http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com Politics, Philosophy, and BS Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:03:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Biden is a moron ... and here's a medley to celebrate the fact. http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/08/biden-medley/ Instapundit links to a story with one of his usual short comments: "Tough on Fiji, Soft on Iran" The point that both Reynolds and The Weekly Standard are trying to make is that the Obama regime is being a hypocrite in treating the military dictatorship in Fiji in a ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/07/democrats-tough-on-fijian-military-dictatorship-not-so-much/ Raymond Ibrahim takes up the question of whether Judaism and Christianity are as violent as Islam. He argues that the Qur'an endorses violence in a way that is quite different from that of the Old Testament (and that the New Testament does not endorse violence at all). When the Qur'an's violent ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/07/why-islam-is-unreformable/ This is kind of interesting. Previous experiments had seemed to confirm that hyper-aggressive males got more sex, cutting out the less aggressive ones, but this was only because experiments were conducted under conditions where the females couldn't move away from the area. However, when the researchers opened gates between the chambers ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/nice-guy-bugs-get-the-girls/ We've already had the stink about the tire tax Obama imposed on Chinese imports, which seriously annoyed the Chinese. So what can he do for an encore? I know ... another tariff on Chinese goods at the request of his union backers. The US Commerce Department has imposed anti-dumping tariffs of ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/obama-backs-his-union-buddies-at-cost-of-relations-with-china-again/ Further to Egyptian action against Lebanese hottie Wehbe, now they're getting worked up about Beyonce. "Why are you encouraging this insolent sex party?" lawmaker Hamdi Hassan from the opposition Muslim Brotherhood wrote in a letter to the government. "You are accused of disturbing social peace and stability, encouraging vice and ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/insolent-sex-party/ Those filthy disease ridden primates (homo sapiens) having been spreading pestilence left right and center. First they infect poor innocent pigs, and now a cat has caught swine flu. In Egypt they slaughtered the entire pig population because they were afraid they'd spread swine flu (with a bunch of unforeseen ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/first-they-infected-the-pigs-now-the-cats/ Israel intercepted a ship in the Mediterranean carrying weapons and ammunition, and mysteriously, the cargo from Iran doesn't seem to belong to anyone. Israel says it was bound for Hezbollah, but they deny it. I guess Israel can now claim it as salvage. [Update] In fact, it's even easier for Israel. ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/israel-finds-ship-full-of-weapons-that-doesnt-belong-to-anyone/ One of the "holy grails" of the space program is to successfully built a space elevator. Basically, you get a cable (a very strong cable) that extends from the surface of the earth far enough out into space so that natural forces allow it to just hang there on its ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/space-elevator-progress/ Hey, those are his words. Iran's Supreme Leader, spurning what he described as several personal overtures from US President Barack Obama, has warned that negotiating with the US was ''naive and perverted'' and said Iranian politicians should not be ''deceived'' into starting such talks. I wonder what he thinks they would ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/iran-talking-to-obama-would-be-naive-and-perverted/