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We have the technology.

(Roy, this Bud’s for you….)

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that messing with a guy who has facial tattoos is a really bad idea.

As tattoos go mainstream, criminals have to adapt. These days, even art on your neck, collarbone, and wrists is barely enough to signal your commitment to subcultures that are totally legal.

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Roy King, who died on November 8 aged 65, was an archer and master craftsman of the English longbow – mixing historical and artisanal expertise to produce weapons similar to those that proved so devastating at Agincourt almost 600 years ago.

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According to Russian newpaper Kommersant, as relayed via the RIA Novosti news wire, Illarionov says that the HadCRUT dataset doesn’t include the records from many of Russia’s meteorological stations. He adds that the missing records, if they had been included by the British climate scientists, would have significantly reduced the amount of warming shown for Russia by the HadCRUT database.

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

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This is news?

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So you don’t know what ‘charcuterie’ means. So look it up.

When I visited last month they were rubbing down a few pork bellies with rosemary sprigs and a salt cure and experimenting with a new Italian sausage recipe. On the back porch, alongside the potted rosemary, three smokers issued thin white plumes that filled the neighborhood with a sweet, meaty perfume. Two contained slabs of bacon and the third—a ceramic tile Big Green Egg—held half a dozen of the paprika-and-mustard-rubbed chickens that Erik periodically smokes for favored mothers of his daughter’s classmates.

That ought to give you a clue.

“The regulations are written for industrial food operations,” says Mate. “And if you apply them to small-scale local producers, no one’s gonna do it. It’s legislating local food out of the market. Unfortunately, the health departments don’t appreciate that. But that food is actually safer. It’s easier for someone on that small scale to move things more quickly and be more careful. Local markets are self-regulating. If there’s anything wrong with your products and someone gets sick from it, then you’re out of business.”

Your tax dollars at work.

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That says something profound but I’m not quite sure what it is.

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Whenever you get to feeling that you live in a bad neighborhood….

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A Christian sanitation worker was struggling for his life Wednesday, December 16, in a hospital of Pakistan’s Punjab province after two Christian co-workers already died because Muslim employers apparently poisoned them, police and family confirmed.

Masih said the Muslim managers of the facility were angry that Christians dared to ask for payment.  “My sons were apparently forced to consume some kind of poisoned drink, or a drug…They were left there to die,” he said, adding that their bosses also made abusive remarks about Christianity.

What a bunch of uppity niggers dhimmis. The nerve of some people.

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Apparently the heart of American is Washington, D.C., and doesn’t bother with fact-checking, attributing a quotation from Bolingbroke’s ‘The Idea of a Patriot King’ to Jefferson.

Bolingbroke was about as far from Jefferson, politically and philosophically as it’s possible to get without being Hobbes.

(And what part of America does that make California?)

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Dozens of Iraqi security force members were involved in attacks that killed up to 112 people in Baghdad last week, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday.

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

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Little capsules, full of fish oil,
Little capsules, with Omega-3,
Little capsules, full of fish oil,
That improve cholesterol.

There’s a yellow one, and a yellow one,
And a yellow one, and a yellow one,
Little capsules, full of fish oil,
And they all look just the same.

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These guys aren’t just camel-jockeys in tents; Osama bin Laden was an engineer.

Evil is not the product of stupidity or ignorance, but of a reprobate mind.

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The gadget teardown experts at iFixit have decided to make the firm’s entire catalogue of gadget repair guides available to all – and for free.

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This phone is more responsive than many of the girlfriends I had in college. We have the technology.

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Can I get a witness?

There are four categories of edible substances:

1. Food (anything that once had a face)
2. What we get from food (e.g. eggs, milk, butter)
3. What food eats (e.g. salad, sushi)
4. What we get from what food eats (e.g. spuds, fruits, vegetables)

Note that category 3 was designated by God for herbivores (i.e. ‘prey’) and is not properly part of a human diet. If you see a creature that appears human but is eating salad, it is an impostor. This is why certain entities are designated ‘vegan’, denoting that they came from the star system Vega. Feel at liberty to tell them to go back where they came from if they don’t want to be eaten.

My thanks to Glen Wilkerson for this convenient and elegant conceptual framework.

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What goes around, comes around.

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The face of Tom Hanks can be almost seen if you squint hard enough.

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Well, how much did you pay for it? It’s worth that much to at least one person.

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A dozen bad science fiction movies come to life before your very eyes….

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Try that with your Kindle.

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

No doubt Ghaddafi was rushed to the hospital, having hurt himself laughing.

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Be the first on your block….

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Or, at least, to Italians.

Of course, we can do that, too.

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Were it not for my native indolence, I’d do the same.

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Must be pretty bad when the entire team defects.

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

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This is why this is an exciting time to be alive.

Unfortunately, they only have versions for iPhone and Android. I guess Blackberry users don’t need to save money on stuff….

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Rachel Maddow recently indulged in a strange episode of media bullying, using a half a dozen disreputable and dishonest techniques to smear an obscure writer and psychotherapist, Richard Cohen, whose business it is to help homosexuals who wish to live heterosexual lives to do so.

Therapists such as Mr. Cohen are an object of special hatred for organized homosexuality, and that lobby probably has never had so prominent a voice as Miss Maddow’s. To be sure, Cohen is a distinctly unsympathetic figure. His psychotherapeutic work is pure New Age goo, but that is to be expected: Psychotherapy is pseudoscience. At its least destructive it amounts to idle chatter; at its worst it is a reality-displacing religion substitute, advancing beliefs that are every bit as fundamentalist and anti-rational as any desert jihadist’s, if not so violent.

