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Archive for October, 2008

Lecturer found in bed with schoolgirl is spared jail

16th October 2008

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Ian Carter, 39, was in bed with the girl, 15, when her father walked in on them.

A court heard Carter denied there was anything going on between them even though he had no clothes on

Modern times.

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Shiny Happy Communists

16th October 2008

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They prefer Obama, of course.

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Turkish Airlines hijacker overwhelmed by Russian passengers

16th October 2008

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And that’s all it takes: A pack, not a herd.

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Hospitals, Doctors Challenge Crackdown on ‘Balance Billing’

16th October 2008

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God forbid that somebody providing a service should charge more than the insurance company — or the government — thinks is proper.

But several challenges have cropped up in court, from hospitals and docs who say the agency doesn’t have the right to intervene. “We believe our legal authority to protect consumers from balance billing is clear, and we believe our moral authority is even more clear,” the department chief told the LAT.

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The end of capitalism? No, just another burst bubble

15th October 2008

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Facts about occupational licensing

15th October 2008

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In contrast, union members perceive themselves as less competent than other workers.

Must as does the rest of society.

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Britain: a land of bog snorkellers, worm charmers and hostage takers

15th October 2008

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And so I have always considered it.

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Drama Behind a $250 Billion Banking Deal

15th October 2008

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“It was a take it or take it offer,” said one person who was briefed on the meeting, speaking on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. “Everyone knew there was only one answer.”

Well, that’s what happens when the government is involved.

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Australian girls paint phone numbers on skin while sunbathing

15th October 2008

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Gotta love Australians.

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China will be a democracy by 2020, says senior party figure

15th October 2008

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And if you believe that one they’ll tell you another one.

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A giant knitted rabbit in Italy can be seen from space by visitors to Google Earth

15th October 2008

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Sounds like something my wife would do.

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Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’

15th October 2008

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How long before “progressives” demand an organic alternative?

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You must speak to us, Post Office tells pensioner who can’t speak

15th October 2008

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A pensioner who is deaf and without speech was left without his benefits after Post Office officials insisted on speaking to him to access his account.

Well, there you go.

  1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
  2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California, where it will be insisted that you speak Spanish.

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3,000 Church of England worshippers may defect to overseas provinces, Reform warns

15th October 2008

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The last time this happened, they were called “recusants”. Wonder what they’ll be called this time.

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Winston Churchill ‘bribed General Franco’

15th October 2008

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Money well spent, I think. After all, he bribed Stalin — using Roosevelt’s money. (Well, our money, actually, but none of them drew that distinction. Still don’t, come to think of it.)

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Fish or Pole?

14th October 2008

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Is your politician promising you a fish? Or a pole?

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Men are at their most romantic at age 53

14th October 2008

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Shucks, I missed it.

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Guys, give up on the “Ayers wrote Obama’s book” idea

14th October 2008

Steve Sailer takes a step back.

Ayers is a funnier, livelier writer than Obama. I can’t imagine a ghostwriter producing anything as dull as Obama’s Dreams.

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Pectin Binds To Protein Involved In Cancer Progression

14th October 2008

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Hindu nationalist politics fuels anti-Christian campaign in India

13th October 2008

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Just a reminder that Muslims aren’t the only problem out there.

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Saudi Arabia to build world’s tallest building

13th October 2008

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Until somebody flies a plane into it. Oh, wait….

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Distractions at work could help problem-solving

13th October 2008

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And you can believe as much or as little of that as you care to.

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Chicken soup lowers blood pressure

13th October 2008

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So what else is new?

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Pets suffer from stress of marriage break-ups

13th October 2008

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I’m glad they have nothing more serious to worry about.

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Coming Soon: The Pain Ray

12th October 2008

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We have the technology.

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Roman rebirth: 2,000-year-old stadium buried in volcanic eruption reopens

12th October 2008

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Obama Campaign Covering Up Involvement with ACORN?

12th October 2008

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Look who’s “gripped by insane rage”

12th October 2008

Michelle Malkin has the goods on the Obama Nation.

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Venezuela’s murder rates under Hugo Chavez surpass Colombia’s

12th October 2008

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Yup, pretty progressive.

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The Duelling Guarantee

12th October 2008

Arnold Kling demythologizes.

The myth is that mortgage securitization reflects the genius of Wall Street. The reality is that it reflects the stupidity of the way that regulatory capital requirements are calculated.

