Sunday, January 30, 2011

OOPS! Errant text message accidentally detonates suicide bomber.
HMM: the three branches of our government no longer include the judiciary.
MSNBC VP: “MSNBC does not have a political agenda.”

Insanity is not an agenda.
EVOLUTION, CREATION, AND POLITICS.
[N]o matter how sound any given scientific theory turns out to be, you’re never going to prove that it wasn’t a flashing, infinitely divine creation. And you’re never going to shake the belief of those who find it a bedrock foundation of their faith. So why should you try? And in a land founded in part on religious freedom, why would you want to try?
Good point.
RUSSIA TO BUILD LUNAR BASE BY 2037.

Russia's Khrunichev Space Center has made a program for moon development in 2025-2037, Russian media reported Wednesday.

According to the plan, a piloted lunar program is scheduled to kick off in 2012 and will cover the creation of an orbital station in a near-moon orbit.

The project will end with the construction of a permanent lunar base, the Interfax news agency reported.
Well, the U.S. sure isn’t going to do it.
GEORGE WILL on government subsidies for electric cars: “A [subsidy] program ‘works’ if it pays people enough to get them to do something they otherwise would consider irrational - to buy something so overpriced it would fail in an unrigged market.”
ANOTHER ENVIRONMENTAL HYPOCRITE.



From the comments: “Nobody ever said you had to be smart to be an environmentalist.... In fact, observation proves the two qualities are mutually exclusive....”
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Waning of an Old Established Order. It can’t come too soon.
YOU KNOW WHAT’S COMPLETELY AWESOME? When Obama touts the success of something in his SOTU, only to have to discover later that the reason for the success of that something is because that something did the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Obama would normally support.”

Linked from Instapundit.
AS A RESULT OF OBAMACARE, health insurers in 34 (of Obama’s 57) states have stopped selling child-only insurance policies.
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH "was written at more than a half a grade level lower than 2010's score, which was the 4th lowest in 75+ years."

Of course. He was speaking to his base.
CONSTRUCTION OF WORLD’S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE BEGINS IN SOUTHWEST CHINA.
COMEDY GOLD: Chris Matthews says Panama Canal is in ... Egypt!

It’s all Sarah Palin’s fault. She moved it to that narrow strip of land connecting North and South America while Matthews wasn’t looking.

Linked from Instapundit.
SARAH PALIN on Sputnik vs. Spudnut.
We’d be better off if we had a greater appreciation for the free market ingenuity of ordinary American entrepreneurs, both great and small.... Government should be on their side, not in their way.
And
We don’t need a command and control economy that “invests” our money in their half-baked ideas.
The Obamanauts - wrong again.
OOPS. A less mighty wind. Darn that global warming climate change.
UNIONS MAKE UP 40 PERCENT OF EMPLOYEES EXEMPTED FROM OBAMACARE.