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I’ll refrain from expressing an opinion regarding the metrosexuals who would subscribe to a monthly grooming kit. It would be like kicking a puppy.

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The government today confirmed that an electrically powered bicycle, may not be sold in this country because its top speed exceeds legal limits.

The Turbo e-cycle’s US-based creator, Specialized, was all set to peddle its first battery-equipped bike in coming months across the EU. But with a top assisted speed of 28mph, it will not be permitted in the UK, it has emerged.

We’re from the government, and we’re here to help … so long as you go slowly.

See if you can pick her out.

Ignore the Farah Fawcett wannabe.

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Oh, what treacherous webs we weave….

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Futher adventures in the quest by the Southern Poverty Law Center to keep the money rolling in.

Forget Arabs flying planes into buildings, you stupid cops and spies. The SPLC—whose dispatches are “sent to every law enforcement agency in the country”—has named the real enemy: white men unzipping their flies.

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Class action lawyers are suing the government of Iowa on an theory that “subconscious” bias resulted in employment discrimination against black employees and job-seekers. “The plaintiffs — up to 6,000 African-Americans passed over for state jobs and promotions dating back to 2003 — do not say they faced overt racism or discriminatory hiring tests.” Instead, they are relying on the work of an expert witness who is the developer of something called an Implicit Associations Test meant to measure subconscious bias.

Look out, or you’ll be placed on Double Secret Probation.

Charlie Stross has an amusing tale of the sort we all go through on a more or less perennial basis.

Let’s look at the last paragraph particularly, shall we?

Final observation: today’s monopoly status can be as lost as easily as it was gained. Virgin Media have a monopoly on cable TV in the UK … but there are rivals; Sky for satellite TV (if you live in an area where satellite dishes are permitted), digital terrestrial TV, and BT have upgraded their phone network to the point where TV-over-ADSL services such as BT Vision become practical. The instant I can get the channels this household needs from some organization other than Virgin I will be out of that contract. And all because they stuck after-sales technical support in the wrong column of the balance sheet — as a liability, rather than an infrastructure investment.

So why is this significant? Because Charlie Stross is a socialist, and rather tiresome about it; particularly in his bad-mouthing of capitalism and all its works. And yet the competition and free markets that are the distinguishing characteristics of capitalism, and that invariably disappear in socialist systems, is what he loudly wants — and, presumably, would be the first to vote to get rid of if he got the chance. There’s enough irony here to sink an aircraft carrier (of which Britain no longer has any, poor dears, since their government spends like our government but they’ve run out of other people’s money first).

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I guess they thought they were prospective Hogwarts students or something.

One of the tourists said the GPS insisted the drive was possible, so they followed its advice.

Guess they didn’t hear the snickering.

Think of it as evolution in action. The machines are on our side.

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Vice President Joe Biden addressed 87 wealthy Democrats last night attending a fundraiser at the home of Sen. John Kerry in Georgetown. As they dined on grass-fed New York strip steaks and white truffle mashed potatos underneath a outdoor tent, Biden criticized Republicans for being out of touch.

“These guys don’t have a sense of the average folks out there,” Biden said according to the pool report, “They don’t know what it means to be middle class.”

87 guests paid a minimum of $10,000-per-couple to attend the dinner.

No comment necessary, I think.

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No word on whether the people doing the course have to answer to the name ‘Bruce’.

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The James Baker family wants to stop the cancer-causing emissions floating into their home during their neighbors’ patio smoking breaks.

“We’re just saying, ‘please don’t poison us,’” James Baker said. “Can you smoke inside your home? The reason they don’t want to do that is because they don’t want their family breathing it in. But it’s okay for your neighbor?”

Well, yeah, if they’re a bunch of fascists like these swine.

Kelly and her two sons, ages 11 and 16, have asthma. After l0 years of being surrounded by smoking neighbors, Kelly said her children have become sicker.

So move to Arizona. I guarantee that the cost of living will be lower.

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“Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school,” Fluke told the hearing.

$3,000 for birth control in three years? That’s a thousand dollars a year of sex – and, she wants us to pay for it.

Where were these chicks when I was in law school? Sheesh, talk about born too soon….

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In a twist on typical union activity, employees of the National Labor Relations Board are accusing their bosses of treating them unfairly. NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce and Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon are facing resistance as they attempt to limit the amount of on-the-job time unionized employees can spend on union business, and on attending seminars and other meetings.

The biter bit. God forbid that they should actually do the work they’re getting paid for rather than union business.

Scott Johnson points and laughs.

