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School Supplier Pulls Politically Based Products

By McCullough Monday December 7, 2009

Pencils and notebooks resembling President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign ads have been sold in at least one Columbia school and other public schools, causing the company that distributes the materials to travel around the state yanking the supplies out of machines.

“Don’t be mad at us,” said Greg Jones, a sales representative with Pencil Wholesale. “It was a total accident.” At Mill Creek, at least one pencil and a notebook with designs similar to Obama campaign advertisements have been sold out of a supply machine. Two families have complained about the politically tinged materials.

Three Missouri schools have contacted Jones since the beginning of the school year asking that the materials be removed, and Mill Creek Principal Mary Sue Gibson this week said she also planned to call Pencil Wholesale.

No Agenda Amanda Knox Knockers

By John C Dvorak Monday December 7, 2009

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This Episode’s Executive Producer: Richard From Tasmania, Associate Executive Producer: Todd Symmons

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Viral Video Suggests Someone has Seen Too Many Episodes of Scrubs

By McCullough Monday December 7, 2009

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It all started when a medical supply created a new line of hospital gloves — in pink. “We thought that seeing health care workers wear pink gloves would remind people to talk about breast cancer and that some of the money from the gloves could be used to pay for mammograms for women that couldn’t afford it,” said Sue MacInnes of Medline Industries Inc., the company that created the gloves.

But what was the best way to promote the pink gloves — and the cause that inspired them?

Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Ore., decided to help by making a video and posting it on YouTube. Medline Industries Inc. says it will donate a portion of the profits from the pink gloves to fund mammograms for women who otherwise would not get them.

That and most health care workers REALLY need to find their way to a gym. It is cute though.

Global Warming Debate

By Marc Perkel Monday December 7, 2009

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For those who don’t believe in global warming, how do you explain the melting ice caps? Not dealing with the issue of man made or not.

Nick Griffin on Climategate – NWO Plan

By John C Dvorak Monday December 7, 2009

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When it rains it pours.

Found by William Tildesley.

Greenwald investigates the case of 3 Gitmo detainees getting suicided

By Jacob Galt Monday December 7, 2009

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Great piece, as usual, by Glenn Greenwald:

On the night of June 10, 2006, three Guantanamo detainees were found dead in their individual cells. Without any autopsy or investigation, U.S. military officials proclaimed “suicide by hanging” as the cause of each death, and immediately sought to exploit the episode as proof of the evil of the detainees.

Admiral Harry Harris, the camp’s commander, said it showed “they have no regard for life” and that the suicides were “not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetric warfare aimed at us here at Guantanamo”; another official anonymously said that the suicides showed the victims were “committed jihadists [who] will do anything they can to advance their cause,” while another sneered that “it was a good PR move to draw attention.”

Questions immediately arose about how it could be possible that three detainees kept in isolation and under constant and intense monitoring could have coordinated and then carried out group suicide without detection, particularly since the military claimed their bodies were not found for over two hours after their deaths. But from the beginning, there was a clear attempt on the part of Guantanamo officials to prevent any outside investigation of this incident.

Panic Dept. 56 newspapers around the world have same ridiculous front-page editorial on “climate change”

By Jacob Galt Monday December 7, 2009

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Weird:

Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.

Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation.

I love it:

Social justice demands that the industrialised world digs deep into its pockets and pledges cash to help poorer countries adapt to climate change, and clean technologies to enable them to grow economically without growing their emissions.

The transformation will be costly, but many times less than the bill for bailing out global finance — and far less costly than the consequences of doing nothing.

Note the comments. Any comment condemning the editorial is deleted. You have to be lockstep or you are out.

A Surgeon’s View Of The Health Care Debate

By Uncle Dave Monday December 7, 2009

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Health reform from my side of the surgery table

Forty years as a surgeon in university and community hospitals gives some authenticity for the following reflections regarding the failings of our health care delivery. Partisan rhetoric has led to shouting matches rather than reasoned choices, while the most fundamental issue in health care reform has yet to be stated: should health care be continued as a profit-driven enterprise? If a problem well-stated is a problem half solved, a clear answer will allow for progress. Here are the some of the problems I have observed:

Copenhagen climate summit: 140 private jets, 1,200 limos. 5 hybrids.

By Jacob Galt Monday December 7, 2009

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Andrew Gilligan examines the hypocrisy:

Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”

And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen. “The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don’t have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it’s very Danish.”

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

Great Deconstruction of Climategate

By Jacob Galt Sunday December 6, 2009

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American Thinker deconstructs Climategate:

First and foremost — contrary to what you’ve likely read elsewhere in the blogosphere or heard from the few policymakers and pundits actually addressing the issue, it was not the temperature decline the planet has been experiencing since 1998 that Jones and friends conspired to hide. Certainly, the simple fact that the email was sent in November of 1999 should have allayed any such confusion.

In fact, the decline Jones so urgently sought to hide was not one of measured temperatures at all, but rather figures infinitely more important to climate alarmists – those determined by proxy reconstructions. As this scandal has attracted new readers to the subject, I ask climate savvy readers to indulge me while I briefly explain climate proxies, as they are an essential ingredient of this contemptible conspiracy.

Slippery Slope Dept. — Pub ‘fined £8k’ for Wi-Fi copyright infringement by User

By John C Dvorak Sunday December 6, 2009

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Pub ‘fined £8k’ for Wi-Fi copyright infringement – ZDNet.co.uk — This is a very bad precedent.

A pub owner has been fined £8,000 because someone unlawfully downloaded copyrighted material over their open Wi-Fi hotspot, according to the managing director of hotspot provider The Cloud.

Graham Cove told ZDNet UK on Friday he believes the case to be the first of its kind in the UK. However, he would not identify the pub concerned, because its owner — a pubco that is a client of The Cloud’s — had not yet given their permission for the case to be publicised.

Cove would say only that the fine had been levied in a civil case, brought about by a rights holder, “sometime this summer”. The Cloud’s pubco clients include Fullers, Greene King, Marsdens, Scottish & Newcastle, Mitchell & Butlers and Punch Taverns.

AP thinks Tiger Woods is racist for only having affairs with white women

By Jacob Galt Sunday December 6, 2009

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Is Bill Maher writing for them?

The darts reflect blacks’ resistance to interracial romance. They also are a reflection of discomfort with a man who has smashed barriers in one of America’s whitest sports and assumed the mantle of the world’s most famous athlete, once worn by Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.

But Woods has declined to identify himself as black, and famously chose the term “Cablinasian” (Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian) to describe the racial mixture he inherited from his African-American father and Thai mother.

This vexed some blacks, but it hasn’t stopped them from claiming Woods as one of their own. Or from disapproving of his marriage to Elin Nordegren, despite blacks’ historical fight against white racist opponents of mixed marriage.

More Bernanke slams by senators

By Jacob Galt Sunday December 6, 2009

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This is great — these guys need to be buried.

What’s the reason for the Afghan war? Well, it isn’t getting bin Laden, not anymore.

By Jacob Galt Sunday December 6, 2009

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What was the reason for the Afghanistan attacks in 2001, do you remeber? It was getting Bin Laden.

Well, look at what Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to say on ABC’s “This Week”:

The United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years.

No, [I can’t confirm recent reports that bin Laden had been seen recently in Afghanistan].