tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109742602011-08-16T22:02:03.558-05:00What the heck; you'll do what you want anyway.Abehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07866489226036873765noreply@blogger.comBlogger7221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10974260.post-39977292979982562742010-02-21T22:07:00.002-06:002010-02-21T22:21:12.264-06:00

For those still paying attention, DLMSY is relocating to WordPress. The shutdown of the Haloscan comment system forced me to Do Something, so I decided to move. WordPress is a much cooler blogging environment, and still comes at the right price: free. Drop by and say hello. Although my blogging has been nearly non-existent for the past year, I promise to write more there. That won't be too hard.

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Here's great site for free Tea Party sign downloads.After you download the pdf file, put it on a flash drive or other portable device. Take the file to your local copy shop (such as Staples, Office Max or FedEx Office). The copy shop should be able to print the pdf file on 11" x 17" CARDSTOCK or cover stock. You can print 1 sign or 100 signs! Our local copy shop charges $2.00 for a one-sided

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If you are here in Nebraska, you should attend the Lincoln Tea Party to be held at the Capitol building on Saturday, April 11, 2009. Follow that link to the home site for the event for updates. If you have a blog that covers Nebraska, please help publicize the event with the links below. If you know an appropriate blog/blogger, please pass this along to them.KLKN TV (Channel 8) in Lincoln did a

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A petulant President Barack Obama chided Republicans for disagreeing with him on the Porkulous Bill, as he spoke to a Dem Party gathering. As Politico reports, he welcomes the debate with those nasty partisans, who have nothing useful to say:At Dem retreat, a partisan love fest - Yahoo! News: In what was the most pointedly partisan speech of his young presidency, Obama rejected Republican

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Mark Steyn takes on the argument that GM and Chrysler are "Too Big to Fail." Not so much. Where does the current "bailout everyone in sight" course lead us? We're in the fast lane to Bailoutistan. It's an excellent article, full of Steyn's unique wit:"General Motors now has a market valuation about a third of Bed, Bath & Beyond, and no one says your Swash 700 Elongated Biscuit Toilet Seat Bidet

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We were initially inclined to give Pres.-Elect Obama the benefit of the doubt in the Blagojevich scandal. For one thing BHO seemed more like a victim of an extortion attempt rather than a co-conspirator in this.Then the coverup and stonewalling began. Previous statements from David Axelrod about Obama having talked with Blagojevich about who would fill the vacant Senate seat became "inoperative."

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The Associated Press: Obama promotes fiscal restraint, big spending: "WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama wants to project fiscal restraint even as his economic team assembles a massive recovery package that could cost several hundred billion dollars.A day after introducing the captains of his economic team and promoting a giant jobs plan, Obama on Tuesday was to lay out his budget

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Ten minutes long, but don't miss a second of this.

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This is a somewhat long, but excellent, article on the important distinctions between free market and pro-corporate policies. This distinction is often missed by people from all perspectives: Cato Unbound - Blog Archive - Corporations versus the Market; or, Whip Conflation Now: "Defenders of the free market are often accused of being apologists for big business and shills for the corporate elite

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The sycophantic national press, having carried Obama throughout the campaign, now is providing ready-made excuses in advance for his upcoming struggles. No sooner does Obama call for reduced expectations, than the press obliges by telling us how hard he will have it. Why he's just like Lincoln and Roosevelt. Power Line comments: "Well, yes, I can see the analogies. Like Lincoln, Obama will take

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Jonah Goldberg takes a look at Election Questions No One Asks: "Ever since the primaries, Democrats have been promising to be 'agents of change' (which kind of sounds like a brand of James Bond villain; watch out -- he's an agent of C*H*A*N*G*E). It's a weird quirk of our television-soaked culture that we think change is a good in and of itself. The phrase 'change the channel' is a ubiquitous

