Shelton Ehrlich writes me:
You had an item yesterday in which I was misquoted re comments at the Apple meeting on Al Gore. If you’d like to publish what I actually said I’ll send the very short quote. *
Keep up the good work
Shelton Ehrlich
* “I stand in opposition to the re-election of Al Gore to Apple’s board. He has become a laughing stock. The Himalayan glaciers are not melting, the seas are not rising and the medieval warm period has returned. If his advice to Apple is as bad as his positions on the environment he should not be on Apple’s board”
As a shareholder I had the right to oppose his re-election. It was my opinion that he is a laughing stock. My three categorical statements re the science are based on what is being widely reported. The most important claim made by Mr. Gore is that the science of man-made global warming is settled. The three significant errors I cite are proof that the science is not settled.
SondraK, Lympian Slayer No matter the hand wringing and opprobrium of the legacy media - echoed by various pussified governments - the supposed Dubai hitfail not only resulted in a dead jihadi arms buyer, not only tightened all the right sphincters across the Middle East but has also turned out to be a recruiting bonanza for Mossad.
Because countless silenced millions witnessed, if only awry, an opportunity to hit back…
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An atrium weighed down with snow and ice collapsed Saturday during a ritzy midtown party showering hundreds of revelers with glass, cops and witnesses said.
The guests, including members of MTV’s reality show “Jersey Shore,” were celebrating Purim inside Sony Plaza on Madison Ave. near E. 55th St. shortly after 11 p.m., police and witnesses said.
“It was scary, but I’m glad nobody got hurt,” said MTV reality star Snooki, who was with her boyfriend, Emilio Masella.
A-grade artistic arrogance from British playwright Jonathan Holmes:
A mature democracy should have the courage and the understanding to see the debt it owes its artists …If only we were brave enough to pay them even more.
The benefits of the arts are such a no-brainer, so obvious, that the sole genuine reason for cuts is censorship of some form. In the 20th century, the only governments to systematically attack the arts have been the ones that also attacked democracy.
By “systematically attack”, he means “reduce public funding”.
Yet the most profound argument for art runs much deeper than any of this. Art, very simply, is how we comment on our world, how we …
Dear God, I do believe he’s actually going to say it:
… speak truth to power.
Last week due to record snow fall Washington DC shut down every federal office. Every city office closed for ten day, but a group of men who were taught duty saw to it that they did not abandon their charge.....
Americans are tyrannized by 1776, The Second Amendment, The Bill of Rights, The Constitution and other colonial-era artifacts. They have been brainwashed into believing that those are the only thoughts there are. This is not freedom. Freedom means having a choice. If they could accept that there are other ways of thinking then they would have a choice! That’s what freedom is about and what many, if not most, Americans don’t understand.
President Barack Obama hasn’t kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday after the 48-year-old’s first medical checkup as commander in chief.............
Elko County is joining Nevada’s congressional delegation in trying to nip in the bud any ideas the Obama administration might have about establishing two national monuments in northern Nevada.
The U.S. Interior Department recently listed the Owyhee Desert in Nevada and Oregon and the “Heart of the Great Basin” in Nevada’s Nye County as possible candidates for federal designation.
KEEP YOUR LEGISLATIONS OFF OUR RESERVATIONS. Or something.
Much as I might bitch privately about certain aspects of Vegas - I’ve always hated casinos, for instance, not as much from a “den of moral turpitude” angle as just a feeling that they’re a stupid waste of money - I do like that Nevada’s one of the last places in this country apparently interested in self-determination.
apotheosis, unrepentant milkaholic 
The Ugly American ...then have her effigy hanged on the Mall and burned, then have her home razed to the ground and all it’s land salted to remain forever barren.
Well, at least that’s the way I read this.
DougM (commissarophobe) 
For millions of Indian Hindus, the temple is a place of worship and reverence. But as Krupa Padhy discovered during a visit to one of the country’s famous temples in the state of Orissa, it can feel like stepping into a circus.
The icon of Lord Jagannath being carried to the holy chariot
An icon of a Hindu deity is paraded through streets and throngs of people
It is dusk as I approach the temple. A tired sun sinking behind the temple dome ought to mean a serene moment. But far from it.
I am walking up Grand Road in Puri - and grand it certainly is, but busy too.
