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Archive for December 6th, 2007

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Those Destroyed CIA Torture Tapes *Can* Be Explained

By Mona
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It is a lie that Rose Mary Woods died in 2005; that is disinformation. She is a covert agent, well and working for the CIA as custodian of their “interrogation” videos.
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P.S. I had not read Marty Lederman before I wrote this post. It truly is simply GMTA.

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Football Live-ish Blogging

Bears-Redskins has a fair chance of becoming a legendarily bad game. At least the Dolphins-Steelers mud-wrestling match of two years ago had the excuse of torrential rain and treacherous footing. And now Campbell is seiously injured.
UPDATE: Wow. Redskins play 21st-Century football. How do you hold a 4-point lead with 6 minutes left in a football [...]

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Tough-Minded, Hardnosed UTTER CREDULITY

McQ leaves off declaiming how he totally would have won Nam if we’d let him to point to the slam-dunk proof of outright climate-change fraud by so-called scientists:
My advice from the past remains current: be very skeptical and require a very high level of proof, not conjecture, before agreeing to open your wallet.
What constitutes a [...]

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Security is not a slavery pact

By Thoreau
Something just hit me, while re-reading David Weigel’s interview with Congressman John Campbell, a self-described Randian conservative who believes limited government is all well and good as long as there are no Muslims to be afraid of:
“I’m very much a privacy guy,” Campbell avers, speaking specifically about telephone surveillance. “It’s something I feel strongly [...]

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

This sh!t is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

By Thoreau
Am I wrong for giggling when I see two creationist dudes raving about the way that a banana can fit in your mouth without squirting the contents?  And saying that bananas’ suitability for a human mouth is proof that God designed it?
Hat tip to Kevin and Bean on KROQ

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Political Pilgrims, The Continuing Story

Gateway Pundit is, inexplicably, woofing about Iraq. The things he’s so excited about are
1. The Vice President has issued another confident prediction of future swellness. The Vice President is always issuing confident predictions of future swellness. (Two words: “Last throes.”) His words mean nothing to anyone with minimal intelligence or more.
2. The US is planning [...]

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Meta Things

1. This is amusing.
2. It may be a bit opaque to people who don’t read Marginal Revolution regularly.
3. But you can probably get it from context.
Overall, I incline toward 1 and 3.

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Sometimes, Karma is Kind

By Thoreau
Today, I sent an old professor of mine an email to thank him and tell him that I’m now teaching and I’ve been looking back at my classes with him as a model to emulate.  Shortly afterward, I got an email from one of my students telling me that he never thought he could [...]