Democrats are supposed to work towards the goal of social justice, right? So why is it that so many policies supported by California Democrats end up harming poor people and minorities?
Reason.tv's Paul Feine sat down with journalist Chris Reed to talk about public employee unions, welfare reform, Walmart, the drug war, and environmental regulations.
Monday, 29 November 2010
Reason TV: Have California Democrats Turned Their Backs On Social Justice? A Conversation with Chris Reed
Video: Born of Nuclear Blast: Russia's Lakes of Mystery
What healing properties does a sweet lake possess? How can you wash clothes in a lake without soap? Can a lake serve as a salt reserve? The diversity of lakes located in Russia and CIS countries can amaze anyone. Artificial and natural, nuclear and hostile to all advanced forms of life, they present a truly motley picture.
Thought for the Day......
It must be weird for TSA agents to go to strip clubs and not be able to touch.
H/T DML
News........
WikiWankers are doing this why?
Desperately Seeking Sousa
Ollie North's "Sensational" Border Report
2,689%: the cost of Wonga.com's pay-day loans
Wikileaks pulls away the curtain; shows broad support for decapitating the Iranian regime in Islamic world
!x*@ the Brits! They want the top job for Blair, but they won’t get it
Hedge fund manager Mark Hart bets on China as the next 'enormous credit bubble' to burst
North and South Korea move close to war footing
Men caught in 'women only' train carriage forced to do sit-ups
Boy who fled Cambodia's 'Killing Fields' returns as US naval commander
Pakistan's Labyrinth of Terror: International Jihadists Use Karachi as Hub
Iranian nuclear scientist killed in motorbike attack
Lincoln pennies from Washington............from Rico
Nope, not pennies from heaven but pennies from Washingtoon!
Only government could screw this up.
Pennies, familiar to everyone, featuring Abraham Lincoln on the face since 1909. One one-hundreth of a dollar.
They used to be copper, and if you have one today from 1982 or earlier, their metal content/melt value for that copper is $0.0247641 (almost two and a half times the face value, and almost as much as it costs the government to coin them).
The pennies were changed to zinc after 1982, but 'washed' to look like copper. Mostly nobody noticed. While it did not change the cost to coin them very much, the government DID save big on the metal content end of things...these faux pennies are worth $0.0056349 [read worthless content]. Zinc is pretty cheap.
Not content to merely produce over-priced worthless goods (pennies), the current gooberment misadministration has 'improved' the design for 2010, removing the Lincoln Memorial from the reverse and replacing it with a truly crap-tastic design that reminds me a lot of a bus token.
- Worthless, nondescript, uninspiring, namby-pamby, and lacking any aesthetic merit....much like our current socialist regime.
I can hardly wait until they emulate the inspired former-Soviet modes of architecture. There are quite a few go-by's they can copy from that haven't completely crumbled yet.
Assclowns!
WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables Release
Blazing Catfur has the key headline: "Wikileaks Diplomatic Cables Released by Times, Der Spiegel."
Here's this at NYT, "Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels." And I love this at Spiegel: "A Superpower's View of the World." And Doug Mataconis has a report: "Wikileaks Releases Diplomatic Cables, Revealing International Secrets." (Via Memeorandum.) I've commented on WikiLeaks extensively. I won't think twice if Julian Assange meets the cold blade of an assassin, and apparently a significant number of others don't care for the guy. See the WikiLeaks Twitter page and Hot Air: "Wikileaks servers under DOS attack ahead of diplomatic document dump" (with lots of updates). I continue to be amazed at the fawning credibility Assange gets on the progressive left. Anything that tears down the military --- even putting at risk the lives of Americans and our allies --- is totally cool with these freaks. But maybe something good will come of all this, in the end. 
Sunday, 28 November 2010
McCain Wants Regime Change in North Korea
Well it's about time: "John McCain Calls for Regime Change in North Korea." I suggested we topple Pyongyang last week. Does anyone have any backbone these days? I'm not holding my breath, especially with these pantywaists: "Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers."
More throughout the day at American Power.
The Sunday Best..........
Marines act like Marines
Hang Tough
The IPCC mask slips
Exclusive Photo Taken Moments Before President Obama Suffered Major Gash on Lip While Playing Basketball
A loving saint’s legacy turns jolly
Ireland runs out of Condoms after Pope Benny says "Rubbers Rock"
Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran's Nuclear Weapons Ambitions
Navy officer who ran nuclear submarine aground near the Isle of Skye is 'relieved of his command'
SAS commander quits Army amid claims defence cuts have hit morale
South Korea: despach from the frontline of World War Three
North Korea's undercover journalists reveal misery of life in dictatorship
Will release of new Wikileaks secrets blow Obama's nice guy image?
The EU has got too big for its boots
Attacks in Haiti in last hours before election
The Christian woman facing death over a work squabble
Bracing for Bailouts: Which EU Problem Child Will Be Next?
Ye olde mulled wine not for the young, drug commissioner warns
North Korea 'readies missiles', China to help ensure peace
Iran loads fuel in N-plant , ops to begin in Jan
NASA moves X-34s out of storage, considers return to flight status
and finally......
Pillar of Fire: The Founding of Israel
Pay it Forward ....
To all our brothers and sisters far from home:
Video: The Elizabethan Express
A British Transport Film classic showing the Elizabethan non-stop Express train from London to Newcastle and beyond.
H/T Marc
Inflation and Keynesians, NIA..............from Rico
I very well remember when gasoline was 17-cents per gallon, and the local gas stations would have 'price-wars' to attract customers by lowering prices from that level. I could give you a lot of other examples from the 1960's, but this is a pretty good one since we ALL see the price at the pump when we fill-up today...the difference is a perfect illustration of two things, the primary thing is INFLATION and the secondary thing is TAXATION.
- Inflation is the decline in purchasing-power of the Dollar...it takes more of them to buy the same thing.
- Taxation....ptooey! This increases as politicians spend money they do not have, for our own good [read: to buy votes to get re-elected]...I also call this spending your money FOR you because they know better than you do what is best for you. Taxes always go UP, they never go DOWN.
When I was at University, ALL of my Economics professors were raging Keynesians. The very worst of the lot, while by far the most likeable, was Hubert H. Humphrey. I disagreed with everything they said, but at least HHH made me enjoy hearing utter and complete nonsense and drivel!
- Yes, you guessed it, I later came to appreciate Hayek, von Mises, and the Austrian School of Economics.
- BUT one doesn't 'need' University to understand that you cannot get out of debt by going further into debt. Spending money you do not have is sheer lunacy, but that's John Maynard Keynes for you....full-on barking mad.
While I do NOT agree with everything the NIA says or promotes, they have a lot to say and are worth listening to. I give them much more credibility than I do anything I 'see' or hear from MSNBC or CNBC, or the alphabet 'old' media (ABC-CBS-NBC).
Take a look at their site for yourself, and decide for yourself.
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Video: P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke is America's premier political satirist and has more citations in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations than any other living writer. In this live appearance for Intelligence Squared he'll be discussing his new book, Don't Vote -- It Just Encourages the Bastards, a brilliant, hilarious and ultimately sobering look at why politics and politicians are a necessary evil—but only just barely necessary.
Full Video Here
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