ouch!… Student Asks Obama How to Find a Job – He Can’t Answer, Tells Her It’s Been Tough College Voters for Obama Agree: Free Stuff is Awesome Study: Startup Job Rates at Record Lows Under Obama A short visual history of the creepy Obama cult Coulter: Wildly Out Of Touch Media Complain Romney Not Regular Guy CNBC Poll: 75% of readers Agree with Romney's Comments About the 47% Morning Jay: How Romney Can Win Some EU states may no longer afford air forces Beyond Euroscepticism: Time for the Alternative The Islamic Republic of England As Islamists Rise, U.S. on Path to Nowhere Iran admits it deceived the West over nuclear program Egypt: Slew of anti-Zionist films in the works As goes the Sinai could go Jordan Thursday, September 20. 2012Big Brother update: the madness continues
45. The good news: People are trying to get the word out. The bad news: Talk is cheap.
Easy come, easy go. Drone operations over Somalia pose danger to air traffic, U.N. report says
That'll be the real wake-up call. A 747 hits one just entering New York City air space. 293 dead including the crew, 187 on the ground. And the nightmare of links below the fold? Actually, I'd suggest you skip it. Why ruin a perfectly good day?
Continue reading "Big Brother update: the madness continues" Thursday morning linksImage above via Moonbattery Chat with a knee-jerk Liberal friend yesterday:
Cougars Are Making a Comeback in America Dangerous out there: Never go outdoors - Mom Arrested For Letting Kids Play Outside In Cabo, a million dollar tuna We're gonna ACLU, Single Mom Gets Father-Daughter Dances Banned It's only fair. Because, gee, what if a Dad has no daughters? Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Another Record Advice to Romney: Treat the Press as Enemy Collaborators McCain: Why Liberals Hate You
Pro-family views cost ex-Marine a superintendent job in Berkeley "No one has the right to a world in which he is never despised.” Are You Ready For More Islamist Cartoon Riots? Charlie Hebdo has More Guts than Entire American Media Combined Corporate taxes: Sweden 22-U.S. 35 Gallup: Majority of Americans Believe Government Doing Too Much Except when other peoples' money goes to them Were African-Americans Part of “We the People” at the Time of the Founding? Of course they were. Obama would worry about his daughters growing up: “but they’re surrounded by men with guns” So were my daughters. Not only that, but they know how to shoot. Every American kid should know how to shoot - not just the gangstas.
Barack Obama is a world-class liar. At least, we’d better hope he is a world class liar, because if he really has no idea what the national debt is, we are in even worse trouble. Via Driscoll:
Genocides, unlike hurricanes, are predictable, says world expert. And Iran is following the pattern Good rant at Sultan's Truth is the Ultimate Gaffe:
Wednesday, September 19. 2012The cruelest link you ever done saw
Do you believe that man-made global warming is eventually going to cause dirt to reach the point of spontaneous combustion as the above Fox News headline indicates? "Name a single thing that has improved under his rule."How can any cogent American citizen possibly even consider voting for Barack Obama now? Well, that's a complicated question. He could win, though, unless Romney sells better
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Weds. morning linksToon above via Lucianne Label everything he says a "gaffe," then voila! - the "gaffe-prone Romney" Kid in Singapore walks up to a karaoke machine, and… Wow. Thank God talent cannot be redistributed. It's kind of pitiful to see self-anointed victims fighting over who gets higher victim status. It's not very dignified. Fire: Environmentalist's Way to Thin the Forests I disagree with the tone of that post. Fire is nature's way of rejuvenating, not man's. Fire suppression in national forests is no more than a subsidy to logging. Thanks to Bambi and Smokey the Bear, forest fire has gotten a bum rap. 7 ways to fire up an energy recovery Report: There's More Economic Freedom in Canada Than the U.S. The United States Plummets to 18th in New Economic Freedom of the World Rankings US Family net worth plummets nearly 40% Under Obamanomics, the 47% — and everyone else — will be paying more taxes soon enough Heh! Americans Who Believe In Bigfoot Outnumber Those Who Are Concerned With Hotcoldwetdry LA Times op-ed: Maybe this Mohammed movie isn’t free speech after all DOJ official refuses to rule out anti-blasphemy speech laws. Mitt Romney, Closet Conservative Two Cheers for the Chicago Teachers' Union Al Qaeda is alive and GM is half-dead Romney says Palestinians "have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace." Absolutely and obviously true Al-Qaeda Group Urges Muslims to Purge Americans and Kill More US Diplomats
Tuesday, September 18. 2012Tuesday morning linksVideo: The Italian Carpool Lane Pope Benedict’s Gutsy Prayer Insty in USA Today: Oh, to be young and unemployed Should there be required labeling of GMOs? Three Things Colleges Don't Want Us to Know Biofuels causing hunger in Third World The Magnitude of the Mess We're In - The next Treasury secretary will confront problems so daunting that even Alexander Hamilton would have trouble preserving the full faith and credit of the United States The Great Remigration - Blacks are abandoning the northern cities that failed them General Motors wants out of damaging bail-out, Obama says No 'Won’t Back Down' Movie Takes Aim at Teachers’ Unions Chicago Public School Teachers Love Private Schools Teaching how to stifle reform in Chicago EPA Honors Noted Environmentalist Che Guevara The Fourth Estate’s degrading hero worship trivializes an election. White House media ignores Obama’s Muslim outreach meltdown I’m really awfuly glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. Via NRO:
Is the Clash of Civilizations PC now? Raging at ‘Muslim Rage’ - Left responds to critique of radical Islam with outrage Krauthammer: 6 Times in 20 Years We Have Gone to War on Behalf of Oppressed Muslims Campaign that wrote off the white working class decries Romney's concerns with the culture of dependency Here's Romney yesterday (via Gateway): Monday, September 17. 2012Some Lessons from Iceland, for EuropeIceland was a mess after the 2008 meltdown. By 2012, while GDP per capita is still at depressed levels, unemployment is also down dramatically and growth has returned, making Iceland a 'star' among the embattled European nations. It helps, somewhat, to be a homogeneous and isolated isle. It also helps to let financial institutions fail so debt can be washed out properly. I'm not a fan of rap music, but Russ Roberts and Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek have done a good job making economics entertaining for the younger crowd. I sent their Hayek vs. Keynes series of videos to my son at college. There is an appropriate correlation to the events in Iceland and Hayek's views. There is no Keynesian stimulus taking place there.
