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Sunday, July 3. 2011Sunday morning linksRobin Hanson: Words Show Lies Deneen: Social Justice, Rightly Understood Excitement accompanies news Thaddeus McCotter will run for president McCotter's White House bid launching at Michigan festival Maggie's Farm likes McCotter's personality Anchoress: When True Evil Rises Before Us Teachers' pensions in Illinois. Good grief. Kling: The New Commanding Heights (my bolds):
Obama Admin Lists Israel as a Terror Sponsor Rubio: “America does not have a tradition of class warfare” Shameless… In Weekly Address Obama Says “Government Has to Start Living Within Its Means” Human Events: Top 10 Obama Attacks on Capitalism Fox News: Best places to be an illegal alien Via AVI, who gives how much to political causes? Am Thinker: In Government, First, Do No Harm! VDH's The Philosophies of Illegal Immigration:
'The first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created people in the history of the world.':
Mickey Mouse runs afoul of the Islamists in Egypt Chavez health scare leaves dependent Cuba on edge Is Obama taking a Reagan approach to the budget? Am Thinker: The New York Times' agenda is showing Is reverse racism Constitutional? Top pic from Driscoll's Quote of the Day Delicious Deviled Egg pic from neoneo's The Atkins diet and me Toon below from Theo:
Saturday, July 2. 2011Saturday morning linksNew England Real Estate: Katherine Hepburn's house in CT for sale Is the Sun Taking a Holiday? Warren Meyer (Coyote): Missing the Point on July 4: The Right to Vote Was Not The Main Achievement in 1776 Campaigner-in-Chief Scolds Congress for Work Ethic Al Gore's Ugly Rhetoric - The latest pseudoscience from the former vice president The Trinity Sisters - Many of America’s most powerful women went to a college you’ve never heard of. The U.N.’s Climate Of Desperation Greenspan: Stimulus did nothing Union curbs rescue a Wisconsin school district Another college skeptic Is Barack Obama a Socialist? Via Lucianne:
A sad story: Posterity Denied: The Hijacking of the Barnes Foundation Rumsfeld: The Peril of Deep Defense Cuts Thailand: Red Shirts and Rowdy Royals Here's an idea: Official Calls For Riverside, 12 Other Counties To Secede From California - New state would have no term limits, part-time legislature Via Vanderleun on plunder:
Friday, July 1. 2011One reason teens aren't working this summerI believe in work. I believe that no honest work should be beneath any American. I also believe that all kids should work, and earn their own money. Kids learn more about how to, and how not to, negotiate the world from work than they do from school. Make your mistakes when young, and learn from them, as everybody needs to. Any paid work will do, but the more "menial" the better. Except for the most spoiled brats who want to hang out during the summer or to be indulged in "enriching experiences," most kids want to work. It's a step towards adulthood and independence, and moping around the house or driving to the beach in the Beemer is a spiritual death for teens - or a sign of spiritual death. Summer "vacation" is for the teachers. What do kids need a vacation for? They've been in school, for heaven's sake. School isn't "work work," as Whoopi Goldberg did not say. School is a piece of cake, compared to work. It's a delight, a joy, and a privilege - and it sure beats working an industrial loom in New Bedford at age 11. And, heck, teaching is real difficult too, compared to running a business. Right? This is sad: The Jobless Summer - Why only one in four teens is employed. That one-in-four is the one with initiative and drive. Watch that one, because if you can make something happen in your teens with all of the forces creating headwinds today, Bravo. Or Brava, as they say in NYC.
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Long holiday weekend linksGodless Britain - The U.K.'s churches are empty enough to land jumbo jets inside. Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, Redux IBD: Has Washington Learned Its Hard Stimulus Lesson? Jamaicans Nostalgic For Colonialism Volokh: Eight Things to Know About Yesterday’s Sixth Circuit Decision Fourteen Clear Factual Errors in Richard Stengel’s Essay on the Constitution Labor Unions: The Biggest Political Donors Surprise: Thad McCotter to announce presidential run on Saturday McCotter is good fun, with a quirky charisma and an obvious IQ - just listen to the video on that link Greece ties Europe in knots - Tiny nation's chaos threatens world's economic order Not from The Onion: North Korea Assumes Presidency of UN Conference on Disarmament Thursday, June 30. 2011Brit "public servants" go GreekHere. When you train and enable adults to be children, they will act like it. Just like in Wisconsin. Many will revert to childhood if they can get away with it. Those made of sterner stuff will not. They are marching and berserking for "socialism." They don't realize they already have it, along with the typical Socialist terminal case of the Gimmes. Euroland people need to grow up and accept the reality that life is difficult and challenging, and that no adult is entitled to anything. You are supposed to man up, in life. Or woman up, as the case may be. Reagan would have fired them all for shirking their duties to the public who hired them and who pays their wages from their own toil, and rightly so. If you want to be a serf, expect to be treated like one.
