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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has now identified with certainty the heaviest element known to science.

The new element, Pelosium (PL), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Pelosium is inert, and has no charge and no magnetism. Nevertheless, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Pelosium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Pelosium has a normal half-life of 2 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a biennial reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

Pelosium mass will increase over time, since each reorganization will promote many morons to become isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Pelosium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalyzed with money, Pelosium becomes Senatorium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Pelosium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

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My favorite Winter Olympic event? Women's Biathlon. It is a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Why is it my favorite? Athletic, attractive women. In skin-tight outfits. With guns.  If they allowed beach volleyball players to carry side arms I do believe it would be the perfect spectator sport.   -  Rich Galen

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We are about to have one giant test of national character. For better or worse, we're gonna' find out what we're really made of. - Cold Fury

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Fat, drunk & stupid is no way to go through life, Albert. - Dean Wormer

Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed. - Atlas Shrugged

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One of the reasons AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) flimflam angers me is that it crowds out sane, constructive environmentalism. An environmental lobby that really cared about saving the planet would be agitating for crash programs to replace the burning of fossil fuels with nuclear energy; buying up rainforest acreage to stem loss of biodiversity; funding research into better battery- and supercap-based storage technology so low-density renewable power sources could be aggregated into baseload power. But the envorinmentalists we have won't do these things, because they're fixated on the wrong problems and the wrong means of solving even those. - Eric S. Raymond

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We Won Last Night!!!  - Nancy Pelosi

OMG

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Plane was delayed a little, but we still arrived on time.  Go figure.  Was kinda bumpy, but mostly ok.  I handled it well.  So much so that the French kid sitting next to me said, "Wow, I'm really impressed!  I've been riding in planes for years and I'm scared.  You're so calm and it's your first flight."  I said, "I had no idea I should have been scared."  HAHA! Ignorance is bliss sometimes.  Landing didn't bother me at all.  The take off was kinda weird.  Made my stomach flip, but I just told myself to relax into it and that seemed to work.  The apartment is small, but super nice.  It was recently remodeled.  The neighborhood is very bohemian cool.  There's a cafe right down stairs. Write more  to you later.  PS did you know that people speak a lot of French in France?  Crazy, right?

Dad: I watched you on a flight tracker website crossing the Atlantic until It got too late.  Have Fun.
We also looked at the Rue du XXX on Google streets.  Looks cool.  What's the name of the Cafe?

Keep forgetting to look when I walk down there.  It's right on a corner if that helps.  I'll try to get it tomorrow.  Just got back from Monmarte.  Stood on the steps of the Sacre Coeur and overlooked the city.  Lots of  young people hanging out there listening to music smoking weed and making out.  Kinda like kids in Toms River do on the boardwalk.  Ha! Only these kids are making out in front of a medieval structure. There's a staircase that leads up to it that has little fiber optic lights set into the stone that mirror star patterns.  It was simple but kinda cool.  Also I learned that the French call Paris La Guyere, after the cheese with a lot of holes in it.  It's because Paris is so full of holes and tunnels underground.  Funny huh?  Apparently they make a lot of cheese references here.  Like they call a pie chart, a Camenbert.  Gonna get some sleep finally.  Bye for now.



At the Pompidou right now! The name of that cafe right near where I'm staying is Cafe du Metro. Saw Notre Dame yesterday, along with Delacroix and Brancusi's studios, walked over the Seine, and through the Quartier Latin. Had a Pain au Chocolate and ate an expensive dinner.

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Sarah Palin saw Russia from her house. Barack Obama sees Russia from his knees. - Treacher

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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart  -  Unknown

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The whole "two party" thing causes problems if both parties pass the laws they think are necessary when they are in power, yet nobody ever repeals the laws that they know in what passes for their hearts are wrong.

This is how we'll wind up in a country with both the PATRIOT Act and National Health Care. The way things are going, there'll be a six month waiting list to get wiretapped, and you'll only be able to be waterboarded by a government-provided doctor. Folks will be sneaking off to Mexico for gray-market torture.  - Tam

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I'm not interested in Victory.  - m'Bonga at a G20 news Conference discussing Iran

What a fucking surprise.  He has also shelved requests for more troops for Afghanistan.

Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns - Mitch Radcliff

And from MSNBC Host Ed Schultz

    The Republicans lie! They want to see you dead! They'd rather make money off your dead corpse! They kinda like it when that woman has cancer and they don't have anything for her ... My God, Democrats, what’s wrong with you?! You can't deal with these people, at all

    Now Olympia Snowe, I'm not wishing bad on you, at all, but if you get cancer in your stomach, Senator Snowe, what I would like you to do is wait two weeks to see a doctor.

    "Here's what the Republicans and all the righty talkers and all these psychos on TV do. What they do is play on your fears, as if somebody's gonna come take something from you."

Damn - He makes Olbermann look sane.  Besides, why would Republicans want to see you dead?  The dead vote Democrat.

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Let us continue to love our country, be proud of our country, never apologize for our country. - Sarah Palin

So we start this all over again and 'round and round' we go.

All of which in my equation all but guarantees we are not on the verge of any meaningful recovery. Quite the opposite perhaps. The downward swirl of liberal policies continues to build on itself.

It is beyond debate that liberal policies have led to most of these dominoes that are now toppled. Liberalism in power has prevented this country from using much of our own energy. It has prevented the building of any refineries since before the days of Microsoft. It has prevented us from building nuclear power plants. It has dominated most production and labor policy for the Big Three automakers. It dictated that people who could not qualify for home mortgages should have access to them anyway.

Liberal cronies were in charge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were liberal enterprises to begin with. Liberal government has run Michigan for decades.

In fact, liberals have been PROUD of all of these beliefs as they have fought these battles one by one. In the childlike mind of a liberal utopian, the dots just never connect. In reality, those dots always connect - and they connect long before most people can visualize the lines. Thus an economic meltdown that hit us with breathtaking speed.

And the Obama cure? More of the same. More quashing of America's energy complex. More government interference into labor. More government interference into lending. More government interference into healthcare. More changing of contract law. More taxes on business. More incentives not to work or pay your mortgage or invest. More and more and more government - all because we need to solve things that government screwed up to begin with.

Recovery? Maybe. Maybe not. But no time soon.

- American Thinker

Why worry about an EMP attack?
"So it wipes out your bank accounts.
What's in there? I mean, really. The average American household is
carrying $121,953 in personal debt. What would be so bad if something
goofy happened and all the meters got reset to zero? And Joe Schmoe's
credit card debt is as nothing compared to what the government's signed
him up for. . . . When I first heard about EMP a few years back, the
big worry was that in a split-second it would vaporize trillions of
dollars of wealth. From the perspective of 2009, vaporizing trillions
of dollars of debt has something to commend it." - Mark Styne

"A liberal is a person who will give away everything they don't own." - Rico

"Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,"  - Chavez

The union leaders say they are appalled that Democratic leaders are talking openly now about decimating government programs without first making a stand for bigger, broader tax hikes that could substantially offset budget cuts.  - California Union Leaders

The president's general line on the geopolitical big picture is: I don't need this in my life right now. He's a domestic transformationalist, working overtime - via the banks, the automobile industry, health care, etc. - to advance statism's death grip on American dynamism. His principal interest in the rest of the world is that he doesn't want anyone nuking America before he's finished turning it into a socialist basket case. This isn't simply a matter of priorities. A United States government currently borrowing 50 cents for every dollar it spends cannot afford its global role, and thus the Obama cuts to missile defense and other programs have a kind of logic: You can't be Scandinavia writ large with a U.S.-sized military.

Mark Steyn

The slavish manner in which the media lock stepped into Bush the near fascist for tribunals, wiretaps, intercepts, renditions, Patriot Act, Iraq, and Guantanamo, followed by choruses of Obama the sensitive, anguished overseer of tribunals, wiretaps, intercepts, renditions, Patriot Act, Iraq, and Guantanamo was one of the most frightening things I 've seen in  a free society in 50 years. - Victor Davis Hanson

Americans Largely Silent as Their Nation is Systematically Destroyed

What are Americans Waiting For?

