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Scandinavian Swimmers Warned About Testicle-Attacking Monster Fish

“They bite because they're hungry, and testicles sit nicely in their mouth.”

http://gawker.com/scandinavian-swimmers-warned-about-testicle-attacking-m-1102510076

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the commie skifeet kind of have it coming?

Russia is not afraid to use its oil, unlike the US. No eco weenies to slow down progress.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/ford-switches-focus-as-demand-falls/484356.html

Living Large on the Taxpayers Dime

Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents, someone has to carry a selection of presidential basketballs, and of course the family dog needs his own state-of-the-art aircraft.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10236302/First-dog-Bo-is-airlifted-to-Obama-holiday-home.html

Tomorrow is lovers day in China. It's a lot more complicated than I thought.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/8360404.html

Not sure why but this headline just kind of jumps out.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100227925/kim-so-horny-pornography-might-be-the-one-north-korean-industry-thats-flourishing/

Here's the first 1 of 20 Washington Post stories I've read this month:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/missouri-fair-clown-wears-obama-mask-at-rodeo-officials-say-performance-disrespects-president/2013/08/11/6dd2d744-02e9-11e3-bfc5-406b928603b2_story.html

WP: "A clown wearing a President Barack Obama mask appeared at a Missouri State Fair rodeo this weekend and the announcer asked the enthusiastic spectators if they wanted to see 'Obama run down by a bull.'"

"... the state’s second highest-ranking official, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder ... said it was 'disrespectful' to the president."

It's not any more disrespectful than, say, all the garbage that George W. Bush had to put up with during his term. The left doesn't have any "respect" for its opponents, and the public doesn't seem to respond positively to civility these days anyway (probably unfortunate, but that's the reality).

(Kinder is described as a Republican; governor Jay Nixon is a Democrat)

WP: "[One (named) spectator said,] 'It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV.'"

"[The spectator was also quoted,] 'It was cruel. It was disturbing ... I’ve never seen anything so blatantly racist in my life.'"

This clownish activity falls under the category of "symbolic criticism of a political figure" in the context of an outdoor fair. There is nothing racist whatsoever about criticism of political figures. If that is now considered "disrespectful" or "racist", then the U. S. on the verge of becoming a totalitarian state. This fool spectator should be embarrassed to call himself an American.

Note also that only this one spectator was interviewed for the piece, despite his own contention that "'everybody screamed' and 'just went wild' as the announcer talked about having the bull run down the clown with the Obama mask". It sounds like hundreds of spectators were fine with symbolic criticism of the president (far removed from a real physical attack on him), yet the Washington Post didn't see fit to capture any of their comments.

This is the paper Jeff Bezos just bought. How does he propose to teach its journalists how to do their jobs properly?

Rest in peace, Eydie Gorme, singer of the big hit "Blame It On The Bossa Nova":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaRlW-jz1QQ

The problems with Detroit are explained by Bill Nowling.

http://business.financialpost.com/2013/08/09/the-us1m-check-that-sat-in-a-drawer-how-detroit-went-bust/

Clarence Ashley was rediscovered during the '60s folk music revival, and made some wonderful recordings with Doc Watson and others.

The real deal.

Not some suburban brat pretending to be the salt of the earth.

and BenGahzi rides agahttp://pjmedia.com/blog/benghazi-arabic-language-media-implicates-egypts-fallen-muslim-brotherhood-regime/?singlepage=truein,

an article were it lays out how Mursi of the MB of Egypt was in the thick of the Benghazi attack, possibly to get a "barging chip" (stevens) to effect the release of the blind shiek

Heard about this on the John Batchelor show last week:

Bank of America's Toxic Tower - New York's "greenest" skyscraper is actually its biggest energy hog:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113942/bank-america-tower-and-leed-ratings-racket#

Curing a disease is considered a threat to diversity.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/could-it-be-cure-breakthrough-prompts-down-syndrome-soul-searching-6C10879213

There's Mamba again talking about testicles. Nuts, I tells ya!

RE pipelines -- this is not a new article, but very informative re the Keystone:
Pipeline Infrastructure: Rhetoric vs. Reality:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brighammccown/2013/04/05/us-pipeline-infrastructure-rhetoric-v-reality/

When Bad Hair Day Man turns against Obama then we see the scope of dislike of his instrusionary government:

http://www.ipolitics.ca/2013/08/11/the-cancer-of-the-surveillance-state/

My question to Mr Harris is: why are you surprised. This man and his party said entrepreneurs didn`t really build things and we are all part of government.

Welcome to the hive.

