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October 30, 2008
Friday, October 31
- And what's more, there ain't no Obama Claus! Promises, promises!
- Nigel Farndale, ethical journalist, strikes again. Brit Reporter rummages through Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet "There are several big black polo shirts on hangers and, in his medicine cabinet, cold remedies and bottles of Listerine and Drakkar aftershave, but no painkillers." [HT: media blog]
- Going all in from Norway: Annette Obrestad is poker's hottest female star, and a multimillionaire —even though she's still too young for Vegas.
- Unqualified Reservations: Did Barack Obama go to Columbia? "What is the chance that a budding young politician of undeniable talent and promise spends his junior and senior years at Columbia, and no one remembers him?"
- Archaeologists report finding oldest Hebrew text Untranslated but probably kvetching.
- The distinguished Thomas Sowell viaThe Smallest Minority "When people ask me why am I going to vote for McCain rather than Obama it's because I prefer disaster to catastrophe."
- Worst bookstore in San Francisco: Forever After Books - Haight-Ashbury - San Francisco, CA 94117
"Yes, this is a very BAD bookstore. But it's SO bad it's really quite good. You just have to stop thinking of it as a bookstore and start thinking of it as a privileged peek inside the curious pathology of a couple of old-time Haight residents."
- Whores lag behind media in support for Dems: "Based on the prostitutes' voter registration cards, they're destined to become Obama girls in November. That's because 78 percent of them registered as Democrats" - Majority of Allegheny prostitutes are on the Democratic side
- A metrosexual nation mourns: Condé Nast Folds Men's Vogue
- NOAA: U.S. breaks or ties 115 cold and sets 63 new snowfall records ｫ Watts Up With That?
- And so say we all; I have never in my life been so ready for an election season to be over and done with. I can hardly wait for the Messiah to be sworn in so unicorns will start farting rainbows on the front lawn of my gold house and I can run them over with my rocket car on the way to my governmentally-guaranteed middle class job. -View From The Porch: Bitterer.
- Belmont Club - The excluded middle "When the one side adopts an dogmatic position and refuses to budge, the non-ideological camp will often resignedly let itself be led thinking it not worth the candle to destroy the nation to advance the party. The problem will not occur to the side which places the party above the nation, and who may in fact, hate the nation." -
"Once you start to believe in the dark shadowy forces, you're done with the world. You're done engaging it, you're done enjoying it. There's no point. It's a sham, a shell, a shiny facade erected by the Jews / Bilderburgers / Trilateral Commission/ Council on Foreign Relations / Project for a New American Century / Masons / Knights Templar / Illuminati / Federal Reserve / Rockefeller-Royal Family Nexus / Bush Crime Syndicate / League of Grim Intent, and all you can do is post on the internet and call talk radio to argue with the hosts who think we're free people."
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October 29, 2008
Thursday, October 30
- John Edwards and the Case of the Missing Wedding Ring
- The Obamathon - "A dour documentary designed to undermine an eastern bloc country, circa 1974. Ten minutes into the thing, I was expecting a bunch of fat babushkas in headscarves fighting over the last loaf of stale bread. By the time it was over, I had boiled and eaten a neighbor's dog."
- Old hag blathers. Dick Cheney to lead soldiers in the streets.Erica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss 'Will Spark the Second American Civil War. Blood Will Run in the Streets'
- It's... It's...Disaster Girl! Collect the whole set.
- Money-Pits R Us. Web 2.0's Biggest $inkholes
- Obama and the Politics of Crowds - WSJ.com "A leader does not have to say much, or be much. The crowd is left to its most powerful possession -- its imagination."
- Does Embedding with the Taliban Make You a Traitor? | Danger Room from Wired.com
- The credit crisis as Antarctic expedition on Vimeo
- Please do your best to celebrate: it's National Candy Corn Day - neo-neocon
- Gender Traitors! Webutante: Two Democratic Women Dramatically Defect to McCain/Palin and Tell Why
- Library Ghosts: Western wraiths from Washington to Wyoming are highlighted in this fourth segment of a five-part overview of library ghosts.
- Jules Crittenden goes commando in Why I'm Voting For Obama
It's time we all reached down deep, some maybe deeper than than others, to Save the Children. It's Obama as the Sally Struthers of our national conscience. It's more than that. He's the guy on our big national speedboat with lots of babes in bikinis.
- It's about time! Correction issued today by the New York Times: "She is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, not Ginsberg. The Times has misspelled her name at least two dozen times since 1980; this is the first correction the paper has published."
- 'My brave new voice..' Scott Adams on Persistence
- WHISTLEBLOWER REWARD: $200,000 For Khalidi/Obama/Ayers Tape
- Was it something she said? Confederate Yankee: Huffington Post Writer Stabs Ex-Lover 220 Times, Commits Suicide "Burger, upset at the disintegration of her relationship and disgusted with the U.S. during the past several years, sometimes talked of moving to Panama or Mexico to start again." (Grisly report with the above excised is HERE.)
- Huffpo seems to softball the story with: Off The Bus: A Tribute to Carol Anne Burger "The circumstances of her death remain unclear; police believe she may have taken her own life after learning that her roommate - and former partner - had been found dead."
- Well, not that unclear: Police: Ex-lover killed woman in rage "Carol Anne Burger killed her former lover by stabbing her 222 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then took pains to hide her crime, police said Wednesday."
- Smackdown in Syria: Twilight Struggle
- The Rosett Report The Democratic People's Republic of America
"As a preview of life in a socialist America, Barack Obama's half-hour Infomercial Wednesday evening wasn't half bad. It had its pricey origins in a broken promise about practicing restraint with money. With a mood-molding musical soundtrack, it featured a peerless leader moving among the common folk. He listened to the sad stories of their gray and difficult lives in a land of scarcity. He did this in his shirt sleeves."
