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University of Wisconsin researcher finds that girls throw like girls.

Wow...what incredible research.
"Hyde found what she defined as a “very large” difference in only two skills: throwing velocity and throwing distance."

Years of womens studies and gender research to come to this startling conclusion. Maybe she can tackle weight lifting next as I have always wondered about that one. She must have tenure as important research like that could never be done without years of sweat and blood. God bless our undevalued education system.

Deafening silence about the Camp Bastion attack

By Michelle Malkin

It happened on September 14, 2012, northwest of the city of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan. A team of fewer than two dozen Taliban fighters attacked the USMC’s massive Camp Bastion base there, killing VMA-211 squadron commander Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and destroying or permanently disabling eight of the ten top-of-the-line harrier AV-8B attack aircraft stationed under him. Out of production for more than a decade, these aircraft can never be replaced.
By the time the smoke cleared, roughly 7% of the total harrier fleet operated by the USMC had been wiped out on a single day by a small force of ground combatants whose most potent weapon was the suicide vest, one of which was used to breach the camp’s perimeter fence.....

Well, since the debates are going to “moderated” by lib lapdog journo-tools for Obama, it’ll be up to Romney and Romney alone to seize the narrative.

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/09/28/deafening-silence-about-the-camp-bastion-attack/

Re: It isn't fair:

Thanks EBD

What a wonderful tune. Dinah Washington also does a great number on that one!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TLIMSmrTXZY

You wanna see some cool baseball hand, eye, body coordination?

Watch This Pitcher Catch the Ball, Lose His Glove, Then Catch That Too — With the Ball Still Inside

Right here:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/watch-this-pitcher-catch-the-ball-lose-his-glove-then-catch-that-too-with-the-ball-still-inside/

Trouble in Chavez land:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chavez-rattled-by-heartthrob-rival-8191056.html

Will Sean penn try to help save his hero? Maybe Obama could put in a good word...

Mao Stlong* Lepolt: Molning Edition.

"The shift in sentiment has been dramatic."

"According to EPFR, a data company, fund managers are reining in China holdings as rapidly as they did in 2008"

"It matters because no one wants to be the dumb foreigner backing the China miracle even as the country’s own residents are heading for the hills."

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"Baoshan Steel Halting Production at China Factory"

"“The bigger issue is not what this one mill represents, but at prices at this low level, all the mills are under pressure,”".

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-26/baoshan-steel-halting-production-at-china-factory

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"You can't afford not to invest in China, despite the country's problems"

"Were it not for rubber bullets on the streets of Madrid and a US presidential election campaign building a head of steam, China would surely be getting more attention than it has."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/tom-stevenson/9575473/You-cant-afford-not-to-invest-in-China-despite-the-countrys-problems.html

*Ex-Liberal leader Bob Rae's uncle, c/o Red China.

Under the headline;
"We Don't Need No Sparky Cars"

Apparently Toyota and Germany agrees

http://notrickszone.com/2012/09/29/no-future-in-sight-for-electric-cars-says-toyota-german-auto-economics-professor/

Via Hot Air;

Allen West campaign ad;
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/28/allen-west-ad-hey-guess-where-i-was-while-my-opponent-was-drunk-and-disorderly/

Gotta love it.
h/t Maggies Farm

Allen West or Patrick Murphy?

I sure as heck know who I'd want in charge. Great kick-ass ad.

Check this out:

At the UN this week, 'Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it was time to put an end to the protection of Islamophobia masquerading as the freedom to speak freely.

"Unfortunately, Islamophobia has also become a new form of racism like anti-Semitism. It can no longer be tolerated under the guise of freedom of expression. Freedom does not mean anarchy," he told the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly on Friday.'

Think about that. He says that freedom of speech is an act of anarchy. It's like saying that speech is, in itself, a 'man-caused disaster'. Shades of Obama.

How about we use his same logic and just insert different words? Here are his words: 'It (Islamophobia) can no longer be tolerated under the guise of freedom of expression.'

First, I'll quibble with the term of 'Islamophobia' for that implies that any criticism of Islam is an irrational act. But, let's change the sentence to:

Acts of terrorism, acts of murder and harm to people and property, insistence on non-Muslims following Sharia law, threats to individuals and groups, mayhem and preachings of hatred of others and advocations of violence...can no longer be tolerated under the guise of freedom of religion.

