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    <title>Planck's Constant</title>
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    <updated>2010-01-01T03:30:43Z</updated>
    
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    <title>Man Caused Disasters and Terror</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog-mt1/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=4064" title="Man Caused Disasters and Terror" />
    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4064</id>
    
    <published>2010-01-01T02:55:33Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-01T03:30:43Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">Obama and his underlings are too stupid to understand the difference between "man caused disasters" and terrorism and so I find it necessary to explain to them the difference.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
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        &lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;bama and his underlings are too stupid to understand the difference between "man caused disasters" and terrorism and so I find it necessary to explain to them the difference. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The following was caused by someone who made a mistake and accidentally towed a large tree through a car:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/image-pump/accident.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10px;  " alt="tree plowed thru car" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/image-pump/accidentsm.jpg" border="0" align="top" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Someone accidentally left the grill on overnight:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/image-pump/mcburnt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10px;  " alt="McBurnt" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/image-pump/mcburntsm.jpg" border="0" align="top" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Someone accidentally stopped short:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/image-pump/pileup.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10px;  " alt="pileup" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/image-pump/pileupsm.jpg" border="0" align="top" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;These were all disasters, albeit small disasters, caused by man.  They were accidents devoid of intent to kill, maim, or roast anyone.  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If we later discover that someone actually intended harm or death, then it becomes a criminal matter.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But if the action were purposely done to inspire fear then it is no longer an accident or simple criminal matter, it becomes terrorism.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If the acts of terror are perpetrated by foreign nationals then they are enemy combatants and certainly should not be arrested and placed in our criminal justice system meant only for civilian crimes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That Obama has not ordered this enemy combatant to be under the custody of the military shows that he is clueless about who our enemy truly is.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That he and his administration equate the latest act of terror with someone who accidentally left the stove on, is itself a criminal act against the United States.  God help this country.&lt;/p&gt;
    
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<entry>
    <title>Mind Scanners at Airports would Bar Muslims Entry</title>
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    <published>2009-12-30T19:35:38Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-30T20:44:31Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">


As I predicted in my previous article: "If one wants to look at the bright side, those full-body scanners may now feel less intrusive." So today the Netherlands announced it will begin using more full body scanners for flights heading to the United States.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/bodyscan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/bodyscansm.jpg"alt="An employee of Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam shows how a body scanner works"style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34630097/ns/us_news-airliner_attack/"&gt;MSNBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;s I expected in my previous article &lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/12/exploding_muslim_underwear_is_my_fault.html"&gt;Exploding Muslim Underwear is My Fault&lt;/a&gt;: "If one wants to look at the bright side, those full-body scanners may now feel less intrusive."  So today the Netherlands announced it will begin using more full body scanners for flights heading to the United States &lt;a href="#fn1" name="_fn1" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the photo here we see an employee of Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam demonstrating how the new software in the body scanner works.  The highlighted area on the scanned body image at left shows an alert. This new scanner software hides the gender and body contours of the passenger, but security staff can still spot liquids, weapons or other objects.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But I see a problem with the new software; since it projects a stylized image of genitalia rather than an actual picture onto a computer screen, Jihadists can hide explosive liquids in penis-shaped silicone containers wrapped around their genuine organs and fool inspectors into thinking this is just a well-endowed passenger.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hey, don't blame me if extremists do this next;  if I can imagine it, surely they can as well.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;I expect that the next time we have an attack, it will be revealed that Muslim terrorists exploited this very weakness in the scanners, and then, and only after hundreds die or almost die, then we will go back to the original sharp and true scanners.  Why do we always close the barn door too late?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I can't wait until we have mind scanners that can detect when someone has thoughts that they want the United States to be destroyed; this means of course that no Muslims will ever enter the US and in addition, if a Liberal ever leaves the country on vacation, they will not be able to come back in.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;h2&gt;Notes&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn1" rel="nofollow" name="fn1"&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;NewsTimes, &lt;a href="http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Dutch-to-use-full-body-scanners-for-US-flights-301524.php"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Dutch to use full body scanners for US flights&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Netherlands announced Wednesday it will immediately begin using full body scanners for flights heading to the United States, saying that could have stopped the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing.

&lt;p&gt;The U.S. had not wanted these scanners to be used previously because of privacy concerns but now the Obama administration has agreed that "all possible measures will be used on flights to the U.S.," Dutch Interior Minister Guusje Ter Horst told a news conference.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Amsterdam's Schiphol has 15 body scanners, each costing more than $200,000. But until now neither the European Union nor the U.S. have approved the routine use of the scanners at European airports.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A key European legislator urged the European Union to begin rapidly installing the new equipment across the 27-nation bloc, but no other European nations immediately followed the Dutch move.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Body scanners that peer underneath clothing have been available for years, but privacy advocates say they are a "virtual strip search" because they display an image of the body onto a computer screen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    
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    <title>Naming Terror - Abdulmutallab and his Pocket Rocket</title>
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    <published>2009-12-29T22:08:15Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-30T20:59:48Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">So, we find out that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underwear hid the same powder (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) used by "shoe bomber" Richard Reid who tried to blow up an American Airlines jet to Miami in 2001.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
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            <category term="Islam" />
    
