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Sorry.  was this not the religious psychopath you were looking for?

All Topics abortion, murder

An outspoken man challenges automotive PC.

Hmmm. I would not accuse Honda of telling porkies. That would be foolish. But I cannot see how making a car with two motors costs the same in terms of resources as making a car with one.

The nickel for the battery has to come from somewhere. Canada, usually. It has to be shipped to Japan, not on a sailing boat, I presume. And then it must be converted, not in a tree house, into a battery, and then that battery must be transported, not on an ox cart, to the Insight production plant in Suzuka. And then the finished car has to be shipped, not by Thor Heyerdahl, to Britain, where it can be transported, not by wind, to the home of a man with a beard who thinks he’s doing the world a favour.

Why doesn’t he just buy a Range Rover, which is made from local components, just down the road? No, really — weird-beards buy locally produced meat and vegetables for eco-reasons. So why not apply the same logic to cars?

Clarkson DOES hope Honda sells a boatload, if only to give them enough profits to invest in something more worthwhile.

All Topics clarkson, green, honda, hybrids, insight

Or, at least that’s how I read it:

Only the males are killed in accordance with the rules,” said journalist Heba Nasreddin, while “the piglets and sows are hit with an iron bar and left to bleed to death.”

Weird, how different religions approach killin’ stuff.

Oh yeah, this is about that swine flu thing from like three weeks ago.

All Topics, Religion egypt, swine flu

You’re welcome.   Happy Friday.

All Topics fabio

PointofLaw.com directs us to a nice little Card Check scam presumably luring anti-card check types to a pro-EFCA petition.

All Topics card check, efca, twitter

Maybe it just needs a little more time in the oven.

All Topics tesla

These sycophants are writing our history, and we are powerless.

All Topics enchanted, pegasus, unicorns

A little perspective from CNN (nice!)

All Topics swine, swine flu

A scale model of a Saturn V takes flight in Maryland while thousands watch.

I’m sure it wasn’t cheap.

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Scary situation aside, what is the purpose of flying our (arguably) most expensive aircraft around Manhattan with a two-fighter escort?

Bad, bad, BAD call.

All Topics air force one

Pelosi, with a nicely predicated response on what she knew about waterboarding, back when it was cool.  There is simply no way she’s telling the complete truth–why all the animated explanations, then?

All Topics pelosi, waterboarding

Witness the first known attempt to coordinate thousands of Macs into a weapononized network.

All Topics apple, botnet, ddos, mac

Pirates hijack one two freighters in a single day off the coast of Somalia.

* post has been updated for accuracy

All Topics pirates, somalia

Mickey -

Although you had some misgivings about Obama’s fuzziness on immigration amnesty, you still voted for him.   Not that McCain offered a stark alternative on this issue.

Now you seem surprised that he’s virtually opened the immigration floodgates without so much as enacting a single law?

It’s hard to believe Obama adviser Cecilia Munoz doesn’t realize reopening the amnesty issue could have this effect.

No.  It’s not hard to believe that Munoz, a lifelong, strident activist for immigration rights, failed to estimate the effect of reopening this issue.  Couldn’t have seen that one coming, eh?  What is hard to believe is that Munoz didn’t float this even sooner.

Do liberals think that none of these silly little academic debates we have online have any real world impact?

All Topics, Politics amnesty, illegal alien, illegal immigration, immigration, kaus, mickey kaus, shamnesty

A summary of Western European political trends.

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Maybe I’m just projecting a little bit.

The story is still unfolding, but I’m thinking there’ll be increased interest in marking international tankers with American flags.

Exit question:  Was this all a ruse, a trap?

All Topics piracy, pirate, somalia

It’s not really a scandal until it can be proved it actually happened. And in this case, it didn’t

All Topics krugman

I’m GUESSING somebody used a computer to make this, right?

From AOSHQ

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Media Matters calls out Sean Hannity:

Sean Hannity claimed that President Obama has proposed “nationalized health care,” similar to programs in Great Britain and Canada. In fact, earlier that day, Obama explicitly rejected scrapping the U.S. health-care system in favor of the British or Canadian model.

Now, although the President may have said he wants universal health coverage:

OBAMA: Now, the question is, if you’re going to fix it, why not do a universal health-care system like the European countries? I actually want a universal health-care system. That is our goal. I think we should be able to provide health insurance to every American that they can afford and that provides them high quality.

So I think we can accomplish it. Now, whether we do it exactly the way European countries do or Canada does is a different question, because there are a variety of ways to get to universal health-care coverage.

. . do you think for one minute that he could accomplish this without pairing it with some massively expanded, government-administered program?  And wow, look that this–Nancy Pelosi just happens to be talking about providing a government-run program.  Wow, what timing!

Hannity is guilty only of being slightly unspecific.

All Topics, Politics, SocioFascism hannity, healthcare, media matters, obama, pelosi, universal

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Mickey dropping the Benjamins left and right–and this is BEFORE his crazy Ironman 2 cash.

All Topics ironman, mickey rourke

At present, there’s little evidence, at least until polygamists get the right PR people or a sympathetic Hollywood producer.  My guess is they will probably come up with a reason-no matter how narrow or contrived–to justify non-support.

All Topics, Religion mormon, polygamy, prop 8, utah

And now it has its own blog.  Dang, they let anybody have their own blog these days.

All Topics obama, teleprompter

A broadening of the Russo-Iranian-Cuban-Venezuelan axis.

I think we should dispatch John Kerry down there to find out.

All Topics, Politics nicaragua

Shelby Steele: A cogent observation on how activist, redemptive liberalism exploits weaknesses in the conservative construct.

When redemption became a term of power, “redemptive liberalism” was born — a new activist liberalism that gave itself a “redemptive” profile by focusing on social engineering rather than liberalism’s classic focus on individual freedom. In the ’60s there was no time to allow individual freedom to render up the social good. Redemptive liberalism would proactively engineer the good. Name a good like “integration,” and then engineer it into being through a draconian regimen of school busing. If the busing did profound damage to public education in America, it gave liberals the right to say, “At least we did something” In other words, we are activists against America’s old sin of segregation. Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

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All Topics conservatism, steele