Sources: The FBI has canceled all vacations for agents over the 4th of July weekend.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
And then some. (h/t Raymond)
My Big Fat World Bankruptcy
Greece illustrates how incredibly fragile the liberal world order has become. That one small, almost insignificant European country has the potential to wreak major damage on the entire world economic system is terribly frightening and gives lie to all the bombastic claims about claims to being the wave of the future.
Conservatives shouldn’t feel too bad about the Supreme Court’s decisions. It’s the liberals who are living a house of cards. If liberals were rational they would making alliances with conservative Christians, Third World Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians and that favorite sector, the moderate Muslims to fight godless Communism and radical Islam. To paraphrase Casablanca, “I wouldn’t bring up transgendersism and gay marriage in Tunisia, where hotel workers tried to defend their guests with ashtrays and bottles against the ISIS gunman, if I were you. It’s poor salesmanship.”
But they don’t care, they’ll do it even though it costs them. Do it because there was always someone to pay for things; someone to fix what they broke. Therfore they will destroy Greece in order to save it as they will ruin Puerto Rico in order to prop up Democratic economic policies.
Enjoy It While It Lasts
At the current rate of Muslim immigration to the west, gay marriage is just a temporary condition. Poligamy, on the other hand…
Frankly, My Dear
Not A Muslim
Reader Tips
Tonight, we watch a Scots restauranteur whipping up a batch of one of the most unjustly maligned foods extant: Haggis.
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The Oil Sands: Your CO2 Snapshot for Today
Bill’s Wife
Hillary Clinton, Get This, Edited the Emails She Turned Over to State to Delete Embarrassing References to Oil, Terrorism
Frankly, My Dear
Big Bang Theory
My Big Fat Greek Bankruptcy (Bumped)
Greece: We voted for you to give us more money
Germany: sorry
Greece: WHY DO YOU HATE DEMOCRACY
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 28, 2015
Foxnews: Greek banks will not open Monday
Update: Greek Banks And Stock Exchange In Shutdown
WSJ Blog;
It now looks almost inevitable that Greece will default on a €1.54 billion ($1.69 billion) payment due to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday. Much is at stake beyond the IMF’s balance sheet. What happens to Greece itself? What happens to the euro, a purportedly unbreakable currency union, and the Continent’s attempt to recreate itself as a global economic superpower? What happens in the capital markets, which have feasted on cheap debt and assumed all risks were contained?
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
I honestly couldn’t care less that you adopted a dog from a shelter. Your self aggrandizing ego trip is like that Song That Never Ends. On and on and on you go about how you saved a life, you are a hero, you have done something worthwhile in this life.
Yay, you.
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
It began with a retraction due to a “misstatement” in November 2012, which led to an investigation that found the first author, James E. Hunton, guilty of misconduct. Now, the floodgates have opened, and Hunton has 31 retractions under his belt, making him the newest addition to the Retraction Watch leaderboard.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Antarctic Penguins
Somebody’s napping at the Washington Post. These reports don’t generally survive the filter;
Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world.
Related? …the UK MET office has published a study which suggests solar activity is currently plummeting, the fastest rate of decline in 9300 years. The study also raises the odds of Maunder Minimum style conditions by 2050 from 8% to 15 – 20%.
The Erratic Pieties of Mr Monbiot
Yes, the Guardian‘s chronically unhappy and tormented George Monbiot, who one week claims that austerity is crushing the poor and is “an assault on public life,” and then another week calls for his readers to “riot for austerity. Riot for less.” Because, says he, economic growth is “a political sedative,” a tool of false consciousness, “snuffing out protest” in our dulled, befuddled minds. And so Mr Monbiot denounces “the blackened waste of consumer frenzy,” by which he means shopping, and instead wants “a campaign not for more freedom but for less… a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.” “Unpleasant as it will be,” says George, and while “some people [will] lose their jobs and homes,” austerity and recession will avert “ecological collapse,” while saving us from those jet skis and diamond saucepans that we’re all intent on buying, and the mere existence of which deprives him of sleep.
This Is CNN
Reader Tips
Whether we’re talking about murder, mayhem or rage, keep it light, keep it bright, Keep It Gay!.
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Pitchforks And Flaming Dildoes
Imagine if after Hobby Lobby case, a GOP president projected a giant cross on the White House. What do you think the reaction would be?
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 28, 2015
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
You don’t say: While we don’t think that the initial claim–a quarter of cancer research is fake–is accurate, the fact that it’s closer to one in eight should still be troubling.