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Why stop with two?

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Let that be a lesson to us all. Be careful what you wish for.

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Of course. Government employees know best. More to the point, they have men with guns behind them to enforce it.

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Black + Female + Democrat = Corrupt.

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Governments hate that, of course, because it’s difficult to tax. Politicians, like the Mafia, always want to wet their beaks.

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On the other hand, this is a valuable life lesson not vouchsafed to his contemporaries.

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Oh, I so want one of these….

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You can find anything on the Internet. Wait until the end to see who it’s sponsored by.

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Horses, by their nature, have only limited means of expressing dissatisfaction.

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Of course.

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My, how … authentic.

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A BRITISH mother of two is being held in jail after being found guilty of adultery – for having a cup of tea with a male friend.

A useful reminder that there is no such thing as “moderate Islam”.

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Yet another inconvenient truth.

The repository at Yucca Mountain was only made necessary by our failure to understand a fundamental fact about nuclear power: There is no such thing as nuclear waste.

So is this material “waste”? Absolutely not. Ninety-five percent of a spent fuel rod is plain old U-238, the nonfissionable variety that exists in granite tabletops, stone buildings and the coal burned in coal plants to generate electricity. Uranium-238 is 1% of the earth’s crust. It could be put right back in the ground where it came from.

What remains after all this material has been extracted from spent fuel rods are some isotopes for which no important uses have yet been found, but which can be stored for future retrieval. France, which completely reprocesses its recyclable material, stores all the unused remains — from 30 years of generating 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy — beneath the floor of a single room at La Hague.

It’s pretty bad when our government is more stupid than the French.

The supposed problem of “nuclear waste” is entirely the result of a the decision in 1976 by President Gerald Ford to suspend reprocessing, which President Jimmy Carter made permanent in 1977. The fear was that agents of foreign powers or terrorists groups would steal plutonium from American plants to manufacture bombs.

Ah, yes: Jimmy Carter, the gift that keeps on giving.

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Markets will arise whenever there is a willing buyer and a willing seller.

Dvorak vents.

Over time syndicated stories began to dominate the newspapers in major cities all over the country. This got so bad that you’d find a local story, for example, in a San Francisco paper covered by The New York Times. It was just cheaper to do that, so they did.

Try to find any useful local news in the Dallas Morning Snooze. Go ahead, try.

Early newspapers consisted of local stories, summaries of events, and listings of items such as ship departures and other notices. There were no recipes, feature stories about dogs, or full-page advertisements for movies.

Ah, those were the days.

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Apparently my generation are not so much “boomers” as “whiners”.

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President Obama’s call to rein in the use of earmarks was met with derision yesterday even from some of his past reformer allies, dealing an early blow to his attempt to change how business is done in Washington.

Yeah, Clinton was a liar, but at least he pretended well.

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And to think I used to complain about having to walk to school in the snow.

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Not quite the approach I would have taken, but, well, the Japanese have their own way of doing things….

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Heat must be pretty bad down there.

That’s a pretty big lion.

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Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy in the Obama Nation?

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So — if you floss your teeth, you may grow up to be a monkey? I’ll try that line on the dentist next time I see him.

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Six years after the publication of her blockbuster best-selling novel, “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” Audrey Niffenegger has sold a new manuscript for close to $5 million, according to people with knowledge of the negotiations.

Have you ever heard of this “blockbuster best-selling novel”? Neither have I.

After a fiercely contested auction, Scribner, a unit of Simon & Schuster, bought the rights to publish the new novel, “Her Fearful Symmetry,” in the United States this fall. The book is a supernatural story about twins who inherit an apartment near a London cemetery and become embroiled in the lives of the building’s other residents and the ghost of their aunt, who left them the flat.

Well, there’s a must-read. I must confess that the concept of inheriting an apartment is mildly interesting, but while there is a Neil Gaiman book yet to be read, I doubt that this one is going to be high on my priority list.

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It all used to be pretty simple. You’d have a cutthroat razor which you kept honed to perfection on a leather strop. They lasted for decades. The only drawback was that in the hands of the very drunk or the very stupid they could live up to their name, but no one cared; if you killed yourself while trying to scrape unwanted hair from your face it was probably inferred that your life was hardly worth living anyway.