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And the faucet keeps on running
A few years ago I wrote The Sound of Many Faucets Running, a look at the new dollar coins. Coins last much longer than bills, y'see, therefore using much less energy to replace, thereby saving the planet from catastrophic meltdown. While my post was fairly routine, I have to admit that if we had to switch from dollar bills to coins, I thought my idea bordered on the brilliant. And here we are today:
And the planet thanks you! Actually, there appears to be a bit of gray area as to why they tried to foist these on us in the first place. From the original article:
But now it's:
That's right, folks. They're educational. We're doing it for the children! And, of course, it would be downright criminal not to include the Shoshone woman who help guide Lewis & Clark on their expedition:
Spokespersons for the Mohave, Navaho, Pima, Yuma, Washo, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Cree, Crow, Dakota, Osage, Seminole, Comanche, Wichita and Apache tribes could not be reached for comment.
Rutherford B. Hayes? Be still, my beating heart!
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Thursday morning linksPhoto from In Maine, ObamaCare's New High Risk Pool Attracts Just 14 Enrollees Nice that Hussey's sells everything you need for a shotgun wedding Turtles on JFK runway cause flight delays Those are female Diamondback Terrapins living in Jamaica Bay in New York City, looking for nesting sites. Good to know that they are still thriving there. Somebody built a cement runway on their historic nesting site. An oldie from David Horowitz: Columbia a disaster. Kenyon an unexpected surprise Surber asks The Republican presidential candidates are serious. Why isn’t the press? Powerline has a new look Maggie's Farm will stick with our antique look - for now. You can scroll down quite a long ways here, and we only put things on a continuation page when they exceed our ordinary format. The Religion of Rape… ALL Norwegian Rapists in 2010 Were Muslim Why is Greece too big to fail? Greece is already bankrupt, financially, morally, and spiritually. But, as Donald Trump once said, if you owe a bank a half million bucks, they own you - but if you owe them 300 million bucks, you own them. Something like that. New Obama deficit talking point: The GOP loves corporate jets or something. However, Obama Blasts Private Jet Tax Breaks Created by His Own Stimulus That is called The Washington Monument Strategy Children will starve, Granny will die, etc. As Lizards says:
McArdle: Breaking: Voters Prefer Free Stuff to Higher Taxes, Lower Spending From Obama, Listen to Andrew Cuomo:
Wednesday, June 29. 2011Krugman makes too easy a targetEverybody makes fun of poor Paul Krugman, who is widely known as having become a real flake, a partisan hack, and a mind-numbed robot for the Left. Has he written a single thing in the past ten years that has not been predictably straight Left-wing Dem party line apologetics? Foster in FP attempts a sympathetic understanding. Weds. morning linksClassic silent films, streamable and downloadable Case Studies vs Quantitative Analyses Excellent review of the topic Spatial navigation in the congenitally blind Just keep reading the translation Uh oh: White House caught lying about Petraeus’s withdrawal recommendations? The Authentic Palestine Freedom Flotilla Bookworm: Principles are so inconvenient Morals and principles create stress! The hateful Left If Public Pensions Are a Sinking Ship, Charter Schools Are Smart Rats The Unions’ Real Enemy: Themselves (h/t Larwin) Factoid du jour, via Coyote:
Is that serfdom? A comment at Lucianne:
It's Radical Chic. Loving freedom is not cool. Lenin and Che were cool. Tuesday, June 28. 2011Looking at the 2012 Republican Presidential Contenders and BeyondAmong the likely winners of the Republican race (yes, that excludes Sarah Palin and Rand Paul), none have yet come even close to sewing up the nomination for president. That’s a good thing. I’m a firm believer in the worth of long campaign seasons. Democrat or Republican partisans alone are a minority of the electorate. The crucible requires potential candidates to demonstrate their ability to craft a national coalition of their political party that will reach beyond to enough leaners (otherwise often called Independents). The long campaign crucible, also, demonstrates the potential candidates’ ability to present themself and to encourage positive feelings with articulate, persuasive, sound proposals, while avoiding seriously alienating leaners or committing major gaffes that raise crippling doubts among the open-minded (not just opponent scalphunters). At this point, there’s enough good to say about the leading Republican contenders to believe they’d all make fine vice-presidents, but as yet none have earned the higher expectation. All will be in good stead as a better alternative than President Obama. However, that is not enough, for me anyway. Continue reading "Looking at the 2012 Republican Presidential Contenders and Beyond"
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Tuning out Gore
From Mead's brilliant analysis of the failure of Algore, Part Deux:
and It is a waste of time to talk science with Al Gore. It is a waste of time to listen to him at all. That, apparently, is what the world at long last is beginning to understand. The policy makers and the heads of state who only two years ago were ready to follow Gore up the mountain have softly and quietly tuned him out.
