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I was checking out the home page of Neda Net and came across this interesting bit: I’m Eric S. Raymond. Some of you will know me from the open-source movement as “ESR”. Because of the real threat of terrorist action against us, most of NedaNet is keeping a low profile. I have volunteered to be…

In the latest wrinkle of Birth Certificate Trutherism, an Ebay seller has been prohibited from selling what he calls “Barack Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate” — and for a very interesting reason: In the third listing from colmado_naranja, the seller explains, “This time their reasoning for the cancellation was that birth certificates and other forms are…

Even though I’m gloating over my good fortune, I feel guilty over a purchase I made yesterday. I’d been looking for canister filters (which are expensive — typically hundreds of dollars each) and I spotted a Craigslist ad for a bunch of aquarium stuff which included two canister filters. Everything was $100.00. I made a…

An Iranian asks: “Dear Israeli Brothers and Sisters,” writes Iranian dissident Arash Irandoost, “Iran needs your help more than ever now. And we will be eternally grateful. Please help opposition television and radio stations which are blocked and being jammed by the Islamic Republic (Nokia and Siemens) resume broadcast to Iran. There is a total…

With ABC handing over hours of primetime to Obama’s infomercial for socialism (which failed utterly to attract viewers, thus giving the lie to the notion they’ve been kowtowing to him just because he’s a draw) I shouldn’t be surprised by this little piece of enviro-propaganda (enviroganda?) from the AP, furtively titled “analysis,” which I suppose…

I get emails, and this morning I was greeted by this one: let me see if I understand this. these deficits are bad,, but bush”s were fine. and I forget what was wrong with clintons surpluses. it is a hell of mess you people got us into.. this message was awful early, you repubs(now a…

In a discussion of Barack Obama’s father, a piece in The American Thinker touched on an interesting point about Marxism: Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal…

The Climate Bill passed the House 219 to 212. Which is a fairly slim margin since the minimum required for a House majority is 218 votes. Now the Senate has to go over it. It will be interesting to see how the Senators from Illinois (a coal state – I met my mate in Carbondale,…

An EPA Staffer, Alan Carlin, has dropped a bomb [pdf] not just on global warming (it is currently not happening) but also on the “concensus” hypothesis about how the climate system works. The document makes these points: The EPA report is based on the last IPCC report which is now 3 years out of date.…

Meet one of the newest members of my household (peeking from the inside of his secure PVC sewer pipe hiding place): It’s a young Jack Dempsey cichlid. I have a pair of them (each has his own piece of PVC, of course), in a tank with my Flowerhorn Trimac cichlid, which became too aggressive to…

Asking readers whether they have any ideas what the man might mean, Ann Althouse links a perplexing tidbit from former presidential hopeful Mark Sanford: I’m here because if you were to look at God’s laws, they’re in every instance designed to protect people from themselves. I think that that is the bottom line of God’s…

Until today I had never heard of Baby Dee. But a friend enlightened me after seeing her act, and I found this on YouTube. As Baby Dee explains in the above, s/he does not want to be called a “singer songwriter,” so I won’t. Your cultural mileage may vary.

Culturally illiterate I may be, but I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, whose brilliant career and tragic life ended with an apparently preventable death. In life, Jackson was hyped to the max, and I don’t doubt the same thing will happen in death. Considering the monstrous cap and trade scheme that is poised to…

The question of the day is: will Northern Lights replace Cabernet Sauvignon or Dos Equis? Mary is a 37-year-old, self-employed mother in Seattle who smokes pot several times a week. “It is relaxing, fun, and once in a while I self-medicate for cramps or headaches,” said Mary. She says she prefers smoking to drinking beer…

Speaking of my cultural illiteracy, I’m embarrassed to admit that until last night I had never heard of the Hygienic Dress League. However, I had my camera handy, and I took a picture: As it turns out, the “League” is all in the minds of the sign painters, who happen to be engaged in guerilla…

Regular readers know I can’t stand television, and I don’t watch network television programming at all. As I freely admitted in two recent posts, this makes me a cultural illiterate. For the life of me, I don’t know what programs are on, and if I hang out with television watchers and they discuss programs, I…

Via HotAir, Tom Friedman has a bold plan to end the theocratic state in Iran: put a $1 tax on U.S. gasoline! Sure, it will be a terrible burden on everyday Americans during the worst economic conditions in a generation, but surely the mullahs will embrace democratic reforms if they have slightly less money! Only…

Some of you may remember my article Defeated by Pornography where I discussed how modern technology was liquefying Islamic society. We can start with this amazing statistic: Up to 70% of files exchanged between Saudi teenagers’ mobile phones contain pornography, according to a study in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom. Well the Saudis are at it…

Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs is doing an excellent job of keeping up to date on events in Iran. She has a report from a medical student. I only want to speak about what I have witnessed. I am a medical student. There was chaos at the trauma section in one of our main hospitals.…

If you look at my sidebar at Power and Control you will see that the logo for Regime Change Iran has been banned. The message reads in part: This page/domain banned b/c porn, warez, or topsite. If you own this site and feel the ban is in error visit imageshack.us go to “Contact Image Shack”…