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Saturday, April 6. 2013

Saturday morning links

Target apologizes for "Manatee Grey"

Nightmares drove NJ man to admit 1990 killing (h/t neoneo)

Identifying the Right “Depreciation” Tax Policy: The Most Boring – but Important – Article You Will Read Today

Freeman Dyson speaks out about climate science, and fudge

Everybody knows that Big Oil pays Dyson to utter this nonsense

AGW: The End of an Illusion

Lowest Labor Force Participation Rate Since 1979

It keeps getting worse

Dying Monopolies – The Post Office

Catholic Gonzaga University won’t allow Catholic students to form Catholic group

Most Democrats now believe ObamaCare won’t help and may hurt them

MF Global Trustee's Report Blasts Obama Bundler Jon Corzine

Shouldn't Crozine be in jail by now?

From Corrupt Pols Running America’s Biggest Nanny State:

In New York, the government has its finger in every pie, and politics is full of hypocritical blue swill about helping the poor and the needy. New York has a government that wants to do what it shouldn’t do, that can’t do what it ought to do, and that has been hijacked by a criminal class of political hacks. This is what blue model decline looks like.

Why Is North Korea Our Problem?

The gussying up of (Hillary) Clinton’s standing is one of the silliest political exercises of our time.

Smartest woman in the world. Went to Wellesley, after all. Fancy chick college, studied Alinsky.

Good growth in the Mexican economy

But it's illegal for Americans to emigrate to Mexico. Mexico does not permit immigration, but they may change their mind if they have too many jobs that Mexicans won't do.

The US Navy's Rail Gun

Hinderaker on entitlement reform:

That’s what the Left has come to: a reactionary force, determined to uphold an unjust status quo against even the slightest reform. Champions of the wealthiest segment of American society, out to screw the young. But it is hard to see a successful endgame: the entitlements simply cannot be sustained in anything like their present form. That is a mathematical proposition, not a political one.

Stats via Ace:

All rifles (that includes the AR-15) were involved in fewer homicides in 2011 than blunt objects, fists and knives.
1.5X more homicides were committed with blunt objects.
2.2X more homicides were committed with fists.
5.2X more homicides were committed with knives.

It's definitely time for a national fist registry

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:00 | Comments (64) | Trackbacks (3)

Friday, April 5. 2013

State-Wrecked

David Stockman: State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

Q&O has some thoughts about Stockman's Op-Ed

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Friday morning links

Tell youngsters the truth: the UK needs you to work not go to university

McDonald's cashier job: BA required (nope - that was an error. It had truthiness to it, didn't it?)

You Are a Terrible Investor and You Should Stop That

College Teaches Course on ‘Queer Gardens,’ Suffers Low Academic Standards

The youth are playing house

69 Years Later, D-Day Veteran Recovers Item Lost on the Beaches

San Francisco's Trash Inspectors

This Week in Epic Beta Male Faggotry

35 Atlanta educators to surrender today in massive cheating conspiracy

Communists in the Thick of the Immigration “Reform” Movement

Obamacare “Navigators”: Anyone Else See an Opportunity for Massive Waste of Taxpayer Funds?

Streamlined ObamaCare Application Goes On for 60 Pages

Walgreen clinics to begin treating chronic illnesses

How the Hockey Stick Crumbled: A Post Mortem

Of course Hillary Clinton is going to run for president

The (almost) unbelievable case of censorship in Colorado

Phoenix “Not Looking for Strong Swimmers” for Lifeguard Jobs

Despite Focus on Gun Restrictions, More States Move To Loosen Laws

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Thursday, April 4. 2013

A confession: It's not that we loved immigrants, it's that we hated Britain

It's from Peter Hitchens: How I am partly to blame for Mass Immigration.

Our friend AVI put up a comment here yesterday to the effect that Leftist forces are far more interested in undermining Western culture than they give a damn about the pawns they use.

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays, Politics at 13:00 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

Blame the politicians

From "Tyler Durden" on blaming the euro:

There are very few limits to what you can do to people in the modern interpretation of democracy. A version where only majority rule is required, but where there is no longer a respect for personal negative rights – as we know them from the American Constitution.

The easiest target will always be wealthy people, or even just working people and savers who did the right thing all their lives. As the bloated welfare states begin to collapse under their irresponsible promises, their crumbling value systems and their unsustainable demographics, it will be easy to convince more than 50 percent of voters that confiscating and stealing other people's money is OK for the greater good. Boston Consulting Group calculated that 28 percent of ALL private wealth is needed to meet just existing debts – not future obligations , mind you – and the money can only come from one place… Your pockets. Beware.

A lot of things have gone wrong over the past few years, but the seeds were planted many years ago. In the form of pressure for more people having the “right” to own their properties, even if they did not fulfill the traditional mortgage criteria – hence subprime. In the form of enormous “entitlements” to not just poor, but also middle-class people in the welfare states – hence ballooning deficits and debt. In the form of a Euro, a grand, political project with no practical foundation – hence crisis after crisis, with the dominoes stretching far into the distance.

For sure, a lot of financial institutions took advantage of the hands they were dealt. They are not without guilt and responsibility for the current mess. But the real problems lie not in people trying to take advantage of whatever conditions they operate under. The real problem lies in the framework that is created by politicians, preventing free markets to deal with excesses in the way capitalism always does.

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Thursday morning links

Horowitz: This Is Columbia University

The Benefits of Moving Back Home

ObamaCare in Trouble? Exchange provision delayed, as lawmakers push to repeal another

Even Joe Klein: Obamacare Incompetence

Again? Government pushes banks to make subprime loans

Unbelievable!… Obama Is Pushing Risky Subprime Auto Loans, Too

Father Of Newtown Victim: 'I Applaud' The NRA's Proposals

For millions of Americans, “disability” isn’t just a medical diagnosis, it’s also a state of mind — a state of mind we subsidize, sustain, and encourage.