As Mead points out, the entire enterprise was close to insane from the beginning, despite all of the money to be made from it. Off topic: Mead, Steyn, and VDH are so hot these days that it is difficult not to simply link all of their stuff.
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Tuesday morning linksImage above via Moonbattery Norm on a sense of purpose without a grand plan Related, at Stumbling: The meaning of life Our friend Skook: Honesty and Integrity, Up Close and Personal:
Why Is It So Hard To Get a Good Bagel Outside of New York City? Just imagine if this were a charter school Wisconsin Battle Moves from Collective Bargaining to School Choice On, Wisconsin! Egyptian "Pro-Democracy Activists" At A Loss My Degree Isn't Worth the Debt! Herman Cain & Juan Williams Agree: “Liberals Have a Problem With Black Conservatives… You’re Jumping Out of the Pen” I call it "the plantation,' but it's the same idea Driscoll: It's not easy being the accidental President The economic experts are confused. I'm not UK update: - Major Strike Looms After Talks With Govt Fail Sounds like the US Texas Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood Atlantic Review: Understanding Germany. Also, "German Soldiers Can't Shoot" Cutting government red tape produces new jobs Commentary: Real-World Effects of Anti-War Activism A duel between French thinkers produces a Euroland best-seller Not from The Onion: Obama Will 'Co-Invest' Tax Dollars in Corporate-Government Partnership It's called crony capitalism. Brilliant use of our taxes. Ohio’s Lost Decade, and Its New Hope - Can John Kasich and Tea Party activists save Ohio? President Quixote's Legacy: Confused, Ill-Educated and Not Too Bright:
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Beer, or pot and coke. Whatever. True or not, I guess that piece counts as a rant. Monday, June 27. 2011A quoteVia Hayward at Powerline (my bold):
That's it, in a nutshell. Monday morning linksThe Swiss army Television: Irresistible Addiction or Dying Medium? Commodity ETFs: Extreme Tax Frustration That Missouri rabbit story goes on and on Bipedalism and humanness It also produced the possibility of actually facing the one you are mating with. Good Jazz site: Crownpropeller's Blog Adding to blogroll: The History Blog Existence of 200 ‘uncontacted’ tribal people in Brazilian rainforest confirmed (PHOTOS) Amazing It has become common. I Am A Democrat. h/t Good News: College Democrats Succeed in Recruiting Stupid Ugly Losers! A Lefty wants Greece to default The Left would love the economic chaos - and the theft from the banks Daniel Hannan: If Greenpeace Can Lie This Easily, Why Should I Believe Them On Any Subject? A Left view of The Significance of Walmart v. Dukes Ted Turner: Climate Change ‘Most Serious ... Problem Humanity Has Ever Faced’ Good grief Operation Fast and Furious — How the Obama Administration Conned the Washington Post Via Lucianne:
Graph below via Doug Ross' Our Fiscal Nightmare: Sunday, June 26. 2011Sunday afternoon linksClimate change! Wooly Mammoth in Vero Beach The great Corn Con How Big Gov't Strangles The Job Creators Global Warming’s Latest Offense: Chair Shortages Maher: Why Aren't Democrats Blaming Floods, Fires On Climate Change? Report: Hugo Chávez in Critical Condition In Cuban Hospital Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism Kimball: Conrad Black: justice denied (again) Surber: NYT vs. NYT North Korea: Starved into Submission City Slickers Got $394 Million in Taxpayer-Funded Crop Subsidies in 2010 But isn't that why investors invest in farms? Scotland the Pitiful: Scots attack offensive speech (link fixed) I find that deeply offensive Rep. Kelly for President!Saturday, June 25. 