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The world is rapidly going downhill. Unfortunately, we can’t get off.
18th June 2008
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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.
Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who know what sort of hell they’d be living in now.
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18th June 2008
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Mexico has a justice system? Who knew?
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Mexico Revises Its Justice System
18th June 2008
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Basic political equation: Corruption = Democrat.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Jefferson, Awaiting Trial, to Run Again
18th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on As Israeli Siege Strangles Gaza Strip, Hamas, Smugglers Profit Off Tunnels
18th June 2008
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Think of it as evolution in action.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Shocking footage of youth crushed by wall
18th June 2008
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At every step of her career, race has been central to her own identification and upward mobility. Judging from the quality of thinking and writing exhibited in her Princeton thesis, Michelle would not likely have been admitted to Princeton (and later Harvard Law) had she been white. And of course affirmative action opened up jobs, first in a prestigious law firm and later as the vice president of community affairs at the University of Chicago medical center-earning $300,000 a year.
In other words, everything she’s gotten in life has been because of her skin color rather than any personal merit.
In that she is the perfect partner for her husband, who wouldn’t even have been considered for the Democratic nomination, much less the Presidency, were it not for his skin color.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Re: Remaking Michelle
18th June 2008
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This is where affirmative action gets you.
Just think: Vote for Barack Obama, and we could have this kind of fun in America.
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18th June 2008
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The council said it wanted the cottages to be the same colour because they used to be part of a single building.
- Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
- Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. In fact, if you belong to a Nazi Home Owner’s Association, it already has.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Homeowner forced to paint her house pink
18th June 2008
Steve Sailer is always worth reading.
My concern, since 2001, is that more gay men would be interested in getting married (i.e., in a theatrical ceremony) than in being married (i.e., sexual monogamy). We’re talking about some awfully flamboyant folks: Gay Pride parades could more honestly be renamed Gay Narcissism parades.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Gay marriage in California
18th June 2008
Tim Blair reveals the sordid truth about polar bears and journalists.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on NOBODY LIKES JOURNALISTS
17th June 2008
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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.
Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who know what sort of hell they’d be living in now.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Mugabe mob kidnaps wife and child of MDC mayor of Harare
17th June 2008
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And lots of people, through some sort of tragic congenital failure, actually enjoy gardening.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on By request: growing your own
17th June 2008
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Your life under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Saudi wife arrested after going for an illegal drive
17th June 2008
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Apparently any labs doing the tests need to get both state and federal certification and can only do tests based on a physician’s recommendation.
Because it’s California, of course, where it’s legal to buy and use a controlled substance like marijuana but illegal to take a peek at your own genetic makeup.
Statism is on the march on the Left Coast.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Why Do You Need A Doctor’s Note To Get A Genetic Test?
17th June 2008
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Monica Davey reports that, since January, a grand jury in Sedgwick County has been meeting to investigate whether the clinic belonging to Dr. George Tiller (pictured), Women’s Health Care Services, has illegally performed second- and third-trimester abortions. Their deliberations are scheduled to end next month.
Democracy. What a concept.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Community Using Grand-Jury-by-Petition to Investigate Abortion Doc
17th June 2008
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Of course, the way I get around that is by not watching television. Just sayin’.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Inventors: Mask That Crawl
17th June 2008
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Funny how socialists turn out to be the worst money-grubbers of them all.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Associated Press: Fair Use Limits You To Four Words; Five Words Costs $12.50
17th June 2008
Lileks looks at modern White People culture.
For example: using bleach to clean school tables is apparently incompatible with being progressive. Progressive people don’t use bleach. I had no idea. First you will be gently instructed by a friend, I suppose; don’t you know about bleach? Then the friend will ask if you just don’t use any bleach around the house the day before her daughter comes over for a playdate? She gets headaches. Then the friends stop coming altogether, and it’s tight smiles and cool looks when you run into your friends in the produce aisle. Really, if you can’t figure out that you should have removed all bleach from your house, there’s just no hope for you.
Of course, you ought not to be hanging out with socialists, anyway, but I can see how that’s hard to avoid in Minnesota, where they take after The Old Country in politics.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Bleach is for Troglodytes
17th June 2008
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16th June 2008
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Turns out that the feds own quite a bit of it.
The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) – nearly 30% of its total territory.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Federal Lands in the US
16th June 2008
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People who feel the psycological compulsion to put their political opinions on their bumpers are just the sort of people who think they ought to run other people’s lives for them. That they are road-ragers is no suprise.
Of course, in Texas we have a traditional response to that. “Judge, he needed killin’.”
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Looking to Avoid Aggressive Drivers? Check Those Bumpers.
16th June 2008
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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.
Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who know what sort of hell they’d be living in now.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Mugabe thugs kill two in election violence
16th June 2008
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Perhaps we can convince them to put it off permanently.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Egg freezing will allow more women to put off motherhood
16th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast
16th June 2008
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Not that you could afford to buy one. Or run it.
What do you do when the first tank of hydrogen runs out?
One of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of wider adoption of fuel cell vehicles is cost and the lack of hydrogen fueling stations.
No shit. Remember the Hindenburg? You could have that under your trunk. Have a nice day.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Honda Begins Production of Zero-Emission Hydrogen Cars
15th June 2008
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I am not making this up.
It’s a good thing they don’t know about the orbital mind-control lasers, or the jig would be up.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Guardian Columnist: The Existence of Israel is to Blame for RFK’s Assassination
15th June 2008
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This is what happens when you have unrestricted immigration backed by the Overclass. Kosovo is the historic heart of Serbia, but it’s Albanian now.
I predict that California will return to being part of Mexico sooner than you think possible.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Kosovo’s Albanians take power despite Serb protests
15th June 2008
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“Where from the government, and we’re here to help you. Stick your hands up.”
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Entrepreneurs, Government, and Energy
14th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on The AIDS scare was one of the most distorted, duplicitous and cynical public health panics of the last 30 years
14th June 2008
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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.
Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who know what sort of hell they’d be living in now.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Robert Mugabe says Opposition will never rule Zimbabwe in his lifetime
14th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Some times the old ways are best.
13th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Are High School Newspapers Obsolete?
13th June 2008
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The most amusing thing is that the leftoids, who would be the first to praise “courageous” public employees who refused to comply with an “immoral” law (one that “progressives” disapprove of), are now quick to whine and blubber when the shoe is on the other foot.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on County Clerks in California Closing Doors on Marriage Ceremonies
13th June 2008
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Remember that Che Guevara flag in Barack Obama’s Houston campaign office? The one that all the Obama supporters came out and decried as a fluke, and totally unrepresentative of the campaign, and just one person’s opinion?
Well, here’s an Ohio judge with an attraction to mass murderers and Communist thugs—and Barack Obama.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Hope, Change, and Che Guevara
13th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Italian police have freed a woman who had been imprisoned for 18 years by her family after becoming pregnant out of wedlock.
12th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on U.S. v. Canada When It Comes to Free Speech
12th June 2008
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No, it’s not from a tabloid.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Christian teenager died after aborting Muslim boyfriend’s child
12th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Democrats Hire Radical Islamic Group to Register Voters – Fraud Ensues
12th June 2008
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And that’s just so old-fashioned. It’s almost embarrassing to live here.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on NY Times: Unlike Other, More Nuanced Nations, the US Clings to Free Speech
12th June 2008
Steve Sailer is always worth reading.
The typical NBA player makes millions of dollars and has a two digit IQ.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on 60% of NBA players are broke within 5 years of leaving league
12th June 2008
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Of course. Nobody believes in such outmoded concepts as “treason”, anyway.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Treason laws could be abolished
12th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Expecting To Be Treated With Prejudice May Be Self-fulfilling Prophecy, Study Suggests
12th June 2008
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- Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
- Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in Chicago.
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11th June 2008
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- Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
- Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Morris dancing threatened by new knife laws
11th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Railways raided for metal sold on black market
11th June 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Russia plans Arctic military build-up
11th June 2008
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Let’s all get bamboo floors and feel good about ourselves for being trendy and saving the planet.
That is, if we can afford it. It’s not cheap being green.
Is there an environmental quandary that’s been keeping you up at night?
If so, get a life.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Bamboo and You
11th June 2008
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Or, at least, one of the handwringers at Slate magazine thinks so.
The underlying reasons for Bell dominance are Washington politics and the economics of natural monopoly. Some markets, because of the sheer costs of being a player, tend toward either a single firm or a small number of firms. Infrastructure and utility markets are the classic examples: bridges, plumbing, and electric systems. Everyone hoped and thought the wireless market would be different. But it’s not, in part because of well-meaning policies. “Fair” spectrum auctions cost billions and thereby create the conditions of natural monopoly, over time making the industry a one- or two-horse show.
You’d think that those who were aghast at monopolies would point that attitude at the government, the fons et origo of monopoly. But they never do.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Apple’s new iPhone augurs the inevitable return of the Bell telephone monopoly
10th June 2008
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I hate moving crap when I’m watching TV.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Why Crawl When You Can Stand Still?
10th June 2008
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An entire article proceeding from a false premise — typical for Slate. The point is that the economy isn’t that bad, and ordinary people (unlike, say, thumbsucking pseudo-journalists) realize that and behave accordingly.
And they get paid for this stuff. I should have such a job.
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Debunking the “Wealth Effect”