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/underbomb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/underbombsm.jpg"alt="Underwear with explosive packet removed from alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab"style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Underwear with explosive packet removed from &lt;br /&gt;alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab&lt;br /&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2386882"&gt;National Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;o, we find out that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underwear hid the same powder (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) as used by "shoe bomber" Richard Reid who tried to blow up an American Airlines jet to Miami in 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Umar gives a literal meaning to the term Molotov cocktail.  I wonder what we will end up calling this al qaeda operative who made an error in terror now that we have discovered he was carrying a Weapon of Ass Destruction.  Luckily for us there was no timing device (or knicker ticker as it is called in extremist circles) hooked up and so his fumbling with the accelerant saved hundreds of lives. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Here are a few suggestions for a media nickname: the backside bomber, the thonger bonger, the klutzy blitzer, the detonator hesitator, the under-asser harasser, the panty vigilante, the brief sharif, the boxer blaster.   &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I'm disappointed he didn't try to blow himself up on the beach: he'd be the speedo torpedo.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If he had carried a dirty nuclear device he'd be Farouk with the Nuke.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If he had hidden a small rocket in his pants he'd be the missile stower.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;Thankfully he wasn't Christian or we'd call him the Crotched Crusader.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But whatever the media calls him, there are a few names Obama and his minions will never apply to him, for example, "Muslim Terrorist" or "Islamic extremist."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Anyone who knows medicine knows one thing about treating an illness:  unless you identify the disease, you cannot possibly attack it.  In fact, misdiagnosing the disease can be fatal.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Until Obama calls the threat we face by its true name, Islam, we will never win against it.&lt;br /&gt;
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<entry>
    <title>Exploding Muslim Underwear is My Fault</title>
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    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4060</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-29T19:05:57Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-30T20:56:30Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">If one wants to look at the bright side, those full-body scanners may now feel less intrusive. A few months ago the Guardian asked its readers, "Which form of airport security is more intrusive: the new x-ray scanner or being frisked?" The response? 32.7% preferred to be frisked physically than scanned electronically. </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="Airport Security" />
            <category term="Islam" />
    
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/image2/sub1/panties.jpg" &gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/image2/sub1/pantiessm.jpg" alt="She was laughing with some friends as we approached.&lt;br /&gt;We noticed her yellow panties on the outside of her pants.&lt;br /&gt;She turned around to give us a better look.&lt;br /&gt;I asked permission to take a photo.&lt;br /&gt;She said yes.&lt;br /&gt;I then got down to ass level and snapped this pic.  =)" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkhairedgirl/399242778/"&gt;Mardi Gras Panties&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/darkhairedgirl/"&gt;darkhairedgirl&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;eader C.E. sent me an email castigating me for planting the following idea into al Qaeda heads, from my post of 16 Aug 2007:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Planck's Constant, &lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2007/08/muslim_exploding_panties.html"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Muslim Exploding Panties&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can't get on an airplane unless I remove my shoes. Suppose the shoe bomber had instead been a female wearing exploding panties? Would women boarding airplanes be required to wear their panties on the outside? But joking aside, what would the procedure be at airline check-in? "Excuse me mam, just lift your skirt for a moment?"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Well, excuse me, but those crazed Jihadists still got it wrong - I insisted on a female bomber.  Although it looks like airport security will now be sniffing everyone's underwear.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;If one wants to look at the bright side, those full-body scanners may now feel less intrusive [Update - see &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/12/mind_scanners_at_airports_would_bar_muslims_entry.html"&gt;Mind Scanners at Airports would Bar Muslims Entry&lt;/a&gt;].  A few months ago the &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2009/oct/13/manchester-scanner-frisking"&gt;Guardian asked&lt;/a&gt; its readers, "&lt;em&gt;Which form of airport security is more intrusive: the new x-ray scanner or being frisked?&lt;/em&gt;"  The response? 32.7% preferred to be frisked physically than scanned electronically.  I think that question should be asked again, but this time point out that frisking will involve fondling of family jewels to make sure there is no powdered clump of explosives in an underwear pouch.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Of course, this would never have happened if airports had simply read my article from 2006 suggesting a &lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/08/terror_proof_airline.html"&gt;terror-proof airline&lt;/a&gt; (Click on image for larger view but WARNING *** NSFW ***):&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: top; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/nakedfly.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/nakedflysm.jpg"alt="naked stewardesses"style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/21/flying-the-friendly-skies-on-thai-tv.aspx"&gt;nerve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;OK, now I'm going to make the next prediction:  nitro-glycerin stored in breast implants.  Let's see how airport security handles those.&lt;/p&gt;
    
