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January 4, 2007 By Fausta

Nancy proclaims herself queen

As expected, the new Democrat congress provides blogging material.

In the characteristic self-effacing way we’ve learned to expect from her, Nancy proclaimed herself queen

After calling herself “the most powerful woman in America,” Mrs. Pelosi flexed her right muscle like a weight lifter to much applause at an event yesterday titled a “women’s tea.”
“All right, let’s hear it for the power,” she screamed as the jubilant applause continued.

I’m sure she refreshed the Botox for the ocassion.

Meanwhile, Jane Harman won’t be chairing the intelligence committee.

You voted her in, folks. Now I get to blog about it.
Update: It’s back to 1968!

Via Larwyn:
Free to Say What?
Singing CAIR’s Tune, On Your Dime: As the Bush administration squanders a trust, Democrats prepare a new “Sister Souljah Moment.”
The Myth Of Jefferson’s Koran
Top of the Agenda, Funding for “Bush’s War”

Flopping Aces has more on Keith Ellison & The Koran

The Spanish bloggers have an ongoing discussion over the Jefferson Koran, and Jahd mentioned,

Hay que volver a Roma: jurar por los cojones (testificar). Y si mientes, que te los corten.
Must go back to [ancient] Rome: swear by the b*lls (to testify). And if you lie, they cut them off

Not a very elegant idea, but historically accurate, and possibly very effective – if the ACLU doesn’t intervene in its enforcement. Nancy would have to swear by her ova. On second thought, have her swear by her facelift, which of course she claims she’s never had.

In other news, Pamela found out about the Little Mosque on the Prairie show.

More blogging later.

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Filed Under: Democrats, Koran, Nancy Pelosi

January 3, 2007 By Fausta

Bad science, and today’s items

Via Maria, Celebrities told to embrace the facts, not bad science
The Sense About Science guys have their work cut out for them.

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From Larwyn,
Supply Factors and Stagnant Wages

Blue collar workers’ real wages have stagnated because of labor supply factors. These include:

-The baby boom
-Immigration
-Diversity

They have also stagnated because of:

-Health insurance costs and
-Costs of bureaucracy due to workplace regulation.

Social stratification has increased because of:

-Urban renewal and disruption of blue collar social networks and
-Unnecessary college degree requirements.

In other words, supply factors and government intervention have caused the stagnation of blue collar real wages that the US has suffered in the past 30 years.

RTWT

More on Conyers: Get This Turkey Off Judiciary Committee
Oh yes, let’s put our lives in the hands of the government
UN Workers Raping 12 year olds in Sudan

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Via Beth., Honoring Those Who Died
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Via SC&A, from the Victims of Political Islam site, Dr Nasr Abu Zaid
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Call me overprotective, but I would have never allowed my son to do this when he was fourteen.

More blogging later.

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Filed Under: Democrats, economy, health care, science, UN

December 28, 2006 By Fausta

Reid to Bolivia, grim milestones, and other items

Reid to Bolivia
Elephants in Academia emailed with this news, Sen. Harry Reid Traveling to Bolivia This Week

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will join a bipartisan delegation on a trip that includes stops in Bolivia and Ecuador, two members of Latin America’s recently emerging left. International trade and anti-drug efforts are among the topics on the senators’ agenda.

As Academic Elephant said,

I’m sure Amauris Sanmartino is top on their agenda.

Amauris Sanmartino’s the Cuban dissident critical of President Evo Morales’ ties to Havana. Even when he’s a permanent resident in Bolivia, he was arrested and will be deported to Cuba. Babalu has where to contact Harry Reid on behalf of Dr. Sanmartino. (Update: Dr Sanmartino’s going to Gitmo)

Harry will miss the funeral

Grim milestones
Barcepundit says, WHAT A MORONIC REPORT. Go read about it.

Moral exhibitionism
Dr. Sowell writes,

Progressives are in the business of complaining and denouncing — as a prelude to seeking sweeping powers to control other people’s lives, in the name of curing the ills of society. The last thing they want is to discover and discuss how millions of people rose out of poverty by entirely different methods, often by freeing economies from the control of people with sweeping power over other people’s lives. Poverty and economic disparities are the raw materials from which the political left manufactures a sense of moral superiority, self-importance and political power. Against that background, it is understandable how they strive to keep poverty alive as an issue, even as they claim to want to end poverty, by playing lady bountiful to the poor. Even as they define deviancy downward, many of the progressive intelligentsia define poverty upward, so that people with amenities that even the middle class could only strive for, two generations ago, are still called “the poor” or the “have-nots.” Except for people who can’t work or won’t work, there is very little real poverty in the United States today, except among people who come from poverty-stricken countries and bring their poverty with them. Talk about “the working poor” still resonates in politics, but most of the people in the bottom 20 percent of American households are not working full-time and year-round. There are more heads of household who work year-round and full-time among the top 5 percent of American heads of households than among the bottom 20 percent. The left has striven mightily to make working no longer necessary for having a claim to a share of what others have produced — whether a share of “the nation’s” wealth or “the world’s” wealth. They have also striven mightily to inflate the number of people who look poor by counting young people with entry-level jobs, who are passing through lower income brackets at the beginning of their careers, among “the poor,” even though most of these young people have incomes above the national average when they are older. The real obsession of the left is in gaining power or, at the very least, engaging in moral exhibitionism.

Peace Prize, you ask?
Via Larwyn, Arafat’s Orchestration of 1973 Murders Acknowledged by State Department

How much different would the history of the Middle East be if the world had been forced to face the reality of Arafat’s involvement in the murder of American diplomats over 30 years ago?

Update Doug Ross has The Friends of Terror Scrapbook

Two podcasts
Louisiana Conservative interviewed Wild Bill. You can listen to the podcast here

If you haven’t listened to it yet, go to Eternity Road and listen to Francis Porretto’s wonderful tale fo the Census taker

Last, but not least
a truly beautiful post.

Update
Edwards Enters Race

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Filed Under: Bolivia, Cuba, Democrats, Thomas Sowell, Yasser Arafat

December 23, 2006 By Fausta

From the horse’s mouth

Via Jay, whose blog appears to be down right now, and Annie, the news straight from the al-Qaeda horse’s mouth: Al Qaeda has sent a message to leaders of the Democratic party that credit for the defeat of congressional Republicans belongs to the terrorists.

Party on, Speaker-elect Pelosi!

Meanwhile in India, Sonia Gandhi is under threat from al-Qaeda. Sonia, who was born and raised in Italy, won’t be attending Nancy’s women’s tea or the private party at the Italian Embassy

Update, via Larwyn, U.S. SENATOR BARBARA BOXER GIVES AWARD
TO CAIR EXTREMIST

Happy days are here again. It’s starting to look just like the nineties.

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Filed Under: al-Qaeda, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Sonia Gandhi

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