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ProFootballTalk provides a link to a recording of the weird effect on the crowd noise at last night’s Colts-Patriots game. It’s interesting to see how much quieter the crowd was after the effect disappeared, creating the obvious impression that fake crowd noise is being used to pump up the volume inside the stadium.

It hasn’t begun yet, but it is in sight:

“In Rome alone, 20,000 expulsions should be carried out right away,” right-wing leader Gianfranco Fini, a key Berlusconi ally, said on a TV talk show Sunday.

Romanians have been detained as suspects in several recent high-profile crimes, including the rape of a woman on church steps in northern Italy, a mugging that left a Rome cyclist in a coma for weeks before he died, and the robbery of a Milan coffee bar in which the elderly owner was beaten and her daughter raped. Other recent crimes in which foreigners are suspected include the mugging of Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore, which sent him to the hospital; the holdup of a prominent TV anchorman and the mugging of a Rome municipal commissioner….

Italian authorities say statistics show foreigners commit a disproportionate number of crimes. Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni said 75 percent of arrests in the city in the last year involved Romanians. On a national level, less than 5 percent of Italy’s population in 2004 — before Romania joined the EU — was foreign, yet foreigners accounted for 26 percent of those convicted of crimes.

The same pressure is building across Europe, as similar stories can be found in Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and the UK. The anti-nationalists are still in charge, as shown by the recent Tory scalp obtained by the multicultis in Britain, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Hastilow return as a more influential figure soon, given the popularity and accuracy of his “controversial” statements.

About her position on women’s suffrage, something that appears to have taken John Hawkins by surprise in his interview with her:

You caught a lot of flack for saying, “If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.” Wasn’t that just a tongue in cheek comment meant to point out the bad choices so many single women are making about which political party to support?

No, it’s not tongue-in-cheek, it’s an inarguable statement of the facts.

What Ann understands and so many nominal conservatives do not is that women’s suffrage is completely incompatible with human liberty or a republic as described in the U.S. Constitution. The two cannot co-exist. One cannot defend freedom on the basis of emotion, as fear always runs to promises of security, however nebulous.

It’s interesting to note that since women received the right to vote, no bald politician has been elected in either the United States or the UK with the exception of Eisenhower and Churchill. (Atlee was bald too, but he was running against Churchill so there was no hair option in 1945.) And being bona fide war heroes, both Churchill and Eisenhower represented security even more than the archtypical tall politician with executive hair; neither one of them were capable of winning in less extraordinary times.

If I owned the Vikings, I don’t know if I could restrain myself from firing Childress at half-time. The long field goal attempt was fine, but not having the field goal team ready to cover a runback is inexcusable, especially when the other team’s kick returner is positioned in front of the goalposts!

I don’t wish Jackson any harm, but after seeing him throw two should-be interceptions and miss two screen passes, I’m certainly in no hurry to see him return from whatever injury he suffered in the first half.

UPDATE – Holy Oklahoma Tailbacks!

Adrian Peterson raced to the NFL’s single-game rushing record at the midpoint of his rookie season. After giving up the longest play in league history on a missed field goal right before halftime, the Vikings turned to their amazing rookie and Peterson delivered — rushing for an NFL-record 296 yards in a 35-17 victory over the San Diego Chargers on Sunday.

He’s going to go for 300 before this season is over. He would have done it today if they hadn’t wanted to get Taylor a touchdown.

INTJs now have a base from which to plot our takeover of the world. Of course, no one will want to take charge and we’ll all get bored with the idea long before we get around to doing anything.

For some reason, this brings Day of the Tentacle to mind. I quite liked the part when the dork protagonist looks at the plans for world domination on the blackboard, rubs his chin and says: “uh-oh, that might actually work!”

Just want to verify something. When David killed Goliath, was “nakah” the term used? And was “ratsach” the one used to refer to Uriah’s murder?

What with Turkey gearing up to invade northern Iraq and Pakistan putting its nominal democracy on hold, to say nothing of the increase in housing-related problems, it looks like things could get a bit bumpy around the world over the year leading up to the election.

I have no idea what this all means, I’m merely observing. Not feeling particularly communicative today, a little banged up from soccer last night.

I had my assistant designer take that personality profile too… seems he’s an INTJ as well. I thought some of you might be amused by his response:

I didn’t think you’d be the type to have me take a personality test…but I took it anyway. Maybe you can paint your nails while you read the results.

Well, he’s in the right industry, anyhow.

Or how she feels about the beheading of Antoine Lavoisier. But this is a nice little rebuttal to provide those who try to deny that atheists are angry:

I’m angry about what happened to Galileo. Still. And I’m angry that it took the Catholic Church until 1992 to apologize for it.

Her other justifications for her righteous and holy rage are equally spurious, of course, but you can’t really expect much in the way of cool, dispassionate reason from a fat, angry, lesbian atheist.