May 14, 2013
— Maetenloch
Because I'm really tired and on the edge of getting sick.
I blame George Bush, society, and the French. But common Chinese farming practices probably also played a role.
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology. The governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabe, and when she got specially muddled she would take it out of the Wart by rapping his knuckles. She did not rap Kay's knuckles, because when Kay grew older he would be Sir Kay, the master of the estate. The Wart was called the Wart because it more or less rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name. Kay had given him the nickname. Kay was not called anything but Kay, as he was too dignified to have a nickname and would have flown into a passion if anybody had tried to give him one. The governess had red hair and some mysterious wound from which she derived a lot of prestige by showing it to all the women of the castle, behind closed doors. It was believed to be where she sat down, and to have been caused by sitting on some armour at a picnic by mistake. Eventually she offered to show it to Sir Ector, who was Kay's father, had hysterics and was sent away. They found out afterwards that she had been in a lunatic hospital for three years.In the afternoons the programme was: Mondays and Fridays, tilting and horsemanship; Tuesdays, hawking; Wednesdays, fencing; Thursdays, archery; Saturdays, the theory of chivalry, with the proper measures to be blown on all occasions, terminology of the chase and hunting etiquette. If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword. This was called being bladed. It was horseplay, a sort of joke like being shaved when crossing the line. Kay was not bladed, although he often went wrong.
When they had got rid of the governess, Sir Ector said; "After all, damn it all, we can't have the boys runnin' about all day like hooligans-after all, damn it all? Ought to be havin' a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin' all this Latin and stuff at five o'clock every mornin'. Happiest time of me life. Pass the port."
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May 15, 2013
— Ace No link for a Large Island-Nation State Media. But it's at the BBC, if you want to Bing the headline.
Over the next five years, the US will account for a third of new oil supplies, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).The US will change from the world's leading importer of oil to a net exporter.
Demand for oil from Middle-East oil producers is set to slow as a result.
"North America has set off a supply shock that is sending ripples throughout the world," said IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven.
The surge in US production will reshape the whole industry, according to the IEA...
The report sees the US passing Russia to become the world's largest natural gas producer in 2015, and becoming energy self-sufficient by 2035.
So, there is some good news.
via @donsurber
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May 14, 2013
— Ace !!!
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A Very Special American: Below, a musical tribute to this plucky little imbecile.
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— Open Blogger A grammar test.
I got 8/10 but had to really think REALLY HARD about several of them. For a gearhead techie, who mostly deals in a "See the dog." type writing, that's probably a damned good score. With slight chemical/alcohol impairment, I could see scoring maybe 2/10...or less.
OK, that's enough diversion, now back to the good stuff - like Limbaugh living rent free in Obama's head.
...there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us, but theyÂ’re fearful of their base and theyÂ’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them. And as a consequence, we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government...See, its like this, the failure of bipartisanship is all due to one man, a private citizen, who's really just an entertainer, not any sort of deep policy wonk per se, yet he manages to be both an evil super-genius for managing to deftly thwart the plans of the smartest man in the room, and a drug addled Neanderthal knuckle dragger who represents the last dying remnants of bitter clingers who stand no chance of ever ever winning an election again rushing headlong onto the ash heap of history to join pet rocks, hoop skirts, chastity belts, and cuneiform as a spoken language.
That these two characteristics, evil super-genius with the power to thwart the most powerful man on the planet and clingy wasteoid doper throwback ash heap percher can reside within the same human body concurrently is near miraculous...at the very least its a 1:1,000,000 shot according to my bookie.
(1) ScandalGate™ - the "meta scandal" that there's so many concurrent scandals.
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— Ace Nah, bro.
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May 15, 2013
— DrewM
Natural conservatives! MT @pewhispanic: 2nd gener #Hispanics more liberal, Dem-leaning than their immigrant parents pewrsr.ch/YWSXds
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) May 14, 2013
Among Hispanics, there is somewhat less support for an activist government among the second generation than Hispanic immigrants, although a clear majority of both generations prefers a larger government with more services to a smaller one providing fewer services. But more of the second-generation Hispanics identify themselves as liberal on political issues than do first-generation Hispanics.Generational differences are pronounced on attitudes about social issues. Second-generation Hispanics and Asian Americans are more liberal than the first generation on attitudes about homosexuality and abortion. Compared with the general public, second-generation Asian Americans are more liberal on both issues. Second-generation Hispanics tend to be more accepting of homosexuality than the general public; their views on abortion are similar to those of the general public.
This is the point in the program where Team Amnesty tells you the GOP kick-ass messaging team will kick in and with a little outreach, someday we'll turn all those liberals into card carrying conservatives.
Yeah, about that. Seems the RNC's director of Hispanic Outreach, Pablo Pantoja, just became a Democrat.
He was upset over the news of Jason Richwine's Harvard Ph.D dissertation.
