At the Washington Post website, self-styled Mormon Girl Joanna Brooks has a piece on what progressive Mormon women want in context of the upcoming presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. (link) She pulls into it a First Presidency Message by Spencer Kimball, “The False Gods We Worship,” which appeared in the Ensign 36 years ago:
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Today is Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day.
The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may soon be turned into complaints.
And, the inane line about who makes this country great goes a long ways towards explaining why I only lean libertarian.
Outside of the scriptural canon, may well be Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White American, 1960-2010. (more…)
they had offered this man a free vasectomy years ago. (Maybe they did, the article doesn’t say.)
Before we put the entire blame on the man, know that he did have 11 female accomplices in this matter.
Alternate titles:
1. Modern day polygamy…. more or less.
2. When you reward something, such as illegitmacy, you get more of it. See Jane Galt.
Not only did Elizabeth Warren falsely claim a Native American heritage; not only did she repeat that claim in submitting three recipes to a “Cherokee” cookbook, Pow Wow Chow; but … get this … the three recipes she submitted were plagiarized.
I understand there is talk of Obama replacing Biden on the ticket. It seems to me we have an obvious candidate for Biden’s replacement.
Including placing the capstone (cap-Leggo?) on the world’s tallest Leggo tower.
Emperor Palpatine: “Feh. In my day, royalty meant putting the final touches on a battle station the size of a small moon. But then, Denmark is a very small country.”
It’s not just Mormon unmentionables that seem to fascinate people.
His Majesty chortles that he has long known American was, at heart, a nation of pervs. It’s getting harder and harder for me to argue otherwise.
“Even though I managed to raise the dead, I have never been able to cure an idiot!”
If He didn’t say it, He should have.
Not that I’m trying to give advice to God or anything …
Steve Sailer points out “The Life of Julia,” an infographic-style “look at how President Obama’s policies help one woman over her lifetime—and how Mitt Romney would change her story.” Like last week’s airing of President Obama’s views on marriage, it is hard to see this swaying any voters, but it is nice to have matters laid out so plainly. Perhaps it will shake loose another $15 million Hollywood fundraiser. It is a little sad to think, though, that Obama can be some voters’ imaginary boyfriend in the Oval Office for at most four more years. Hopefully some of America’s Julias will grow out of such needs by then.
Did you notice when “Captchas”, the distorted letters and numbers that you need to interpret and type in before continuing some sort of online process, changed a while back?
They’ve changed again.
I’m talking about Google-generated “Captchas.” You’ll find these on both Google-owned and non-Google web sites that use Google’s Captcha service.
The first change added a second word, a “real” word, in addition to the (seemingly) random letters or letters and numbers. This ‘real’ word is a scan from one of the many books that Google has scanned and put online.
Supposedly, it is, or was, a word that Google’s automatic character recognition software was not able to interpret during the scan, or not able to interpret with a high degree of certainty. So…. shoot it out to a handful of Captcha boxes, and if a majority of those users agree, POOF, problem solved. This is an example of a technique called “crowd sourcing.”
The recent change in Captchas is that the 2nd word is now sometimes a photograph, and in this photograph is the house number or address from a snapshot of Google’s Street View. (more…)
I’m trying to figure out what this is a metaphor for.