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Poor Peter Schiff. The guy was basically psychic and everyone was laughing him off.

This is just scary parenting. I don’t know what else to say. As a lifelong gamer, I can certainly appreciate the lure of playing video games over going to school, but if I’d ever told my parents I wanted to do this, they’d have (rightly) spanked me silly. From the article:

Mike and Hunter do not believe in one-size-fits-all parenting.

That is not to say that it was an easy decision for them to let Blake leave school last September. They would have preferred that he stay in high school with his brother. But he bugged them until they let him quit.

“We couldn’t take the complaining anymore,” says Hunter. “He always told me that he thought school was a waste of time.”

Wow. A kid who gets whatever he complains enough for. That’s one kid who’s destined for a rough time in life.

How convenient. Since Obama’s “change you can believe in” has turned into lots of dollar bills he can believe in, he’s opting out of public financing. I picked a good day to wear my Obama shirt.

Every day, I hear people using “high gas prices” as the justification for all sorts of ridiculous choices and they’ve been doing so for what feels like ages. I’m starting to feel as though we lack the ability to do simple arithmetic.
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This article was a really interesting read. I have no doubt that people might debate the usefulness of the sources cited in some cases, but even if someone were to discount half of the issues here, there are still a mountain of questions that need answering.

Here’s McCain’s recent address to AIPAC, which deals in part with Iran. A choice quote from it is as follows:

The Iranians have spent years working toward a nuclear program. And the idea that they now seek nuclear weapons because we refuse to engage in presidential-level talks is a serious misreading of history. In reality, a series of administrations have tried to talk to Iran, and none tried harder than the Clinton administration. In 1998, the secretary of state made a public overture to the Iranians, laid out a roadmap to normal relations, and for two years tried to engage. The Clinton administration even lifted some sanctions, and Secretary Albright apologized for American actions going back to the 1950s. But even under President Khatami – a man by all accounts less radical than the current president – Iran rejected these overtures.

Even so, we hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that somehow nobody has ever thought of before. Yet it’s hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another. Such a spectacle would harm Iranian moderates and dissidents, as the radicals and hardliners strengthen their position and suddenly acquire the appearance of respectability.

This is the guy that Barack Obama would agree to meet with, without preconditions. A quote from Ahmadinejad in the article:

I must announce that the Zionist regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene. Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.

Sounds like a great idea, B.O.

Billions of electronic-eating ‘crazy rasberry ants’ invade Texas. These ants make Them sound tame. To a geek, anyway. Destroy the city, just stay away from my iPod!

Check out the Destructoid article Grand Theft Angel: How Liberty City plays nice. It’s a refreshing alternative to the usual GTA-bashing that accompanies each release from Rockstar.

… I have no idea how I missed seeing this video amid all the hype around the Tom Cruise one. Winner of the best feel good quote of the year:

If you leave this room after seeing this film, and walk out and never mention Scientology again, you are perfectly free to do so. It would be stupid, but you can do it. You can also dive off a bridge or blow your brains out - that is your choice.