Slow news day link roundup
August 30, 2009
First we examine “Why Michelle’s Hair Matters.” This was news to me since I was obsessed with the significant political importance of her arms. Hard hitting journalism here…
Unruly mobs of un-American protesters and astroturfers rally in opposition to government programs and threaten democracy. Or something like that. I need a program to keep up with these autocrats. They are all the same.
Does government-run health care work? Ask vets. It takes the VA just 4.6 hours on average to decide a compensation claim, it takes the agency five years to actually settle the claim. And even after stalling for five years, the VA’s cumulative error rate is 90 percent!
Mark Steyn: Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne: Only a Kennedy could get away with it. “When a man is capable of what Ted Kennedy did that night in 1969 and in the weeks afterwards, what else is he capable of?”
Worried about Fido after the Rapture? This organization of atheists will relieve you of your worry and $110.
The IGun traffic rampage. This is as funny as it is NSFW.
Get out your tin foil hat: Lady Gaga is a tool of the Illuminati! Her goal? “To seek actively a single world government (New World Order), the elimination of organized religions and the creation of a single world currency.” Who knew?
Tracking the Missus: “These panties can give you her location, and even her temperature and heart rate, and she will never even know it’s there! Unlike the cumbersome and uncomfortable chastity belts of the past, these panties are 100% cotton, and use cutting-edge technology to help you protect what matters most.”
Obamacare in practice and application. The early results are in.
California gets a lesson in remedial economics. “Toyota Motor Corp. officially confirmed Thursday that it will relocate production of the Tacoma pickup from a plant in Northern California to its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in San Antonio by next summer.”
Finally, in 1975 Olivia Newton John asked the musical question, “Have you never been mellow?” R.D. Walker’s honest response: “No, I have never been mellow.”
