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In tonight’s Tippity amusement, an otherwise harmless-looking Swede named Olle Hemmingson destroys the environment for future generations by playing a medley of songs featuring himself on fiddle and guitar, and 230 Viktor on percussion.
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  1. maybe the euro is doomed anyway ?
    http://gizmodo.com/5872418/the-supervolcano-that-can-devastate-europe-is-showing-signs-of-awakening?tag=volcano
    The Supervolcano That Can Devastate Europe Is Showing Signs of Awakening
    The Supervolcano That Can Devastate Europe Is Showing Signs of AwakeningEvery ten to 12 thousand years, there’s a volcano in the heart of Europe that goes boom. And not any boom, but a let’s-kill-everyone-with-billions-of-tonnes-of-magma boom that would cover everything in ash from England and Denmark to the north of Italy.
    Now, the supervolcano that can destroy bad teeth, rude waiters, overpriced wine, olive oil, smelly camping sites, disco music, nudist beaches, pasta, David Hasselhoff and Oktoberfest is awakening
    It’s been 12,900 years since the last eruption. The supervolcano is located under the Laacher See, a caldera lake in the Eifel mountain range, 15 miles from Koblenz and 30 miles from Bonn, the old capital of West Germany.
    Some scientists are saying that the volcano can go now at any time, although there are no official alerts. They are just watching for now. Seismological activity started in 2010, with the latest movements happening last February, when a series of seven earthquakes ranging from 2.0 to 4.5 magnitude were registered in the area.
    The lake has been bubbling since with with carbon dioxide gas that comes from the magma under the lake’s bed. Maybe this is what Europe needs to get out of the Euro crisis.
    I wonder what would happen to the world’s weather if this, the deadly Mount Tambora and the Yellowstone hypermegasupervolcano explode at the same time. I can already imagine the 2012 doomsday idiots screaming “I told y*” before getting engulfed in flames. [Daily Mail]

  2. Might the putatively more advanced and modern urge for equalitarianism actually be a revolt against modernity, one that leads to inequality?
    From Lorenzo’s “The Atavism of Totalitarianism”:
    “The atavism of Fascism and (even more so) Nazism was obvious. Both extolled heroic virtues in revolt against the bourgeois virtues of capitalist modernity, so looked back to previous ages—the Roman Empire in the case of Fascism; mythic Teutonic history in the case of Nazism. Ironically, both were modernising revolts against modernity. Both used cutting edge political and propaganda techniques for their atavistic projects. Since the Nazi project was so much grander, it was far more modernising in its effects than Fascism.
    “But the equalitarian urge is also an atavistic one. It is a revolt against the dynamism, the complexity, the uncertainty of modernity. A society of equality of outcome is a much simpler society than one where the discovery processes of commerce—seeking new things to sell, seeking new people to sell them to—operate far more freely. This simplicity is no accident. Given the multi-dimensional nature of equality, the more thorough the equality sought, the more social dimensions have to controlled or blocked. This is a process of eliminating complexity; so freedom, dynamism and other drivers of modernity.”
    The whole thing here.
    (h/t)

  4. the US funded half of the IPCC ‘climate change’ foolishness and surprise… nobody–told–congress
    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-funds-nearly-50-31-million-un-s-global-warming-panel
    (CNS News) – A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that the United States funded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ authority on alleged man-made global warming, with $31.1 million since 2001, nearly half of the panel’s annual budget.
    The GAO also found that this funding information “was not available in budget documents or on the websites of the relevant federal agencies, and the agencies are generally not required to report this information to Congress.”
    In a Nov. 17, 2011 report, “International Climate Change Assessments: Federal Agencies Should Improve Reporting and Oversight of U.S. Funding,”the GAO found that the State Department provided $19 million for administrative and other expenses, while the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) provided $12.1 million in technical support through the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), averaging an annual $3.1 million to the IPCC over 10 years — $31.1 million so far.

  8. Bemused: I have deleted your tip.Posted by: EBD at January 3, 2012 11:09 PM
    You could have at least shown enough intelligence to leave the link. NOT impressed with the God playing. Leave that to Kate, it’s her forum.

  12. ROFLOL!
    Just watching the nailbiter…A squeaker between Santorum and Romney in Iowa. There is no recount, either.

  13. Is Israeli society unraveling?
    And in the Age of Obama, with cleavages between liberals and conservatives growing ever wider in America, and with the future of the European Union hanging in the balance as the euro zone teeters on the edge of an abyss, the fact that Israeli society is becoming increasingly fortified is simply extraordinary.
    http://carolineglick.com/

  15. I think Romney now has it. I mean Santorum is a horrible public speaker. This speech is so bad. If he is nominated Obama will win.

  17. James, Santorum is a FAR better speaker than Obama, because he speaks from the heart, not a prepared-by-Axelrod script.

