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Overnight Open Thread (5-19-2013)End of the weekend for some, just another day for others, but all are welcome at the ONT party. So the Eurovision song contest just finished and Danish singer Emmelie de Forest won with her song, Only Tears. The contest has been going on for 57 years and in it a single singer/group from each country compete for votes. It's mainly European countries and Israel although some North African countries have participated. Here a roundup of all the 2013 entries. Interestingly most of the songs are in English.
Mark Steyn on the Panopticon State What happens when you gave money to Romney and President Obama calls you out publicly? Well this: Miss Strassel wrote that on April 26, 2012. Five weeks later, one of the named individuals, Frank VanderSloot, was informed by the IRS that he and his wife were being audited. In July, he was told by the Department of Labor of an additional audit over the guest workers on his cattle ranch in Idaho. In September, he was notified that one of his other businesses was to be audited. Mr. VanderSloot, who had never previously been audited, attracted three in the four months after being publicly named by el Presidente. More to the point he attracted that triple audit even though Miss Strassel explicitly predicted in America's biggest-selling newspaper that this was exactly what the Obama enforcers were going to do. The "separate, sinister entity" of the government of the United States went ahead anyway. What do they care? If some lippy broad in the papers won't quit her yapping about it, they can always audit her, too - as they did to Miss Strassel's sometime colleague Anne Hendershott, a sociology professor who got rather too interested in Obamacare and wrote about it in the Journal and various small Catholic publications. The IRS summoned Professor Hendershott to account for herself, and forbade her husband from accompanying her, even though they filed jointly. She ceased her political writing. Trust, Rationality, and MAD in American Politics Our system is quite resilient - but only up to a point. And once you go beyond that point the usual assumptions and restraints no longer operate. There is another danger facing Republicans which the National Journal doesn't directly address. It can be described thus: if the scandals go too far at unearthing the administration's rot then even the most craven Republicans will be compelled to do something about it. Like a man in a saloon card game who's caught someone cheating at cards either they call him out and take what comes or pretend the game is still honest. It's either ignore the cheating or get ready to clear leather. There is still some way to go until things become crystal clear; a brief space in which to make certain about what is really going on. Like a scan or ultrasound or biopsy you're waiting on. For once we know the knowledge will bind us. There are dangerous lines to cross, which once traversed make it is hard to go back. Would that the administration's minions had thought that way. The structures of the Republic were designed to make stark choices unnecessary. Permanent power is a chalice no one should want to drink from. Once that cup is tasted something very wicked this way comes. The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states. "Congressman: IRS asked pro-life group about 'the content of their prayers.'" Visiting Arlington National Cemetery last week: And the Warrior Games, a sports tournament for servicemen and women, in Colorado Springs. 10 Well Known Facts That Aren't True Including the one that men think about sex every 7 seconds: In 2011, researchers at Ohio State University found that college-age men thought about sex about 19 times a day, or once every 4,547 seconds. And that will get you deported: ... at the festival in the capital Riyadh, several Saudi religious police men stormed the UAE pavilion on Sunday and evicted three Emirati young men because "they are too handsome," according to the Saudi news website Elaph. [...] 9 Celeb Women & Their Preferred Pubic Hairstyles TMI Gwyneth: "'I got a big '70s bush.' Which I was kidding. But then it was all a disaster. And now I look like an eight-year-old girl, basically .. Every time I have a bikini wax, Cameron Diaz holds me down .. Cheers to our hairless vaginas!" Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings Top 10 commenters: Top 10 sockpuppeteers: The group. Yeah. Where it's at - the Twitter Tonight's post brought to you by Harry Truman's shoes: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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