DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Notice that British Princes are no longer going into the Royal Navy….

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And if we charge him another hundred grand to get back in, that would be about right.

Andy McCarthy lays it out in black and white.

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As the caliph Umar is supposed to have said when ordering the library of Alexandria to be burned: “If the books agree with the Qur’an, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical.”

Your future under Islam. Don’t say that you weren’t warned.

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“The majority of Copts believe the reason for the acquittal of Muslims is that although Egypt claims to be a secular state, in reality it applies the Sharia law which dictates that a Muslim who kills a non-Muslim must not be killed, because it is not reasonable to equate a Muslim with a ‘polytheist’ (a Christian).”

Indeed. “The indemnity for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third of the indemnity paid for a Muslim. The indemnity paid of a Zoroastrian is one-fifteenth of that a Muslim.” — ‘Umdat al-Salik, o4.9

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Any country that lets Muslims cross its border is insane.

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As, indeed, you might expect.

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So remember: Question 9 — “Some other race” — “American”. Pass it on.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Everything bad is good for you.

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Most of them once members of the Soviet Politburo….

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Well, if their co-religionists would quit blowing people up, they wouldn’t have that problem, would they?

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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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Not that there’s anything wrong with that….

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Dennis Prager boils it down.

I suspect that most Americans, if asked whether these numbers trouble the Democratic leadership and President Obama, would answer in the affirmative.

They would be wrong.

They would be wrong not because the Democratic party and the president are economic illiterates or bad individuals, but because the Democratic party and the president are leftists, and most Americans, including most Democrats, do not understand the Left. They may understand liberalism, but President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and most Democratic representatives and senators are not liberals; they are leftists. Few Americans understand the difference.

They do not realize, for example, that there is no major difference between the American Democratic party and the leftist social democratic parties of Western Europe. They do not know that, from Karl Marx to Barack Obama, the Left (as opposed to liberals) has never created wealth because it has never been interested in creating wealth; it is interested in redistributing wealth.

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“It’s an interesting thing, though because … It’s fun that you bring that up because I can kind of give some insight into development and how games are made. When you actually put in female characters, typically you have to put in an entire new skeleton model and that entire new skeleton model adds an entire new level of animation and an entire new level of rigging. You basically double the amount of data and memory for soldiers that would need to go into your game.

“So it turns into one of those things that’s like: How much will putting something like this in give us, whether the rewards of putting something like this in [are worth it]. The reward has to match what you have to give up somewhere else.

Much like real life. Fortunately game designers, unlike us, can decide ‘No, it’s more trouble than it’s worth.’

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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How hard is it to grasp that if you raise the price of something, people buy less of it? Six-year-olds understand that; many professors and legislators, alas, do not.

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These are the sort of people who save tinfoil and wash out pickle jars because GOD FORBID anything should get thrown out. Not only are their garages full of useless junk, they insist that our world must be the same. Feh.

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So why should we have all the fun?

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Isn’t it odd how you never see stories about machete-wielding Christians attacking Muslims. Christians must just be slow.

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May? Damned straight will.

Nearly two years later, the governor’s ambitious plan to reclaim the river of grass, as the famed wetlands are known, is instead on track to rescue the fortunes of United States Sugar.

United States Sugar dictated many of the terms of the deal as state officials repeatedly made decisions against the immediate needs of the Everglades and the interests of taxpayers, an examination of thousands of state e-mail messages and records and more than 60 interviews showed.

When a “fairness opinion” commissioned by the state found that those appraisals had overvalued the land by $400 million, Florida officials orchestrated a public relations campaign to discredit the findings, internal e-mail showed. Appraisers from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which was required to sign off on the deal, were also cut out of the process after raising concerns, e-mail messages showed.

Sure, we want government employees in charge of our health care. What a brilliant idea.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Victor Davis Hanson reminds us of some inconvenient truths.

September 11 taught us that a Mohammed Atta or a Khalid Sheikh Mohammed does not commit mass murder out of hunger, want, illiteracy, or Western oppression.

No doubt Middle Eastern poverty contributes to religious violence. But the poor in Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Yemen are no more impoverished than those in the slums of São Paulo, Mexico City, Ho Chi Minh City, or Johannesburg. And the latter, despite their frequent claims against the West, do not feel a need to murder in mass in the name of their particular religion.