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<entry>
    <title>The Universe in Under 6 Minutes</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog-mt1/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=4058" title="The Universe in Under 6 Minutes" />
    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4058</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-29T00:18:19Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-29T01:47:04Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="Technology" />
    
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/universe.jpg"  &gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/universesm.jpg" alt="Abstract Colorful Universe Wallpaper - TTdesign" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttdesign/343167590/"&gt;Abstract Colorful Universe Wallpaper - TTdesign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo by: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/ttdesign/"&gt;tomt6788&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;n the time before history, in the time before there were Jews, humans could count only a few thousand stars in the night.  Our ancestors believed that the whole of creation consisted of these few thousand twinkling travelers in the sky, eternal and immutable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;By the time of the Babylonians and Egyptians it was well established that the Gods who created the Universe lived in the very heavens circling our lonely planet.   &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;With the invention of the telescope the Universe expanded and the heavens no longer circled the Earth.  The Milky Way was the entire Universe.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Einstein came along and the Universe consisted not only of space but of time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In 1922, Edwin Hubble discovered other galaxies and the Universe not only expanded further but was found to be expanding forever.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I was only 4 years old when Fred Hoyle mockingly coined the term Big Bang during a 1949 radio broadcast.  Since then, it has become the prevailing scientific model of the Universe.  This theory holds that the universe expanded from an extremely hot, dense phase called the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_epoch"&gt;Planck epoch&lt;/a&gt;, in which all matter and energy was concentrated.  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now we come to the present day.  Our universe is 13.73 billion years old (give or take 100 million years), and our night sky is filled with black holes, pulsars, quasars, neutron stars, white dwarfs, magnetars, nebulae, and hundreds of billions of galaxies with each galaxy hosting up to a trillion stars.  &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;The American Museum of Natural History presents the video called &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U"&gt;The Known Universe&lt;/a&gt;, a beautiful journey of less than 6 minutes:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Here's the text from Youtube: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A tip of the turban &lt;img style="margin: 1px;" alt="Hat Tip" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/buttons/turban.GIF" border="0" /&gt; to blogger &lt;a href="http://ideazione.blogspot.com/2009/12/universe-in-six-minutes.html"&gt;The Right Nation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
    
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<entry>
    <title>Berkeley High: How to Achieve Racial Equality in Schools</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog-mt1/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=4057" title="Berkeley High: How to Achieve Racial Equality in Schools" />
    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4057</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-28T15:59:33Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-30T19:51:09Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">Just when I began to think that Liberals could not be more stupid, they go and do this: Berkeley High School in California is considering a program to eliminate science labs (and five science teachers) in order to divert the monies spent on them to help struggling students. Of course, by struggling students we mean blacks and Hispanics.
 </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="-Race" />
    
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/lab.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10px;" alt="science lab Berkeley high school" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/labsm.jpg" border="0" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;ust when I began to think that Liberals could not be more stupid, they go and do this: Berkeley High School in California is considering a program to eliminate science labs (and five science teachers) in order to divert the monies spent on them to help struggling students.  Of course, by struggling students we mean blacks and Hispanics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;According to Berkeley High's School Governance Council (a group of teachers, parents, and students) which approved this idiocy: "Berkeley High was identified as the high school with the largest racial equity/achievement gap in the state. This is unconscionable.” &lt;a href="#fn1" name="_fn1" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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So, in order to make sure that whites, Jews, and Asians do not excel and therefor achieve more, the school will instead spend more money on programs that the blacks can excel at.  I will tell you right now that those programs will not reduce the racial gap; these particular blacks will still be dumber than the rest of white society, but in this particular high school, they will be less dumb than these particular white students, and that is what is important to Liberals:  that they feel better about racial equality.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Before some of my black readers get their do-rags in a twist, let me say that I do not believe that blacks are genetically inferior intellectually to any other race.  That they are educationally inferior is a given, but that is a cultural problem.  As long as blacks grow up believing that they are culturally different they will remain inferior in our society, just as most French Muslims remain inferior in France because they do not assimilate.  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Believe it or not, there are Muslims who were born in France and lived their entire lives in France but who do not speak French!  End that last sentence with as many exclamation marks as you care to, and it is still incredible.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Likewise, there are many, many blacks (and Hispanics) who were born here and attended our schools but who do not speak our language.   Dis be no honky jibe my homey. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Black parents must stop with the African-American nonsense:  naming their kids Tawanda and Leshawn and going to black churches that teach Afro-centrism.  As I wrote in &lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2008/02/obama_and_his_dangerous_religion.html"&gt;Obama and his dangerous religion&lt;/a&gt;:  "&lt;em&gt;If you are a black born and bred in America, you should be proud of being an American, not an African. What does Africa have to be proud of? After thousands of years of civilization, Africa is still a cauldron of racial, ethnic and tribal hatreds with a barbarity only matched by the growing Muslim populations.&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Unless black parents start teaching their kids that "acting white" is not only OK but to be striven for, their kids will remain forever trapped in ghetto misery and poverty.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;If your child is short, the solution is not to cut off the legs of white children in order to to make them seem equal, but to ensure your child gets the proper nutrition for growth.  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In education, teaching black culture will only stunt intellectual growth.  Blacks need more science and math classes not less.  Otherwise when your child comes looking to me for a job I will have no use for him or her.  I need employees who have proven academic skills.  A degree in basket-weaving or Black History means nothing to me.  &lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;h2&gt;Notes&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn1" rel="nofollow"  name="fn1"&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Berkeleyside, &lt;a href="http://www.berkeleyside.com/2009/12/11/endangered-science-at-bhs/"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Endangered science at BHS&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Berkeley High’s School Governance Council voted this week to approve principal Jim Slemp’s latest proposal for a new schedule at BHS. 

