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Also, organically reared cows burp twice as much methane as conventionally reared cattle – and methane is 20 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2.

Huh. Organic food is … wait for it … bad for the environment. Who knew?

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Yeah, he talks a good fight, but talk is cheap — can he deliver?

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I think teenagers ought to be encouraged to injure themselves. Saves the rest of us some effort.

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Invade? The international community cannot “protect” the Burmese people from a military government without employing military means.

And long past time, I would say.

The United Nations, of course, is not prepared to use force. So Burmese by the tens of thousands will perish.

Remind me what good the U.N. is.

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“Want to ship American jobs overseas? Ask me how!”

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Boy, those guys really look British, don’t they?

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It has long been common for assassins to target local and state police chiefs in Mexico, but this year, cartels have been increasingly going after some of the biggest names in the federal law enforcement structure.

No wonder they’re crossing the border.

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But that conclusion must of course be interpreted to make conservatives look bad. So the assumption is injected that they SHOULD be angry! No argument is offered to say why.

“Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives,” the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, “apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light.”

Obviously a serious character flaw. Liberals are just too sensitive for their own good.

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The corporate recruiters have a pretty easy time of it, as they can offer higher pay, better working conditions and bonuses.

And it’s not as if there’s any patriotism there to motivate people the other way.

I love these left-wing fantasy movies in which the CIA is staffed by brilliant people with the latest in electronic equipment that can monitor what everybody does all the time. If only….

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Gangs of youths loyal to Zimbabwe’s ruling party beat to death 11 opposition activists in a remote town this week in an escalation of post-election violence, opposition party officials and witnesses said Wednesday.

Sounds like the sort of ‘activists’ that are attracted to the Democrat Party.

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Gee, I wonder how that happened.

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Irony isn’t just about getting wrinkles out of your clothes.

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Well, assume that God doesn’t exist and you’ve got a lifetime of phenomena to attempt to explain. It’s rather like palmistry, astrology, and phrenology that way.

Fine if you have a lot of free time on your hands. Me, I’m pretty busy.

Newberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology and Psychiatry, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and director and co-founder of the Center for Spirituality and the Neurosciences, all at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Ah, so we’re grasping at straws hoping that one leads to tenure. It’s all clear to me now.

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Don’t hold your breath.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading, even when he’s mostly quoting (and critiquing) a leftoid idiot.

To say that somebody is, say, white is not just a crude way of saying that they are unlikely to have the gene variant that makes beta blockers ineffective. It’s actually much more of a way of saying that on, average, they are more likely to be genealogically related to another white person than to a non-white person. In other words, a white person has more family ties to white people than to nonwhite people. And who you are related to matters, in all sorts of ways, genetic, sociological, political, and personal, ways both subtle and bleedingly obvious.

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The perennial struggle of Democratic contenders to appeal to ordinary Americans seems very much of a piece with Orwell’s sharp descriptions. Election after election, Democrats argue that once Joe and Jane Sixpack fully grasp the wisdom of the latest six-point college-loan program, or of an 800-page health-care scheme, they will come to wave the Democratic banner. And, sometimes, these voters do just that—provided that the candidate in question has demonstrated a sense that he or she is not treating them as the subject of an anthropological study.

Christopher Hitchens is always worth reading.

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Take a friend.

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It is not a pretty sight.

There is a Bible on a pedestal in Gretta Vosper’s West Hill United Church in Toronto. She would prefer it did not have a special place, she said, because it is just a book among other books. In a similar way, the cross that is high above the altar has no special meaning, but there are a few older congregants for whom the Bible and the cross are still nice symbols so there they remain.

And these people are nominally Christian. Makes you wonder why they even bother. (“United Church”? United with what? Kind of like “Amalgamated Industries” — the name disguises rather than reveals what they do.)

How would a Muslim react to a nominal Muslim saying, “Well, that Mohammed guy wasn’t all that important, anyway.”

Violently, I suspect.

But that’s me.

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Making Light is typically frequented by tedious retread socialists who think “Bushitler” constitutes clever political repartee (as the headline underscores), but this analysis is well worth reading.

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The collapse of the Cole investigation offers a revealing case study of the U.S. government’s failure to bring al-Qaeda operatives and their leaders to justice for some of the most devastating attacks on American targets over the past decade.

If you want justice, you’re going to have to do it yourself. There is no such think at “international law”.

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Most non-Indians aren’t aware that the social system usually described in the West as “caste” is really varna, or “color”.

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Of course, they’d never hold such a vote in Cuba.

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More cannibalism on the left.

The incompetence of Democrat leaders in Congress must be extreme if even their tame media lapdogs are noticing.

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Of course, you already knew that.

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For sufficiently loose definitions of the term “art form”.

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Whether Shvarts is telling the truth or, as Yale claims, was simply engaged in bizarre “performance art,” the real issue is this: Where did she get such a gruesome, pornographic idea? And who taught her to confuse it with art?