- The Anchoress "All of these “narrowing” polls are proving one beautiful thing, definitively: that America actually is more post-racial than most realize."
- But wait. There's more! Not available in stores.The O-Infomercial "If people buy the super absorbent car sponge, with bonus wax applicator, for $19.95, they may buy this horrid stuff."
- Sarah Palin masks and candy corn top the charts.Halloween as an Economic Stimulus - Portfolio.com
- Snow blankets London for Global Warming debate - first October Snow in over 70 years ｫ Watts Up With That?
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October 28, 2008
Wednesday, October 29
Page of the Day: Sippican Cottage
Let me tell you about the blade.... You think that you're smart. You think that you can put your hand near the blade, as long as you don't push your hand right in it. It doesn't work that way.... You have to avoid putting yourself in the position where your hand will be drawn into the blade and there's nothing you can do to stop it. There was no danger, really; you were maimed without danger announcing itself first. It was there all along in a way you'll never "get" until it's too late." - From Politics
- No Regrets: "Europe and America will meet such fates as they choose. However long they've lived in liberty; however ancient their constitutional guarantees, they can choose unfreedom in a moment. One day they may decide they have a right to choose dependency; to choose slavery. No regrets now. -Belmont Club They stand there like a stone
- World Is `Drowning in Oil' (Again)
- On that videotape the LA Times is holding because "it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it,” ninme observed, "It’s a strange source who, when he wants to keep a video from being released, gives it not to a bank vault or large magnet but to a national newspaper."
- Okay, here's the plan.... "Obama’s plan is to redeploy soldiers from one war to another without changing general troop levels in the region and without bringing anyone home. Or as he calls it “change."
- HillBuzz sez: John McCain will win Pennsylvania.
- Victor HansonThe pattern repeats: In 1996 Obama goes to court, challenges the petition signatures of mostly African-American voters, and gets all his rivals eliminated from the ballot and so de facto runs unopposed.
- Tsunami alert: "There is a silent, angry wave building that is fed up with the DC/NY Political Industrial Complex (which includes the dying liberal media, the elitist talking heads, the lobbyists and power brokers, the hyper-partisans and the politicians)." - The Strata-Sphere -McCain's Internal Polls Looking VERY Good
- Oddities of our age: It's odd that someone would vote against John McCain because the present value of their house declined. It's even more odd that voters pre-occupied with wealth accumulation would favor a candidate who promises to redistribute their money. -Power Line - Fools and their money
- Democrat Speechwriter Wendy Button So Long, Democrats "I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that."
- Undecided voters may already have decided, study suggests U.S. undecided voters, on average, reported feeling slightly warmer toward Obama than McCain, but they implicitly showed a slight preference for McCain over Obama.
- Who has ever advocated government "spreading the wealth" besides intellectual elites?
- The only problem with the Obama martini is that once you make it, the government takes most of it and gives it to others.
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Tuesday, October 28
"Wild forays into rambling farce, swaggering opinion and villainous stories, sprinkled with a ribald lagniappe of jolly smut."
- 4 Rules for Babes (Make that 5): "There are only four hard core rules for women who want to maintain a good, long term relationship. Don’t lie, don’t be an endless nag, never withhold the goods to manipulate a situation and never, ever lose that shared sense of humor that won your heart in the very beginning. Not screwing other guys helps, too." Flies And Honey @ Jaded Haven
- More great MSM news! Washington Post’s Credit Ratings Downgraded to ‘Negative’
- Non-paper papers happen: Christian Science Monitor Discontinuing Daily Print Publication
- Coming to America: European-Style Political Economy
- George F. Will: The Good Bad News "Inflation is down? The economy might be slowing. The economy is growing? Inflation might be coming. Either way, woe."
- How about a Nuclear Zeppelin ? Ah, non merci.
- Okay. How about a $300 bottle of beer? Ah, non merci.
- Roger Kimball holds the line:People tell me that all the ducks are lining up in a row for Obama. To which I say: "Fine. But are the voters?"
- Stuff White People Like - Hummus "When it comes to food, all white people are either allergic to/or have stopped eating everything you consider delicious."
- New Nukes Needed Now!
- America is a Melting Pot, Not a Dumping Ground
- Obama the 'Magic Negro' - March 2007 "Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him."
- Not-So-Magical Negro Pessimistic and Subdued, Ohio Independents Weigh Their Choices "The expressed reservations about Obama were mostly about inexperience but it was difficult not to conclude that some of the views of Obama were affected by his race, although that was mostly just below the surface."
- The Big Steal, 2008"The assumption that only Americans will decide the results of America's elections was old-fashioned...."
- Jules Crittenden observes the brave new AndrogeNazi "the lad's wearing lipstick and eyeliner. Not that there's anything wrong with that."
- L.A. Times axes 75. Editorial "sooperbrains" responsible for demise of paper absent from list.
- MidnightBlue: Obama Lawyer to Student - 'I'll be watching you'
- Crying out for a bumper sticker: Don Surber "Vote Democrat, open wallet. Repeat."
- Cardinal Egan Archdiocese of New York"This an untouched photograph of a being that has been within its mother for 20 weeks. Please do me the favor of looking at it carefully."
"Do me a favor. Look at the photograph again. Look and decide with honesty and decency what the Lord expects of you and me as the horror of “legalized” abortion continues to erode the honor of our nation. Look, and do not absolve yourself if you refuse to act."
