A Chinese man who swore to God that he didn’t owe money to a neighbour was hit by lightning a minute later.
30th August 2008
Let that be a lesson to us all.
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30th August 2008
Let that be a lesson to us all.
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30th August 2008
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30th August 2008
Or perhaps Martians. There are a lot of possibilties, and those who write headlines don’t have, shall we say, interesting lives.
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30th August 2008
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30th August 2008
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30th August 2008
There’s a childhood trauma for you.
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29th August 2008
And too clever to get it right when correcting others, it would seem.
Researchers at Collins Dictionaries found that the most commonly misspelt word was supersede – being wrong on one in ten occasions. The problem arises because people use their knowledge of the words that have a phonetically similar ending, like intercede, precede or cede, from the Latin cedere – to yield. They then wrongly assume that supersede is spelt with a ‘c’.
The truth is that “supercede” is a perfectly good word and has a slightly different meaning than “supersede”; the problem is that people don’t appreciate, and therefore don’t exploit, such precise shades of meaning.
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29th August 2008
Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
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29th August 2008
How to bypass phone trees. As you might expect, the government is the worst — even when you get a human, it sounds like a recording.
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29th August 2008
The fact that most writers, even writers of science fiction who ought to know better, are tediously leftist is one of the depressing realities of modern life. So when someone like Card comes along who can see through the bullshit to how the world really works, it’s refreshing. Of course, his socialist fellow-writers just can’t believe it. Unfortunately, he’s a really awesome successful and award-winning writer, so they can’t just ignore him.
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29th August 2008
I thought people with expensive yachts all had platoons of heavily-armed thugs to do their bidding?
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29th August 2008
Can the breakfast cereal be far behind?
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29th August 2008
Well, that’s what Reuters does.
By the 1980s information of the FBI’s project Venona emerged in which declassified coded messages from the Soviet Union from the Rosenberg’s era proved their guilt. Nikita Krushchev even admitted to their guilt in his posthumous 1990 autobiography.
Not news, but a useful reminder.
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29th August 2008
Politics as a bad Star Trek episode. (Where is Ensign Chekov when you really need him?)
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29th August 2008
So quit whining about what a bad day you’ve had.
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29th August 2008
Leftists are essentially haters, and leftist policies are characteristically designed to punish people they don’t like. Think about it, and you’ll see it’s true.
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29th August 2008
And why not? Surely Muslims allow churches to flourish and tower high in Dar al-Islam, allowing Christians to exclaim five times a day, on megaphones, that “Jesus is the Son of God!” Oh, they don’t; oh, some Muslim nations don’t even allow the construction of churches. Never mind, then.
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29th August 2008
Andy McCarthy pulls the curtain back on Barack Obama and his circle.
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29th August 2008
Change you can believe in — and be afraid.
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29th August 2008
Well, I think it’s interesting….
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29th August 2008
No, this isn’t an alternate universe in which Bill Clinton is a Muslim.
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29th August 2008
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29th August 2008
Although why this is a good thing is nowhere stated.
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29th August 2008
Let that be a lesson to us all.
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29th August 2008
Note that it isn’t what you would think, that the A.P.’s stories are full of politically-biased left-wing crap. No, it’s because the A.P. is selling their politically-biased left-wing crap stories to people other than newspapers. You can lie all you want to but don’t touch that wallet….
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29th August 2008
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29th August 2008
“Worth it’s weight in what?”
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29th August 2008
The resemblance to Joe Biden is purely coincidental. Really.
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29th August 2008
With campus no-guns-unless-you’re-the-killer policies, sounds like a very useful thing.
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29th August 2008
“Vote for Barack! Get it in the shorts!” There’s a winning campaign theme for you.
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29th August 2008
A Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates that “the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax.” It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh ‘Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only “provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)…while remaining in their ancestral religions.” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.8).
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29th August 2008
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29th August 2008
Of course, if you aren’t doing anything you shouldn’t, it’s not a problem.
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29th August 2008
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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29th August 2008
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28th August 2008
Note that nobody is dying to get into Africa. What do they know that you don’t?
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28th August 2008
Not something you see every day.
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28th August 2008
What can you say about an entire state party that approves of corruption?
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28th August 2008
Your life under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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28th August 2008
Americans must have a healthy kind of dual loyalty: to our individual communities and to the nation that enables them to exist. The alternative of trying to force national uniformity would lead to tyranny, failure or both. Madison and Hamilton made this argument far better than I have when writing about an emerging nation with a population that was less than that of New Jersey today. Governor Corzine ought to go read them again before he decides to destroy local autonomy and traditions in pursuit of administrative uniformity.
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28th August 2008
If you were asked to name the technologies whose proliferation inadvertently threatens the human race, what would you include? IEDS? Assault rifles? Nuclear warheads?
Add this one to your list: the sonogram machine.
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28th August 2008
And I, for one, am looking forward to it.
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28th August 2008
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28th August 2008
Gonna get that bird, see if I don’t….
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28th August 2008
Well, that’s California for you. Gotta pay those high prices somehow.
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28th August 2008
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28th August 2008
Say what you want about New Yorkers — and who doesn’t? — in some fields they stand alone.
Well, not precisely alone … I mean, you’ve got to catch it from somebody, right? … but you know what I meant.
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27th August 2008
Money is wasted on some people.
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27th August 2008
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