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Diana West has a good article on what a real post-racial candidate/election would look like. Diana West : You Elected a Man, Not a Moral Judgment - Townhall.com: "If we really inhabited a 'post-racial' world, the news of the week would be that a Democrat has won the White House. But since we don't inhabit such a world, there is much more to the news, even more than that an African-American,

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Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives AreObama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

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On a normal day DLMSY gets 50-75 visitors, but since TheOne's Ascension things have really been hopping. On Election Day, it spiked to 165. Yesterday, day 1 of the Age of Obama, there were 442, and today with 2 hrs to go we're already over 300. What's happening here?The vast majority of the visitors are arriving from search sites and landing at our Obama Jokes page. Obviously, the nation's

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This is from a speech Sen. Obama gave in Colorado in July, 2008. Watch it and ask yourself what in the world he's talking about.Here's the long version (24 min) from the Obama Campaign site. You might want to skip to the 14 min mark or so for a reasonable lead in.So why would we need a "civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, and just as well-funded" as the

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Some Pittsburg plumbers describe exactly what will happen to their businesses and employees if Obama's tax plans are enacted. Flush go the plumbers: "By RALPH R. REILANDI INTERVIEWED two plumbing-company owners in Pittsburgh recently about Barack Obama's economic proposals for small businesses. One has 15 workers and 12 trucks, the other 52 and 34 trucks. It's Joe the Plumber, writ large.Both had

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An oldie but goodie (june 2008).

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"Why I'm Voting for McCain" Essays:David Frum - Ten good reasons for his choice. Not a fan of Palin.Rick Brookhiser - McCain gets it right on the issue of our time: the war against Islamic fascism.Jay Nordlinger - McCain stands up.John H. Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson (Powerline) - Joe Biden was right about the test.Interesting Tales from the Future: satirical takes in the New York Post on

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While much of the media has been studiously ignoring Barack Obama's past outside of his two autobiographies, Stanley Kurtz of the National Review has methodically examined the record. Kurtz has documented Obama's days as a "community organizer," Obama's funding of radical leftwing causes through Bill Ayers' Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Woods Foundation, Obama's membership in the

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Washington Times - Obama says he didn't know aunt's illegal status: "CHICAGO (AP) - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.The Associated Press found that Obama's aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge

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Mark Steyn is a funny guy:The Corner on National Review Online: "Kathryn, you're right that, if Aunt Zeituni had settled in Wasilla — say, in lodgings across the way from Bristol Palin's boyfriend's ex-girlfriend's uncle's sled dog's veterinarian's ammunition dealer — the fact that she's an 'illegal immigrant' might have come out a lot sooner, even if only from the Atlantic Monthly investigative

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What it is ain't exactly clear. To quote the old Buffalo Springfield lyric. We're bombarded with "news" reports suggesting Obama has this election sewn up and the actual ballots are just a formality. Apparently the only questions left to answer are how large Obama's victory will be and how massive the Democrat majority in Congress will be. Yet there are many signs, for those who look closely,

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The words of others that need no elaboration:Thomas Sowell: "Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise-- whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team-- is likely at some point to be chastened by either the

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I swear the man is a visionary. He can see around corners:"Mr. Obama replied that he 'never promoted Fannie Mae' and that 'two years ago I said that we've got a subprime lending crisis that has to be dealt with.' And that's not all. 'I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it,'

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It's hard to make a better foreign policy case for McCain than Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, did the other day. However, Melanie Phillips is up to the task:The Spectator: "No, the only way to assess their position is to look at each man in the round, at what his general attitude is towards war and self-defence, aggression and appeasement, the values of the west and those of its enemies and –

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This one features Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA) and Sen. Joe Biden (D-Mars) talking to a crowd of Obama supporters in Pennsylvania. It's just a slight exaggeration of what these turkeys actually said this week. Maybe it is time to start recording the show on the DVR so we can watch the good parts later.

