Happy Birthday Republicans, and Uncompassionate Jerk Gandhi
Happy Birthday to the Republican Party, which was founded on this day in 1854. It may not be perfect, but America is better for it.
Police in India have taken their uniforms in an ... interesting direction. The new uniforms will have citrus and floral aromas embedded in their fibers and will also glow in the dark.I dno't think that bodes well for their first nighttime shoot-out with a criminal. On the other hand, regardless of any scandal that may come, they'll always come out smelling like roses.
An expedition to the North Pole that was meant to draw attention to global warming, drew attention to irony instead when one of the explorers got frostbite. One of the organizers of the voyage (though not one of the voyagers) explained it away as "one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability," proving, once again, that any and all climatic events are evidence of global warming. Also, I'm not exactly sure what they planned as "photographic evidence of global warming" -- holes in polar ice? We've been finding those since we started going to the North Pole, they're nothing new. Of course, global warming alarmists haven't let tat "inconvenient truth" stop them from exploiting people's ignorance and claiming global warming as the sole cause. In somewhat similar news, a group of 24 clergymen marching to raise awareness of global warming were met with a fierce snowstorm.
I always find it interesting the way similar news can be spinned into disparate headlines. MSNBC has the headline "Poll: Iraqis pessimistic about war’s outcome" while the New York Post has "Iraqis' Upbeat Views: Poll Finds Hope." Now, these stories did use seperate polls, but the results were not dissimilar. Just under 50% of Iraqis said they were better off now than under Saddam, which the former news source played as "less than a majority" and the latter played its significant plurality advantage over those who thought life was better under Saddam. The former focuses on safety concerns and feelings towards the allied coalition, while the latter focuses on the fact that most Iraqis do not believe they're in the middle of a civil war, and Iraqis' optimistic views of the future. Larry Kudlow points out that while the number of Iraqis thinking life is better now than under Saddam is in the 40's and the number thinking the opposite is in the 20's, Europeans thinking life is better in the EU is in the 20's while those thinking the opposite is in the 40's. Are we going to see headlines on European pessimism?
Much ink and many pixels have been devoted to the possiblity of Libertarians and Democrats working together. Well, the Cato Institute points out an American National Election Studies survey which included questions on whether funding for various programs and purposes should increase, decrease, or stay the same did not find a Democrat majority for decreasing funding of any of the surveyed programs; the closest they mustered was for foreign aid where "only" 60.1% favored raising funding or keeping it the same.
For those being sucked in by the rehabilitation of Vietnam's image, I always find it useful to point out that they're still a nasty bunch.
Peace protesters often invoke Gandhi. Former senator, tv actor, and potential 2008 presidential candidate Fred Thompson points out what an uncompassionate jerk Gandhi was:
Speaking of Fred Thompson, Frank J over at IMAO has a nifty list of Fred Thompson facts reminiscent of the Chuck Norris facts. My personal favorite is "Fred Thompson can know both the exact position and momentum of a particle. Furthermore, he knows Schroedinger's cat is dead because he personally strangled it." I suppose that's a testament to my nerdly impulses.
Police in India have taken their uniforms in an ... interesting direction. The new uniforms will have citrus and floral aromas embedded in their fibers and will also glow in the dark.I dno't think that bodes well for their first nighttime shoot-out with a criminal. On the other hand, regardless of any scandal that may come, they'll always come out smelling like roses.
An expedition to the North Pole that was meant to draw attention to global warming, drew attention to irony instead when one of the explorers got frostbite. One of the organizers of the voyage (though not one of the voyagers) explained it away as "one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability," proving, once again, that any and all climatic events are evidence of global warming. Also, I'm not exactly sure what they planned as "photographic evidence of global warming" -- holes in polar ice? We've been finding those since we started going to the North Pole, they're nothing new. Of course, global warming alarmists haven't let tat "inconvenient truth" stop them from exploiting people's ignorance and claiming global warming as the sole cause. In somewhat similar news, a group of 24 clergymen marching to raise awareness of global warming were met with a fierce snowstorm.
I always find it interesting the way similar news can be spinned into disparate headlines. MSNBC has the headline "Poll: Iraqis pessimistic about war’s outcome" while the New York Post has "Iraqis' Upbeat Views: Poll Finds Hope." Now, these stories did use seperate polls, but the results were not dissimilar. Just under 50% of Iraqis said they were better off now than under Saddam, which the former news source played as "less than a majority" and the latter played its significant plurality advantage over those who thought life was better under Saddam. The former focuses on safety concerns and feelings towards the allied coalition, while the latter focuses on the fact that most Iraqis do not believe they're in the middle of a civil war, and Iraqis' optimistic views of the future. Larry Kudlow points out that while the number of Iraqis thinking life is better now than under Saddam is in the 40's and the number thinking the opposite is in the 20's, Europeans thinking life is better in the EU is in the 20's while those thinking the opposite is in the 40's. Are we going to see headlines on European pessimism?
Much ink and many pixels have been devoted to the possiblity of Libertarians and Democrats working together. Well, the Cato Institute points out an American National Election Studies survey which included questions on whether funding for various programs and purposes should increase, decrease, or stay the same did not find a Democrat majority for decreasing funding of any of the surveyed programs; the closest they mustered was for foreign aid where "only" 60.1% favored raising funding or keeping it the same.
For those being sucked in by the rehabilitation of Vietnam's image, I always find it useful to point out that they're still a nasty bunch.
Peace protesters often invoke Gandhi. Former senator, tv actor, and potential 2008 presidential candidate Fred Thompson points out what an uncompassionate jerk Gandhi was:
During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. “The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,” he said. “They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.” “Collective suicide,” he told his biographer, “would have been heroism.”
Speaking of Fred Thompson, Frank J over at IMAO has a nifty list of Fred Thompson facts reminiscent of the Chuck Norris facts. My personal favorite is "Fred Thompson can know both the exact position and momentum of a particle. Furthermore, he knows Schroedinger's cat is dead because he personally strangled it." I suppose that's a testament to my nerdly impulses.
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