Unqualified Offerings

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Archive for July 23rd, 2008

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Expert Cultural Analysis from Unqualified Offerings

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. But Obama’s Hawaiian birth marks him as the vassal of the Volcano goddess Pele. My inquiries to a number (zero) of experts on Hawaiian traditional religion indicate that Obama’s move to the mainland marks him as a traitor to the goddess, and opens the very real risk that, should [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I’ll fill my crockpot with the pork and beans

By Thoreau
I’m a do the things that I want to do, and one thing that I want to do is recipe blogging:
Slow-cooked pork and beans:
3 cans of white beans
1 medium pork tenderloin
6 celery stalks, chopped
1 bunch of cilantro, finely chopped
2 bay leaves
2 poblano peppers, chopped
vegetable stock
Place pork on bottom of crock pot. Cover with [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Hit and Run’s best comment of the day…

By Thoreau
…is by Tim Lambert, regarding an article on the dangers from reducing CO2 emissions:
It reminds of stuff by peak oil alarmists that can’t conceive of fuel sources other than oil.
Now, I’m not putting up this post to argue for or against economic regulations targeted at reducing CO2 emissions. But it is interesting to [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Manchurian candidate vs. Xinjiang candidate

By Thoreau
David Weigel is doing an admirable job of tracking the dark secrets behind Obama’s false birth certificate and the conspiracy to hide his foreign birth.  But everybody is forgetting that we have not one but two foreigners running as major party candidates.  It’s well-known among real patriots that Panamanian John McCain plans to hand [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

No More Softball Questions!

Kelly Vlahos says, yes, it’s time for the media on Obama’s trip to ask a few toughies.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Thy Beaming Sword Shill Never Rust

I can’t believe I beat Thomas Nephew to a story about Maryland State Police surveillance of peace and anti-execution groups. He must have signed a nondisclosure form as part of his payout or something.