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October 27, 2008
Monday, October 27
- More good news about newspapers: Circulation at both Seattle dailies circling the drain.
- Barack - 'Take a day off for me.'Maybe Obama IS an Economy-Destroying Communist ( "I kid, I kid.")
Toxic Combo - Where failing to kill all the lawyers leads: "A relatively new phenomenon is the President/FirstLady lawyer/lawyer combo." -neo-neocon - Philadelphia Inquirer Headline: "White people shouldn't be allowed to vote"
- Hanged White Woman? That's Cool:Gay West Hollywood hangs Palin in effigy
"I know if we had done it with Barack Obama, people would've probably thrown things through our windows," Morrisette said. "The image of a hanged black man is a lot more intense than the image of a hanged white woman -- for our country -- in the history of our country."
Video of proud partners at the link - More Good News New York Times to become, if it is not already, a six-figure newspaper: "Daily circ at The New York Times fell 3.5% to 1,000,665 copies."
- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." H. L. Mencken
- Recession? BRING IT ON!
We have raised a generation, maybe two generations, of selfish, whining crybabies – both in and out of Government – whose primary business is trying to take money from others without providing any meaningful long term service to society. They need to be brought to their knees and shown the facts of life.
- IP notes "SIX ALABAMA COUNTIES have more registered voters than voting-age people."
- RED ALERT: Early voting shows polls off 18% in California!
- Goodbye to All That: Sense of Events: What has NATO done for us?
- Burn, baby, burn!: New York Times (NYT) Running On Fumes "The company has only $46 million of cash. It appears to be burning more than it is taking in--and plugging the hole with debt."
- The economy of motor scotters: "It is much cheaper to run than a car. In fact, it takes only half a litre of fuel to get from your house to the scene of your first fatal accident."
- “If I had my life to live over again, I’d do it all differently. I’d make better decisions. I’d work in Japanese tentacle porn.”
- TEFLON CANDIDATE: Top 10 Obama Facts That Media Would Never Let McCain Get Away With
- She had me at "Hello." Sarah Palin for President
- Slave States of the 21st Century:Indentured servitude in Dubai
- Saving Money is for Economic Girlie Men: 5 Reasons Why The United States Government Wants You to Remain a Broke Debt Hamster.
- Poem: Mexixo "I have seen the future: / Feral peons in filthy tanktops, sullen,"
- If you love old types of type check Smashing Magazine's Vintage and Retro Typography Showcase
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October 26, 2008
Sunday, October 26
- The Parable of the City
The walls are ancient, massive, and seemingly impenetrable. Built over centuries, stone by stone, they allowed those who lived within them to largely forget their existence. Their security was a given, their maintenance deemed unnecessary, the once-white radiance which glimmered from afar now pockmarked and pummeled, the mortar crumbling but unnoticed by those thus protected. The ramparts stand lightly guarded now, for few found the siege of small hideous men a threat — and many envied their crazed passions from atop the high walls, where sanctuary seemed like slavery and chaos freedom.
Those few who sounded the alarm went unheeded, for the massive stones which tumbled and thundered to earth were lightly regarded, the trembling of the ground at their impact ignored lest it disturb the revelry within. The city has been infiltrated, not with shock troops but with trollops, its defenders lying naked in the embrace of whores. The breach is imminent — yet the city sleeps, its shops shuttered, its currency squandered, its treasury depleted, its armies far abroad fighting fearlessly a war no one notices for a cause long forgotten. - Return to the Monastery | The Doctor Is In
- Planning ahead: Weapons: The Venezuelan AK-47 Factory Manufacturing equipment has been shipped, and production of Venezuelan made AK-103s is expected to begin next year.
- Sense of Events: Once More Unto The Breaches, Dear Friends "It is important to remember that the cultural icon of Israel is Masada--a lone "city" on the hill where a handful of Zealots stood against elite Roman Legionaires. Olive Branches? That crop is tilled by the enemy and they want everything and give nothing in return."
- The Sinking of the MSM Titanic -Best Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir ... Ever.
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October 24, 2008
Saturday, October 25
- William Ayers: From cop-killer to cop-caller
- David Warren, Messianic pretensions:
"Faith, hope, and charity" are Christ's things. They apply, properly, outside time -- to a "futurity" that is not of this world. They must not be applied to any earthly utopia. A Caesar who appropriates otherworldly virtues, is riding upon very dangerous illusions. Follow him into dreamland, and you'll be lucky to wake up.
- Green Report: Newark NJ Star-Ledger cuts newsroom staff by nearly half. Trees reported dancing in Northeast.
- "Hit a Jew Day"
- First, right attitude: "Recalling a run-in 25 years ago with a group accused of voter registration irregularities, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says protesters scattered when he warned them to leave his home in one minute or "I'll kill all of you." - Inhofe recounts run-in with ACORN Next, right action.
- Two important and revealing essays by James Kalb: The Tyrannical Logic of Liberalism
"Advanced liberal society is reproducing the error of socialism—the attempt to administer and radically alter things that are too complex to be known, grasped, and controlled—but on a far grander scale. The socialists tried to simplify and rationalize economics, while today’s liberals are trying to do the same with human relations generally. The latter involve much more subtle, complicated, and fundamental aspects of human life. Why expect the results to be better?"
- The Tyranny of Tolerance
"Just as Marie Antoinette played shepherdess at the Petit Trianon, yuppies can spend their extra dollars on ecotourism and free-range chickens."
Both essays are adapted from Kalb's new book The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command
- Mark Steyn "The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it. Why can’t the government sort out my health care? Why can’t they pick up my mortgage?"
