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December 31, 2010 04:23 PM UTC

New Year's Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

–Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  2. from Salon

    Mosque foes recently started a boycott of Bieber after he made comments in support of the mosque project in an interview with Tiger Beat, a teen fan magazine, Sullivan told WYNC earlier this

    Bieber went on to say that Muslims are “super cool,” Christians are “lame-o-rama,” and that the mosque will help “start a dialogue” with all religions about which Justin Bieber song is the most awesome.

    “I was like seven when September 11th went down, and frankly I’m surprised people are still going on about it. Move on, already!”

    month.

    I was able to reach the proprietor of the site, who confirmed that the Bieber item is in fact a hoax. “[T]he fact that some people take it seriously is hilariously depressing,” he said in an e-mail.

    Yes, Justin Bieber is being boycotted by the bigots because of a made up story about him.

  3. from TPM

    Surprise, surprise, historians have found glaring errors in a textbook claiming that African Americans fought in large numbers for the South during the Civil War.

    …

    The author, Joy Masoff, defended her work, telling the Post, “As controversial as it is, I stand by what I write. I am a fairly respected writer.”

    …

    Masoff’s other literary achievements include “Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty” and “Oh Yikes! History’s Grossest Moments.”

    1. Her creative writing is causing the school board to have professional historians do book reviews in Virginia.  One of the reviewers has a ten page list of factual errors in the novel.

      Her excuse is she used the internet to do her research for the book.  It turns out most of her research focused on the output of a Southern revisionist group.  

      At least Texas uses professionals for its propaganda writings.

  4. from Dennis Jett

    The legislators affected the course of history by ensuring two future events will occur — the reelection of President Obama and the decline of the United States as a serious world power.

    …

    These studies show taxes as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product in the U.S. are at their lowest level since at least 1965 and are the lowest in the OECD except for Mexico and Chile. At the same time, income inequality and poverty are higher in the U.S. than any other country in the OECD except Mexico and Turkey. As for the accusations that socialism is sweeping the land, only in Korea does the redistribution of income by government have a smaller effect.

      2. Many countries will not resuscitate, nor count as live births, infants born at less than 28 weeks.  

        The US, with a strong pro-life ethos and technological imperative, will attempt resuscitations down to as early as 22 weeks, when viability (greater than 50% survival with all interventions) is 24 weeks.  Ours count as live births and those that don’t make it as deaths.

        It’s those socialist death panels doncha know?

        1. If we were interested in this concept you call “fairness” the graph would look a lot different.

          (joking aside, DaftP, thanks for providing some details that are otherwise obscure)

  6. This is my last post of 2010.

    I wanted to thank all of you for being in my life, and for being who you are.

    I wanted to especially thank someone here who has become one of my dearest friends, and is so special to me.  You are truly a highlight in my journey through this world.

    Everyone be safe tonight, and I look forward to disappointing all of you with my philosophy in the New Year.

    Love, LB.

  7. Tonight I should wake up in time, plus or minus an hour or two, to wave to the new year.  My doc said bed rest for two weeks as he wrote the script for antibiotics to attack the little M. pneumoniae that set up housekeeping in my lungs, yesterday afternoon.  

  8. from Rolling Stone

    On July 29th, returning from a trip to Europe, Jacob Appelbaum, a lanky, unassuming 27-year-old wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan “Be the trouble you want to see in the world,” was detained at customs by a posse of federal agents. In an interrogation room at Newark Liberty airport, he was grilled about his role in Wikileaks, the whistle-blower group that has exposed the government’s most closely guarded intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan. The agents photocopied his receipts, seized three of his cellphones – he owns more than a dozen – and confiscated his computer. They informed him that he was under government surveillance.

    …

    Appelbaum is the only known American member of Wikileaks and the leading evangelist for the software program that helped make the leak possible.

  9. Please be safe tonight and stay warm!

    I want to take this time to thank everyone for a year filled with great conversations and some interesting debates on a variety of subjects. You’ve all added to my education and offered valuable points of view I may not have been exposed to before. I may not always agree but I absolutely appreciate everyone here.

    2. to help out around the house and feel pride in serving a noble purpose.

      Each time food falls on the floor, someone bellows, “Clean-up!” and the dogs come running. They are thorough in their work and eager for more. “Good dogs!”

    4. is to pre-rinse the dishes before they go in the dishwasher.  All the “experts” say it’s an unnecessary waste of water to pre-rinse, but I’ve never been comfortable putting them right in the dishwasher without it.  Letting the dogs do the pre-rinse solves the dilemma and makes the dogs happy.  I scrape the plates into the garbage, but let the dogs lick up whatever juices, etc. are left.  The only table scraps they get are lean meat and veggies (no onions or garlic).  They’re okay with pre-rinsing bowls and plates that held insanely hot spicy food like thai green curry, but do not like mustard, horseradish, or wasabi.  Again, to be clear, this is just a pre-rinse of the plates, not a big doling out of table scraps.

      When I make asparagus, as I snap off the woody ends, I throw them on the floor for the dogs.  They LOVE it.  My boy dog LOVES raw carrots, but the girl does not.  They will both nibble on a few raw green beans.

          1. something to a cheerleader?

            You used the word Venn and Favre in the same reply. I suggested that somehow the two words were connected by both being names, related by an event.  It wasn’t very funny, but it was definitely funnier my way.

            See, it’s like I didn’t know what a Venn diagram is.  Not that there’s much humor there.  But then in my ignorance, I concluded that Venn was the person related to Farvre, as if you had composed an amphibology, when in fact, it was only my own foolishness.  Again, not that funny.  But you gotta break some eggs to get a screen door to fit on a submarine.

  14. from Dave Winer (one of the inventors of blogging):

    NakedJen is an evangelist for radical transparency. Jay Rosen says the news process is turning upside-down. And Julian Assange put both ideas together. He says let’s know all there is to know. Let’s tell the people who take us to war and destroy countries and kill hundreds of thousands, for profit — no more secrets. We’re not just going to suspect you’re doing it, we’re going to know. And maybe, if they know we’ll know, they won’t do it.

  15. by Dave Barry

    JANUARY

    …which begins grimly, with the pesky unemployment rate remaining high. Every poll shows that the major concerns of the American people are federal spending, the exploding deficit, and – above all – jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs: This is what the public is worried about. In a word, the big issue is: jobs. So the Obama administration, displaying the keen awareness that has become its trademark, decides to focus like a laser on: health-care reform. The centerpiece of this effort is a historic bill that will either (a) guarantee everybody excellent free health care, or (b) permit federal bureaucrats to club old people to death. Nobody knows which, because nobody has read the bill, which in printed form has the same mass as a UPS truck.

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