links for 2009-12-26


Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)

Saturday, December 26th at 12:01PM EST

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  • 2009 Departures
    You won't be seeing anything on this list in 2010. From Saturn cars to the Dodge Durango to Prescriptives makeup, they won't return next year. And who knew Oscar Mayer died this year?!?!
  • False-Flag Troll Caught Playing Racist to Smear Conservatives on C-SPAN
    With a hat tip to Dan Riehl, this is too funny. Having been subjected to one of these tortuous C-SPAN interviews, I can attest that a large number of the calls felt very scripted and trollish. In fact, you were guaranteed that the bulk of the calls to the Republican line were people who started off with "Hi, how you? My name is Dan. I used to be a Republican until you guys started an illegal war in Iraq and began spending so much money. Now I'm a Democrat and want socialized health care, damn the deficits it'll cause. And why do you like to kill babies, but oppose abortion?" That's typical of a C-SPAN caller.
  • 2010: The Year of the Tablet
    Must have. In fact, I will have an Apple Slate. But please, for the love of all that is decent and holy, please don't precede the name with the letter "i". That's so 2005.
  • China unveils 'world's fastest train link'
    Behold the power of a communist dictatorship that can just snap its fingers and build things without regard to supply, demand, cost, and the free market. Hey, sounds just like what the Democrats attempted in the stimulus plan!
  • A Virtual Tour of the White House at Christmas
    Beautiful as always.


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Trains, i.e. Eurostar

aelie (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 12:33PM EST (link)

The stoppage of Eurostar last week wasn’t an isolated incident. The Chunnel has suffered three major fires and two power outages in 15 years – and I am not even counting last week’s fiasco. I also vividly recall when Europe was tooting its horns with that train link not too long ago. Those five incidents have remained relatively unpublicized – that’s what state-run media will do for you.

I suspect the same thing will occur in China. Great fanfare at start, then hushing up of all the subsequent problems. Except it’s China – so we wouldn’t ever find out if something goes wrong.

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