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Friday, March 8. 2013The Fox Butterfield EffectJames Taranto often uses the term, but I either never knew, or forgot, its origin. Friday morning linksHow to Identify Cowboy Hat Styles LIFE With Steve McQueen: Photos of the King of Cool in 1963 A free download: GPlates is desktop software for the interactive visualisation of plate-tectonics. Superb Great Courses/Teaching Company course on sale: Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations “Notes from the Afterlife,” 13 Rent and the single girl in NYC At Columbia, Costly Target of Brazen Thefts: Nutella What Liberals Need to Understand About 'Gun Guys' Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read Democrat strategist says you just have to tell men not to rape in order for them to stop Florida Dem Wants Anger Management Course Requirement For Ammunition Purchases Unemployment in France hits 14-year high Re Rand Paul: Will the Left Finally Get the Tea Party Now? We’re seeing a profile in courage, properly understood, that could prove transformative not just for the GOP. Will the Left Ever Give an Inch on Entitlements? On Charlie Rose, Scarborough Hands Krugman His ‘Denver Moment’ North Korea says it will launch nuclear attack on America How did Chavez end up with $2 billion in the bank? Funny how lucky Lefties always get with their investments. Everybody still wonders how Harry Reid has $10 million after a life in "government service." The new Burma Thursday, March 7. 2013AGW Update: A morning with the MSM Of course, since the subject is global warming, I suppose I wax redundant. As you know, every storm, drought, plague, meteor shower, volcanic eruption and earthquakian upheaval is because of your neighbor's SUV. Curse his ragged hide. This is especially true with large storms, the perfect example of which would be Superstorm Sandy, she of the Category 1 level — the lowest hurricane level — with some meteorologists claiming it had dropped down to Tropical Storm level by the time it actually hit land. The only reason New York City had all the flooding was because Sandy (1) hit at high tide, (2) hit right as there was an extra-large low pressure area out to sea, allowing the tide to rise even higher than normal, and (3) the fact that NYC had been hit by two storms even larger than Sandy in the previous 100 years, both times the sea wall had been breached with the resultant massive flooding, yet they never did anything about it. In the meantime, how much money has NYC spent on 'green' measures because of the peril of global warming? True; it, too, is supposed to breach the sea walls, but over the course of a century — not the two hours it took Sandy. This week's example of global warming run amok was Snowquester, the largest, meanest, baddest storm that global warming run amok has yet produced! Washington DC shuts down ahead of winter snow storm So did all the schools. The AGW advocates, however, were thrilled, and were halfway through writing their next article citing Snowquester as just a sign of things to come when the bad news struck. Which brings us to this morning's headlines. Sadly, Snowquester was not to be. Snow fail: Predictions almost all wrong this time around 'Snowquester' doesn't pan out in DC
And there's your ultimate example of global warming run amok: Warm snow. Then I glance around the page and notice this: Popular Indonesian volcano shoots ash into the sky What the article doesn't mention is that the popular Indonesian volcano is probably belching more CO2 into the atmosphere every half-hour than mankind has over its entire existence. Then I notice this: Ancient arctic camel fossils link to modern desert breed Wait, how can this be? A warm-blooded mammal up in the Arctic? Without any coal plants or your neighbor's SUV around? Impossible, I say! As any AGW advocate will tell you, the current slow rise in temperature is a planetary first. And you can just bet that the lamestream media really doesn't see the irony when it posts a headline like this: Hill hearing on global warming cancelled by D.C. snowstorm Or, represented graphically:
Thank you, MSM, for another wonderfully entertaining morning. Fun in the wee world The documentary did, in one way, set itself apart from your usual documentary fare. Here's what the narrator says at the beginning:
Those are the last words spoken for over an hour. Herewith I present ten of its more magical moments. That Damned Interdimensional Barrier At least, if you're a bug. Here are four scenes dealing with that dreaded interdimensional barrier — at least, if you're a bug — known as adhesion or surface tension. In the first one, while it probably just looks that way, it appears the ant is having trouble penetrating the bead of water. Yet, in the next scene, the ants are lappin' away around the ol' water hole like a herd of buffaloes. That brings us to the third part and one of everybody's favorite critters, the water skeeter. Now here's an animal that knows how to use adhesion to its advantage. But the fourth scene poses something of a question. If the water skeeter is using adhesion to its advantage, what are these guys using? Reverse adhesion? Continue reading "Fun in the wee world" Dangerous, hate-filled Grannies love the USA and the Constitution
