Saturday, September 24. 2011
 Red Cross: Obese Now Outnumber Hungry
Thus another crisis requiring government intervention and control
Dr Benjamin Spock: How a Freudianized wimp dismantled parental authority in America - and helped launch the age of permissiveness.
How Much of Law School Is a Waste?
At least 1/3 of it, it seems. Brings in the $, however.
Fast neutrinos: This Extraordinary Claim Requires Extraordinary Evidence!
Always be a skeptic
When love pushes you to fuck up your life and/or someone else’s, it’s your choice to either fight to stay in control or say, well, love is all you want, so whatever happens must be worthwhile:
I promised my wife I’d stop messing around, and I meant it, but last month I did it again and restarted an old fling. I love my wife and the last thing I want is to lose her and the kids’ respect; I’ve got a wonderful family, and I’m not some macho guy who goes cruising to pick up skanks in bars. My problem is that women have always been very attracted to me, I don’t know why, and the sex is very, very satisfying (for both of us), even when we don’t really have much of a relationship. I’m an asshole, and I can’t stop myself. What can I do?
How long does passion last before Mr. Reality enters in?
Five Ways to Screw Up Your Life with the Internet
Age: a terrible equalizer. Except for Paul Newman
Guys tend to fare better than women
Mugged by Mythology - Liberals believe the darnedest things.
Krauthammer: Return of the real Obama
Sees right through the guy
The ineffably annoying conspicuous philanthropy of the haute bourgeoisie
A Poll on Fixing Poor Student Performance - You are invited to weigh in on how universities should deal with slackers.
Throw them out! Oh, I forgot - they need the $ so they won't do that
Obama did it! He made the sea levels fall!
Praise the Lord!
Obamacare rule gives government everyone's medical records
That will go over well...
Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns
Insane. The news from DC these days cannot be distinguished from The Onion
Walked Into a Lamppost? Hurt While Crocheting? Help Is on the Way - New Medical-Billing System Provides Precision; Nine Codes for Macaw Mishaps
Precision without meaning. Unbelievable waste of time
IBD: We're Sinking Under Obama's Policies
Duh.
Why the government shouldn’t guarantee mortgages or mortgage-backed securities.
Cui bono?
How Rick Perry blew it
He is done. Fine governor but clueless on the big stage.
CO2:
“Many people don’t realize that over geological time, we’re really in a CO2 famine now. Almost never has CO2 levels been as low as it has been in the Holocene (geologic epoch) – 280 (parts per million - ppm) – that’s unheard of. Most of the time [CO2 levels] have been at least 1000 (ppm) and it’s been quite higher than that.”
Where is the righteous indignation among black Americans at being portrayed as helpless children?
Judge questions honesty of Interior Department scientists
Well, good luck, Democrats.
It will be a cold day in hell when I pay to see another of this selfish loon’s movies.
But he was terrific in Shawshank
...a person growing 201 pot plants in a rental unit would receive a longer mandatory sentence than someone who rapes a toddler or forces a five-year-old to have sex with an animal.
The Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon kicked off today in Washington on the National Mall, under inauspiciously dark rainy skies.
White House Fingerprints on LightSquared Scandal
Over GOP objections, Obama pushes education overhaul - States can get waivers to Bush plan benchmarks
D.C. consumes 625 million muffins a day
...what threat did Saddam actually pose? Let’s go through just a sliver of the evidence.
John Mearsheimer Endorses a Hitler Apologist and Holocaust Revisionist
The White House's Advice for Your Rabbi - President presses: Preach politics from the pulpit.
Government Shouldn't Be in the Business of Creating Jobs
Chris Christie Reconsidering 2012 Run, Will Decide in Days
It's not over until the fat man sings. If he wants VP, I prefer Rubio.
Advice to Conservatives: No More "Sound[ing] Like Crazy People" - in Any Language
Hoven: Science for Stupid Idiots
Female promiscuity may be nature's way of dealing with inbreeding, research claims
Science to the rescue!
The moral objection to higher taxes
Another Smoldering Stogie of Misinformation from the Lung Association
WINDFALL PROFITS… Obama Supporter Who Was Awarded $107 Million For Windfarm Will Hold $25,000-Per-Person Fundraiser for President
Eliz Warren gets rich without producing anything: Woops- I forgot that measly 192,000 the government paid me:
Warren, a highly respected lawyer and Harvard University professor, submitted financial disclosure reports with Congress from 2008-10 for her role at the TARP oversight panel.
