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Great web site come see our latest at www.thermonuclearthought.com

Keep your powder dry !

Well, here's another one from Britain - Coastguards face reprimand for using banned boat to rescue girl.

Hey, it's not that I have it in for Britain, it just seems that whenever I hunt for material, they stick out like a sore thumb. That, and US politics has gotten too depressing to keep up with.

Look at it this way - no matter how bad you think you have it, there's always someone who has it worse.

On a more optimistic note (I think), a great article from the Brussels Fractured Society: The UK, the Relativity of Law, and a New Bill of Rights.

Cut-throat competition among Pittsburgh Panhandlers! Well at least these 2 panhandlers were hard core.

http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/08228/904581-100.stm

"Pittsburgh police say one homeless man was stabbed by another after they argued over who was the better panhandler.

The men began arguing in an area where homeless people are known to encamp about 4:15 p.m. yesterday. That's when police say Mr. Milburn cut the other man in the neck using kitchen shears.

Police say the men were arguing about which of them was the best panhandler on the city's North Side, a neighborhood that contains the city's pro sports stadiums."

Excellent idea Van!

Rob, don't be fooled by that "bill Of Rights". It bears no relation to the American one, which is a guarantee of freedoms from government power (freedom of speech, freedom from religious persecution etc). This poisonous thing from New Labour is just a list of entitlements and government powers; e.g. a "right" to government health care, a "right" not to be poor, and such. If passed it would effectively make Britain constitutionally progressive socialist, an appalling prospect. Things are already bad enough.

Let's hope we can stop it in its tracks. It's a Bill Of Moonbattery, not rights as they should be understood.

The Must See Movie of 2008.

Well, Google took down the "South Africa Sucks" blog again. They have had this problem before, sice moonbats vehemently flag and re-flag blogs who's opinions they do not like and Google (motto: "don't be evil") succumbs every time and erases or suspends conservative blogs without checking the validity of reports or spam flags.

This was the spot(until just minutes ago) where someone thought the internet was a place of free expression.

They aren't the first, either.

This is good for a chuckle. San Fran Nan getting heckled at one of her book signings by Peter Tottham and a Code Pinko.

http://pubrecord.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=255

Possible header for a future open thread.

Well, Google took down the "South Africa Sucks" blog again.

Speaking of Africa, Kevin Myers at the Independent had a few choice things to say about it a while ago:

Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS

Writing what I should have written so many years ago

You were waiting for the Moonbattery? Don't worry - you won't have to wait long....

Is this the tolerance that our thought-police take pride in?

Hey, the last time Google took anti-Obama blogs off, the owners ran to Wordpress.

yep I'm diggin' having a place to drop OT links

here's a quote:

"If you look at folks of color, even women, they're more successful in the Democratic party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican party."

That'd be ..... Howard Dean! LOL

video clip here

It might be a good time to buy some new winter clothes, and invest in a new fireplace too.

According to recent news reports, a top observatory that has been measuring sun spot activity predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next 20 years as solar activity slows and the planet drastically cools down. They suggest this could potentially herald the onset of a new ice age. Following the end of the sun’s most active period in over 11,000 years, the last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998 leveled out and are now decreasing.

link

Since this is the "Open Thread" I thought I might bring up a portion of the Saddleback Church stuff with Obama and McCain.

First to quote http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-saddleback17-2008aug17,0,3145888.story:

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"They did strike some common themes, such as the importance of rising above self-interest to serve one's country. But they also offered starkly different answers to Warren's question: "At what point does a baby get human rights?"

Obama said: "I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade." He added that he supports the landmark decision Roe vs. Wade but said the issue has "moral and ethical content" and stressed his commitment to reducing the number of abortions.

McCain, however, immediately responded that a baby's rights begin at conception. Perhaps seeking to tamp down alarm among conservatives over his recent comment that he's open to a running mate who favors abortion rights, he continued: "I will be a pro-life president, and this presidency will have pro-life policies."

After sustained applause, Warren quipped: "OK, we don't have to go longer on that one."
END QUOTE

The part of this I find humorous is that Obama, being the highly educated Harvard graduate, doesn't know what the average highschool student knows about human reproduction.

Human life begins at conception, and this is strictly speaking from a scientific point of view.

Barack, despite making far more money than highschool science teachers, claims this is "above my pay grade".

The beautiful part is that McCain doesn't flinch on this question and answers it like a highschool freshman would.

McCain is making me far more confident in wanting him as president. I thought Obama was a bum from the beginning but I know Chicago stuff that will never see the MSM.