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If John McCain loses this election, chances are the chief reason will be the concerns we all have about the economy and the current financial crisis. Arguably, McCain's instincts to return to Washington to work on the "emergency" bailout bill were noble. They're certainly in tune with his overall perspective on every issue: Country First. However, Obama's decision to stay as far as possible from

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Obama is spending $293,000 per hour (24/7) in October for the first half of the month, according to NBC. That's $105.6 million for the 15 day period. So the "outrageous" expense of Gov. Palin's campaign wardrobe by the RNC covers a little over half an hour of Obama's burn rate. Good thing we got all that dirty money out of politics.

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We hear lots of stories about Obamacons, conservatives who are supporting TheOne in his quest to ascend to his rightful place in the American firmament. Now another prominent conservative voice has joined the choir:Larijani: Iran prefers Obama - Israel News, Ynetnews: "Iranian parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that Iran would prefer Democrat Barack Obama in the White House next year

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From Five Feet of Fury.

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Stanley Kurtz of National Review lays out the connections among Obama, the socialistic New Party of Chicago, and ACORN. There are many.Something New Here by Stanley Kurtz on National Review Online: "At what point will the press force Obama to own up to the full extent of his ties to ACORN? At what point will the press demand a full accounting of Obama’s ties to the New Party? At what point will

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It's official. In less than a week the Dinosaur Media have already spent more time and effort investigating Joe Wurzelbacher, a regular guy who had the temerity to ask Obama a question, than they have spent in the past year investigating the candidate. It wasn't even a "gotcha" question, but Obama, unable to see his teleprompter from Joe's front lawn, accidentally blurted out something that

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My blog is worth $221,299.68.How much is your blog worth?

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This is a hilarious piece from Kimberly Strassel on Obama's Magic. What a hoot.

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We noted previously that Obama is counting his tax increases as "spending cuts," but wait, there's more. He's also calling his spending increases "tax cuts." Somewhere around 40% of the populace is already paying no income taxes, so we were confused as to how 95% of people could get a tax cut. Used to be you actually had to pay taxes before they could be reduced, but no more. As the Wall Street

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Suddenly, the dinosaur media have discovered that some people at McCain-Palin rallies are angry. It seems some people there actually even dislike Barack "The One" Obama, if you can imagine. The impertinence! He has been annointed. Didn't those wingnuts get the message?These reports of a few inappropriate catcalls from a crowd of thousands may be true, although we can't rule out plants from the

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The clock on the clubhouse wall says it's time for another controlled release from the Strategic Joke Reserve to ease the critical shortage of jokes about Senator Barack Obama.Q: What do Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama have in common?A: They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.Tired of arguing with your insurance company about health care benefits? Just think how much better it will be

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This caught our ear in last night's "debate" between John McCain and Barack Obama. The question is from Teresa Finch about why either of them should be trusted with our money. Good question, Teresa. This is part of Obama's answer (emphasis added):Transcript of second McCain, Obama debate - CNN.com: "... And so while it's true that nobody's completely innocent here, we have had over the last

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Can you watch this video without seeing visions of little children singing the praises of The Dear Leader or The Great Helmsman?Note the prominent Obama seal in the background. Creepy with a capital-C.UPDATE: More info on the video here.

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Some people did see this coming and called for more regulation. Others pooh-poohed the danger and insisted all was well. Contrary to what you have been told, Republicans wanted stricter regulation, but the Dems would have none of it. Hear them in their own words:If we don't learn from our mistakes, we'll keep repeating them.

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This relatively short video is right on the money in describing what has caused the destabilization of the financial system. The problems didn't develop overnight, and, as usual, government policies based on Good Intentions led to unintended consequences. The information content of the video is quite "dense," so frequent use of the pause button is suggested.

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At least in some skits that seems to be the case:We're not yet convinced enough to actually watch the show again, or even invest the DVR space on it. The funny part of these, of course, is the willingness to make fun of the liberals as well as the conservatives. We'll see if that holds up.

