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Archive for May, 2008

CSI: Target

16th May 2008

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Apparently Target has its own crime lab.

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Plane lands on top of another in Texas crash

16th May 2008

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Ride ‘im, cowboy.

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Egyptian Parliament Okays Female Genital Mutilation

16th May 2008

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Your future under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

We send these degenerates billions of dollars in aid each year. Aren’t you proud?

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Smiling too much at work is bad for you

16th May 2008

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Fortunately, I don’t have that problem.

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Solarial solar blimp concept could aid in disaster relief, terrify villagers

16th May 2008

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This is actually very clever.

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The future of wine: Bordeaux through a straw

16th May 2008

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There Goes the Neighborhood?

16th May 2008

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I particularly love this passage: ‘. As it remade itself in recent decades from a bedroom suburb into a more densely settled, partly urban, more diverse cluster of communities,…’. In other words, ‘as it went from middle class to incipient slum’. Don’t you just love the way Washington talks?

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Obama’s Diplomatic Partner: ‘The Hidden Imam Manages All the Affairs of the World’

16th May 2008

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Washington Today

16th May 2008

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Inside the Ring.

Hans A. Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Information Project has found a hidden Chinese nuclear missile base using commercial satellite photos.

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The Worst Reuters Article Ever

15th May 2008

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Ain’t no biased media here, no sir.

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How Unions look out for themselves first, their members later

15th May 2008

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Microsoft intros the TouchWall — maps will never be the same again

15th May 2008

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Load it with OS X, and you’re in business.

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Penis museum is offered human samples

15th May 2008

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I am not making this up.

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Subsidized farmers: little house on the prairie or gone with the wind?

15th May 2008

Megan McArdle points out some Inconvenient Truth.

Farm subsidies overwhelmingly do not go to struggling farmers; they go to large, flourishing concerns.

And once the Death Tax gets done with them, they won’t be struggling any more.

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Bright schoolgirl Lisa Wright runs away with 46-year-old man on eve of GCSEs

15th May 2008

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The course of true love doth ne’er run smooth.

Wonder how much the book rights will go for.

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Indian SLBM Perfected

15th May 2008

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Ask yourself why India thinks it needs submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles.

And take a look at this.

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Venezuela Offered Aid to Colombian Rebels

15th May 2008

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U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants

15th May 2008

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“Juveniles and former child soldiers should be treated first and foremost as candidates for rehabilitation and reintegration into society, not subjected to further victimization,” Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s human rights program, said in a statement.

This appeared in the same issue of the paper that described terrorists strapping explosives to an 8-year-old child in order to bomb somebody they didn’t like.

A rational person would see this situation as evidence that the bad guys are wickedly using children in their plots. The ACLU sees it as Just Another Excuse to Bash America. That tells you all you really need to know about the ACLU. (Question: Why is the ACLU involved in this at all? And what is somebody named “Jamil Dakwar” doing as a director of the ACLU’s “human rights program”?)

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Farming Costs Rise Faster Than Crop Price Increases

15th May 2008

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The future looks dim after all.

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A Few Good Soldiers

15th May 2008

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Remark what it takes to make Slate use “good” and “soldier” in same phrase.

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Houston being overrun by electronics-killing ants

15th May 2008

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Well, I never like Houston anyway.

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Hillary’s campaign has showed that hatred of women is an accepted part of our culture.

15th May 2008

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And, more to the point, has (much like this column) demonstrated why.

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An academic was reprimanded for breaching privacy rules after trying to put a worried mother at ease.

15th May 2008

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No wonder academics are gun-shy.

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Washington Today

15th May 2008

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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An unhealthy obsession with healthful eating?

15th May 2008

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Although an obsession with healthy eating is not officially in the DSM-IV, the diagnostic manual for psychiatrists, at least one doctor has given it a name: orthorexia. Colorado alternative physician Steven Bratman coined the phrase in his 2001 book, “Health Food Junkies,” saying it is a disease disguised as a virtue.

Probably.