There.

And a further comment on our unfortunate behavioural reaction to the Islamic religion, is our being upset at this, as noted by Malkin:

NOTE: The US media, and Obama and all the Democrats, have been totally silent on this act of war against US troops in Afghanistan. Totally silent. Only FOX news has reported it. It happened three days after the murder of the US Ambassador in Libya.

'Under the leadership of Barack H. Obama, though hardly noticed by the pro-Obama mainstream media, the U.S. Marine Corps has suffered its worst air squadron catastrophe since Vietnam, and its prized VMA-211 squadron has taken its worst hit since its defense of Wake Island in World War II.

It happened on September 14, 2012, northwest of the city of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan. A team of fewer than two dozen Taliban fighters attacked the USMC’s massive Camp Bastion base there, killing VMA-211 squadron commander Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and destroying or permanently disabling eight of the ten top-of-the-line harrier AV-8B attack aircraft stationed under him. Out of production for more than a decade, these aircraft can never be replaced.'

I repeat: Acts of war, terrorism, threats...can no longer be tolerated under the guise of freedom of religion.

The polls are still showing Obama in the lead, and I don't think these are an aberration due to sampling faults. I think these are real.

The Democrats have done an excellent propaganda campaign, showing Obama as a 'nice guy who cares but who is blocked by the evil GOP in Congress'.

Note, this is basic Obama, who lives entirely in Words. In rhetoric. Obama will say absolutely anything. Anything. The next day or hour, he'll say the opposite. And no-one confronts him. Those few who have tried are faced with his response of more Words...that you are the problem, you fail to understand Him, and so on.

But Obama lives only in words. He leaves all actions to his cohorts. And Obama has always surrounded or been surrounded since childhood, by hardcare radical socialists. They do the actions. He does the Words.

That's why it's hard to confront him, because he's isolated himself from all actions. His domain is Words. That's why all he does is campaign since he took office. The actions are carried out by Valerie Jarrett, Pelosi, Reid and his czars.

And this isolation of Obama as the 'nice guy' may very well work and he'll win reelection. That's all he cares about anyway.

ET, well said both times. Let the Turkish Foreign Minister say this, but the dangerous part for us is that many on the left here agree with him and would be only too happy to shut up any opposition to radical Islam.

Turkey is slowly but surely moving to the radical side.

BTW, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the author of the book "
Son of Hamas", says there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim, only one who has not yet awoken to his task, which is to infiltrate and supplant infidel societies.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49761

give it a read. interesting take on those behind the infamous video blamed by obama for the lybian embassy attack

Sunday morning, Drudge Report main headline reads "U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN HIT 2,000".

So all the TV news reports will be starting off with identical "grim milestone" themes. Right?

(When WAS the last time we heard that trope?)

Further to my comment that Obama, who has never in his life lived in the real world of actions but has always lived cocooned and isolated within the realm of words....this is a serious problem in this election.

Obama lives only in words. The actions of his administration are totally and completely unconnected to him. He is separate, immune from the results of these actions. He exists only in words and no-one judges him on the actions of his administration.

Obama himself does not participate in any measure with the administration. He doesn't attend meetings, he doesn't attend briefings, he doesn't devise the policies and programs. That's left to the radicals he has surrounded himself with: Jarrett, Pelosi, Reid and all the unvetted czars. They devise all the actions.

If Obama likes the results of the actions, he'll say 'MY administration'. If he thinks that people don't like the results, eg gas prices, he'll blame the people for complaining and tell them to travel less, put air in their tires.

If they complain about high unemployment he'll tell them it could be worse. If they complain about the debt, he'll say, as he did on Letterman, that 'it's not a problem now'..and tell Letterman that he couldn't remember what the exact amount was anyway.

The 2008 election was about Obama's words; after all he had nothing else to offer. No record of accomplishments. Never. Ever. Just words. And, against the actions of Bush.

The 2010 election was about the actions of the Obama administration. Be very careful and clear about this. The actions of the administration. It wasn't about Obama. So, the actions were rejected. And what did Obama do? He ignored the results and moved from accepting the votes of Congress to making his own laws by executive fiat.

This 2012 election is about Obama. The Democrats are keeping it about Obama because both Obama and the Democrats have separated him and his words..from his actions.

