THE SHRINKING PRESIDENT: Obama Speech In Flux Thanks To John Boehner … And NBC GOP Debate … And NFL Opener.
The magic is gone…
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STIMULUS REDEFINED: Green ‘business’ Solyndra Goes Bankrupt: “President Obama faces political catastrophe in the form of Solyndra — a San Francisco Bay area solar company that he touted as a gleaming example of green technology. It has announced it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. More than 1,100 people will lose their jobs.”
But as bad as it might be for Obama, it sounds like it’s even worse for every American. Solyndra reportedly received $535 million dollars in federal loan guarantees, so taxpayers are on the hook for a lot of cash here.
With 1100 employees, that’s about $486,364 per short-lived job. But methinks someone got rich here. How’s that for Stimulus?
GREEN JOB FAIL.
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Nanny State to Target Nannys: Babysitting bill in California Legislature: “How will parents react when they find out they will be expected to provide workers’ compensation benefits, rest and meal breaks and paid vacation time for…babysitters?”
Why doesn’t California just go ahead and ban economic activity outright? I guess they can’t be efficient about that either.
Ever since I left, Cali validates my escape to New Mexico in a big way about once a month…at the least. Sad.
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Alas, This Is Not From The Onion: “Authorities in authoritarian Iran have determined the latest threat to the Islamic Republic: squirt guns.”
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It’s A Great Recession All Right: Soylent Green crackers debut in stores.
And you can also buy them from Amazon:
These are not made of people, by the way…
(Via Mad Minerva)
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At the intersection of Animal House and Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
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Compare and Contrast: Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme vs. Social Security.
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No teleporting required: Particle Physicist Discovers Fastest Way For Airlines To Board Passengers.
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WSJ: Arab Spring Turns Up Heat on Iran: “Tehran Faces a Foreign-Policy Dilemma as Uprisings Roil Syria and Libya, Threatening Its Regional Influence”.
Good…
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What’s it like to be neutered by The Other McCain? You don’t want to know (unless you’re into that sort of thing, I guess). But if you’re curious, there is someone who can tell you all about it.
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An app that helps you avoid red lights.
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Jerusalem Post writer fired for justifying Palestinian terror.
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HYPOCRISY ALERT: Warren Buffet’s latest tax break.
Easily remedied. Just donate a few billion to the US Treasury. I’m sure he’ll get right on that…
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The return of funemployment? Remember that old L. A. Times piece that was trying real hard to make us feel better about joblessness? This is this the 2011 model.
Seems that the higher the joblessness, the more – uh – interesting the funemployment has to become…
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Drive-in theaters are hanging tough.
The closing quote is pure gold…
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AMERICAN NOMENKLATURA? Michelle Obama’s Gibson guitar gift.
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WaPo: Romney’s plan to beat Perry.
Sounds like it was lifted straight from the Democratic playbook: scaring seniors.
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AI vs. AI: Two Chatbots Talk With Each Other.
Video at the link.
I hate customer service associates who behave like chatbots. Maybe I hate chatbots, too…
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BRING IT, COMRADE: Get ready, you say?
What exactly makes you think Wisconsin “tea-party-baggers” are not ready, punks? Are you ready?
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BREAKING: SPANISH GOVERNMENT CO-OPTED BY TERRORISTS: “Spain’s main political parties reached a final deal Friday on a key amendment that will include a budget-deficit cap in the country’s constitution”.
If this is what’s become of Euro-socialism, the American Left sure has its work cut out for it. And the Tea Party principles of fiscal conservatism suddenly don’t look that radical, do they?
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Al Gore Jumps the Shark: And if you disagree with me, you’re racist.
He sure’s been sounding even shriller than usual lately…
UPDATE: Does R. S. McCain read The Rhetorican? I know he does sometimes. He also works harder at blogging than me, as is evident here.
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When Founders Leave: Lessons for Apple From Microsoft, Intel and Sun.
Related: WSJ: Tales of When Legends Leave.
