tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252684092012-01-27T12:32:04.742-08:00Welcome to the world, and my thoughts on both the issues of the day and nonsense that occurs to me. The internet is international: be a part of it.Christopher Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03104605722684911443noreply@blogger.comBlogger66881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25268409.post-43042598956278031012012-01-27T12:11:00.000-08:002012-01-27T12:16:49.654-08:00

"I, Hal Jordan, do solemnly swear to pledge allegiance... to a lantern, that I got from a dying purple alien in a swamp."Well I watched two movies recently with my brother, and we agreed on both of them. Green Lantern was lousy, I don't recommend it to anyone. Cowboys and Aliens was pretty fun and its worth a Netflix view.What's interesting to me is that I had low expectations for both films.

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"But its an American car, so anything I'd normally like about it I'll find fault with and call it too big"-Jeremy Clarkson (translated)Want a new car? Well you're like fewer and fewer people, because most folks are getting their car worked on and maintained rather than buying a new one. We just don't have the money lying about to buy something new any more in the Obama economy.But if you did

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“Kerry Kennedy, daughter of RFK and human rights lawyer, is coming to Ecuador... This could give us a real boost... Will cost money, but not much.”Most people probably know Rwanda as the place where one tribe tried to obliterate another tribe as the UN stood aside and even facilitated the massacre. However, in the years since that, the country has been doing much better. One of their

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Who am I?I'm known as British but was born in IrelandI'm a writer and playwrightMy last words were "Dying is easy, comedy is hard."Answer after the fold...I'm George Bernard Shaw!

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"Already, we have but too much reason to deplore the violence and animosity of party spirit. It has gone far to destroy social intercourse, and all the endearing charities of life, between ancient friends and neighbours, and to substitute political opinions for virtue, intelligence, and patriotism. Already the wise and good of all parties, entertain apprehensions, lest the interests of the people

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"The person who built his mountain cabin last year is an environmentalist. The person who wants to build one this year is a developer."This has been sent and linked a lot in the last couple weeks but I wanted to push it here as well, in case some of my readers had not seen it. William Tucker wrote a piece in American Spectator - a source I view with some suspicion given the antics with facts

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"Fracking is the exact same as licking the spoon and the bowl clean after Mother Nature's frosting is all gone."Oil companies are a bit unsavory and untrustworthy. Like any huge, vastly wealthy corporation, they're willing to let ethics and even humanity slide in the name of profits and it becomes far too easy to incrementally ignore more and more of what you know is right. It isn't that

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"We don't have locks and keys here."Return of the Jedi was the first sign that all may not be right with George Lucas. The teddy bear Ewoks not being systematically annihilated by the storm troopers was the final straw for a lot of fans who like me started wondering why anyone would even put them in the movie to begin with, and how on earth such an incompetent set of idiots managed to conquer

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This is Henry Cavill as Superman in the upcoming Man of Steel movie.You know sometimes I wonder if the guys who make these movies have even ever read any comics. Here's what Superman looks like:Get it? He's huge and strong and heroic and handsome and bold looking. Not like your somewhat creepy uncle in a body stocking. Maybe having Zach Snyder direct this isn't the smartest move after all. I

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"The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. They have no future- certianly none for the Germans. Facism, if it likes, may come to terms with the Church. So shall I. Why not? That will not prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch, and annihilating it in Germany."-Adolph Hitler

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"On the other hand, if you don't build any pipeline capacity, you're going to be moving a lot of crude by train."When President Obama finally decided to definitively say "no" to the Keystone pipeline extension through America, the progressives in America cheered a victory for clean energy and the environment. No new pipeline which would certainly break and murder billions of caribou, or whatever

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"The time for delay is over. The time for denial is over. We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now, that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way. That's what I intend my administration to do."-President ObamaPresident Obama made another speech yesterday, and it was full of his usual material. Unlike his campaign

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"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."-Milton Friedman

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Hey, I'm going to write up something, maybe a series, about things you always thought and were told were true by the media and education, then found out they weren't. Like... the Kent State Massacre was a bunch of Nixon troops sadistically killing flower-loving peaceful hippies. Or that silicone breast implants killed people. Or that Iraq never tried to buy yellowcake uranium.What, you thought

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"To this day, my kids won't eat fresh green beans."I did a series of several posts about lessons my mom and her sisters learned from the Great Depression of the 20th century. They picked up a lot of very good habits and learned patterns that its good for everybody to learn whatever their economic situation, and I fear things are going to get a lot worse soon, so its good to learn before you have

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"The show must go on"Several times in the past here and elsewhere I've mocked American Idol for its name and results. Almost nobody who competes ends up with any real career, and the ones that do aren't very major stars. Sure, there's been a few who've become somewhat popular, but the name of the show is American Idol and having as big a career as Billy Idol isn't what that implies.An Idol

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You want our freedoms? Come and take them.