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But does Obama care? Sorry, he’s too busy with the government takeover of the health care industry.

Priorities? Sure, he’s got priorities. They just aren’t YOUR priorities.

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· Remember always that your word is your bond. “Off the record” means off the record, unless it’s something you can use to embarrass a Republican.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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I have a dozen pints of bacon lard in my freezer. Bring it on.

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Is there a ‘Rod Dreher’ wing of the Republican party?

House of Eratosthenes is not impressed.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

I was visiting a typical Southern California public high school, one in which the student body is close to three-fourths Latino, when it dawned on me that virtually all the kids’ hallway conversations with friends were conducted in English. Indeed, most of the students spoke English without an accent. Well, to be pedantic, they had teen accents — it’s practically impossible for a high school girl to roll her eyes and exclaim “That is so gay” without sounding a little like Moon Unit Zappa in Valley Girl — but only a minority of the Hispanic students had Spanish accents.

I went home and read up on bilingual education. I quickly discovered the topic of educating “Limited English Proficient” (LEP) students is buried under a bureaucratic jargon that appears to consist of literal translations from some distant language unknown to Earthlings. For example, when an LEP child masters English, he becomes a Reclassified-Fluent English Proficient (R-FEP). His R-FEP status is tabulated at the federal Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited-English-Proficient Students (OELALEAALEPS).

Unintended consequences predominate because the reigning dogma of the education industry—the intellectual equality of all students—is wrong. This obdurate refusal on the part of everybody who is anybody in the education business to admit publicly the manifold implications of some kids being smarter than others makes it difficult to get anything done in the real world.

Judith Rich Harris, author of the The Nurture Assumption, pointed out, “The problem with bilingual education is that these programs create peer groups of children who do not speak English well. They don’t have to learn English in order to communicate with the children they want to play with, and they don’t have to learn English in order to be accepted by their classmates. So, their motivation to learn English is no different from their motivation to learn the state capitals or the multiplication tables.”

Which leads to the inevitable question: That there exists a ‘black accent’ no one can doubt — and it’s not just a ‘Southern accent’, as anybody who has listened to black Southerners and white Southerners in the same conversation is aware. Is the whole meme of denigrating (no pun intended) black kids who ‘talk white’ promoted to keep blacks an isolated and thus more easily manipulated cultural minority? In that respect, I highly recommend the book He Talk Like a White Boy by Joseph C. Philips.

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Barnes & Noble might be pitching the Nook to the literary set, but it turns out the Android-based dual-screen reader is pretty hacker-friendly as well: both the OS and filesystem are stored on a microSD card. That means the newly-formed crew at nookdevs has already managed to root what they describe as the “generic” Android 1.5 build that’s hidden under the Nook’s navigation UI, and they say the device can do “everything a rooted Android phone can do.” That’s certainly intriguing, especially since the Nook has a data-only AT&T 3G modem and WiFi to go along with that capacitive touchscreen and E Ink display — can you say “potential”?

A good example of why the dinosaur media in general, and Newsweek in particular, suck.

A new GAO report shows how George W. Bush’s Justice Department abandoned advocacy for minority groups.

As if ‘advocacy for minority groups’ were the definition of ‘civil rights’.

Ellis Cose obviously considers himself a black columnist (rather than a columnist who happens to be black), and it shows.

George W. Bush was never particularly taken with the civil-rights crowd. Not that he was exactly hostile to the notion of protecting society’s most vulnerable groups. But he and his minions assumed that the time for coddling minorities had passed. So after sizing up the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice—the most powerful advocate for civil rights within the federal government—Bush’s operatives endeavored “to rip the heart out of [it],” in the words of Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP.

Never was a President of the NAALCP so appropriately named. God forbid that anyone should ‘assume that the time for coddling minorities had passed’.

George Orwell.

There is no use in multiplying examples. The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

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Note that this trick isn’t possible without a government that is willing to be stupid with YOUR money. (What am I saying? That’s ALL of them.)

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Not to mention the hat.

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Some good news, for a change.

Samuelson was the first American winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and, through his highly influential economics textbooks, set American government policy on a statist course for over fifty years — with results as you see them. Send him some marshmallows for use in his new home.

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No sucres will be printed or coined, but the virtual currency will be used to manage debts between the nine nations in a move to reduce reliance on the US dollar.

Cuba already signed an agreement on Saturday to pay for a shipment of Venezuelan rice in sucres, according to Rogelio Sierra, the island’s deputy foreign minister. He declined to say what the shipment was worth.

That agreement was made as it emerged that cash-strapped Cuba has fallen behind on its debt to nations and multinational corporations amid the global recession.

Judging from this, I think it ought to be pronounced ‘sucker’, but that’s just me.

I am somewhat astonished that there are only nine ‘left-wing’ governments in South America.

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Britain’s financiers and entrepreneurs are leaving the country at the rate of 10 a week to avoid rising taxes, it has emerged.

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

And they won’t want to come to America once the Obama Nation takes hold. Maybe Belize.

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So what great lesson did the military and the President take from the experience of the massacre at Fort Hood? Why, the most obvious one, of course: we need more Muslims in the military….

Incredible. Look at these pictures. Our people, deliberately murdered by a Muslim doing his bit for jihad. A Muslim who was an officer in the United States Army, who had taken an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States. And the response is ‘Please, sir, can we have another?’

Your tax dollars at work. The only thing that saves us is that we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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