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Increasing innovation and economic growth is absolutely key — but such things do displace people and jobs, and those people will fight like hell to have the government protect those jobs, and will become angry when the government fails to do so, and that can create social unrest and populist political movements that do more harm than good. But those movements aren’t necessarily driven by the same people that Manzi was discussing earlier as “have nots.” In fact, many of those movements are often engineered by the “haves” who are seeking to just have the government prop up their existing markets in the face of competition driven by innovation.

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I just got interesting email from Amazon: the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers [...] We and many others strongly opposed this legislation, known as HB 10-1193, but it was enacted anyway. Regrettably, as a result of the new law, we have decided to stop advertising through Associates based in Colorado. We plan to continue to sell to Colorado residents, however, and will advertise through other channels, including through Associates based in other states. The message goes on to say that they’ll pay out all the money they owe me but I won’t earn any more money for referring people to them.

This reminds me of the complaint by the Beggar at the beginning of Fiddler on a Roof:

‘Here’s one kopek.’
‘One kopek? Last week you gave me two kopeks.’
‘I had a bad week.’
‘So you had a bad week – why should I suffer?’

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I have my doubts.

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A novel fuel-injection system achieves 64 miles per gallon.

When can we expect to be driving such a thing? Ponder the fact that adding ethanol to gasoline has been conclusively demonstrated to (a) damage cars, (b) lower gas mileage, (c) cause hunger by diverting agricultural production from food to fuel, and (d) increase pollution, and that Congress is considering increasing the ethanol-in-fuel mandate, and you have your answer.

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Pelosi, Obama, and Reid also know that if they can successfully defy the will of the people and impose government-run health care, if  they can then prevent the entitlement from being repealed in its early stages, then this massive program will foster dependency, and dependency entrenches entitlement programs, which keep government powerful and keep the advocates of entitlements in power, give or take the odd election, or until an economy crashes (see Greece, which is on the verge of collapse).

Once the government starts running something, it becomes almost impossible to get it out, and every issue becomes a political football. Think ‘affirmative action’.

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Why do I have to wait for some long flash file to load when I just want the address?

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137 years of Popular Science, online.

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I am not making this up.

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Another in an ongoing effort to obtain an exemption for Muslims from the body scans that Muslims made necessary.

Really, this could work out very well.

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But it doesn’t look as if it is going to fly. And note that they only started claiming to have been tortured after Pakistani authorities rejected their first strategem, which was to claim that they were simply waging jihad, and jihad was not illegal under Pakistani law.

Steve Sailer speaks wisdom.

Going to the movies has been one of the few things that hasn’t gotten more complicated. Seemingly everything else in my life has gotten complicated due to the number of choices available to me. I hate choices.

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‘Doing a baby girl is not a big thing around here,’ [an] older woman said comfortingly. ‘That’s a living child,’ I said in a shaking voice, pointing at the slops pail. ‘It’s not a child,’ she corrected me. ‘It’s a girl baby, and we can’t keep it. Around these parts, you can’t get by without a son. Girl babies don’t count.’”

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“It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including ’sexual orientation,’ ‘gender identity,’ ‘gender expression,’ or like classification, as a protected class within its nondiscrimination policy, absent specific authorization from the General Assembly,” Cuccinelli wrote.

Cuccinelli said the legislature has repeatedly refused to exercise its authority. As recently as Tuesday, a subcommittee killed legislation that would have banned job discrimination against gay state employees.

This is the problem with state-run schools: Every issue becomes a political issue.

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The great mystery of the health care debate is why liberals, who don’t trust doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies or insurers, trust Congress and federal bureaucrats.

Perhaps because they’re on the same side?

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A new book has claimed that Robin Hood was not as selfless as he is often depicted, suggesting he stole from the rich and lent money to the poor as an early kind of loan shark.

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After a series of strokes left her father needing continuous care, Pippa Kelly turned to the social services. Here, she recounts her humiliating, and ultimately fruitless, fight for the help to which he was entitled.

Of course we want government employees in charge of our health care. What a brilliant idea.