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We found it well nigh impossible to support the original Paulson "plan" for solving the current financial crisis. Giving one person the authority to handout $700 billion without oversight or even objective criteria for spending it is hardly worthy of being called a plan. It seems more likely to make a terrible situation even worse. However, there is definitely still a major crisis just below the

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Fred Thompson's speech at the Republican National Convention was somewhat overshadowed by the blockbusters Sarah Palin and Rudy Guliani delivered, but it was excellent in its own right. Our favorite part was this one:"We need a president who understands that you don't make citizens prosperous by making Washington richer, and you don't lift an economic downturn by imposing one of the largest tax

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I'm very impressed with what I have learned about her so far. I think it's a bold move on McCain's part to select her. He has absolutely blunted the "surge" Obama was about to get from the convention. She is someone who can simultaneous unite and energize the Republican base, while appealing to swing voters. For the first time conservatives are looking at a vote for McCain as a positive good

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His "crime" was taking pictures of Democrat senators with big money donors from a public sidewalk in front of a fancy Denver hotel. It seems the Democrats themselves want to Recreate-68:DENVER -- Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the

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An anxious nation waits breathlessly for Obama-related humor. Here's another release from the Strategic Joke Reserve to ease the shortage:Poor John Edwards has gone from VP nominee to non-person in just a few short weeks after admitting he was lying and the National Enquirer was telling the truth. Sen. Obama, showing his Heart of Gold, expressed sympathy for Edwards. "The man has suffered enough,

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The American Issues Project, an independent, 501(c)(4) organization produced this ad highlighting the long association of Sen. Barack Obama with admitted, unrepentant former terrorist, Bill Ayers.Rather than just ignoring the ad and counting on the help of the media in continuing the cover up of the connections, the Obama campaign counter-attacked. They claimed the ad was full of lies. They

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There is certainly a dearth of jokes about Obama, although given the things he's said and done there is obviously plenty of material out there. Partly this is because he and his acolytes are so humorless. They're liable to take offense at any joke about Obama they deem to be in bad taste (i.e. any joke). It's almost less risky to make jokes about Mohammed and rely on that famous Muslim sense of

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The Chairman of the Board and founder of the gay website, Manhunt, has been ousted due to a scandal. His crime was donating money to John McCain's campaign. The message to gay Republicans is clear: Stay in the closet, because you'll lose everything if they find out you're a Republican. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Some of my best friends are Republicans.... but seriously, folks. One

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It's summed up nicely by National Review's Jonah GoldbergPeople ask, "Why is there poverty in the world?" It's a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil. As individuals and as a species, we are born naked and penniless, bereft of skills or possessions. Likewise, in his civilizational infancy man was poor, in every sense. He lived in

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This really takes the cake. TheHill.com - Dems blast Bush and McCain for record deficit:“President Bush has mortgaged our future with record deficit spending on the wrong priorities,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). “An unnecessary and extraordinarily costly war in Iraq has turned record surpluses into record deficits.”Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) also blamed Bush for

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Move over PETA and make way for PETP. This would be funny if it wasn't scary crazy. No. It's not a joke.The Silent Scream of the Asparagus: You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the "dignity" of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called "plant rights"

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In a New Delhi university a riot broke out over the wording of an exam question on Mohammed's life for a graduate level history course. Fortunately the authorities quickly took stern actions: Meanwhile, Jharkhand Chief Minister, Madhu Koda has directed Ranchi University Vice Chancellor, A A Khan to inquire into the question paper scandal. Koda said he would talk to the university authorities

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Accompanied by cheers from those who think you can never have enough government regulation of industry, let alone too much, the FAA issued a major smackdown to American Airlines this week. There was a familiar drumbeat in the media: another Evil Corporation shoving public safety aside in pursuit of Dirty Profits. [Of course, big media companies aren't like that; they're the Good Guys.] Stranded