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Shamino in Space

12th October 2008

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We all have dreams.

(Mine is Ted Kennedy in a pine box, between Barney Frank and Chris Dodd similarly arrayed. But I don’t have Shamino’s money.)

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Scientists sequence giant panda genome in China

12th October 2008

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The team has also found evidence to support the theory that pandas are a subspecies of the black bear, rather than a relative of the raccoon.

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

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The scientist, the jellyfish protein, and the Nobel prize that got away

12th October 2008

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Don’t know why British people can’t use commas correctly, but there it is.

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Islamophobes vs. Homophobes: Who Will Win?

12th October 2008

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One of the cleftest of sticks for White People today.

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Angry about economy? Smash some plates and move on

12th October 2008

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We have the technology.

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Prince Charles saves gardeners from eviction by the Earl of Arran

12th October 2008

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Guess there are a few shreds of the Old Britain remaining, eh?

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Janet Devers, the metric martyr

12th October 2008

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

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FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate

12th October 2008

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Cole and Ohanian calculate that NIRA and its aftermath account for 60 percent of the weak recovery. Without the policies, they contend that the Depression would have ended in 1936 instead of the year when they believe the slump actually ended: 1943.

“The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes,” Cole said. “Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened.”

Of course, if you’ve been paying attention you know this already.

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Hanged for being a Christian in Iran

11th October 2008

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Eighteen years ago, Rashin Soodmand’s father was hanged in Iran for converting to Christianity. Now her brother is in a Mashad jail, and expects to be executed under new religious laws brought in this summer. Alasdair Palmer reports.

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Robert Mugabe defies power-sharing deal, handing key ministries to his ZANU-PF party

11th October 2008

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

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 knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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Quantifying the minority mortgage money question

11th October 2008

Steve Sailer does the numbers.

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Surging Amish Spreading Out

11th October 2008

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Some good news for a change.

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Antifa Shock Troops Do Battle With Filip Dewinter

11th October 2008

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The preferred tactics of the “anti-fascist” Left are classically fascist in nature. Rather than engage in spirited debate, they prefer to silence their opponents on the Right by using social pressure, verbal harassment, intimidation, and — if necessary — violence.

Demonstrating that they are, in fact, really fascists after all — as Jonah Goldberg demonstrates at length in his book — in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

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Sugar ‘makes you sweeter’

11th October 2008

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Sugar can help make you a sweeter person, researchers claim.

I am living proof that this is incorrect.

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Was Jesus a Palestinian?

11th October 2008

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Reports that the textbook The World: Social Studies asserts that: “Christianity was started by a young Palestinian named Jesus.” have triggered considerable controversy. Some maintain that this is a gross inaccuracy reflecting the intrusion of anti-Semitism, to which others respond that it is correct and so unexceptionable. The former are correct: the description of Jesus as a Palestinian is both inaccurate and offensive.

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Switzerland’s Green Power Revolution: Ethicists Ponder Plants’ Rights

11th October 2008

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The rot spreads even to so hard-headed a country as Switzerland. There is no hope.

For years, Swiss scientists have blithely created genetically modified rice, corn and apples. But did they ever stop to consider just how humiliating such experiments may be to plants?

I am not making this up.

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Sarah Maple’s exhibition poses questions that anger Muslims

11th October 2008

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The artist, who has shown at Ronnie Wood’s Scream gallery, has a new exhibition with a headline picture showing a Muslim woman cradling a pig.

I’m curious as to how one can tell, at sight, that it’s “a Muslim woman”. Since it’s “cradling a pig”, I strongly suggest that it is not, in fact, “a Muslim woman”.

Maple, 23, who was brought up as a Muslim, has already evoked Islamic wrath. Her exhibition at Rolling Stone Wood’s gallery earlier this year depicted Muslim women in provocative poses, including one suggestively sucking on a banana.

Apparently she just wants to be offensive. Well, Muslims have a way of dealing with that. Unlike Christians, they aren’t a religion of peace.

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Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider killed in car crash

11th October 2008

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How convenient.

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Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorist chiefs escape Pakistan missile blast by minutes

10th October 2008

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They have to be lucky every time. We only have to be lucky once.

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Teacher leaves Britain for life with African tribesman

10th October 2008

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I am not making this up.

Bet you she drops a lot of that weight….

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