Time nominates Sandra Fluke for ‘Person of the Year’ | The Daily Caller.
The New Transparency: Seeing Through the President
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Tagged arrogance, blah, blah blah, broken promises, deception, economy, fiscal cliff, fiscal irresponsibility, lies, narcissism, Obama, presidential rhetoric, profligate spending, same old story, smugness, stagnation, taxes, the most ethical congress in a parallel universe, transparency
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LottoCratic Policy
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Tagged fiscal cliff, fiscal irresponsibility, fiscally feckless, gambling, magic money, no idea how to manage money, Politics, redistribution, socialism, spending cut, tax increase, waiting for unicorns, wishful thinking
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Jamie Foxx Unchained
Posted in Celebrity, Politics, Pop Culture
Tagged celebrity delusion, celebrity worship, cult of obama, jaime foxx, Jesus, lord, messiah, messiah complex, Obama, president, savior, soul train music awards, wtf
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Race-Bating Headline of the Day
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Trading Places
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Tagged capitalism, communism, flexibility, liberalism, Obama, progressivism, Putin, radical, regression, Russia, socialism, soviet era, soviet union, vladimir
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Pot Meet Kettle
Largest Donor to Obama Super PAC Calls Mormonism a ‘Cult’ | The Weekly Standard.
Okay, so Bill Maher gave $1 million to the Obama Super PAC. It takes cult power to get anyone to donate that kind of money to anything, and Maher appears to be a charter member of the cult of Obama. And refusing to accept that donations to the Mormon church are charity is an indictment of charity in general. Most charities are based on or affiliated with religious groups. Why single out Mormons? Why not attack Catholics or any other religious group that has a charitable program? And how would Maher know that Obama is well-endowed or is that just his fantasy? I sense some longing there.
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Tagged anti-Mormon, anti-religion, barack obama, Bill Maher, Charitable organization, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Cult, dick jokes, HBO, hiding behind comedy, James H. Simons, latent homosexual tendencies, LDS church, Majority PAC, Mitt Romney, Mormon, Mormonism, Political action committee, President Obama, Priorities USA Action, super PAC donation, Weekly Standard
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Misleading Headline of the Day: Conservatives Don’t Trust Science
Study: Trust in science among educated conservatives plunges | The Lookout – Yahoo! News.
Conservatives, particularly those with college educations, have become dramatically more skeptical of science over the past four decades, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Sociological Review. Fewer than 35 percent of conservatives say they have a “great deal” of trust in the scientific community now, compared to nearly half in 1974.
The above paragraph contains the important bit: “scientific community.” The headline should read “Conservatives don’t trust the scientific community.” When science becomes religion co-opted by the left the way it has in recent years, it’s no wonder. It has little to do with science or with conservatives going to church. Rather, it is about science ceasing to be science when it blends with politics. When that happens it becomes a religion.
In truth, science isn’t any more rational than religion. Science has not been able to describe and explain everything in logical, rational terms. The universe has so far confounded all attempts by science to define and bound it. Until science can achieve this–if it can–it remains mere theory or opinion or suggestion, which means it’s no more objective than religious thought.
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, Technology
Tagged American Sociological Review, conservatism, conservatives, General Social Survey, Gordon Gauchat, liberalism, religion, Republicans, science, scientific community, University of North Carolina
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Wine Cooler
Red Wine, Tartaric Acid, and the Secret of Superconductivity – Technology Review.
Last year, a group of Japanese physicists grabbed headlines around the world by announcing that they could induce superconductivity in a sample of iron telluride by soaking it in red wine. They found that other alcoholic drinks also worked–white wine, beer, sake and so on–but red wine was by far the best.
Posted in Energy, Pop Culture, Technology
Tagged bon marche, cabernet sauvignon, gamay, iron telluride, Japan, Japanese physicists, merlot, National Institute for Materials Science, Red Wine, sake, sangiovese, shochu, superconductor, tartaric acid, Tsukuba, water ethanol, whiskey
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Green Crap
… when it comes to lending standards and the vilification of private financial institutions processing mortgages that were either backed or bought up by government-sponsored enterprises, the Obama admin is firmly in the “do as we say, not as we do” camp…
Posted in Energy, Finance, Politics
Tagged bad loans, crap loans, cronism, Department of Energy Secretary, DOE, failed solar, fiscal irresponsibility, GAO, Government Accounting Office, government subsidies, green energy, Paul Broun, political expediency, political favoratism, President Obama, Solyndra, Steven Chu, wall street
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Bill Maher Flushes a Million Dollars Down the Toilet
Bill Maher donates a million dollars to Obama ‘super PAC’ – latimes.com.
On Thursday, Maher told his audience that the million dollars he was donating was “the wisest investment I think I could make.”
Oh, really. A lot of people who will never make a million dollars over their lifetime would probably disagree. He’s certainly living up to the “CrazyStupid” part of his comedy show. If he has enough money lying around that he can simply toss a million of it away, that says a lot more about his financial priorities than his politics. A fool and his money…
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Tagged Bill Maher, bonehead, Crazy, fiscally feckless, flushing, HBO, liberal, milion dollars, Obama reelection campaign, Political action committee, political wonk, Politics, poltical donation, President Obama, pretending to be the 99%, Real Time, Stupid, Super PAC, United States
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Hooker Powers
Teacher Leaves Wife, Kids for High School Student | Parenting – Yahoo! Shine.
It must be particularly hard for Hooker’s 17 year old daughter, now that her father has left to be with a fellow classmate and become a notorious figure throughout the school.
