26 February, 2010 (19:49) | Movies | By: pooq
It’s “Five Star Friday” again. At least it is today in that blog and quite obviously this is a regularly event in which the author presents and recommends movies which have been worth to get his 5 stars ranking. For today’s candidate (which is “Kill Bill, Vol. 1″ - “Kill Bill, Vol. 2″ is only [...]
Tags: Kill Bill, movie, Quentin Tarentino, violence
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26 February, 2010 (19:18) | Literature | By: pooq
The author claimed to have assessed “the state of the Boy Scout Handbook after 100 years of revisions” in the Wall Street Journal. But how or who in the byline mentioned that the author will have a book coming out this spring has not all all become clear to me. Is he himself the author [...]
Tags: book, book store, Boy Scout Handbook
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26 February, 2010 (18:46) | Law | By: pooq
The author lets his readers participate in a few developments in the law case McCullen v. Coakley which he previously has dealt with in his blog. Wuhaha, that’ll be a hard one as I could hardly say anything about law. But well lets see if I even understand what this is about.
“A group of distinguished [...]
Tags: abortion, first amendment, free speech, law professor, second amendment
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14 February, 2010 (23:17) | Society | By: pooq
Well, let’s play some Jeopardy. Not just that boring stuff where you have to put a simple answer just into the form of a question. No, this is real Jeopardy with the real answer. And I think noone will be able to find out the question of the blog post I visited (of course moving [...]
Tags: Jeopardy, question
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11 February, 2010 (16:38) | Economics, Food & Beverages | By: pooq
“Antitrust laws originated in Midwest states like Missouri in the late 1880s” when smaller farms banded together to hold their grounds against larger farming operations. Today the situation is about the same. There are about 1.8 million farms which are likely to be inefficient compared to large agriculture companies. Even though they get large payments [...]
Tags: agriculture, antitrust, farms, food
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8 February, 2010 (19:31) | News | By: pooq
“Federal Government Argues that Ban on False Claims of Having Gotten a Military Medal Is “Content-Neutral”
I read this several times now, but I have not got it still. Who or what is content-neutral? As some Republicans might consider the government is. But that would not fit grammatically. The same problem it is with the Military [...]
Tags: claim, military medal
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7 February, 2010 (20:20) | Economics, Politics | By: pooq
“If Keynes were alive today, what would he think of President Obama’s fiscal policies?”, Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon was asked in an interview published on the cnn website. And he answered that Keynes would not be very happy because “Keynes was opposed to large structural deficits” and contrary to the current administration understood that [...]
Tags: Allan Meltzer, Barack Obama, debts, Keynes, stimulus plan
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7 February, 2010 (19:50) | Religion, Society | By: pooq
The author equipped his Glock pistol with the Truglo device which works like a kind of laser pointer to visibly mark targets even in the dark (9 February, 2009: actually it does not work exactly like a laser pointer (see comments below)). The only problem is how to wear that gun in the public as [...]
Tags: guns
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