George Will:

Twenty-five years ago, President Reagan, paraphrasing Education Secretary William Bennett, said: “If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you’re liable to be given more money to do it with.”

It's Not Easy Being Green - As climate change worsens, the internal strains in the environmentalist movement are starting to show.

Good grief. These people are not living in reality.

VDH: Krugman’s California Dreaming - He sees a renaissance attributable to the decline of the state’s Republican party.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 05:23 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

Wednesday, April 3. 2013

No time to think

February, March, April and May are my busiest times of the year at work. No time to think except in the shower. No time for thoughtful posts. One must make hay while the sun shines.

More gun news: Connecticut Customers Rush to Store to Purchase Guns, Ammo

You betcha. Got a good load of .22 LR and a large load of 20 and 12 ga ammo yesterday. That's me: insane. 'Insane' crowds as customers flood Connecticut gun stores before vote

Piers Morgan has armed security. And I read that Jim Carrey has an armed bodyguard whenever in public. Since I am cheap and not wealthy, I have to be my own bodyguard. If armed protection is OK for the President and Piers Morgan, it's OK for me.

BTW, Drudge is truly fun today

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:53 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

Weds. morning links

Image stolen from Lucianne

On April 1st, Virgin Atlantic Launched World's First-Ever Glass-Bottomed Plane

Crewcut: The Virtue of the Number Two

"Marry Young - I got married at 23. What are the rest of you girls waiting for?" h/t Insty

Why I Study Duck Genitalia

Drunks Don't Like Sober Women

He'd heard the debates about the cost of alcohol abuse to the NHS, but only when novelist Chris Paling found himself on a ward with long-term alcoholics did he really grasp the prognosis

New York’s future flees to Florida - Young people are moving to the Sunshine State for jobs

Don’t blame ‘Big Oil’ for high gas prices. Blame ‘Big Corn.’

Taranto: Those Courageous Racists - Left-wing bigots pat themselves on the back.

Associated Press Drops 'Illegal Immigrant' From Stylebook

"If it were up to me, I would've been any of the diversities"

...was global warming ever real? Or is this hysteria a hoax, like the Y2K computer disaster that never happened?

Madeleine Albright, Condoleeza Rice, and Hillary Clinton have filled a post that would have commonly been held by eunuchs in the Byzantine, Ottoman, and Chinese empires.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 05:44 | Comments (124) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, April 2. 2013

An instant felon in Connecticut?

I can't say I am too thrilled with what the Dem-ruled Connecticut legislature is about to do with firearms. I like to try my best to be law-abiding, but I do not know how many firearms we have around the place any more than I know how many hammers we have. Some are antiques, workable probably and oiled, but not fired for 30 years. Some are probably in closets and drawers we have never opened and in dark corners of the attics which we have never explored.

This place has been inhabited by firearm owners, country men, since 1823. As far as I know, not one of them every shot anybody, even if they deserved it.

My late father-in-law's farm, on which we now blissfully reside in commuting distance to Hartford, always had handguns (old .45 revolvers) in the drawer in the tack room of the barn (in case a horse needed shooting - broken leg, terminal colic, etc) and a .410 leaning on the barn wall for pigeons, Copperheads, and rattlers. He liked pigeon stew, and plenty of them lived in the barn before we tightened it up. (I liked the squab better.)

When he lived here, there was no crime at all. He was a big shot insurance fellow, and a gentleman farmer just as I aspire to be. Math genius actuary-turned executive, but farm-raised. Family tradition. Family farm, now. Third generation here, if we can keep it with the taxes which insist on taxing us as if we were a 60-acre housing development (they term that "taxable at best use". What is "best use"?). Otherwise, some developer will fill it with McMansions on 1/4-acre lots with no woodchucks, no horses, no goat, no meadows, no snakes, no barn pigeons, no barns, no barn cats, and no firearms. Safe and sterile.

Like most states with some creepy urban zones, most firearm crime is done by career crims and sociopathic and drug gangs, but I do not see our wise legislature attending to that at all. There are no dainty female suburban votes in that.

Connecticut's Gun Control: A Rush To Pass Laws That Couldn't Have Prevented Tragedy

It is so much easier to take on the law-abiding than the crims, because evil can never be legislated away. See Three Felonies a Day

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Tuesday morning links

Meet the new climate deniers

Fiendish Turtle Smuggler Tried to Steal Over 10% of an Entire Species

A Brief History of Applause

10 Things I hate about LA

Pregnant "man" and his divorce case

A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise

The Bible vs. the Heart - The human heart alone is a terribly flawed guide to social policy.

When Men Forsake God, Tyranny Always Follows

“Why so many jobs are crappy"

Is Disability the New Welfare?

“Unfit for Work: The Startling Rise of Disability in America”

The Obamas live the 1 percent life

Connecticut lawmakers clamp down on guns

The Bigotry attitude: Inequality for All:

Bigotry is too prized a resource to just watch it drain away in some communal pool of brotherhood and sisterhood. The only thing to do is to find ways to dam it up and create national parks of bigotry that will allow future generations of civil rights warriors to rough it by camping out under the burning crosses while admiring themselves for their artificial courage in defense of a manufactured cause.

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Monday, April 1. 2013

College sexual assault codes: When "yes" means "no"

KC Johnson: A College with Strange Sex Misconduct Hearings ('No' Means 'No,' and 'Yes' Can Mean 'No' Too)

If I were a horny college student today, I think I'd feel more comfortable chasing the townie girls. But that runs up against this advice: Princeton mom: Women have a 'shelf life'. Why that article got so much attention is beyond me, because every gal knows it even if they decide to wait a while.

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 19:51 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)