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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Megan McArdle has reached her limit.

Preach it, sister.

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We have the technology.

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Perhaps, like most Muslim thugs, they will exterminate themselves.

Intrepid indeed.

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

Darwin Award nominee.

Not your father’s Great Britain.

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No word about any ransom demand.

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*gasp* The government lied? Say it ain’t so!

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Best laid plans, and all that…. (Or perhaps I ought to say “a’ that”)

Read it to find out what the Brahmins are obsessing on this week.

I wish that were the most serious thing I had to worry about.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Pretty cute. Still, I wouldn’t chance one on the highway.

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The French play for keeps.

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Can plastic “corks” be far behind?

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Well — that’s Europe for you.

On the other hand, at least she’s not trying to leave $12 million to a dog.

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In the name of fairness to minorities, community organizers occupy private offices, chant inside bank lobbies, and confront executives at their homes – and thereby force financial institutions to direct hundreds of millions of dollars in mortgages to low-credit customers.

In other words, community organizers help to undermine the US economy by pushing the banking system into a sinkhole of bad loans. And Obama has spent years training and funding the organizers who do it.

There you go.

THE seeds of today’s financial meltdown lie in the Community Reinvestment Act – a law passed in 1977 and made riskier by unwise amendments and regulatory rulings in later decades.

Isn’t it amazing how many of our problems originated with Jimmy Carter?

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The narcissists on Facebook are going to learn the downside of having your life an open book very quickly, it would seem.

Pardon my grin.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

The family you sell it to will, no doubt, be moving to the exurbs to get their kids away from all the Guatelombians in the LA public schools. It’s not like Bush is going to close the borders and stop the flood of Guatelombians. So, there will always be refugees looking for “good schools.”

That’s one reason, you realize, why these new homes in the exurbs tend to be so big — they’re expensive in the hopes of discouraging low rent people from moving in next door. Sure, they cost a fortune to air condition during Lancaster’s summer (March-October), but it’s all in a good cause.

You start shopping around outside Lancaster. The Cypress Creek Estate sales agents talk about the new high school that’s going to be built to serve these new neighborhoods. It will be diverse, but not too diverse, if you know what I mean. Two-thirds white, one fifth Hispanic, enough Asians to show your neighborhood’s a good investment, enough blacks so that the football and basketball teams will be competitive. Sounds good!

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An excellent illustration of why I wouldn’t be happy working at Google, or Microsoft, or any company run by people whose idea of a good time is worrying about questions that have no significance.

The correct answer to most of these is “Who gives a shit?”

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Paging Indiana Jones….

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Fine Religion of Peace you’ve got there, fella.

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Republican Newt Gingrich: “You have an administration which, in my judgment, has lost its mind.” And I agree wholeheartedly.

President Bush is so worried about his legacy – he is so afraid of being looked at as Herbert Hoover – that he is doing the very things that Hoover did: Intervene, intervene, intervene. He should do what Ronald Reagan did in 1981 and 1982 and 1987: Let the market play it out.

And that says all that really needs to be said on the subject.

Lileks points out that even banks need adult supervision.

WaMu is a whale name. If you read about J.P. Morgan rescuing WaMu, you imagine a whiskered old plutocrat in a frock coat pushing a gasping mammal back into the tank. (Which is what happened, more or less.) Personally, I think a bank should have First in the name, or National, and should look like a place where Romans sacrificed sheep to Zeus. Or to Ben Bernanke.

Peter Hitchens is always worth reading — not always right, but always worth reading.

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

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The Chinese haven’t invented anything in 3,000 years, but they can copy like nobody else on Earth.

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We have the technology.

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Oh, yeah, G.E. is going to jump right on that one. Sure thing.

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Arnold Kling explains it all to you.

Even better than the distributed knowledge of professors is the distributed knowledge of markets. It is not just efficiency at issue. There is a fundamental moral issue. If my broker gives me bad market advice, I don’t have to take it. (Actually, I have never taken advice from a broker, and I never will.) But if Henry Paulson thinks that there is a profit opportunity in risky mortgage securities, I have no choice but to invest. Moreover, even though I think that Barney Frank’s affordable housing loans are bad for borrowers, bad for lenders and bad for the country, I am coerced into funding those loans.

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On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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You really can’t make this stuff up.

David Brooks makes an amazing discovery.

Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics: “The joyous reception from Congressional Democrats to Paulson’s latest massive bailout proposal smells an awful lot like yet another corporatist love fest between Washington’s one-party government and the Sell Side investment banks.”

If you wanted to devise a name for this approach, you might pick the phrase economist Arnold Kling has used: Progressive Corporatism. We’re not entering a phase in which government stands back and lets the chips fall. We’re not entering an era when the government pounds the powerful on behalf of the people. We’re entering an era of the educated establishment, in which government acts to create a stable — and often oligarchic — framework for capitalist endeavor.

The term “liberal fascism” comes immediately to mind.

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Executive summary: Bailout bad.

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The coronets and initials represent Viscount Nelson (his British title) and Duke of Bronté (his Sicilian title).

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AFL-CIO, eat your heart out.

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Ah, but which half?

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How come nothing interesting like this ever happens in the U.S.?

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At least somebody’s doing it.

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Didn’t know he could do that.

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