Vegetable vendors, herdsmen, rickshaw drivers and food stallholders are all crammed in against a backdrop of brightly painted 18th Century houses piled on top of one another like blocks of Lego.
And just to add a bit of extra colour, they are plastered with posters of the latest Bollywood movie.
After all, even the most devout residents need a bit of time out.
I am told the Grand Road is one of the widest in India.
And it has to accommodate the two million worshippers who gather here in June for the annual Rath Yatra, or chariot festival.Monkeys everywhere
On this day, statuettes of the three main deities are removed from their jewelled platform inside the temple and paraded along Grand Road. They call it their annual holiday.
I am led into the temple grounds by Rudr Narayan Kuntya, a chatty and knowledgeable chap who is dressed in the purest of white robes.
There are 400 cooks and more than 10,000 diners every day. This really must be the world’s largest kitchenInside, the first thing I notice is there are monkeys everywhere..........
THIS JUST IN!!
The International Olympic Committee today voted unanimously to award Barack Obama with a gold medal in skiing.
The head of the IOC defended the award stating that they have never seen anyone go downhill so fast.
mech (discriminating characterist) in comments
here it comes
Had this on my desk, but:
Rodgie does it better!
some 50,000 Greeks took to the streets of Athens to protest over austerity plans aimed at wrenching the country out of a debt crisis that has shaken the eurozone.
The 24-hour general strike grounded flights and disrupted services. “No sacrifices, the rich should pay for the crisis,”
Sound familiar?
“They took away the Greek gold that was at the Bank of Greece, they took away the Greek money and they never gave it back. This is an issue that has to be faced sometime in the future,” he said. “I don’t say they have to give back the money necessarily but they have at least to say ‘thanks’.”
Wow. I like being in a new continent and a young country.
Meanwhile…
A secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses are said to be behind a plot to cash in on the decline of the euro.
At the dinner, the speculators are said to have argued that the euro is likely to plunge in value to parity with the dollar.
The single currency has been under enormous pressure because of Greece’s debt crisis, plus financial worries in Portugal, Italy, Spain and Ireland.
But, it has also struggled because hedge funds have been placing huge bets on the currency’s decline, which could make the speculators hundreds of millions of pounds. ...
Mr Soros, who made more than $1billion by currency speculation when the pound was ejected from the Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday in 1992, believes the structure of the euro is ‘patently flawed’.
Srsly. RTWT—see the PS grafix. The cultural slurs are all over the euro-floor. [”...from a time when there (in Germany) they were eating bananas on trees” ?!??!] This cannot end well. And it’s spreading since the ‘move to end all war’ by interconnecting all countries financially has us tied by the neck to this sinking socialist stone.
Ya cannot legislate a change in human nature.
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 02/28 at 08:21 AM •
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quick! a stake! garlic!! a mirror!!!
Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown is an un-reconstituted asshat. I remember him saying long ago, when he “quit” politics after his disasterous and embarrassing “governorship,” that the secret to politics was to gauge which way the people were moving and run ‘round front to look like you were leading them.
Seems like ol’ Jerry has gotten older and slower.
So the CA Klown Possee [aka ‘legislature’] passed AB32 - our very own cap&tax law. According to various studies by groups on both the left and right, it will cost CA about 1,000,000 jobs—not to mention businesses, tax revenue, citizens legal and not, food production ...
Tom McClintock [who, if there were any sanity left in this state, would be our current governor] and Assemblyman Dan Logue, and other rational people, created the California Jobs Initiative for the ballot next time. It would suspend implementation of AB32 until unemployment dropped below 5.5%. [It’s now anywhere from 17% to 45%, depending on area].
The initiative process sends the proposal thru the Attorney General’s office on its way to gather the signatures to put it on the ballot. Here’s what Attorney General [and Gubernatorial Candidate] Jerry Brown added to the initiative:
the initiative titled California Jobs Initiative
On 03 February 2010, was renamed by Attorney General Jerry Brown to:
Srsly?!? Were ya tokin’, duu-uuude? That don’t even make sense—which, I presume, is the point.
Maybe we oughta bombard his office with the daily articles revealing yet another piece of the Hoax that was AGW? Or, we could just FedEx him a polar bear.
Jerry “small is beautiful” Brown: Kaos Klown
Pat Riotic
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 02/27 at 09:15 PM •
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