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“When I was a kid it was pretty easy math. There’s rich people, and we’re not one of them but they’re out there. It was understood that if you’d like to have that [rich] guy’s house you have to bust your butt and get an education … we didn’t hate rich people growing up, we respected them.”-Adam Carolla

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"Those $O@#*! Democrats would rather keep collecting their Hollywood checks"Here's something I found interesting: leftist bloggers are annoyed at the Democrats in congress over SOPA. Ann Althouse writes "lefty bloggers irked that SOPA activism is moving Republicans and not Democrats in Congress," and quotes some of the bigger leftist blogs.And I suppose that's not too surprising, really. As she

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"You don't need to have a boyfriend to get that boyfriend scent."Facebook is incredibly popular and I'm not precisely sure why. I visit it a couple times a day to try to keep something on there that will maintain interest but some people spend hours a day on there chatting and commenting. Its become such an integral part of so many peoples' lives that they have begun to define social status and

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"I still have a lot of anxiety about overeating, getting enough exercise and being attractive"I like women in general; they smell nicer than men, look prettier, and have fascinating personal quirks that offset and compliment men well. Whether she's tall or short or has red hair or blond or whatever doesn't particularly matter to me. I even like chubby girls, flat girls, older women, as long as

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In exactly the right place.

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"How dare you, sir, ask for the intellectual credentials of a man who sells himself on the basis of his intellectual credentials?"-Ace of Spades on Obama's transcripts

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"I don’t know or notice when I’m being ostracized by the Hollywood community"Adam Carolla is a comedian and actor who has gone rogue. He was the co-creator of the wildly successful and entertaining Man Show with Jimmy Kimmel, and the less entertaining Crank Yankers, but lately he's been more successful than ever by totally avoiding the usual media outlets.Abandoning the television and movies

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"What, in your view, are the bombshells here?"Unlike some on the right, I welcome dirt dug up on candidates, particularly early on in the election like this. The more information people have the earlier, the better they'll understand as they go on and by the time election comes around it won't be a shock but just something they know. Even dirt like a bitter ex wife grousing about Newt Gingrich

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“You do not protect honest online content producers from pirates by breaking the internet for the innocent.”-Paul HsiehTurner, Oregon is a small town not too far from where I live, and heavy rains has caused flooding there. To compound matters, there was a melt in the mountains which has sent high waters down the rivers and creeks and the entire town has been shut down. Most of the schools have

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"...government then extends its embrace to include the whole of society. It covers the whole of social life with a network of petty, complicated rules that are both minute and uniform, through which even men of the greatest originality and the most vigorous temperament cannot force their heads above the crowd. It does not break men’s will, but softens, bends, and guides it; it seldom enjoins, but

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"As a result, the Secretary of State has recommended that the application be denied. And after reviewing the State Department’s report, I agree. "President Obama recently made the official decision to not allow the Keystone extension to the pipeline which would ship Canadian tar sands oil to America. Canada meanwhile is fighting a battle to actually harvest this oil against environmentalist

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"Les femmes aiment un homme qui peut cuisiner"Somehow, French became the language of food. Its not so much the language of love; if anything that seems to be more latin than any language, but almost all cooking terms are French in origin. The word cuisine is French. Most techniques and descriptions of food are French.Cooking en papillote is one of those French terms that sounds terribly fancy

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Oh oh Telephone Line, give me some time, I'm living in twilight-ELO, "Telephone Line"I don't really care for the telephone. Its a strange device which transcends all usual rules of politeness. Normally if someone walks in and stops you from whatever you're doing and demands your attention, they're either your child or terribly rude. If someone calls, interrupting what you are doing, you are

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Courtesy Five Feet of Fury, the most terrifying and counterproductive words in the English language: “Now let’s divide up into small groups”Followed closely by "lets schedule a meeting."

