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I present to you, without comment, a collection of headlines from today’s Bay Area news section of the San Francisco Chronicle: Many Oakland stores close for strike Jill Tucker,Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writers Many businesses in downtown Oakland are closed during today’s Occupy Oakland general strike, whether in support of the movement or in preparation [...]

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I’m mentally regrouping, so I currently have nothing to say.  If you have something to say, consider this the place. And of course, I can’t offer you any better reading today than these excellent submissions from the Watcher’s Council: Council Submissions The Noisy Room – If This Were An Actual Test… The Political Commentator – [...]

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The media is abuzz with speculation that Israel is about to bomb Iran.  Yid with Lid says hold your horses.  Since when have people ever actually known what Israel is about to do?  If there’s one country that’s good at keeping its cards close to its chest, it’s Israel. Somehow this seemed apropos: Or view [...]

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Thoughts during a busy day: Idle thought 1:  I want to have Mewt Gingney for my candidate.  Newt Gingrich is a completely principled conservative with, in his past at least, an unprincipled private life.  Mitt Romney is an unprincipled conservative with, from the past to the present, what appears to be a completely principled private [...]

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Humans produce waste.  Not just bodily waste, but all kinds of garbage.  Most of what we know about Stone Age cultures comes from examining their garbage piles.  If Fairfax, California, has its way, though, archaeologists are not going to have an easy time of it if they’re scavenging Fairfax garbage in the distant future: Fairfax [...]

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Regular readers know Marica, who occasionally comments here.  If you like her comments, as I do, you might want to check out the blog she’s started, Big Food, Big Garden, Big Life.  While you’re there, be sure to read this post, about the Left’s smug belief in the righteousness of its “scientific” views, and about [...]

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With an increasing number of stories about rapes and other sexual assaults at the Occupy encampments, more and more conservatives are saying that it’s time for the mayors of any given city to shut the Occupiers down.   Example: It’s time for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pull the plug on the dangerous circus in [...]

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I’m a very literal person, which means that, for the most part, I like to spell things out, and have them spelled out to me.  Certainly that’s been my approach when discussing boys and sex with my daughter. I haven’t danced around the fact that boys want sex.  There’s nothing wrong with that.  It’s their [...]

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One can debate forever the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange at a policy level, but there is no doubt that a nation wanted its son home.  This video gives some idea of the depth of the Israeli longing for Gilad (but be warned, it’s a multi-handkerchief video): If WordPress is being hinky, you can see the [...]

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If this is Tuesday, it must be time for me to post last week’s Watcher’s Council results.  Yay! Council Winners *First place with 4 votes!Bookworm Room –-Is it true that the poor ye always have with you? Second place with 3 votes – Joshuapundit-Blood And Sand Third place with 1 2/3 votes – The Razor-Watching [...]

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