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Monday morning linksAre All Teachers Still the Selfless Heroes of Yesteryear? Buying a Home Is Now 45% Cheaper Than Renting Unnecessary equivocation in life Is this racism? Poll: 0% of Blacks Support Romney Arguments for wind power are just hot air And Now Let Us Gasp In Astonishment At What Just Happened To The Newspaper Business CONCERNED VIRGINIA CITIZEN DISCUSSES MEDIA INFLUENCE Florida Couple Wins $4.5 million: OB Didn’t Suggest Abortion for Damaged Child:
Nice payday for the ambulance-chaser Wisconsin Judge Strikes Down Collective Bargaining Reform Law Via Ace:
It’s impossible to keep U.S. diplomats safe Pakistani protesters march on U.S. Consulate; 1 dead:
What's unclear? Why is the Arab world so easily offended? They aren't. Any excuse will do. It's the religion of perpetual outrage Ben Stein: Mr. President, Mitt Romney Is Not the Enemy An American woman reaches out to Muslims: PS We Love You Wonderful Muslims to Death. I think it was satire, but it's hard to tell nowadays Sunday, September 16. 2012A handul of Sunday morning linksMoviemaker rounded up for making tasteless movie Well, I question the timing... Roger says The Picture That Should Cost Obama His Job Related: Shameless, Lawless, and Clueless Another anti-Islam Filmmaker Donated Million Dollars To Obama Campaign Despite Four Previous Benghazi Attacks – State Department Refused Even “Standard Security” at Consulate Fred Barnes: Why Obama Is Still Ahead - The economy alone won’t win the election for Romney. Where's Media Outrage Over Black Flags Being Raised? Saturday, September 15. 2012Saturday morning linksSummer is slowly ending up here. Carpe diem. We're kayaking on the upper Hudson River this morning. Money Can Buy You a Baby Girl. But What About Happiness? For self-defense: .22 beats .45, but shotgun beats all Kodiak Bears, Up Close and Personal, in the Alaskan Wilderness A newly renovated retreat gives visitors a chance to see the Kodiaks in their element Old Urbanist: Places That Aren't Car-free, But Should Be Tawdry Sex and the Decline of Yale Ten Reasons to Ignore the U.S. News College Rankings Our friend Tom Brewton of The View From 1776 has a book out: The Liberal Jihad: The Hundred Year War Against The Constitution Column: The sun never sets on Obama’s failures Where are his popular successes? Hewitt: President Chauncey Gardiner, The Press and The Collapse
"Ceremonial queen"? Ouch. Knish: We're better than they are:
Washington Post: Hey, Obama’s Chevy Volt Is A Real Stinker More Obama drug and homosexuality allegations (video) Is this stuff true? MSNBC agrees with Egyptian government. Says Jonah:
Echoes of "Better red than dead." Cowering submission seems to be a reflex. Speaking of dhimmitude, Obama submits to Brotherhood, asks for suppression of anti-Islam video Can't stop Al Qaeda Flag Flies Over U.S. Embassy In Tunisia Romney is right: In embassy incidents, Obama administration's first instinct was to sympathize with attackers Soul Brothers: The Arab Street and The Mainstream Media:
Obama: The Weak Horse Romney's not doing badly in the polls The World from Berlin: 'Obama's Middle East Policy Is in Ruins' Friday, September 14. 2012Is Obama gay? Not that I care.The stories are back It hardly matters, and I suspect that nobody cares much including FLOTUS, but it is interesting if true. (h/t Moonbattery.) It is claimed that Obama and ballet dancer Rahm hung out at "Man's Country." Male dancers are not always gay - see Baryshnikov. Lots of talented guys dance for the money and the chicks.
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