  18. “Ryan Jerome was enjoying his first trip to New York City on business when the former Marine Corps gunner walked up to a security officer at the Empire State Building and asked where he should check his gun.
    That was when Jerome’s nightmare began. The security officer called police and Jerome spent the next two days in jail.
    The 28-year-old with no criminal history now faces a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison. If convicted, his sentence could be as high as fifteen years.
    Jerome has a valid concealed carry permit in Indiana and visited New York believing that it was legal to bring his firearm.”
    http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/03/marine-faces-fifteen-years-behind-bars-for-unknowingly-violating-gun-law/

  19. re wallyj @ 11:55 p.m.:
    Can judges be disbarred for incompetence after making such obviously ridiculous legal rulings? I hope so.

  21. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    Pelfect clime? “was it murder by cat meat?” and motive was “economic disputes.”?
    “A Chinese billionaire was allegedly murdered by putting toxic herbs in cat stew, a popular dish in Guangdong province.”
    …-
    “Murder most feline: poison cat stew blamed in death of Chinese tycoon
    Official in Guangdong province is accused of lacing business lunch dish with toxic herb to murder billionaire Long Liyuan”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/04/poison-cat-meat-chinese-tycoon
    “China faces slowing GDP-growth syndrome
    WEI GU”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/breaking-views/china-faces-slowing-gdp-growth-syndrome/article2290248/
    *Liberal leader Bob Rae’s uncle Mo Strong, c/o Red China.

  22. Neo-AGW PR Quiz.
    Good news for Nanook: Lots of Kaks.
    How can we hook this to AGW?
    Just say it: It’s AGW. That is called an ass-ertion.
    More AGW Hookup: “Just as Ottawa is drawing up polar bear management plans”.
    More? “Threats to polar bear populations posed by melting sea ice have only sweetened the deal.
    “There is a perception internationally that this is a limited time offer,” said Mr. Derocher.”
    Wait … the Arctic sea ice is melting. Not now in January; but, in the spring? (But, ice does melt, no?)
    …-
    “N.W.T. ups price paid for polar bear pelts to $1,750 as demand for the fur rises”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/03/n-w-t-ups-price-paid-for-polar-bear-pelts-to-1750-as-demand-for-the-fur-rises/

  23. Remember John Miller? He’s the “journalism doctor” (he went to jornalism med. school) who insulted Oriana Fallaci and made Mark Steyn mad. Well, he seems kind of bitter.
    “Wow, that sounds like a cattle call for any white, barrel sucking immigrant hater who’s too stupid to find out the regular room rate at the Muskoka Marriott is only $199.”
    Too funny.

  24. Mao Stlong*’s AGW PR.
    Come fry with Mao, Bob’s uncle.
    …-
    “1. China airlines refuse to pay EU carbon tax”
    “2. Climate change abyss separates the political world from the real world”
    “The lack of commitment made at COP17 to accept emissions reductions targets betrays the fact that most CEOs see sustainability as vital to the success of their business”
    “Marina Grossi is an economist and the chief executive officer of the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável – CEBDS)”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/climate-change-political-real-world

  26. and ‘bama will cave in….
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-prepares-bill-to-bar-foreign-warships-from-persian-gulf/2012/01/04/gIQAhlWYaP_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage
    Iran’s parliament said Wednesday it was preparing a bill that would prohibit all foreign warships from entering the Persian Gulf unless they received permission from the Iranian navy.
    The bill, disclosed by the the semiofficial Fars News Agency, surfaced a day after Iran’s armed forces commander warned a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier not to return to the gulf, remarks that rattled commodities markets and helped drive up oil prices….
    …The news agency, which has ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, claimed that the carrier USS John C. Stennis, which steamed out of the Persian Gulf last week, had escaped while being “chased by Iranian warships.” …

  27. Socialism claims responsibility for its own “victim”.
    “In that report, the psychiatrists, who spent 36 hours talking to Breivik, described him as a man living in a “delusional universe” – a paranoid schizophrenic who had lost touch with reality.”
    …-
    “Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik ‘is not psychotic'”
    “Prison psychiatrists in Norway have ruled that mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is not psychotic and has not been put on medication, contradicting earlier reports of insanity.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8993195/Norway-killer-Anders-Behring-Breivik-is-not-psychotic.html

  29. Neo-AGW PR.
    Looking good for oranges, grapefruit, lemons; j-j-juice brrrices will rebound.
    “said Pat Quinn, the county’s manatee coordinator.”
    …-
    “Cold drives manatees into South Florida”
    Driven by plunging temperatures, hundreds of manatees stampeded south on the Intracoastal Waterway over the past two days toward the warm water of power plant discharges in Riviera Beach and Fort Lauderdale.
    Cold snaps have emerged as a leading killer of manatees over the past three years, exceeding deaths by boat collisions, according to figures kept by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.”
    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-cold-manatees-20120104,0,5405080.story

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