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  1. Gallup: Third of Americans Say Evidence Has Supported Darwin's Evolution Theory. The other 2 thirds say it doesn't or they don't know enough to say. Excellent.

    I haven't finished reading the results yet, and for the life of me I can't remember where I came across the link.

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Tom DeLay

  1. Victor Davis Hanson: The Real Humanists, via LGF. Fantastic.

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  2. Belmont Club: Pro and Contra. Wonderful!

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Cut and paste list for fancy characters

Whenever I want a special character I always have to go to the Windows character map, or find some Unicode reference online. FileFormat.Info is a fantastic resource when it's up... but, it's not. I've been meaning to do this for a while: I'm starting a list of all non-ASCII characters I ever use so that I can cut and paste them from here.

Accents: ÀàÁáÂâÃãÄäÅ寿ŒœÇçÈèÉéÊêËëÌìÍíÎîÏïÑñÒòÓóÔôÕõÖöÙùÚúÛûÜüŸÿÝýŠšÞþÐß

Quotes/brackets/punctuation: ‘(lq)’(rq)“(lqq)”(rqq)❛❜❝❞‹›«»〈〉…•(bullet)†‡§¶–(en)—(em)‰

Math/logic:
∀∃□◇¬→↔∨∧⇒⇔∴±×÷⋅(dot)⊥∅⊖⊂⊆⊄∈∋∉∝∞∪∩∼≈≡≠≤≥≪≫⌈⌉⌊⌋
⅛¼⅓⅜½⅝⅔¾⅞°(deg)⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉ℤℝℜµ∫√∏∑∂№‰

Legal/currency: ™©®¥£€¤¢

Foreign language: ¡¿ΩωλΘ(upper)θ(lower)ΦπΔαβγ

Other:
☺☻♀♂℞☤☠☢★☆☯☮☧✓✔❤♪♫♭♮♯
♔♕♖♗♘♙♚♛♜♝♞♟♡♢♧♤♥♦♣♠
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What else should I have? Smiley

This resource was useful as well, and here's a list of HTML entities.

Condoleeza Rice and the 2nd amendment

The Volokh Conspiracy: Condoleeza Rice and the 2nd amendment. David Kopel links to an article at the Montgomery Advertiser containing this:

Rice has said memories of Birmingham's racial turmoil shaped some of her core values.

During the bombings of the summer of 1963, her father and other neighborhood men guarded the streets at night to keep white vigilantes at bay. Rice said her staunch defense of gun rights comes from those days. She has argued that if the guns her father and neighbors carried had been registered, they could have been confiscated by the authorities, leaving the black community defenseless.

Condi is a self-described "second amendment absolutist". I ♡ Condi.

  1. Photo Matt » Staticize 2.5 -> wanna look at this to see how he implements his caching.

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No confidence vote in Kofi Annan

UN staff seek historic no confidence vote in Annan:

UN employees were readying on Friday to make a historic vote of no confidence in scandal-plagued Secretary General Kofi Annan, sources told Agence France-Presse.

The UN staff union, in what officials said was the first vote of its kind in the more than 50-year history of the United Nations, was set to approve a resolution withdrawing its support for the embattled Annan and UN management.

Annan has been in the line of fire over a high-profile series of scandals including controversy about a UN aid program that investigators say allowed deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to embezzle billions of dollars.

But staffers said the trigger for the no-confidence measure was an announcement this week that Annan had pardoned the UN's top oversight official, accused of alleged favoritism and sexual harassment.

Glenn had a link to a more detailed article:

Annan underlined that he “had every confidence” in Nair, Eckhard said, but UN employees ridiculed the decision and claimed that investigators had not questioned the staff union, which first raised the complaints in April.

“This was a whitewash, pure and simple,” Guy Candusso, a senior member of the staff union, told AFP.

...in a letter sent to the union, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, Annan’s chief of staff Iqbal Riza said Nair had been ”advised that he should exercise caution” in future to “minimise the risk of negative perception.”

In a resolution set to be adopted on Friday, the union said Riza’s statement “substantiates the contention of the staff that there was impropriety” and that there exists “a lack of integrity, particularly at the higher levels of the organisation.”

The draft resolution, also obtained exclusively by AFP, calls on the union president to “convey this vote of no confidence to the secretary general.”

Staffers who asked not to be named, afraid that speaking out could damage their future prospects in the United Nations, said the Nair decision was emblematic of widespread corruption by Annan and his senior staff.

They noted that Riza, UN undersecretary general for communications Shashi Tharoor and other top officials had served directly under Annan at least since 1994, when he was head of UN peacekeeping operations.

At the time, the United Nations was widely criticised for failing to stop the Rwanda genocide that left 800,000 people dead, even though UN peacekeepers were on the ground -- a catastrophe for which Annan has publicly apologised.

Charles comments on the "trigger" for the vote of no-confidence:

Twenty billion dollars stolen by a homicidal terror-supporting dictator, no big deal. But sexual harassment, now that’s important.

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