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Thursday morning linksSomething Very, Very Wonderful: My Parents' First Car - 1948 Plymouth convertible Can Parents Afford to Make Mistakes? Talking About Men: The Taboos - Several important silences prevent the discussion about most men to move forward Via Insty, 13 Sex Secrets Of Married Couples Red White - Why a Founding Father of Postwar Capitalism Spied for the Soviets As the years pass, it seems more and more as if Joe McCarthy was right. He just handled it wrong. Cranked-Up Earbuds Next On Mayor Bloomberg’s Health Hit List He is a putz and a weenie, and an embarassment to hearty New Yorkers. Henninger: Is the South Still Racist? A Supreme Court case reveals the divide between liberals and conservatives in the U.S. K. C. Johnson: Duke Drops the Case Against Me The Coddling of College Hate Crime Hoaxers Slavery Flap Shows Emory University Professors are Morons California Exodus: Flight of the Poor The working poor leave places where it is too difficult to improve their lives WSJ: Obama’s Goal Is To Win The House In 2014 A return to practical conservatism - Randian purists want to dismantle America's popular entitlement programs. That's impractical — and cruel, to boot Federal Report: Businesses Are Hiring Less And Laying Off Workers Due to Obamacare Kudos to Rand Paul The Chavez legacy: Venezuela became one of the world’s most economically repressed countries under his regime Wednesday, March 6. 2013A Maggie's Scientific Opinion Poll: Legalization of Recreational DrugsBy recreational drugs, I mean everything from pot to crystal meth and heroin. They are all readily available on most streets in the US (but at far-above free market prices despite being free of sales taxes) and are widely popular. I find it difficult, from a libertarian point of view, to make a continuing argument for our Federal ongoing, attempted but failed prohibition. If some people want to live in a haze for a few hours - or all the time, why not (as long as I do not have to support them)? In a free country, having things be legal does not mean that you condone them morally, spiritually, or in any other way. Adultery is not illegal, and neither is devil-worship nor alcohol abuse. Recreational drugs used to be legal in the US, and I doubt there were more social problems with them back then. Maybe less, because when they were not illegal they were cheap. Are any of our readers old enough to remember when there was cocaine in Coke? Funnily enough, now a Large Coke without coke is illegal in New York. Crazy world in which it is easier to buy cocaine in front of the minimart than it is to buy a Big Gulp inside. What's your opinion? Just don't make the argument that "It's bad for people." That will not fly, because driving is dangerous too. So is mountain-climbing. Please review the debate in comments before commenting. Pretty good debate.
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Photo is a new Dunkin Donuts sign in Bloomberg City Yale hosts workshop teaching sensitivity to bestiality "Bulldog, bulldog, bow-wow-wow..." School offers counseling for traumatized students who saw classmate chew breakfast pastry into shape of gun Ben Affleck and Why Marriage Matters Anti-Feminism Men’s Group at ASU Prompts Angst Bicycles to Be Taxed for Causing Global Warming CDC sounds alarm on deadly, untreatable superbugs Do Conservatives Actually Want to Win Elections? Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised A book: In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy US economy: "When You Get This Kind Of Rigging, It Will End Badly" How Lefties think, from Dan Greenfield: The closing of the liberal mind Don’t tell the Tea Party, but the tag team of John Boehner and Mitch It’s cases like Schrader v. Holder which make us rightly suspicious of Barack Obama: The Man Behind the Mask Tuesday, March 5. 2013FYI, Warren Buffet's 2012 summary letter
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Speech That Denies Fellow Students a “Supportive Environment”Are kids supposed to be eachothers' social workers now? I am all for civilized behavior, but this nursery-school sort of moonbattery, attempting to insulate kids from the rough and tumble of real life, seems insane to me (not to mention unconstitutional): Minnesota Bill to Ban K-12 Speech That Denies Fellow Students a “Supportive Environment” We all enjoy supportive environments. However, that is not necessarily what we need. For supportive environments, we have home. For annoying jerks and bullies we have ostracism, gossip, and fists as handy tools. Related: Massachusetts Warns Students: Affirm Transgendered Classmates or Face Punishment Mocking those with mental illness is cruel, but why must conspicuous deviancy be "affirmed" - whatever than means. I think it means applauded.
