Rick Santorum: “The Smart People Will Never Be On Our Side” In Rick Santorum’s brand of conservatism, no smart people need apply. outsidethebeltway.com[...]
Archive for September, 2015
September 21st, 2015 - 9:08 am § in Misc.
Beer … not just a Seattle thing.
Photo: DPA Oktoberfest: 1m litres of beer vanish in two days Revellers at Munich Oktoberfest are believed to have polished off around one million litres of beer in the festival’s opening weekend. The Local looks at some of the other facts and figures down on the frontlines of the Wiesn.[...]
September 21st, 2015 - 8:24 am § in Uncategorized
Fiorina threatens federal workers
“The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don’t have a job anymore,” Fiorina said this week on “Fox News Sunday.” ”But when you have a big, bloated bureaucracy that costs too much, that is becoming inept — and by the way, th[...]
September 21st, 2015 - 1:45 am § in Misc.
OSCARS: Predicting the winners before the movies are shown
The Guardian does the trick … use this guide and you can go to the movie BEFORE it is being hyped …. unless like me you are a cynic and feel the reporter is being sent swag bags early.[...]
September 20th, 2015 - 11:17 pm § in Misc.
Sex in Sweden
A lovesick elk? Photo: Pernilla Wahlman/SCANPIX Sweden warns drivers of elks on hunt for sex Doing a roadtrip through Sweden this autumn? Beware of lovesick elks. A nationwide warning about the horny animals went out to drivers across the Nordic country on Friday.[...]
September 20th, 2015 - 1:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Carly Fiorina is a deadbeat
It’s been said politics is a hobby of the rich … and, no surprise, the rich don’t always pay their bills. (They got rich by cashing checks, not writing them.) Carly Fiorina, reportedly worth $120 million, waited until entering the 2016 presidential race to pay off debts from her fa[...]
September 20th, 2015 - 4:52 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATION: On Paul
On Paul as a Jew The Roman Bible describes Paul as an advocate of the poor and as a learned Pharisee. Both are false. Paul was a Roman citizen, a son of a Roman citizen, living not in Jerusalem but in Tarsus. Saying he was a “devout Jew” is a bit like describing Karl Marx […][...]