But, it’s lunch break.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
h/t nick
Third Horseman, Fourth Horseman?
These days I can never keep them straight.
We don’t need no stinking Security Council seat
Do we (with audio at link)?
Does Canada deserve Mickey I.?/Bobbity’s smooth move
John Robson of the Ottawa Citizen wonders where the Mickster’s brains are at, and why we should even bother to care about winning a (temporary) seat on the UN Security Council…
We Don’t Need No Stinking Hybrid Cars
And people complain about the Chinese goods at Wal-Mart…
The NY Times reports that the Chinese government has placed a trade embargo on all exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles.
China mines 93 percent of the world’s rare earth minerals, and more than 99 percent of the world’s supply of some of the most prized rare earths, which sell for several hundred dollars a pound.
“can you believe that we are going to Mississippi to protect white voters?”
It has been a very bad week for the dwindling number of people defending the dismissal of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. Today might have been the worst day of all. Former Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates testified to the United States Civil Rights Commission that Obama political appointees dismissed the case because they are opposed to enforcing civil rights laws in a racially neutral fashion.
And that was just the beginning.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
According to information first reported by CNSNews, the Export-Import Bank loaned the Mexican national oil company PEMEX $1 billion last fiscal year and plans to provide another $1 billion this fiscal year, unless Congress objects. About $600 million in 2009 was for drilling 18 wells in the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
“Well, that was done in a jiffy!”
Some backstory: These gentlemen are Canadian Army, part of the 3 Area Support Group Technical Services Division, and apparently had a lot of time on their hands while at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunswick. This performance was part of an army services parade in Halifax. Impressive.
h/t Dave S.
Reader Tips
On June 11, 2004, Margaret Thatcher attended the state funeral for Ronald Reagan. She had suffered a series of small strokes in recent years and was advised by her doctors to not engage in public speaking, so her pre-recorded eulogy was shown to the assembled mourners instead. Eloquent, dignified and touching, here’s Margaret Thatcher’s memorable tribute to Ronald Reagan.
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“We are the furniture movers we’ve been waiting for.”
Getting an early start – is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
It’s a caption contest. “Titanic – deck chair” references are already taken.
The Left On Campus
h/t Robert W.
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
“There is a beating etiquette. – If he beats to discipline her, he must not raise his hand high. He must beat her from chest level. All these things honor the woman.”
Related: Six UK men arrested after video of them burning Koran on 9/11
Margaret Atwood: The Moonbat’s Tale
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Arthur C. Clarke, on the moon landing;
PLAYBOY: As it turned out, during the moon landing in 1969, you were a commentator for U.S. television, along with your friend Walter Cronkite. You cried then, didn’t you?
CLARKE: When you go to a launch, it is an emotional experience. Television doesn’t give you any idea of it, really. Walter wiped away a tear or two, as well — as did Eric Sevareid. The last time I’d cried was when my grandmother died, 20 years before.
Margaret Atwood, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner;
The question about the Moon landing is “why haven’t we been back?” and it was done in an age when computers were as big as a couple of rooms. If you even look at the Space Odyssey, 2001, HAL the computer – and I think that movie came out in the late ’60s – HAL the computer is huge. So we didn’t yet have microchips so I just wonder how did they do that? Why haven’t they done it again if it was so easy?
An Interview With “Small Dead Animals”
At Pundit Press. Lots of other stuff on the main page, too.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is an odd, catchy, and – by modern standards – politically incorrect single that reached #7 on the Billboard charts in 1962. Here’s Joanie Sommers singing Johnny Get Angry.
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Those Moderate Muslims!
A group armed with tear gas, sticks, and bottles attacked 400 art enthusiasts who filled galas at the Galerinon, Galerioutlet, and Eclitsis, three art galleries in Istanbul’s Beyoglu district. The group chanted religious slogans, cried out “You cannot drink alcohol here,” and broke the windows of the galleries. Dozens of people were battered and five people were wounded. The victims complained that police nearby did not intervene and told them to call the police hotline. None of the assailants was taken into custody.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert is slated to testify at a congressional hearing Friday on immigration titled “Protecting America’s Harvest.”
One Republican source said Colbert will be testifying “in character,” the Bill O’Reilly-like muse Colbert uses for his show.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Aneroxia Envirosa
What’s The Biggest Three-Word Lie In Politics?
“Perception is reality”.
Well, no it ain’t. Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Reuters, Sept 20th – The recession ended in June 2009, making it the longest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the National Bureau of Economic Research said on Monday.
Bill Simon, President, CEO of Wal-Mart US, Sept.15th – … about 11 p.m., customers start to come in and shop, fill their grocery basket with basic items, baby formula, milk, bread, eggs, and continue to shop and mill about the store until midnight, when … government electronic benefits cards get activated and then the checkout starts and occurs. And our sales for those first few hours on the first of the month are substantially and significantly higher. And if you really think about it, the only reason somebody gets out in the middle of the night and buys baby formula is that they need it, and they’ve been waiting for it.
More Bill Simon, here (pdf)