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So are homosexuals, but you don’t see them being banned from church cemetaries, or even the sacristy.

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No, they’re discriminating against high-risk groups for blood-transmitted sexual diseases. All homosexuals have to do is drop out of that group by keeping their pants zipped.

For students, of course, it’s more important that discrimination be fought than that people who get transfusions not get HIV at the same time.

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“We fill the gaps,” explains the 39-year-old Mr. Prince, a former Navy Seal whose title is chairman and CEO of Blackwater. A graduate of Hillsdale College (his Michigan family previously owned the automobile-parts manufacturer Prince Corporation), he equates Blackwater’s emergence to FedEx, which “evolved due to the lack of capabilities and responsiveness of the USPS” [U.S. Postal Service].

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

FatBigot tells the truth, and let the fish-and-chips fall where they may.

I heard someone from one of the lucky councils warbling on the radio this afternoon about “empowering” the obese to get to a gym. The obese don’t need empowering, we know where the gym is, we could walk there if we wanted to or get the bus, that’s all the power it takes. We don’t go because we don’t want to.

And then there are the healthy eating initiatives. Lose so much weight and you get a voucher for a free sprig of broccoli. No, sorry, that is not what taxpayers’ money is for.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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Imagine that.

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This may seem someone esoteric, but we’re going to see a lot of push for “New Deal” type programs during the Obama Nation, and citizens need to know what was actually going on back then.

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Fine religion of peace you got there, fella.

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Writing a novel, going vegan, or sending their future kid to public school are just a few of these great breakable promises.  But by far the most common self improvement promise is to learn a new language.

Latin and Greek aren’t among the approved languages, of course; they’re too reactionary, and reading classical literature might undermine the proper progressive mindset.

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As if the enviro-Nazis would ever permit that….

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Blind as a bat? Take it to the next level. We have the technology.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

– I’ve never seen much evidence that Obama has any true respect for white feminists. He seems to see feminists as whiny me-too victims who try to hog the spotlight from the real victims: blacks. The Throw Grandma Under the Bus incident which he brought up this year to excuse Rev. Wright exemplifies this.

Hmmmm.

You’ll notice that Obama had his wife spend the last half of the campaign year acting like a devoted homebody who could barely bear to be away from her children for minutes. Of course, that raises the question: if Michelle’s priorities are so home-centric, what in the world was she getting paid $317,000 for in 2005? Was this money just intended as a payoff to Obama to protect the interests of a huge private hospital?’

Oh, ya think?

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We have the technology.

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Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

The problem with the social sciences is that there’s little demand for social scientists. What there’s a huge demand for is social shamans who can lift the curse of the evil eye.

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A 42-year-old man who had both leukemia and AIDS received a bone marrow transplant — a common, late-stage treatment for that type of cancer. His doctor selected a bone marrow donor who had a rare genetic mutation that renders people virtually immune to HIV. The transplant appeared to cure the patient of AIDS.

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What is the point to changing the time twice a year? I mean, really, just what is the fucking point? It’s a tremendous pain in the ass for everybody, and I’ve never seen a plausible, much less convincing, argument in its favor.

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

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They’re right, too.

Mencius Moldbug explains it all.

Basically, dear Americans, this disqualifies you from voting ever again. You’ve been pwned. You’re out.

There are – or at least, were – lots of plausible candidates for chief executive who don’t have any kind of murky ties to murderous political fanatics. I mean, duh, you know, if history teaches us any lessons, I think one of them is: “don’t elect leaders with murky ties to murderous political fanatics.”

If nothing else, this is the first time I’ve seen “bezoar” used since I first encountered it in law school.

In case you hadn’t noticed, the current euphemism for “communist” is “progressive.” This is not even a new usage. My father’s parents always called themselves “progressives,” for instance. In fact they were CPUSA members. (Before Grandma fell down the stairs at Juilliard and smashed her frontal lobe, one of the last messages she imparted to me was that Frank Rich writes a really great column.) “Progressive” is also all over the place in my ’80s Soviet Life magazines. And La Wik helpfully informs us that the Congressional Progressive Caucus is (a) the largest voting bloc of Democrats in the House, and (b) the affiliation of the Speaker. And now, of course, the President. Summary: the Cold War is over. Communism won.

This post is just full of so many good things that it’s hard to pick out the best ones.

History remembers a number of things. One of them is that, over the last four centuries at least, the left tends to win and the right tends to lose. If you’re a young, ambitious man or woman, power is what you crave, and scruples are not your thing, history tells you: go as left as possible. Join the SDS, not the JBS. March with Martin Luther King, not Louise Day Hicks. Be a Patriot, not a Loyalist. And so on. Exceptions exist – but they are exceptions.

The fact that Billy Ayers has indeed become one of the most successful educators in the United States, without so much as apologizing for his crimes, tells us quite a bit about the terminal malignancy of the American polity. It also tells us quite a bit about how a Barack Obama could be elected: unless he or she grows up in some kind of cloistered uber-Christian cult, it is simply impossible in the present day for an American child to reach voting age without being indoctrinated in Ayers-style, “small c” communism.

