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Hello Black Kettle readers. Blogger claims to have tagged my blog – The Black Kettle – as spam and disabled it without warning me and without providing me recourse to get it reviewed by a human being over at Blogger HQ. They shut me down on April 29th. Since then I have been trying every which way to get TBK back up so that I could at least explain what happened to my regular readers and provide them with an alternate site to go to. I am hoping that by creating this blog with the name some of my regulars will find me here. If that is the case PLEASE leave me a note to let me know. I apologise for this and although I am more than a little suspicious about what happened I still hope it has all been an honest mistake and that Blogger will restore TBK.
Tim
What’s Wrong With These Pictures?
Randall Hoven, AT:
President Obama met the Saudi King, the President of Venezuela and the Prime Minister of Israel, with pictures provided below. The three countries represented in the pictures agreed with the US in UN votes 86.4% of the time, 9.0% and 6.3%. Can you match these percentages to the countries represented?[...]
North Korea carries out nuclear test
Times [UK]
North Korea said it successfully conducted a nuclear testtoday, a move certain to further isolate the impoverished state which argues it has no choice but to build an atomic arsenal to protect itself in a hostile world
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Ringling science
David Warren:
Readers with any chaste interest in the sciences will have noticed an appalling load of codswallop being sledged through mass media this last week. I refer to reports of the “discovery” of what has been dubbed “Darwinius masellae” — or “Ida,” as its impresarios also call it.
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Impressively scary
David Warren:
In a few short minutes of sophistical artistry, Obama had changed the issue from whether we should allow the killing of babies, to whether we should tolerate the sort of people who are against such things. And then, by declaring that we should, indeed, tolerate such people, he harvested the general applause.
Here is a man who will in fact change America. I flinch at what it will become.
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Netanyahu defies Obama on Israeli settlement freeze
Reuters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rebuffed U.S. calls for a full settlement freeze in the occupied West Bank and vowed not to accept limits on building of Jewish enclaves within Jerusalem.
Netanyahu’s defiant stance set the stage for a possible showdown with President Barack Obama, who, in talks with the new Israeli prime minister in Washington last week, pressed for a halt to all settlement activity, including natural growth, as called for under a long-stalled peace “road map.”
“The demand for a total stop to building is not something that can be justified and I don’t think that anyone here at this table accepts it,” Netanyahu told his cabinet, referring to Jewish settlements in the West Bank, according to an official
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Oppose gay marriage? ‘Bigot,’ says the left
By Bill O’Reilly, Boston Herald:
Here’s the thing about homosexual marriage in the United States: It is going to be legal in about half the states. There is no stopping the gay nuptials now, even though most Americans say they are opposed to extending marital law to same-sex couples.
Right now, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa and Maine allow gays to marry. New Hampshire seems likely to join them soon. Once the legislatures of New York and New Jersey get finished taxing the life out of their citizens, they, too, will most likely pass gay marriage. And even though the folks in California voted down gay nuptials, the Supreme Court there is desperately trying to find a way to nullify the vote.
A new CNN/Opinion Research poll says 54 percent of Americans oppose gay marriage, while 45 percent support it. But if you oppose gay marriage, your opinion makes you a bigot. Did you know that? That’s what the Miss California controversy was all about.
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Who Wrote Dreams and Why It Matters
By Jack Cashill, AT
While waiting for America’s publishers to find their nerve, I had put my research into the authorship of Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father on the back shelf. But then I heard Chris Matthews.
The Hardball host was weighing in on the subject of Sarah Palin’s new book deal. “Sarah Palin – now don’t laugh – is writing a book,” sneered Matthews. “Not just reading a book, writing a book.”
“Actually in the word of the publisher she’s “collaborating” on a book,” Matthews continued. “What an embarrassment! It’s one of these ‘I told you,’ books that jocks do. You know she’s already declared, I mean, why they do it like this? ‘She can’t write, we got a collaborator for her.’”
I dedicate what follows to Matthews and those willfully blind souls like him. It is a work in progress, a collective one at that, aided and abetted by nearly a score of volunteer co-conspirators from Hawaii to Ohio to Israel to Australia. The thesis is simple enough: Barack Obama needed substantial help to write his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. Moreover, unlike Sarah Palin, Obama chose to conceal the identity of his collaborator and not without good reason. To admit that he needed a collaborator would have undercut his campaign for president and to reveal the name of that collaborator would have ended it.
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Hate Crimes and the Sedition Act of 2009
By John Griffing, AT:
HR 1913, The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and its companion bill S. 909, the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act threaten us with targeted censorship, attacks on religious freedom, and outrageous protections for pedophilia and other deviant behavior. Even prominent gay activists like Andrew Sullivan say that this legislation is unnecessary and dishonest. But if these arguments aren’t enough to cause you to grab a pitchfork and march on Washington (or at least call your Senators), then perhaps you need a bigger perspective about what’s really at stake.
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Climate Change Act: Now the world faces its biggest ever bill
Telegraph [UK]:
One measure of the fantasy world now inhabited by our sad MPs was the mindless way that they nodded through, last October, by 463 votes to three, by far the most expensive piece of legislation ever to go through Parliament. This was the Climate Change Act, obliging the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to reduce Britain’s “carbon emissions” by 2050 to 20 per cent of what they were in 1990 – a target achievable only by shutting down most of the economy.
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