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December 01, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (12-1-2013)

Break's over so get back on to the chain gang.

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Some popular names are nationally popular while others seem to be quite region specific.

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Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

  -- Thomas Sowell


Obama Orders Airlines to Obey Chinese ADIZ; Gives China a Propaganda Win

How 'illegitimate' can the declared zone be if you obey it? Because ultimately China is more interested in de facto power than de jure power.

As China doubles down on its new Air Defense Identification Zone, the Obama administration told US airlines to comply with new rules in east Asia. US, Japanese, and South Korean warplanes have flown through the zone, disregarding China's rules, but after Chinese jets shadowed a joint Japanese-American exercise in the area, Washington has reportedly warned civilian airliners to obey them.

Meanwhile other countries are simply ignoring it.

Japan and South Korean civilian airlines will not be complying with China's rules.

And here's What a a Shooting War in the East China Sea Might Look Like.

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It's December 1st so ObamaCare is All Fixed Right?

GREAT

Moar Hate Crime on Campus = Hoax

This fall semester at the liberal arts college in New York saw a curiously high number of bias incident reports. On Nov. 14, the college sent a mass email to students advising them that Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) had received at least six reports in the last few months of hateful and insensitive messages being scrawled and spray painted on student residences. Messages included "Avoid Being Bitches," "Fuck Niggers," and most prominently, "Hey Tranny. Know Your Place." . . .

Five days after the email was sent, Vassar President Catharine Hill sent a follow-up email announcing that the bias incidents were hoaxes perpetrated by two students. The students wrote the vile messages and then filed the reports themselves, claiming to be the victims of unknown haters.

Child Services Takes Child From Woman's Womb Via Involuntary C-Section

And is putting it up for adoption. Because children ultimately belong to the state and not to you or your family.

I'd say this is exhibit A for why you should never travel to the UK while pregnant.

American Nuclear Family Heading Towards Endangered Species Status

Married households with children were 40.3% of all US households in 1970; in 2012, that share had fallen by more than half to 19.6%. Interestingly, the share of households that were married without children has stayed at about 30%. Other Family Households, usually meaning single-parent families with children, has risen.

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6 Abandoned Sites That Would Make Great Supervillain Lairs

I already call dibs on this one.

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Weekly Commenter Standings

Top 10 commenters:
1 [309 comments] 'garrett' [43.34 posts/day]
2 [298 comments] 'Mike Hammer'
3 [248 comments] 'MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit </s></b></i></u>'
4 [244 comments] 'EC'
5 [229 comments] 'Flatbush Joe'
6 [221 comments] 'Anna Puma (+SmuD)'
7 [221 comments] 'Niedermeyer's Dead Horse'
8 [205 comments] 'Vendette '
9 [200 comments] 'BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk'
10 [199 comments] 'rickb223'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [69 names] 'The Political Hat' [9.68 unique names/day]
2 [62 names] 'phreshone'
3 [41 names] 'Reggie  Love'
4 [39 names] 'fluffy'
5 [35 names] 'Brandon In Baton Rouge'
6 [33 names] 'Non Pater Patriae'
7 [33 names] 'Islamic Rage Boy'
8 [30 names] 'Cicero (@cicero)'
9 [27 names] '404NFL'
10 [26 names] 'andycanuck'

The group. Yeah.

Where it's at - the Twitter

Tonight's post brought to you by the starting NFL quarterbacks of the 1961 season:

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(back, L-R) Milt Plum, Bobby Layne, Sam Etcheverry, Bill Wade, Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Norm Snead, Zeke Bratkowski; (front, L-R) Jim Ninowski, Fran Tarkenton, Don Meredith, John Brodie, Sonny Jurgensen, Y.A. Tittle.

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