Quotes
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Line of the moment
From Thomas Sowell
“Intellectuals’ ability to think of people in the abstract is a dangerous talent in a world where people differ in all the ways that make them people.”
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This should be a bumper-sticker
From the Mulligan’s (home of the HamDog) MySpace page.
If it has a face, we can deep fry it!
A review of their Thursday open mic will be here soon.
For those who don’t get the joke, the de facto motto of people who don’t eat meat for ethicquoal reasons is that “They don’t eat anything with a face.”
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Another interesting Steyn column
About the Persian Peril. It features the notable quote “Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue”.
Meanwhile, over on FoxNews, you can read the article Academics Develop Formula for Perfect Butt.
Which is
(S+C) x (B+F) / (T-V).
* S = overall shape (a ripe peach being just about right)
* C = circularity (rounder is better)
* B = bounciness (less wobble is preferred)
* F = firmness (too much push to that cushion loses points)
* T = skin texture (no cellulite, please)
* V = the ratio of one’s hips to waist. Finally, do the math.…
But science really settles nothing, says booty expert Sir-Mix-A-Lot.“They got to be juicy, round, with a little jiggle to it,” the “Baby Got Back” rapper told The Post yesterday, laughing hysterically. “The bubbliness does matter.”
But there’s only one way to measure the most desirable derriere, he said.
“You know it when you see it,” he said. “We could debate this all day.”
Really, that was a real article.
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Wednesday rapid fire
- Immigrants’ Jobless Rate Falls Below U.S. Natives’
The jobless rate among immigrants fell below that of U.S.-born workers last year for the first time in at least a decade, according to new government data, during a hiring boom by construction, hospitality, and other companies that rely heavily on immigrant labor.
Unemployment among immigrants was 4.6 percent in 2005, down from 5.5 percent in 2004. The jobless rate among native-born Americans was 5.2 percent, down from 5.5 percent a year before.
That falls in line with Glenn Reynolds’ comment of
One difference between the demonstrations in France and the demonstrations in America: The French are demonstrating for the right not to work hard, while the demonstrators in America mostly want to work.
- How to Pull an All-Nighter
- Michael Yon is back
- Classic Tough Guy One Liners, my favorites
“Fools get away with the impossible.”,
“She couldn’t be all bad. Nobody is.’ “She comes closest”,
and
“You’re better off than me… You got me for a buddy… I only got you.” - A nice general article on plug-in hybrids.
- Immigrants’ Jobless Rate Falls Below U.S. Natives’
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Quote of the moment
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” – Ansel Adams
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Quote of the Moment
Whiskey and Beer are a man’s worst enemies… but the man that runs away from his enemies is a coward!” –Zeca Pagodinho
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Quick round up
- An excellent article on Muslim immigrants in Sweden. Maybe we didn’t win the cold war. Combine cultural separation with the welfare state and you get some ghastly results. It would be interesting for someone to do an article comparing American Muslims with Europe’s. Everything I’ve seen states rather convincingly that American Muslims are slightly better on all of the social metrics (income, higher education, etc) than native born Americans, whereas Europe’s trend very poorly.
- Senator Reid (D-Nevada) linked to Abramoff. We all knew that was coming I suppose. What is it going to take for term limits to make their come back? Maybe after more gains by the Republicans in November (my current prediction). If not, nothing will.
- I am reflexively against anyone who declares that politician x is “playing the —– card”.
- Quote of the moment – Mickey Kaus with “McCain is to pundit shows what lesbians are to Howard Stern.”
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Quote of the moment
I came across this on Wikipedia
“Life… is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You’re stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there’s nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there’s a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they’re gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you’re desperate enough to eat those, all you’ve got left… is an empty box… filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.”
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Quick roundup
- It’s depressing that two senators don’t realize how off they are. If you want to characterize the Republican majority in the House of Representatives negatively, then the proper term is fascism (taken literally, strength in numbers, and a dictatorship thereof) rather than a plantation, the relevant characteristic being oppression of the many by the few. All to work in a racial angle I suppose.
- Tom MacGuire has more interesting thoughts on the NSA wiretapping thing. Still, why not change the law though?
- An interesting post from the Belmont Club “A stone killer is never idle in a lawless Third World country”
- America’s possible action on Iran:. Evidently some lessons were learned from the lack of immediate American response to Afghanistan after 9-11.
- The Great War of 2007 – very scary possible history.
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Quote of the moment
From Inside the Net podcast – “A business plan will emerge.”