links for 2009-12-01

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Tuesday, December 1st at 12:03PM EST

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Barack Obama Pre-Empts Charlie Brown's Christmas

He'd rather talk about upping the number of troops invading a muslim country than let anyone hear Linus explain the Gospel. That preachy Gospel business is much more offensive to the left than a leftist sending troops to Afghanistan to begin a surrender.
Swiss minaret vote unlikely to be copied in Europe

I thought Switzerland was part of Europe. According to Reuters that seems to not be the case.
US Secret Plane Uncovered

Gizmodo has the picture of a secret plane in the U.S. arsenal. No word on if it is a UAV or manned jet.
Give Retweets a Chance

A defense of the new retweet on Twitter. Here's what i don't like — one of the ways people get information into the stream of conscience of users is by multiple retweets. If everyone is retweeting something, it must be important. But the new retweet system only shows the first person to retweet. At least that is my understanding of it.

An on/off switch for this function would help a lot. Seeing how many people are retweeting something, gives me a sense of what people are picking up on. I find it useful.
Howard Dean Declares Debate Between Capitalism and Socialism to Be Over

He says we are getting both, in other words compounded inefficiencies. (H/T Saul Anuzis)

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THIS IS AN OFFICIAL POLL

Neil Stevens (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 12:51PM EST (link)

Treat it seriously and solemnly.

Cheeseburgers, or nay?

I say nay.

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I can haz cheezburger? NT

Jake W (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 12:55PM EST (link)

“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.”
–Ronald Reagan
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You can, and I promise won't think less of you (nt)

Neil Stevens (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:00PM EST (link)

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“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder

I say Cheeseburgers!

TNJim (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 12:55PM EST (link)

Even though I’m not supposed to have them. Everyone has a vice…

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Heck, yeah

Kevin Holtsberry (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:01PM EST (link)

I like my burgers with all the fixin’s

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Only if they have bacon on them nt

aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:15PM EST (link)

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton

A vote for cheese is a vote for America.

Leon H. Wolf (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:16PM EST (link)

Don’t be a commie.

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We can’t stop here. This is bat country.

I vote CHEESE

Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:24PM EST (link)

otherwise, what would be the point?

“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
~Sam Adams

LOL

Leopard1996 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 6:56PM EST (link)

That is great. But it has to be a real cheese, not something served at some damn liberals wine and cheese party. Cheddar, American, maybe swiss. But someone would be getting a beating if someone tried to put brie on my burger.

“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen

Nay

Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:29PM EST (link)

Burgers should be naked.

“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill

Only in the privacy of their homes behind closed doors

civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:31PM EST (link)

Otherwise, cover them in cheese!

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

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Uh-huh, civil truth, typical Republican hypocrisy.

janis (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:34PM EST (link)

I say naked burgers in the home and naked burgers in public. That’s just how I roll.

5 (nt)

Neil Stevens (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:44PM EST (link)

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You're right, I did get that backwards

civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 2:05PM EST (link)

But I still prefer cheeseburgers and don’t feel I should have to hide behind closed doors at home to enjoy them.

Let me state that a bit more forthrightly:

I’m mad as h**l with the nutrition lobby trying to make cheeseburger consumption an act of reprobation and am not going to take this any longer.

It’s past time to preserve our freedom to each cheese in public! I’m issuing a call to arms (and mouths…and relish).

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You are all banned

Erick Erickson (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 3:49PM EST (link)

Except for Dan.

Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?Follow @EWErickson

Aw come on Erick

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 4:02PM EST (link)

Cheese is as American as apple pie, as long as the cheese isn’t in the apple pie.

Aw come on Erick

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 4:02PM EST (link)

Cheese is as American as apple pie, as long as the cheese isn’t in the apple pie.

actually cream cheese is good in an apple pie

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 4:07PM EST (link)

mmmmmm cream cheese

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

Man is Charlie Rich get a lot airplay

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 3:58PM EST (link)

It’s amazing since he’s dead. I don’t mind Chesseburgers with condiments, but no kethsup for the fries(only mustard).

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Hey!

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 4:04PM EST (link)

Did you happen to see, the most beautiful girl in the world?

Ahh, the old silver fox, that was some real singing.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

No cheese, ketchup, mustard and dill pickles, please.

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 4:00PM EST (link)

On a toasted bun.

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Kowalski, punctuation blew that.