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Tuesday morning linksWomen earn a higher rate of return from a college degree than men. The Top 5 Lies About Biotech Crops Why I Hate Anti-Bullying Public Service Announcements If you aren’t smart enough to distinguish reality from non-reality, you shouldn’t be allowed around kids. Department of Social Justice Attacks Motherhood What does DHS need with 2,700 armored vehicles? VDH: Journalists as Ring Wraiths - When you’ve got a country to transform, any caviling is disloyalty. Bill Ayers in Moorhead Carbon Power Politics - The next EPA chief and next phase of the Obama green agenda. Asian-Americans Solidly Prefer Democrats - Sixty-one percent of young adult Asian-Americans identify as/lean Democratic Why? China's dangerous housing bubble, with Potemkin cities Monday, March 4. 2013The politics of DetroitFrom How the Democrats Destroyed Detroit: Detroit has some of the highest big city property taxes in the nation, and property assessments remain overly inflated, amounting to as much as ten times the market price of the property, according to recent research compiled by two Michigan professors.
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Monday morning linksIs giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the cojones? Golden State's green jobs bust Colorado Democrats Moving to Ban Hunting Firearms Breaking: Gender Confusion Hits Nadir Gender confusion hits nadir 40% of NHS docs would not recommend their own hospitals Starnes: Day of doom is here Colorada Dems move to ban hunting firearms The forgotten Barbara Jordan Commission on Immigration Sharp Personal Income Drop Is Bottom-Up Economics Failure The slow slide toward state run media Saturday, March 2. 2013Saturday morning linksPhoto: gym poster, NYC. She needs to gain a little weight. Too bony is not sexy, even in NYC. Cool shoes, though.
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It's darn funny Speaking of Asians, look what Ravi can do Holy smoke. Show me a white guy who can do that Gullible Nation - Those who fall for sequester scare-mongering need a lesson on government wastefulness. Snyder Declares Detroit Fiscal Emergency Cannot self-govern, require a dictator. That is not American. Via Vanderleun, The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China’s Working Class Dem Caddell: Obama is the closest thing to Nixon we've seen in 40 years Brainless pundit: Harold Myerson Authors A Fireworks Display of Remarkable Unintelligence Liar, or ignorant? Walsh: The Battle of Bob Woodward Bloomberg: Forget debt Texan Schoolgirl Punished for Not Pledging Allegiance to Mexico College Presidents’ Views on Racial Preferences This week Europe blew up. The media haven't caught up yet, because they are what they are. But the markets are catching up fast Euroland is a joke. It's Hitler's dream, without the guns but with his Moslem friends. Or The Holy Roman Empire. The quicker the Brits get out of there, the better. The Press Officially Abdicates Its Role - And turn into de facto administration advisers. Teachers outnumbered in schools by administrators, support staff in many states, study shows The B-Movie Presidency With A-List Media Compliance Andrew Understood What Republicans May Never Learn Lowry: The unpopular party Woodward’s Apostasy - The hero of Watergate becomes a Beltway villain.
