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Happy Thanksgiving

To all in the U.S., or observing while on foreign shores, a very happy Thanksgiving Day.

Happy Thanksgiving

These all look to you,
to give them their food in due season.

When you give it to them, they gather it up;
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.

When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.

When you send forth your Spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground.

(Psalm 104:27-30 ESV)

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11/17/2011: Anarchy in New York City?

I think not. The news of the day is full of predictions of chaos tomorrow in New York City and dark portents of the OWS types “burning down New York” and throwing Molotov cocktails at Macy’s and so on and on.


Certainly, if a nefarious and very shrewd group of villains decided to cause chaos in New York on any normal day, they might achieve it by means of random acts of mayhem and carnage. But if these Occupy Wall Street protesters attempt anything of the kind during their anticipated demonstrations tomorrow, the NYPD will land on them so hard and so fast that they will dearly wish that they were still back in Portland, Oregon, slacking off in their parents’ basements.

You read it here first.

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A Mighty Fortress

In honor of the day that’s in it (as they say in Ireland) here’s one of the niftier versions of “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” from YouTube, even if they only sing two verses: [Read more →]

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Occupy Wall Street, on ice

It’s 33 degrees Fahrenheit at this moment in New York City, on the afternoon of October 29th, and the weather service says that it “feels like” 28. Having been outside quite a bit today in the torrential wet blowing snow, I can attest that it is not pleasant at all. My post from yesterday remains apropos: Occupy Wall Street: getting cooler, but not in the way they’d like.

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And I like this:


(from Ben Lansing)

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Dear Occupy Wall Street protesters: Throw away your iPhones

The new biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, which is not exactly official but with which Jobs cooperated in every way possible, has some revelations which might not sit too well with some of his fans who are manning the barricades at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan (or manning the barricades in their own heads as the case may be). [Read more →]

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Instant Karma’s gonna get you

Half a billion dollars in federally guaranteed loans from the Obama administration to a company which is manufacturing its electric cars (called “Karma cars”) in Finland. Oh, America, what did you do?

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Rosh Hashanah

L’shanah tovah to all Jewish readers, and indeed to all of us. May 5772 be a good and blessed year indeed.

(I think it’s going to take some work on our end.)


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Jon Huntsman falls behind nothing in latest poll

Former Utah governor and Ambassador-to-China under President Obama, Jon Huntsman, may not qualify to participate in the next GOP debate based on his recent poll numbers. (A threshold of one percent is demanded.) As reported here:

The CNN/ORC poll released Monday found Huntsman trailing unknown candidates in the race, including “none/no one,” a choice that received 4 percent support; “someone else” (3 percent) and “no opinion” (2 percent).

Just to reiterate, Jon Huntsman has fallen behind “none/no one,” “someone else,” and “no opinion.”

It was on August 12th, after the debate in Ames, Iowa, that it was observed in this space of Jon Huntsman: In the current political climate he represents antimatter. [Read more →]

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Pat Boone says Obama’s birth certificate was Photo-shopped

I just had to bite at this, especially after my long quasi-defense of Tony Bennett. Pat Boone, who is a member of the Tea Party of Beverly Hills, California, maintains regarding Barack Obama’s birth records that: [Read more →]

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Phony mess alert

In the news today:

Publishers of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World scrambled Tuesday to correct a controversial statement that Greenland had lost 15 percent of its permanent ice cover over the last 12 years — an assertion scientists labeled “incorrect and misleading.” [Read more →]

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