Archive for December, 2008
12th December 2008
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Truly, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
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12th December 2008
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We have the technology.
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12th December 2008
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Stupid people ought to be encouraged to commit suicide. Think of it as evoluton in action.
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12th December 2008
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Practice makes perfect.
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12th December 2008
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
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12th December 2008
Steve Sailer connects the dots so you don’t have to.
“Rezko paid the asking price on the same day Obama paid $300,000 less than the asking price to the same seller for his adjacent mansion,” he said. “This begs the question of payoff, bribe, kickback.”
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12th December 2008
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My children hardly ever go to the dentist any more. This is not because they have good teeth – as half of their genes come from me, they may be destined to a life time of shoring up and pulling out yellowing stumps. Of course I take them if they ever complain of any pain, but they aren’t getting regular check-ups for the simple reason that our dentist has stopped working on the NHS.
This is what socialized medicine does to people. Note that, if the government doesn’t pay for it, she doesn’t take her kids to the dentist. In America we call that “child abuse”.
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12th December 2008
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And the Jews, don’t forget the Jews….
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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12th December 2008
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So bring it right here.
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12th December 2008
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12th December 2008
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12th December 2008
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on China to cut tops off buildings to win World Heritage status
12th December 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Woman Sues TV Station For Featuring Her In A Film About Obesity
12th December 2008
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Statue of Obama relieving himself seems immensely popular
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12th December 2008
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It just might be.
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12th December 2008
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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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12th December 2008
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Dead cow and spuds are the basis of any true civilization.
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11th December 2008
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I think that the CEO’s at Freddie and Fannie were in a better position than anyone else to stop the madness. But if your idea of a housing system is to build up two firms with enormous power and count on them to exercise that power judiciously, then you might want to rethink your model.
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11th December 2008
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- Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
- Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.
Posted in You can't make this stuff up. | Comments Off on School choir forced to pull out of winter festival because carols were ‘too religious’
11th December 2008
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Hermit wins four-year battle against eviction from his hut
11th December 2008
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This is pretty cool.
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11th December 2008
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Sorry, we can’t year you; we’re busy protesting the atrocities at Guantanamo Bay.
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11th December 2008
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The National Veterans Business Development Corp., also known as the Veterans Corp. (TVC), grossly mismanaged taxpayer dollars — including lavish spending on costly dinners and luxury hotels, first-class travel, and compensation for its top two executives that amounted to nearly a quarter of the charity’s federal funds, according to a report obtained by The Washington Post.
But … but … but … that’s what “federal funds” are for….
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11th December 2008
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I suggest the name “Moldtown”.
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11th December 2008
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Well, they could always change the sort of music they put out…. This just makes plain what a lot of us have been saying for years.
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11th December 2008
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Poor iddle babies.
Other tips in the Good Mental Health Rocks kit, which was distributed this month to about 30 schools in Queensland state, including apologising to students when necessary and asking pupils to conduct a “personal skills audit” where they focus on their individual strengths rather than their weaknesses.
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10th December 2008
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Professional associations and unions, not employers, ought to be the ones providing health insurance.
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10th December 2008
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Rising prices for organic groceries are prompting some consumers to question their devotion to food produced without pesticides, chemical fertilizers or antibiotics. In some parts of the country, a loaf of organic bread can cost $4.50, a pound of pasta has hit $3, and organic milk is closing in on $7 a gallon.
Quelle domage.
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10th December 2008
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- Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
- Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in New York.
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10th December 2008
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Really, these guys are as gullible as medieval peasants.
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10th December 2008
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Well, if we can’t clean out all of the corrupt Democrats, at least we can make some progress in cleaning out the corrupt Republicans.
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10th December 2008
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All he has to do is appoint Michelle Obama. All Democrat minds would be eased, and nobody else matters, right?
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10th December 2008
Steve Sailer distills the essence.
Obama was trying to follow Washington’s career path (state legislature, House of Representatives, mayor) when he ran for ex-Black Panther Bobby Rush’s House seat in the 2000 Democratic primary. But his rejection by black voters for not being black enough crushed his spirit and plunged him into a depression that he only got out of when he resolved in 2001 to that his future lay not in black districts but with appealing to the Stuff White People Like voting bloc.
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9th December 2008
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Yeah, that bailout thing really works, doesn’t it?
The problem is that these people are POOR and STUPID. You can fix poor, but stupid is forever.
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9th December 2008
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9th December 2008
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All my illusions, shattered.
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9th December 2008
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Or a Klingon, it’s kinda hard to tell.
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9th December 2008
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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
And their stands Charlie Rangel in the midst of them, looking as if nobody has offered him a taste.
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9th December 2008
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Their colleges must be about as useless as ours.
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9th December 2008
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If, of course, you accept their assumptions.
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9th December 2008
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9th December 2008
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Hey, that bamboo can get to you after a bit.
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9th December 2008
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She’s sellin’, are you buyin’?
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9th December 2008
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Gotta love Australians.
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9th December 2008
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“Farewell and adieu, ye fair Spanish ladies….”
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9th December 2008
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The Bible is silent on exactly which day God created public transportation, probably sometime between when He created the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air and when He created Kraft Cheese Singles.
Interesting writing in the Washington Post. Whoda thunkit.
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9th December 2008
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Can you translate games, in the sense that you can translate languages? More precisely, can you translate an instance of one game — a match or a round or whatever — into an instance of another game, as you can translate a sentence or a paragraph of Chinese into a sentence or a paragraph of English?
This is why linguists are such fun at parties.
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9th December 2008
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Viewership for President-elect Barack Obama’s weekly YouTube “fireside chats” has tanked, dropping more than 50 percent since his initial video three weeks ago.
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8th December 2008
The FatBigot has a bone to pick.
So what is a partner? In popular usage it covers those who engage in bodily coupling, those who live together without benefit of clergy (whether or not there is much bodily coupling involved) and those who are in business together. Many a prostitute falls into all three categories. When a government minister uses the term the reality is usually that someone is being (ahem) penetrated by the government although they pretend to be working with their victim.
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8th December 2008
Bitter? Not Arnold Kling.
One of the most frustrating experiences you can have is dealing with a bureaucracy where no one has a sense of responsibility. Have you ever tried to deal with an organization in which no one can solve your problem? In which everyone says, “Sorry, that’s the way it is. There’s nothing I can do about it.”
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