&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The most contentious aspect of the new schedule is the elimination of before- and after-school time for science labs. The extra funding that goes to science will be used instead for unspecified “equity grants”, aimed at reducing the achievement gap in the school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    
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<entry>
    <title>Detroit Bomber Proves Islam is a Death Cult</title>
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    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4056</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-27T22:13:13Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-30T19:51:09Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">Yes there may be a few poor, unemployed, hopeless Muslim young men who want to become suicide bombers in order to gain a better life in the hereafter, but there are also rich, employed, and filled-with-opportunity Muslims like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian man who lived the life of luxury and was charged Saturday with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. The common theme here is not hopelessness or wretched poverty but Islam itself.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/rop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/ropsm.jpg"alt="Muslim rioters"style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;a href="http://jillosophy.blogspot.com/2009/09/safe-for-now-assessing-recent-terror.html"&gt;jillosophy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;pologists for Islam often claim that it is poverty and hopelessness that lead some Muslims to Jihad.  Idiot John C. Bersia writing for the Orlando Sentinel wrote:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Jihad Watch, &lt;a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/06/back-to-square-one.html"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Back to Square One&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do believe, though, that nations could stop a fair amount - probably the bulk - of today's terrorism if they mustered the gumption to fix problems that insult human decency: poverty, a lack of opportunity, human-rights violations and statelessness, to list but a few.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But as Robert Spencer noted in the same article, "&lt;em&gt;If it's all about poverty, why isn't Haiti a terrorist state? Or Bolivia? And &lt;a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/10/researchers-probe-motives-of-suicide-bombers.html"&gt;study after study has shown&lt;/a&gt; that jihadists are not poor and hopeless.&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Yes there may be a few poor, unemployed, hopeless Muslim young men &lt;a href="#fn1" name="_fn1" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt; who want to become suicide bombers in order to gain a better life in the hereafter, but there are also rich, employed, and filled-with-opportunity Muslims like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian man who lived the life of luxury &lt;a href="#fn2" name="_fn2" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and was charged Saturday with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.  The common theme here is not hopelessness or wretched poverty but Islam itself.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mohammed preached that the world is divided into two nation groups: dar al-Islam, the house of Islam and dar al-Harb, the house of war.  There will be no peace in the world until all kafirs are converted, subjugated or killed.  Islam is built on only one pillar: a world filled only with Muslims.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your Muslim friend or employee or neighbor who is Muslim in name only may not be a threat, but certainly any Muslim who takes his religion seriously is an enemy of this country and every civilized nation on Earth.  The problem of course, is how to tell the truly religious from those who are not.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;Source: Quran Sura 98:6 - &lt;em&gt;Those who disbelieve, among the people of the Scripture and idolaters, will abide in the fires of hell. They are the worst of created beings. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;h2&gt;Notes&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn1" rel="nofollow"  name="fn1"&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;MSNBC,  28 Mar 2007, &lt;a href="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/28/103138.aspx"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;How two teens were recruited for jihad &lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"We were told to fight against Israel, America and non-Muslims," said Muhammed Bakhtiar, 17, explaining why he wanted to become a suicide bomber. "We are so unhappy with our lives here. We have nothing," he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn2" rel="nofollow"  name="fn2"&gt;(2)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;NY Daily News, &lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/27/2009-12-27_untitled__2london27m.html"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Flight 253 terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab led life of luxury in London before attempted attack&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab lived a life of extraordinary privilege before he turned to terror.

