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Tuesday, September 15. 2009

Tuesday morning links

Salad-eating threatens the planet (h/t, Thompson). That means no more salads for me, thank goodness. It's just rabbit food, anyway.


Michelle: ACORN is a criminal enterprise. My question is how many of the bad housing loans they were responsible for. And now Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN. Notably, the MSM still ignores the story.


Obama as Soros' Manchurian Candidate


Why don't we permit interstate insurance sales?


How government policies helped create medical care inflation.


Kimball on the will to believe


Related: The O is deliberately misleading the people. I have no doubt about it.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:45 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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ACORN as a criminal enterprise is no stretch at all. To make matters worse, I checked several of the troubled banks' sites sub-prime loan sections in 2007 when the warning signs started to appear. ACORN, NCLR (La Raza), and other were prominently displayed as "associates". A reasonable translation of that is that the federal government had bludgeoned the banks into dealing with ACORN et al so that they would not be protested in court as "racists profiteering off the poor" every time they opened an ATM somewhere or set up a new branch. As you may know, that behavior was enabled and facilitated by the Community Reinvestment Act, as revised in the 1990's.
#1 Bud on 2009-09-15 08:40 (Reply)
The "5-a-day" thing is kind of silly and so is griping about having to import the "5-a-day" produce when it's out of local season. "Local-vores" have a small point: if you can get the foods (and other things) you want locally at a decent price, seems like a fine idea.
The amount of lettuce grown in New England in January is nill. We grow only a small amount of fruit in Montana but we dig a lot of coal and we raise a lot of cattle. New England raises only a few beef cattle. So regions trade, nations trade, and wealth grows. Transportation invigorates the economy and increases everyone's wealth. Use of energy makes luxuries into everyday items. This is great!
#2 Geoff on 2009-09-15 13:03 (Reply)
Why don't we permit interstate insurance sales? Well, a big thing that is left out is that each State has at least one regulatory agency for insurance.

Of course, each also regulates banks, which does not seem to be very hard to comply with...

Still, a recent article had a woman in Washington State pointing out that only six health insurers operated there - while those [Congresscritters] in Washington DC have a choice of some 300...
#3 John A on 2009-09-15 18:34 (Reply)

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