26th January 2009
Then I change Ted Kennedy into the jackal that reflects his inner truth.
I’m looking forward to it.
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23rd January 2009
Put a 50-cal on that puppy and I’m in.
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22nd January 2009
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22nd January 2009
New research shows that while some parts of the frozen continent have been getting slightly colder over the last few decades, the average temperature across the continent has been rising for at least the last 50 years.
Turns out AlGore and his minions were wrong — again.
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22nd January 2009
And, since the Brazilians aren’t as stupid as we are, they may be allowed to do something about it.
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20th January 2009
Versailles had nothing on Pennsylvania Avenue. I’m surprised that the President’s Study hasn’t been named the Monica Lewinsky Memorial Relaxation Room. Democrats — no respect for history.
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20th January 2009
A review of a new book on Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell.
The review is by Diana Gabaldon, one of my favorite historical novel writers.
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19th January 2009
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19th January 2009
Hey, don’t say we never have useful stuff here.
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17th January 2009
A team in America compared the DNA taken from healthy skin cells with that from cancerous cells in a 50-year-old woman who later died from acute myeloid leukaemia, a form of cancer that affects the cells in the bone marrow that make blood.
They found 10 important genetic differences in the cancerous DNA, eight of which had never been linked to this form of cancer before.
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17th January 2009
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16th January 2009
Really, who hasn’t done that every now and then?
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15th January 2009
You know you want one.
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15th January 2009
Gotta love Australians.
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15th January 2009
That’s because blondes don’t work, they marry into money. As for respect, hey, it’s surprising the respect that a fat wallet gets you.
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15th January 2009
Smart people with too much time on their hands pass the savings on to you.
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15th January 2009
Hatefacts are unquestionable facts about immigrants, blacks, women, homosexualists, et al., that the SPLC and those sharing its ideological inclinations deem “hate” or “hateful” to mention.
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15th January 2009
But, of course, no WMD were found when the area was later occupied by Roman troops.
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15th January 2009
Leonard Goodwin, who has died aged 93, was a protozoologist, leading authority on tropical medicine, and unintentionally responsible for the introduction of the Syrian hamster as a popular pet in Europe.
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15th January 2009
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14th January 2009
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11th January 2009
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10th January 2009
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9th January 2009
It’s all my parents’ fault that I’m fat. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
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9th January 2009
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7th January 2009
So much for “peak oil”. And, of course, in Saudi Arabia there aren’t any Democrats to stand in the way of drilling for that oil.
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6th January 2009
Let that be a lesson to us all.
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6th January 2009
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6th January 2009
Send some pizza to Israeli soldiers, who are on the front lines defending civilization against Islam.
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5th January 2009
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3rd January 2009
Wouldn’t mind having one of these — and I haven’t ridden a bike since, oh, 1968.
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2nd January 2009
Gotta love Australians.
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2nd January 2009
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1st January 2009
Quite frankly, I don’t blame him.
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31st December 2008
And about time, too.
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30th December 2008
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29th December 2008
You knew it had to happen.
Hey, hamsters are cheaper than Arabs — and they don’t blow shit up.
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29th December 2008
The Hog is history.
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28th December 2008
It can be done.
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27th December 2008
Sometimes the old ways are best.
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27th December 2008
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26th December 2008
David Friedman is always worth reading.
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26th December 2008
She’s the closest we’ve got to a Heinlein Girl in politics today. What’s not to like?
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25th December 2008
Well. There it is.
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25th December 2008
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23rd December 2008
Funny, he doesn’t look Jewish.
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23rd December 2008
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on….
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22nd December 2008
We have the technology. And there’s probably a gene somewhere for that.
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22nd December 2008
I am not making this up.
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22nd December 2008
A useful skill for when whining Muslims get all seeing-eye dogs eliminated.
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