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These stories have nothing to do with each other.  I just thought each was interesting, and therefore pass them on to you: Americans are figuring out that global warming is a scam. That “missing link” is too distantt to be missing — and maybe it is connected to the first story, because both remind us [...]

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As I’ve read back on some of my posts for the last few days, I realize that I’ve been writing some of it in a unique language, all my own, made up of homonyms, synonyms, typos, and brand new words, as yet unknown to the English-speaking community.  What’s unnerving is that I’m not catching these [...]

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Michele Bachmann was on KSFO, the local conservative talk radio station.  Someone who was listening to the show then sent around this email summing up her advice: “Some of you have probably listened this morning to Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on KSFO. For those who did not, she suggested that all of us call our [...]

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Whatever she’s saying, I’m sure he had it coming to him:

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Here are the winner’s for last week’s Watcher’s Council vote:

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If I recall, Barack Obama promised Americans that, with his smooooth personality (sort of the personality equivalent of Barry White’s voice), he would head an unusually civil, non-cynical, bipartisan administration.  Aside from the fact that this is most decidedly not happening, do any of you ever recall a sitting President taking such nasty, personal shots [...]

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This kind of performance art is horrific, because it makes it impossible to determine any more what is true: Hat tip:  Laer Pearce UPDATE:  Here’s another perfect example of the way in which the Left destroys are ability to believe in anything through the use of mirror image deceptions.  A public that is incapable of [...]

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I’ve long had a few simple principles when it comes to the American military: 1.  It is the most successfully integrated official organization in America, not just in terms of numbers, but in terms of an ethos that sees its members, not as skin colors, but as team mates. 2.  It’s goal is to accomplish [...]

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You know that Zombie’s photoessays are amongst the best, partly because s/he is incredibly talented and partially because the Bay Area offers to much material.  Here’s Zombie’s photo essay on the best signs at the protest in San Francisco last week when Obama came and hid in a fancy hotel, speaking only to a very [...]

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The fun here isn’t just in watching an amazing performance by girls and young women.  Instead, part of the pleasure is watching a jaded audience of young men at an Army-Navy game go from polite cheers to foot-stomping roars of approval:

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This has been popping up amongst the handful of my facebook friends who are religious.  I think you’ll like it:

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Sadie sent me a great trio of stories today, and I want to pass them on to you: The UN wants to make sure that the Western nation’s efforts to protect themselves against cross-dressing jihadists (you know, those guys who don burqas to hide bombs) don’t offend transgendered individuals (who may or may not be [...]

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Reading the news and listening to some very mellow 70s music:

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In Best of the Web Today, James Taranto politely savages Barack Obama’s absentee leadership as American troops live and die in the line of Taliban fire: “The United States cannot wait for problems surrounding the legitimacy of the Afghan government to be resolved before making a decision on troops, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates [...]

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The news coverage about protests against Barack Obama during his visit to October 15 San Francisco visit was a bit lethargic.  It’s just not as much fun, I guess, when the protesters aren’t bad-mouthing Bush or pretending to be waterboarded.  However, I can offer you two offsets to that colorless coverage:  A great article from [...]

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I happen to be a huge Disney fan, whether we’re talking about the man, the movies, or the lands/worlds.  I don’t know if I can hang onto that forever, as the current Hollywood corporate entity, with its TV station, seeks to market sanitized sleaze to our tweens and teens.  I do know, though, that for [...]

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As more questions arise regarding Obama’s contribution to his own autobiography, I wondered whether a software program could be written to compare his known writings (which, other than Dreams, are almost non-existent), to Ayers’ prodigious output.  Turns out such software already exists and at least one person claims that it shows that a 16th Century [...]

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I tend to check out the Yahoo! News aggregator periodically, because it’s a good way to see what the Yahoo algorithm decides is “popular.”  I’m pretty sure a computer program generates the images that go with the tagged news stories, and sometimes the computer makes some very bizarre choices, that have everything to do with [...]

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I was reading the news — none of it good — and desperately felt the need for a little joy and beauty.  This number, from the 1936 movie Swing Time, beautifully brings together one of America’s great popular music composers (Jerome Kern) and two of the most elegant, exciting dancers who ever set tap to [...]

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Maybe it’s true, but given this administration’s active, and often false, demonization of those on its enemies list (Rush, Fox, the Chamber of Commerce, Insurers, Doctors), I find very disturbing this headline from BNO News: Authorities charge former Department of Energy, Defense and NASA worker with attempted espionage for Israel.

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IBD has about as good a summary as any I’ve seen of the nuclear option the Congressional Democrats are planning.  So good, in fact, that I’m reprinting it here, because I want to make sure everyone who visits my blog reads it.  Please click on the IBD link, however, ’cause they deserve the traffic for [...]

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Last week, the weather forecast was wrong four days out of five, promising sun on rainy days and rain on sunny days.  Today, we were warned of “showers.”  So far, the non-stop rain has ranged from hard to the kind of downpour that would make Noah feel at home.  The inability to forecast weather a [...]

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I liked the way Jennifer Rubin tied together the “sort of a God” MSM meme and the White House’s undignified but effective advertisements for . . . I mean, attacks against Fox: After all, it [the attack mode] directly contradicts the stereotype of conservatives and the glorified image of Obama. He’s “sort of God,” and [...]

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Turns out my mother simply fainted because she fainted.  When you’re her age, that sometime happens.  It scared the living daylights out of my son, though, who thought she had died right before his eyes.  We talked about it and he’s recovered from the experience now, as she has.  Long day and a tiring one, [...]

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