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I guess they just assumed that ‘Episcopal School’ meant ‘not so Christian as you’d notice’.

They are disappointed that their daughter was denied an education there because of who they go to bed with at the end of the day.

I’m disappointed that they know so little of Christianity.

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

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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According to Treasury, the total ten-year cost of completely extending the Bush tax cuts is $3.675 trillion. The ten-year cost exclusively associated with extending tax cuts to folks Obama, the Democrats, and the media consider rich is $679 billion.

This means that almost $3 trillion of the cost associated with the Bush tax cuts over the next ten years, or 82 percent, is not for benefits to the so-called rich.

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Imagine my distress. ‘Well, we don’t have the death penalty any more, so we can’t execute you, but we can send you to prison instead, which will work out about the same.’ That’s modern life for you.

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The U.N. sanctioned two activist groups Monday after a Saudi Arabian nameplate was vandalized at a recent climate change conference.

Three members of the World Wildlife Fund and Oxfam International were barred from future meetings for taking the Saudi plate at a June meeting, breaking it into pieces and distributing photographs of it in a toilet bowl.

One wonders what the reaction would have been had it been the nameplate of the U.S. or any European country that had been so treated. My suspicion is that the Arabs (with behind the hand participation by the Saudis) would have been the first to nod, wink, and applaud.

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The Welfare State can’t get you a job, but it can certainly prevent you from taking a job of which it doesn’t approve.

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No wonder lefties are unhappy. They have a wrong view of human nature that sets them up for continual disappointment. That would be like a parent expecting two year olds to play nice and share toys. They don’t do it. Neither do nations squabbling over territory. Neither do countries fighting over fundamentally different ideals. Wanting peace doesn’t make peace happen. Wanting fairness often ends up creating unfairness (see Affirmative Action).

A leftist has all the panicked mission of a person struggling to Change The World Or Else. So, every generation has had a pseudo-religious substitute whether it be the next Ice Age, Ebola, HIV, or now, Global Warming aka Climate Change aka Gaia be pissed.

When it all depends on you, the anxiety must be nearly impossible to bear. And then, when the leftist has it all–all branches of government–in their very grasp; and for the elected officials to fail at stopping war and famine and general unfairness and badness, it’s so defeating and misery-inducing.

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Works for me.

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Since Sherrod’s incoherent and racial media blitz, she hasn’t popped up anywhere. Where’s the media’s canonized darling? “Reporters” have been quieter than a church mouse on the whole incident.

At an ‘undisclosed location’, no doubt.

James Taranto nails it.

It is entirely fair to observe that Breitbart’s Monday report on Sherrod was journalistically shoddy. He misinterpreted a quote whose meaning was at best ambiguous. He should have sought out the full speech (the NAACP has posted it here), and he should have given Sherrod an opportunity to comment.

But the NAACP’s defense that it was “snookered” by Breitbart–and Frum’s implication, in turn, that Breitbart is the only “villain” of the piece–is laughable. Are we to believe that Ben Jealous thought Breitbart was what Dan Rather, before his fall, claimed to be–an impartial and reliable purveyor of facts? In the unlikely event that the answer to that question is yes, doesn’t his failure to know better reflect a stunning incompetence?

No, you can’t cheat an honest man. Breitbart set a trap for the NAACP, and the NAACP walked right into it. He was able to do so because he correctly identified the organization’s moral weakness. Confronted by a video showing apparent racism at an NAACP function, its leaders appear to have panicked and made a snap decision to denounce one of their own so as to pre-empt the charge of employing a double standard.

Marie Brennan, fantasy author, has some gender issues.

Still, the question is an interesting one, however her take on it might not be.

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Do not get on the wrong side of a New Zealand dog.

Ross Douthat, one of the New York Times‘ pet ‘conservative’ columnists, talks about everybody’s favorite subject.

The rich are different from you and me. They know how to game the system.

Well, duh. That’s how a lot of them got rich in the first place. Are you listening, Al Gore? Bill Clinton? Chris Dodd? Charlie Rangel?

