It does, as Australian Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said, sound like global warming will be a “disaster novel” Down Under.
Even less rain than the 50-year declining averages of today, 95 percent of the country likely to be under official heatwaves most of the year, and so forth.
Seriously. I don’t see how the Australia of today can exist 50 years from now.
July 06, 2008
The hypocrisy of beauty pageants
If you can’t win, or don’t compete in, your own city’s beauty pageant, Duncanvillean Rebecca Robinson, you shouldn’t be Miss Texas, I don’t think. (A Coppell resident won this year’s Miss Duncanville qualifying pageant.)
Just saying.
Of course, this shows the materialist orientation of these pageants, with contestants shopping themselves around all over the place, their “causes” in their service-dedication speeches at said pageants aside.
Just saying.
Of course, this shows the materialist orientation of these pageants, with contestants shopping themselves around all over the place, their “causes” in their service-dedication speeches at said pageants aside.
The idea for liberally cool whitey – Rent-A-Negro
Black friends are No. 14 among the 103 coolest things for socially conscious (or, more likely, faux-socially conscious) upper-middle-class white liberals to like, according to Christian Lamper, as I blogged here.
But, what if you don’t HAVE any black friends?
Nemo problema, thanks to Damali Ayo’s Rent-A-Negro. Need a black person to liven up the Christmas/Kwanzaa party at the environmental law office or to enliven a consciousness-raising team-building exercise at a would-be socially conscious small liberal company? Here you go!
Read Salon for more on how Ayo got started with the idea.
Note that she fits the bill perfectly for Lamper’s self-aware (or delusionally pseudo-self-aware) uppity liberal whites — Ayo even went to Sidwell Friends! Then Brown University!
Now, on Lamper’s blog, black friends is No. 14, which gay friends is only No. 88.
Oh, if only David Sedaris were black.
Maybe Lamper will make a separate category for black gay friends.
I posed that issue to both him and Sally and Johnny of Black People Love Us.
But, what if you don’t HAVE any black friends?
Nemo problema, thanks to Damali Ayo’s Rent-A-Negro. Need a black person to liven up the Christmas/Kwanzaa party at the environmental law office or to enliven a consciousness-raising team-building exercise at a would-be socially conscious small liberal company? Here you go!
Read Salon for more on how Ayo got started with the idea.
Note that she fits the bill perfectly for Lamper’s self-aware (or delusionally pseudo-self-aware) uppity liberal whites — Ayo even went to Sidwell Friends! Then Brown University!
Now, on Lamper’s blog, black friends is No. 14, which gay friends is only No. 88.
Oh, if only David Sedaris were black.
Maybe Lamper will make a separate category for black gay friends.
I posed that issue to both him and Sally and Johnny of Black People Love Us.
One unneeded East Texas lake blocked
It looks like the site of Dallas’ proposed Lake Fastrill will be a national wildlife refuge after all. The city of Dallas lost its lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan for the Neches River National Wildlife Refuge.
Now, if we could just get internationally-renowed paleontologists exploring the North Sulphur River, maybe we could block Bois D’Arc Reservoir as well.
Now, if we could just get internationally-renowed paleontologists exploring the North Sulphur River, maybe we could block Bois D’Arc Reservoir as well.
Chinglish may replace English as American Imperium fades
Interestingly, some of the possible changes to English from a heavy Chinese infusion would have Chinglish sounding like “Black English”: loss of helping verbs and definite and indefinite articles.
Read the full story for more.
Oh, and unlike “Black English,” it’s going to be harder to resist the demographic pressure of hundreds of millions of Chinese.
Read the full story for more.
Oh, and unlike “Black English,” it’s going to be harder to resist the demographic pressure of hundreds of millions of Chinese.
Background on Obama’s lack of cred on civil liberties
Some talking points from the WaPost story about his appearance in libertarian-state Montana. (That’s more accurate, in some ways, than Red state, IMO.)
Doesn’t that Patriot Act comment sound JUST like his FISA comment? And, of course, the Patriot Act reauthorization was no such thing.
Yes, it was an improvement over the original, but in no sense a marked improvement.
As for Real ID, you’ll note that Obama didn’t oppose the idea itself, just the cost.
In other words, we shouldn’t be surprised by Obama on FISA. He has a history.
If anything, Obama may be heading the other way … on some of the intrusive homeland security measures popular with the "security moms" who populate the East and Midwest swing suburbs. ... He recently embraced a compromise bill on warrantless wiretapping that would effectively offer legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped spy on customers. In 2006, after expressing misgivings, he voted for the Patriot Act's reauthorization, saying it was a marked improvement over the original bill of 2001. Obama voted for an emergency spending bill that included creating the Real ID, even though he said he opposed the identification card as an unfunded mandate. Support for the Real ID is in line with law-and-order voters.
Doesn’t that Patriot Act comment sound JUST like his FISA comment? And, of course, the Patriot Act reauthorization was no such thing.
Yes, it was an improvement over the original, but in no sense a marked improvement.
As for Real ID, you’ll note that Obama didn’t oppose the idea itself, just the cost.
In other words, we shouldn’t be surprised by Obama on FISA. He has a history.
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