Overall, my opinion of New Yorkers just went down three notches.

At 3 minutes: Why we feel good hating Bush, but bad hating Obama.

Wow. Just wow. It just keeps going and going. And going.

Hat tip: wfr

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Hat tip: Linda Holmes

The evidence is starting to add up. First, we have the absence of evidence, which is always tricky but sometimes relevant: Nobody picked up a rocket on radar, aircraft pilots did not see a vertical high speed accelerating object, etc. etc. Then we have the alternative explanations, including the shape and nature of the contrail, curves in the contrail unlikely from a ballistic missile, and so on.

I’m betting on routine aircraft contrail. This will be an interesting one to pick apart later when all the conjectures are in.

Bottom line: If you make less than 250,000 a year (per person, not per family) you have no business even thinking about being a Republican.

I know, I know, everybody else has already seen this, but since Comcast, ironically, cut MSNBC from our cable menu, I get my Olberman and Maddow off the net, and there is a delay.

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Donald Mackenzie has been visiting Mount Ararat in Turkey for several years, searching for Noah’s Ark, which according to the Bible was deposited by god on this mountain after the Noachain Flood. Although it seems to not have made news, Mackenzie was reported missing on October 14th.

Mr Mackenzie became interested in searching for Noah’s Ark in his early 40s, and did a variety of jobs to fund his travels.

His mother said he is a Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland member because he believes it sticks closest to the Bible.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We can confirm that a British national has been reported missing in Turkey, and local authorities are investigating the reports.

“Staff are in touch with the family and are providing consular assistance.”

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Was he getting too close?

How can there be a large mystery launch of a rocket?

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Today is indeed a momentous day in history. On this day, in 1927, the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) was discovered by Teh West. It, of course, had previously been known to all those people for tens of thousands of years who lived among, and eated them.

This is also Carl Sagan‘s birthday. He was born in 1934, which seems like billions of years ago.

Do you remember Cosmos, first broadcast in 1980? (I always think of it as a few years earlier, but it was not.)

Do you remember The Great Blackout of 1965? I do (barely). It was today, but back then. It looked like this:

It is not true that there was a Blackout Baby Boom nine months later. But I think a lot of people did buy generators and/or candles.

On this day in 1888, Jack the Ripper killed Jane Kelly. He would not kill again after that. Here is a copy of a letter that may have been sent by Jack, along with a bit of internal organ from one of the victims, to the authorities:

From hell

Mr Lusk,

Sir

I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer

signed
Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk

“Lusk” was George A. Lusk chair of a “vigilance committee” established at the time to keep an eye on things.

This is also the anniversary of the formation of the American Birth Control League by Margaret Sanger in 1921.

America was in a depression in the 1930s. It took 15 years to fully pull out of that economic crisis. Funny thing, though, when Roosevelt was elected in part to get us out of that crisis, and two years went by, the American People did not belly ache about how he had not fixed all of our problems already. Let that be a lesson to you people! Anyway, on this day in 1933, Roosevelt established the Civil Works Administration.

Men working.

And, finally, on this day in 1967 the first issue of “Rolling Stone” was published.

John Lennon on the cover of the first Rolling Stone.

Yes, a very interesting day in history. Tomorrow is interesting too.

Decision Points is now available at your local bookstore. I’m not going to get a copy, but I do think that it is appropriate to repost this, in celebration of George’s literary success:

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Version A:

Version B:
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This trick will only work once:
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Here’s their blog. Give it a look, you hoser!

Iowa’s rejection of three state supreme court justices who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage underscored the growing electoral vulnerability of state judges as more and more are targeted by special interest groups, legal scholars and jurists said Thursday.

“It just illustrated something that has been troubling many of us for many, many years,” California Chief Justice Ronald M. George said. “The election of judges is not necessarily the best way to select them.”

Story here

They’re serious. Are you serious? If not, time to get serious.
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