She was paid more than $347,000 annually for her work at Harvard, plus another $53,428 in royalties, according to a disclosure report filed in May 2009. Warned earned more than $116,000 as a legal consultant, and other $25,000 doing research for the Consumers Union, a non-profit group in Yonkers, N.Y.
Lefties, always greedy parasites, never producing anything useful or beautiful
Neoneo: Looking back at Obama the con man
Most pols are sociopathic, to varying degrees. Everybody knows that. And everybody knows to ignore their lack of integrity if they like what they are doing.
Friday, September 23. 2011
The current uproar about the CLASS longterm care portion of ObamaCare is instructive of both how we got into this mess and how difficult it will be to get out of it. For those who watch TVs Falling Skies, where spinal implant harnesses attached to humans by aliens even when removed leave irremovable control over humans, that could also be our fate under ObamaCare. The blogosphere needs to step up its game to avoid or reduce this implantation.
Major blogs are now writing about the meltdown of the ObamaCare CLASS longterm care program, now that some internal memos have been revealed. But, with facts and figures, readily available reporting (including pre-admissions of failure before Congress reported in the New York Times), and my decades experience and certifications in employee benefits, I wrote about the unsustainability of CLASS long before, to be ignored. ( See here, ObamaCare’s CLASS Failure, and here, The Fraud Admitted.) I saw this before regarding my columns over many years on healthcare issues. Why?
Healthcare and insurance are not sexy issues, and require some deeper understanding to speak about intelligently. Most bloggers are involved in quick-takes on the hot issues of the day. Then, the blogosphere is politicized. Unless that issue can be highlighted quickly to undermine the opposition, and doesn’t require much research, it is passed on. This is even so when the issue is reported in the major media. Bloggers also know that very few of their readers are willing to spend much time on the fine details of most issues.
It wasn’t until ObamaCare that most bloggers began to write about healthcare. Suddenly everyone wrote as an instant expert. And, as often as not, superficially or confusing important facts.
Focus was on ObamaCare’s costs, on government controls over individual choices, and on the mandate, all important. However, the details of ObamaCare make readers' eyes gloss over. The Obama administration counted on that to pass the bill and since to keep the details muted. Of course, some specialized blogs went deeper, but are rarely read.
The CLASS portion of ObamaCare was known to be unsustainable from the get-go, which is why the bill itself required it to be examined after passage before implementation. But, the estimated $75-billion revenues from its early years’ was key to falsely claiming that ObamaCare would not increase federal deficits, before CLASS itself went into huge deficits.
Meanwhile, ObamaCare has step-by-step been entrenching itself within healthcare and its organizations. Early victims are health insurance agents and those many who rely upon them. I’ve yet to find a major blog that has written about this. Their comp is being cut by up to 50%, with more cuts to come, and many are leaving the business and those who need them with lessened defense against ObamaCare or giant insurance companies most interested in profiting from ObamaCare. I wrote about this here, In Defense Of Health Insurance Agents, And You, and here, CBO: ObamaCare Within 5% Of Nationalizing Insurance Companies, and here, Are Health Insurance Agents Worth It: The Canaries In ObamaCare Mine.
There are many more examples I could easily point out. Assuming that after the 2012 elections there’ll be a Republican president and Congress, despite pledges to repeal ObamaCare, we’ll find much of it welded into our spines. The mandate issue is focused upon because it raises libertarian hackles and because it seems the only promising course in the courts. However, even judicially excising mandates may not uproot Obamacare, if found severable despite the ObamaCare bill not including a severability clause. Also, by then, if there is a then at the Supreme Court, many portions of ObamaCare will be so far along, and many aspects of current healthcare so changed, as to be irremovable. Welcome to Falling Skies, the ObamaCare version. Falling Skies next season is next Summer, just in time for the 2012 election season. Will we survive the aliens? Will we survive ObamaCare? Can we reverse the alien harnesses? Will the blogosphere get ahead of instead of behind the ObamaCare issues? Stay tuned.
For good updates on CLASS, see Powerline and Hot Air. Politics analyst Charlie Cook discusses 2012 and ObamaCare.