&lt;p&gt;The son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, Abdulmutallab was educated at top schools in Africa and Britain - and dwelled in homes worth millions, his relatives said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The baby-faced extremist's last known address was a $4 million flat in one of London's poshest neighborhoods.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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<entry>
    <title>Merry Christmas 2009</title>
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    <published>2009-12-25T02:35:16Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-25T02:55:36Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">Merry Christmas to All.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
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        &lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;o all my readers, and yes to my Atheist visitors as well, a very Merry Christmas.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And may God bless all our men and women in the military.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/iraq-cmas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10px;" alt="4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Christmas in Iraq 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/iraq-cmassm.jpg" border="0" align="top" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spc. Krishna Copeland and her husband Spc. Terrence Copeland, with the 702nd Brigade Support Battallion in Baghdad,Iraq, look at photos after meeting Santa Claus during the unit's Christmas Eve party, on Thursday, December 24, 2009. The unit, part of the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division based at Fort Lewis, Washington, has been deployed since September. (Joe Barrentine/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT) Photo via Newscom &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:W9dqtTZ0I2U"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=W9dqtTZ0I2U" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?i=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:fzYkbJUCDZg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=fzYkbJUCDZg" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?i=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?i=E8AeQiJKBek:rnvk9L-n3rY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<entry>
    <title>Going Shopping for Christmas Babes</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog-mt1/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=4054" title="Going Shopping for Christmas Babes" />
    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4054</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-25T00:30:54Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-25T02:25:20Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">Sadly most Americans do not know that Islam condones slavery and the sexual exploitation of maids and female slaves. These are called 'right hand possessions' (Malak-ul-Yameen) which refers to slaves and maids obtained through purchase or jihad. It is proper, lawful and moral to have sexual relations with them.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="-Islamic Misogyny" />
            <category term="Sex" />
            <category term="Slavery" />
    
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/whiteslaves/022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10px;" alt="white slavery" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/whiteslaves/022sm.jpg" border="0" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;adly most Americans do not know that Islam condones slavery and the sexual exploitation of maids and female slaves.  These are called 'right hand possessions' (Malak-ul-Yameen) which refers to slaves and maids obtained through purchase or jihad.  It is proper, lawful and moral to have sexual relations with them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So when you see a Muslim male surfing the Internet and googling for "Christmas babes," it is not because he is thinking of converting to Christianity, rather he is shopping for slaves.  Why should Muslims be left out of the most important part of our holiday traditions?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So for the convenience of my Muslim readers I have assembled a collection of innocent young women adorned in Christmas regalia.  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In my past collections of Christmas Babes, &lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/12/christmas_babes.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/es/blog1/2008/11/christmas_babes_gallery.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (Warning NSFW), many of the Christmas Hotties were most likely models and porn-stars, so I thought it would be nice to offer photos of your average girl next door.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I consider these fairly safe for work although one may be borderline too sexy for the workplace (click on image for larger view).&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa1.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa1sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa2.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa2sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa3.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa3sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa4.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa4sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa5.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa5sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa6.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa6sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa7.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa7sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa8.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa8sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa9.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa9sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa10.jpg" target="_blank"  &gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 5px" alt="christmas babes 2009" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1//gallery/chrmasbabe/santa10sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So Ahmed, if any of these fine Christmas Babes of 2009 interest you, please contact me by email and I will let you know what the cost is for rent, lease or purchase.  I should mention that there is a 30% discount if you order before midnight tonight.  It should be added that none of these women have dated Tiger Woods, if that's important to you.  Sorry, no free trials - all sales are final.&lt;/p&gt;
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qe1jUyp2QTvUyqu1aIvfnuTGU00/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qe1jUyp2QTvUyqu1aIvfnuTGU00/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qe1jUyp2QTvUyqu1aIvfnuTGU00/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qe1jUyp2QTvUyqu1aIvfnuTGU00/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:W9dqtTZ0I2U"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=W9dqtTZ0I2U" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?i=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:fzYkbJUCDZg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=fzYkbJUCDZg" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?i=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?a=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PlanksConstant?i=gx_NfB0Teus:uZe8XoD4aVU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<feedburner:origLink>http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/12/going_shopping_for_christmas_babes.html</feedburner:origLink></entry>
<entry>
    <title>My Lover Does Not Want Sex</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog-mt1/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=4051" title="My Lover Does Not Want Sex" />
    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4051</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-23T18:48:35Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-30T19:51:09Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">I was over at the Diary of Why blog where I read her unusual complaint: her new lover is a bit hesitant to engage in coital sex so early in their relationship, although oral sex is no problem. </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="Advice" />
            <category term="Sex" />
    
