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Seen on a shirt at the lab this morning:

“The Second Ammendment…..America’s original homeland security”

“It has definitely dawned on her that this is really in jail — it is certainly no summer camp,” NY Times Executive Editor Bill Keller to E&P on Judith Miller’s incarceration

Of course it isn’t summer camp…it’s prison for goodness sakes!

“Businesses don’t locate out of social consciousness,” Laffer said. “They go wherever they can get the best bottom line.”

And

“Voters can also help by carefully electing officials, he said, and that doesn’t mean a blanket vote for Republicans or Democrats.

“People have got to vote for the policies, not the party,” he said. ”

–Arthur Laffer

(More on the article where these quotes came from later)

What do you think about this?

“there is no First Amendment right to masturbate.”–Chris Link, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio quoted in the Cleveland Plain Dealer

(via Brewed Fresh Daily)

“What kind of shmuck only leaves one [rubber] glove in the box!”

On Jim Petro’s selection of Phil Heimlich as his runningmate for the Ohio Gubernatorial race:

“This Heimlich maneuver will not stop Jim Petro’s last-place candidacy from choking.”–Mark Weaver, spokesman for Betty Montgomery, one of Petro’s challengers in the GOP Primary

Some food for thought:

For Congress and the president to then step in and try to override that by shifting the venue to a federal court was a legal travesty, a flagrant violation of federalism and the separation of powers. The federal judge who refused to reverse the Florida court was certainly true to the law. But the law, while scrupulous, has been merciless, and its conclusion very troubling morally. We ended up having to
choose between a legal travesty on the one hand and human tragedy on the other–Charles Krauthammer

(h/t: RCP)

A quote from one of the speakers at the seminar today:

“The western left has effectively been neutered”–A (liberal) speaker describing the Left’s ignorance of the Islamist regimes in the Middle East.

(h/t Gay Patriot)

“I’m very upset. We’re all very upset,” he said. “I’ve been selling [Fat] Bitches for 14 years.”–Owner of the Grease Truck

From a Fox News story on the Grease Truck at Rutgers.

But the question remains: What’s a grease truck?

“It’s so difficult to find a good bagel around here”

–The Sister refering to the Upper West Side of NYC.

This quote from an article in this week’s issue of The Hoot describes what politics are like at Brandeis:

I am a leftist Democrat (although on the Brandeis political spectrum, I’m a little closer to the center)

Read the rest of the article as well, it’s quite interesting.

A post election special from Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)

“I think polls today are almost irrelevant, and I just don’t pay any attention to them.”

– Sen. John Kerry, on Meet the Press, noting the polls were wrong about his chances in the Democratic presidential primaries.

Of course, earlier in the interview Kerry used polls to prove the impact of the Osama bin Laden video released just days before the election. “I believe that 9/11 was the central deciding issue in this race. And the tape — we were rising in the polls up until the last day when the tape appeared. We flat-lined the day the tape appeared and went down on Monday. I think it had an impact.”

[h/t Political Wire]

Some people never change….

What are these “demonstrations” demonstrating — other than adolescent self-indulgence and contempt for the rights of other people to go about their lives without finding their streets clogged with hooligans and the air filled with obscenities?

The irony is that many of those who are indulging themselves in these strident orgies are the same people who were telling us to “get over it” and “move on” during President Clinton’s scandals. Today the liberal MoveOn.org is the last place where people are willing to move on.–Thomas Sowell

Sorry about the light blogging today, I’m just getting over being sick, and today is a hard day for me.

Four years ago to this day, when I was a Freshman, my roomate who was a very good friend of mine, literally suddenly passed away.
(If you don’t mind, I’d rather not retell the whole story right now as it is very sad)

You can see the post below (In Memoriam)

I can’t even begin to describe how great of a person my roomate was. Any description I could attempt to give of him would not do him justice. I do not know the words to describe a person like him.

*pauses to wipe away tears*

He had two memorable motto, which he lived by…

“If something won’t matter a year from now, then it’s not really that important”

“There is no day but today”

Ever since he passed away, I’ve taken those two quotes to heart and have tried to use them as I live my life.

Here’s a post I wrote on what would have been my friend’s 21st Birthday…in which I describe my late friend….

If you’ll excuse me, it’s becoming a bit too hard for me to blog right now, as my emotions are begining to come back….

“Unitl we meet again, goodbye my friend”

“Academic freedom does not include freedom from criticism, and I see it as part of my responsibility to resist what I see as intolerance.”–Lawrence Summers to the Jerusalem Post

As Republican officials stonewall subpoenas and subvert the recount process, Rev. Jesse Jackson has pronounced Ohio’s vote fraud fiasco “the biggest deal since Selma” –The Free Press

[h/t to Steve Silver]

Once upon a time, Hanukkah was a smaller Jewish holiday reminding Jews not to compromise their faith when facing pressures to assimilate into a dominant culture. Today, Hanukkah is a giant, major holiday because it is close to the holiday previously known as Christmas. Religious history doesn’t get any more ironic than that.–GetReligion

Indeed…on a scale of religious importance, Hannukah really does rank towards the bottom of the list.

This one breaks the bullshit-ometer

Terje Roed-Larsen, whose five-year term as Middle East envoy, is adamant that the UN is neither anti-Israel nor anti-Semitic.–Jerusalem Post

All right, Bernie Kerik. I don’t get it. I actually don’t get it. Here’s a guy, he had two affairs while married, two affairs while married, the two women (story) with whom he was having affairs did not know of the other. Ladies and gentlemen, this man knows terror, because they all had to find out about everybody else at some point and he’s still alive.–Rush Llimbaugh