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Saturday, April 13. 2013

Saturday morning links

The Commencement-Speaker Litmus Test


Don’t forget parents share genes with their offspring


Yes, that's the problem


Another political change story


Why Liberals support Gun Control


State power


Billionaire Bloomberg Badgers Moms … Who Suck Baby Binkies?


Guy has gone crazy. Binkies are stupid, but is that his biggest problem?


Examining New York politics is like dipping a ladle into the sewer


For the past 200 years...but the vigor and ambition of the people outweighs the pond-scum pols


Thatcher’s Lesson for Today - What was good for mining then would be good for bankers now.

New illegals: "Obama Will Let Me Go"

If he could

Is The End In Sight For America’s Biofuel Boondoggle?

Quotations of the day on ethanol. What’s to like? Abolutely nothing, unless you’re a rent-seeking corn farmer

Mead: Gosnell Case Reveals MSM’s Waning Power

Rep. Chris Smith: 'If Gosnell Had Shot Seven Infants with an AR-15, It Would Be National News'

Indeed. But he used scissors so it's OK.

Plagued by Rising Costs and Vulnerable to Fraud, It’s Time to Focus Attention on the Disability Progam

Most people I've seen in life on disability are perfectly capable of doing something useful. Blind paraplegics have jobs in America, as do people with Down Syndrome. Life on disability is life without dignity and self-respect. Same with Welfare.

How many people have noticed that there are virtually no Hispanic tech wizards in Silicon Valley?
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Small engine repair shops might like repairing all the small engines ruined by ethanol. But ones with integrity wouldn't.
#1 Mark on 2013-04-13 12:47 (Reply)
Are their no Hispanic tech wizards, or no non-assimilated Hispanic tech wizards who long ago lost their superficial racial identifiers like Hispanic sounding names or facial features?

As an aside, Zuckerman, et al, are pushing immigration while lamenting that illegals are often prohibited from taking part in the government run education cartel.

So, is the best way them to create a lobbying group to try to influence immigration policy? Or, perhaps their specific skills and expertise would be more effective in developing MOOCs, and other new ways to spread knowledge outside the education cartel. Perhaps they might seek to influence the situation by adopting, not college attendance, but rather, competency as their hiring criteria? Pay not by years of education but by demonstrated competency?

The whether in the US illegally, or back in their home country, everyone, not withstanding their race, sex, ethnic origin, could have the chance to achieve wealth and prosperity in an economy based on knowledge, not resource control, or college attendance.
#2 JKB on 2013-04-13 12:51 (Reply)
7 minutes of brilliance:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/04/david-wood-an-open-message-to-rabbi-jerome-davidson-and-other-critics-of-pamela-geller.html
#3 KP on 2013-04-13 12:59 (Reply)
As to rent-seekers in the ethanol scam, it's not just farmers.

ADM owns the ethanol processing plants and Warren Buffet owns the railroads that move corn to the processing plants and the ethanol to the blenders.

Those railroads have all sorts of upgrades PAID for by the Federal Railroad Administration.
#4 Whitehall on 2013-04-13 13:43 (Reply)
No Hispanic tech wizards? RAAAAACISM!!!! Zuck's grandparents came thru Ellis Island? Great. So let everybody come in regardless of how legally they entered the country. Riiiiiiiight.

Libs and Gun Control: Dogs in the manger. If they can't have their way, exactly as they want it, they will throw hissy fits. At us.

Bloomie sure is a butt.

NY politics sure has gone downhill since Art Carney stopped cleaning the sewers.

Gosnell: Even The Atlantic is writing about him. The dam may be about to break. And yes, the "weapon of choice (pun not intended)" makes a difference.
#5 Sam L. on 2013-04-13 16:40 (Reply)
For the past 200 years...but the vigor and ambition of the people outweighs the pond-scum pols

Nice sentence --the pols will be mere parasites until they kill their prey. Mere crippling is not a predator behavior.
#6 buddy larsen on 2013-04-14 17:06 (Reply)
Zuckerberg: "The economy of the last century was primarily based on natural resources, industrial machines and manual labor. Many of these resources were zero-sum and controlled by companies....
Today’s economy is very different. It is based primarily on knowledge and ideas — resources that are renewable and available to everyone. Unlike oil fields, someone else knowing something doesn’t prevent you from knowing it, too..." etc etc

A very stereotypical and simplistic view of industrial history. See my post Myths of the Knowledge Society:

http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/35514.html
#7 david foster (Link) on 2013-04-14 23:06 (Reply)

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