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  4. Happy 50th Obongo.
    The markets celebrated with doom and gloom.
    How’s that Hopey Changey thingy working out for ya?

  8. Black Mamba: “You people make the Rocky Horror Picture Show weirdos look cool.”
    Thanks.
    I recently watched a show about Black Mambas. In the show, I believe it was on PBS … Nature?, it claimed that the male Black Mamba explored the female Black Mamba, thoroughly, with his tongue, before sex.
    Fact or fiction?

  14. O’fund raiser.
    …-
    “Obama’s 50th Birthday bash: Stevie Wonder, Chris Rock, Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg, Herbie Hancock…
    WASHINGTON–President Obama celebrated his 50th birthday Thursday night with a celebrity-filled bash, as entertainer Chris Rock reported on his Twitter feed: “Just left the Presidents birthday party at the White House. Herbie Hancock played, Stevie Wonder sang and yes they did the electric slide. A great night.”
    Daughter Malia, 13 just arrived home from summer camp in time for the Rose Garden party as she was joined by her sister, Sasha, 10, First Lady Michelle, grandmother Marian Robinson and their godmother, Eleanor “Mama Kaye, Wilson,” who flew to Washington from Chicago on Air Force One with Obama when he returned from his Thursday fund-raiser back home.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2758952/posts
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    “Stocks Fall at European Open”
    European stocks opened sharply lower Friday following the heavy selloff in the U.S. and Asia, amid growing concerns about euro-zone sovereign debt and the U.S. recovery, and ahead of the release of nonfarm payrolls.
    London’s FTSE 100 Index fell 2.5%, Frankfurt’s DAX shed 2%, Paris’s CAC-40 Index dropped 2.6% and Milan’s FTSE-MIB lost 3.5%.
    In Europe, fears are mounting that debt troubles have spread beyond Greece and Ireland to the larger economies of Italy and Spain, and Thursday’s European Central Bank press conference did little to alleviate those concerns. While market participants welcomed the bank’s decision to resume its bond-buying, “spreads continued to widen because there was not unanimity on the governing council over the Securities Market Program purchases and the strategy seems to be to try and ease the pressure on Italy and Spain by buying in other markets rather than those two directly,” noted BNP Paribas. The ECB intervened in the secondary market to buy Portuguese and Irish sovereign bonds, but not Italian and Spanish bonds.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2758947/posts

  16. Here’s Emily … Emily!
    Are you deaf, Emily?
    “I’m sorry. It won’t happen again….Bitch!”.
    …-
    “The Emily Litella moment for climate science and CO2 ?”
    “There is quite a bit of buzz surrounding a talk and pending paper from Prof. Murray Salby the Chair of Climate, of Macquarie University. Aussie Jo Nova has excellent commentary, as has Andrew Bolt in his blog. I’m sure others will weigh in soon.
    In a nutshell, the issue is rather simple, yet powerful. Salby is arguing that atmospheric CO2 increase that we observe is a product of temperature increase, and not the other way around, meaning it is a product of natural variation. This goes back to the 800 year lead/lag issue related to the paleo temperature and CO2 graphs Al Gore presented in his movie an An Inconvenient Truth, Jo Nova writes:
    Over the last two years he has been looking at C12 and C13 ratios and CO2 levels around the world, and has come to the conclusion that man-made emissions have only a small effect on global CO2 levels. It’s not just that man-made emissions don’t control the climate, they don’t even control global CO2 levels.
    Salby is no climatic lightweight, which makes this all the more powerful.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/05/the-emily-litella-moment-for-climate-science-and-co2/#more-44593
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    “Blockbuster: Planetary temperature controls CO2 levels — not humans”
    “There goes another “fingerprint”…”
    “The sources of CO2 don’t seem to be industrialized areas”
    http://joannenova.com.au/2011/08/blockbuster-planetary-temperature-controls-co2-levels-not-humans/

  17. ‘Nother Emily moment: endangered species?
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    “Polar bear kills tourist, injures four others in Norway”
    ““We know it was a British group,” said Liv Asta Oedegaard, spokeswoman for the Svalbard governor’s office. “Five people were injured, and one of those has died.””
    “A renowned polar bear habitat, Svalbard is about halfway between Norway’s mainland and the North Pole.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/polar-bear-kills-tourist-injures-four-others-in-norway/article2120573/