The trick is to channel those impulses in a constructive direction. The left-wing instinct, when faced with high-rolling irresponsibility, is usually to call for tax increases on the rich. But the problem, here and elsewhere, isn’t exactly that we tax high rollers’ incomes too lightly. It’s that we subsidize their irresponsibility too heavily — underwriting their bad bets and bailing out their follies. The class warfare we need is a conservative class warfare, which would force the million-dollar defaulters to pay their own way from here on out.

Uh, no. The conservative solution is to structure a system where highly-paid bank officials would lose their jobs for making such loans in the first place. When ‘rich’ people walk away from their mortgage(s), they still take a hit on their credit rating; when huge-salary-plus-bonus bankers make such loans, and they go sour, costing their banks millions (when it doesn’t destroy the bank altogether), they take — home their regular paychecks. There’s the warfare we need, and it is only incidentally related to ‘class’.

Heh.

A culture of politics trumping science, many say, persists despite the president’s promises. The use of potentially toxic dispersants to fight the gulf oil spill is cited as just one example.

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

Hey, Lucy, why don’t you hold that football so that they can kick it?

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Hmmm. Come to think of it, the only people who use tanning salons are … white people.

Coincidence? I think NOT.

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So homosexuality is a genetic defect. Wonder how long it will take the appropriate pressure groups to denounce this finding.

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Monsanto Company, the Missouri-based biotechnology firm, has donated seeds to Haiti to help kickstart food production in the earthquake-ravaged country. In so doing, they’ve stirred up the kind of controversy that seems to follow the company. The 475-ton donation has sparked a storm of protest not only in Haiti but also in the United States. A coalition of Haitian peasant groups organized a protest march in June and have vowed to burn the donated seed.

This is not Monsanto’s first rodeo, as we Missourians would say, so the company has made it clear that no genetically modified seeds were included in the donation. This delicacy did not impress the marchers, who protested under banners of “Down with GMO and hybrid seeds.” Genetically modified seeds have long been controversial, but it’s a surprise to find that hybridization, around since Gregor Mendel’s time in the 1800s, can also inspire protest marches. Somehow, it doesn’t seem obvious that hybrid broccoli seeds are the 82nd Airborne of cultural imperialism.

Fine. Let them plant the seeds that they brought with them. Or starve. I fail to see what contribution Haiti has made to world progress or culture that would justify giving them two seconds’ thought, much less all of the handwringing we see in the lamestream media.

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Fashionably liberal rich people wake up to the fact that Democrat pols don’t hesitate to bite the hands that feed them.

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Buying an $8.8 million California mansion months before announcing their divorce wasn’t the only puzzling real-estate transaction for the Gores.

A month after snagging the Montecito estate in October 2009, Al and Tipper Gore transferred nine properties in Carthage, Tenn., from their own names into a limited liability company.

The transfer on Nov. 30, 2009, came after an Oregon masseuse lodged a January 2009 police complaint accusing the former vice president of sexual abuse.

Coincidence? I think not.

Perhaps we will soon learn why the Gores have decided t0 split after all these years.

Half Sigma likes to point and laugh.

SWPLs absolutely love to drink bottled water . They carry their water bottles around with them everywhere.

But now, other SWPLs have banned the sale of bottled water in order to protect the environment. The residents of the town of Concord Massachusetts will have to drive to a nearby Costco in order purchase bottled water in bulk and lose the spontaneity of just picking up a bottle at the local store.

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The Department of Homeland Security, which houses the Border Patrol, last year signed a deal with Interior — the administrator of America’s parklands — to cough up $50 million for environmental “mitigation” needed in the wake of the construction of a border fence. That was after DHS had already spent or committed millions more for expected environmental damage caused by the Border Patrol over the years.

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Now a failed gubernatorial nominee is flipping out on the Black Legislative Caucus because they didn’t nominate him because they are all Uncle Tom’s and the old white guys in SC are running the Democrat party like a plantation

Politics is getting more and more entertaining.

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A U.S. Marine who served in Iraq is suing the federal government for distributing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to the Shariah-supporting American International Group.

I don’t know where they find these guys….

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Could be worse; could be a Maytag.

Cringely does LifeLock.

