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Archive for January, 2009

Surfer talks of being in ‘real-life Jaws movie’

16th January 2009

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Moral: Don’t surf.

But he said he does not blame the shark and has pledged to return to surfing.

Darwin Award waiting to happen. The System Works.

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Disconnected From Obama’s America

16th January 2009

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The 52-year-old farmer is a conservative Democrat who bet on Republican John McCain and lost, a description that would apply to many in the white South. Now Loewer wonders about his place in Obama’s America.

And well he might.

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Meet Obama’s Loyal Opposition

16th January 2009

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But the “change” Mr. Obama really needs is to avoid the fate of the last two Democratic presidents, both sabotaged by their own majorities. So far, not good. Mr. Obama has yet to assume office, and already his own party is beating his priorities like a conga drum.

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Mexico’s Instability Is a Real Problem

16th January 2009

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The question is — Is it our problem? Bush would have said “yes”; what will the Obamessiah say? (Something confusing and ambiguous, I suspect.)

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How to increase exports

16th January 2009

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

The two most impressive companies I called upon in my corporate career were Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble. Wal-Mart had a fanatical policy about never letting anybody trying to sell anything to Wal-Mart spend a dime on a Wal-Mart employee. Wal-Mart felt that most retailers had been corrupted by vendors with NFL skyboxes and the like. So, you were not allowed to see Wal-Mart employees in restaurants (which is why the finest restaurant in Bentonville in 1991 was a Ponderosa steakhouse filled with world-class salesmen in $1500 suits and great haircuts, sitting alone, morosely chewing their $3.95 chicken-fried steaks). All negotiations were conducted in windowless interrogation cells. After a few hours of relentlessly being hammered by Wal-Mart employees, not only would you be willing to lower your price to Wal-Mart by 20 percent, but you’d leap at a chance to sign a confession that you were part of a Trotskyite wrecker cell attempting to assasinate Comrade Stalin if only they’d promised to make it all stop.

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Psychiatrist knits anatomically correct woolly brain

15th January 2009

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Sure, you need 20 years of education for that….

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Man digs up wife’s driveway with JCB and dumps it on her car

15th January 2009

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

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Klingon keyboard goes on sale in Britain

15th January 2009

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You know you want one.

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Man punches shark to survive attack

15th January 2009

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Gotta love Australians.

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One-armed shark attack girl runner up in world surfing championship

15th January 2009

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Some people just refuse to quit.

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Zimbabwe cholera epidemic kills 2,000

15th January 2009

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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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Waiters stab armed robber to death in Paris restaurant

15th January 2009

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“They pointed an stun gun at a waiter and demanded the cash from the till, but the staff grabbed kitchen knives and charged at the men,” he said.

A pack, not a herd. Note that the staff weren’t French.

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Japanese cities raiding remains of dead for precious metals

15th January 2009

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They’re so sentimental.

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Calderón Offers Advice to Obama

15th January 2009

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Well, he’s certainly got more experience.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón said yesterday that President-elect Barack Obama should take steps to stem a “worrisome” rise in anti-U.S. sentiment in Latin America.

I have an idea — let’s let Latin America worry about a rise in anti-Latin American sentiment in the U.S. for a change.

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Illegal Migrants Huddle Along French Coast

15th January 2009

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More than 600 illegal migrants like Mohammedei are backed up this winter in Calais, 150 miles north of Paris, living in makeshift shelters pitched in the patchy snow. They have swollen a floating population of Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians, Kurds, Eritreans and English-speaking Africans who number more than 1,000 at any given time in a string of communities along France’s English Channel coast.

Well, who wouldn’t want to live in Londonistan rather than an Arab — or, indeed, any Muslim — country? I wonder why….

But the migrants’ motivation is so strong, particularly in societies that have been ripped apart by war, that those headed for London seem to have missed the message. “It’s not El Dorado, that’s for sure, but it’s always better than the situation in their own countries,” Copyans said.

Mohammedei, for instance, said he decided to leave his home town, just south of Kabul, after a grenade tossed by Taliban fighters sent shrapnel into his left calf, knee, thigh and shoulder. Despite the sub-zero temperature, he pulled up a double thickness of pant legs and a layer of long underwear to display the scars to a visitor in the thicket.

“Taliban,” he said.

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Brunettes ‘better paid and more respected than blondes’

15th January 2009

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That’s because blondes don’t work, they marry into money. As for respect, hey, it’s surprising the respect that a fat wallet gets you.

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Stan Lee ‘to create world’s first gay superhero’

15th January 2009

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Hm. After a lifetime of studly superheroes with studly teenage male “wards” … this is news?

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Textbook Company Embraces Free For Infinite Goods, Charges For Scarcities

15th January 2009

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Our business model eliminates the catch. We’re giving away great textbooks and making them open because it solves real problems for students and instructors. In so doing, we are creating a large market for our product. We then turn around and sell things of value to that large market – more convenient ways to consume our free book (print, audio, PDF) and efficient ways to study (study aids). Sure, we’ll make less money per student than the big guys. But that’s okay. We’ll be selling to a lot more of them, and we’ll be doing it for a lot less money (thanks to technology like web-hosted services, XML, print-on-demand, and more). Like we said… just a smarter way to do business. For all of us.

In theory, this is a very smart strategy, based on the most modern thinking.

In practice … well, we’ll see.

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The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility

15th January 2009

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Smart people with too much time on their hands pass the savings on to you.

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Hatefact: A Useful New Word

15th January 2009

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Hatefacts are unquestionable facts about immigrants, blacks, women, homosexualists, et al., that the SPLC and those sharing its ideological inclinations deem  “hate” or “hateful” to mention.