I don't know what it will take to wake up the average American, but whatever it is, it hasn't happened yet…

The people currently stocking up on food, water, guns and ammo in record numbers, causing shortages in all the above at the retail level, are clearly awake and anticipating something, but what? Meet the "extremists..."

The people still trying to get a court somewhere in America to hear the arguments concerning the most secretive corrupt president in US history, have been awake for a long time. Meet the "birthers..." But they continue to have trouble waking anyone else up, including in the so-called halls of justice.

Is it a bankrupt dollar and a new international currency that will get their attention? - A North American Union? - An ACORN Army on their doorstep? What will be the final straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back?

I don't have the answer... Frankly, I expected the people to revolt long before now. Clearly, I had underestimated the depth of apathy and tolerance for anti-American nonsense in the average modern American. But then, so did our nation's founders, whom I'm certain are rolling over in their graves in disgust by now.

CHANGE BACK



- Trainer

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.


Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005

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We're Living In Odd Times When Miss California Gets Tougher Questions Than the President - Dennis Miller

Hell, she's given better answers too.

Twitter / James Lileks: Maybe I'm old-school, but ...

JAMES LILEKS: Maybe I'm old-school, but "President fires CEO" looks as wrong as "Pope fires Missile."

Hard to believe, isn't it? America elected a 17 year old with ADD. - Comment #24

Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It.

I'm rereading Atlas Shrugged.  John Galt is the way to go.

Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk. - Hot Air

Words fail me.

Obama mulls reaching out to moderate Taliban - NYT
Obama's British 'Gift Gaffe' Not Reported By U.S. Media
Barack Obama may subject US troops to International Criminal Court
Obama hails 25 new jobs amid massive losses

JIM GERAGHTY: "I'm fascinated by the Obama administration's mentality that the fact that violent Mexican drug cartels are raising hell just over the border doesn't justify additional border security or a fence, but it does justify making it harder for American citizens to own a gun."

    Here are some very interesting quotations of Thomas
Jefferson who has seemingly foretold our future:
          
        When we get  piled upon one another in large cities, as in
Europe, we  shall become as corrupt as  Europe.
        Thomas Jefferson
       
        The democracy  will cease to exist when you take away from
those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as
it goes --- a principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of
the world.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of
taking care of them.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        My reading of  history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much  government.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        No free man shall ever be debarred the use of  arms.
        Thomas Jefferson  
       
        The strongest reason for the  people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last  resort, to protect themselves against
tyranny in government.
        Thomas Jefferson  
          
        The tree of  liberty must be  refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and  tyrants.
        Thomas Jefferson  
          
        To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation
of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
        Thomas Jefferson  
          
        In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting
to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
          
        I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies.  If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation,
then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the
banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up
homeless on the continent their fathers  conquered.

Thanks to that guy at work...

Unko bachana kaun chahega.

Who will want to save them.

The doctors who conducted the post mortem said the bodies of the terrorists were beyond recognition. "Their faces were beyond recognition."

There was no way of identifying them," he said. Asked how, if this is the case, they knew the bodies were indeed those of the terrorists, he said: "The security forces that brought the bodies told us that those were the bodies of the terrorists," he said, adding there was no other way they could have identified the bodies.

An intelligence agency source added: "One of the terrorists was shot through either eye

A senior National Security Guard officer, who had earlier explained the operation in detail to rediff.com, said the commandos went all out after they ascertained that there were no more hostages left. When asked if the commandos attempted to capture them alive at that stage, he replied: "Unko bachana kaun chahega (Who will want to save them)?"

    There's been a lot of talk about how the mainstream media failed the country during this last election cycle, and that because of that failure their days are numbered.

    I have to disagree. I think the media performed flawlessly during the two year election cycle. They managed the story, shielded their candidate, attacked the opposition, sat on damaging stories, and in short did everything a good state run media should do during an election cycle.

    In fact, the only sign of their incompetence was that McCain kept the race much closer than he should have, but that failure might be more due to the education system failing to properly propagandize the young voters, although they'll probably blame home-schoolers for that.  - Mark Halperin