Friday, March 1. 2013Friday morning linksMark Steyn: Pink is now the colour of conformity:
The Nanny Doctor: Smoothing the Frictions Between Parent and Nanny For some, lessons of boyhood include learning to shoot and hunt Golly gee. That's news Canadian Supreme Court Kills Last Hope for Free Speech Chicago public schools will start sex education in kindergarten Why Bob Woodward's Fight With The White House Matters to You The White House is, as always, confident of its strategy: Scare people All Of This Whining About The Sequester Shows Why America Is Doomed Bloomberg's America: Nanny Mayor Funnels Millions to Local Races Across Country Republicans need to go negative Sultan: Capitalism: A Hate Story
Thursday, February 28. 2013Thursday morning linksApologies for our technical glitches lately - we seem to have a poltergeist in the works. Image via Mitchell's A Warning from Ronald Reagan Hong Kong: Apartments So Small They Can Only Be Photographed From Above Want Cheaper Food? End the Ethanol Mandate A Declaration of Financial Independence - Emergency fund or investment? Do I need to diversify my retirement accounts? And how to save money on food? "If schoolteachers were overwhelmingly male and girls were suffering as a result..." Christians Are Now World’s Most Persecuted Religion Subway founder: If I had tried to start Subway today, it would not exist One Reason the Press is Always So Statist If you don't like our politics, then leave Obamacare supporter upset with her new rates Global Warming to Endanger Breakfast by 2080!!! BOB WOODWARD: Obama Is Showing 'A Kind Of Madness I Haven't Seen In A Long Time' White House Threatens Reporter Woodward: You’ll “Regret Doing This” - See more at: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02/white-house-threatens-reporter-woodward-youll-regret-doing-this/#sthash.PiKRQqyd.dpuf White House Threatens Reporter Woodward: You’ll “Regret Doing This” - See more at: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02/white-house-threatens-reporter-woodward-youll-regret-doing-this/#sthash.PiKRQqyd.dpuf Bob Woodward: 'Very Senior' White House Official Told Me I'd 'Regret' Sequester CommentsRichard Nixon seems like a fluffy kitten compared to this crowd.President Obama’s Legacy: Government GreedScalia Blasts Racial EntitlementsWednesday, February 27. 2013Apathy and Fear in Rhode IslandGovernment unions own this lovely, tiny state, lock stock and barrel. They do not hesitate to use intimidation, either. A quote from the article: Some 16 percent or more of the state’s working population is employed by a state or local government. Add in their retired former coworkers, as well as their immediate families and close friends. And around 20 percent of the overall population relies on government for direct handouts, with the attendant industry for processing those transactions.
A friend of mine just dumped his vacation seaside cottage there because of taxes. Will anybody be left to pay the taxes? The Mob (if they are still as big in Providence as they were a few years ago) doesn't pay taxes.
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Weds. morning linksWhy Do So Many People Think They Need Gluten-Free Foods? Sultan: Hollywood is Dead 7 Reasons Why Coffee Is Good For You Bike helmet laws fail Bike Helmet Laws Fail Bike Helmet Laws Fail The shale revolution is creating thousands of new millionaires from the billions being paid in royalties to private landowners Lucky farmers and ranchers. It is like the Beverly Hillbillies America's Red State Growth Corridors - Low-tax, energy-rich regions in the heartland charge ahead as economies on both coasts sing the blues. To Fix Healthcare, Let 100 Solutions Bloom Would they deport this family if they were from Mexico? It's not easy to be a legal immigrant. They should have waded across the Rio Grande instead. Trying to terrify the population with the sequester: TSA Doomsday, Detained immigrants released; officials cite sequester cuts So why not let the German family go free? Related: Apocalypse Fatigue Tuesday, February 26. 2013A message from an older guy to the younger generationThe prisoners of the LA school systemFrom Latino & Black Students Prisoners of Dem-Run L.A. Schools:
The Black American Express Card
You can't apply for one. They offer it to you, and deliver it to you with a security guard. Sheesh.
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Tuesday morning linksImage via Eratosthenes on Blame Mediterranean Diet Cuts Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds Is it the wine or the olive oil? My theory, it's the garlic! My approach is to only believe "studies show" when I like what they say. Yahoo CEO bans telecommuting
Don't Be Afraid to Stereotype Strangers “The minimum wage for the self-employed is $0.00″ Why Unions Want a Higher Minimum Wage - Labor contracts are often tied to the law—and it reduces the competition for lower-paying jobs. Chuckie Schumer Pushes Universal Gun Registration After Promising Background Checks Won’t Create Gun Registry What Scares Sequester Opponents the Most? That Spending Reductions Won’t Hurt At All Earth to New York Times: Please Show Us these “Deep Spending Cuts” You Keep Writing About Try building a house in California MSNBC 'All But a Bona Fide Organ of State Propaganda' Chris Matthews Offers To Help Hillary’s 2016 Campaign: ‘We’ll Get You In There’
Monday, February 25. 2013The Fair Academic Standards Act to ensure a minimum grade
It's only fair! The Fair Academic Standards Act to ensure a minimum grade
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Monday morning linksAt APOD, car cams of the Russian meteor How Hollywood De-Christianized Johnny Cash PhD Problems: Wannabe Professors Need Not Apply Most Miserable U.S. Cities Are Surprisingly All Liberal Cities Bloomberg's ban prohibits 2-liter soda with your pizza and some nightclub mixers The (low) wages of Obamacare Douthat: A World Without Work Hillary to Pocket $200K Per Speech Via Dino:
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