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Hello again. Roger here. Bird Dog's off to get wormed, or get his nails clipped, or something, so you're stuck with me. I can't do nearly as good a job as Bird Dog when it comes to assembling links for you fine people. My lips get really tired reading all those stories. However, he's started me off on Saturday. It's a smart strategy. Nothing much happens on the weekends, so I can't get into too much trouble. Of course George III is reported to have written "Nothing of importance happened today," in his diary on July 4th, 1776, so maybe I better scan the papers for you just in case. On to the links!

NAACP Warns Black Travelers To Use 'Extreme Caution' When Visiting Missouri

I guess the NAACP's daughter just got her learner's permit or something. I can't be bothered to read it.

Still Better Than United

Everyone warns everyone to use extreme caution when visiting Russia

Truth as a Possibly Illegal and Addictive Substance

Our friend Gerard at American Digest is in the Saturday Evening Post? Signs and wonders, man. Signs and wonders.

Marchons Macron!

France is nominally secular, but just like Britain and #ourNHS the French have a state religion - its famously strict labour market. Gallic politicians of left and right are cursed the second they touch the subject of reforms but it looks possible that is about to be confounded. President Macron won his landslide victory earlier this year while advocating far-reaching reforms of labour laws, against the protectionist and dirigiste Mme Le Pen. And on Tuesday the Assemblie Nationale voted through a bill allowing the government to fast-track changes to the labour code.

Dirigiste? My French is rusty. She's not that fat, is she?

California’s Promethean Past. How a visionary entrepreneur watered and powered Los Angeles

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Bookies Now See Facebook CEO Zuckerberg More Likely To Be President In 2020 Than Hillary, Harris, & Biden

Zuckerberg currently runs a business without a "Dislike" button. The little ponce is in for a rude awakening.

Wards of the Court

Thus the authors’ fatuous pronouncement that: “In recognizing the central role that the medical profession can play in reducing firearm injuries, the court’s ruling highlights the opportunity that physicians have to reduce firearm violence.”

Just plug the holes, doc, and mind yer own business.

The Tragedy of Doctor Who

The new Doctor Who is a woman. “All the cool humans are thrilled,” cooed Mashable; “Pissboys Are Melting Down,” added Dorkly (when did nerds start talking like bitter drag queens?). The Telegraph was slightly more sober and wrote off the whole thing with “Who cares?” It doesn’t matter to the establishment left because we’ve already established that men are exactly the same as women—especially when it comes to fiction. They see nothing wrong with female superheroes and action stars.

You know, you could turn it off. It sounds crazy, I know, but you could. Smart people never looked at it in the first place.

Five anarchists held in Italy over January 1st blast

Sacco and Vanzetti unavailable for comment.

Robert Hardy, Harry Potter actor, dies at 91

Harry Potter actor? That's like saying, "George Washington, surveyor, dies at 67.

Early modern humans consumed more plants than Neanderthals but ate very little fish

Pssst. Grok. Don't mention the Paleo diet to the Neanderthals. They think it's cultural appropriation.

The Problems of Price Controls

Shorter version: Sign says: All You Can Eat Special! Waiter puts half a saltine on your plate, and says, "That's all you can eat."

Have a nice Saturday. Try to make sure that nothing important happens to you today.

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This day in 1861: I’m from the IRS and I’m here to help.
In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800).

This day in 1884: Liberty for All: The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor (irony).

This day in 1926: Freedom! Harry Houdini performs his greatest stunt, escaping a sealed tank after 91 minutes underwater.

This day in 1981: You’re Free! President Reagan fires 11.359 striking air traffic controllers.

#1 Aggie on 2017-08-05 07:58 (Reply)

President Macron won his landslide victory earlier this year while advocating far-reaching reforms of labour laws, against the protectionist and dirigiste Mme Le Pen.

That speaks well of Macron.

#2 Gringo on 2017-08-05 09:15 (Reply)

"The little ponce is in for a rude awakening."

LOVE IT!

#3 Confused Old Misfit on 2017-08-05 09:24 (Reply)

Re: The Problems of Price Controls

Government gains favor with voters and constituents when it lowers the price of popular goods. Government also gains favor from lobbyists and firms when it raises prices to promote the health of the industry. Given these benefits to policymakers, it should not surprise us that price control is common in the history of western economies.

That's the problem with attempting to fix what appear to be simple problems, you have to consider all the costs and benefits and who bears the costs and who reaps the benefits. You look at government bureaucracy overgrown to the point of being obviously counter-productive and it's easy enough to say we need to get rid of a lot of the over-regulation, but that's cushy jobs and easy paychecks to a lot of folks. They aren't going to agree they're deadweight that needs to be jettisoned. It's not so simple.

#4 Jerryskids on 2017-08-05 09:55 (Reply)

Price Controls: Somebody's gonna get screwed, but mainly it's customers--either have to pay more, or can't get the item.

#4.1 Sam L. on 2017-08-05 11:24 (Reply)

"NAACP Warns Black Travelers To Use 'Extreme Caution' When Visiting Missouri"

The NAACP is trying to extort Missouri. This is another example of using racism for fun and profit. No doubt it will be successful and the NAACP will make this an every day thing.

