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artdiamondblog.com: Walt Disney, Like Brer Rabbit, "Constantly Wriggling Out of the Snares Set for Him"

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:01:17 -0500

(p. 325) The real Disney may yet elude his most fervent admirers' and detractors' suffocating grasp. When he was young, he was a sort of human Brer Rabbit, constantly wriggling out of the snares set for him by the likes of Charles Mintz and Pat Powers [...]

RedStateEclectic: Our America

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:03:10 -0500

Gary Johnson’s new PAC/initiative has launched. Complete with a bunch of videos on a variety of topics. Give it a look.

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Nebraska Corn Kernels: Legislative Ag Forum: We need to be able to tell our story

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:57:00 -0500

The 21st annual Hamilton County Legislative Ag Form was held Monday in Aurora. It is put on by the Aurora Chamber of Commerce and the Hamilton County Corn Growers.

Brandon Hunnicutt (@cornfedfarmer), president of the Nebraska Corn Growers Association, drafted a summery from the session - and [...]

RedStateEclectic: War Is Peace (2/2) ...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:52:46 -0500

In May 2008 (and earlier) RedStateEclectic warned of Obama's militarism.

Consult Obama - The Audacity of Fraud, where we drew attention to a piece (see the excerpt below the atom-mushroom image) in which Obama outlined his foreign policy "vision," i.e. his continuation of a sick interventionism that America can't even' [...]

RedStateEclectic: The Sun Also Rises

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:37:27 -0500

At RedStateEclectic, we have emphasised the important yet ignored role of the sun in the creation of macroclimatic trends in posts like The Sun Queen of Germany and more recently Here Comes the Sun.

McQ at QandO provides a superb, brief summary of the [...]

Nebraska Corn Kernels: Positive breakevens on retaining ownership offers opportunities

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:51:00 -0500

An opportunity to lock in an extra $20-40 a head on calves being weaned this fall offers cow-calf producers an opportunity not seen in the last two or three years, according to Dr. Darrell Mark, an extension livestock marketing specialist with the University of Nebraska.

Mark said it [...]

HuskerBlawgs: Nebraska Court of Appeals allows injured worker ...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:09:00 -0500

Nebraska Court of Appeals allows injured worker who was illegal alien to collect temporary total disability from worker compensation case. But because there was "no evidence the plaintiff intended to remain in the country as an unauthorized alien" the trial court's ruling that the plaintiff would be ineligible for vocational [...]

RedStateEclectic: The Ultimate Irony

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:34:31 -0500

Comes when/if Ron Paul has to vote against his own bill…

I’m becoming more of an anarchist all the time, I’m afraid—although the obvious answer is to vote the bums out—ALL of them—and elect only people who will take seriously their oath to uphold and defend [...]

RedStateEclectic: The Beer Tree

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:06:30 -0500

Hopefully, they didn't waste any beer in the process.

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RedStateEclectic: A Case in Point: Why We Do NOT Want the Government Taking More Control of Healthcare

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:29:55 -0500

Here in the Midwest, we’re digging out of a pretty significant snowstorm. Here in our part of Nebraska, we got somewhere between 10 and 14 inches, which (depending on which side of the road you’re on, or how good the windbreak is) results in drifts that can be a couple [...]

RedStateEclectic: A Small Business Perspective on Obama

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:57:56 -0500

In his article Small Business vs the Great Ozbama, Dan Kennedy offers "an educational gift" to clueless "Oz and many of the socialists around him."

Lesson #1: The purpose of business ownership is not to be a provider of jobs. The purpose is maximum profit. Anything [...]