January 2010
79 posts
Poll: Quote of the year →
I voted for “Hide The Decline” because it was such a catchy tune… good beat and easy to dance to…
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If one more person
drinkyourjuice:
makes the same post five times in a row, heads will roll.
Does reblogging count?
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Midnight Revelry
It’s all about clocks, bells, and Scotsman…
The Case Against the New Year: Midnight revelry amounts to sheer malarkey; in praise of a sober morning celebration
New Year madness is a thing of quite modern making, and hardly an improvement on the tradition that long preceded it, which called for a somewhat sober, respectful and reflective morning celebration. I blame the Scots for the...
December 2009
118 posts
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This Year I Will Thinmk Befor I Blog
New Year’s Resolution Generator
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2009 In Review - by Dave Barry
via Lew Rockwell:
Dave Barry’s Year In Review: 2009
It was a year of Hope – at first in the sense of “I feel hopeful!” and later in the sense of “I hope this year ends soon!”
It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power...
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Tidings of Comfort and Joy →
Health Care Bill Christmas Carol
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Brace For Impact In 2010
via Zero Hedge:
If someone asks you what happened in 2009, the answer is simple - two things. There was a huge credit and liquidity crunch, and then there was Quantitative Easing. The last is the Fed’s equivalent of band-aiding a zombied and ponzied corpse, better known as the US economy. It worked for a while, but now the zombie is about to go back into critical, followed by comatose, and...
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The Sky is NOT Falling! The Sky is NOT Falling! →
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http://www.googlism.com/
Sorry, Google doesn’t know enough about tumblr yet.
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Blue Moon for New Year's Eve
Something that occurs once in 19 years will light up the sky Thursday night.
That is a “blue moon” on New Year’s Eve…
A blue moon means that it is the second full moon in a month.
And don’t expect it to be blue — the name has nothing to do with the color.
If you see the moon as blue, you probably are celebrating New Year’s Eve too much.
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Network Effects →
fringeelements:
“A network effect, also known as a network externality, is what happens when people using some service of product adds value to that service or product.”
…”…google searches for “alternatives to facebook” or “alternatives to twitter” bring up plenty of results. Though I have a suspicion that a site, perhaps named “networkeffects.net”, could...
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Missed Warning Signs
via Daily Beast:
As investigators say al Qaeda planned the Christmas Day attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253, sources tell Gerald Posner that signs point to a security slip-up at the Lagos embassy.
The first goal of government investigators this Christmas weekend? “Trying to figure out if the guy is a nut or an operator,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official, referring to 23-year-old...
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Starve The Beast: Airlines
via The Market Ticker:
Starve The Beast: Airlines
I’ve had it with this sort of half-assed response to terrorism:
Air Canada said in a statement that new rules imposed by the Transportation Security Administration limit on-board activities by passengers and crew in U.S. airspace. The airline said that during the final hour of flight passengers must remain seated. They won’t be...
10-Year Old Drug Dealer Nabbed →
“I guess it could have been worse—she could have been handing out Flintstone Vitamins.”
original story from Fox News:
N.Y. School Suspends Girl, 10, for Peppermint Oil
Friday, December 25, 2009
COMMACK, N.Y. — A 10-year-old suburban New York girl has been suspended for taking peppermint oil to her school and distributing it to other students.
The Commack School...
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We're Screwed! Interview of ShadowStats.com... →
Terror Nightmare - Attack On Christmas - The Big...
via The Daily Beast:
A Nigerian man with possible al Qaeda ties is accused of igniting an explosive device on a jetliner to Detroit on Christmas Day. The Daily Beast on the man accused of the crime, the heroic passengers who stopped him, and the spate of terror attacks on U.S. soil in 2009.
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Flight 253 Exclusive from Metro Detroit News
Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport (MLive.com exclusive)
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html
A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.
Kurt...
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Oliver North on Health Care Reform Christmas... →
WASHINGTON — Scrooge came early on Christmas Eve this year — and he looks strangely like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Instead of “bah humbug,” he delivered the U.S. Senate’s version of “health care reform” — the most expensive legislation ever passed by the Congress of the United States and the greatest expansion of government power in our...
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The Economic Lessons of Bethlehem by Llewellyn H.... →
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Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus » Pirate's... →
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell...
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Gawker Internet Yule Log →
Bask in the glory
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Obamacare Passes - Your Christmas Present, America
While visions of sugar plums danced in your heads…
via Scared Monkeys:
It’s Official … Senate Passes Obamacare Along Partisan Democrat Vote, 60-39
Mark the date, December 24, 2009 while Americans prepared for the Christmas holiday … Democrats perpetrated a treachery that will be their undoing. Say good bye Democrats, 2010 is right around the corner and you will be tossed from office for...
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Christmas Logos Around the Web →
via Mashable
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Gold Is the New Tupperware, and You're Invited to...
Gold Is the New Tupperware, and You’re Invited to the Party
via Wall Street Journal
ROWAYTON, Conn. — The 1950s were big for Tupperware parties. The 1970s were hot for Mary Kay cosmetics. As this decade hobbles to a close, a new kind of social gathering is invading America’s living rooms: the gold party.
Shannan DeCesare, 40 years old, brought four gold chains, two unloved...
“Call your mother.”
– (via fromtheoldman)
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Marcellus: on Christmas and Ghosts
Some people say that just before Christmas the rooster crows all night long, so that no ghost dares go wandering, and the night is safe. The planets have no sway over us, fairies’ spells don’t work, and witches can’t bewitch us. That’s how holy that night is.
From HAMLET, Act 1, Scene 1
It faded on the crowing of the cock.
Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes
Wherein our...
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No. 11) How else you gonna blog about it?
via Grossblogger:
A dozen good reasons why you should see ‘Avatar’
1. So you can have some conviction in your voice when you join in the national debate over whether it’s any good or not.
2. Even though they’re blue, ten feet tall and tend to growl and bare their fangs a lot, those Na’vi babes are hot.
3. Best plant life in any movie since The Thing.
Read the rest…
Besides...
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Breitbart.tv » White House ‘Unaware’ That Mao... →
First saw this as just big fun at Big Government, then ran across it on Liberal Whoppers — so I let it go as a hoax.
But now it’s been picked up by Hot Air
Gateway Pundit
Scared Monkeys
and World Net Daily
So, I don’t know what to think!
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Kim Peek, The Man Who Inspired The Character In... →
(via laughingsquid)
Truly one of a kind.
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The Next Marshmallow
In the late 1960s, psychologist Walter Mischel performed a series of tests on preschoolers, which became known as The Marshmallow Tests. The tests were designed to examine willpower and the mental processes behind delayed gratification. Each child was offered a single marshmallow that he or she could eat immediately with the promise of two marshmallows if they waited. The hypothesis was there...
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My Position on Global Warming and Climate Change... →
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