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Family helpless to stop badgers destroying their garden

15th January 2009

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Tony and Belinda Gattie cannot stop the creatures from turning their lawn into a mudbath because badgers are protected by law.

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Eugenic Euphemisms

15th January 2009

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Sure, we can make sure that all babies are healthy babies — if we kill the unhealthy ones before they are born.

Margaret Sanger is laughing up a storm right now.

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Ancient Persians who gassed Romans were the first to use chemical weapons

15th January 2009

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But, of course, no WMD were found when the area was later occupied by Roman troops.

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Our Friends the Saudis

15th January 2009

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Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh was quoted as saying those who think such girls are too young to marry are doing them an injustice. Al-Hayat newspaper quotes Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, the country’s grand mufti, as also saying during a lecture on Monday that critics who say women should not marry before the age of 25 are following a ‘bad path’.

Anybody still confused about whether Saudi Arabia is a civilized country?

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Mother who posed as teenage daughter to become cheerleader sentenced

15th January 2009

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Saw an episode of “Buffy” about that once. Life imitates art.

But after she began missing classes last August, a truancy officer investigated Brown. Her real identity was revealed when she was found in jail being held on an unrelated fraud case.

Ah, they don’t make cheerleaders like they used to.

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Leonard Goodwin

15th January 2009

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Leonard Goodwin, who has died aged 93, was a protozoologist, leading authority on tropical medicine, and unintentionally responsible for the introduction of the Syrian hamster as a popular pet in Europe.

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School apologises for allowing children to buy knives as Christmas presents

15th January 2009

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Note the prune-faced witches in the picture. God forbid their little darlings should be exposed to any tool that might be used constructively.

  1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
  2. Without eternal viglance, it could happen here. And probably has.

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A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 2)

15th January 2009

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This is the difference between real history and antihistory: the difference between Mick Jagger and Cyndi Lauper.

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IRS May Be Gearing Up To Send Tax Collectors Into Second Life

15th January 2009

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Peacekeeper Sex Abuse Rampant, UN Says

15th January 2009

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Don’t even need to say anything, do I?

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Breaking down a new door

15th January 2009

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Many journalists around the world have to live with a hard truth: It really doesn’t matter what your nation’s laws say about freedom of the press if your local police will not stop a mob from burning your newsroom (or worse).

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IBM concocts microscope with ultra-fine resolution, current MRI bows down

15th January 2009

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Who Can Do The Best Job Of Computerizing Health Records?

15th January 2009

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Looking at history, it’s almost certainly not the goverment. How many years have they been trying to computerize the air traffic control system? And the IRS? Unless the problem is with killing people and breaking things, the government is not the answer.

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Chavez looks to West for help with oil production

15th January 2009

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Will Charlie Brown try to kick Lucy’s football once again?

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Student offered live tiger in exchange for her virginity

14th January 2009

Now tell me with a straight face that you can resist that headline.

The student, from San Diego, California, USA, insisted she was not demeaning herself and had been persuaded to offer herself to the highest bidder after her sister Avia, 23, successfully raised money for her own degree after working as a prostitute for three weeks.

Chances of her actually being a virgin: Maybe 1 percent.

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Mendacity quotes

14th January 2009

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We used to have journalists. Those were great days.

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First Pretexting Charges Filed, But What About The Companies Giving Out The Info?

14th January 2009

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Army Goes Electric With New Vehicles

13th January 2009

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Two men stoned to death for adultery

13th January 2009

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Iran — equal opportunity barbarians.

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The Kirpan: A Dangerous Weapon? Or More Like a Star of David?

13th January 2009

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This entire treatment, of course, begs the question — just because the kirpan is “a dangerous weapon” does not automatically disqualify it from being carried in most circumstances.

Needless to say, if an IRS agent can’t be trusted with “a dangerous weapon”, then on what basis ought she to be an IRS agent?

Bureaucratic whim masquerading as policy. And YOU get to pay for it. Aren’t you proud?

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George Bush ‘shamed’ Condoleezza Rice, says Ehud Olmert

13th January 2009

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Not to mention what he’s done to the rest of us.

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Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man

11th January 2009

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Video: School and Zoo Booby-Trapped by Hamas

11th January 2009

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Stuff White People Like #120 Taking a Year Off

11th January 2009

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Though you might consider finishing school or having a good job to be “accomplishments” many white people view them as burdens.  As such, they can only handle them for so long before they start talking about their need to “take a year off” to travel, volunteer, or work abroad.

The Brits call this a “gap year”, which is typically devoted to getting raped, robbed, or killed in some Third World hell-hole during the interval between their equivalent of high school and university. Never saw the attraction, myself.

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Still inscrutable after all these years

11th January 2009

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What the Chinese know that Barack Obama doesn’t.

t really does all boil down to the generation of power, primarily electricity. Without machines we cannot make things sufficiently cheaply in sufficient numbers to allow comforts to be available to all, and without power we cannot make machines, without power we cannot run machines, without power we cannot transport goods in bulk and so it goes on.

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Jew Hatred Howls in the Streets of Germany- Again

11th January 2009

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What’s the Arabic for “brown shirt”?

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CNN’s Staged Video Updates: The Norwegian Connection

10th January 2009

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CNN’s Gupta Could Reclaim Surgeon General’s Bully Pulpit

9th January 2009

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Question is, do we really need (or want) another government-paid nanny?

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LG shows off GD910 Watch Phone, production later this year

9th January 2009

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Been waiting for this to happen.

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Southall: The Capital of the Future Islamic State of Britain

9th January 2009

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

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