No word yet on whether Pantoja was so shocked at the despicable comments of former NAACP Chairman and Obama supporter Julian Bond he immediately abandoned the racist Democrats.
Just to be clear about something. That Hispanics tend to skew more liberal than the general population (by quite a bit) doesn't mean they are bad people. This kind of information isn't a slam at Hispanics. It's a slam at pro-amnesty conservatives who are lying to gain support for their position.
This is an important debate, we can't let the lies of one side go unchallenged.
And a friendly reminder for all.
"Earned path to citizenship is basically code for amnesty."- @marcorubio 10/24/10 ace.mu.nu/archives/33934Â…
— DrewM (@DrewMTips) May 14, 2013
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May 14, 2013
— andy
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
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— Ace Via Allah, who has more, but you'll have to go over there for that.
The spin from Planned Parenthood is that Gosnell was apparently convicted for Conspiracy to Keep a Dirty Office -- that is to say, the only conviction that "counts" is the 3rd degree murder charge of the woman he butchered in a botched abortion, and the general lack of hygiene of the place.
Gosnell was not convicted of Conspiracy to Keep a Dirty Office.
He was convicted of first-degree aggravated (capital) murder of three live-born babies, by method of snipping their spinal cords with scissors.
It's a pernicious lie that only an idiot could believe.
And yet the media seems okay with it. Oh, I'm not saying they believe it. But they don't mind propagating it.
It's helpful to their cause.
It's also a lie, but that has long ago ceased being any sort of concern to them.
Also linked below, Bret Baier's panel discusses whether or not this will "change the debate" on abortion. Kristen Powers notes that many pro-choice women erroneously believe that no abortions are permitted (absent extraordinary circumstances) after twelve weeks, which is why they're so chill on the subject of late term abortion. They believe it's already illegal, and, ergo, anyone wishing to tighten up abortion laws must have more in mind than that.
The media, of course, will not disabuse them of this false belief.
The public doesn't know it's a problem if they don't know it's a problem. Yogi Bera said that, or he would have, if he'd had a blog.
Steven Hayes and Kristen Powers then debate whether or not Gosnell will "change the discussion" on abortion. Hayes says it must, Powers says she's "skeptical."
Powers is correct. She's also in a better position to know -- she allies with liberals and understands how they think, and how they suppress information damaging to their cause. Given her late declarations that the media has a serious problem in how it reports stories (that is, given its excruciatingly obvious and blatant propagandizing function), she also has a more realistic appraisal of precisely how propagandistic the media has become than Hayes does.
Hayes seems to still believe that truth matters.
As Harry Reid just told you, this is just about cleaning instruments and occasionally giving the operating table a good wipe-down.
Who in the media will say differently?*
* In fairness, the reporters do seem to be less than satisfied with Reid's answer. It's hard to say, as the clip ends so shortly after his response. And yet, while they may be personally offended to have such unmitigated bullshit thrown right into their faces, they may be much less inclined to note it's bullshit for their audiences.
Update: That reporter unsatisfied with Reid's answer?
John W. McCormack of the Weekly Standard.
So my "in fairness" paragraph is simply wrong -- we have no evidence here that the leftist media has any problem with Reid's answer. The only person we know who was bothered by it is a guy working in the alternative media.
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— Ace This is being variously reported by Large Northeastern Media Outlets. I don't see the need for a link.
As of yet the Philadelphia DA hasn't offered the expected, rote statement about "the ends of justice justifying" the exchange or whatnot. When they do say that -- which of course they will -- I'm not sure it will be worth quoting because you know what they're going to say.
Twitchy notes that the babies Gosnell killed weren't given such a generous choice.
By the way: ABC avoided covering the trial completely until last night, with Diane Sawyer offering 1 minute and 51 seconds of coverage, which, coincidentally enough, is the amount of time she needs to polish off three highballs and a handful of bull tranquilizers.
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— Ace At MRC. I juiced the headline. I learned that from the media.
Let me knock this woman, Margaret Sullivan, for something:
Many on the right – as noted last week in my blog posts about Benghazi – do not think they can get a fair shake from The Times. This coverage won’t do anything to dispel that belief.
Is it only the right that's interested in government oversight and accuracy in reporting?
If so, what an inadvertent concession from Ms. Sullivan.
The media is determined to ghettoize, marginalize, Otherize, exoticize -- call it what you will -- the right.
We must push back against this at every turn. When Margaret Sullivan suggests the Times' biased, inaccurate, "intellectually incurious" coverage should only be a concern to conservatives, we must challenge her.
Either she should be forced to concede that the Times does a disservice to every reader by stuffing them full of falsehoods and spin, or that the Times readers do not want accurate reporting about the world they live in, and conservatives alone are now interested in such things.
One or the other-- but we must not let them suggest we are "exotic" or strange for demanding the New York Times live up to is (increasingly laughable) mission statement.
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