- Now you know why you never liked frozen peas and carrots: "Many years ago, when I was working the night shift at a produce freezing plant, we had to pick bits of reptile, insect, and amphibian out of the frozen vegetables." - bioephemera : Lawn mowers, lizards, & longitudinal cross-sections
- And then what? "All the leading Democrats want to repeal the Bush tax cuts, as they apply to households making more than $250,000 per year. The trouble, according to Miller, is that you can repeal them only once." -The Claremont Institute - Reforming Big Government
- Belmont Club - No way out "It is useless to discuss how to reduce the size of government, it may be useful to speculate on what to do if it crashes."
- The Tipping Point Webutante's Parable: Obama's Redistribution of Wealth 101 for Dummies
- Comment of the week @ Federalist Paupers "We may be seeing a slight whiskey recession, but the fundamentals of the American alcohol economy are strong."
- Kevin Kelly: "Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism.... is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet."
- Not your average RV: Globecruiser Yours for $670,000. Plus $800 to fill the tank. (By ActionMobile)
- Political intimidation in Charlotte, NC
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October 23, 2008
Friday, October 24
- The Obama Effect: Decreased Investment, Increased Unemployment
- Why the New York Times is a junk bond: "According to the geniuses at the Times, the governor of Alaska is self-evidently and grossly unqualified to be vice president of the United States, but a pop singer is obviously qualified to be lecturing the world about African civil wars and developmental economics."
- In even less important news, I note that Andrew Sullivan is, with bated breath, continuing his unabated campaign to be the designated First Lewinsky of an Obama Administration. One would think at this point, his appointment is in the teabag.
- Hyper-perverted SF Columnist Mark ("O the Lightworker") Morford spools one out that goes twice around the bowl with When history spanks.
- Terminators on order via SITIS - an Army plan to "develop a software/hardware suit that would enable a multi-robot team, together with a human operator, to search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject."
- Who says there's no good news about magazines? BREAKING: Radar Folds; Web Site Sold to AMI Goodbye and good riddance to this chunk of glossy crap. Global Hellos: In international airport arrival gates I’ve seen Maoris rub noses, Japanese bow, and Italian men lightly pound each other on the chest and arms with their fists.
- Barack Obama as Ozymandias.
"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away."
- Post-boomers: The stealth right A commenter at neoneocon observes, "The thing is, like gay people in the bad old days, we've developed ways of picking up the "tells" and we all find each other and know each other -- eventually."
- This just in! Sarah Palin Supersizes Fries
- Rush:
I think it's classic that yesterday Standard & Poors officially proclaimed the New York Times as "junk" on the day they endorsed The Messiah: the Lord Barack Obama, the Most Merciful. Number two, why is the New York Times junk? Why is their advertising revenue down? Why are their pages down? Why is their circulation down? It's because they're no longer the New York Times; they are the public relations department for the Barack Obama campaign and the Democrat Party.
- South Korea wearies of 'Spreading the wealth north'Millions suffer food crisis in North Korea: UN The food shortage warning comes as the North has ratcheted up its hostile rhetoric against South Korea and its president amid fraying ties.
- Paul McCartney's ex wearies of not having enough wealth to spread.Heather Mills has spent almost half of her $59.2 million divorce settlement in just seven months.
- Send O money or else! Obama has $605 million. Seeks more. More. More. Better give it to him. Or have a B in the face.
- Don Surber discovers alternate energy source: "Maybe unicorns on treadmills can produce our electricity someday."
- It's all about A Woman's Right to Shoes
- Dan Quayle Redux On the stump recently, Sen. Biden declared he had "three words" for what the nation needs: "J-O-B-S."
- Our crap-drenched colleges: College Green? Bah Humbug. (Originals)
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October 22, 2008
Thursday, October 23
- CARPE DIEM: GAS FALLS BELOW $2 PER GALLON IN TEXAS! and The Greenback Hits At Two-Year High
- First we kill 25 million Americans... Ayers' Weathermen planned "re-education", genocide Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States.
- 50 Pussies Missing in the Purrmuda Triangle
- Kirk to Sulu: "Like, who cares? Be gay. Don't be gay. That's up to you George." ( Video HERE )
- Democrats Strike Gold in Alaska Imagine for a moment that Gov. Sarah Palin was a liberal, pro-choice Democrat but that everything else about her life and career was the same. If she was Sen. Barack Obama's nominee for vice president, what would her media coverage be like?
- Treacher: Biden Clarifies Earlier Remarks on His Dread of an Obama Administration
"Because I gotta tell ya, when this great man, this fantastic young African-American kid who I'm proud to call my closest friend, when he becomes president, the American people need to know that you are all gonna be grabbin' your ankles every April 15 for the rest of your probably-shortened lives. I mean, the taxes, they're gonna be unbelievable. Holy f***. So we'll need your help with that. You're gonna have to pay 'em. There's no way we can repel a full-scale nationwide tax revolt without resorting to nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, at least in the scenarios they've shown me, so we're countin' on you to do the right thing."
- The Daily Gut defines Obama: "Seriously, the man isn't a presidential candidate – he's a really hot chick."
- Daphne says adieu to the GOP and many right-wing blogging sites: "Obama & Company have reduced these people to the equivalent of the monkey house at the zoo, poo flinging and outraged screams seem to be the order of the day."
- Cloud Culture @ The Technium While there is only One Machine, there are many cloud computers. Each is a collective of computers acting as one computer. The Machine is the mega-cloud of all clouds.
- Dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan (among others) William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire
- Breaking, that is. Obama told the estimated crowd of 35,000. "I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here."
