Obama names Asian carp czar.
(Heh.)
The Sound Of Settled Science
Illegals Riot In Sanctuary City
Faster, please.
“International Burn a Koran Day”
“The Bible is the story of a people’s journey out of barbarism.
The Koran is the story of a people’s embrace of it.”
And here’s a poll!
Further thoughts. As I was saying to someone just this morning, instead of whining about it, Petraeus should announce a Koran will be burned in Helmand province every Wednesday – use it the way that these guys do it.
A compromise! International Read Aloud From The Koran Day.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Related: Name the Author – New York Times, August 2, 2002
“The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn’t a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance. To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.”
Y2Kyoto: “Green Energy” And “Fraud”
Not just synonyms anymore!
67-year-old H. Max Speight, a disbarred Tennessee attorney, has been sentenced by a federal court and will serve a 26-month sentence for defrauding a federal biofuels subsidy program. Though his sentence may be considered harsh, Speight’s partner, William Tacker II, was convicted and sentenced to five years behind bars, plus a mandatory repayment of funds, which he collected by filing fraudulent claims with the federal government.
Reader Tips
“I had no idea that being gay made me environmentally friendly.”
Snapshots from the Centre Of The Known Universe.
Not Watching For The Asteroid
The Man Who Divided Germany
Rarely has a man influenced the German public discourse as much as Sarrazin has done with his book “Deutschland schafft sich ab” (“Germany Does Itself In”). In just two weeks, Germany has been hit by three waves of debate stemming from the tome.
Criticism bordering on revulsion dominated the first wave of the reaction. Politicians and opinion leaders condemned Sarrazin almost unanimously.
But then it slowly became apparent that many citizens agreed with Sarrazin.
Odd the way that keeps happening.
h/t Larry.
Rapid fire
Neither Ma Deuce nor the Bofors wants to die…
…and they’re both over 80…
…
Tom Clark Leaves CTV
Via email;
Tom Clark, host of CTV News Channel’s POWER PLAY WITH TOM CLARK and former CTV News Washington Bureau Chief, has moved on to pursue other opportunities, it was announced today.
The Buck Stops There
If we are going to talk about “the policies that created this mess in the first place,” let’s at least get the facts straight and the names right.
No Thanks, I Already Ate
Q: Why didn’t the shark eat the investment banker?
A: Professional courtesy.
Justin, Son Of Margaret
The latest from Canada’s best known member of the Lucky Y-Chromosome Club.
QOTD
“He could end all of this if he’d just show us his dog licence.”*
“International Burn a Koran Day”
Oh, boo hoo. A simple Google search will confirm that Muslims have been burning bibles for years.
Admittedly, they’re usually inside a church at the time.
Chasing The Pity Vote
Reader Tips
I’m Alan Partridge is an hilarious BBC situation comedy that follows the travails of a former talk-show host named Alan Partridge, an egotistical but insecure blow-hard in love with the sound of his own voice. As the series opens the recently-divorced Partridge, who is consumed at all times by his desire to be on TV again, has been living unhappily for six months in the Linton Travel Tavern while putting in time in the humiliating 4:30 am shift at tiny Radio Norwich (“From the Ouse to the Waveney…”.)
Partridge’s long-awaited lunch meeting with the head of BBC programming proves disastrous, as his increasingly desperate litany of last-ditch pitches for another TV show (“Inner City Sumo? Monkey Tennis?”) are serially rejected by an amused, and finally annoyed, Tony Hayers. Just when his professional prospects look completely hopeless, he receives a phone call telling him the good news: Tony Hayers has fallen off his roof and died, and will be replaced by a man named Chris Feather who had historically been much more supportive of Alan’s ideas. In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, the utterly callous and ever ambitious Partridge, played by Steve Coogan, shows up at Tony Hayers’ funeral, not to mourn, but to schmooze with Tony Feather in the interest of cadging himself another TV show.
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