This split, an enormous split, is extremely difficult to deal with. That's why the polls are showing support for Obama, and I consider them valid polls. People accept his words and consider that the actions..are completely separate.

MSM's Awakening.

Mohammed is a cannibal.

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"McParland: Syria’s slaughter is the real insult to Islam"

"The UN General Assembly is a talking shop, where calling for action takes the place of actual action, but sometimes the talk becomes so opaque that even sorting out what the words mean becomes a challenge.

Such is the case this week in New York, where the world’s leaders met for their annual opportunity to lecture one another. Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad wasn’t there, because he’s still at home directing the slaughter of his countrymen. But his spirit was on hand, as a British organization announced that 305 people has been killed in a single day if fighting, the bloodiest day so far, and the UN’s own High Commissioner for Refugees warned that 700,000 refugees may have fled the country by year-end.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the daily death count included only victims whose names had been documented. “If we count the unidentified bodies, the figure will be much higher,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, according to Reuters. The group said 199 of the dead were civilians."

http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

ET, Obama is right to play it safe, to blame others, to duck from his actual record, because that is the only way he can retain the White House, and for the Dems to win Congress; and Romney and the GOP is letting him get away with it, with just over a month until election day.

The same can't be said for Romney, who has two large hurdles to overcome; first, he must beat the incumbent; second he must overcome the establishment media who accept, without reservation, the Dems ludicrous claims Bush is responsible for the economy and the GOP will get the US back in the trouble he caused. Additionally the establishment media ignore the terrible Obama and his negligent lack of leadership.

But it is what it is, and IMO Romney has done nothing to overcome the two issues above. If he hopes the debate, with the media controlling the tenor (not allowing an actual debate) and tightly scripted participants, he is sadly mistaken.

Romney is no Reagan, and Obama, rhetorically speaking, is no Carter, so no repeat of that debate will happen IMO.

Romney should have gotten off his butt a month ago, instead of lamenting the 47% who won't vote for him. Where's his passion, where's his program (other than on his website), and where's his sense of urgency for his campaign and the American people?

That's why he's losing, he's not overcoming obstacles. True, Obama isn't either, but he will get a pass on this from the media, and ultimately the voter, because he is a caricature of a president, which Romney has failed badly to unmask, and yes, is the incumbent.

No debate will change that.

Shamrock, Romney is not a Reagan (who was also an actor, ie, a performer).

Romney is more like our own Harper, who is probably the best PM Canada has ever had. He's not a performer, he's inhibited, he's not a sophist like Obama who will say anything and its opposite the next minute. He can't do the megasmile and faux-love of Obama just as Harper couldn't do the 'poor little guy' of Chretien. But Romney like Harper IS an extremely capable administrator and economist.

The thing is, with the US electing its president, whereas in Canada we elect a political party, it's very difficult for the 'masses' - who are indifferent to any facts and who only care about the performance - to elect a president on the basis of his ability as a president. Rather than his ability as a performer.

Note what the DNC are doing; they are spreading the word that Romney will win the first debate.

Think about it.

As a tactic, it lowers expectations for Obama. Hmm, down to a C grade. That's really low. But IF he does well, let's say to a B without any prediction, it will increase the effect of that doing well. Get it? He was predicted to do badly; he didn't do 'that bad'..and so, as a grade, he's moved up to A.

And Romney? Since they are declaring him a winner, ie, with an A grade. Then, if Obama does well, that moves Romney down to a B. Or even a C.

Quite the manipulative tactic. Performance, that's all there is to Obama. So far, it's working.

Can "atheism" not be an "hate-fuelled faith"?

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"Leaving Westboro: Nate Phelps traded his father’s hate-fuelled faith for atheism"

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/09/29/leaving-westboro-nate-phelps-traded-his-fathers-hate-fuelled-faith-for-atheism/

ET, the trouble is Romney is not projecting that image of a good leader, as a viable alternative, rather than the GOP-lite approach he is trying now. Like it or not, it's about image. Reagan, who turned out to be a great president, asked the American people then if they were better off after four years of Dem/Carter and it was decisive.

