Monthly Archives: September 2013

Phony fatwa? Iranian Anti-nuke Hoax

Posted on September 30, 2013 by TonyR

Phony fatwa? Group claims Iranian anti-nuke edict cited by Obama a hoax | Fox News. You would think that something this important would be widely distributed and easily verifiable. It’s neither, yet the administration trusts without verification. Iran has out … Continue reading →

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Saudi Arabia: Protecting Women – It’s Just The Right Thing To Do

Posted on September 30, 2013 by TonyR

Top Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries – World News. “In an interview published on Friday on the website sabq.org, he said women aiming to overturn the ban on driving should put “reason ahead of their … Continue reading →

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NSA – It’s Only Meta-data

Posted on September 30, 2013 by TonyR

How the NSA builds social graphs of Americans with phone, email, and location records – Quartz. “The US National Security Agency (NSA) analyzes data from phone calls, emails, location services, internet profiles, bank records, flight manifests, and more to construct … Continue reading →

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Cookie Monster – Sea Creature

Posted on September 30, 2013 by TonyR

Whoa! This sea creature looks just like Cookie Monster – latimes.com.

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davidthompson: Wolf, They Cried

Posted on September 30, 2013 by TonyR

Wolf, They Cried. Lifted from the comments following this, here’s an item that may have been missed. Roger Kimball takes a look at the “thriving cottage industry” of staged “hate crimes” and pantomime victimhood: Last month the Daily Caller reported on an incident at the … Continue reading →

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KA-CHING! Iran

Posted on September 30, 2013 by TonyR

KA-CHING!.

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Consensus Is The Business Of Politics

Posted on September 30, 2013 by TonyR

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes. “Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, … Continue reading →

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“So you want to be a writer?” @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Posted on September 30, 2013 by TonyR

Something Wonderful: “So you want to be a writer?” @ AMERICAN DIGEST. by Charles Bukowski“if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything,don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your … Continue reading →

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Michaelmas

Posted on September 29, 2013 by TonyR

 

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95% IPCC Certainty | Climate Etc.

Posted on September 29, 2013 by TonyR

95% (?) | Climate Etc.. It’s 95% because they say it’s 95%. Remember not one of the previous four reports predicted the observed data that temperature has not risen in 15 years. The process to determine the 95% number is … Continue reading →

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