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/goatwoman.jpg"  &gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/goatwomansm.jpg" alt="Goat Woman" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66506144@N00/204292677/"&gt;Goat Woman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo by: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/66506144@N00/"&gt;morpherguy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; was over at the &lt;a href="http://diaryofwhy.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-is-he-acting-like-sex-is-four.html"&gt;Diary of Why&lt;/a&gt; blog where I read her unusual complaint:  her new lover is a bit hesitant to engage in coital sex so early in their relationship &lt;a href="#fn1" name="_fn1" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, although oral sex is no problem. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After determining that her man is  not a virgin, not religious, and as far as she knows, STD free, I left her this bit of advice:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cats chase mice, foxes run after rabbits.  When they do not, something is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Unless you go to bed wearing a nightgown covered in dog-feces, a man, a real man, would be jumping on your bones.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Bees do it, even educated fleas do it, if your man doesn't do it, there is something horribly wrong with him. Run.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Here's the thing:  I can understand women not wanting to have sex either before or even after marriage - their genes demand that some filtering process be used before allowing a man to impregnate them.  In nature, a peahen will opt for the most extravagantly plumed peacock;  a cow moose will snuggle up to the bull moose with the widest and largest antlers.  Indeed, a castrated bull moose will shed his antlers giving a quick sign to the females that he's not worth their time or attention.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;However,  the male of every animal species is not programmed to be choosy but to impregnate whatever comes by.  I am ignoring for the moment &lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/02/how_to_get_a_muslims_goat_sex.html"&gt;men who enjoy the company of goats&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In my eyes, the male human who chooses &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to have sex with an attractive member of the opposite sex of the same species has some deep-seated problem.  &lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;hr style="height:1px;width:50%;border:1px solid #000;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Notes&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn1" rel="nofollow"  name="fn1"&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Diary of Why, &lt;a href="http://diaryofwhy.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-is-he-acting-like-sex-is-four.html"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Why is he acting like sex is a four-letter word?&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is no longer playful and sweet. Our "relationship" has suddenly aged by years overnight. We've gone from mix cds and non-sequiturs to perfunctory phone calls, dry-lipped kisses, and absolutely no sex. Now when we go to bed he gives me a peck on the lips and a "'night babe." Oh, we've talked about it, sure, and come to no useful conclusion. Sex complicates things, he says. It speeds things up, heightens emotions. He just wants to get to know me better, first. He wants to be sure. He wants to do it, don't get him wrong; he really wants to. But he doesn't just jump into these things lightly, and he doesn't want to be pressured into it, either.

&lt;p&gt;When he first said it a couple weeks ago, I was ok with it. Just another week or two, he said. And so I waited. But it's been two weeks, and he's still saying it. And now he barely touches me at all. Now he just goes to sleep. We should be passionate, mad, crazy about each other, but instead we are both on the defensive, both waiting to see how this thing will turn out, steeling ourselves for the end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    
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<entry>
    <title>The Greatest Catastrophes of the Century</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PlanksConstant/~3/1Jiax8Rf2_Q/the_greatest_catastrophes_of_the_century.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog-mt1/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=4050" title="The Greatest Catastrophes of the Century" />
    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4050</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-23T16:43:45Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-23T16:51:22Z</updated>
    
    
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
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            <category term="-Obama" />
    
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/obama.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10px;" alt="The Greatest Catastrophes of the Century" src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/obamasm.jpg" border="0" align="top" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        
    
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<entry>
    <title>The Super-continent of Pangaea in 2050</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog-mt1/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=4049" title="The Super-continent of Pangaea in 2050" />
    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4049</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-22T17:26:25Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-22T19:56:38Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">In America we are taught that there are 7 continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America while in Europe and other parts of the world students are taught that there are six continents where North and South America are combined to form a single continent of America.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
    </author>
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/continents.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/continentssm.jpg"alt="map of 7 continents"style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent"&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Notice anything odd about the names of the continents?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Europe&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;America (North and South)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Asia&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Australia&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Africa&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Antarctica&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They all begin and end with the same letter.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;n America we are taught that there are 7 continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America while in Europe and other parts of the world students are taught that there are six continents where North and South America are combined to form a single continent of America.  This is why one will often hear Europeans complaining that citizens of the United States are rather arrogant to call themselves Americans while excluding Canadians, Mexicans, Central and South Americans from the description.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Of course Europeans don't mind it that the term "the Continent" refers to mainland Europe excluding the British Isles, as if Europe is the one and only important continent.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;Interestingly, in Germany, "Continental" refers to the European continent excluding the Scandinavian peninsula, Britain, Ireland and Iceland [&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Continent#Scandinavia"&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;]. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If both Americas and both Europe and Asia are considered as one land mass then there are only 5 continents: Africa, Antarctica, Australia, America, and Eurasia.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But if continents are landmasses separated by water then by looking at the map above we may conclude that there are in fact only four continents:  America, Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, and Australia. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;However, if things do not drastically change in America and Europe, by 2050, there will only be one land mass: dar al-Islam and only one political and religious system: Islam [&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/05/europe_is_declining_yet_its_population_is_increasi.html"&gt;Planck's Constant&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You were probably wondering what point I was going to make blogging about continents, eh?&lt;/p&gt;
    