The answer was clearly no then; and it is also no today, but Romney has so far failed to take advantage of this. Obama, for reasons you articulated (bribing a constituency and voting bloc) and in more intangible ways (use of memes and empty rhetoric) is trying to convince Americans the GOP are too risky and he somehow represents the safe route. It`s invalid but he`s trying it anyway.

Harper is easily the best PM Canada has had in a very long time, but he had his learning curve too. The MSM/LPC villified him with memes such as building aircraft carriers, outlawing abortion, de-registering handguns and so on. Harper didn`t overcome that in his first election, but did in the second with a focussed program with 5 priorities (Romney has this too) and clearly enunciated those priorities with a policy a day announcement a day in the 06 election, clearly showing how this or that proposal fit into his priorities.

IOW Harper got another chance and succeeded, but failed at first. Romney, for his and the GOP sake won`t get another chance for at least four years, and he won`t likely be around to contest another election.

Romney must overcome what Harper overcame and he must do it this election, not the next. He is not succeeding thus far IMO. I want him to succeed, but am very concerned Obama will win another election and try to foist his statist vision of American, untethered by the need for re-election, and do great damage to the country, and by extension, the world, particularly Canada.

An America hurting economically, beholden to labour interests wanting their payoff for support, will undoubtedly hurt Canada`s trade with the US, as protectionist forces take hold there.

Having said that, even an elitist incompetent like Obama probably can`t destroy the USA, but surely will do great damage in these uncertain economic times of demographic upheaval.

"'Greatest sea ice extent ever measured at either pole' -- Will Media Report This?!"

"It's Official: Antarctic Sea Ice Sets All Time Record High"

"NOAA: Antarctic sea ice extent set all time record high—'Day 265 set an all time record, and then day 266 broke that record."

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49915

Socialism's natural end result: treason, execution...

"Pierre Laval. Born: 28-Jun-1883 Birthplace: Châteldon, Puy-de-Dôme, France Died: 15-Oct-1945 Location of death: Fresnes, Seine, France Cause of death: Execution" (search)

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"Another domino falls as Hollande pushes France into depression"

"If French President François Hollande thinks he can assuage the bond markets by dishing out tax-heavy austerity instead of genuine reform, he has been given very bad advice."

"Mr Hollande likes to quote Leon Blum, the Popular Front leader of the interwar years. The reality could hardly be more cruel. He is replicating the disastrous deflation policies of Labour Chancellor Philip Snowden in 1931, before the Labour Party woke up to the delicious possibility that you could lift two fingers to the forces of reaction and leave the Gold Standard."

"Worse yet, he is perilously close to re-enacting the desperate deflation decrees of Pierre Laval -- an ex-Socialist dreamer, pacifist, and utopian who lost his way, and ultimately cleaved too closely to foreign ideologies -- and like Laval he is doing so to uphold a fixed exchange system that is slowly asphyxiating his country and no longer makes any sense."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9577674/Another-domino-falls-as-Hollande-pushes-France-into-depression.html

In praise of "Homo heidelbergensis."

"So here we are, in an interglacial."

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At the peak of the last glaciation, the modern human population was hit hard, but we survived.

So here we are, in an interglacial. It's sobering to remember that this is just a brief interlude. Some time fairly soon, we'll probably begin the descent into a long glacial winter again. When that happens, all the temperate-adapted animals that currently range widely across the northern hemisphere will clear out of the far north. Ice sheets will grow down over North America and northern Europe again. Our civilisations have grown up in this unseasonably stable (and already overlong) warm interglacial. We've grown a huge global population in this favourable climate. It will be even more difficult to support such a massive number of people when the world becomes colder and drier again.

But for those cold-adapted animals that are currently hanging out in Arctic refugia, things will look up. If polar bears manage to cling on, there'll be much more room for them in the next glaciation."

"Humans may notice a chill in the air"

"Radical temperature fluctuations are a fact of life on Earth, and we're lucky to be enjoying a brief, balmy interglacial. But look out when it stops…"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/30/ice-age-human-survival-alice-roberts

ET @ 9:25 a.m.: "At the UN this week, 'Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it was time to put an end to the protection of Islamophobia masquerading as the freedom to speak freely."

He has it bass-ackwards. It's time to put an end to attempts to eliminate freedom of speech masquerading as "anti-racism", including "Islamophobia".

Islamophobia: The fear of offending Muslims because they are prone to violence.