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		<title>By: Coregis</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-594126</link>
		<dc:creator>Coregis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Off to the last day of the PA Farm Show with the kids - Rodeo in the evening (the scariest 8 seconds in sports!)  Zorro, how come you get snow and we in Central PA get nothing but ice???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Off to the last day of the PA Farm Show with the kids &#8211; Rodeo in the evening (the scariest 8 seconds in sports!)  Zorro, how come you get snow and we in Central PA get nothing but ice???</p>
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		<title>By: skysoljr82</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-589234</link>
		<dc:creator>skysoljr82</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Am I the only one that is still just getting the Saturday morning open thread? No new MM topics? I need my fix of Michelle.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Am I the only one that is still just getting the Saturday morning open thread? No new MM topics? I need my fix of Michelle.</p>
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		<title>By: PKAmmoTroop</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588622</link>
		<dc:creator>PKAmmoTroop</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt; On January 11th, 2009 at 7:41 pm, graysonret said:

I believe more and more “scientists”(whoever they are) are getting on the global cooling bandwagon now, having exhausted all profit gained through warming.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I&#039;ve actually heard a &quot;Scientist&quot; claim that the coming ice age is being caused by global warming. 

WTF?

Even better: I&#039;ve actually heard more than one person insist that the big huge burning ball of hydrogen in the sky has little or nothing to do with climate change. They deny any possibility of the solar output changing, and are incapable of conceiving that the inconsistencies of the orbit/rotation/precession of Earth can have anything to do with the climate.

To them only humans can effect the climate, and to prove any evidence this is wrong is to deny Climatologists their greatest of sacraments: The sacrament of Scaring The Bejeezuz Out Of Stupid People.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p> On January 11th, 2009 at 7:41 pm, graysonret said:</p>
<p>I believe more and more “scientists”(whoever they are) are getting on the global cooling bandwagon now, having exhausted all profit gained through warming.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve actually heard a &#8220;Scientist&#8221; claim that the coming ice age is being caused by global warming. </p>
<p>WTF?</p>
<p>Even better: I&#8217;ve actually heard more than one person insist that the big huge burning ball of hydrogen in the sky has little or nothing to do with climate change. They deny any possibility of the solar output changing, and are incapable of conceiving that the inconsistencies of the orbit/rotation/precession of Earth can have anything to do with the climate.</p>
<p>To them only humans can effect the climate, and to prove any evidence this is wrong is to deny Climatologists their greatest of sacraments: The sacrament of Scaring The Bejeezuz Out Of Stupid People.</p>
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		<title>By: Laree</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588586</link>
		<dc:creator>Laree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pirate update

