Saturday, December 28. 2013
The TSA's 12 Banned Items Of Christmas
These idiots work for us? Would you hire these bozos?
"Two groups of smug, urban sophisticates got outsmarted by a backwoodsman who shoots ducks for a living."
Does this mean homosexuality is not compulsory yet, like the correct lightbulbs? Never misunderestimate people who talk funny.
 Time to Stock Up on Incandescent Bulbs Before They Go Out Permanently
Our moral and intellectual superiors don't like us to have choices - except abortion
This Is Not Your Grandma's Humane Society
Just shoot the does and eat them. Delicious and tender. Around here, there is no limit on does.
Your VodkaPundit Christmas Season Movie Guide
Goldberg: Democracy in the Tobacconist’s
The 5 symptoms of laziness
Common Knee Surgery Does Very Little for Some, Study Suggests
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk - What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
2013: The year of the United States’ biggest oil boom, ever
Icebreaker sent to rescue ship trapped near Antarctica can't penetrate ice
The reporters were there to witness global warming. It's called "The Gore Effect."
Family structure and income inequality
Single parenthood accounts for most of it. It's a poor life plan, unless wealthy. Some people never plan their lives at all. That's not being an adult. However, people always change paths, and that works too.
Canadian Experts: Pedophilia Is A Sexual Orientation
Of course it is. And theft is a Material Orientation
The US now watches the majority of its online porn on mobile phones
So that's what they are all doing?
Are You an iPhone Zombie?
Suddenly, knock-out game is a hate crime
The Marines Corps quietly puts off the requirement that female Marines perform 3 pullups.
Daily Beast Preemptively Calls Sexism on Clinton Attacks in 2016
New York Soon to Trail Florida in Population
Pajama Boy: “We have no morals, and we will attack you.”
Friday, December 27. 2013
Will NYC's new mayor ban horse-drawn carriages?
How is using work-horses animal cruelty?
The EU plans to ban cinnamon
Count ourselves lucky that Mayor Bloomberg never got that idea
Why Are Obama and the Justice Department Against School Choice?
It's not about education, that's for sure
 Tablets a hit with kids, but experts worry
Living with in-laws: It had an upside once
The Evolutionary Secrets Within the Messel Pit
Some Health Myths (Mostly) Debunked
What to Do When ObamaCare Unravels -- Health insurance should be individual, portable across jobs, states and providers, and lifelong and renewable.
The PC Behind the university Bloat
Rove: My Fearless Political Predictions For 2014
EPA Top Dog's Astonishing Fraud: Beale Street
Blues
Manufacturing Outrage
What if the Germans had won the first world war? With the war's centenary near, this is not a parlour game.
Environmentalism as Fundamentalism - The environmentalist religious paradigm actually makes it more difficult to protect the environment.
Martin Scorsese’s new movie hits the ground running with a montage of dwarf tossing, sex grappling and extreme drug behavior of a sort I don’t believe I’ve ever seen on-screen before. Then it gets really crazy.
Thursday, December 26. 2013
I think it's a government weasel-word, usually meaning government-subsidized. Prof. Gregory Mankiw wonders.
Tuesday, December 24. 2013
A better secular name for Christmastime than Festivus would be Frenzius. You could barely get in the door of my neighborhood bookstore or wine shop today. Still, everybody was cheerful and mannerly. Tonight, people won't be able to fit into church to light the candles, to hear that same old eternal Christmas story, and to sing the carols.
Yet it's a positive sort of madness. This, from Hinderaker, is not: We Are Living In a World Gone Mad
 "Science-based conversation hacks" that will get people to like you
It does work.
Spike in Harm to Liver Is Tied to Dietary Aids
Piers Morgan: First Amendment 'Shouldn't Protect Vile Bigots' Like Phil Robertson
Let's switch it: First Amendment shouldn't protect vile foreign twits like Piers Morgan
Kalashnikov is dead at 94:
“I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and
that would help farmers with their work – for example a lawnmower.”