2011Saturday morning linksPeter Falk died. Is your reputation a form of currency? Yes. One of one's most precious possessions, and most easily squandered. (h/t, Insty) Government: An Aristocracy of Incompetence Staying married to unfaithful men What most voters do not know (h/t, AVI) Don't Wanna Legalize Prostitution? How About Sex Slaves Instead? But who can afford to keep slaves anymore? Presidential Race Made Easy Fatcat Fundraisers Flee From Obama: 'The Democratic Business-Donor Community is Demoralized' Michelle Obama: 'I can't stop eating French fries. But eat your vegetables.' In Maine, only 14 people signed up for Obamacare. Can This Economy Be Saved? Yes, but government has to reverse its destructive policies. ‘Gunwalker’ Goes Pravda: White House Unleashes MSM - The Post prints an attack on Issa that no other paper saw fit to run: an anonymous hit job concocted by the Obama administration. And The Times finally talks Gunwalker ... by attacking the GOP. With a debunked lie. NJ government unions Dealt Crushing Defeat Yes, Meet the "Christie Democrats" Heroin Kingpin Is Illegal Alien on Food Stamps Powerline on oil: Too Little, Way Too Late You think It’s Bad Now? TSA Unionizes, Chooses AFL-CIO “Undocumented” folly: A liberal reporter’s illegal alien sob story Coyote: Power Imbalance: The Difference Between Liberal and Libertarian Philosophy Slaughter ban sending horses across borders - GAO says policy has led to ‘unintended consequences’ I don't know what the problem is with putting horses down. People put dogs down all the time, and nobody calls it "slaughter." California farmer VDH on the Dept of Agriculture: The department of grotesque payoffs
Friday, June 24. 2011Eco ChicFrom a college student reader of Maggie's:
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Friday morning linksOne Cosmos: Second Thoughts About John Paul II Let's medicate all those kids Kay Hymowitz: Anthony Weiner and the National Adultery Ritual. A quote:
More EU Follies: Running Out of Options, Portugal Turns Right - Can voters escape a crushing legacy of debt and bureaucracy? A quote:
Rove: Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012 "DRAWS ATTENTION TO" - the NY Times' new shtick Norm: A right to be left alone? Here's a moral and philosophical conundrum for you. If my family and friends became a stone-age tribe, would the government leave us alone? I'd be willing to grow my hair down to my knees so strange, I'd look like a walking mountain range... Big Government Vastly Expands Food Stamps, Prevents Prevention of Fraud Details of McKinsey study expose Obamacare flimflam Steyn: Geert Wilders Acquitted The O always raises the most money from Wall St. - and Hollywood. Back to the well, so soon? Wall St. is always Liberal. It's Main St. which is not. Am Thinker: More B.O. Than Anyone Can Stand A fickle nation? Love 'em and leave 'em? Military leaders know Obama’s decision is a disaster Today's Pirates Have Their Own Stock Exchange The Hill: It's time for the Election Assistance Commission to go Geithner: Taxes on ‘Small Business’ Must Rise So Government Doesn’t ‘Shrink’ Remember when Hillary said that the government shouldn't be concerned with Thursday, June 23. 2011Mark Steyn on free speechh/t Driscoll. Steyn is good fun, as always, but it's dead serious. "I'm 'phobia-phobic.'"