Thursday, September 22. 2011
Mark Safranski is elaborating at his defense issues blog Zenpundit on the problems raised by R2P, Right To Protect, or what I termed “Transnational Elites Uber Alles,” for intervention on humanitarian grounds against those nation’s rulers who our liberal elites dislike.
…it extends the uncontrolled reach of liberal elites within our government to act regardless of our laws or popular will….Transnational self-elected elites making “the world safe for democracy” or for their own supremacy?
Regimes who are not in disfavor with our liberal elites, however oppressive, get off more lightly.
In the first part of a five-part series, R2P is the New COIN, Safranski says:
…like the rise of pop-centric COIN, it will be an electrifying idea that has the potential fire the imagination of foreign policy intellectuals, make careers for its bureaucratic enthusiasts and act as a substitute for the absence of a coherent American grand strategy.
Neither COIN nor R2P are strategies. Unlike COIN, however, which is a set of tactics that may be applicable in some circumstances in pursuit of strategic goals (even if those goals may be arguable), R2P doesn’t have any operational tactics. R2P is more a clarion call to action, including actions that are contrary to US laws or popular will, in pursuit of internationalist goals for global governing as defined by transnational elites.
Further, R2P is cloaked in humanitarian rhetoric that allows liberal elites to preen, displaying their caring feathers, regardless of their ignorance of the military, regardless of the cost-benefit to US national security, and regardless that it isn’t their children being sent into harm’s way.
Lastly, R2P is reactive, not prescriptive of avoiding future threats to US security as a strategy must be. Much the same coterie who want to raise R2P to dominance over US foreign and military policies are largely dismissive of severely hobbling US allies or hollowing our military.
The second part of Safranski’s series is R2P is the New COIN: Slaughter’s Premises, Anne-Marie Slaughter being a prominent intellectual proponent of R2P. Slaughter defines a state as legitimate, effectively governed, only if it provides social goods to its populace, regardless of other sources of cohesion or democratic means of choosing leaders. Illegitimate states are targets for R2P, US core security interests aside.
Safranski writes me that Part 3 will focus on Authority and International Law, R2P resting upon amorphous, internationalist rule proposed to override US laws, Part 4 on Sovereignty, discussing the radicalness of R2P proponents’ program to replace nation states’ independence, and Part 5 on Legitimacy, Networks and Power, discussing the undemocratic, oligarchic views of the R2P proponents.
I suggest you read all five parts if you want to be up on the intellectual fad trotted forward to undermine US sovereignty and core security interests.
 That's Italian! Parents take legal action to force son, 41, to move out
Italy produces momma's boys who act macho to cover it up
Time for a tuition revolt
Stiletto Brothel Expansion Proposal Rejected By Sydney City Council
Pilgrim Christian Tours
A low in jobs, mobility, marriage for young adults
They voted for this
A pithy, comprehensible summary of 90 years of Arab recalcitrance
Coulter: COP-KILLER IS MEDIA'S LATEST BABY SEAL
Awaiting the Fall: A Few Thoughts on Mark Steyn’s After America
Signorelli puts a lot of thought into his essay
46 million Americans in poverty?
NY Post: The Prez is a liar
Ex-President Clinton to Newsmax: Raising Taxes Won't Work
He is sending a message to the Dems
Top 0.1 Percent Pays More Income Tax than Bottom 80 Percent
Our Lefty friends hope we're seeing The final crisis of capitalism
I think we're seeing the final crisis of the quasi-socialist welfare state and of the Big Government industry
Free money! All ya gotta do is f-.
See the second video. I think it is satire
Class Warfare: American Communists of 1928 Compared to Barack Obama
McCarthy: The Solyndra Non-Investigation - Bankruptcy examiners aren’t prosecutors.
Time for a special prosecutor?
Or do Chicago politics work on the national stage?
Gunwalker looking worse and worse
Dance video: $700,000 for 2 jobs
Contentions: “Palestine” to Deny Citizenship to 45 Percent of its Palestinian Residents
What Comes After 'Europe'? The riots of Athens will become those of Milan, Madrid and Marseilles. Border checkpoints will return. Currencies will be resurrected, then devalued.
They say Euroland is a giant fraud.
Europe’s Communist Past Haunts Euro-Zone
With ballsy vid of Farage. Farage - and Hannan - are wonderful. Britain does produce some wonderful politicians.
McArdle: Obama's Deficit Reduction: A Campaign Document, Not a Policy Plan
America: The Chief Subsidizer of UN Rapists and Traffickers - The Wilsonian ideals of the UN are not realizable. In turn, the UN is built on a lie: that its diplomats are morally decent.
How To Describe This Administration -Incompetent Or Corrupt?
Today Canada has a superior tax regime to that of the United States, and a much sounder fiscal situation. They are actually developing their energy resources...
Obama has an unusual capacity to conceive of himself in a way that is at odds with reality.
The MSM still refuses to call him on it
Obama quickly running out of time
Belmont asserts that Obama has gotten everything wrong.
...there’s one last thing that nice people don’t know. It is that hucksters aren’t confined by the same boundaries they assume everyone else is contained by. They are capable not only of sucker-punching you, but of exceeding limits you never thought could be transgressed. Grifters are in some sense not part of the same civilization that Peretz, Brooks, and Noonan inhabit. Maybe they don’t believe this yet. But they will. They will.
US federal debt, via SDA:
Let’s remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:
Annual family income: $21,700
Money the family spent: $38,200
New debt on the credit card: $16,500
Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
Budget cuts: $385
Wednesday, September 21. 2011
At the request of the Ohio Department of Insurance, benefit consultants Milliman, Inc. prepared an estimate of the impact on coverage and rates of ObamaCare when major provisions take effect in 2014.
660,000 are forecast to lose their group coverage from employers. A 735,000 increase in individual coverage is forecast. The percentage of all covered with some type of government coverage is forecast to increase to 31% from 20% in 2010.
Although the percentage of residents with coverage could rise by about 7.9%, the price of individual health insurance coverage might rise about 55% to 85%, excluding the impact of medical inflation, the Milliman consultants predict.
“This is primarily driven by the estimated health status of the new individual health insurance market and the expansion of covered benefits,” the consultants say.
The new tax credits are supposed to help individuals earning less than 400% of the federal poverty level pay for coverage, but U.S. residents with incomes over 400% of the federal poverty level who are in the individual market would have to pay for the coverage out of their own pockets.
Then add in the additional taxes within and caused by ObamaCare. High price to pay, huh. Hope there's any Change left in pockets.
H/T: Hot Air: "the Senate Budget GOP today releases this video to unmask a budget gimmick popularly employed by Democrats as they call for more spending on investment in “education, innovation, clean energy and infrastructure.”
KC Johnson, history professor at my alma mater, describes the lack of intelligent consideration by the faculty there:
...groupthink has the effect of producing more extreme versions of the common assumption. It stands to reason, therefore, that campuses with unusually one-sided faculties will feature more frequent episodes of extremist assertions. Such certainly seems to be the case at my own institution, Brooklyn College...
Read it all. If there's a terrorist incident on campus, call a faculty member, not the NYPD.
James Pethokoukis explains it. Wealth-creation is not in their lexicon. They view government as the font of The Good. I definitely do not. If government does not protect my liberties and my property, I oppose it.
Government protects itself, grows itself. It is subject to all of the flaws of human nature, but has unique and potentially dangerous powers. It has become a big monopolistic, parasitic industry, but one with guns and cops and jails. Anybody who thinks that big government is altruistic is sorely misguided, delusional, naive, or stoned. Drunk on power and perqs, our public servants dread having to return to real life.
For more, Warren Buffett’s Tax Story Is Bogus. Buffett is a shrewd fellow, but who made him a saint?
Also related is a new book, The Great Lie. We all accept that politicians are liars, but it is more routine for them than we like to admit.