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Dozens of lives were saved today when a crazed gunman was turned away from an area shopping mall after seeing a "Gun Free Zone" sign at the door. Several witnesses reported seeing the man approach the mall carrying two assault rifles, bandoleers of ammunition, and a backpack. "He looked very angry, and I was sure they were in for trouble inside the store," said Tara Hertz, who saw the incident

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That's how David Mamet, playwrite and screen writer, describes his transition in thinking.Best of the Web Today - WSJ.com: "'I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. As a child of the '60s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, that business is exploitative, and that people are generally good at heart.... [Now I] question my hatred

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I've always admired Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Now, thanks to this excellent article about him in the Wall Street Jurnal, I have even more reason to love him:Commentary: The Weekend Interview - WSJ.com: "Upon entering his spacious office overlooking the Capitol Dome in Washington, D.C., the first thing to catch your eye is his Nebraska Cornhuskers screen saver. Mr. Thomas never

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The movie, "The Golden Compass," has stirred up quite a controversy, including calls for a boycott by some Christian groups. "Viper" and I read the books together some years ago. Despite the strong hostility toward Christianity in the plot, the story is interesting and very imaginative and fun to read. Last Saturday there was a "sneak preview" at the Grand in Lincoln, so we decided to see

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The Institute for Intercollegiate Studies has just published the test and and the results at 50 US colleges. Test your own "civics literacy" here with the same test.My score: 58/60 (96.67%).The average scores for seniors at 50 colleges are appallingly bad. Harvard seniors did the "best" with a D+ (just under 70%). In last place of the colleges studied are seniors at St. Thomas Univ. (FL) with

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The Iranian government actually arrested 14 squirrels for "spying." What's even more hilarious is that they admitted it. The Iranians, not the squirrels, although we're sure it won't be long before those Revolutionary Guards wring a confession out of those little rodents.You can see in this video, just how dangerous squirrels can be.Seriously, though, we can almost imagine some bored marines on

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Back in May, Sen. Hilary Clinton visited the elementary school in Miami where Blake, the son of my niece, is a student. When Blake and his family were in Omaha last month, he mentioned the Clinton visit. This conversation ensued:Me: "How do you like Senator Clinton, Blake?" Blake: "Not very much."Me: "Which presidential candidate is your favorite?"Blake: "I like Black Omaha."

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This article by Charles Krauthammer makes good points about the inherent tradeoffs that must occur when we seek to change our energy usage. There are always costs and/or other unintended consequences of any new law, and the government has become very adept at hiding those costs and consequences (i.e. making sure someone else gets blamed).The most efficient and honest way to reduce gas consumption

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Some of you know that my "little brother," Chris, died suddenly on April 28th in Portland, ME. Here's a link to Chris' obituary in the Lincoln Journal Star. He was only 41, so it was quite a shock to all of us, particularly our mother (82). Here are some pictures of Chris over the years.We're having a memorial service in Lincoln next Saturday (check the Journal Star or World Herald on Wed.

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The results are mostly in from the first round of the French presidential elections. The top two candidates, Nicholas Sarkozy (center-right, UMP) and Ségolène Royal (socialist, PS), both advance to the second round, which will be in two weeks. Third place, and out-of-the-money, was center-right-left candidate, François Bayrou. The far right Jean-Marie Le Pen (FN), got just over 10% of the vote,

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Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a onetime member of Jemaah Islamiya, an Islamist terrorist group, writes in OpinionJournal about the inherent propensity to violence in Islam. Dr. Hamid now lives in the West and describes himself as a Muslim reformer.It is vital to grasp that traditional and even mainstream Islamic teaching accepts and promotes violence. Shariah, for example, allows apostates to be killed,

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The film at this link, which was aired on Britain's Channel 4, can really open your eyes. There's lots we haven't been told about the science behind the climate change hysteria, and much of what we have been told is wrong. This film includes commentary from many climate scientists and a co-founder of Greenpeace that rebuts the claims of the environmental extremists who are claiming that no

