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Nobody says it like Ilana Mercer! 

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Funny, but contrary to Coulter—and bad manners notwithstanding—I would never have thought to pair “faggot” with John Edwards, as she did at the Conservative Political Action Conference. (Although it’s a great ploy if one wants to annoy the loathsome Andrew Sullivan, who was also in attendance). Edwards is all-American good-looking. Giuliani, on the other hand, is positively creepy, quite effeminate, and certainly comfortable with gay culture. Here is the YouTube footage of him in drag, smooching Donald Trump.

Moreover, for all those libertarians and professed individualists who flocked to join the herd at the CPAC, to mention Giuliani without speaking of how he Nifonged Michael Milken is to fail as libertarians, individualists, or as individuals who care for liberty and justice. (How do you like the verb I just coined, to Nifong?)

Note that the truly principled Ron Paul was absent from CPAC. (Read here how he infuriated George Will.) At least so I believe. I can’t imagine him sacrificing his core values to wallow in that swamp. I’d be surprised if he attended. Again, individualists and other agitators for real freedoms have an imperative to mention, even in passing, Rudy’s assaults on the authentic Atlases of the world.

Source: NIFONGED!

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 The answer — George Bush!

Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations.
    The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations.
    A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the project called ADVISE — Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement — was requested by Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

Source: Homeland Security revives supersnoop - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper

NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s biggest oil company, plans to spend almost $21 billion exploring for oil and expanding refineries this year as a worldwide shortage of drilling rigs inflates costs.

The company plans to begin pumping oil or gas from 20 projects in the next three years after seven start-ups in 2006, Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson told analysts Wednesday in New York.

This is exactly why it is wrong to increase taxes on the profits of the oil companies.  There is more oil out there and it takes money to find it.  The Democrats apparently do not understand this which is why they support plans like rewriting the oil field lease amounts paid to the government.

Source: Buffalo News: Business

WASHINGTON — Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday carrying a vision of a rewired Buffalo, where high-tech surveillance cameras would keep an eye on landmarks and crime hot spots while transmitting free high-speed Internet access across the city.

Brown discussed his proposal with Western New York’s members of Congress and officials at the Department of Homeland Security over the past two days and said he was generally met with a positive reception.

There are two practical problems with Byron Brown’s plan.  First, electronic surveillance does not work.

Researchers sponsored by the British Home Office in 2002 examined twenty-two scientific, controlled and peer-reviewed
studies analyzing the effect of surveillance cameras in British and North-American cities.

Overall, the researchers found cameras reduced crime in the areas under surveillance by four percent. Of the seven studies in American cities, not one found a reduction in crime
attributable to video surveillance.

Second, providing free high-speed Internet, while sounding good on the surface, is a bad idea.  The Internet has vastly improved the average citizen’s ability to exercise the right of free speech and the ability to reach a large number of people.  The Internet is changing the way news is delivered and is positively impacting many areas of our lives.  If the government starts providing “free” Internet service, the temptation will be great to control the content to prohibit or hinder anti-statist views.

Also, there is no such thing as “free” wi-fi.  Someone has to pay the costs and that someone, as usual, will be the taxpayers.  Not only will we pay, we will end up with a system that drives out competition because the profit incentive is taken away.  That will ultimately result in a more costly system.

On top of all this, there are significant privacy concerns over government video taping of the public.  It took the Supreme Court about 90 years to apply the 4th amendment privacy protection to phone conversations by prohibiting wire tapping public phone booths.  Just recently a U.S. District Court put the brakes on video surveillance of routine public gatherings in New York City.  The technology is ahead of the law right now, but the law is catching up.  Video surveillance has no place in a country founded on principles of freedom and liberty.  Also, who is going to monitor all of these cameras?

Once again, we have a symptomatic approach by the government instead of looking at the root cause.  The problem Brown is addressing is crime.  The root cause is our economy — lack of jobs, etc. — and the failed war on drugs.  The jobs problem is easily addressed by reducing spending and the size of government.  The resultant increase of capital in the private economy will spur economic growth and jobs.  Crime can also be easily reduced by ending the failed war on drugs and removing the profit incentive that creates criminal activity.  The result of that would be a tremendous savings of money and a huge reduction of innocent people being victims of property and violent criminal activity.

You can read another opinion on the subject here at Buffaloi.com.

Source: Buffalo News: City & Region

Former Gov. George E. Pataki has joined Chadbourne & Parke as a counsel focusing on matters involving environmental issues, particularly renewable energy.

Do you think that this position might be as much about lobbying for government funding as it is about practicing law??

Read it all: Law.com - Former N.Y. Gov. Pataki Joins Chadbourne & Parke

I was looking for an easy muffin recipe that tastes good. I specifically wanted a recipe using Bisquik® because I have 3 big boxes, thanks to double coupons (it was almost free). I started with a Google search for “bisquick muffins” and ended up on Cooks.com. I used the following recipe.

TAMMY’S SUGAR MUFFINS

2 c. Bisquick
1/4 c. sugar
2 tbsp. oil
3/4 c. milk
1 egg
1/4 tsp. nutmeg

TOPPING:

1/2 c. butter
1 tsp. cinnamon
2/3 c. sugar

Combine Bisquick, sugar and nutmeg into bowl. In 2nd bowl slightly beat egg and add milk and oil. Stir with spoon just until dough is moistened. Fill muffins 2/3 full.

Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.

TOPPING:

In one bowl melt butter. In second bowl mix cinnamon and sugar.

1. Take one warm-hot muffin

2. Dip the muffin into the melted butter

3. Dip muffin into the sugar/cinnamon mixture

4. Enjoy the muffins while hot!

(click any picture for a larger version and checkout the neat lightbox effect)

The recipe yielded 8 large muffins that taste great with coffee. You would probably get about 12 regular size muffins from this recipe.

The taste kind of reminded me of placek. Of course, there is no substitute for good homemade placek. If anyone has a tried and true original Polish recipe for Placek, please leave it in the comments of email me. Thanks!

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