What LifeLock does primarily when you subscribe is they put a fraud alert on your file at all three national credit monitoring agencies — Equifax, Experian, and Trans-Union. A fraud alert says “this person’s identity has been stolen, don’t approve any unusual expenditures without proper verification. ” So the cable bill you’ve been paying with a credit card for five years still goes through but any new request for credit or an unusual expenditure gets flagged. The problem with this is that the fraud alert isn’t real; there has been no fraud. You only signed-up with LifeLock, which is now screaming at the credit bureaus that you’ve been ripped-off when, in fact, you haven’t.

Credit bureaus hate LifeLock.

But wait, Todd Davis (Mr. 457-55-5462) was ripped-off 13 times despite being a member of LifeLock. With an fraud alert on his file, how was this even possible?

Because the frauds didn’t involve his credit file.

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New Zealand’s Maori have been accused of trivialising their own culture after a centuries-old welcoming ceremony for visiting dignitaries was given to Mickey Mouse.

Hey, don’t mess with the mouse….

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Female film-makers have voiced their anger after it emerged that none of the 18 films selected to compete for the prestigious Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival is directed by a woman.

Perhaps none of them was good enough. Naw, that can’t be it….

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Of course, the Crust will be all a-flutter over so great a wrong done to so sterling a fellow.

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In the old days they would have been shot, not released. Who says the Russians haven’t mellowed?

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

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Be the first on your block to complete all ten. I’ll race you.

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

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When did character flaws become medical problems?

In the Good Old Days, people who had screwed up went on pilgrimages, did penance, and spent time in monasteries to get their heads straight. Nowadays they check into rehab, which typically has a spa and access to Good Drugs. How life has changed.

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She probably wasn’t blue enough.

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Of course, this won’t prevent The Usual Suspects from using it as a stick to beat Walmart with for ever and ever. But at least (as the saying goes) the truth is out there.

This is news?

It would have been news if they hadn’t sued.

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Police say a bear bit off a woman’s fingers at a Wisconsin zoo after she ignored barriers and warning signs to try to feed the animal.

The Lincoln Park Zoo in Manitowoc closed after the incident Friday morning. Police say the 47-year-old woman lost a thumb and a forefinger, and two other fingers were partially severed.

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Prosecutors in Milan brought the case after being contacted by charity Viva Down and argued that the boys privacy had been violated and that Google should have removed the footage quicker than it eventually did.

I’m trying to come up with some plausible excuse for an Italian court to have jurisdiction over three suits in California, and I’m not finding one. Apparently the boys that did the bullying are the alleged victims; that doesn’t say much good about the Italians.

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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman interferes with her state’s right to regulate the institution.

She’s undoubtedly right. But I’ll bet a paycheck that this is the first time such considerations have ever popped up on her radar.

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Now that Global Warming has fizzled, we need a new reason for hand-wringing.

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Being mayor of Kiev must pay better than I thought.

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Three crew members of a Japanese whaling vessel have suffered face and eye injuries from acid fired by anti-whaling protesters during their latest clash in the Antarctic Ocean, their Japanese employers said.

I’m waiting for the media to treat these jerks the way they treat abortion-clinic protesters.

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Hey, it’s hard out there for a … count.

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I have a tendency to eye roll when people come out with these weepy stories about dying languages. When a language dies a people dies, more or less. No doubt there are particular stories, memories passed down which maintain continuity of identity, which disappear. But humans do not necessarily die. If members of obscure tribe X all learn English, or Chinese, tribe X as tribe X disappears, more or less. This is not trivial, I believe most humans would prefer that the cultural forms which pervade their own lives would pass down to future generations. Memory is to a great extent the only form of immortality we’ve had access to. But for members of obscure tribe X learning a widely spoken language is often a boon, and brings great benefit as they can engage in more fruitful exchanges with the broader human race.

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I wonder whether he could be persuaded to take Mandela with him.

Well, we can hope.

The move by Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, King of the Thembu tribe, follows his conviction for multiple crimes including culpable homicide, kidnapping and arson, and a 15-year prison sentence. He was convicted of the offences last year but is appealing and has been granted bail in the meantime.

Yeah, I can see how that would sour relations somewhat.