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"If there are no absolutes, then the state is absolute"-Francis Schaeffer

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If you can't find a lot of your favorite internet sites today, there's a reason: its a protest against the SOPA act and its variations such as PIPA (put them together and get a tasty Mexican dessert). The internet bill is stalled at the moment, but it needs to be totally destroyed, and sites such as Wikipedia and others are blacking out in protest of the idea that the White House and US Congress

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“I feel very badly about it in retrospect.”One of the best deceptions the left has ever pulled off is to convince everyone that Nazis were right wing extremists. When someone tries to point out the truth, it sounds so outrageous and crazy that they tend to be laughed at as some sort of radical freak. Jonah Goldberg wrote the book "Liberal Fascism" about the left's history, and he got the title

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"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"-SpockThe US national debt is fifteen trillion dollars, or roughly $50,000 debt per man, woman, and child in the country. That's a lot of money, but actually America can produce that much money out of its citizens if absolutely needed; the total assets of every single person in the nation total more than fifteen trillion bucks. You can't

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Everything is... backwards... now, like out there is the... true world, and in here is... the... dream."-William Shatner as Jake Sully in AvatarRecently Izismile ran a gallery of alternate movie posters, taking familiar films and showing what they might have been like if made 30 or more years ago with actors at that time. For example, Terminator made in 1977:Others include these:Some just don't

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"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."-Laurence J. Peter

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It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'Askin' Mama what do I doShe said just be nice to the gentlemen FancyAnd they'll be nice to youSometimes music deals with the worst parts of life. In fact, often blues, country, and bluegrass will do just that, focusing on the hardest moments and how you get through them. Johnny Cash wrote songs about suicide and failure, and he did a wonderful

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"When is this country going to wake up?"You've probably noticed that after the 2010 elections, the Tea Party Movement became much quieter. For over a year, there were rallies, protests, letter writing campaigns, fundraising efforts and more by this group, then once the election happened, not much has happened.The most recent battles in the GOP primary have been rough but there hasn't been a lot

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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”―G.K. Chesterton

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"We have always been at war with Eurasia."With the advent of e-readers, books are becoming more cheap and more accessible to more people, which is always a good thing. It opens up a huge market to writers like me who can get books published without needing to go through the usual old system and keep a greater portion of their profits.At the same time, there are some problems with this trend,

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"What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day."-Lew RockwellNow that's a big gun. Its a 25 mm rifle that fires a special shell that counts the number of rotations as it flies and explodes at a special set point as determined by a laser range finder on the gun. That allows soldiers to effectively fire around and behind obstructions, and the

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“We are not going back in until all our demands are met.”-Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Islamic BrotherhoodThis is the front page of my local newspaper, the Oregon Statesman-Journal on February 12, 2011.Wow, Egypt free? That's amazing! Its been a year now since the protests started up and pressure was put on Hosni Mubarak to step down from his effective dictatorship over Egypt.

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Progress in music.

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"I was so shocked to see people admitting to being Republican on their front lawn!”-Kate Beckinsale

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Russel Simmons got really rich with a show in the 90s called "Comedy Jam" in which young black comics were given a stage to do their show and an all-black audience watched. Some of them were funny, some of them were lame, but almost all of them had a bit where they'd talk about how black people acted and how white people acted, and aren't white people stupid/lame/boring etc?It became such a

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"They may look like women, but, they have the mind of a child."When I went to school it wasn't tough to tell the girls' ages, older women tended to dress a certain way and young girls another. And girls weren't very developed when they were younger; I recall few of the girls in my high school class had much in the way of breasts.Today, its a bit different. Younger girls are dressing older and

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Who Am I?I Was born in Lincolnshire, EnglandI am a BaronessI was a lawyer who turned to politicsAnswer after the fold...I am Margaret Thatcher

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"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."-Fran Lebowitz

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"More than half of the residents here aren’t aware that Pittsburgh’s air ranks among the worst in the nation"Did you know your city ranks among the nation's worst in air quality? That is, if you live in a city. Its terrible, isn't it? The funny thing is, every city ranks among the worst. And the best, as it turns out. That's like someone coming in first in a race raking among the slowest

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Are we living in Bizarro world?Oklahoma passed a law which blocked courts from ruling based on Sharia law. The fact that this was even considered necessary, in Oklahoma of all places is a bit puzzling. I suspect it was more preventative than in response to some great rise in Oklahoman judges using Sharia rulings.Well a Muslim took this to court, and the 10th circuit federal court ruled recently

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Recently in an interview about dating, Tim Tebow said this:“It’s attractive when girls have faith. That's a big thing for me.”And girls? He's right. If your spiritual life is a desolation, you don't have a very attractive soul.

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To be fair this works for any president, but the fact that stuff like this is cropping up is proof that the spell President Obama and the legacy media cast on people is long gone.