I remember long ago (1968 I think) I was driving through Chicago and got stopped by a policeman who happened to be black. He said I was speeding but I was looking at a 35 mph sign and I was driving 35 mph. He wanted to ticket me but since I was from out of state he wanted cash right then. I wasn't buying it so he made me follow him back to the station. Sure enough his sargent and every other cop in there was also black and they told me either I give them $45 buck or I spend the weekend in jail. Well this wasn't looking too good so I gave them their bribe and escaped Chicago. Where was the NAACP then to warn white people away from Chicago?

#5 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-08-05 10:21 (Reply)

"Protests" in Ferguson? Can you say "riots", boys and girls? Yes, I KNEW you could.

#5.1 Sam L. on 2017-08-05 11:28 (Reply)

Having grown up in the area of all the protesting (rioting) and still living near STL, I'm surprised they didn't arrange to have Michael Brown mummified so they could wheel him to every protest available. Poor Michael is touted as a kind soul every time some black thug gets caught while committing a crime. Maybe they are targeted unfairly, I don't know the numbers, but when viewing the arrests and guilty perps on the evening news, it is pretty obvious who commits the majority of the crimes in and near STL.

#5.1.1 JC on 2017-08-05 17:25 (Reply)

Wards of the court: My doc was a fighter pilot. He's OK with guns. I'm OK with guns and knives, and with the missileers who have access to the keys that could open the Gates of Hell, up there in the currently unfrozen north. YMMV.

#6 Sam L. on 2017-08-05 11:36 (Reply)

A doctor actually asked me once if I had guns in my home. Of course I told him I did not. Just as I would tell anyone I do not. I actually wanted to tell him it was none of his business but that is the equivalent of answering yes and I don't want anyone to know I have guns. A unhesitent firm "no" is the best way to get the job done. Now if a LEO asked I would refer him to the 5th amendment. I don't want to make the mistake that Martha Stewart made. In fact for that reason I would never speak with the FBI.

#7 IdahoBob on 2017-08-05 14:00 (Reply)

I don't have a gun in my home and I still tell my doctor it's none of his business. I also don't answer the question about seatbelt and sunblock use because those are also none of his business.

#7.1 the gold digger (Link) on 2017-08-06 08:46 (Reply)

re Dr. Who

I stumbled across Dr. Who around 1981 when Tom Baker was The Doctor. I watched it for a year or two and while the episodes were forgettable, I did enjoy some of them and liked Baker in the role of the good doctor.

Then Peter Davison took over as Dr. Who. Davison had been the whining, lazy, incompetent and often inebriated junior vet in the series All Creatures Great and Small. I just couldn't see him as the clever, resourceful Dr. Who.

I quit watching then and never went back.

#8 feeblemind on 2017-08-05 14:06 (Reply)

QUOTE:

The Tragedy of Doctor Who ... They see nothing wrong with female superheroes and action stars. It’s 2017, after all.

Because who's going to believe that a woman could be "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!"

#8.1 Zachriel on 2017-08-05 20:58 (Reply)

I see nothing wrong with female superstars. I think the problem is the politicization of it that forces them to stretch credulity. A lot of women are superstars, everyday women, mothers, waitresses, grandmothers, olympic athletes, and more. Think about the recent news stories about men who are competing in women's sports, another example of the blatant politicization of gender to the detriment of women. It would be better in my opinion that if the intent is to present a role model for women that they do so without the politics and in a realistic achievable way. But This effort seems intended to evoke criticism so THAT too can be politicized. Even the recognition of how inane this is and that it is designed to offend and bait is used against those "woke" enough to see through the scam. This isn't about something positive like empowering women and girls it is about sticking your finger in the eye of a majority of normal people.

#8.1.1 OneGuy on 2017-08-06 10:08 (Reply)

OneGuy: I see nothing wrong with female superstars.

The snowflake was set off by a female Dr. Who. Dr. Who regenerates recurrently, with a new body, even a new personality. Of all the examples to choose from, he chose one that could easily entail a woman or person of color.

OneGuy: It would be better in my opinion that if the intent is to present a role model for women that they do so without the politics and in a realistic achievable way.

You're thinking of a different sort of fiction, such as Loving, the story of the interracial married couple who were arrested in their own bed; or Juno, about a young, pregnant woman; or The Blind Side, about a mother who takes a homeless boy under her wing. Do they have political elements? Sure. That's the nature of drama. They provoke thought about human relationships. But even superhero stories are actually stories about people and their relationships to others — at least when they work dramatically.

#8.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2017-08-06 11:05 (Reply)

"Dirigiste? My French is rusty. She's not that fat, is she?"

Dirigiste: an advocate of dirigisme i.e., an economy directed or guided by central authority. From the verb diriger (direct, guide). Something that can be directed or guided is dirigeable,thus an airship is an (aérostation) dirigeable - hence English dirigible.

#9 JJM on 2017-08-05 14:28 (Reply)

Come on, that remark was intended as a joke.

#9.1 Gringo on 2017-08-05 15:01 (Reply)

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