  18. Where’s an outraged feminist group when you need one??
    TORONTO – Another honour killing in our midst and the silence is deafening.
    Shaher Bano Shahdady was just 21, a young mother who wanted to live her Canadian life as a free Canadian woman. And for that, she was strangled to death in front of her toddler.
    From the Baloch region of Pakistan, she came to Toronto as a little girl. At 14, her father, Mullah Abdul Ghafoor, sent her back to Pakistan to study at a religious fundamentalist madrassa and a few years later she was forced into an arranged marriage with her first cousin.
    But her precious son was her ticket back home.
    Complications in her pregnancy allowed her to return to Toronto. Her baby was born with a serious heart defect that eventually required a transplant, but at least she was back in Canada.
    http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/04/deafening-silence-greets-honour-killing

  21. The Juicy Fruits were awesome. Beef electrocuted on stage, with fans thinking it was part of the show. Total schmalz now, but a great show when you are only 15, watching it on the big screen.

  22. infinitysquared @1:56 – I can’t think of a response that’s dirty enough to be competitive but not so dirty it gets erased. Kudos to you, sir.

  24. CBC has not figured out how to spin this yet, but I expect they will use some variation of Bloomberg’s outrageous twist.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-05/canada-s-economy-adds-7-100-workers-in-july-as-jobless-rate-drops-to-7-2-.html
    It starts with this gem:
    “Canadian employers slowed their pace of job creation, cut back on wage increases and reduced purchases last month, data released today show, adding to evidence the country’s recovery is waning.”
    But hidden in the 13th paragraph is this incredibly positive news for Canada:
    “The economy created 94,500 private sector jobs during the month, led by a gain of 30,800 in construction employment. Retail and wholesale increased by 27,500 jobs, while transportation and warehousing businesses added 27,700 workers.”
    In my opinion, even better news followed in the 14th paragraph:
    “Public-sector employment declined by 71,500 in the month …”

  25. Socialism’s death struggle.
    H/T Taliban Jacques Bloc Separatist.
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    “Rae doubtful about Turmel’s commitment to federalism CTV.ca”

  27. AA+O? AA-O?
    (Take this with the proverbial salt grain. It’s not gonna happen, is it?)
    Even if, it doesn’t mean nuttink, right?
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    “Govt officials: US expecting S&P downgrade — based on “serious mistake” in analysis*
    August 05, 2011 4:51 PM
    Two government officials tell ABC News that the federal government is expecting and preparing for bond rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the rating of US debt from its current AAA value.
    Official reasons given, one official says, will be the political confusion surrounding the process of raising the debt ceiling, and lack of confidence that the political system will be able to agree to more deficit reduction. A source says Republicans saying that they refuse to accept any tax increases as part of a larger deal will be part of the reason cited. The official was unsure if the bond rating would be AA+ or AA.
    A third official says that S&P made a “serious mistake” in its analysis, “based on flawed math and assumptions,” so the Obama administration is pushing back. But even though “S&P has acknowledged its numbers are wrong, it’s unclear what they’re going to do.,” the official said.
    S&P refused to comment.”
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/govt-official-us-expecting-sp-downgrade.html

  28. O’AA-plus.
    WTF?
    …-
    “United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P”
    “The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s on Friday in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world’s largest economy.
    S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one notch to AA-plus on concerns about the government’s budget deficits and rising debt burden. The move is likely to raise borrowing costs eventually for the American government, companies and consumers.
    “The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government’s medium-term debt dynamics,” S&P said in a statement.”
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-usa-debt-downgrade-idUSTRE7746VF20110806

  30. History as she is writ.
    “the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness,
    stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political
    institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic
    challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a
    negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011.”
    Translation: O is a narcissist.
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    “United States of America Long-Term Rating Lowered To ‘AA+’ Due To Political Risks, Rising Debt Burden; Outlook Negative”
    http://www.standardandpoors.com/ratings/articles/en/us/?assetID=1245316529563

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