- CNN headline - Palin: God will do the right thing on election day. What she actually said: "To me, it [religion] motivates us, makes us work that much harder. And it also strengthens my faith because I know at the end of the day putting this in God's hands, the right thing for America will be done, at the end of the day on Nov. 4." (Via Surber)
- The Good News: Slowly but surely, scientists are getting closer to developing a drug that will allow people to eliminate unpleasant memories. The Bad News: It will not be available by November 5, 2008.
- Drive them fast to their tombs: As the shouting from the trail and the frantic spinning from the anchor desks intensify, the audience is voting with their remotes. All 3 evening news shows experienced audience drops year-to-year for the week of Oct. 13-19, 2008.
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Wednesday, October 22
- Department of Plan Ahead: Man Builds Lamborghini Countach In Basement, Has To Dig It Out When Complete
- They call it "bgC3" also known as "Bill Gates' mysterious new company."
- Donald Sensing: "A funny thing happened on the way to the global-warming apocalypse: the earth started to get colder. Now the number of credentialed scientists debunking the notion of anthropogenic global warming is rising faster than the global temperature ever did."
- Argggggghhhhhh! Everything I think and feel nowadays is colored by the election lens and it's clogging my brain ports! A comment from HERE.
- You can say that again: "We're right on the cusp between the matter-dominated and dark energy-dominated epochs," said Egan. Theorists Tackle Universe's 'Coincidence Problem'
- Fewer people yearn to eat piping-hot steamed insects: Lobster prices tumble with demand
- Heating up. Israel: Hamas And Hezbollah Plan Final Battle "In the West Bank, Palestinian radicals have encouraged the greater use of gasoline bombs...."
- The Idea-to-Drug Gap Mean time? 24 years.
- Trick or Delete: Techdirt: AOL To Nuke Users' Content On Halloween
- A Decade of Internet Superstars: Where in the world is Mahir Cagri: "I KISS YOU !!!!!"?
- The homeless days of Captain Kirk "The only comfort came from my dog, who sat in the passenger seat and gave me perspective on everything.”
- The real value of free software: Linux Kernel Worth $1.4 Billion
- The Pentagon - Where spending is faster than counting. DoD Spending Growth Outpaces Auditors
- Zzzzzzzzzz.... Catching up on to the facts about sleep
- When Walt Disney went to war.
- Managing by the Numbers It sucks. But you knew that, right? IBM doesn't.
- Subduction Zones: 5 Most Dangerous U.S. Earthquake Hot Spots Beyond California My own area tops the list and is as the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
- Huge Field of Dinosaur Tracks Found Seems to be mostly mothers walking around with babies.
- Who are left-wing haters to point fingers at John McCain?
- An ungrateful nation..... Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen.
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October 21, 2008
"There will be a point -- maybe one week, maybe two weeks after the inauguration -- when the opinion polls will look bad. Really horribly bad. Despite our best efforts, a couple of mid-size cities will inevitably be vaporized. People will be complaining. 'Why are you nationalizing the Safeway?' 'When is Omaha going to stop glowing?' 'Why do the Chinese soldiers keep asking for my papers?' When this happens, we will need you to keep supporting us because, trust me, you really won't want to be observed not supporting us."
The scent is a sexy cocktail of velvety florals, cool freshness and warm woods. It features top notes of velvety white peach and orange blossom followed by mid-notes of jasmine, calypso orchid and freesia. The drydown consists of amber, cashmere wood and patchouli. Bond Girl 007 is housed in a sleek, seductive bottle reminiscent of a woman's body.
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October 20, 2008
Monday, October 20
Elsewhere....
- Toy Soldiers:They came, they saw, then left the Afghan war without a single mission More than 100 soldiers from the elite Kommando Spezialkrafte regiment, or KSK, are set to leave the war-torn country after their foreign minister revealed they had never left their bases on an operation
- Question of the day: How would you like to meet this heinous, creepy bitch in a dark alley?
- James Bowman notes that "whenever the charge of "hate" is raised in a political context, nine times out of ten, the person who raises it is the one doing the hating."
- Ass-talking sweeping the pinhead pundits: Morgan: "Can anyone prove to me Sarah Palin is a dimwit? Because if you can’t…and you haven’t met her personally…you people who say she is one, are pretty much talking out your asses."
- MIT Study: Internet Rife With Hypocrisy, Lies “Much to our amazement, we found that the vast majority of what people said online was in fact completely false,” said lead researcher Dr. Albert Clarke.
- Orson Scott Card asks reporters "Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?" But answer comes there none.
- Two Harvard boffins agree Nuke terror harder to do than flying airplanes into skyscrapers so don't worry.
- Infiltration in Iraq continues Iraqi forces detain seven Iranian agents in Iraq - The Long War Journal
- Small war gets ready to lift off in Somalia An Armada Masses Off the Horn of Africa
- Metaphor for Undecided Voter? Horse gets head stuck in tree
- The vanished Musings & Migraines post about Obama from January, 2005:
When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the livingroom of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were launching him--introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread. His "bright eyes and easy smile" struck me as contrived and calculated--maybe because I was supporting another candidate. Since then, I've never heard him say anything new or earthshaking, or support anything that would require the courage of his convictions.
White on white text here. You have to select text to see it. - Treacher shows you The sprawling skyscraper where Barack Obama and William Ayers worked together for years but never laid eyes on each other
- "Did you know the Annenberg Challenge was funded by a Republican and included many Republican leaders?" "Well, how about that. Did you know the planes used on 9/11 weren't built by terrorists?"
- Big Daddy Roth's furturistic hot rod is back from the dead. iowahawk: Viva El Orbitron!