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<entry>
    <title>Are Muslims Behind Theft of Auschwitz Sign?</title>
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    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4048</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-22T13:43:53Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-30T19:51:09Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">The sign stolen from the Auschwitz death camp has been recovered by Polish police who so far deny that the theft was for political reasons: ”We can say that none of the five are members of a neo-Nazi group.”</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/arb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/arbsm.jpg"alt="Auschwitz Sign"style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;a href="http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/so-why-wont-they-release-the-names-or-faces-of-the-people-arrested-for-stealing-the-nazi-sign/"&gt;Bare Naked Islam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;he sign stolen from the Auschwitz death camp has been recovered by Polish police &lt;a href="#fn1" name="_fn1" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt; who so far deny that the theft was for political reasons: ”We can say that none of the five are members of a neo-Nazi group.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, they have not allowed photos of the faces or released the names of the thieves &lt;a href="#fn2" name="_fn2" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;(2)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  They also have not said that the thieves are not Muslims.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;First of all, let's dismiss any notion that the theft was for money.  The sign is made of wrought iron and weighs less than a hundred pounds, scrap value: less than 10 Euros.  They would have been safer and made more money digging up the grave of an old Jew and selling the brass on the coffin ornaments.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As for selling the sign as a Holocaust artifact?  What dealer in his right mind would buy it?  It couldn't be publicly sold, viewed or advertised.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it has to be Muslims.  The police are unusually well-covered up in balaclava caps (see photo below).  Why?  Perhaps to protect themselves against a Muslim backlash if it's later discovered that they arrested Muslims?  Why are faces of the thieves pixelated?  Who are the police protecting, themselves or the perpetrators?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Very interesting.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;h2&gt;UPDATE: Dec 23 2009&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is now an unconfirmed report that a collector from Sweden was involved &lt;a href="#fn3" name="_fn3" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;(3)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  It should be noted that according to the &lt;a href="http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127339.htm"&gt;US Department of State&lt;/a&gt;, Muslims make up 5% of Sweden's population, so I am waiting to rule out Muslims.  &lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;hr style="height:1px;width:50%;border:1px solid #000;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Notes&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn1" rel="nofollow"  name="fn1"&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Sky News, &lt;a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Auschwitz-Stolen-Sign-Recovered-By-Police-In-Poland---Sign-Found-At-House-Cut-Into-Three-Pieces/Article/200912315505462?lpos=World_News_News_Your_Way_Region_5&amp;lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15505462_Auschwitz_Stolen_Sign_Recovered_By_Police_In_Poland_-_Sign_Found_At_House_Cut_Into_Three_Pieces"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered But Damaged&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A sign stolen from the Auschwitz death camp - described as the "defining symbol of the Holocaust" - has been recovered by police.

&lt;p&gt;The 16ft-long Nazi relic was discovered sliced into three pieces in woods in northern Poland.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Five men aged between 20 and 39 have been arrested on suspicion of the theft, which caused outrage around the world.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Polish police have released &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkskaj_0p5Y"&gt;video footage&lt;/a&gt; of the astonishing theft, but denied reports the men had political motives.&lt;/p&gt;

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"We can say that none of the five are members of a neo-Nazi group," said deputy Krakow police commander Andrzej Rokita.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The sign, which reads "Arbeit Macht Frei" (translated as "work will set you free"), has become synonymous with the concentration camp.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The three pieces were found wrapped in cloth and buried in woods near the home of one of the gang, outside Torun in the central north.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn2" rel="nofollow"  name="fn2"&gt;(2)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Bare Naked Islam, &lt;a href="http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/so-why-wont-they-release-the-names-or-faces-of-the-people-arrested-for-stealing-the-nazi-sign/
"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;So why won’t they release the names or faces of the people arrested for stealing the Nazi sign?&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So who are they? And why is there a cover-up about their identities?

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: bottom; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/arb1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/arb1sm.jpg"alt="Auschwitz Sign"style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;a href="http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/so-why-wont-they-release-the-names-or-faces-of-the-people-arrested-for-stealing-the-nazi-sign/"&gt;Bare Naked Islam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn3" rel="nofollow"  name="fn3"&gt;(3)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The Local, &lt;a href="http://www.thelocal.se/24000/20091222/"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Swedish collector behind Auschwitz theft: reports&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Swedish citizen may have been behind the theft of the infamous metal sign that hung at the entrance of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz, according to Polish media.

&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is unknown whether or not the Swede in question has been identified and if he or she will be arrested. There have been several media reports indicating that the sign was to be transported to Sweden.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    
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<entry>
    <title>Dems Will Get Killed in 2010 - But Not Really</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog-mt1/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=4047" title="Dems Will Get Killed in 2010 - But Not Really" />
    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4047</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-21T23:18:53Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-30T19:51:09Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">So I read this exciting headline over at Newsmax: Moulitsas: We'll Get Killed in 2010.

But on further reading I find out that comrade Markos was only speaking figuratively. What a bummer. </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="- Liberal View" />
    
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/looney_left1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub3/looney_left1sm.jpg"alt="looney left"style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2008/12/22/new-scientist-names-liberal-wingnut-science-hero-2008"&gt;NewsBusters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;o I read this exciting headline over at Newsmax: Moulitsas: We'll Get Killed in 2010 &lt;a href="#fn1" name="_fn1" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But on further reading I find out that comrade Markos was only speaking figuratively.  What a bummer.  Here I was enthralled with the prospect that some deadly disease that only affects liberals was quickly spreading throughout the world. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I guess I'm not getting my Christmas present this year.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Notes&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn1" rel="nofollow"  name="fn1"&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Newsmax, &lt;a href="http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/moulitsas-2010-polls-obama/2009/12/20/id/344001?s=al&amp;promo_code=93F4-1"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Moulitsas: We'll Get Killed in 2010&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos and an influential leader of the Web-based political left, said Sunday that Democrats are facing huge defeats in the 2010 elections because the Obama administration has alienated the Democratic Party's liberal political base with its escalating involvement in Afghanistan, and its failure to push for universal healthcare.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    
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<entry>
    <title>Call Me Bob</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog-mt1/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=4046" title="Call Me Bob" />
    <id>tag:plancksconstant.org,2009://1.4046</id>
    