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"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."-Winston Churchill

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"with his comparison of gay sex to ‘man on dog’ relationships, Santorum seldom even makes a pretense of tolerance”)"-Mark Tanner, National Review OnlineDid Rick Santorum equate bestiality with homosexuality? A lot of people think so, and news organizations keep pushing this line. Its a standard "reason to hate" Santorum that the left trots out. Gay activists will inevitably bring it up.Well

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"Nope, we never sold out. We bought in. But we kept the Che poster pinned up forever in our hearts right above the Pier One batik bedspread."Gerard Vanderleun is a baby boomer. Like quite a few, he's not very impressed with his generation. When he was younger, he thought it was all quite great, all the marches and rebellion and rejection of tradition and the establishment. He describes what

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“Debt matters, but not that much.”-Paul KrugmanAlthough Democrats tend to pretend otherwise, they know what President Obama is doing by appointing recess appointments despite the Senate being in session is wrong, just like Republicans know the Senators gavelling in and out once a day (and denying anyone the ability to do anything in the process) is wrong. The Senate is not in recess until it

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The nation has gotten significantly richer as the years have gone by and the other budgetary items much larger, but this does help put things in perspective.

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"No one predicted this. Star Trek didn't see it coming. But the future arrives in leaps and half-steps; one day you realize it's not remarkable to call someone on the other side of the country from your pocket communicator as you leave the plane, and a year later you're cursing the wifi at the airport because your two-way video feed is stuttering."-James Lileks

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"The Jew is using the black as muscle against you, whitey"-Illinois NazisWhat's interesting about the fascist movements of the early 20th century is that they were academic left leaning in their origin. Both the Nazis in Germany and the Fascists in Italy were socialists, opposing communism, but embracing leftist ideology in economic areas. As I've written about several times in the past,

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"Tell me, which Santorum do you hate?"Rick Santorum has been doing quite well in the polls lately. And, because he's doing well, he challenges the GOP elites' choice of candidate in Romney, so the attacks on the right have been getting louder. Since Santorum is a social conservative, those attacks are particularly vicious and brutal from both the left and the right, because if there's one

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"I disagree but I respect your right to be stupid"Some have said that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, that the only way to retain liberty is to be continually alert for attempts to steal it away for various reasons. The United States hasn't been very vigilant as year after year tiny liberties have been taken away for our own good or just to enrich those in power.There's another price

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Compare and contrast. Both of these ran in Los Angeles Times. This is how They judged each image:It appears that racism is based on what the target's political affiliation is, not the actual content.

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"Premier relies solely on the representations of its Chinese partners and cannot independently verify that they do not belong to persons executed while incarcerated in Chinese prisons."-disclaimer on Bodies exhibit at Premier Exhibitions

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"George McGovern, who was the Democratic party candidate 40 years ago, when he retired from politics he did a sort of Bob Newhart thing, he bought a bed and breakfast in Vermont and started running it, and gave it up after a few years because he was horrified, he had no idea...this is a man who spent his entire life in politics, and he had no idea of how regulation cripples small business."-Mark

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"Brother can you spare a few texting minutes?"Quite a while now I've wondered what the unemployment rate was like in the great depression if it was measured the way we measure the rate today. They keep changing the method which is used to determine unemployment and inflation so its very difficult to make proper comparisons between eras.Thankfully I found a place called Economic Populist

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An unfair advantage.

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"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."-Arthur C. Clarke

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“When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.”-Barack Obama, Dreams of My FatherPresident Obama is almost sure to lose the presidency at this point. The Democrats are gleeful about the carnage in the GOP Primary but what they don't seem to understand is that anyone who

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"As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln."-President ObamaMichelle Bachmann recently warned that an Obama victory could mean the end of America as we know it, and the beginning of socialism as a dominant force rather than a

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"I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research."I am a big Arthur Conan Doyle fan, including his Sherlock Holmes stories. There have been a lot of attempts to bring them to the big screen, including film and television, some good and some pretty awful. The latest Robert Downey jr efforts are entertaining and exciting but not Sherlock Holmes in any real sense

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Courtesy the People's Cube via American Digest.