Thanks to the lede on the New York cover that Obama is the first Jewish President (Jimmy Carter says he is), other firsts are being claimed:
Pam Geller is the first Muslim blogger
Albright was the first Barbie Secretary of State (Hillary the second)
Bill Clinton is the first faithful husband
Ron Paul is the first internationalist congressman
Palestine will be the first Muslim state to protect the civil rights of Jews in its borders
Congress will be the first to really reform entitlements
Palin will be the first female President
Bachman first candidate to take foot-in-mouth vaccine
Pelosi first to take non-Botox pledge (also first former House Speaker to stop speaking, and first to switch to Republican)
New York Times first major newspaper to endorse Perry
Klein first kiddee-columnist to take real-world job
UN’s first unanimous applause for Israel’s right to security
Europe’s first increased defense budgets
China first demilitarized nation
Gore first global-warmist to sell his mansion and contribute proceeds to air-conditioning for poor Africans
Friedman first columnist to sell his mansion and contribute proceeds to Accuracy In Media
Bird Dog first blogger to sell his farm and contribute proceeds to fixing NYC potholes
Maggie’s Farm first blog to take the no cheesecake-photos pledge (Theo first blogger to ROFL)
Chime in with other firsts.
Prager: Why Young Americans Can’t Think Morally - Moral standards have been replaced by feelings.
Related: This just in… sin is a medical problem…
Pop music: The Boredom of Whoredom
Via Insty, What I Learned At Dartmouth
Scot Speech To Be Controlled Everywhere
Morrissey: Has Obama quit already? Judging by his plans for job creation and deficit reduction, the president has given up on policy accomplishments in favor of playing politics
Schoen: Obama Setting Trap for Republicans With His Tax Plan
White House: No, We're Not Really Serious About Passing These Jobs And Tax Ideas
The Geography of Obama’s Tanking Approval Ratings
'We Were Impressed' - To the New York Times, opinion polls test whether the public passes muster.
Obama's Luck Goes from Poor to Horrible, or, Political Comedy Is Never Having to Say, "I'm Funny"
Buchanan: Whose Country Is It, Anyway?
European model imploding
Americans Say Federal Gov't Wastes Over Half of Every Dollar
Taxing the billionaires:
Very wealthy people such a Mr. Buffett tend to earn their money in one of three ways: as investors, as entrepreneurs, or as executives in large enterprises. In each case, salary is a relatively small part of total compensation: Rather than getting a regular paycheck, investors, entrepreneurs, and top executives most often are rewarded with an ownership stake in their firms. As they work to increase the value of the business, they enrich themselves as well. This is a desirable arrangement to the extent that it aligns the financial interests of a company’s management with those of its shareholders.
The Myth of Middle-Class Stagnation. Graph from the article:
Man Who Shot Grizzly Bear Defending His Family is Fined
Not that we would have been pussies and used the pesticide anyway.
Tuesday, September 20. 2011
President Obama's path to reducing deficits is being laughed off as playing politics with demagoguery while deficits widen. But, according to Obama, "this is not class warfare; it's math."
As the Associated Press Fact Check points out:
This year, households making more than $1 million will pay an average of 29.1 percent of their income in federal taxes, including income taxes and payroll taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank.
Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will pay 15 percent of their income in federal taxes.
Lower-income households will pay less. For example, households making between $40,000 and $50,000 will pay an average of 12.5 percent of their income in federal taxes. Households making between $20,000 and $30,000 will pay 5.7 percent.
That doesn't include the higher charges paid by middle-class and wealthier retirees for Part B Medicare, nor the lesser amounts received by them from Social Security relative to prior incomes or contributions.
One of the areas targeted by the tax-more crowd is capital gains. There's no recognition of the extra risks involved in investing, that much of the gains represent inflation, or that much or all of the amounts invested were already taxed.
Then, there's the false assertion that the middle class suffered most during the better pre-recession period.
No. In the seven years from 2001-2007 (inclusive), not only did the middle class get at least its fair share of overall income growth, the income gap between the rich and the middle class actually got smaller. In an apparent paradox, the same Census Bureau database that told us that median household income was essentially unchanged in 2007 versus 2000 also tells us that the middle class enjoyed a higher income growth rate than did either the overall economy or the rich—and therefore that their income gap versus the rich had actually decreased.
President Obama may be appealing to his base, largely made up of those who pay little or no taxes already, but is cementing the attitude of those who are productive who see him as further undermining and stalling economic recovery.
The International Monetary Fund just downgraded the economic outlook for the US (and Europe). Yeah, higher taxes should fix that, huh?
No, you are way worse than that, David. You were played, dude, because you wanted to be played. Had you done the job that you are well-paid to do, that would not have happened. His pressed pants, his skin color, his Harvard Law, and his glibness took you in. No real street newsman would have been conned that easily by an obvious street hustler:
I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.