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Actor John Travolta has taken a "courageous" stand against Global Warming. However, Travolta's "principles," don't seem to apply to his own behavior (H/T UnklB):This is London: But although he readily admitted: "I fly jets", he failed to mention he actually owns five, along with his own private runway.Clocking up at least 30,000 flying miles in the past 12 months means he has produced an

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My brother sent this obituary along from the Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram:Sara Katherine Petterson Brouillard, 55CASTINE -- Sara Katherine Petterson Brouillard, 55, of Castine passed peacefully at Eastern Maine Medical Center on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, following a brief, courageous battle with cancer and a long and aggravating marriage to Paul Brouillard.Wow. She really knows

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It's strange from an American perspective, but in France you can be sued, fined, and even imprisoned for offending people. In the thick of the Mohammed Cartoon controversy whipped up by some Danish imams on a tour of the Middle East, the French, satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo took a stand for free speech. They republished the cartoons and added another caricature of their own.Some French

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After a full weekend of bristly anticipation Sen. Hagel delivered the message we've all been waiting to hear:Facing a wall-to-wall lineup of TV cameras, Hagel told a crowded news conference he’ll delay a decision on whether to pursue the presidency or seek re-election until later this year.Wow! What a blockbuster. We're reminded of Mario Cuomo somehow.Technorati tags: Hagel

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Lincoln resident Mohammed Siddiq was born in Medina. In a guest column in the Lincoln Journal Star he gives us a peak at life inside the Petro Kingdom:Just show your birth certificate:In Saudi Arabia, birth is all that really counts. Those who are born to rank and wealth will rule while the vast majority will be ruled. What bed you are born in determines your position in Saudi society. This is

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We admire Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, our congressman from Lincoln, for not singing onto on the House's "non-binding" resolution in favor of losing the war in Iraq. The Lincoln Journal Star criticized Fortenberry for not going along with it, and today they published his statement to the House as his rebuttal:Madam Speaker, this is a pivotal moment for our nation and a very grave and solemn policy

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Hugo "Fidel" Chavez is premptively blaming the US for the results of his policies on the Venezuelan economy. Because nationalizing everything in sight, squashing all dissent, and central economic planning has promoted prosperity and freedom whereever it has been tried before. The Irish Times carries this AP report: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has claimed that the US government is planning

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An Egyptian blogger, Abdelkareem Suleiman, was sentenced to 4 years in Egyptian prison for "insulting" Islam and "defaming" Mubarak. This article from the Daily Telegraph gave me a shock, reporting that this was Sandmonkey:An Egyptian who enraged his government with outspoken views on Islam and politics expressed in his internet diary was jailed yesterday amid an international outcry.The 22-

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I have taken the plunge and upgraded my Blogger account to the new version, albeit with some trepidation. It seems to be a oneway door, and even though reports from the other side were favorable, I wasn't sure I was ready. No turning back now...So far I haven't switched to the new template system, which is supposedly the best part, although I did try it on a test blog. Essentially all the

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Back in the old days when we used to watch Wheel of Fortune, we always thought Pat Sajak seemed like a guy who would be fun to meet. Despite the fame he had garnered through the show, he never seemed to take himself (or the show for that matter) overly seriously.That basic good sense is also evident in his blog, Sajak Says, He currently has on the main page two thoughtful posts on the Global

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For those who just can't wait 5 years for the public schools to indoctrinate their children LittleDemocrats.net has just the book you need. As these sample pages show, you can teach your children how the government taking things from one person to give to someone else is just like sharing your toys. They'll also see how a Socialist Democrat Mom protects them from evil elephants, and makes sure

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We've heard from several sources that the increase in the minimum wage will "cause" inflation. Actually, an increase in the minimum wage doesn't cause inflation, although that is a common misconception. The real cause of inflation is a decline in the value of money. A general rise in prices (i.e. inflation, as we usually think of it) occurs because money has less value, not vice-versa.Once you

