December checks in

First the cold, now the snow.

Supposedly 3-4 inches before it quits.  And it’s not even officially Winter yet.

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Silent night?

...and abuncha wags in the U.K. want to mess with your mind (or at least the pop charts...):

A motley crew [oh, har-de-har! - o.g.] of musicians backed by a Facebook campaign are plotting to hijack the poor beleaguered Christmas number one with a four-minute recording of silence.

Following last year’s triumphant, internet-bolstered, telly-talent-compo-orthodoxy-upending ascendance of the gleefully inappropriate and profanity-sprinkled Killing in the Name by Rage Against The Machine to the once-sacred top spot, a campaign is under way to get a charity recording of avant garde composer John Cage's 4'33" to the lofty position for 25 December.

Meanwhile over at Roseholme, Roberta produces a generic carol, guaranteed to offend no one.

Now, who’s up for a chorus of Deck Us All With Boston Charlie?

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Clipfile - November 24, 2010

“We want our government to be like fire fighters: spend their days practicing driving big shiny trucks and having barbecues. In return for the minor inconvenience on the road and the easy 9 to 5, we expect them to be there when we need them.

Not this government: we have a crowd in power that prefers to create fire hazards, then takes pains to let them burn for maximum effect, just to justify taking more of our money because fires are really big and scary.” - “anonymous,” in a comment at Doug Ross’

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So now THEY’RE “uncomfortable”?

On Monday, the Transportation Security Administration briefed House staffers.  It appears the audience didn’t react quite as planned...

“The dumbest part: They did two pat-down demonstrations – male on male, and female on female,” the House staffer said.  And they used a young female TSA volunteer “and in front of a room of 200 people, they touched her breasts and her buttocks.  People were averting their eyes.  The TSA was trying to demonstrate ‘this is not so bad,’ but it made people so uncomfortable to watch, that people were averting their eyes.”

So just watching made spectators “uncomfortable,” huh?  (Sissies!)

Of course, as Politico commenter “MNresident” notes:

How can “The Hill” do anything about this when they EXEMPT themselves from it? [link added - o.g.]  The only thing these idiots will do is exempt themselves even more from it while passing more laws requiring everyone else to be assaulted.

Too true.  So just remember, friends, as you travel this holiday, it’ll be:



UPDATE:  Coming to a train/boat/metro near you!

Hattips:

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Clipfile - November 23, 2010

“The ubermenschen of the Hollyweird-Ivy League-Lefty ruling class feel the voters, having abandoned them, are no longer worthy of their solicitude and should thus be Alinskyized in the same way as Conservatives, Libertarians, non-RINO Republicans, and Tea Partiers.” - “edutcher,” commenting at Althouse

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Clipfile - November 21, 2010

“...If we banned things on the basis of ugliness and relative uselessness, there's a whole lot of people who’d never be allowed out of the house.” - Roberta X

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“There’s even a coupon...”

How to solve the healthcare problem:  Merge the TSA with the DHHS.

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Ain’t it da trut’!

No outfit is complete without cat hair.

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New librarian-blog

(via: Charles G. Hill, who often seems to have read the entire internet.)

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Great minds run in the same river

At Watts Up With That?, Willis Eschenbach did a post about the Constructal Law of Flow Systems.  Guess which Mark Twain quote turned up in the comments.

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