Category: Miscellaneous
Monday Links 8/24/09
August 24th, 2009, Comments Off
THE NUTS ARE STARTING TO FALL FROM THE TREE: Details about a plea deal from a former Las Vegas ACORN director related to illegal work practices and voter fraud. I’d rather have Bernie Madoff running my organization than any of these ACORN clowns.
DYING FOR THEIR COUNTRY: Veterans defend our freedoms at home and abroad, but [...]
Sunday Links 8/23/09
August 23rd, 2009, Comments Off
AN ARMADILLO HELPS STOP CRIME: It’s not an actual armadillo, just an old Brinks truck with video cameras nicknamed The Armadillo. The cops park it in high crime areas and it really makes a difference. Here’s to inventive ideas and American ingenuity!
MORE EVIDENCE OF HOW WONDERFUL THAT BRITISH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS: Pregnant women having to [...]
Saturday Links 8/22/09
August 22nd, 2009, Comments Off
WORMS CAN HEAL BROKEN BONES: Not really, but they are the inspiration for a new glue that may aid in setting broken bones. It’s amazing that watching a worm build underwater sandcastles can lead to a medical breakthrough. Via Instapundit.
NEVER TOO EARLY TO START THINKING ABOUT 2012: Actually it is. While this poll pitting Obama [...]
Friday Links 8/21/09
August 21st, 2009, Comments Off
WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE TWEETED ABOUT THIS STUDY?: Researchers have found that 40% of tweets are “pointless babble.”
THE BEST WAY TO SUCK DOWN SOME PIE: Just make yourself some “lollipop-pies.”
THIS HAS TO BE LONGEST AUTOPSY EVER: Scientists think they’ve finally discovered what killed Mozart way back in 1791 – strep throat. For those who [...]
Thursday Links 8/20/09
August 20th, 2009, Comments Off
80% THINK BAD ECONOMY WILL LEAD TO MORE CRIME: How many of those people realize that the crime will be the government robbing them?
THE CENSUS WON’T COUNT MORMON MISSIONARIES: Will they not count anyone who is abroad at the time of the census? But they have no problem counting illegal aliens and including them in [...]
Wednesday Links 8/19/09
August 19th, 2009, Comments Off
GIMME, GIMME: Ruben Navarette looks at the entitlement culture of today’s young people who are seeking their own personal bailouts from the government and are quickly losing any sense of personal responsibility for their own lives. Ruben is also quick to point out they learned it from their elders, so there is plenty of blame [...]
Tuesday Links 8/18/09
August 18th, 2009, Comments Off
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO RAISE CHILDREN?: $221,000, give or take. Of course, that doesn’t include any of the psychological costs involved.
THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL ONLY MAKES IT’S PURVEYORS PROSPEROUS: Their message is that God will make you wealthy and healthy if you simply have enough faith. Meanwhile, they get rich by playing off of [...]
Monday Links 8/17/09
August 17th, 2009, Comments Off
SKYDIVER FALLS 2000 FEET AND LIVES!: This disproves the old adage, “If at first you don’t succeed…so much for skydiving.”
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO “JOE”?: The most popular boy’s name in The Netherlands is now Mohammed. Just one more sign of the Islamization of Europe.
NEW CREDIT CARD RULES GOING INTO EFFECT SOON: They are supposed to make [...]
Sunday Links
August 16th, 2009, Comments Off
ATHEISTS PROSELYTIZING: If you don’t believe in anything, then what are you converting people to? More proof that non-belief in religion is actually a religion in its own right.
EVER WATCHED AN ABORTION?: I haven’t, but Sarah Kliff, a Newsweek reporter, did and she can’t figure out why she’s emotionally disturbed by it. Maybe she’s [...]
Saturday Links
August 15th, 2009, Comments Off
JOHN EDWARDS TO CONFESS HE FATHERED ILLEGITIMATE CHILD: There are two americas – one where husbands are faithful to their wives and one where they father illegitimate children with their mistresses.
SO SUE ME: But I agree with Samuel Benoit’s assessment that tort reform is necessary before any real healthcare reform can happen. It’s not in [...]