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Oil Companies Prepare for Battle Over Polar Bear Engangered Species Listing

15th May 2008

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An endangered species that isn’t really endangered; it’s merely endangered in the fantasy world of enviro-wackos and simple-minded bureaucrats.

“We now have a species threatened which is both healthy in size and population; the real risk is litigation that will follow,” Crockett said. “Lawsuits will continue to be filed opposing individual operations, lease sales and permits, and that could have a significant impact on business up here.”

They don’t give a shit about the polar bears; that’s just a convenient stick with which to beat anybody wanting to solve the oil crisis by, you know, actually pumping American oil.

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NY’s “Amazon Tax” Takes First Casualty: Overstock Affiliates

14th May 2008

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“We’re from the government, and we’re here to help. Stick up your hands.”

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Couple kill themselves over care home fears

14th May 2008

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Hey, when the government provides your health care, you don’t get a lot of options.

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Top five celebrity eco hypocrites

14th May 2008

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AlGore is only #2? I’m offended.

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Video: Jew-Eating Rabbit Teaches Revisionist History to Hamas Kids

14th May 2008

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Another teachable moment from the Religion of Peace(tm)

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Beware Global Cooling

14th May 2008

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If we ever lose Al Gore, we’re sunk.

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Hamas Rocket Hits Shopping Center

14th May 2008

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More good news from the Religion of Peace(tm).

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The Case For Obama-Webb, Again

14th May 2008

Ross Douthat makes a surprising connection.

He includes a map.

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Fearful Mexican Police Seek US Asylum

14th May 2008

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Yup, we really need open borders down south.

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Scientists discover sweet tooth gene

14th May 2008

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Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation

14th May 2008

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My heart breaks for them. They could always just, you know, not come here, or obey the law while here.

I put this on a par with the people who climb into animal cages and then cry piteously because they’ve been bitten.

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Man Gave Military Secrets To China

14th May 2008

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If anyone is wondering why Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II, here’s an example why.

So long as group loyalties exist, members of a suspect group are going to be suspected. Whether that is appropriate or inappropriate depends on the circumstances; those who claim that it is always and everywhere inappropriate need to read up on human nature, because they live in a world that does not exist.

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U.S. Colonel Says Iran Is Assassinating Iraqi Officials

14th May 2008

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

Perhaps if Senator Obama will just talk to them, they’ll quit and decide to play nice.

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The Obama Rules

14th May 2008

A handy reminder.

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The Skeletons of Obama

14th May 2008

A handy compendium.

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Choices for D.C. Parents

14th May 2008

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Marion Barry comes out in favor of school vouchers.

I am not making this up.

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A Theory of the History of Everything

14th May 2008

Steve Sailer isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions. I think.

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Consistency Is Not Required

14th May 2008

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[I]n the American media, which is to say American public life, Republicans are a despised group, much like used car salesmen, Congressmen, lawyers, or, in former times, certain ethnic and religious minorities. Anyone who watches NBC, CBS, ABC, MTV, CNN, MSNBC, or almost any other television outlet, or who reads the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, or virtually any other daily newspaper, or who reads Time or Newsweek, is exposed to a steady diet of Republican-caricaturing and Republican-bashing. We have had partisan media in this country before, but I don’t believe we have ever experienced such a unanimously one-party media at any time in our history.

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Sloths are not so slothful after all

14th May 2008

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*sigh* All of my illusions, shattered….

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EXO-Wing is world’s smallest jet — worn like a backpack

14th May 2008

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There’s a Darwin Award waiting to happen….

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Playing With Words

14th May 2008

Nancy Kress leads us into temptation.

11. Karmageddon : It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.

Read The Whole Thing.

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Let’s Don’t and Say We Did

14th May 2008

Slate magazine is doing a series of articles on procrastination.

I wish I’d gotten around to doing something like that….

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Washington Today

14th May 2008

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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Thieves hit military base

14th May 2008

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Driving a car at a Marine holding a rifle is not something that would occur to a normal intelligent person.

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Superpowerful small wind turbines light up the night

13th May 2008

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