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I love cats...

but I can never eat a whole one.

By the way, an optimist says the glass is half full, the pessimist says half empty, and the engineer says it's twice as big as it needs to be.

That's what she said!

("it's twice as big as it needs to be")

You can also rub a cat on your hair to get a good static charge then stick it to a wall. (But it can only be done safely with young kittens on a wall covered by a curtain.)

the high water mark at Fox News:

http://www.popeater.com/2011/06/07/fox-news-confuses-sarah-palin-and-tina-fey/

you may now continue your hero worship.

As an engineering technologist I am slightly amused at the "An Engineer's Guide to Cats", although I must confess that I have two cats at home. This allows an otherwise mature adult males to engage in endless "pussy" jokes much to the annoyance of long suffering married spouse. Boys will be boys, snicker...

I'm sure it's nothing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110607/bs_nm/us_china_usa_dollar

Mensa kate, it's about time for another of your hard-hitting posts on censorship ;)

"Editorial: The Great Global Warming Hoax?"

"Editor's Introductory Note: Our planet has been slowly warming since last emerging from the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century, often associated with the Maunder Minimum. Before that came the "Medieval Warm Period", in which temperatures were about the same as they are today. Both of these climate phenomena are known to have occurred in the Northern Hemisphere, but several hundred years prior to the present, the majority of the Southern Hemisphere was primarily populated by indigenous peoples, where science and scientific observation was limited to non-existent. Thus we can not say that these periods were necessarily "global".

However, "Global Warming" in recent historical times has been an undisputable fact, and no one can reasonably deny that.

But we're hearing far too often that the "science" is "settled", and that it is mankind's contribution to the natural CO2 in the atmosphere has been the principal cause of an increasing "Greenhouse Effect", which is the root "cause" of global warming. We're also hearing that "all the world's scientists now agree on this settled science", and it is now time to quickly and most radically alter our culture, and prevent a looming global catastrophe. And last, but not least, we're seeing a sort of mass hysteria sweeping our culture which is really quite disturbing. Historians ponder how the entire nation of Germany could possibly have goose-stepped into place in such a short time, and we have similar unrest. Have we become a nation of overnight loonies?"

http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html

Socialism.

"Leftists are like labor unions who will picket a construction site rather than build houses of their own. Because that is the essence of socialism – grievance, complaint, rhetoric, protests, demonstrations and strikes. But never, ever does socialism do anything productive – no building, no construction, no jobs, no efficient energy, no useful products for the citizens, no stores, no factories. Which is why socialism always causes poverty. Because it is a nonproductive system."

http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2011/03/17/communist-china-loves-capitalism-france-no/

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"The Rage of the 'Indignants'"

"A European Generation Takes to the Streets"

"For weeks, hundreds of young people have been camping out in central Madrid. And others across Europe have now begun following their example. Protests in Lisbon, Paris, Athens and elsewhere show that Europe's lost generation has finally found its voice.

Any real revolution in Paris has to include the storming of the Bastille. Which explains why 200 young demonstrators are sitting in the shade of the trees at Place de la Bastille on this Thursday evening, wondering how to go about staging such a revolution.

Their numbers had already swelled to more than 2,000 by the Sunday before, when they had occupied the entrance to the Bastille Opera and half the square. But then the police arrived with teargas and, since then, have kept strict watch over this symbolic site.

The protestors are trying to create a movement to rival the protests in Madrid and Lisbon. They want tens of thousands of young people to march in the streets of Paris, calling for "démocratie réelle," or real democracy. They believe that there is also potential for such large-scale protest in France, with youth unemployment at more than 20 percent, precarious working conditions and what feels like a constant state of crisis.

"Until now, our problems were always seen as individual problems," says Julien, a 22-year-old physics student who has joined a group called Actions. "You were told that if you couldn't find a job, it was your own fault. Perhaps we are now experiencing a change taking place, and that we are joining forces to form a pan-European movement against this system."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,767032,00.html

Tories bring down the same budget they ran and won an election on but the opposition and MSM are whining that there was nothing new (i.e. a secret agenda). Why does this not surprise me?

seems jacks liberano news watch has gone the way of the dodo. http://www.jacksnewswatch.com

Speaking of cats.. PMSH is looking for help naming his new one.

