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Fox News haters prefer herd journalism

Posted on July 3, 2011 | Comments Off on Fox News haters prefer herd journalism

O’Reilly asks: “Why does Media Matters, which admits it’s in business to hurt [Fox News], receive tax-exempt status?”

Gosh, Bill, with a Democrat Senate and White House, do you really wonder why? Isn’t working, anyhow, as Fox continues to beat the competition like the dusty rugs they are.

Silly as Media Matters is (I mean, really, how dare the right-wing dissent from the dominant left-wing media view?), even more amusing was Little Green Footballs recent pointer to a preference for herd journalism, so long as it suits their politics, of course.

They branded Fox News a (gasp) outlier for finding a new headline buried in the Left’s latest consensus reporting. Yep. Obviously, initiative is bad when it departs from the official line. Mustn’t confuse the weak minds who need confirmation of their political opinions in order to feel secure.

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Favorite headlines

Posted on June 25, 2011 | Comments Off on Favorite headlines

Meryl Yourish: What A Difference A Gun Makes

Harry Smeltzer: Living Monuments

Bernie: Should Putting Women on a Leash Be Legal?

Zombie: Mohammed Image Archive

J-Lem Post: What to do with lemons like Thomas Friedman

Bernie, again: Gross Muslim Jokes

Amazon: Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

Knoxville 1863: Civil War Flapdoodle

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Please, No More Tears for Dead Palestinians

Posted on June 22, 2011 | Comments Off on Please, No More Tears for Dead Palestinians

I expect this year’s roster of dead Syrians, alone, has far surpassed the Pali total by now.

Although not the toll of dead Syrians in 1982 and, as Bernie reminds us, there wasn’t then and there isn’t now a single Leftist complaint (Code Pink, where are you?) or a single tear from a single Arab government. For the dead Syrians. They only cry for the terror-choosing dead Palis  ’cause, of course, they hate Israel.

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The coming Ice Age

Posted on June 15, 2011 | Comments Off on The coming Ice Age

Hot enough for you? It’s edging back up to 100 degrees F at the rancho this morning, where it’s topped out daily for more than a week now. And, frankly, when the sunspots started up again last year, I figured, well, predictions of an ice age were more than a bit premature.

So imagine my surprise at today’s announcement at the AAS: “The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon.”

If so, the current heat wave will soon be relegated to nostalgia and global warming a desirable phenom. Indeed, perhaps the only thing to save us from widespread crop failures due, not to excessive heat, but frigid, icy temperatures worldwide.

UPDATE:  If you want an idea of what it might be like, try Fallen Angels, with its predictions of blizzards in Missouri in September and returning glaciers (300-feet high at their leading edge) sliding ever-farther south.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate

Spock violates the Prime Directive

Posted on June 10, 2011 | Comments Off on Spock violates the Prime Directive

Shocka, right? But Spock’s alter ego, Leonard Nimoy, is obviously less prudent than the pointy-eared one when it comes to not interfering in the internal development of other civilizations.

Hence his Hollyweird-esque meddling in Israeli domestic policy. Nimoy, who cribbed his split-fingers “live long and prosper” from Israel’s ancient high priests (without, natch, any attribution), should know better.

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Texas campuses still safe for terrorists

Posted on June 9, 2011 | Comments Off on Texas campuses still safe for terrorists

I’m sure the boys of Al Q—who recently urged American Muslims to buy guns and start shooting—will be pleased as punch to hear the good news: they won’t be getting any return fire on a Texas college campus—at least not until the cops respond. When they do, if they do.

Al Q can thank a Texas Democrat, State Rep. Mike Villarreal of San Antonio. He used a parliamentary objection to kill what had been considered a sure-to-pass law to make it legal for already- licensed gun carriers to carry their guns on campus.

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The One-State Solution

Posted on June 8, 2011 | Comments Off on The One-State Solution

Give the whole Middle East to Israel. The “Arab Spring” would truly blossom. The garbage will be picked up, instead of scattered in the streets, the economies will vastly improve, the stonings of women for adultery and the hanging of homosexuals for, uh, homosexuality, will cease—and, as a bonus, our gas prices will go down! Yay!

Not to mention that the legacy news media, the UN, and the politicians can finally stop whining about how a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian “problem” is the key to Middle East peace. They could go do some honest work for a change. (Fat chance.)

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