It is possible to get a good education at Yale, but it’s not easy.

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And that’s their basic problem. They ought instead to struggle to reflect Christianity, rather than trying to increase their market share as a social club.

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

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I’m sure this is just racism and bigotry on the part of the authorities. Yup. No doubt about it.

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What we need is a pesticide that works on ‘environmentalists’.

Hmm. I wonder whether the EPA would pass it?

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And you pretty much get what you pay for.

Hey, these people think animals are more important than people. Who could be surprised that they take the next step? Who could be surprised that such people are so incompetent at life that a machine could make it better?

Not me….

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He’s shocked, shocked I tell you, that a once-and-future Clinton aide would do such a thing.

And he’s not hesitating to use the same sort of guilt-by-association tactics that have been the hallmark of the political right dating back to the McCarthy era.

And the hallmark of the Clinton machine almost as far back. But he’s shocked nevertheless.

(I almost never link to the Huffington Post, since it’s mostly bullshit, but sometimes it can be entertaining bullshit.)

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That ought to read “Gay Fascists Shut Down APA Panel”. Let’s call things by their right names.

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The technology to convert coal to oil has not only existed for decades, it has continued to be developed and improved upon. Even today, The U.S. Air Force, not wanting to be caught short in wartime, has an ongoing program to supply itself with oil products resulting from coal-to-oil conversion. The only ones standing in the way of this solution to foreign oil dependence is ourselves. Remember what Pogo said “We have met the enemy and they is us.”

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But last month the 34-year-old Bowie resident felt she no longer had a choice. She’d already given up organic meat and decided to buy organic milk only for her 2-year-old son, not for the whole family.

My, what a hardship. Cry me a river.

If the government weren’t requiring us to burn food, we wouldn’t have these problems.

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I’m saying that sometimes some of these students will denounce world hunger but be unfriendly to the homeless. They will debate environmental policy but never offer to take out the trash. They will believe vehemently in many causes but roll their eyes when reminded to be humble, to be generous and to “do what is right.”

Hey, they’re just practicing for their bright future in the Overclass. Look at AlGore and Hillary for an example of the results.

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What Clinton never includes in the oft-repeated tale is the role that prominent Democrats played in selling the company and its technology to the Chinese. She never mentions that big-time Democratic contributor George Soros helped put together the deal to sell the company or that the sale was approved by her husband’s administration.

So I guess it wasn’t Bush’s fault after all…?

In response, the Clinton campaign said that Bill Clinton’s administration had gotten assurances at the time it approved the deal that production would remain inside the United States, and that the shift of jobs to China didn’t occur until under the Bush administration.

Huh. Perhaps it’s true that you can’t bullshit a bullshitter but apparently it is possible to lie successfully to a liar.

“Hillary Clinton must have been hoping we Hoosiers have short memories,” Ed Dixon of Valparaiso said in a letter to a local newspaper after a recent Clinton visit. “Her husband was president at the time and allowed this to happen.”

I suspect that Hillary Clinton, like her husband, is hoping that every voter in American has a short memory.

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Neighbours said the house had been targeted by thieves several times in the past.

Guess he’s going to invest some of those millions in private bodyguards now, eh?

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According to the finance ministry, the expanded coalition needs an extra £125 million a month for nine new departments, in addition to the soaring cost of paying for its 93 ministers and their perks.

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The chief difficulty will be deciding which government will step in and confiscate the results of their labors — all in the name of the people, of course.

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It may surprise Americans to discover that the United States is the third-largest oil producer, behind Saudi Arabia and Russia. We could be producing more, but Congress has put large areas of potential supply off-limits. These include the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and parts of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. By government estimates, these areas may contain 25 billion to 30 billion barrels of oil (against about 30 billion barrels of proven U.S. reserves today) and 80 trillion cubic feet or more of natural gas (compared with about 200 tcf of proven reserves).

An amazing world, in which we look to politicians to solve a problem that was entirely created by politicians in the first place.

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Fertilizer companies are confident the shortage will be solved eventually, noting that they plan to build scores of new factories. But that will probably create fresh problems in the long run as the world grows more dependent on fossil fuels to produce chemical fertilizers. Intensified use of such fertilizers is certain to mean greater pollution of waterways, too.

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The New York Times has been taking hits of late for its new policy of boycotting the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Would that Republican Presidents felt the same way. Why subject yourself to an evening devoted to being nice to people who spend the rest of the year being ugly to you? It’s not as if any of them voted for you, or support your policies. What a waste of time….

(Al Kamen’s Washington Post column is archly entitled “In the Loop” — and for good reason; I can’t think of a loopier person in modern “journalism”.)

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Fortunately, wolves have been extinct in Britain since the 18th century.

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Oh, sure, that’ll help. When has the U.N. ever done anything other than waste money and bloviate?

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Well, don’t walk there. What kind of moron goes into a field with a bull in it? Sheesh.