Mark Steyn on Free Speech at the IPA from Institute of Public Affairs on Vimeo. Thursday morning linksWho wrote The Story of O, and why? Sado-masochistic sex fantasies. Shrinks say we all have them, consciously or unconsciously. Margarine Bootleggers Sent to Federal Prison...and other stories of what happens when the government plays with your food. Just like transfats. Margarine outsells butter today, but I use only butter. Black Americans want to move to the South, for opportunity and for the culture Hansen update: NASA Scientist Accused of Using Celeb Status Among Environmental Groups to Enrich Himself EU follies: If I were a Greek, I'd be in the streets too They need to get out of the EU and be free to destroy their lovely country's marginal economy however they chose to do. The German Empire's rules do not suit them, and they don't care much about their economy. "Free the Greeks!" (I can't decide whether to nickname the EU the German Empire or the Holy Roman Empire ll.) Medical Tourism: A New Rx For Timely, Affordable Care Self publishing writer becomes million seller A clever entrepreneur. Story-telling is a wonderful craft. Dems lost the argument over the deficit, because they never engaged it Yale's New, Neutered, Anti-Semitism Program Bookworm quotes this from Shaffer, re Mamet's book:
Left or right, the elites always know what's best for you - and what's best for themselves. Wednesday, June 22. 2011PalinizationAn attempted palinization of Michelle Bachmann, by Taibbi
It doesn't matter who you are: if you raise your head up over the trenches, they do this to you. And they are rougher on Conservative women than on the men - although Taibbi would have written a similar hit piece on Reagan - "ignorant and batshit crazy" - I'm sure.
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Weds. morning linksKentucky Bourbon Distilleries Rapidly Expand Your tax dollars at work: Vomit Artist Millie Brown Food police want to regulate foods "for the children" Democrats laugh at the jobless It’s not just McKinsey suggesting Obamacare is a mess Why Are Blue State Schools Such Failures? NY Times, CNN to Travel Aboard Flotilla SPME: Review by Edward Alexander: End of the Holocaust? America's Third Air Force: Future of the Marines NLRB: Runaway Agency Feds crack down on campus flirting and sex jokes What if you want to work long and hard? Individual Compassion: Federal Task? Driscoll: The Doomsday Machine Tuesday, June 21. 2011The Immorality of the Scapegoating of Greece’s JewsAnti-Semitism is an escape from reality, misdirecting attention to real problems by inventing another cause as coming from Jews or Israel. We’re familiar with this behavior in the Middle East but it is also evident elsewhere, as in Greece. When history isn’t known, constructive futures cannot be built as the old hatreds and sins are blithely repeated.
A memorial to one of the major heroes of Greece’s victory against the Italian invasion in 1940 – Jewish Colonel Mordechai Frizis -- stands outside the National Military Museum in Athens. Many leaders and members of the Greek resistance during World War II were Jews.
Today, except for scant history writing (see Jewish Resistance In Wartime Greece), they are forgotten. A few weeks ago I corresponded with a knowledgeable gentile Greek-American friend who was surprised at the extent of Greek Jews’ involvement in the WWII resistance. This isn’t unusual. As Andrew Apostolou, a Senior Program Manager for Freedom House, wrote in the Wall Street Journal last year:
Instead, today’s Jews in Greece are scapegoats (a person or group made to bear the blame and suffering for others’ actions) among many Greeks for the economic implosion of their welfare state. Remaining synagogues or newer memorials are vandalized and swastikas painted on them. (Latest instance.)
Continue reading "The Immorality of the Scapegoating of Greece’s Jews"
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Tuesday morning linksThe Official Maggie's Farm favorite turtle is spotted Via Vanderleun, The Clock in the Mountain Why so many cave dwellings in Cappadocia? NY Times Attacks Traditional Family on Father's Day What Samuel Pepys's diaries tell us about healthy breakfasts When Radiation Exposure Was No Big Deal Do a person's basic instincts ever change? The Upside of Voter ID Initiatives The idea that you could vote without identifying yourself seems insane to me. However, E J Dionne seems to think that blacks cannot figure out how to have any ID. He is insane, or profoundly racist in his assumptions. More Than 125 Environmentalist Groups Blast UN For Global Warming Alarmism… California’s Nutty Budget Battle Merkel: We must accept high immigrant crime Pethokoukis: Digging down into America’s weak labor market Green revolt against geoengineering – letter to Pachauri Barnes: Lead? President Obama would prefer not to. The Subprime Lending Debacle: Competitive Private Markets Are the Solution, Not the Problem Boskin: Five Lessons for Deficit Busters - A recent study of successful deficit reductions found they averaged more than $5 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes. What If Jews Had Followed the Palestinian Path? Rubin Report: Understanding Hamas Republicans Flicker On Light Bulb Ban Repeal Powerline: Can There Be a Decent Left, Revisited NLRB tried to save America from dumb, unskilled Southern workers Companies Leaving California in Record Numbers McArdle: Is It Okay to Steal From Macy's?
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