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/01/crime-doesnt-pay-somali-priates-drown.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pirate update</p>
<p><a href="http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/01/crime-doesnt-pay-somali-priates-drown.html" rel="nofollow">http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/01/crime-doesnt-pay-somali-priates-drown.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: graysonret</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588565</link>
		<dc:creator>graysonret</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Speaking of Algore and his idiotic AGW propaganda&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I believe more and more &quot;scientists&quot;(whoever they are) are getting on the global cooling bandwagon now, having exhausted all profit gained through warming.  Even the London Times and now Pravada are endorsing the end of global warming.  I quote the word &quot;scientists&quot; because I hear, time and time again, &quot;scientists say&quot;.  That tells me nothing. But, over the past 70 years that I know, we have gone through 3 global warming alarms and 2 global cooling alarms.  Time for cooling to catch up now. Besides, there are still &quot;idiots&quot; who will believe them and, hence, more money to be made. MSM is glad to help.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Speaking of Algore and his idiotic AGW propaganda</p></blockquote>
<p>I believe more and more &#8220;scientists&#8221;(whoever they are) are getting on the global cooling bandwagon now, having exhausted all profit gained through warming.  Even the London Times and now Pravada are endorsing the end of global warming.  I quote the word &#8220;scientists&#8221; because I hear, time and time again, &#8220;scientists say&#8221;.  That tells me nothing. But, over the past 70 years that I know, we have gone through 3 global warming alarms and 2 global cooling alarms.  Time for cooling to catch up now. Besides, there are still &#8220;idiots&#8221; who will believe them and, hence, more money to be made. MSM is glad to help.</p>
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		<title>By: NestingHawk</title>
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		<dc:creator>NestingHawk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks again, Beenthere! I&#039;ll keep it in mind. 
If I were in charge of the school curriculum, everyone would read &lt;i&gt;The Picture of Dorian Gray&lt;/i&gt; at about age 13. (I read it in college.) It&#039;s about the dangers of excess vanity. 
I would remove &lt;i&gt;Things Fall Apart&lt;/i&gt; from the curriculum altogether. It&#039;s just a badly written book. 
I will also mention here &lt;i&gt;The Makioka Sisters&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Valley Nearby&lt;/i&gt; as very bad translations. I read the first in high school and the second in college. &lt;i&gt;The Makioka Sisters&lt;/i&gt; may have set records for sentence length. My classmates complained that an entire chapter revolved around a character putting on an obi, but I actually thought it was one of the better ones. Other highlights included a flood, as the water had a more intense character than any human in the book, and the various medical problems of the main characters, which were at least interesting because they were gross. 
   I knew what I was going to think of &lt;i&gt;The Valley Nearby&lt;/i&gt; from the end of the first page, wherein a main character &quot;fell asleep as though unconscious.&quot; Great insomnia cure, that book. Again, for some reason, the highlight involves bodily functions. To the professor&#039;s credit, I understand he removed it from his reading list the next year.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks again, Beenthere! I&#8217;ll keep it in mind.<br />
If I were in charge of the school curriculum, everyone would read <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i> at about age 13. (I read it in college.) It&#8217;s about the dangers of excess vanity.<br />
I would remove <i>Things Fall Apart</i> from the curriculum altogether. It&#8217;s just a badly written book.<br />
I will also mention here <i>The Makioka Sisters</i> and <i>The Valley Nearby</i> as very bad translations. I read the first in high school and the second in college. <i>The Makioka Sisters</i> may have set records for sentence length. My classmates complained that an entire chapter revolved around a character putting on an obi, but I actually thought it was one of the better ones. Other highlights included a flood, as the water had a more intense character than any human in the book, and the various medical problems of the main characters, which were at least interesting because they were gross.<br />
   I knew what I was going to think of <i>The Valley Nearby</i> from the end of the first page, wherein a main character &#8220;fell asleep as though unconscious.&#8221; Great insomnia cure, that book. Again, for some reason, the highlight involves bodily functions. To the professor&#8217;s credit, I understand he removed it from his reading list the next year.</p>
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		<title>By: Avi Green</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588474</link>
		<dc:creator>Avi Green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s another post from my game blog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://comicsglobewatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/play-ball-with-baseball-stars.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;all about SNK&#039;s Baseball Stars series&lt;/a&gt;! Play ball! Batter up! It&#039;s a home run! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s another post from my game blog: <a href="http://comicsglobewatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/play-ball-with-baseball-stars.html" rel="nofollow">all about SNK&#8217;s Baseball Stars series</a>! Play ball! Batter up! It&#8217;s a home run! <img src='http://michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: FamilyMan</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588463</link>
		<dc:creator>FamilyMan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The speed in which money flows determines the wealth of a country.   The higher the tax rates, the less  private capital is borrowed, therefor the transition of money slows and the size of the pie shrinks.  Government spending DOES NOT grow the economy because it barrows from those who do.
&lt;strong&gt;WHY IS THIS SUCH A DIFFICULT CONCEPT? &lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The speed in which money flows determines the wealth of a country.   The higher the tax rates, the less  private capital is borrowed, therefor the transition of money slows and the size of the pie shrinks.  Government spending DOES NOT grow the economy because it barrows from those who do.<br />
<strong>WHY IS THIS SUCH A DIFFICULT CONCEPT? </strong></p>
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		<title>By: ArizonaNeanderthal</title>
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		<dc:creator>ArizonaNeanderthal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FamilyMan&lt;/strong&gt; said:
In one stroke, this would transform the majority of voters from taxpayers into tax eaters, and leave an increasingly small minority to pay the bill. Regardless of whether this is good economics, it is very dangerous politics.&lt;/blockquote&gt;At least the fools would &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; they were tax eaters: they would be paying those taxes in everything they bought from utilities to food and clothing, housing, haircuts, medicine and most of all either inflation or even worse-deflation. Some people put great effort into being stupid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><strong>FamilyMan</strong> said:<br />
In one stroke, this would transform the majority of voters from taxpayers into tax eaters, and leave an increasingly small minority to pay the bill. Regardless of whether this is good economics, it is very dangerous politics.</p></blockquote>
<p>At least the fools would <em>think</em> they were tax eaters: they would be paying those taxes in everything they bought from utilities to food and clothing, housing, haircuts, medicine and most of all either inflation or even worse-deflation. Some people put great effort into being stupid.</p>
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		<title>By: FamilyMan</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588447</link>
		<dc:creator>FamilyMan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;teachem2 said:
Google searches and their impact on the environment
Things get more idiotic by the day.&lt;/blockquote&gt;That &lt;strong&gt;can&#039;t&lt;/strong&gt; be correct.
GEES!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>teachem2 said:<br />
Google searches and their impact on the environment<br />
Things get more idiotic by the day.</p></blockquote>
<p>That <strong>can&#8217;t</strong> be correct.<br />
GEES!</p>
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		<title>By: teachem2</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588443</link>
		<dc:creator>teachem2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking of Algore and his idiotic AGW propaganda, check this out:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google searches and their impact on the environment&lt;/a&gt;