Catholic Schools Remove Common Core Books for First-Graders Celebrating Same-Sex Parents
I can’t explain why we shouldn’t murder disabled children
Obamacare: Now Officially a Hardship
Scott Brown: New Hampshire Move Is ‘Strictly Personal’
Warmist fundamentalists ban dissent
Lessons from Dutch Welfare Reform
UCLA Professor Says Jesus Supports Obamacare
But on the other hand, Jesus Denounced as Symbol of White Supremacy on CNN
Beware of ideology masquerading as science: The Man Who Hated Men
The Pope gets some things right and some things wrong.
Never claimed economic infallibility
Steyn: The Age of Intolerance - The forces of “tolerance” are intolerant of anything less than full-blown celebratory approval.
Think Progress Offers Its Climate Grinches Of 2013 Who Are “Stealing Christmas Warmth”
Top US academic association decries
Israel boycott - Association of American Universities
releases statement saying measure ‘clearly violates’ academic freedom
Government Isn’t Santa
Mazel Tov, Christians! Most Jews wish you a Merry Christmas.
Monday, December 23. 2013
European Union’s fracking pronouncement: Full speed ahead, Britain.
But do they really need to ask permission?
The rules of multicultural tolerance are difficult to understand. Would it be better if Phil converted to Islam?
More on this amusing meme: This latest bloody clash in the national Kulturkampf pits dick-hunters versus duck-hunters.
One more: Gay activists get another case of the vapors. A pretend case of the vapors, in my opinion.
Also this:
For many years now, the drill has become familiar. Someone speaks out in favor of maintaining the traditions of marriage, and instantly the gay rights organizations are up in arms, making threats, filing lawsuits, and mobilizing protests. Then, instead of Christians putting up a serious resistance, there is apathy, apology, and defeat. The script was repeated over and again, time after time. This time was different.
We have nothing against gays here at Maggie's. We just hate thought police, thuggishness, and speech codes..
This via Bookworm:
 Well, we finally took the family Christmas card photo on Saturday afternoon, after brunch, so I doubt the card made from it will arrive by Christmas Eve. We forgot to take the photo at Thanksgiving and it's difficult to get everybody together in one place at one time. You do the best you can. Christmastime is hectic, too much packed into a short while.
Charlie Daniels: Piers Morgan you woudn’t last five minutes in the swamps Phil Robertson hangs out in. Want to try it?
A&E really wanted to tell you a story ’bout a man named Jed
Juan Williams: Forget the War on Christmas …
The People Who Don't Want to Have Sex With Anybody Ever
Stossel on the enemies of innovation
Witch-hunt du jour
Is It Safe Yet to Have an Honest Conversation About Secondhand Smoke and Lung Cancer?
The 'Labor-Electoral Complex' - Bloomberg coins a phrase that deserves national currency.
Krauthammer: Nation Finally Sees ObamaCare's True Colors
Lowry: ObamaCare ad reveals infantile assumptions
May I mention that there is no such thing as "health insurance"? There is "medical insurance."
Supreme Court strikes down Canada's prostitution laws
Man with gun robs passengers on a Seattle bus, until…
EPA on the Renewable Fuel Standard: Uhm, we’re totally just now realizing that this is unrealistic and inadvisable
We share the same climate as … the Romans?
No. It was much warmer then. Vineyards in the north of England. Farms in Greenland.
...why do we continue to put up with our tax dollars being funneled through
Washington? How about letting the states make -- and pay for -- their
own social policy decisions without the (ahem) assistance of those federal experts?
Moral Intelligence and Public School Bullying
What's more selective than Harvard? A WalMart job
Who occupies American jails?
Saturday, December 21. 2013
How come it's OK for Muslims to hang gays and to hate them, to endorse bestiality, child marriage/sex and rape, but not ok for some Christians to opine that homosexual behavior goes against Biblical teaching while still loving them as God's children?
Multiculturalism gets quite complex. Above my pay grade, as Obama would say. Or is everybody just scared of Muslims? Nobody is askeered of Christians, and rightly so. Christianity teaches that we are all fallen, all sinners, all in need of redemption through Christ. I believe that, and I do not dislike gays at all although I do find all of the LGBT stuff very weird and distasteful.
Your Tax Dollars at Work… Gay Christmas Videos Pushing Obamacare
I do not want these images in my head.