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 4:04PM EST (link)

My way, no cheese. The rest, as noted are great. Can we have the burgers charbroiled?

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
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Com'on y'all I'm on a diet ;) nt

mom2oneson (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 4:13PM EST (link)

Oh sorry about that

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 6:48PM EST (link)

We should be talking about Grilled Chicken instead.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Try "beefalo"

Menlo (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 8:13PM EST (link)

Ground buffalo is 98 percent fat-free, and I think it tastes better.

“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.” -Felix Frankfurter

Can we charbroil them? Yes we can. (nt)

Neil Stevens (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 6:34PM EST (link)

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That came off really bad

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 6:42PM EST (link)

I’m sure not having chesse is bad thing and I like chesse and Bacon. I don’t Ketchup on my burger but it better never touch the fries. All this talk is making me want to go to Whataburger. I’m having a hankering for a Bacon Chesseburger with fries.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Pickles?

Neil Stevens (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 6:34PM EST (link)

As long as you’re anti-cheese, that’s fine. Pickles can be taken off. Cheese can’t.

Bacon and Barbecue sauce for me, if it’s not going to be a plain, delicious hunk of meat.

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Give me cheese

Lammo (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 5:39PM EST (link)

and bacon or give me death.

Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (John Corapi, The Black Sheep Dog)

It's a tough crowd here at RedState

civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 6:42PM EST (link)

Some would give you the first, and others the second.

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Oh yeah...ROTFLMAO...heh!...nt

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 6:49PM EST (link)

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cheese...

Christine (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 6:50PM EST (link)

but the good stuff please.

I wouldn’t argue with bacon and BBQ sauce too, although at that point the cheese must be cheddar

The primary process is FLAWED. Two states should not decide our candidate.

“I would be a poor Commander in Chief”
– Barack Obama, July 3 2008

cheddar with BBQ sauce and bacon?...yikes...

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:00PM EST (link)

I would say a nice provolone but whooo that is quite a taste sensation you are building with your cheddar

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Provolone is good....

Christine (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:20PM EST (link)

but cheddar & bacon just go together, to me.

Messy, but good

The primary process is FLAWED. Two states should not decide our candidate.

“I would be a poor Commander in Chief”
– Barack Obama, July 3 2008

Gotta have the cheese

Leopard1996 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 6:54PM EST (link)

Also lettuce, tomato, and onion,ketchup and mustard, and sometimes even mayo.

It's what you call a cholesterol bomb

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:28PM EST (link)

but maybe the tomatoes increase the HDL’s and fight the LDL’s, then add pickles and your home free. LOL

Exactly.

Leopard1996 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:49PM EST (link)

The times that I do go to a BK or a Micky D’s I don’t adjust the order. I like my burgers with everything on it.

A perfectly grilled, sizzling burger - no cheese

Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:29PM EST (link)

A toasted bun and just a kiss of mayo. Good stuff.

Cheese is meant for grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup or pizza.

To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher

Neil- I don't know what you will throw out there next, but, hot dogs wouldn't be a good idea

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:32PM EST (link)

just sayin’

Neil- I don't know what you will throw out there next, but, hot dogs wouldn't be a good idea

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:32PM EST (link)

just sayin’

Can you tell I just got home from work and I am starving?

Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:34PM EST (link)

ocleverone- Are you having a burger?

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:43PM EST (link)

naked of course.

Or as they say- without the emporer's clothes

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:45PM EST (link)

n/t

Unless the burger came disguised as leftover turkey pot pie - No.

Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:50PM EST (link)

I try to limit the burger intake but I have been known to sneak out to 5 Guys (the best burger joints in the world) for lunch once in awhile.

As a former East Coast boy

Leopard1996 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:50PM EST (link)

When you talk about Hot Dogs. I have seen fathers disown sons for putting ketchup on a hot dog. I like mine mustard, kraut, and onion.

Leopard- If you are a former east coaster

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 8:00PM EST (link)

you would have to go for the chili dogs. Kraut is great, if you were in the German areas, but chili is better, with or without the added Cheese Whiz. Philly also likes cheese whiz with their cheese steaks. Yuky Poo.

Is Whiz cheese, or processed cheese product? (nt)

Neil Stevens (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 8:35PM EST (link)

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Yes

SteveLA (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 8:52PM EST (link)

A processed cheese product, and it comes in a spay can too. Called Easy Cheese. Not to be confused with “Silly String”, with the Rose Bowl parade and the Do Dah coming up, that’s important.

