POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

The Trig-Genesis Code

By God, Andrew Sullivan's going to comb the new evidence contained in Palin's book and find out the truth:

More rogue rage.

Dan Collins

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On Doug Hoffman’s Unconcession

Hoffman posted a letter yesterday, outlining his reasons for "unconceding" to Owens.  Among the charges are egregious errors in reporting, but more importantly, that there's a pattern of the errors all falling in one particular direction, which is probabilistically extremely unlikely.  Logically, he concludes that the reporting errors were deliberate.

As we know, Nancy Pelosi didn't wait for the State of New York to certify the election results before swearing in Owens, who promptly reversed his campaign stand against the House health care bill and voted for it.  If you can, you may wish to make a donation to help support him in guaranteeing that the results are fully reviewed.

Meanwhile, as you're probably also already aware, recovery.gov reports that 440 imaginary Congressional Districts have received $6.4 billion in stimulus money. That's change you can believe in.

Related, via Instaglenn:

The widely read blogger and purveyor of all truth, Andrew Sullivan, was impelled to blog 17 times on the subject of Palin on the same day Americans learned that the Obama administration awarded $6.7 billion in stimulus money to non-existent congressional districts — which did not merit a single mention. To see what is in front of one's nose demands a constant struggle, I guess.

Dan Collins

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By Comparison

Aussie PM decides to probe Church of Scientology, accused of torture and forced abortion, among other offenses.  Post's been up since 3:30 Eastern, one reader comment.

Dan Collins

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Gentlemen Prefer Chubby-Chasers

Okay, so I just read this. It's about how "men married to smart women live longer." Since I consider myself a smart woman, I thought I should read it.

It's not about smart women. Unless by "smart woman" you mean health-conscious nag. I suppose I say that with more distaste than it deserves. But the study isn't about actual smart women; it's about women who make their men eat well and exercise and blah blah blah. So it's not really a matter of intelligence but just a matter of how effectively a woman cracks that whip.

I made a comment to a friend that, according to this article, I am the opposite of "smart." While visiting a friend recently, I made: pan-fried elk, mashed potatoes loaded with sour cream and cheese, gravy, bread pudding, stuffed salmon, faux-risotto, fortune cookies, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, cream puffs...AND chocolate chip cookies.

Falahime

Falahime Blah blah blah, Wyoming, blah blah, massage therapist, details cars, used to sell beer, blah blah, hunts big game. That’s about all there is to me; I’m pretty simple.

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Keep Your Mitts Off Their Tits!

Yesterday, a government panel issued new guidelines suggesting that women not at known risk for breast cancer put off getting mammograms until the age of fifty. There was not a single oncologist or breast specialist on the panel that issued the revised guidelines.

ABC has an article up, in which medical experts express exasperation and bewilderment over the announcement:

Lyman said the benefits of mammography have been clear, particularly since insurers and Medicare began reimbursing for them, noting that mortality rates have fallen by 25 percent since then.

"I can't say all that's due to mammography, but it's pretty clear that part of that and maybe most of that is due to early detection with routine mammographic screening," he said.

But he agrees with Boolbol about the potential for mistrust, noting that screening rates have fallen in the past few years.

"I'm concerned again, with all this confusion, that women may stop getting their mammograms regularly. We may not know the effect of that [in terms of mortality] for another 10 to 15 years," Lyman said.

You're probably aware that we at this blog, men included, have a special devotion to women's breasts, so I think I speak for all of us when I say that this is appalling.

In fact, I could swear it was just about a week ago that I saw Democratic Congresswomen lining up to add to the record their particular concern for the medical well-being of women.

More at Breitbart.tv.

Harvard Medical Dean gives ObamaCare an F.

NSFW illustration, below, in case you don't know what I'm talking about.

Dan Collins

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Really Important Sh** for your PC – and sanity

1) best malware/adware/spyware tool - the one I recommend anyway - is Spybot - Search & Destroy the only thing I would say is that the interface and user-"friendliness" factor could be better - but you will be amazed what is on your machine that you don't know about. Plus the price is right in that it is free.

