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  1. AFP:
    “Local communities in France’s immigrant suburbs increasingly organize themselves on Islamic lines rather than following the values of the secular republic, according to a major new sociological study. Respected political scientist Gilles Kepel, a specialist in the Muslim world, led a team of researchers in a year-long project in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, two Paris suburbs that exploded in riots in 2005.
    “The resulting study − ‘Suburbs of the Republic’ − found that religious institutions and practices are increasingly displacing those of the state and the French Republic, which has a strong secular tradition….”
    “Kepel performed a similar study 25 years earlier, and told the daily Le Monde that the influence of Islam in the daily lives and cultural references of the suburbs has ‘diversified and intensified’ since then.”
    The whole thing here; the Daily Mail’s coverage here.

  3. If The Present Refuses To Get Warmer, The Past Must Become Cooler:
    “Baltimore thermometers haven’t warmed over the last 60 years, despite a large increase in UHI effects. That simply wasn’t going to do. The (United States Historical Climatology Network’s) clever computer cooled pre-2000 temperatures by as much as three degrees, and of course increased post-2000 temperatures to create a warming trend…”
    h/t Tom Nelson

  5. “House Republicans released an email Friday evening showing that a senior Treasury Department official in August expressed concern that the Energy Department’s early 2011 restructuring of the solar company Solyndra’s $535 million loan guarantee may have been illegal. The restructuring put private investors, who were providing another $75 million to the struggling company, first in line for repayment if the company went under. In addition, House Republicans probing Solyndra — which collapsed several weeks ago — say DOE may have violated requirements to consult with Treasury on the revision of the loan agreement.”

  6. David Limbaugh:
    “Obama’s Thursday news conference was a sober reminder of the nature of the man in the Oval Office. I infer that even many of his supporters in the liberal media are finally catching on to the magnitude of his personality disorders. How could a man in his important position continue to act so childishly, accepting no responsibility for his policies and behavior and demonizing everyone who dares to disagree with or oppose him? It’s worse than embarrassing; it’s unsettling.”
    Limbaugh lists a series of the ridiculous assertions and assumptions inherent in Obama’s press conference, and concludes:

    Our chief executive either is a mastermind at Machiavellian manipulation or has deep psychological and emotional problems. I’ve never seen an adult in an important leadership position — especially not the president of the United States — show such frightening immaturity and self-absorption.”

    (via Maggie’s Farm)

  7. EBD, thanks for taking the time to come up with these links. To think that Allen Colms equates the “occupiers” and their piles of garbage and the defecating scumbag with the Tea Party people.

  8. BTW EBD, the “Promise of Living” was great to watch. I am old enough that some of the film could have been taken during the time of my youth. Some times I yearn for the simplicity of life five decades ago. No groups constantly trying to tell you how to live…just live.
    Everybody must be busy baking pumpkin pies this evening. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

  9. Dear EBD,
    I have noticed that a lot vehicles have little decals in their rear windows … little stick man like … I assume to represent their families and interests.
    Frankly speaking, the rubber nuts on my 1992 Ford Tempo were a bust. I have received no interest on craigslist on the nuts, even though they are listed in the “free” category.
    Anyway, I’m thinking of getting a stick man (Man) and a dog decal. I know some womens like cats … do you think a rat decal might fool them?

  10. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    Blibe** him! Blibe** him!
    …-
    “”Global warming is a bogus proposition,” says Zhang Musheng,”.
    “Chinese sceptics see global warming as US conspiracy”
    “BEIJING: It’s not only Western leaders like Julia Gillard and Barack Obama who face fierce resistance from climate sceptics as they try to lay out policies to tackle global warming.
    In China, where carbon emissions have surged despite tough government constraints and targets, President Hu Jintao is having to stare down claims that human-induced climate change is an elaborate American conspiracy.
    ”Global warming is a bogus proposition,” says Zhang Musheng, one of China’s most influential intellectuals and a close adviser to a powerful and hawkish general in the People’s Liberation Army, Liu Yuan.”
    http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-sceptics-see-global-warming-as-us-conspiracy-20111007-1ldl1.html#ixzz1aCy4W5x0
    …-
    **Blibe him!
    “Study links bribery with collectivism”
    “Bribery is viewed as morally wrong across cultures, but the question remains why some places are more prone to corruption than others.
    According to research by Pankaj Aggarwal and Nina Mazar, two professors at the University of Toronto, part of the answer seems to be the level of collective feeling in a society.
    The team discovered that people in more collectivist cultures – in which individuals see themselves as interdependent and as part of a larger society – are more likely to offer bribes than people from more individualistic cultures.
    Aggarwal and Mazar suggest that people in collectivist societies may feel less individually responsible for their actions, and therefore less guilty about offering a bribe.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/10/08/18799991.html
    **Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae’s uncle Mo Strong.

  12. ‘Lovely piece, EBD. Thank you. I love Aaron Copland, very much tied to the land with a great gift of evoking ordinariness and grandeur at the same time.
    Now, for something completely different: John Rutter’s For the Beauty of the Earth, sung by his group, The Cambridge Singers.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgApCoOwvM&feature=related
    And, please indulge me, SDA readers, here’s a favourite Aaron Copland composition, Fanfare for the Common Man (not the greatest recording at the beginning but it gets better …):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHAL4saaI&feature=related
    Happy Thanksgiving!

  13. Politically Correct Inbreeders?
    http://gawker.com/5847993/maybe-appalachian-babies-have-birth-defects-because-of-inbreeding-lawyers-suggest
    Four lawyers face an ethics complaint after helpfully pointing out that a study of mountaintop mining and birth defects in Appalachia “failed to account for consanquinity [sic], one of the most prominent sources of birth defects.” In non-legalese: maybe those babies have defects because of how hillbillies like to screw within the family all the time.

  16. Of Red-Green socialism.
    …-
    “Europe’s debt crisis claims Dexia as first bank casualty”
    “France, Belgium and Luxembourg agreed to a rescue plan for Dexia SA on Sunday ahead of a planned board meeting expected to decide on a break-up of the first lender to fall victim to the euro zone crisis.”
    “Dexia, which used short-term funding to finance long-term lending, has found credit drying up as the euro zone debt crisis worsened. This problem has been exacerbated by the bank’s heavy exposure to Greece.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/europes-debt-crisis-claims-dexia-as-first-bank-casualty/article2195985/
    …-
    “Germany may buy Greeks’ sunshine”
    “As Germany’s economy minister, Philipp Rösler, arrives in Athens to drum up investment, Greece is hoping solar energy can help it out of its debt crisis”
    “But while rampant corruption, a notorious bureaucracy and a weak justice system have also played a major part in keeping foreign firms out of the European Union state, the ruling socialists are also hoping the country’s abundant sunshine can attract German renewable energy companies.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/oct/06/greece-debt-germany-roessler-investment

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