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Tagged adultery, age of consent, California, creep factor, Enochs High School, high school student, immorality, James Hooker, Jordan Powers, legal age, Modesto, morality, mother's nightmare, Nabakov, student-teacher dating, svengali, teacher-student romance, under age
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Failed Marriage Equality
“Poster Couple” For Gays Rights Divorcing | NBC Bay Area.
“We’re human and we went through difficult times,” Tyler said. The marriage ran its course, she said.
Tyler and Olson have known each other for 40 years and were together as a couple for 18. They were the poster couple for gay and lesbian rights. …
14 years of happiness followed by 4 years that included relationship-breaking difficult times. Sounds like they were better off before they got married. The grass is always greener, I suppose.
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Tagged 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, California, Diane Olson, gay marriage, marriage ban, Prop 8, Robin Tyler
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Super PAC Man
Senior Obama campaign officials defend president’s embrace of super PAC | The Ticket – Yahoo! News.
When the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that private organizations, including corporations and unions, could spend unlimited amounts of money on political speech, President Obama decried the decision, warning that it amounted to a “threat to our democracy.” Two years later, the Obama campaign has announced that with the president’s blessing, it will support a pro-Obama super PAC–a creation of that very ruling–to received unlimited donations from individuals, corporations and unions for the 2012 presidential campaign.
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Tagged "threat to our democracy", Citizens United, election promises, flip-flop, hypocrisy, Jim Messina, political speech, poltics at usual, President Obama, Super PAC, Supreme Court, unlimited donations
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
The seizure was conducted under U.S. civil law, not criminal law. That means the affected parties need to prove that the internet domains were not engaging in illegal activity to get them back — an ugly mirror image of the country’s usual “innocent until proven guilty” right. Many of the domains were not being operated by U.S. groups. Because they used U.S. domain suffixes .net, .com, and .org, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was empowered to act.
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Tagged copyright, counterfeit merchandise, Crime, Homeland Security, ICE, NFL, Presumption of innocence, seized domains, Super Bowl, U.S. civil law, U.S. Government, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States
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Call Me Daughter
Houston millionaire adopts his girlfriend – really | Hot Topics | an SFGate.com blog.
The heir to an air-conditioning fortune, Goodman, 48, has legally adopted 42-year-old Heather Laruso Hutchins, whom he has been dating since 2009. The adoption, which took place in October 2011 but was not publicly disclosed until Tuesday, potentially allows Hutchins to control a third of the assets of a trust fund he set up for his two other children.
A Florida judge called the action “surreal” and a step into a “legal twilight zone” in a recent related ruling. The purpose of the adoption, however, is likely rooted in practical financial matters. Because of her age, Hutchins can avoid the legal stipulation that does not allow beneficiaries to take from the fund until they are 35.
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Tagged adoption, asset exposure, civil trial, Florida, Florida judge Glenn Kelley, girlfriend, Heather Hutchins, Houston, incest, John Goodman, Law, legal incest, legal loophole, legal Twilight Zone, millionaire, Trust law, wrongful death lawsuit
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L’enfant Neutres
Couple Finally Reveals Child’s Gender, Five Years After Birth | Parenting – Yahoo! Shine.
For years, Becks has been referring to her child, the youngest of three, as “the infant” on her personal blog. But guarding the public from her son’s gender was only part of her quest to let her kid just be a kid.
Sasha dresses in clothes he likes — be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no’s are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts and cargo pants.
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Tagged androgyny, confusion, female, gender, gender bias, good intentions, male
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Corn Pwned
As early as last July, he added, a poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers revealed something pleasantly surprising: “When asked specifically which they would be more likely to support, a candidate who supports ethanol subsidies because they are important to the Iowa economy, or a candidate who opposes them because they want to get spending under control, caucus goers prefer the candidate who opposes ethanol subsidies by a margin of 56 percent to 31 percent.”
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Tagged Atlantic, corn ethanol, Ethanol, ethanol tax credit, Iowa, Iowa caucuses, renewable fuel standard, subsidies, tea party, waste of corn
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Osprey of Gunfire: The Tiltrotor’s First Firefight
Controversial Marine Tiltrotor Fights Its First Gun Battle | Danger Room | Wired.com.
Landing near the embattled Marine infantry, the V-22 immediately came under fire — a terrifying prospect for an aircraft with very little armor. …
The V-22 couldn’t really fire back on its own: It had just a single machine gun (either a .50-caliber or .30-caliber model) fitted to the rear ramp, covering an approximately 120-degree arc behind the aircraft — an arc that, at the moment, was blocked by Marines rushing to and from the cabin. …
Before the June battle, Tiltrotor Squadron 264 had specialized in “night inserts,” speeding small groups of Marines deep into Taliban territory under the cover of darkness.
The Osprey accomplished these missions despite an accident rate several times higher than the Marines will admit, and despite engines that wear out faster than expected, resulting in a recent 60 percent increase in maintenance costs. For all the Osprey’s faults, the Corps loves the ungainly bird — so much so it wants to spend at least $8 billion on another 120 of them from manufacturers Bell and Boeing.
I suspect that the next batch of V-22s won’t be accident prone, nor will the engines wear out as fast. That’s the benefit of field experience.
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Tagged Bell, Bell Helicopter, Boeing, combat, firefight, Military, taliban, U.S. Marines, United States Marine Corps, V-22 Osprey
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Christopher Hitchens: 1949–2011
» In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 – Big Government.
Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor.
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Tagged bon vivante, Christopher Hitchens, critic, essayist, rhetoritician, Vanity Fair
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