- National Post: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof - Watts Up With That?
- Iran busts ‘spy pigeons’ near nuclear site "Early this month, a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings...."
- "The most sophisticated demagogue is the one who publicly expresses the wish to engage in a rational debate with the people: even the clever can be tempted to feel he is speaking personally of them, whilst the stupid are absolutely sure." - The Joy of Curmudgeonry: Fewtril no.260
- Why hasn’t Obama put McCain away? The answer to the voters' apparent hesitancy is simply that citizens still have no idea who Barack Obama is.
- Beth Snyder Bulik actually sticks to the facts in Pallin' Around With Palin in Pennsylvania - Advertising Age - Campaign Trail
- The Pilate Effect "Perhaps the worst feature of Pontius Pilate's leadership is the way he asks the crowd to tell him what he should do. He is truly a man without a personal grasp of absolute values ('Truth, what is that?') and such a leader causes his followers to begin to doubt the very existence of these values."
- Joe the Dumber Biden: "We’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
- America the Weak "Add in Sen. Joe Biden - with his track record of calling every major foreign-policy crisis wrong for 35 years - as vice president and de facto secretary of State, and we'd face a formula for strategic disaster."
- Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Rethinking Public Opinion
- "Transformational figure" to leave America poorer, markedly less free, and less powerful.
- One Cosmos: Obama and the Emperor's New Empty Suit He will not "lure" you toward the good by his intrinsic authority, but compel you "share" and "spread around" the fruits of your labor with his purely earthly power.
- Saint Augustine: "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
- Don't Forget the Undecided Voters Neither Obama nor McCain garners majority support, and 15% of voters remain undecided.
- A little-used therapeutic tool The Doctor Will Insult You Now
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Not About Race. Right."Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race," Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail. "OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with. I was also unaware of his dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia. I guess he also regrets Reagan and Bush makinghim a four-starand secretary of state and appointing his son to head the FCC. Yes, let's hear it for transformational figures." - Powell endorses Obama
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October 19, 2008
- Our Amazing Shrinking Air Force: In which costs will continue to rise and numbers of new planes will continue to shrink amid an overall force structure on a steady decline to irrelevance.
- Big Surprise: Colin Powell confirms he is no race traitor. Albatrosses for Obama
- What's in a Poll? Gallup has proven, beyond any doubt, the polls have no idea what is happening.
- Scamology 101 Obama's campaign has followed the classic "volleyball dynamics" that characterize most basic scams---bump, set, and spike.
- The Imminent Collapse Of Global Markets Is No Reason To Skimp On Four-Season Gutter Protection
- NATO vs. The Pirates of Somalia: Shoot On Sight, Shoot To Kill "The third option is to go ashore and kill or capture all the pirates...."
- Wide World of Sports:Ferret Legging (aka Stuffing a Ferret Down Your Pants) The current world record is held by a Yorkshireman called Reg Mellor, who kept two ferrets down his trousers for five hours and twenty six minutes back in 1981.
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October 18, 2008
Hedge Fund Manager to Everybody Else: Goodbye and F---- YouI was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America.... I will no longer manage money for other people or institutions. I have enough of my own wealth to manage.
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A new low in disgusting political advertisements. But it won't last. There will a new "new low" along any day now. Depend upon it.Posted by Vanderleun at 2:43 PM | Comments (0)
Re-educating Rapists the Old-Fashioned Way: Woman walks through market holding severed head of man who tried to rape her'She put the head on parade,' said Mr Bharose. 'She walked right through all the crowds who were buying their vegetables, holding the head up high. 'All her clothes were covered in blood, but as far as she was concerned that didn't matter. She just wanted to make a point and she definitely succeeded in doing that.
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The Uses of Disenchantment:The circumstances may vary, but maybe human folly is constant. That is paradoxically encouraging in its way because it implies that human virtue, courage and endurance can be counted on to ride to the rescue. The Greatest Generation always exists for those who are forced to assume that mantle. Inspiration has always been the handmaiden of necessity and perhaps renewal is often forced upon society by collapse. -Belmont Club ｻ A blast from the past
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And the coveted ScrappleFace Editorial Board Endorsement Goes to... Barack Obama!According to friends (who he calls ‘Obam-associates’) , Barack Obama is so cool… The only reason he doesn’t smoke very often is that the flame on his cigarette keeps going out.
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Urban Primitives:"The over-urbanized are the willing clients of the nanny state. They are loathe to take responsibility for anything; they assume when anything goes wrong, some specialist or expert will fix it. Even when they have children they expect “child-care facilities”. They are salaried people; few have ever taken a risk on their own dime. Their taxes are lifted from them at source.... They think of the city and the government as something that was always there -- as a second nature. They are defenceless when primary nature reasserts itself (as we saw, poignantly, in New Orleans). Like isolated and primitive peoples elsewhere, they develop superstitions -- “urban myths” -- that account for the mysterious provision of their public services, and they worship their “rainmaking” urban political gods. Their lives are regulated by principles of “political correctness” bound in on every side by taboo." - David Warren
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"Have we replaced the electoral college with the editorial college?"The Obama-Biden ticket maintains its strong lead in the race for newspaper endorsements, picking up 17 more papers in the past day, - Treacher: Why hasn't McCain conceded yet
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October 16, 2008
Ah, er, about that "loss of species everyday" meme that's been going around... Hundreds of New Species Found off Tasmania - National GeographicPosted by Vanderleun at 12:49 PM | Comments (1)
YUM!Jaswinder Singh, 45, was found by police making kebabs at Pappu Sweet Center and Catering in Wolverhampton in August in a kitchen where a dead man was lying on a sofa. As well the corpse, the policeman discovered another man smoking and spitting repeatedly on the floor, while in a room near the kitchen, a defrosting chicken, oozing blood and juices, was covered with flies. - File under Restaurants from Hell
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Right now,a typesetter is laying down the words Dewey Wins! Right now, Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democrat nominee. Right now, George Washington is refusing a crown. Right now, Barack Obama is training ACORN workers. Right now, Margaret Sanger is preaching eugenics. Right now, a Pole is made Pope. Right now, Nero is watching Rome burn. Right now, Peter, that city’s first Bishop, is being crucified and turned upside down. - Presumption, Illusions & Reality The AnchoressRight now.