Things get more idiotic by the day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking of Algore and his idiotic AGW propaganda, check this out:</p>
<p><a href="http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece" rel="nofollow">Google searches and their impact on the environment</a></p>
<p>Things get more idiotic by the day.</p>
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		<title>By: FamilyMan</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588412</link>
		<dc:creator>FamilyMan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Today, the bottom 50 percent of U.S. taxpayers pays a total of $30.6 billion in federal income taxes on a combined income of about $1 trillion. So about 3 percent of all federal income-tax payments come from the poorest half of the country. (The top 1 percent pays 40 percent; the top 25 percent pay 85 percent of the federal income tax.)

Obama&#039;s plan — he&#039;d give all couples a $1,000 refundable tax credit and all single people $500 — would funnel more than $50 billion to the lowest half of the country, thereby completely wiping out their total federal tax liability. In most cases, it would trigger a &quot;refund&quot; welfare check.

In one stroke, this would transform the majority of voters from taxpayers into tax eaters, and leave an increasingly small minority to pay the bill. Regardless of whether this is good economics, it is very dangerous politics.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, the bottom 50 percent of U.S. taxpayers pays a total of $30.6 billion in federal income taxes on a combined income of about $1 trillion. So about 3 percent of all federal income-tax payments come from the poorest half of the country. (The top 1 percent pays 40 percent; the top 25 percent pay 85 percent of the federal income tax.)</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s plan — he&#8217;d give all couples a $1,000 refundable tax credit and all single people $500 — would funnel more than $50 billion to the lowest half of the country, thereby completely wiping out their total federal tax liability. In most cases, it would trigger a &#8220;refund&#8221; welfare check.</p>
<p>In one stroke, this would transform the majority of voters from taxpayers into tax eaters, and leave an increasingly small minority to pay the bill. Regardless of whether this is good economics, it is very dangerous politics.</p>
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		<title>By: chapoutier</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588402</link>
		<dc:creator>chapoutier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The only way to make people involved in the government is to make them tax payers. Under Obamas tax plan, only 50% will be doing that. A citizen won’t contribute unless they think they’re involved.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Whoa whoa whoa...where do you get that figure?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The only way to make people involved in the government is to make them tax payers. Under Obamas tax plan, only 50% will be doing that. A citizen won’t contribute unless they think they’re involved.</p></blockquote>
<p>Whoa whoa whoa&#8230;where do you get that figure?</p>
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		<title>By: Avi Green</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588399</link>
		<dc:creator>Avi Green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And &lt;a href=&quot;http://comicsglobewatch.blogspot.com/2008/09/recording-of-dead-connection.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&#039;s one I added some time ago&lt;/a&gt; of Taito&#039;s Dead Connection (1992).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And <a href="http://comicsglobewatch.blogspot.com/2008/09/recording-of-dead-connection.html" rel="nofollow">here&#8217;s one I added some time ago</a> of Taito&#8217;s Dead Connection (1992).</p>
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		<title>By: Avi Green</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/10/saturday-open-thread-6/comment-page-2/#comment-588397</link>
		<dc:creator>Avi Green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://comicsglobewatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/virtua-cop-video.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&#039;s one I put up yesterday&lt;/a&gt; of Virtua Cop (1994).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://comicsglobewatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/virtua-cop-video.html" rel="nofollow">Here&#8217;s one I put up yesterday</a> of Virtua Cop (1994).</p>
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