I’m pretty sure that the algae angle would have earned a Republican president hoots of derision and charges of detachment from the real America in the spirit of the mythical story of George Bush’s wonderment at supermarket scanners. The story of Bush’s wonderment, it cannot be stated too often, was fabricated by the New York Times. By contrast, Obama’s support for the transubstantiation of pond scum is in the text of his big energy speech. (The Times mentioned it in the third-to-the last paragraph of Mark Landler’s story.)

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An appointee to the United Nations Human Rights Council has issued a four-page memo warning Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson that local officials could be violating the human rights of the homeless people living within the city. In the January 23rd dated letter, Catarina De Albuquerque, the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation for the United Nations human right council, says that the current policy of evicting the homeless from their “tent cities” and denying the homeless with safe access to clean water is, in effect, prohibited discrimination based on their economic and social status.

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UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, is hosting a conference about The Media World after Wikileaks and News of the World. Sounds like it could be an interesting event, but one organization not happy about it… is Wikileaks. Seeing as it was a conference that touched on Wikileaks’ interests directly, Wikileaks asked to take part, and was instead denied a chance to speak at the event. When asked about this, UNESCO actually claimed that choosing to not allow Wikileaks attendees was an exercise in “freedom of expression,” which seems like a poor choice of words.

Reminds me of the ‘Machine That Goes Ping!’ sketch in Monty Python’s LIFE OF BRIAN.

Pregnant woman: ‘What should I be doing?’
Doctor: ‘Nothing, my dear. You’re not qualified.’

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Sounds like a tabloid headline, doesn’t it? ‘Giant walking catfish attacks sleeping child.’ ‘Tiny space aliens attend rock concert.’ ‘Hitler has son with  French teen.’

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I wish for a new ice age, so that all of this foolishness will be forgotten.

Perhaps a human charity can sue the government on behalf of 100 million ‘slave’ taxpayers.

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There were no other witnesses to the punch, which came after the man had approached a patrol as a passenger on a motorcycle. His partner pulled a gun on a member of the Afghan National Army and was shot dead.

Ahmed Wali denied he was a member of the Taliban when he was questioned by Corporal C but prosecutors admitted his evidence was “unreliable”.

1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.

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The Jewish National Fund (JNF) was established with the hope to help the birth of the State of Israel. JNF plants trees for forest development in Israel, creates parks, battles forest fires, is responsible for soil conservation, pioneers innovative solutions to help Israel’s water supply, among other notable work.

The “Stop the JNF Campaign” alleges that the Jewish National Fund “was instrumental in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1948 Nakba, and continues to play a central role in maintaining Israel’s regime of apartheid.” It calls for the revocation of JNF’s charity and to isolate the group by breaking all ties with it.

Despite its shrill and nonsensical premise, the “Stop the JNF Campaign” has garnered support from organizations across the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries around the world. It also has spread to American and Canadian college campuses.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in San Francisco.

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

After all, Mao did much the same thing….

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A new online game in India called “Angry Brides” which seeks to highlight the problem of illegal dowry demands for women has attracted more than 270,000 fans.

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The guy is apparently famous for owning just 15 things.

In the old days, they called such people ‘bums’. But times change.

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A world-renowned American base-jumper known as “The Birdman” broke both legs when he crashed into the face of South Africa’s Table Mountain moments after leaping off its flat summit.

Stupid is as stupid does.

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Its crew immediately returned fire, forcing the pirates off the hull and back into their skiff, where they dumped their weapons overboard and attempted to escape.

Really, you have to wonder about some of these folks.

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Back in 2007, Congress created a biofuels mandate under which oil companies are required to use a minimum amount of cellulosic ethanol each year.  The mandate was supposed to encourage the development of a domestic cellulosic ethanol industry.  This has not happened.  Several years after the mandate was imposed, there is still no commercial cellulosic ethanol production.  This gets the oil companies off the hook, right?  Nope.  As the New York Times reports, companies are still paying fines, totaling nearly $7 million, for failing to meet a blending quota for a substance that does not exist.  Were that not bad enough, this year the cellulosic ethanol quota will increase, as will the fines for failing to meet it.

Of course. That makes perfect sense, to a bureaucrat. The important thing is not that people comply with the law, but that people not comply with the law, and cough up a ransom for not doing so.

As Green notes, Congress might as well have mandated oil companies blend gasoline with rainbows and unicorn sweat.

That’s phase 2, if Obama gets re-elected.

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A police lieutenant, fired for covering up a hit and run crash involving a fellow officer who she was involved in a relationship with, has been reinstated following an arbitration decision that chastised the city’s Police Commission.

But Christine Burns was demoted to patrol officer and assigned to the Police Department’s records division. She was granted about six months back pay.

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The Church hopes that its official status will remove the legal stigma that surrounds file-sharing.

I am not making this up.