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Midori-san, the blogging houseplant:If houseplants could blog, what would they say? To find out, Kamakura-based IT company KAYAC Co., Ltd. has developed a sophisticated botanical interface system that lets plants post their thoughts online. A succulent Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerii) named “Midori-san” is now using the system to blog daily from its home at bowls Donburi Cafe in Kamakura.
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O don't know nothing about nobody:"The thing I find so amazing, however, is how easily Barack Obama denies the persons with whom his ties are deep, meaningful and long-standing. How easily does Obama abandon his friends! Is there no such thing as loyalty in that crowd? Perhaps it’s a natural lack. -baldilocks: The Other Peter Principle
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We know a lot about very little:"96% of all matter and energy in our universe is some unknown variety we call dark. It is clear that "dark" is a euphemism for ignorance. We really have no idea what the bulk of the universe is made of. We find a similar state of ignorance if we probe deeply into the cell, the brain, or even the earth. We don't know nothin'. -Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
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Joe (The Plumber) Wurzelbacher gets it:
"Well, I mean, quite honestly, why should they be penalized for being successful. I mean, that's what you're telling me. That's what it sounds like you're saying. That's wrong. Because you're successful, you have to pay more than everybody else? We all live in this country. It's a basic right. And Obama wants to take that basic right and penalize me for it, is what it comes down to. That's a very socialist view and it's incredibly wrong. I mean, $250,000 now. What if he decides, well you know $150,000, you're pretty rich too. Let's go ahead and lower it again. You know it's a slippery slope. When's it going to stop?" - Campaign SpotHe's right. You've got to look at the starting point and then ramp it out for five or ten years.
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October 15, 2008
Smash Shack Because sometimes...you just need to break something!Posted by Vanderleun at 2:18 PM | Comments (1)
More from Surveying the Abyss @ The Doctor Is InFor years we have tolerated incompetence, corruption, dishonesty — and yes, greed — in government while looking the other way. On those rare occasions when politicians have made principled stands, we have rewarded them with a firestorm of political assault, full-throated media ridicule and criticism, and enormous financial pressure from lobbyists pouring money into the pockets of those who purport to represent the people. We have elected a government of the people, in the most literal and disgraceful sense: we have elected, and kept in office, those who share our desire for self-gratification and materialistic acquisition at the expense of character, moral integrity, honesty, and prudence. The cesspool which is our current Congress is what we have reaped by our own actions — or perhaps more accurately, by our inaction. We have elected those politicians who are like us in every way — and we hate them for it. They are, after all, created in our own image.
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October 14, 2008
Ringo Starr gives you the warning. He's got no time for fan mail.Posted by Vanderleun at 8:47 AM | Comments (8)
$15 bucks for F The Economy @ Rumplo, A Place for T-shirts
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October 13, 2008
NOW HEAR THIS! Note to everybody who can't stop moaning that it's all over and we're going to end up in Room 101 with rat-cages strapped to our faces"What you're feeling right now is not natural. It's the result of prolonged exposure to harmful radiation from a highly toxic, media-infected presidential campaign. Symptoms may include nausea, sweating, constant checking of poll results, dizziness, fever, irritation at glaring double standards, coughing, Googling, loss of appetite, bewilderment at a world seemingly gone mad, vaginal dryness, and Drudge." - Treacher
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900-Pound Giant Squid Joins Cast Of 'The View'"Like many past hosts, who have come from such diverse backgrounds as law, stand-up comedy, and local news, the squid was a virtual unknown before joining the cast. Plucking it from relative obscurity, producers discovered the squid 26,000 feet below sea level in the Mariana Trench and said to themselves, 'This is the perspective the show has been lacking.'"
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You must remember this.... :"Technology unguided by strategy, intellectual integrity and purpose doesn't guarantee anything but the faster eventuation of stupidity." - Belmont Club ｻ Man and machine
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The Redistributionist Obama: "When you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."Posted by Vanderleun at 5:08 PM | Comments (0)
The Dow Jones industrials gained more than 900 points in a stunning rebound from days of big losses to close at 936.42.
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"With today's award to Paul Krugman,the Nobel as gone to an economist who died a decade ago. The person alive to receive the award is merely a public intellectual, a person operating in the same domain as Oprah Winfrey. And even as a public intellectual, the prize is inappropriate, because never before has a scientist operating in the capacity of a public intellectual so abused and debased the science he purports to represent. Krugman's New York Times column drawing on economics is the equivalent of 2006's Nobelists in Physics, astromers Mather and Smoot, doing a column on astrology -- and then, in that column, telling lies about astronomy." - The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid
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Wordplay and Wordsmithing -- Excellent Headline of the Day: The audacity of empotence by Exurban LeaguePosted by Vanderleun at 10:23 AM | Comments (0)
Current confirmation that our contemporary culture is garbage: Jeff Koons exhibit @ Versailles 2008
New Hoover Convertibles, in the Antichambre du Grand Couvert
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October 12, 2008
Ole! A dumber and poorer California coming right up:"California provides a glimpse of what such changes might mean for America’s economic future. The Center for Public Policy and Higher Education predicts that unless the rate of college matriculation among “underrepresented” minorities (that is, Hispanics) immediately rises, the state will face an 11 percent drop in per capita income by 2020." -Honesty from the Left on Hispanic Immigration by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 8 October 2008
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It's Just This Simple: A continuing series.
