December 2009
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Denninger Goes After The TSA →
soupsoup:
venezianijournal:
And FINALLY addresses the factual issues on security, flying, and muslim radicals.
My second-favorite line on the subject of air security after this:
Between R&D and procurement, the U.S. military buys $160 billion a year on weapons systems and trucks and cars and communications and aircraft and ships. The [9/11] terrorists, with a $25,000 budget, what were...
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David Bowie - Hang On To Yourself (Arnold Corns...
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RE: No decade has destroyed my business model
gregnews:
Paul Krugman calls this decade The Big Zero: “the decade in which we achieved nothing and learned nothing”. Rebecca Mead at The New Yorker bemoans this decade’s lack of a name, even calling our failure to come up with a popular name a “troubling harbinger”.
When Odysseus was captured by the man-eating giant cyclopes Polyphemus, Odysseus wisely said his name was οὔτις (“no man” in...
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The Pimps of Joytime - San Francisco Bound (DJ...
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“The attempt by 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab follows the...”
– The Terror This Time: Janet Napolitano says the system worked. No, we were brave and lucky.
From The WSJ today.
12.
Yeesh.
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Q-Tip, The Pimps Of Joytime, Dam-Funk & DJ... →
THAT’S a party.
If you still need NYE plans…
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Aeroplane - Whispers [iTunes link]
Those conga...
What do you believe to be the most important value...
buildingaladder:
What do you believe to be the most important value in a relationship?
Trust.
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Sloane Berrent, the O.G. "Causemopolitan," also... →
Making very GPICT-esque moves with $5 or 5 Minutes = 1 Way to Make a Difference:
You know what people say to me all the time? I want to get involved but I don’t know how. Where do I start? It’s too overwhelming, there is too much information out there.
Well, I’ve heard you, and I’m here to help. Today launches the newest series on The Causemopolitan. It’s called “$5 or 5 Minutes = 1 Way to...
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GPICT - Pearl Jam: Ten Ways to Give for the... →
Pearl Jam gets into the spirit.
From pearljam.com:
Still looking for a great gift this holiday season? There is no better time to show support for causes that you and those on your list are passionate about. Here are TEN of our favorite ways you can make a big difference.
Happy Holidays!
Some good ones.
1. Give Loans that Change Lives
Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person, global...
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Star Wars Lightsaber Chopsticks Set
For the nerd who has everything.
Get yours today here.
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Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - (Love Is Like...
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“I’m sorry, are you being sarcastic? Canadians have a hard time recognizing...”
– Damn, 30 Rock was funny last week.
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Town Names That Are Fun To Say, Pt. 1:
ohhleary:
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phunkyfresh:
inothernews:
“Quogue”
“Massapequa”
“Shinnecock.”
“Chicoutimi.”
“Poughkeepsie”
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The Real Gitmo, today →
Thomas Joscelyn, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and —- ahem —- someone who’s actually visited Guantánamo:
Gone, too, are the orange jumpsuits. They have been replaced by tan, white, and other neutral-colored clothing. During my multi-day tour of Guantánamo Bay, one official tells me that some journalists from Turkey wanted to take pictures of the...
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Jane Seymour's real name: →
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg
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Um, this is going to be ugly?
soupsoup:
ninety9:
Hat in mix:
37signals: Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
P.S. - That I had to remove the indents and included responses within them to ensure this post was legible illustrates strikingly how much Tumblr often falls victim to shitty appearances when reblogs grow out of control.
Exhibit A:
Why I vote for comments on meatier...
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“I guess I just didn’t dive deep enough into the facts.”
– Quote of the Year by your token “well-informed and intended Tri-State Area Liberal” concluding an obviously thoroughly researched debate on health care “reform” today on that bastion of contemporary political thought, Facebook.
See also:
Ironic “18-to-34-year-olds...
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Will people comply with health-insurance mandate? →
The mandates will both increase the participation in the pool of higher-risk patients and increase demand for services from providers. That will have the same effect nationally as we have seen in Massachusetts and Maine, which is to make insurance premiums much more costly, wait times for services lengthen, and eventually put providers and insurers out of business if they can’t raise prices to...
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Tosca - Honey
Been curating my own “Best of...
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Listicle Without Commentary - The Greatest...
pareene:
rendit:
The Greatest Christmas Movies of All Time, In Order
2. The Apartment
1. Batman Returns
Dude. Die Hard.
Trading Places.
Or Die Hard!
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Top Nine Health Care Charts You’ve Never Seen...
Trial lawyers are the second biggest donor to the Democrats’ Political Action Committee, trailing only the union bosses of the IBEW.
The “lawsuit industry” gives more money (roughly $127 million in 2008) to Congress than every sector of the health care industry, combined.
Medical malpractice costs continue to skyrocket to new historical highs, growing far faster than any other component of...
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Good, pragmatic piece - Government by Wishful... →
Way back in the depths of time, Greek philosophers ended up with two basic and incompatible ways of looking at the universe. One way was materialism, which says that there is a material universe which behaves in a consistent way, and if you study it you can learn the way it works.
That’s the world view of engineers and scientists — and businessmen, for that matter. It’s the world view of people...
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BRILLIANT SUGGESTION RE: The 1,200 limos and 140...
Seriously.
In advance:
RE: The 1,200 limos:
Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, said her company hasn’t enough limos in the country to fulfill the demand of the conference attendees. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that...
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The fucking morons are running the asylum - RE:... →
Meant to post this the other day. I don’t even know where to begin. Just amazing.
A promising proposal in The Bronx that would have meant 2,200 new jobs and $324 million in investment for the borough was shot down on Monday.
Taking its cue from Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and the Bronx delegation, the City Council voted 45-1 to reject the bid from developer Related Cos. to refurbish...
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So, Iran invaded Iraq yesterday... →
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) — Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn and occupied a well in the East Maysan oil field, Border Guard General Zafer Nazmi said.
The Iranian forces positioned tanks around well number 4, which is in the al-Fakah region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Baghdad. The two neighbors have disputed the border of southeast Iraq for decades.
“They...
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Best Sledding Spots in NYC →
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Watchinnonate:
gbattle:
“Glengarry, Glen-Christmas” - SNL skit, with Alec Baldwin playing the Elf from the main office. Brilliant.
Totally cracked me up when I saw this last night. Really funny.
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RE: Dealbreaker
ohhleary:
When she considers Professor Thom’s “a dive.”
My friend made me go on a double date with him and a girl he was seeing from Beverly Hills around this time last year.
She refused to go to “a bar.”
I should have known what I was getting myself into when my friend said “Leave your wallet home, tonight’s on me” almost apologetically as we left my...
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“It’s too hard to live on a planet where you’re a monster for not...”
– Michael Cera, in an interview with Maxim on the last words he’d like to share with the world from his deathbed.
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Sébastien Tellier – La Ritournelle
Always loved...
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In case you haven't seen it yet, here's a rundown... →
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