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I just discovered that a whole lot of comments that would usually end up in moderation, where I can find them, got tagged as spam.  I’ve loaded them now (some are old) in hopes that it trains Askimet, my spam blocker, to recognize you.  Sorry about that.

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It begins with the New York Times hiring people to plow through Palin’s emails.  And it ends, at least for today, with an article about children whose behavior doesn’t conform to their gender, in which the Times makes an egregious grammatical error: At first, Harry’s father had a hard time watching his son twirl around [...]

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I’ve commented repeatedly that Barack and Michelle are white trash.  They have no class.  As if to give credence to my believe about their style, Barack went off on Netanayu in the crudest terms. What a maroon.  What a classless maroon.  What a crude, classless room maroon.  (Autocorrect failure there.  Sorry.)

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My matched set for today…. Here is the problem with all those generous public pension plans: Marin County’s pension program is unsustainable, underfunded, imperils taxpayers and requires reform, especially in San Rafael, where the City Council ran up an $18.5 million tab by approving retroactive employee benefits and failed to fund them, the civil grand [...]

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You already know that the New York Times and the Washington Post, apparently intent on proving that it is always possible to sink even lower, have asked for their readers to troll through the 24,000 or so emails that Sarah Palin generated while she was governor.  One only wishes that they had showed that kind [...]

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Michael Ramirez is always really good, but sometimes he outdoes himself, as he does with this editorial cartoon.

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My 13.5 year old glanced at this article and then walked away.  I asked, “Aren’t you going to read it?”  She shrugged.  “It just says that global warming’s basically a fraud.  I already knew that.  We need to care for our environment, but the world isn’t coming to an end.”  That’s my girl!

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Sorry for the blog silence yesterday, but it was a very, very, very long family day, some of which included visiting my mom in the hospital.  She’s not in imminent danger of dying (although, in her high 80s, it’s always a possibility), but she thinks she is, and she’s terrified. While I was sitting with [...]

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I’m at Marin General Hospital waiting for my mother. Nothing serious, but she’s not a happy camper. She’s upstairs now getting a CT scan, so I’m sitting in the ER watching the big production that goes with treating a prisoner. I have no idea what’s wrong with him, but I do know that there are [...]

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I never liked the Dalai Lama.  I felt I ought to, but I just didn’t.  Since I’m a bit of a contrarian, I wondered if I disliked him because I was being told to worship at the shrine of his wonderfulness.  Now I’m thinking that I was just picking up on the fact that he’s [...]

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It’s voting time for Council members, so I’m enjoying reading the following submissions: Council Submissions Joshuapundit-What Does Peace Mean, Anyway? Simply Jews – New Antisemitism – Call for action The Noisy Room – Provoking The Whirlwind The Razor – Weiner Comes Clean But Doesn’t Resign The Colossus of Rhodey – The “incredible” intellect it takes [...]

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A few months ago a movie came out based on a premise that was, for me, an entirely new concept:  a Hall Pass or, license from ones spouse to have sex, once, outside of marriage.  (I understand that the movie, which I didn’t see, ultimately made the point that having an affair isn’t as easy [...]

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Yesterday I blogged about the Obama economy in wealthy Marin.  Today’s story on the Obama economy concerns a business in Cleveland Toledo, one that caught Obama’s eye….

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What is it about Democrats that makes them despise our friends and love our enemies? With Clinton, it was giving away advanced parallel computing, stealth technology, submarine propeller and nuclear warhead reentry systems technologies to the Chinese.   Now, according to this article in foreign policy, it is the Obama administration seeking to share U.S. [...]

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My dad was a California teacher and a member of the teachers’ union.  He’d also been a communist in his youth in Weimar Germany and socialist Israel, so you’d think a union would have been a comfortable fit (although he was a Democrat by this time). In fact, he loathed the union. He had two [...]

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There are  few issues that have been obfuscated as diligently by the media organs of the MSM Left as has been the housing crisis that led to our current economic depression. Why, of course they would do that: the Democrats are guilty as sin! We’ve observed on the pages of this very blog the attempts [...]

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Following Book’s trendy new tradition of “spot the lie”, I had to include this article from that renown bastion of conservatism (you know, those people wedded to their confirmation biases), the U.K. Guardian, reports on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard gleefully anticipating the explosion of Iran’s first nuclear bomb: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/jun/08/iran-blogging   Ok, here’s where we play [...]

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Marin is a rich community that’s ridden out the recession much better than other places in the U.S.  Still in a recession of this duration, even the richest community isn’t entirely insulated.  For example, yesterday a report came out saying that Corte Madera, a nice middle class community by Marin standards (and a rich community [...]

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I’m heading out now but, when I have more time, I’m going to sit down and read very carefully Steven Hayward’s post giving his idea about an intelligent way for conservative candidates to deal with the climate change issue while on the campaign trail.

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Inexplicably, the US Ambassador in Ankara seems to have endorsed the ruling AKP party in Turkey’s upcoming elections.  This is inexplicable because the AKP is Islamist, anti-American and antisemitic (but other than that, it’s a great party).  My multiple choice question for you: (1) Was this pure stupidity? (2) Is Obama doing a favor for [...]

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The last thing I want to do is to revisit the tedious back and forth discussions on global climate change, as each side, pressed for time, simply throws their favorite source links on the table. Unfortunately, because most of us have real lives, we lack the time to undertake the research we would wish to [...]

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I don’t have time to check the video, but as a logical thinker, I can assure you that one of the two highlighted sentences in an AP news report about Andrew Breitbart is a lie: The conservative blogger who reported that a photo of a man’s crotch had been sent from Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter [...]

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To my chagrin, I forgot to make my salute to D-Day on this blog.  My head was so taken up with my Midway post, that I simply lost track of time.  Two pivotal battles that changed the course of World War II, one marking the beginning of the end for Japan, and one the beginning [...]

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Lately, I’ve noticed people leaving seven or eight comments in a row on a single post.  Please do not do this.  It clutters up other people’s email boxes and constitutes a form of spam.  This is a warning that, if someone does engage in this abusive behavior, I will delete the offending posts.

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Sentiment: “refined or tender emotion; manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings.” Ours is a cynical age.  The traditional values that defined us as Americans (weirdly old-fashioned ideas such as the belief that we are a wholesome, good and honorable culture) seem to have been jettisoned.  Even though I believe the majority of Americans [...]

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