Please do not peruse these Tuesday morning links until you have caught up on our posts over the past few days, as I just have done on my return from the sea to hard reality (drove a boat up from Cape May to Rhode Island with a few stops for gas and beer - including one at good old City Island for fried clams and another at Northport for more fried clams and fried oysters). The posts are jam-packed with inneresting stuff.
Poster above from Atlas' collection of fine old posters yesterday.
Photos of peoples' refrigerators. h/t, Neato. Sheesh. It's more private than photos of their genitalia. Too revealing and embarassing.
Brit public rebels against EU taxes and control. Yo, Cousins. Been there, done that. We can tell you how, but it involves firearms...
Quit lamb and beer to save the planet. Sure, OK. But not right now. Later, maybe, if I lose my taste for these things.
"It's a thumbsucker's playpen" now. Kaus
Wind farm kills Taiwanese goats. Pinwheels or goats: it's your choice.
Frank Lloyd Wright Legos. You cannot hate Legos. h/t, Marg. Rev
Korea, Iran, etc. Must be time for more diplomacy.
The UN speaks, and people listen. Are we nuts?
Millionaires flee Maryland
Pols love to present Straw Men, but the O specializes in them.
Libs wonder how they lost on guns and Gitmo. Welcome to America, where we are not quite a dictatorship yet.
What lady would not want to be a MILF, despite the crudeness of the appellation? And what red-blooded male has not a filthy mind? To my eyes, MILFs are a dime a dozen around my neighborhood. Photo borrowed stolen from Tiger's piece:
When things get too hot in the kitchen, pols run away. Pelosi picked China for her Memorial Day weekend. Nice. Hope they taught her something about Capitalism.
Dr. X on the Irish abuse scandal
Media still lying abut the Swift Boat Vets
Armed and Dangerous says it better than we usually do, re California:
The politics of the modern redistributionist state is founded on the assumption that politicians can buy votes by promising voters ever more munificent entitlements - from federal deposit insurance against bank failures to government-subsidized medical care - with the money for these things always somehow being painlessly extracted from somebody else.
Once voters have agreed to forget that every single dollar of tax revenue is extracted from the productive economy by threat of force (including corporate taxes, which are then passed along as higher prices), there is no incentive for any politically favored interest group to do anything but eat subsidies as fast as it can, before all those less deserving other interest groups get a snout in. The demand for entitlements, income transfers, and subsidies will, accordingly, rise without limit. And why not, when “somebody else” is paying?
For this con game to continue working on the suckers voters who buy it, there always has to be a “somebody else” from which more money can be painlessly extracted. It’s “the rich” or “corporations” or (when governments borrow money against future tax revenues) ourselves in the future.
But what happens when there is no “somebody else” left?
Related, The NYT gets California completely wrong - Driscoll. They are right on the Dem talking points but wrong on the facts.
Two dish washers carry their towels home after a hard day discussing uranium: