Wednesday, December 3 (Updated)

• ROFL MAO! R U SERIUS? A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy.

• "Unfortunately the tourists can still smell the BS from the Congress." Reid: We won't smell the tourists anymore "My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway," said Reid in his remarks. "In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true."

• Bet on "stupid" and keep them that way: RIGHTWINGSPARKLE does the numbers on How Obama got elected. Moral: "Be informed and watch Fox News."

• California in the Crapper:

  The number of those with bachelor's degrees who flee is made up by those without high school diplomas who arrive. The state is tailor-made to destroy the 200-acre farmer or independent small businessperson who deals with new myriads of state regulations, fees, income and sales taxes, mandates and environmental, as well as social, and cultural disdain... No one is to mention the presence of several million illegal aliens in the state that might make California’s meltdown a little bit more severe than say Montana’s or Utah’s. To do so is to be labeled racist, nativist, and indulging in illiberal scapegoating. -Victor Hanson: California Declares a Fiscal Crisis! You think?

• 2,862,581 Killed -- The Consequences of Nuclear Conflict between India and Pakistan Ten Hiroshima-size explosions over 10 major cities in India and Pakistan would kill as many as three to four times more people per bomb than in Japan because of the higher urban densities in Indian and Pakistani cities.

• Kill them first and kill them wholesale:

  18 armed people intent on killing lots of innocents will be able to do just that, and last-line-of-defense countermeasures won't be able to stop them. Intelligence, investigation, and emergency response. We have to find and stop the terrorists before they attack, and deal with the aftermath of the attacks we don't stop. - Schneier on Security: Lessons from Mumbai

• Crowlspace: What to do after the Sun dies "...the authors suggest building an artificial sun, from brown dwarfs, and parking Earth (and other planets) in orbit around it." [Really? I suggest a government bailout of the sunscreen industry.]

• Yet another reason to obliterate the capitol of Washington: Olympia, WA: Atheist Sign Joins Capitol Holiday Display This Year The sign, a new addition this year, is sponsored by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. The sign reads, "Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."

• "These were uncertain times;

  this might be the last year you could load the big-box big screen into the back of the doomed suburban supertanker. Who would gamble on my little gift for D.G., my own safe bet, the Godinger Silver Vintage Gas Pump Liquor Dispenser? Crafted of chrome and copper, the Godinger held up to 32 ounces of liquid, and could not be machine-washed." -We're All Mad Here: The Wal-Mart at the End of the World | Culture11

• Cobb: Obama Clinton Gates = Bush - Doubt

• "For myself, I would be happy to see conservatism exit from the political scene--provided it takes liberalism with it." -- The Becker-Posner Blog: The Future of Conservatism--Posner

• Spengler: China’s six-to-one advantage over the US

  The world’s largest country is well along the way to forming an intellectual elite on a scale that the world has never seen, and against which nothing in today’s world - surely not the inbred products of the Ivy League puppy mills - can compete.

• BroKen @ Brutally Honest offers An Advent Meditation: "The steady refrain within the book of Revelation, throughout all the curses, is blessing on those who overcome; who endure; who remain faithful no matter what."

• Spengler: "Failed financiers run the Obama transition team. It used to be that the heads of great industrial companies got the top Cabinet posts. Now it is the one-trick wizards.

• iowahawk: Apologetic Mumbai Killers: "We Didn't Get the Memo About Obama" Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole surviving member of the 10-man team of Pakistani gunmen that left hundreds dead or wounded after a bloody three day rampage in Mumbai, today blamed the mayhem on an "email mixup" that left him and his colleagues unaware that Barack Obama had won election as President of the United States.

• In other O-News: U.S. Economy Continues Campaigning For Barack Obama

Posted by Vanderleun at December 2, 2008 8:42 PM