Friday, December 20. 2013
Sheesh. You just have to laugh: Obama Repeals Obamacare.
Does this mean we can keep our old medical insurance? What the heck are these geniuses doing to us? SNAFU.
 Taking the day off for Christmas errands. Time to begin thinking about Christmas. I'm buying a large can of Beluga caviar for Dad at Petrossian, and a fancy scarf for Mom at Bloomingdale's. I like to flirt with the sales-babes, and they seem to like to flirt with me. Call Me Maybe.
How is this?
Utter Chaos: White House Exempts Millions From Obamacare's Insurance Mandate, 'Unaffordable' Exchanges. They declared that Obamacare requires a "hardship exemption." What?
I'm not the only one who is confused. Are they flushing this mess? How are insurers supposed to revert to their old policies, canceled and erased due to Obamacare? Your tax dollars at work by our moral and intellectual superiors.
Maybe government is not Santa after all. Darn. I love freebies.
Camille Paglia: Duck Dynasty uproar ‘utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist’
Of course it is, Camille. Christianity and Judaism are not PC. Thought Crime requires Thought Police.
But hey, remember this: MSNBC Host "Rev." Sharpton Hurls Homophobic Slur – “You’re a Punk Fagg*t!”. The rules about who can say what are getting confusing these days. Our approach is to say whatever you think, but to show decent manners not out of fear, but out of civility.
Thursday, December 19. 2013
In an interview, Phil Robertson paraphrased St. Paul, and then recklessly opined that an anus, in his view, held little charm.
I guess these are shocking statements, but it all seems fairly ordinary to me. 4 Reasons Why the Duck Dynasty Brouhaha Matters.
In a way, you have to laugh at the grievance-mongers and the bed-wetters, but it does matter. It doesn't matter to the Duck guys, but it matters to the ordinary person with an ordinary job.
And there's this: "lefties, give Phil Robertson a break. It's not like he said Santa was white."
Legal polygamy is on its way: Polygamy - It's coming.
Legal prostitution and related arrangements are also on the way. These are all consensual arrangements between adults, and all have ancient histories. America's Puritan roots die hard.
We always joke that polygamy might be fun, but not if each wife had her own American Express Gold Card.
 Another friend has a new book out: JerusaLand: An Insignificant Death
Reddit bans climate debate
Caffeine + alcohol protect your DNA
Ultra-Right Philistine Glenn Reynolds Condemned
Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson ignores the PC rules
Affluenza? Ethan Couch and the media outrage machine
Robert Reich's envy: He covets. That is his nature:
Progressives imagine all the wonderful things they could do with other people’s money, and no doubt some of them are well-intentioned. But envy poisons whatever good intentions they have, which is how men such as Professor Reich come to write resentful indictments of people who are, remember, giving away billions of dollars of their own money. He’d prefer their money be given away by him, or by bureaucracies under the tutelage of men such as himself. As the moral philosopher Hannibal Lecter put it: “He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet? Do we seek out things to covet? No. We begin by coveting what we see every day.”
The truth about parenthood
Polls: Most Want Higher Minimum Wage
The Gov. of Maine grew up on welfare
Scientific Groupthink and Gay Parenting
Are Boys Irrational? Not if you distinguish biology from economics.
Here's a job for ya:
Bloomberg Sounds Alarm Over ‘Labor-Electoral Complex’ in Final Speech as Mayor
Are newspapers losing ‘mass media’ mojo?
Pelosi: Being an Illegal Alien is Not a Reason to Deport Someone
‘Massive Seizure of Power´:Climate scientists, economists challenge EPA
Non-citizens caught voting in 2012 presidential election in key swing state
Erasing history: US Army War College considers removing prints depicting Robert E. Lee,
Confederate generals
Wednesday, December 18. 2013
Barbara Walters re Obama: “We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next Messiah."
As Driscoll asks, "Who is we?" The MSM, I'd guess. By the way, Barbara Walters, there is no "next Messiah" in Christianity.
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Hotel Ducks Gone Wild 
Bloomberg’s ultimate victory: NYC bans e-cigarettes in indoor public