    <published>2009-12-18T02:41:41Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-30T19:51:09Z</updated>
    
    <summary type="html">I have a brother-in-law whose name is Robert. But you cannot call him Rob, Bobby, Bob, or Robbie. He only answers to Robert.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Bernie</name>
        <uri>http://www.plancksconstant.org/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="-Children" />
    
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        &lt;p style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;color:darkgreen;font-size:80px;line-height:64px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; have a brother-in-law whose name is Robert.  But you cannot call him Rob, Bobby, Bob, or Robbie.  He only answers to Robert.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I should mention that I am perhaps the only person in the world who calls him by the Italian variation: Roberto - even though he is not in the slightest bit Italian.  I pronounce his name with an Italian accent and a fanfare wave of my hand, even when addressing him over the phone.  I do this because it amuses me and for the fact that so far he's never asked me to please stop.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It happens quite frequently that prior to being introduced to someone named Robert or Bobbie or whatever, that I am admonished to use only one particular variation of the name.  I've met many a fellow whose birth-name is Robert, but who will vehemently complain if you call him Robert.  "Call me Bob," he'll demand.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes children will rename themselves because their parents were complete jerks, for example:  in a comment to my article &lt;a href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/12/who_is_stupid_enough_to_name_their_child_lordtysho.html"&gt;Who B Stupid enuff to name their child LordTyshon?&lt;/a&gt;, reader ed davis &lt;a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bernieg1/Who_B_Stupid_enuff_to_name_their_child_LordTyshon_/#82216"&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;, "&lt;em&gt;Lahtrina? Wow. Are there really people named Lahtrina? Bummer&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I responded, "Yes there are really people named Lahtrina.   Check out the MySpace page for LaTrina M. Scott &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/trinasings01"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;."  It should be noted that she calls herself LaTrina M. Scott to break up the crappy part of her name.  Elsewhere on her page she just calls herself Trina.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;There are some parents who are complete morons and don't care what abuse their children may get from badly conjured up names.  We recall the poor young boy with the grotesque appellation Adolf Hitler Campbell &lt;a href="#fn1" name="_fn1" &gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My personal view is that if you are over 18, you can call yourself Brown Stained Underwear, I do not care.  However, the government should step in if a parent gives a child an inappropriate name that will cause the child grief in school from bullying and general merrymaking over his name.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have suggested to my readers who are black parents not to name their children with pseudo-African names.  My experience with other businessmen has been that job applicants with African-American names are less likely to get hired.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We live in America.  Millions of immigrants came to this country with foreign names and made a success of themselves after they Americanized their names.  Shmuel became Sam, Antonius became Tony, Chang becasme James, and so on.  Want to be successful while carrying the luggage of being called Raheem Abdul Jackson?  Then go to Kenya or the Sudan and ply your trade there.  That Malcom X, and Mohammed Ali nonsense only makes you look like an idiot.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Trivia: &lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;ROBERT&lt;/b&gt; is the &lt;b&gt;#3&lt;/b&gt; most common male first name&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;3.143%&lt;/b&gt; of males in the US are named &lt;b&gt;ROBERT.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Around &lt;b&gt;3850175&lt;/b&gt; US males are named &lt;b&gt;ROBERT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h5&gt;source: &lt;a href="http://www.namestatistics.com/" target="_blank"&gt;namestatistics.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;h2&gt;Notes&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p class="article"&gt;&lt;a href="#_fn1" rel="nofollow"  name="fn1"&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226);"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Lehigh Valley Live, &lt;a href="http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/warren-county/index.ssf?/base/news-0/122923112231930.xml&amp;coll=3"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Holland Township man names son after Adolf Hitler&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Adolf Hitler Campbell -- it's indeed the name on his birth certificate -- turns 3 today, and the Campbell family believes the boy has been mistreated. A local supermarket refused to make a birthday cake with "Adolf Hitler" on it.

&lt;p&gt;The ShopRite in Greenwich Township has also refused to make a cake bearing the name of Campbell's daughter, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who turns 2 in February.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, a girl named for Schutzstaffel head Heinrich Himmler, turns 1 in April.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"ShopRite can't even make a cake for a 3-year-old," said Deborah Campbell, 25, who is Heath's wife of three years and the mother of the children. "That's sad."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A director for the Anti-Defamation League in Philadelphia applauded the supermarket's decision. An Allentown psychologist said the names would cause problems for the children later in life. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    
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