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They claim the 3,000-year-old horse made from crushed white chalk in Uffington, Oxfordshire, was originally meant to be a depiction of the mythical horned beast.

The amateur historians have now received financial backing from ‘well-wishers’ including a £50,000 anonymous donation towards adding a 75-foot long horn to the horse.

The Uffington White Horse – which measures 374 feet – or 110 metres – is owned and managed by The National Trust – who have now received a proposal about the horn from the campaigners.

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A group of women have launched landmark court action against Britain’s biggest police force, claiming they were duped into forming long-term relationships with undercover policemen.

As Tom Clancy reputedly said, the difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to be credible.

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‘Braveheart Butter Bombs’ — coming to a state fair near you.

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I suppose that, if you absolutely must have a government minister in charge of broadcast standards, this is the kind to have.

Gotta love Australians.

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The appeals court said Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which prohibits services of public accommodation from discriminating on the basis of marital status among other grounds, extinguishes doctors’ common law right to decide with whom to undertake a physician-patient relationship.

The California of the North. No wonder its economy sucks.

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Not the sort of thing you see every day.

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The city of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, will attempt to keep itself cool over the summer by way of a kind of artificial glacier.

According to the Guardian, this “geoengineering trial” will try to “‘store’ freezing winter temperatures in a giant block of ice that will help to cool and water the city as it slowly melts during the summer.” Project directors “hope the process will reduce energy demand from air conditioners and regulate drinking water and irrigation supplies.” The cool air will presumably be pumped through the city via a continuous and monumental network of ducts.

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If you’re a parent who accepts Medicaid payments from the State of Michigan to help support your mentally-disabled adult children,  you qualify as a state employee for the purposes of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). They can now claim and receive a portion of your Medicaid in the form of union dues.

Hey, sucking on the public teat – that’s what it’s all about;
You can goof off all you want to, and they can’t turn you out;
And if they try to cut your pay, just wave your signs and shout:
Look For The Union Label, it gives you lots of clout!

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But folllowing his recovery he quit his bank job to become a hairdresser, grew to hate sport, called off his engagement and started dating a man.

Soon to be a major motion picture, I have no doubt.

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Like other Tea Party groups, the Richmond (VA) Tea Party has played by the rules. They paid permit fees to hold their rallies, they paid for the extra police and portajohns that such rallies demand. In all, they’ve paid $10,000 for their rallies to the local government.

The occupiers? Not so much. In fact, they haven’t filed for any permits and they haven’t paid a dime.

So the Richmond Tea Party, seeking fair treatment, has invoiced the Richmond city government to get its costs reimbursed. This is a brilliant move that other Tea Party groups should follow, if for no other reason than to highlight how the so-called 99% continue to mooch off of law-abiding citizens.

Time for a little equality, it would seem.

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Organizers of Occupy Portland say they fear as much as $20,000 donated to the group through a PayPal account has disappeared.

They also say the group’s finance committee has hijacked the demonstration’s Internet domain name and filed for incorporation against the wishes of the group’s decision-making body.

The demonstrator who filed the papers with the state said Wednesday she did so to protect the protest, and she has received death threats as a result.

Ah, yes, the Left in action. The most disorganized fascists in history. It would be funny if it weren’t so pitiful.

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A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now “seriously in love” with the animal, according to state media.

Tell him to go to California and wait a couple of weeks.

Sure, these people are ready for self-government….

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That squeaky sound you hear is me trying not to laugh out loud, which would be insensitive.

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Three activists arrested for selling 10 cent cups of lemonade on the lawn of the Capitol building in August are facing up to one year in jail for their thirst-quenching crimes.

Will Duffield, Meg McLain and Kathryn Dill pleaded not guilty in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on Oct. 4 to “sale of goods on U.S. Capitol grounds” — a crime that carries a 180-day maximum prison sentence.

The three face an additional 180 days in jail after refusing to submit to a urine test and being held in contempt of court.

Well, you know, you can’t be too careful these days.

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Yoko Ono is launching a global campaign to raise money and awareness to help fight childhood hunger and poverty.

As if Yoko Ono knows anything about either child hunger or poverty. Does it still count as White Guilt if you’re Japanese?

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In a decision denying basic property rights and even exceeding the FDA’s contempt for the rights of private contract and food freedom of choice, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Patrick J. Fiedler has issued an order holding that owners of cows do not have a fundamental right to consume milk from their own cow.

In his opinion the Judge rejected out of hand the Zinniker plaintiffs’ argument that they had a fundamental right to possess, use and enjoy their property (including “a fundamental right to own a cow, and to use their cows in a manner that does not cause harm a third party”); he stated this claim was “wholly without merit.”

When I was a kid, this was a free country.