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October 11, 2008
Don't worry. Be happy. Things can always get worse....
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Days of Future Past:"JUNE 15, 2027: A startling revelation comes in the form of Obama's postpresidential autobiography, Cutting Backdoor: He admits that the decision to keep troops in Iraq was forced upon him by the Bilderberg Group, a secret society of world leaders who control the global economy. The book explains how Bilderberg's leadership concluded that the U.S. would not be prepared for a post-oil society for at least forty years; the only solution was to establish an American presence in the Middle East that provided unlimited access to petroleum, thereby staving off worldwide economic collapse. Three months after the book's release, Obama disappears in a mysterious boating mishap." - A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century - Esquire
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"On like a pot of neck bones:"My frothing at the mouth family member isn't alone in her belief that something wicked this way comes, and it isn't just the conservatives, or the liberals, it's a bipartisan epidemic of temporary insanity. Both sides are firing up the mudslinger, sharpening their tongues, they are as we say in certain circles, Mother Fucking each other. Both candidates are getting a little rough, McCain pulled the "liar liar pants on fire" card at some Republican Rally, Obama fired back with the "I know what you did 20 years ago" defense, the press picked up the ball, and now as my Okie cousins like to say, it's on like a pot of neck bones. - Is that the mark of the Beast or just a mole?
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October 10, 2008
Sterilizations Skyrocket as Economy Crumbles“I first considered sterilization when the stock market was getting hammered and big banks were failing all across the country,” said 23-year-old Zack Cox of Ballard. “But what really sealed the deal for me was when Congress passed that absolutely insane bailout package. I realized that the only way to avoid having my children, and my grand children, and my great-grand children saddled with the bill for the reckless, irresponsible economic blunders of today was to ensure that I never have any children to begin with.”
....In just the past week since Congress passed the $700+ billion Wall Street bailout, Seattle Reproductive Medicine (SRM) has performed over nine thousand tubal ligations, thirteen thousand vasectomies, and seventeen castrations. Hundreds of these were for couples that had been working with SRM for years in attempts to get pregnant, but abruptly changed course after last week’s bailout.
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IsLaMI cIhAD ate my blogroll:Sense of Events: Blogrolling.com hackedI'll have to rebuild over time.Posted by Vanderleun at 9:37 AM | Comments (0)
October 9, 2008
Because the male children of the American Elites have no dicks:Human Vs. Zombie Tag A Growing Trend On College Campuses, Having Sex Declining
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ACORN Files Voting Rights Suit on Behalf of Imaginary-Americans"Whether we are obituary notices, hallucinatory giant rabbits, or strings of random keyboard strokes, it's time for the chimera community to stand up and claim our rights as citizens," said ASDFG. "We will no longer be silent and invisible. Okay, maybe invisible." - iowahawk
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October 8, 2008
Fools rush in where fools have been before:
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Prayers for Dean Barnett:Omnipotent and eternal God, the everlasting Salvation of those who believe, hear us on behalf of Thy sick servant, Dean Barnett, for whom we beg the aid of Thy pitying mercy, that, with his bodily health restored, he may give thanks to Thee in Thy church. Through Christ our Lord.Amen.
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We'd suggested sending in an Iranian Rosa Parks, but she'd just be hung."Iran's hardline Islamic government encourages gender separation, and last year backed a proposal to create a womens' bicycle which covered the rider's legs and upper body. A women-only taxi service, with female drivers, has been launched in the country's main cities and buses and underground trains are segregated." - Women's car with electronic parking aids unveiled in Iran
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Buy? Not Just Yet: Captain Capitalism sez The Stock Market is About Where It Should Be"You should not be loading up on stocks now, because you’d be paying the historically average price of a stock which is $16 in stock price for each $1 in earnings. You’re not getting a deal, you’re paying retail. People should wait for the market to REALLY go on sale, and with a recession guaranteed, it’s almost a surety it will. You laugh at Cramer suggesting a 7,700 Dow, just like my big time former employers laughed at me when I said there was a housing bubble (and an Asian currency crisis and a Dotcom Bubble), but you might just want to (for a change) listen."
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What's for dinner? How about SWEET AND SAUCY GRILLED SALMON?Recipe by Alaska Fisherman Sarah Palin Wasilla, AlaskaHT: Ninme
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Flying Rule of Thumb: Three mistakes equals one crash."Events may now be driven by forces that are beyond short term human control, as if some dynamical system boundary into nonlinear response has been crossed. In that chaotic environment, Presidential leads don't switch on things like "who won the debate" any more than the financial meltdown is responding to bailout packages. They respond to a combination of things which we don't understand, though we pretend to. So we pull back on the stick and stomp on the rudder pedals but the crate just has a mind of its own." - Belmont Club » The second debate
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Brokow's got questions. Surber's got answers:"Tom, listen to me. And yourself. You just admonished my worthy opponent for speaking longer than you want. And then you break the rules by asking another question instead of allowing these good people who waited in line to be part of this audience to ask their questions. And only a Washington-based journalist would ask about "a date certain." Setting a deadline to grapple with such a long-term problem is a recipe for a disaster. In one word, no. In two words, hell no." -Don Surber J