Link through Lilley's pad.

http://blogs.canoe.ca/lilleyspad/

since this seems to be a catch-all thread...

does this cartoon earn you a fatwa ?

http://www.chickenwingscomics.com/images/misc_cartoons/mo-ham-ed_small.jpg

Here’s a great column by Thomas Sowell, at National Review:

JUNE 7, 2011

Results Matter

The difference between a government and a private decision.

“. . . Schools are just one government institution that take on tasks for which they have no expertise or even competence.

“Congress is the most egregious example. In the course of any given year, Congress votes on taxes, medical care, military spending, foreign aid, agriculture, labor, international trade, airlines, housing, insurance, courts, natural resources, and much more.

“There are professionals who have spent their entire adult lives specializing in just one of these fields. The idea that Congress can be competent in all these areas simultaneously is staggering. Yet, far from pulling back — as banks or other private enterprises must, if they don’t want to be ruined financially by operating beyond the range of their competence — Congress is constantly expanding further into more fields. . . .”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268982/results-matter-thomas-sowell

Even Hitler is mad at Weiner.

The US Postal service is offering Go Green stamps...of the self-sticking variety, so there is a backing you have to throw out.

END THE UNJUST JEWISH OCCUPATION OF ARAB LAND!!!

(This map should always be utilized in debates with Israel-haters or morally-relativistic persons strangely passive about Israel's destruction).

Here's another keen point I recently encountered, which of course I knew, but failed to utilize: the PLO was formed in 1964, fully 3 years before the Six Day War in which Israel captured the illegally occupied West Bank and Gaza in a defensive war. What, then, was the the PLO intent upon liberating?

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a hero for our troubled times.

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Poster Boy for the Left.

Ann Coulter on the 'Liberal Mob' of the American Left

Rich liberals want chaos for everyone except themselves, confident that they can afford a "green" lifestyle and their children will still attend Sidwell Friends. The rest of us are forced to live in a lawless universe of no energy, gay marriage, girl soldiers, and marauding criminals because liberals can't enjoy their wealth unless other people are living in complete pandemonium. They promote anarchy, believing the middle class should live in squalor, while liberals will be protected by their wealth against the mob.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Politics/ann-coulter-conservative-commentator-takes-liberal-mob-read/story?id=13773013

I heard the funniest news-Palin actually screwed up the story of Paul Revere. Oh that maverick, always going rogue against facts and reality and other elitist conventions.

Well, libsarestupider, you heard wrong. Palin had her facts right. Paul Revere himself, in letters written 23 years after the events, confirmed that he did indeed warn the British that 500 American troops were waiting for them. He had been captured by the Brits, and they had a gun to his head.

(I suspect he also knew that they were pigheaded enough to disregard his warning, or take it as a bluff, so that he knew he was not really compromising the American patriots by spilling the beans.)

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/268933/what-sarah-palin-got-wrong-and-we-did-too-joel-j-miller

I choose to take the word of a guy who wrote a book about Paul Revere.

SP said he was riding to warn the British but actually he was riding to warn Americans. He only told the British when he was captured, so she still got it wrong.

I heard the funniest news - the MSM actually screwed up on the Palin / Revere story. Oh those mavericks, always going rogue against facts and reality and non-elistist conventions.

Heh, libertariansarestupider, right from the link you gave, a link to an interview done by the notorious right-wing mouthpiece, NPR, with an actual historian, not just some guy who wrote a book.

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/137011636/how-accurate-were-palins-comments-on-paul-revere#

I'd type something fuuny but it's really difficult with one cat in my lap, slapping his tail on the keyboard, and another walking back and forth in front of the monitor.

Here are challengers for the Vancouver Canucks from down under (Darwin Australia). Apparently, they're the world champions in Ice Hockey (just when you thought you knew it all).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Iffu6JrN4