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Why do we let the bastards take our money when it isn’t even due yet?
Radley Balko on the giant con that is payroll withholding tax.

Environmentalists are perpetrating a fraud (wow, big surprise) when they pontificate and bloviate about old-growth logging, says Tony Blankley.
I expect a comment from Naylor any moment 🙂

My wife is (among other things) a Dish Network agent. Dish sent out a notice to dealers last week that our on-air channel 4 (WTTV, the local WB affiliate) would be up on channel 8454 today.
It’s not. At least it wasn’t 15 minutes ago.
Get with the program, Dish Network. As soon as you get channel 4 up, I’m cancelling my Comcast cable. But I can’t do that till you do, which I sure hope happens before basketball season starts. So right now you are costing me 18 bucks a month that I’d rather spend on, say, a premium channel…
Besides the fact that Comcast is the devil, and I pay them only because you can’t get on-air stations in this town for doodly. I have DSL from SBC because Comcast wouldn’t install a cable modem hooked up to my Windows 2000 server. “You might route other machines through it without having to pay to have multiple machines hooked up.” Fuck you, Bombast Cable. (My current DSL setup lets me hook up as many as 20 machines, no extra charge, not that I have 20 machines, but I do have 5, with another one coming.)
OK, just getting that off my chest 🙂

At least according to some people.

The introduction of electricity has caused the “destruction” of cultures in the third world, according the editor of an environmental website. He says “there’s a lot of quality to be had in poverty.”
“I don’t think a lot of electricity is a good thing. It is the fuel that powers a lot of multi-national imagery,” said Gar Smith, editor of the Earth Island Institute’s online journal the Edge, in an interview with CNSNews.com’s Marc Morano.

Faffing Luddites. Read the rest of this Weekly Standard article by Katherine Mangu-Ward at Fox News.

The UN has no solutions; it just loves to spend money. Ken Adelman is disgusted:

The Jo’burg “World Summit” is attracting 60,000 people – the biggest ever. Plus it’s located in the furthest spot for a major conference, costing yet more in transportation fees for most participants.
Millions of dollars spent on the wealthy traveling to a neat tourist spot to produce multi-lingual speeches and documents about the poor. This U.N. conference has a budget of an exorbitant $55 million. The South African government, plagued by widespread poverty among blacks, will contribute $20 million.
Instead of the 60,000 jetting to South Africa for another round of U.N. speeches and declarations, just imagine how many poor Africans could be helped by $55 million spent on real programs to raise levels to $2 per day.

You sure can’t help these people by talking and wringing your hands over them.

Just a few:
Charles Krauthammer
Ken Adelman
Pejman Yousefzadef (aka PejmanPundit) (This piece discusses whether or not Bush has a legal basis on which to preemptively kick Saddam’s ass)

Ah, James Lileks, if only I could write a tenth as well as you do.

I can’t believe it took so long to nail this guy. It only goes to show that we already have enough home-grown religious loons in this country without a bunch of towel-headed Wahhabis to worry about.

Kunz was Green’s stepdaughter before their “spiritual” marriage. A Utah court declared the two legally married as part of Green’s earlier bigamy trial.

On the other hand, the girl (who is now 30) seems pretty loony herself:

“I do not consider myself a victim,” Kunz said, sobbing as she begged Judge Donald Eyre for leniency. “I’m a 30-year-old woman who has seven children.”
“It was me who pursued him. It was me who fell in love,” Kunz said.

Terrible.

Green never imagined the consequences of his lifestyle could be so harsh, the attorney said.
“It’s all hit him like a ton of bricks,” he said. “He’s very depressed about it.”

My heart bleeds.
Not.

and I must go meet my lovely wife for dinner. She went to a bris and I opted to stay away, so we’re meeting at Applebee’s. I’m not comfortable around wild rabbis with knives.
More bloggage later perhaps.

Via LGF, we present Grand Mosque No Thanks.
Hate to tell you, Europe, but you are looking at the response to the Reconquest. (Wonder what took the Arabs so long?) The infidels are back knocking on your doors in the guise of your friendly Koran-toting, sharia-quoting neighbors.
If you’re smart, you’ll deport every last one of them before they outbreed you and take over by default.