I’m an electric gizmo chap. A pack of cheap Bic disposables lurks somewhere in the bowels of the house in case I forget to recharge the Philishave, although this hasn’t happened yet. And how close is my shave? Well, you see, that’s just the point. I have no idea. I run the machine over my flabby jowls and end up with a face that looks shaved to me. Could I find a device that cuts off a little bit more? Possibly, but why should I want to? What does it matter? What benefit will result if I do and what detriment do I now suffer because I don’t? The answer of course is that it makes no difference to anything.

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Mr. Obama made clear in the campaign his intention to raise taxes on this income class by letting the Bush tax cuts expire. What is becoming clearer as his presidency unfolds is that something deeper is underway here than merely using higher taxes to fund his policy goals in health, education and energy.

The “top 1%” isn’t just going to pay for these policies. Many of them would assent to that. The rancorous language used to describe these taxpayers makes it clear that as a matter of public policy they will be made to “pay for” the fact of their wealth — no matter how many of them worked honestly and honorably to produce it. No Democratic president in 60 years has been this explicit.

The Obama Nation is all about stealing your money.

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Some people have no respect for tradition. Sheesh.

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Although there will surely be some who will never believe it.

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

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El Inglés has written about the near inevitability of civil war in Europe, with a particular focus on Denmark. Recent events suggest that the prodromal stage of the coming conflict is already in progress.

The early phase seems to be the violent conflict between Danish Hells Angels and various immigrant gangs. Both the natives and the newcomers are recruiting new members so rapidly that the police are unable to monitor them.

It was precisely this sort of street fighting between Nazis and Communists that punctuated the 1920s and early 1930s.

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Well, where else would you put them.

Must have a lot of Muslims in Mexico these days.

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Speed the day.

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The Guardian just announced that it is releasing all its content through an API as well as making available many different data sets through a data store, all of which can be mashed up into others’ sites and applications. They join other organizations – the BBC, National Public Radio, and The New York Times – in releasing APIs; notes that it’s the creme of news that sees the wisdom in APIs. The Guardian’s offers more than headlines: articles, video, galleries, everything. It also adds one more important element to its offering: a business model, creating an ad network for users of the API.

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Even Muslims can’t stand him.

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David Friedman needs a good rat, which is the technical term for a pointing device moved by the foot.

As any enthusiastic player of World of Warcraft—or other video games played on computers—knows, giving up the prehensile tail was a great mistake.

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Next to a wind vane in front of AlGore’s mouth, I can’t think of a cleverer way of generating power.

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Staff members arbitrarily change the language of a passed amendment to the bill, and there is apparently nothing anyone can do about it.

I was shocked. I asked King if there was anything he could do about this dishonest behavior on the part of Conyers’s staffers. He said that there wasn’t.

Is it any wonder that the Republican Party is dying?

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Well, that would explain a lot.

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John Key, the Centre-Right prime minister who took office last November, announced that orders of chivalry would once again be awarded to recognise services to New Zealand.

Knighthoods were abolished by Helen Clark, the former prime minister, who was accused by opponents of pursuing a secret agenda of “republicanism by stealth.”

Mr Key said the Queen had assented and knighthoods would return in the Birthday Honours List in June. Eighty-five people who had been honoured since 2000 would be offered the opportunity to take up titles.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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It was Democrats who stuffed an estimated $524 million in defense earmarks that the Pentagon did not request into the 2008 appropriations bill, about $220 million more than Republicans did, according to an independent estimate. Of the 44 senators who implored Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in January to build more F-22 Raptors — a fighter conceived during the Cold War that senior Pentagon officials say is not suited to probable 21st-century conflicts — most were Democrats.

And last July, when the Navy’s top brass decided to end production of their newest class of destroyers — in response to 15 classified intelligence reports highlighting their vulnerability to a range of foreign missiles — seven Democratic senators quickly joined four Republicans to demand a reversal. They threatened to cut all funding for surface combat ships in 2009.

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“The immigrant population fundamentally changes the pool of potential partners for Asians and Hispanics. It expands the number and reinforces the culture, which means the second generation . . . is more likely to marry people of their own ethnicity,” said Daniel T. Lichter, a sociologist at Cornell University.

Not good news.

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They used to do that 200 years ago.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Well, it had to happen.

Next step: Back to gold?

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You, too, can talk like a banker.

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What a metaphor for the entire history of U.S. policy toward third-world countries.