2) Avast.com Anti-Virus - also free (the Personal/Home Version) - protects all facets of your machine that interface with the Intartubals. Highly recommended. Including Browser / email protection. I can't tell you how many prospective Client sites I have visited which contain Trojans they don't even know about - essentially infecting all machines that connect to them.

the two of them together are the very least you should be doing to protect yourself.

Warning: sometimes the pay-to-play antivirus software don't play well with Avast or Spybot. As in, you need to turn the commercial ones off (disconnect from the intartubes first) before running scans with these, etc. But I would take these two over any paid service - for personal computing any day.

Enoch_Root

AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

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John Scudder Junior-isms

John Scudder, Jr is a lifelong childhood friend of Dan and Brother Tim - he lived next door growing up, you see. But they (Dan, Tim, John Jr, and John's brother Mark) were much older than me... so he was like another older brother to me - until that is, Tim and I started a little company in the early 00s and John joined us.

For whatever reason, I came to think of John Jr. today. And in particular some of the whacked-out one-liners I learned from him. John, you see, is the son of quite possibly the funniest man anyone has had the pleasure of knowing - John, Sr. (who sadly passed away a couple of years ago). And that is an entirely different post - one I will have to talk to my dad about (who spent God knows how many ounces of beer with Mr. Scudder). Every time he speaks of John Sr he laughs his butt off - barely able to finish this story or that story. So the point is I guess that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I share with you some of John Jr's material (I don't know how much of it is his, but it's good enough to pass around (from the left-hand side of course):

On being busy:

1) I am busier than a one-armed paper-hanger

2) I am busier than a two-peckered billy goat on a stud farm

3) I am busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest

On the topic of money/getting paid:

1) why don't you give us all a raise and sell something?

2) I'll see if I can make some room in my bank account

On where he got the bumper sticker that reads "I am a Giver":

"I stole it from some guy"

DAN will have to add more here... because he has the Deep Cut, B-Sides - the Classics - as does Brother Tim, who lurks around here...

Enoch_Root

AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

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It’s Her Prerogative

I've often said that women are creatures of many minds, several of which can be in operation at the same time. New "research" "confirms" this observation:

Whether it is being loud or quiet, males are more likely to find their defining characteristics early and stick with them.

Females, by contrast, are more changeable and likely to adapt their behaviour to circumstances, according to researchers.

But they appreciate consistency in their partner, a review of studies analysing humans and the animal kingdom dating back more than 30 years shows.

So, next time fickle she puts you down by saying you're so predictable, she also means it as a compliment. Maybe.

And perhaps our Resident Actuary can shed some light on this.

Dan Collins

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Burglar

I'm not even sure that I have anything to say about this, except that it's awful.

No leniency here, however.

Perhaps some of the difference in compassion can be explained by this post, chock full of information that's been suppressed on the tubes.

I'm not sure, honestly, whether this is less inspiring.

Dan Collins

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Convert to Christianity Given Asylum in UK

An Afghani man arrived in the UK on a hijacked plane, and converted to Christianity. The Telegraph takes up the tale:

The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, used human rights rules to overturn a previous Home Office decision to refuse him asylum.

Lawyers said there were fears that, as an apostate – one who rejects the Muslim religion – the man, originally from Mazar-i-Sharif, but now living in Hounslow, west London, would face persecution, or even death, if returned.

The former Kabul hotel worker had arrived in the UK as a Muslim, but converted to Christianity, was baptised and now regularly attends a west London church and bible classes.

But his conversion had met with hostility from other Afghans and Muslims, who spat at him in the street when rumours spread, the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Tribunal was told.

He was even threatened with death by two Afghans with whom he had shared a house in London and warned by others that he would be killed if he went back to Afghanistan.

Imagine what would happen in the UK if a convert to Islam were spat upon and abused in this way.

Dan Collins

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