Month: August 2011

What’s the world coming to? The youth of today are not only boasting about turds, they’re putting Best-Of videos on Youtube! Yes, they’re actually into uploading their pet frogs’ “greatest shits” videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRNaJhCtHwk&feature=related For a late-night tie-in with the world’s contemporary economic problems (hey, this blog is old, but I do try!), there’s a 17-page…

I am getting a little tired of the way so many people throw up their hands and blame “social media” when incidents like this “flash mob” theft spree occur. The caption reads, according to the video, the officer refused to investigate the crime, and only viewed this incident as shoplifting. IMO, attitudes like those of…

Because I REALLY like the politics of the guy she sleeps with.

From Keeping Up Appearances – Looters Brought To “Justice”. Cross Posted at Power and Control

That’s a real mouthful, and I don’t know whether it is the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s way of  expressing frustration, or whether it is a sign of changing attitudes towards free speech. Here’s the background: LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rapper could face criminal charges after a tweet from his account incited a telephone flash…

Reason’s Jesse Walker looks at the Iowa caucus numbers: The results are in from the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, and Michele Bachmann has emerged victorious with 4,823 votes. Ron Paul, the only bearable candidate in the running (*), finished a very close second with 4,671. That asterisk stands for Gary Johnson, who ran technically…

An animal rights activist I am not. I eat animals and I have no problem with humane farming. But whether you want to call it an animal “right” or a human duty, I think deliberately torturing animals is wrong, and I am appalled by the unnecessary torture of animals that goes on in China. I…

In Prohibition Regimes I took a general look at how Prohibition regimes are associated with a breakdown of the rule of law. I want to be a little more explicit here. What does prohibition teach? Break the law if you can get away with it. And how do you get away with it? Too many…

Ann Althouse was physically attacked recently by a leftist thug in Madison. She got it all on video. From a screenshot of the video, here’s the man, whom the crowd did absolutely nothing to stop.   Many of the demonstrators are wearing the same red, Communist clenched-fist T-shirt. I couldn’t help notice that the man…

Not that the tyranny involved will surprise anyone, but this report qualifies (for me, at least) as the outrage of the day. A new rule being proposed by the federal Department of Transportation would require farmers to get commercial drivers licenses. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is a part of DOT, wants to adopt…

In an article on what Obama can do to regain public support, I came across this little gem referring to Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain. The racist pizza guy? BBBut Herman Cain is Black. Um. I thought the rule was that Black people can’t be racist. Wait. I get it. Only Republican Blacks are racist.…

I was looking at the women’s vote in the 2008 election. And came across this: Women’s votes were a significant factor in Senator Barack Obama’s victory, with a sizable gender gap evident in the election results….Women strongly preferred Obama to Senator John McCain (56 percent for Obama, 43 percent for McCain), unlike men, who split…

The American Thinker is discussing the breakdown in respect for the rule of law. I have some ideas about that. Prohibition regimes always engender a spirit of lawlessness among the populations they are imposed on. It seeps into the wider culture. See Prohibition, Alcohol, 1920 to 1933. Had enough yet? We now have two generations…

I’ve been watching the debate for over an hour, and I am worried that the country is fractured in so many ways and in so many different directions that it’s tough to analyze. Even though I don’t like him, I would absolutely not count Gingrich out. I think he is sitting in the background positioning…

I wonder if any one has told the President? The whole story is here. It’s only mid-afternoon, but I’m confident this is the strangest story that’s going to cross my desk all day. A pair of twins who caused a media frenzy a few years ago by presenting themselves as the cute faces of white…

Considering my previous post (“in theory, America wants to vote for a Republican over Barack Obama, but in practice, theory loses out to reality”) it was a bit of a shock for me to see that there actually is one Republican who actually beats Barack Obama in the polls: Rudolph Giuliani. Amazing. The guy is…

One of the most annoying aspects of the political process today is the extreme leverage an unelected few are able to exert when they do so in the name of “science.” Especially environmental “science.” The drowned polar bears are a perfect example. Polar bears drowning in an Alaskan sea because the ice packs are melting—it’s…

That’s the latest insult being hurled at the Tea Party. Dr. Helen points out something that anyone familiar with the Tea Party phenomenon knows quite well. the face of the Tea Party is female: Many of the tea party’s most influential grass-roots and national leaders are women, and a new poll released this week by…

Taken into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the Family From a review: The greatest civil rights abuse in the Western world today is the forced removal of children from their parents, usually their fathers, by family courts and social services agencies. Family courts in America and other democracies have almost absolute power to…

The video is mostly a commercial for the services these folks are offering. I still think the advice presented is sound. Having for practical purposes no assets or cash all I can do is sit back and watch. The video was posted to YouTube on 18 July 2011. As far as I can tell the…