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Overnight Open Thread (9-27-2015)If it's not the crusades, it's the cartoons. I wouldn't be so sure Muslim "refugees" are likely to save the village pub. Better plan for a smaller Oktoberfest. Mr Weiner never asks: What is a German village without Germans? Where the butcher is Halal, and the church is a mosque, and no one wears lederhosen because showing your knees is verboten, and the school makes "unclean" menstruating girls sit at the back during Friday prayers... I appreciate the Prime Minister's [Chamberlain's] love of peace. I know the horrors of war - a great deal better than he can. But when he returns from saving our skins from a blackmailer at the price of other people's flesh, and waves.a piece of paper with Herr Hitler's name on it, if it were not ghastly, it would be grotesque. No doubt he has never read Mein Kampf in German. But to forget, so utterly, the Reichstag fire, and the occupation of the Rhineland, and 30 June 1934 [the Night of the Long Knives], and the fall of Austria! We have lost the courage to see things as they are. And yet Herr Hitler has kindly put down for us in black and white that programme he is so faithfully carrying out. Madam Hillary's physician declares that all is well, but our correspondent is not so sure. He concludes: "It is frightening to think we could have a brain injured senior citizen as our president." Private gun owners in America buy more AR-15 rifles in a year than the US military would need to completely re-equip its entire inventory. Quote of the Day VI - Australia Without Handbrakes Edition Texas is like Australia with the handbrake off. There is no individual income tax and no corporate income tax, which explains the state's rapid economic and population growth. A recent downturn has sparked some concern, however. Apparently Texas will only create another 150,000 jobs during 2015 - about the same number as Australia, from a population only a few million larger. In a good year, that number of jobs is easily generated by a single Texan city. The Super Blood Moon Total Eclipse is Coming Tonight: The total eclipse coincides with the full moon nearest the fall equinox, known as the harvest moon. What's more, the moon is at its closest approach to Earth for the year, making it also a supermoon or perigee moon. That's why it's being coined by some as a Super Harvest Blood Moon-a mouthful to be sure. This confluence has happened only five times since 1900. According to NASA, the last time we saw this celestial triple combination was in 1982, and it won't repeat until 2033.
Our New Low-T Military-Politiucal Leadership Between 2013 and 2014, we increased global FON [freedom of navigation] operations by 84 %, the majority of which were conducted in the Asia Pacific. As Secretary Carter has stated, the United States will continue to fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows, as US forces do all around the world, and our FON Operations are a critical example of this. Except here is the reality: However, under questioning Shear revealed that the US hasn't conducted a freedom of navigation operation near China's man-made islands in the South China Sea since 2012. The entire premise of a FON mission is to assert America's right to operate in a particular space. By avoiding Chinese-occupied reefs in the South China Sea, the US is tacitly acknowledging Beijing's "sovereignty" in these international waters. University Snowflakes Freak Out Over Pieces Of String In A Tree Students at the University of Delaware are taking it hard after the discovery that an alleged hate crime was just a misunderstanding. Some students even insist a hate crime still occurred. Alas this kind of ignorance is common among the educated 'elite': "In our current federal election, marked by media hostility to the Conservative government at levels unprecedented in recent Canadian history, a leading candidate of the Opposition New Democratic Party (actually to the Left of Bernie Sanders) in Hamilton, Ontario has claimed that she'd never heard of Auschwitz. This after having made a tasteless joke about pictures [of Auschwitz]. Even worse she is the Vice-Chair of the Hamilton-Wentworth School Board, serving nearly 50,000 students." Scott Johnson of PowerLne notes: Ignorance and malice are epidemic on the left. They go hand in hand and they explain a lot. Russians, Syrians and Iranians Setting Up Military Coordination Cell in Baghdad Russian, Syrian and Iranian military commanders have set up a coordination cell in Baghdad in recent days to try to begin working with Iranian-backed Shia militias fighting the Islamic State, Fox News has learned. So after spending all that American blood and treasure to free Iraq Obama's complete withdrawal from it has now essentially handed it over to the Russians and Iranians. Also: It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. On VW, the EPA, and Human Nature Remember that the 'dirty' cheating VW diesel vehicles still have cleaner emissions than cars from ten years ago. But the EPA keeps lowering emissions limits whether they're achievable or not. The EPA slashed allowable nitrogen dioxide car emissions from the already low 1.2 grams per mile average to 0.07 grams per mile in 2008 to boost air quality that courts at the time ruled was already pretty good and adequately protecting public health. The EPA is now poised to tighten that standard another 30 percent. And at a certain point VW decided the engineering effort to have the car computer 'cheat' on the test had a better payoff than trying to make the cars meet the new stringent requirements and still appeal to customers. Moe Lane comments: In this particular case, Volkswagen will probably not get away with it - too few cars affected, and the EPA is still sixteen months away from being smacked in the face with a rolled-up newspaper - but the general problem about government regulations, and the ways to break / evade / pervert / defy them, remains. To wit: the more regulations, the more incentives there are to evade them. You can argue the point up and down and pound the table all you like*, but human nature is human nature. People will smuggle items and not pay excise taxes on them; they will buy booze even if you make it illegal to sell it; and they will evade nit-picking pollution controls widely believed to be social engineering exercises in disguise if they think that nobody's looking. Sorry if that bothers people, but I wasn't involved in the design process for the human psyche. Was Pope Benedict Forced Out in a Vatican Leftwing Coup? Further serious concerns are being raised about Cardinal Godfried Danneels, one of the papal delegates chosen to attend the upcoming Ordinary Synod on the Family, after the archbishop emeritus of Brussels confessed this week to being part of a radical "mafia" reformist group opposed to Benedict XVI... Judge Rules That SIG SAUER's MPX "Muzzle Brake" Is Actually a Silencer Despite the fact that it has no effect whatsoever on the noise produced by the gun at all. Bruce Jenner Now Legally a Woman Still no word if he/she had any surgery but a Los Angeles judge has approved his petition to have his name and gender officially changed. Stuff They Left Out Of The Lord Of The Ring Movies The scouring of the Shire is one of the most bittersweet parts of the books yet also one of my favorites. After all their fighting and sacrifices the hobbits finally return home only to find that even the Shire has been tainted by the evil of the outside world and they have to fight one final battle. Weekly Commenter Standings Top 10 commenters: Top 10 sockpuppeteers: The group. Banned on 12 universities. Where it's at - the Twitter Tonight's post brought to you by grounds for divorce, 1964: So was there a big enough problem with leprosy in Kentucky that it had to be covered in a law? 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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