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An interesting wrinkle on those Gibson Guitar raids, if true: Gibson Guitar competitor reportedly is Dem donor, uses same wood, has experienced no raids.
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UPHOLDING THE NARRATIVE, plus a little battlefield preparation: “British Evolutionary Biologist and Author” Richard Dawkins deplores “uneducated fool” Rick Perry’s belief in creationism: “The ‘evolution question’ deserves a prominent place in the list of questions put to candidates in interviews and public debates during the course of the coming election.” I bet he’d like that.
In my opinion, if America can handle a POTUS who opposes gay marriage, we can handle a POTUS who doesn’t embrace Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
As to how that is any of a pompous Brit’s business – Dawson even takes the time to insult all Republican voters in this diatribe of his – it eludes me. This man is citizen of a country throughout parts of which Monty Python’s Life of Brian remains banned to this day. Go insult your own bitter-clingers, you limey wanker.
WaPo‘s Sally Quinn couldn’t find an American to rail against Perry’s creationist views and his potential voters? Is Bill Maher really that busy? Or is he just too much of a comedian?
UPDATE: For the record, I believe in evolution – and not because the Pope told me to…
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File Under ‘News You Can Use’: Nuclear plants in Hurricane Irene’s path.
Be safe out there, East Coasters…
UPDATE: Oh, and don’t do stupid stuff like this.
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I think they call that inflation: Ace: Lefty Has Great Plan To Reduce Obesity– Government-Imposed Hikes In Food Prices.
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Lawsuit of the Week: Class Claims Credit Reporter Misidentified ‘Hundreds or Thousands’ as Sex Offenders.
Good times…
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Hollywood Tries A New Battle Plan: “After years of war movies about conflicted fighters, a new crop of films is shifting focus: to tactics, technology and teamwork.”
Good.
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Your Moment of Geek: Four Candidates for 2012 and Four Alternate X-Men Histories to Guide them.
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Al Gore Is Feeling Ignored: Gore Asks Supporters To Donate Twitter & Facebook Accounts to Climate Campaign: “The apparent goal on September 14 is to flood the social media networks of supporters with coordinated messages pegged to a 24 hour multimedia event and Internet broadcast. As advertised, the event features a day of presentations by Gore linking climate catastrophe to the efforts of Big Oil, Big Coal, and climate deniers.” Yawn. Taste the irrelevance, Warmists. Nobody cares. Nobody cares because you lie too much and too often. I suspect in 5 years or less ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ will be remembered as little more than a moderately successful sci-fi film that happened to win an Oscar.
But linking climate catastrophe to climate deniers? That sounds like a veiled threat. Kinda like this:
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CARTEL WARS: Gunmen Kill at Least 53 at Mexican Casino.
This is perhaps the deadliest violent incident ever in my mom’s hometown, which was once one of Latin America’s safest and most vibrant business hubs.
In some rural areas common graves have surfaced full of many more bodies than this, but this is a grim, new benchmark for the city of Monterrey…
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Standards: Hollywood Walk Of Fame Bans Reality Stars.
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STRATFOR: Libya After Gadhafi.
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May Petty Officer Jon Tumilson rest in peace…
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Enforcing Civility: Black Tea Party Leader Demands Apology from Maxine Waters.
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HEADLINE OF THE
DAYYEAR: Bull semen spill causes scare, closes highway.That’s some bull…
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Trailer: Scorsese’s George Harrison Documentary.
Debuting on HBO next month…
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Court Filing of the Week: Samsung cites 2001: A Space Odyssey in patent defense against Apple’s iPad.
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5.9 earthquake hits D.C. area/Virginia.
Actual, geological earth-shaking. I’m not going for allegory here…
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Crowdsourcing big brand TV advertising: Duck Tape Meets Tron.
It’s brilliant. And yet not a single ad agency was involved. It was all developed and produced through creative crowdsourcing site Tongal.com, but it wasn’t exactly the result of some Average Joe working out of his garage, either. More like a very talented group of Joe’s and Jane’s working out of someone’s garage.