I don't suppose the activists could be appeased with an "I Can't Believe it's not Butter" margarine sculpture

"DES MOINES, Iowa -- An animal rights group has taken credit for vandalizing the Iowa State Fair’s famous Butter Cow and its refrigerated case.Iowans for Animal Liberation said they were the ones who splashed red paint on the iconic bovine. The words “Freedom for all” were also painted on the glass window thousands of fair attendees look through to catch a glimpse at the butter sculpture.

“The paint represents the blood of 11 billion animals murdered each year in slaughterhouses, egg farms and dairies,” read a press release from the animal rights organization sent out Monday morning.

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Iowa-State-Fairs-Butter-Cow-Vandalized-Group-Claims-Responsibility-219268601.html

"Freedom for All". Apparently the geniuses from Iowans for Animal Liberation think that in a world without livestock 11 million Bessies and Babes would be free to frolick through fields and forests. It never occurs to them that domesticated farm animals would just be eliminated and replaced on the menu by Bambi and Bullwinkle.
Via Reason 24/7

I don't suppose the activists could be appeased with an "I Can't Believe it's not Butter" margarine sculpture

"DES MOINES, Iowa -- An animal rights group has taken [responsibility] for vandalizing the Iowa State Fair’s famous Butter Cow and its refrigerated case.Iowans for Animal Liberation said they were the ones who splashed red paint on the iconic bovine. The words “Freedom for all” were also painted on the glass window thousands of fair attendees look through to catch a glimpse at the butter sculpture.

“The paint represents the blood of 11 billion animals murdered each year in slaughterhouses, egg farms and dairies,” read a press release from the animal rights organization sent out Monday morning.

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Iowa-State-Fairs-Butter-Cow-Vandalized-Group-Claims-Responsibility-219268601.html

"Freedom for All". Apparently the geniuses from Iowans for Animal Liberation think that in a world without livestock 11 million Bessies and Babes would be free to frolick through fields and forests. It never occurs to them that domesticated farm animals would just be eliminated and replaced on the menu by Bambi and Bullwinkle.
Via Reason 24/7

Primary qualification to work for Obama is a blank look and never ever question the status quo.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/interior-secretary-i-dont-want-any-climate-change-deniers-in-my-department/article/2534142

Neo-AGW PR.

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"Related articles"

"Greenland may not have reached highest recorded summer temperature in late July" (wapo)

"Greenland soars to its highest temperature ever recorded, almost 80 degrees F." (wapo)

"When it comes to new high temperature records, ‘shoot first, ask questions later’"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/12/when-it-comes-to-new-high-temperature-records-shoot-first-ask-questions-later/#more-91513

Mes chere's amies. Gone to London to see the Queen. O'revoir: Aussant.

c.c Citoyen MulcairBloc.

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"Founder of Quebec independence party moves to England"

"In an interview with The Canadian Press last year, Aussant explained how he would try to succeed where the PQ has failed.

His plan: Start building the country first, ask the referendum question later.

Aussant said that armed with a majority mandate, an Option nationale government would immediately begin seeking to repatriate powers from Canada to control all of its own taxes; negotiate and sign its own international treaties; and lay out its own criminal code.

The Canadian government could agree or disagree. In any case, an Option nationale government would already be writing Quebec's own constitution with broad public input.

The constitution would include a declaration of sovereignty.

Finally, he said the people of Quebec would be asked to vote on the document in a referendum — which, in Aussant's opinion, Ottawa and the rest of the world would likely deem legitimate."

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/founder-of-quebec-independence-party-moves-to-england-219274541.html

An article about Britain’s welfare system. I see many parallels with Canada.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2389525/Channel-4-series-documents-extraordinary-experiment-PROVES-welfare-state-lost-way.html

Our Mole says O is a drunk.

H/T Bull Konnor Cemetery.

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"Momager Kris Jenner defends 'hardest working young lady in the world' Kim Kardashian and Kanye West after President Obama criticises couple's opulent lifestyle"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2390414/Kris-Jenner-defends-hardest-working-young-lady-world-Kim-Kardashian-Kanye-West-President-Obama-criticises-couples-opulent-lifestyle.html

Kelowna Accord News.

Ex-PM LibLibrano$, P MartinJr, Editor-in-Chief.

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"Human rights and United Nations finally being allowed to visit ...
media.knet.ca/node/22421

From CBC.ca. Canada's treatment of aboriginal people faces global scrutiny UN and human-rights groups to visit Canada within the next year By Ryan Hicks, May 10, 2013 ..."

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"Convicted Saskatchewan First Nation's chief resigns with $47,000 payout"

"The chief of a Saskatchewan First Nation who has been sentenced to jail time for sexually assaulting a teenage girl has resigned and will be paid almost $50,000.

The band council of the Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nation says in a news release that it has accepted Terrance McArthur’s resignation."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/convicted-saskatchewan-first-nation-chief-resigns-with-47000-payout/article13718394/