You still are, David. You live in a rainbow pony cocoon, a land of wishful thinking. It is pathetic and irresponsible. A journalist without skepticism, a healthy dose of cynicism, and a healthy dose of whiskey, is not worth a damn.
You, David, are a pussy journalist. You drink milk with dinner. That's why you work at the Times.
 Oktoberfest begins this week
Why wait til Oktober?
Autistic and seeking a place in an adult world
Quiet's dangerous.
The Big Business of Vaginas
Taki: The Day I Left the Left
Winning lethal encounters
Ice: This is bad news for the people of Greenland who would love to be rid of all that ice that covers valuable resources that Greenlanders could exploit.
Gates: Islam is not the problem
Similar: Europe’s Moral Decadence Fuels Spread of Islamic Fundamentalism- The left has done its job well: Norwegian reporters, for fear of being accused of Islamophobia, are now actually loath to remind readers that there is such a thing as Islamic terrorism.
No historical link between CO2 and temperature
I'd call that settled science
Erdogan Has Good Reason To Be Crazy
Congress resists rush for an LGBT military - Obama Pentagon tries to impose homosexual service unilaterally
JFK’s Widow Blasted Times Over Cuba
The Chinese government’s ‘vacuum cleaner’ approach to espionage is worrying foreign governments, companies and overseas dissidents. They’re right to be concerned.
Is There a Good Reason Why It's Taking So Long to Rebuild the World Trade Center?
“We can’t just leave it up to the parents," Michelle Obama
Isn't she a parent?
Obama Rose Garden speech reveals route to victory in 2012
Barnes: Whip Unemployment Now? - The Obama presidency enters its pathetic phase.
Obama: Cut Medicare
Rahm Emanuel To Unions: [Redacted] You
Obama Wants Americans to “Pay Their Fair Share” Except For the 47% Who Pay No Taxes
FACT CHECK: Are Rich Taxed Less Than Secretaries?
No Pasaran:
I'm sure you've seen the endless drip of announcements and adulations. They give away Free cash money for free to put super-duper, earth transforming solar panels on you roof:
City, federal incentives make installing a solar panel a zero dollar investment
To whom, exactly is it of no cost?
Monday, September 19. 2011
 Regarding the jobless American economy, the esteemed Prof Krugman wants to borrow more from China, and spend it.
Obama wants to raise taxes, and then spend that money on government jobs, union work, and crony businesses. Vote-buying, in short - illegal on the individual level but quite legal on a larger scale. As our reader says, taking water out of one end of the pool and, after taking your cut, pouring the rest back into another side of the pool. How does tax-and-spend benefit anything except the government industry?
Does any of that make any rational sense? Or am I stupid?
Since the recession, we have had a government doing everything it can to suppress, leash, and stifle the animal spirits of American enterprise. Why are the predictable results always "unexpected"? Where would we be, now, without China's loans?
We miss Reagan's common sense. The Dems are blinded to reality by ideological sentiment. Money doesn't grow on trees.
From the CT Post:
...the state's aggregate public sector employee compensation grew a robust 54 percent from 2000 to 2007, and another 13 percent from 2007 to 2010. For the decade from 2000 to 2010, it grew from $10.5 billion to $18.2 billion, or a whopping 73 percent.
Average compensation per worker reflects this dramatic dichotomy. In 2000, a private sector worker earned about $3,600, or 8 percent, more than a public sector employee. By 2009, the relationship had reversed: the average public sector employee out-earned his private sector counterpart by almost $9,000 or 15 percent.
The stumper of a question is what can be done to resuscitate a private sector stooping ever lower with this ever-weightier monkey on its back.
Well, we might start by segregating the "Class Apart" from the citizenry. Government employees and citizens are certainly not "in this together."
No, indeed. It's them against us.
Sunday, September 18. 2011
From a medical malpractice defense lawyer: "I can pick any one of your charts at random and, in a little while, find a potential malpractice case in there. Why? Because few things in medical care work out perfectly, and they can easily find another doc in your specialty from an Ivy medical school to say, at $1500/hour plus expenses, that he would have done it a little differently. My advice? Move to Texas where they will appreciate you docs. Texas wants happy, caring doctors who do not view every patient as a potential lawsuit."
Pimp Your Ride - Why own what you can rent? And why not rent out what you own?
