Private jet parking spaces are endangered by global warming, much like the adorable polar bears you've seen pictures of.

Thanks to dri.

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The demo is downloadable here. Don't blame me if it has viruses or anything. It was just sent to me. I don't know anything about the game.

Though the animations look sorta amusing.

Thanks to Tim.

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Video.

I'm amazed at how the MSM continues to intone the word "semi-automatic" as if this is some exotic action in a weapon, suggesting, through the deadly stress and talismanic power they invest in that description, that the rifle in question was actually automatic rather than the typical one-pull-one-shot.

Does anyone in the MSM fucking know what semi-automatic means? Any single person? Anyone?

Bonus Video: Savage bat-beating captured on police CCTV.

Posted by: Ace at 01:31 PM | Comments (32)
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In one corner...Global Warming Fetishsizers.

In the other corner...The Traditions of Judaism.

Who will come out ahead? I'm betting on the God that isn't named "Al Gore".

In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment.

The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.

You know, not only is this absurd. This is patently offensive. And I'm not even Jewish.

There is a reason 8 candles are lit in the Menorah to celebrate Hannakuh (9 if you count the "Shamesh", the candle used to light the others.) When the Jews overthrew the oppressive vestiges of Alexander the Great's Hellinistic Empire (under which the practice of Judaism was outlawed by successive rulers) and rededicated the second temple, God didn't make one day's supply of oil burn for 24 hours. The oil didn't last 4 days. Or 6 days. Or 14 days.

It lasted 8 days.

To attempt to encourage observant Jews to abandon the traditions of their religion to accomodate some New Age Fad is abhorrent. Symbols and traditions are important: they help define a people and a culture. They are a source of strength and of continuity. They are not to be changed whimsically. A people that have historically been subjugated, as the Jews have been, know this inherently.

Fortunately, the cavalry appears to be coming to the rescue:

United Torah Judaism MK Avraham Ravitz called the environmentalists "crazy people who are playing with the minds of innocent Jewish people." He said the campaign would only convince people who do not light candles anyway.

"They should encourage people to light one less cigarette instead," Ravitz said.

Rabbi Benny Lau of Jerusalem's Ramban Congregation, who is himself an environmental activist, praised the good intentions of the people behind the campaign. But he said the environmentalists should be trying to reach out to observant Jews instead of running campaigns that turn them away.

"People in the green movement who have an agenda have unfortunately made it anti-religious," Lau said. "This makes religious people think incorrectly that anything environmentalist is against them. The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit. Tikkun olam [fixing the world] must be done by adding more light and not by adding more darkness."

This is exactly correct. It is the replacing of one belief system with another, incrementally. It is as repulsive a notion as any of the numerous accomodations that have been made to soothe the feelinigs of the Religion of the Perpetually Aggrieved. And it should be objected to strenuously.

So, I'm going to do my own little bit this year. I won't be lighting a menorah, as I won't be a part of belittling the tradition to make a political point.

Instead, I'm going to do something that I never do. I'm going to burn the biggest damn Yule Log I can fit into my fireplace.

It may not be a candle on a menorah, but it ought to offset the actions of many of those who choose to laugh in the face of God.

Because when it comes to choosing sides between these two religions, I know what side I'm on.

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He was a "moby," as LGF terms them -- a liberal troll pretending to be a conservative making hateful and unhinged comments to bring disrepute on conservative blogs.

Trouble is, he advocated shooting teachers, Columbine-style, to prove his supposed conservative credentials.

Milwaukee authorities were not amused. As LGF notes, it seems somewhat extreme, but then, Live By Hate Speech Laws, Die By Hate Speech Laws. Hoisted by his own retard.

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They seem to disagree on the meaning, but I think this is an important new edition to the English language, whatever it might mean.

Thanks to Little Miss Attila.

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Curious. The article is all about the long-anticipated recession which the NYT claims is just around the corner.

But if a recession is coming, that means we're not, in fact, currently in a recession, right? Indeed the economy just grew at its fastest pace in three years (and it's been growing consistently since 2002). And the ISM report on manufacturing activity showed another month of growth (albeit very small growth).

Is the NYT now embracing a novel use of the future perfect tense, using the present tense to indicate a hypothetical future state?

And-- are they ever going to admit the economy is actually doing well currently?

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Cute. They're making surrender toys for all the good little liberal boys and girls.

(PS: Yes, that's Michael Chertoff in there too, who Bean threw in because he might as well be Dem.)

Thanks to Bean.

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...barring a pardon from President Hillary Clinton, of course.

Thanks to dri.

Correction: I wrote he may get up to 20 years. Actually the stub doesn't say how many years he could get; the 20 figure is from the number of millions of dollars he defrauded people out of. Apologies.

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Yesterday I blogged about a release from the Hillary! campaign charging that Obama had been planning his presidential campaign for many years. Among the quotes Clinton sited as evidence were excerpts from essays Obama wrote in grade school.

Today, HillaryÂ’s pollster Mark Penn says itÂ’s all a joke thrown in as a joke at the end of a long release and everyone is so gullible for falling for the Obama spin. Riehl World has the video.

Well, here's the intro to the release.

Today in Iowa, Senator Barack Obama said: "I have not been planning to run for President for however number of years some of the other candidates have been planning for."

Oh really?

"Senator Obama's comment today is fundamentally at odds with what his teachers, family, classmates and staff have said about his plans to run for President," Clinton spokesperson Phil Singer said. "Senator Obama's campaign rhetoric is getting in the way of his reality."

The first group the spokesman points to is ‘teachers’ and the only teachers quoted in the release are the kindergarten and third grade teachers. It seems the school angle was presented as more than a throw away joke 'at the end of a long thing".

There are ways to include the teachers as a joke but prefacing them by saying their recollections are ‘fundamentally at odds’ with Obama doesn’t strike me as particularly humorous.

Maybe I just don’t get the nuances of liberal “humor”.

In the grand scheme of things this is of no importance except as another example of the Clinton's inability to simply admit a mistake and tell the truth.

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