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"The suppression of bad news and the concealment of failure are the hallmarks of dysfunctional organizations."-Glenn Reynolds“This is the best description of public education in the U.S. that I have seen.”-Jason Whitworth

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“They have decided no one can stop them.”Sometimes its easy to think of the high government officials of a country as being more noble, better educated, and more mature than most people. Judges, legislators, and so on, they seem like they're more dignified and adult than, say, Snooki or the latest contestants on Survivor.Then every so often, they prove they're not. Right now, the Senate of the

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"mmmmkaayy"-Stephanie HaydenOne of the more popular shows on television right now is a show called Sons of Guns. I've written about the program before, following a Louisiana gunsmithing shop. Its been followed up by American Guns which follows a Colorado gunsmithing shop called Gunsmoke. The Gunsmoke shop is more successful and much more wealthy, but the same pattern of hard working craftsmen,

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Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owedWe're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowedDire Straits is one of the greatest bands that has ever played popular music. I am not really sure how to classify their style; it is somewhat blues driven, somewhat art rock, and mostly its own unique genre. Their first album exploded onto the music scene in 1978 and went double

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"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal."-F.A. Hayek

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Wynton Hall lists seven devastating facts about life under President Obama. Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion. This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has.The real unemployment rate is a jaw-dropping 11 percent.Every fifth man you pass on your way to work is now out of work.College graduates are now 34%

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"You're just a Ronulan!"Every so often I get into an argument with conservatives about Israel. In principle I like the idea of defending and supporting Israel. Strategically it makes sense; they are an island of stability and democracy in a sea of radical Islam and tyranny in a very critical world region. At least until we get past such a strong dependency on oil, Israel is critical to world

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"I wonder, though, where the pendulum swings next."Freedom of the press is one of the most dearly protected and honored rights guaranteed in the US Constitution. If you are an organized, recognized news media business, you are able to do and say things that others cannot.For example, this is from one of my constitution essays:In 1971, the Pentagon Papers were published by the New York Times (

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"We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money."-Energy Secretary Steven Chu

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“I know all about counterinsurgency doctrine. It means shake hands in the light and kill at night.”The Surge in Iraq brought about the victory that President Obama refuses to admit to and ended years of turmoil and destruction in the country. There are a lot of misconceptions about the Surge, however. The biggest one is that it was just more warm bodies that did the trick, as if we just didn't

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"And that was before Romney said last week that Obama’s drunk-driving, illegal alien uncle should be deported!"One of the dangers of being a public figure or pundit is that eventually you're going to say something, perhaps a lot of things, that annoy a bulk of your usual audience. I would argue that unless you do say things that upset your usual audience once in a while, you aren't particularly

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Or if he stole some girl and marriedI'll love the girl that married himNot long ago I got a double CD called Clinch Mountain Country which is packed with hits by Ralph Stanley. What he did was find a bunch of people who made music he liked and asked them to join him on his old songs. Ralph Stanley has the most lonesome, old timey, mountain bluegrassy voice I've ever heard, and he's a classic

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Although this image predates my school days, we still were doing this my first years of elementary school. Duck and cover. I'd like to think this was to protect people from flying debris and the blinding flash rather than out of the belief that it would somehow protect you from a nuclear bomb.

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"Do you think this Constitution-loving is getting out of hand?"—Joy Behar

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I put up a donate button for the first time on WATN around Christmas time, figuring if people were feeling generous they could consider dropping me a dime. As it turns out I got a lot more than I anticipated, and can easily pay for my address next year and even got a few Christmas presents with it. So thank you all very much, I'm humbled you would think of me and be so generous. I'll be taking

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"What’s the difference between Gaddafi killing his people and Assad killing his?"The big billboard with George Bush and the words "Miss me yet?" really hit a chord with many people. Its not so much they long for Bush to be president again, its that the present administration is so hapless, destructive, and humiliating for the country that we want it gone that bad.But these guys miss Bush a lot:

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“May the stars shine all around you. May your courage never cease.”Troops are finally all home from Iraq, but there's no word of victory from the White House, and no plans for a parade. Why not? Because a parade signifies victory, and the Bush administration would get credit, humiliating the left in general and President Obama in specific after their years of opposition and insistence it was

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"Who?"2011 ended up with three Instapundit links overall, the last one being my bit about how I should have voted for McCain despite him being a miserable jerk who does not deserve the presidency. Too often in life we have to choose between the bad and the awful, and while a McCain presidency would have been bad, it would have been at least somewhat less destructive than the last 3 years of

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And it shows, George.

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"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."-Albert Einstein

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"In order to be true peacemakers, we must educate ourselves in compassion, solidarity, working together, fraternity, in being active within the community and concerned to raise awareness about national and international issues and the importance of seeking adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth, the promotion of growth, cooperation for development and conflict resolution."-Pope

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“one of the least remarked upon aspects of the Obama presidency has been the lack of scandals.”-Professor Brendan NyhanThe year is almost over, so there's probably not enough time for another scandal to emerge. So Michelle Malkin's scandal wrap up for 2011 is well timed, listing the problems that the Obama administration has faced so far.Hilariously, some on the left claim there have been no

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