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and flamingos are pink because they are ostriches in drag

One of the responses to the question “Why do shrimp turn pink when they are cooked?” at Yahoo! Answers, courtesy “Lindsey Bee”:

Their veins pop when they reach a certain temperature. It’s just like when we get a cut and the blood is red, although it was originally blue. That’s why they sound like pop corn when your cooking them!
Hope that helps!

Miss South Carolina got a bad rap. At least she can blame stage fright.

links for 2008-06-07

my people are being governed by retards

I have nothing but contempt for the non-aligned movement, the collection of paranoid nascent democracies and the dictatorships they diplomatically whore themselves out to, and it pains me to see India stuck in that foreign policy mindset. Indeed, it seems it’s only getting worse:

India’s efforts to woo the military rulers and the people of Myanmar continue. After flying in aid for victims of the devastating cyclone that ravaged the Irrawady delta, New Delhi has pledged to repair the Shwedagon pagoda, one of the holiest Buddhist shrines in Yangon.
India has promised $200,000 for repair and renovation of the pagoda damaged by the cyclone.

When Jairam Ramesh, junior minister for commerce and power, went to Yangon last month, he visited the Buddhist shrine and came back with the suggestion.

Considering that Myanmar is a devout Buddhist nation, this would be appreciated not just by the military rulers but also by the monks.

You know what would really impress those monks? Helping them get rid of their shitty collection of dictators so they can have a chance to live.

Way to show up those evil colonialists, Delhi! While the junta is abusing the homeless, forcing hard labor for disaster relief, and turning away the White Devil’s aid, you’re sucking up to them by repairing a FUCKING PAGODA. Remember that moral high ground you thought you might have after the invasion of Iraq, you collection of socialist Quislings? Fucking gone. You are such absolute whores that you’d rather pimp yourself out for a couple barrels of oil in Burma than grow up and act like a regional power with even a modicum of responsibility. Not one of you is reading this, UPA government—indeed, many of you can’t actually read—but you are making our people look like pussies. I hope for India’s sake you are all hit by busses 1, which then back up to see if you’re okay and then run you all over again.
1 Except poor PM Manmohan Singh. I just feel bad for him at this point.

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  • 5 Jun 2008
  • 10:47am EDT
  • Politics
  • This post contains political opinions. Reader discretion is advised.

you don't need a holy book to start a holy war

The Wall Street Journal‘s James Taranto likens global warming hysteria to a religion, dubbing it “Global Warmism”. I tend to believe his usage is tongue-in-cheek, but it seems some educators are actually turning their classrooms into environmental theory madrassas.

Michael Steria, an earth science teacher at David A. Brown Middle School in Wildomar, California, sent letters written by his sixth-graders to the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free-market think tank, criticizing HI for standing in the way of the Global Warmism jihad. Never mind that the information was essentially spoon-fed, leading to such precious passages as:

A total of 60 adults half with mild asthma and half with moderate asthma, walked for 2 hours along Oxford street, where only buses and taxis are allowed, and then on a separate occasion walked for 2 hours in traffic free Hyde park.

This, taken almost verbatim from a BBC article . It was without citation, of course–the race to save the planet should not be held up by issues like “adequate documentation” or “scientific rigor”. I mean, what is this, a science class? The letters, available here (PDF), included a host of regurgitated fallacies and incorrectly-attributed evidence. It must have taken a good couple of days’ worth of class to run this political activism factory. I can only hope they had some time left over for, y’know, teaching science.

(h/t: Jeremy H)

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