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In space no one can hear you moan. Or, Everything you always wanted to know about astronauts, but were afraid to ask. (H/T Erich the Ape)Sept. 11, 2001: America gets a wake up call.Nov. 7, 2006: America hits the snooze button.The Bowl Championship Series is not a championship nor a series and has nothing to do with bowling. Discuss."He was a good kid when he wasn't on drugs." -- Unnamed family

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Collectively from my various email accounts, work, gmail/blog, and personal, I get dozens of spam messages every day, and those are just the ones that make it through the filters. I'm sure you all have similar experiences.Lately the spammers have been incorporating lots of unusual subject lines, in a desperate attempt to attract attention of any sort. Usually they're nothing special, but this one

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A small town in Quebec, Hérouxville, has taken a stand against Dhimmitude, and bravo for them. The town council has put its stamp on some basic rules of behavior expected of those who live there. The National Post reports in the cynically titled article, Welcome! Leave your customs at the door:Among the information the municipality asks federal and provincial officials to distribute to potential

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As much as we admire Justice Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas has long been our favorite on the SCOTUS. He is the true libertarian voice of the court, and he sticks strongly to his princples. In these days when judges are encouraged to manipulate their interpretations of the laws and the Constitution to achieve the desired (i.e. "progressive") result, Justice Thomas's "originalism" (the idea that

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On Monday, Jan 29, PBS will air "The Power of Choice," a documentary on Milton Friedman. We read Froma Harrop's column today, and as she listed all the things she hates about the show, we became more and more convinced it's going to be excellent. Here's a preview.Friedman's book, "Free to Choose," and his PBS series of the same name were both strong influences on our thinking on economics and

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We normally don't pay much attention to celebrity divorce "news," or celebrities in general for that matter. However, the $15.3 million decree in the divorce of Michael Strahan (NY Giants) and his wife, Jean, caught our eye. In a nutshell, the judge upheld the couple's prenuptial agreement, which called for her to get 50% of the joint property and 20% of his salary each year of the marriage.

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Werner Heisenberg was driving along the highway one day, when a highway patrol car pulled up behind him with lights flashing. Heisenberg pulled over and stopped. The patrolman approached the car, and said, "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"Heisenberg replied, "No, but I know exactly where I am."The joke explained: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics holds that one

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Here's an excellent short video about experiments with spiders treated with drugs and alcohol. You do need sound to make this worthwhile.

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We just finished reading So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places by Elinor Burkett, and we highly recommend it. It's the story of a journalism professor and her husband who spend a year in Kyrgyzstan on a Fulbright Scholarship. Through a twist of fate, they arrive just before September 11, 2001. The Burketts end up visiting just about every place that you

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Here are some amazing pictures of last month's Extreme Ice Storm in South Central Nebraska.

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From Tycho and his buddies at school: a re-work of this Journey music video.

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Recent articles by Ralph Peters and Mark Steyn (see Powerline for a recap) offer differing views of the future of Europe and Islam. Peters sees conflict leading to a resurgence of fascism and possibily genocide (Europeans ejecting/killing Muslims, in case you were wondering). Steyn sees Old Europe as doomed by low birth rates and an unwillingness to confront the truth.Richard Landes at the Augean

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James Taranto at OpinionJournal has posted some great responses to recent comments by Rep. Charles Rangel implying that America's servicemen and women are dumb. This is on the heels of Sen. John Kerry's "botched joke" about those in Iraq not studying hard enough to get a good job. I also saw a recent episode of Family Guy, wherein Chris decides to enlist, and his family reacts with horror that he

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Our local paper, the Lincoln Journal Star (motto: If it's news in Lincoln, it's news to the Journal Star.), ran this headline over Moonbat Molly Ivins' column this week: "How long can we keep ignoring Iraq's similarities to Vietnam?"Ignoring? Who's ignoring it? This meme has been relentlessly pounded by the Angry Left and the MSM at every turn since..., well, since they gave up on the "

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