This should not apply to girlfriends or wives.
 What Lucky People Do Differently than Unlucky People
The politics of nostalgia: Crosby, Still, Nash & Pinch
Via Tiger: RICHARD RUSSELL: 12 TIPS FOR THE NEW NORMAL
Chicago:
"We will help you be a good steward for your health," Emanuel said Friday, "but if you choose not to, you'll pay that price and that is the price you'll have to pay."
All of your body is belong to us
Krauthammer: Playing ‘Medi-scare’ the ‘only hope’ for Democrats
Oh, come on, CBS, you can do better
The New Face of Organized Labor
Meteorologists of the world, unite!
Quit Coddling the Rich. Quit Coddling the Poor. Quit Coddling Everybody.
The Obama administration has gone on the offensive against for-profit colleges, but Ronald Trowbridge thinks it’s ignoring similar problems at non-profit schools
Mead on India: The Most Important Story You Will See All Day?
We need these Indians to be reading Maggie's
North Dakota Celebrates 60 Years of Oil; Future Looks Bright - ND Could Surpass CA and Alaska Soon
Bill Maher: “There’s a Term for People Who Hate Charity and Love Killing – Christian”
City Fines Christians $300 For Holding Bible Study In Their Home
Brilliant!
Bernie: Bad News on the Doorstep
Parker: Are Republicans stupid?
There are, of course, lots of ways to be smart and lots of ways to be dumb. We often talk about book smarts and street smarts, as though the two are mutually exclusive. We know from experience that brilliant book people can be nincompoops when it comes to common sense, while people lacking formal education can be brilliant problem-solvers.
We know these things, yet we seem to have fallen in love with the notion that only book smarts matter when it comes to the nation’s problems. At least Democrats have.
Photo is the Litchfield, CT Congregational Church, c. 1750. Architecturally, classic New England Congo churches are plain old-time boxy meeting houses, gussied up with a steeple and a portico.
Saturday, September 17. 2011
 The excellent New English Review is advertising for a Diversity Officer. They wonder how they have been able to function all these years without one.
The densest urban environment in the world is rather pleasant
Forbes: Want Less Inequality? Stop Subsidizing Schools And Universities
Mataconis: You Can Be Compassionate Without Supporting Big Government
Carville doubles down: Obama ‘not going to win re-election on the course he’s on right now’
Obama Spends $4,853,000 per Green Energy Job
Staggering racial preferences are in use at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
We oppose racial preferences at Maggie's. We believe that an Asian gal is no less worthy a human than a Hispanic gal - other qualities being equal. But I do understand - race is all about politics. Still, I don't quite get why, if you're half Hispanic (is Hispanic a race?), you're Hispanic. Are you Hispanic if you come from Spain? Or Argentina?
Liberals turn racist
Fixing the economy is as easy as pie
Obama: America sounds its barbaric yawn
Cronygate gets worse. I still think Gunwalker is the creepier scandal. Yo, MSM. We got good fresh scandals here. Where are Woodward and Bernstein?
Unexpectably miserable
A frustrated, incoherent president wants to blame you for the disaster his client-Statism has created
General Amos - Leading the Way For Seapower
George Will: At the Pentagon, the specter of a sequester
Peretz: Why Won’t Obama List Israelis Among the Victims of Terrorism?
Canada's Oil Sands Are a Jobs Gusher
IBD: The U.S. Bails Out A Profligate EU
Obama's Twitter Disaster
Funniest one I saw was a report that "Yesterday I saw three ATMs kill a job in an alley."
Paul Krugman Is Back Out From Under His Desk - He’s still a fool and a liar, though.
Envy:
I am middle class and I love to see the rich get richer. That's what they are trying to do. I am not trying to be rich so I have no envy of their accomplishing what I am not attempting. Bless the rich their good fortune; don't despise them for being able to do what you can't.
I'd be pleased to be rich, but I somehow never get around to doing anything about it other than buying Powerball tickets. My money manager pal tells me that most people stop worrying about money when they have $17-20 million. I'd make out OK with half of that if I scrimped on some things.
TSA Creator: The Whole Thing is a Fiasco. Screeners Should Be Privatized, Agency Dismantled
Reason Reviews Rehabilitating Lochner
Friday, September 16. 2011
Huge Gladiator School Found Buried in Austria
Oh, Come On, Men Aren't Finished - Women are joining men as partners in running the world, not replacing them.
