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links for 2009-10-12

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 12th, 2009 at 12:06 PM  | 

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  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    It certainly happened often enough.

  • nessa

    …honor Vikings by building walled cities in the same fashion their ancestors did. ;)

    Throwing gold and jewels at the parade, in hopes they go away would also be historically appropriate.

  • Tbone

    I mean, if the choice was staying home and eating lutefisk or rowing your butt across the North Sea, and beating some Celts to a pulp so you could eat their pot of boiled, small animal entrails instead, you would have dipped your oar in the water too.

  • nessa

    I was always told that the English originally made lutefisk to try to poison the Vikings. It is rotten cod soaked in lye, any normal person would not imagine that as remotely edible. As the legend was relayed to me, after poisoning the cod fish, the english villagers left it on the beach so the hapless raiders would find it. Which they did, unfortunately they enjoyed it, apparently there is nothing like a little rape and pillage with a full stomach. The unintended consequence was brought about by the vikings not having the recipe for lutefisk, the only place they could get it was at that village. Imagine a line of cars at the drive thru of McDonalds during lunch, now substitute longboats for the cars and the hapless village for the McDs!

  • publiussteve

    I don’t like Flake’s cosponsorship of the 2007 STRIVE Act that contained major amnesty provisions for illegal aliens.

  • The_Gadfly

    Not only can’t tell the difference between news and opinion programs vis a vie her attack on Fox, she does she not address the issue raised by the PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

    I’ve maintained for a long time that the only logic path which can be used to get to single payer being “good” is that you can’t force healthcare insurance to cover pre-existing conditions unless you also force everyone to have coverage. And even if you force everyone to have coverage, you have to force them to have the same coverage or the same problem exists although perhaps in lesser magnitude. That only means private insurance dies more slowly. Otherwise, it makes financial sense for me to not have insurance, get sick, buy the necessary level of coverage, and then get treated. Even an idiot should be able to see that destroys private insurance.