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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests

I don't know

Neil Stevens (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 10:38PM EST (link)

Spraying someone with that when they’re expecting silly string could be good fun.

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Throw in a tortilla...good eats! (nt)

SteveLA (Diary) Wednesday, December 2nd at 7:23PM EST (link)

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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests

Cheese Whiz is awesome for Nachos -nt

Leopard1996 (Diary) Thursday, December 3rd at 4:50PM EST (link)

Yeah, its a processed chesse product

Leopard1996 (Diary) Thursday, December 3rd at 4:49PM EST (link)

Chesse Whiz you can find in jars in the grocery store. Most restaurant’s, (Gino’s in Philly) get the stuff in bulk, and have it sitting on the grill so that it can melt, and when they are making your cheesesteak, they will ladel about two ladels full on the meat, and mix it up real nice. Yummy.

Originally from NJ

Leopard1996 (Diary) Wednesday, December 2nd at 6:06PM EST (link)

So hot dogs with mustard kraut and onions were good. I also lived on the shore so a hot dog from the Windmill at 2:00 AM after a night of carousing was also in the cards, and those would have chili.

I worked at a service area on the Garden State Parkway in High School, and I would make myself a Chili, Cheese, and Sauerkraut Sabrett dog off of the Electric Rollers, now those were Good.

Got a secret I am not telling, I know what that plane's for,

DONTREADONME (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:08PM EST (link)

I know what that plane’s for, gosh almighty the answer is so easy!

All it needs is a tailhook.

blooch Tuesday, December 1st at 2:01PM EST (link)

What if there was a stealth UAV with muscular landing gear for heavy payloads/carrier landings, and with just enough fuel to complete a mission after carriyng a gravity-driven bunker-buster payload?

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

To fly Obama's chef to the President's latest apology tour stop?

civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:31PM EST (link)

…or to fly Joe Biden to his disclosed “undisclosed location”?

http://www.gmsplace.com/

No civil truth- It's actually to transport his presidential food tasters

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:49PM EST (link)

that way they don’t have to fly home with dead bodies

Actually the right answer was protecting the president from party crashers...

DONTREADONME (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 10:42PM EST (link)

at the White House that is what the new stealth-jet UAV is doing in Kandahar. You didn’t know? Of course we all know that the plane is flying recon in areas that I will not specify because it’s not Afghanistan.

Lastly, good luck seeing that jet in the sky not to mention seeing it on radar, thermal or lidar.

No civil truth- It's actually to transport his presidential food tasters

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 7:49PM EST (link)

that way they don’t have to fly home with dead bodies

WTO states seek early 'green' deal ahead of climate summit.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 1:25PM EST (link)

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/wto-states-seek-early-green-deal-ahead-of-climate-summit-20091202-k44v.html

A bid to free up trade in environmental goods and services gained new momentum Tuesday at a WTO meeting, with some nations calling for a deal ahead of a major climate summit in Copenhagen.

An early accord could also act as a much-needed stimulus for negotiations on a broader global trade pact that are currently stalled, said trade ministers gathered at a meeting of 153 WTO member states in Geneva.

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“Goods”…….. could be something to really start up business growth……. De-salination equipment, more-efficient material recycling systems…… new technology can be worked up, if that’s what’s in the agenda……. but that’s ain’t the ballgame bein’ played.

“Services” = Carbon Credits.

Sooooooooo……. The Greenies have been exposed for the one-worlder’s and liars they’ve always been and now they’re gonna try and force their agenda before they really try and force their agenda…….. or something like that.

well, they know that the jig is up on AGW

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 2:45PM EST (link)

so they are desperate to get something done with carbon credits before the public revolts.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

speaking of AGW

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 3:25PM EST (link)

I remember we used to have two different guys who would always come on the scene and tell us how stupid we were to doubt AGW.

Wonder if they are man enough to come on line now and apologize?

Didn’t think so.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

Dr. Phil Jones is stepping down

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 2:42PM EST (link)

as head fraudster while an independent investigation is done to uncover just how badly he has destroyed the Global Warming Hoax.

Ok folks, I'm on the hunt for an inexpensive e-book reader that has an SD/MicroSD slot

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 10:46PM EST (link)

I’m open to suggestions and now that I’ve found an e-book of a book I like to read, I’m already for a Library in the palm of my hands.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

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