I can drive to Russia from my house
A pub in NYC where you can still smoke
The Misery Index in Carter territory
Waxman blames greedy Jews
Samuelson: Europe's Banking Crisis
Going Galt: Boehner: “Job creators are on strike”
Also, They Gave a Recovery and Nobody Came - Some things even the Obama brain trust doesn’t want credit for.
Will the arrival of school choice in the Hoosier State shatter the government's education monopoly?
The Trojan horse for trial lawyers in Obama’s jobs bill
The Fog of Mediscare
The state of our military? Increasingly decrepit
WaPo: Obama's Green Energy Loan Program a Bust - Five percent of jobs promised have been created.
More on Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Who Endorsed Obama Dissents! Resigns from American Physical Society Over Group's Promotion of Man-Made Global Warming
From Down Under:
...we will be the laughing stock of the world, seen jumping head first off a cliff into a shark infested sea, as we will have no way back, because we were sold a tax that has nothing to do with climate change, instead introduced purely for egotistic governance.
Thursday, September 15. 2011
Retriever is back from a trip to Turkey.
We love to visit Turkey.
RINOs Rhinos who have trouble getting laid
Let's have government run wireless.
Brilliant!
Obama jobs plan: Raise taxes on health care
Brilliant!
What about international altruism?
Feel- good nonsense, seems to me
The Hypocrisy of “Humanitarian Activists”
Feel-good nonsense, seems to me
Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project brings on Miss Rhode Island to talk about sea level rise
The only reason to watch
Report: Mortgage default warnings spiked in August, signaling potential new foreclosure wave
Editorial: 'Jobs Bill' Is About Politics, Not Jobs
Exactly right
Obama: If you love me, pass this bill!
What's love got to do with it?
Obama Approval Plummets on Jobs Plan
Democrats have problem with Obama Jobs package
Politics: Talkin' sh-t
Green scams jobs
Everybody knows it's a joke
Perry and the Profs - he picked the right fight
Is there a government in Mexico? Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users
Cabo is very pleasant
India's Mangled School Reforms - The country’s new voucher provisions won’t increase choice.
Brit crims: One in four riot suspects had 10 previous offences
Duh
Obama Tainted by Loan Guarantees to Solar Firms
That's my money they are throwing away
The Renewable Energy Boondoggle - The truth about wind and solar power
On Afghanistan, getting story right
Democrats Cultivate Fear, Anti-Evangelical Hostility, To Drive Jewish Vote
Do the Jews scare easily? I am not sure they do
Egyptian Islamist Militants Following Khomeini's Script
Texting Makes U Stupid
Report: ‘Romneycare’ a jobs killer
Stossel: Ponzi Ponzi Ponzi
Adding Taki to our blogroll - "eclectic"
Fun site
Solyndra Loan: Now Treasury Dept. Is Launching Investigation
Do they think we are retarded?
Pure to a fault - Our fear of chemicals and germs might be doing us harm
NYT: Serious’ Error Found in Carbon Savings for Biofuels
Big surprise, that. I have burned corn on the cob on the grill, by mistake. Never on purpose.
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Criminal Section
Jobs in Texas? Nobody told me.
The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed by a prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS. Now Congress wants to know if the White House pressured a general to change his testimony.
Crony capitalism, redux
Dems and business, perfect together. Especially Wall st.
Nobel guy rebels against AGW scam
As the international noose grows ever tighter about Israel’s throat, the learned classes of Diaspora Jewry are not asking themselves the right questions.
Praying in Paris streets outlawed
Vietnamese political prisoner Truong Van Suong dies in detention
Sowell:
Small businesses — hardware stores, gas stations or restaurants for example — are likewise unable to transfer themselves overseas. So they are far more likely to be unable to escape the higher tax rates that are supposedly being imposed on "millionaires and billionaires," as President Obama puts it. Moreover, small businesses are what create most of the new jobs.
Why then are so many politicians, journalists and others so gung-ho to raise tax rates in the upper brackets?
Obama Administration Gave $17.2 Billion in Stimulus Funds to Green Projects – Only $645 Million to Small Business
Will it be the Jews next? Image below via Moonbattery:
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