This is the great thing about President Obama’s “change.” What he means by “change” is, of course, “power” – as in the phrase, “change the world.” Everyone wants to change the world. That is, they want to exert personal influence on the world. That is, they want power. This will get them laid, or so they think. It’s really not all that complicated.

As for conservatives and mainstream libertarians: forget it. You’ve lost. You’re in roughly the same position as a Southern segregationist in 1968. History may or may not vindicate your cause, but it has determined your chance of victory, which is zero. If you have a life, go live it. If not, now is probably a good time to get one.

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It’s been over six years since we began banging the drum around here to get Congress to repeal Sarbanes-Oxley, the law that was hastily written post-Enron to try to prevent such collapses again, but instead simply added a huge compliance tax, without doing much of anything to actually prevent corporate fraud. Corporate fraud is still rampant, and the law did absolutely nothing to prevent the financial collapse we see ourselves in today. There were, instead, massive unintended consequences, leading companies to go public elsewhere, go private or avoid the public markets altogether. The lack of IPOs, especially in the tech space over the past few years, even as the economy was looking strong, is incredibly telling.

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So much for wireless security.

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I’m impressed.

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A study of more than 3,000 illustrations found in 29 of France’s most commonly used school books revealed that black people were frequently portrayed as jazz musicians, good sprinters or poor, while children with foreign backgrounds were shown to be inferior academically than their white French peers.

I guess telling the truth is politically incorrect over there as well as over here.

Much the best thing I’ve heard about the French in decades.

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There’s a shocker.

I smell “government grant” here….

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We have the technology.

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Yeah, this democracy thing is just so Republican….

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Handy — since that’s about all the RAF can deal with these days … or afford.

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And there’s a frightening thought.

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So I am getting to work clearing my desk. Then we can get to work building a new political party. We’ll have a lot of help from Obama, and even more from those that Jimmy Carter called “rapacious wolves.” He was speaking of Democratic Party Committee Chairmen who couldn’t even cooperate to divide the spoils. They helped build the Reagan Party and they’ll help again. Only this time we have to avoid the Country Club elements like Bush I and Bush II.

What he said….

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The oil price will shoot back through $100 a barrel as soon as economic conditions return to normal, and will break through $200 threshold by 2030, say officials at the International Energy Agency.

Remember, you heard it here first.

On the other hand, the Guardian are a bunch of leftists, and when did leftists ever have a clue about economics? So don’t take it too much to heart.

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Pardon me while I snicker. Socialists don’t understand markets, so it’s no surprise that this sort of thing happens. Their response, of course, will be to pass a law against it; that’s all they every do. This will drive the market underground, thereby increasing criminality in Michigan. Just what we need more of.

All of these bright people, dumber than rocks.

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There you go, Barack, a reminder that we have enemies, and they aren’t interested in “just getting along”.

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Not that they would want to. Apparently the Workers’ Paradise isn’t such a paradise after all, since people are coming there to get benefits but avoid the work. Whoda thunkit?

The Hog isn’t doing politics any more. Absolutely not. Wouldn’t even think about it.

We often talk about the common sense of the American voter and how it will save us, but the truth is, that’s pride talking. We are just as clueless as people in hellholes like India and Haiti, when it comes to choosing leaders. Think about it. SOMEBODY elected Cynthia McKinney and David Duke. If people like that can be elected, Americans are capable of electing the next Hitler or Castro.

Nope. God, guns, and gardening is all he’s about these days.

Arnold Kling looks ahead to The Obama Years.

My point is that sooner or later the U.S. government is going to have to get serious about stripping the assets of those of us who have tried to live within our means. Sooner or later, the profligate are going to take from the prudent, the grasshopper is going to confiscate the property of the ants.

A word to the wise….

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And I’ll bet you really wanted to know that.

Arnold Kling turns over a rock and finds something amazing.

The Hog continues to refuse to discuss politics.

It’s really unfortunate that women are allowed to vote. Whatever problems would arise from male-only suffrage, at least we would be safe from socialism and pacifism, and we would always be allowed to defend ourselves and our families.

Won’t even touch the stuff. God and gardening, that’s all he’s doing these days.

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Be the first on your block….

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I suppose one must applaud, however limply, the thought of council bureaucrats worrying about the needs of employees who are immigrants from Poland or Lithuania or Nigeria who might be perplexed by odd bits of Latin-derived jargon in memos. But this really smacks of the sort of P.C. nonsense that brings down ridicule on the heads of honest folk working to reduce prejudice.

The Hog takes a look at some basic tools.

I’m thinking I may reserve the Gerber for pig-slicing. It looks ideal for the job. That saw on the back will make short work of the stubborn bits. If I sharpen the knife edge up, it should slice pork really well. And while I love my 14? Forschner scimitar knife, a machete sends a message a kitchen knife just can’t equal. It says, “Men are eating. Go back in the house until the police come.”

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A great idea if there’s a way to implement it that wouldn’t be worse than what we’ve got now.