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28, 2008 All of the usual features
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For those of us bitten by the “space bug” this week marked the 39th anniversary of the first landing by humans on another planet – even if it is only 250,000 miles away (I’ve driven several cars that far…). For most of us who grew up on such fare as “Rocketship Galileo” and the exploits of D.D. Harriman, it is a sad anniversary as once more we ponder the way government, mostly by just being government, has wrecked the exploration of space and effectively kept humanity in and below Low Earth Orbit, while squandering billions and billions of dollars stolen from taxpayers and anyone who has to live with a devalued dollar, ruble, or pound. How much more of our future and our heritage as children of the Creator will we allow government to steal from us, our children, and our grandchildren? Huh?
Don’t
know quite how to classify this, but I’m including it as a contrast
to the next story. Once upon a time, an important part of being a peace
officer (which is what we SHOULD have instead of cops, “law enforcement
officers (LEO),” or such) was knowing when to look the other way.
Santa Cruz SEEMS to understand this; Naples (FL) does not. What the story
does NOT point out is that this kind of stroll is increasingly common
in many cities, and not just when the weather is warm. Often, the nude
(almost always a woman) is shadowed by someone taking pictures for internet
posting, often on a popular site like Picasa, Flickr, or MySpace. I don’t
think this is great, but I also don’t think that it is the business
of cops – or even peace officers – to try and stop this. But
as I discuss as a theme this week, this is yet another example of the
coarsening of society. Not everything that is immoral should be illegal,
and this is one.
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Incorrect Movie Reviews Disney is a company rooted in political correctness, so it’s not surprising to see Wall-E is full of PC capriciousness. The PC arcs out like sparks from a fork-in-a-toaster as we see what Eeeeevil Corporations have done to the planet, leaving little Wall-E behind to clean up the mess. The Earth has been trashed – literally. It sort of resembles my first apartment on the South Side of Chicago. This may be the bleakest view of the future Walt Disney Inc. has ever put on celluloid. Capitalism is bad. Capitalists are bad people. Corporations (specifically American ones) are evil entities bent on destroying the planet for profit. I know this, because Hollyweird tells me so. (Read the rest here) Absolved
(Chapter one) He had known that that they would get around to him sooner or later. He'd run his mouth too much. He was too political. He'd made his disdain for the thugs and their gang plain enough and now they were going to settle accounts. Frank Grant had met him at the pharmacy last month. The thugs had been asking about him, Frank said. What guns did he own? Did he have any machine-guns? They knew that Phil had held a blaster's license when he worked in construction after the war. Did he have any explosives? Frank had been Phil's good friend for forty years. Yet when he assured Phil that he had told the thugs nothing, even after they'd turned his shop upside down, Phil wasn't sure. The fear on Frank's face was evident. The fact that he had hung around the drugstore to "accidentally" run into him, rather than calling him or coming over, spoke volumes. Not that Phil blamed him. The thugs WERE scary, made more so because they operated under color of law. They controlled the justice system. The local cops, the state police, all deferred to the thugs, scared that they too would come under scrutiny and attack. There was no reason to expect a fair trial these days. Juries convicted innocent men and women based on the word of paid informers or friends of the thugs and suborned prosecutors who refused to turn over exculpatory material to the defense, denying that it had ever existed. The rule of law no longer applied. Now it was the rule of man, which is to say, the law of the jungle. Phil smiled at the thought. He had lived by the law of the jungle and survived. He doubted that any of these young punk thugs had. Be careful what you wish for, you may get it. Phil chuckled. Oh, yes indeed. (Read the rest here) My
Plea To Christians: Don't Vote For John MCCain Okay, okay, okay! I get it already! Big Crock Obama -- as a friend calls him -- is a bad guy and, if elected, will be a bad president. I got it a long time ago. The whole subject of Obama-as-evil is so old that when I receive emails with "Obama" in the subject line, I almost always delete them. The same goes for emails with "Clinton" in the subject line. BAWWWW-RINGGGGG!!! However, this does not make John McCain worthy of my vote. No Christian should vote for John McCain, even out of fear of an Obama presidency. (Read the rest here) You
Blighted Nations According to a New York Times article, the United Nations wants to "reform" itself in the manner of bureaucracies everywhere, by expanding its size, either by adding six new permanent members to its Security Council or by adding another whole layer of worldcrats with six new semi-permanent countries. Libertarians would rather trip the fire alarm at the East River address and, once empty, quickly sell the building to The Donald and turn it into a casino. Since that's not likely to happen in the next five minutes (or decades), let's play along and see if we can "pack" the Security Council, as FDR threatened to pack the Supreme Court, to the benefit of libertarians. After all, libertarianism, according to the International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL) is a worldwide movement. So let's consider the UN's first scheme, which would add two countries from Asia, two from Africa and one each from Europe and "the Americas." (Read the rest here) Moms,
Don't Take Your Kids to an Abuse Shelter Abuse shelters are the domestic violence industry's Holy of Holies. Their ministrations are shrouded in mystery, the High Priestesses unnamed, their locations often kept secret. There abused women can become purified of the patriarchal demon and begin life anew. Of course if you're an abused man, don't bother to ask for help. They're likely to claim you are harassing them and call the police. And abuse shelters don't seem to be very interested in helping the youngsters, either. Although abuse shelters claim to serve the children of abused women, what passes for child care may be a gum-chewing, tattoo-adorned teenager clocking her community service hours. Or a former drug-user working off her parole plea-bargain. Or there may be no care at all. (Read the rest here) External
Articles Individuals human beings have a right to live, and to struggle to stay alive, that predates the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by at least a couple of million years. anybody who disagrees with that, is some kind of monster whose utterances shouldn't be taken seriously as anything but threats. The Founding Fathers mostly understood all this, and they never meant the country's basic operating documents as any kind of grant of rights, but merely as an official acknowledgement and a promise that those rights would be respected and enforced by the government. The individual right to own and carry weapons is a logical and necessary extension of the right to live, and to struggle to stay alive. Sure, all of today's local, state, and federal governments will insist that they can take better care of you than you can. But then they also insist that they can spend your money more wisely than you do. And we all know how that's worked out. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) The
Big Bailout: America as a Full-Spectrum Kleptocracy When Congress created the Federal Reserve in 1913, it did so in a lame-duck session. The Fed's proponents described its handiwork as an independent entity that would prevent "panics" and maintain the integrity of our currency and financial system. The Fed was presented to the public in pseudo-populist drag: It was supposedly the bane of the big banking interests. This was, in every particular, a conscious inversion of the truth. The Fed was, is, and every shall be a product and protector of those interests. It has practically destroyed the value of US currency, and engineered numerous financial crises, including the one currently unfolding. The measure passed last Saturday is being described to the public as a "homeowner" bailout. It is nothing of the sort. It supposedly creates an independent oversight mechanism to rein in the excesses of Fannie and Freddie. This, too, is an unalloyed falsehood. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute Last week, the federal minimum wage increased from $5.85 per hour to $6.55 per hour. While some are celebrating the change as a boon for low-wage workers, the measure’s net effect will be negative. Employers will reduce employee hours and job benefits as they attempt to minimize operations costs, and workers will suffer from fewer opportunities and, ultimately, less experience. As has been the case every time the federal minimum wage increases, the low-wage workers are hit the hardest. A higher minimum wage means fewer opportunities for those who need them most. In competitive labor markets, wages are not determined by social custom or “need.” They are determined by productivity. Every hour of labor that does not produce more than $6.55 worth of output will not be scheduled. As the legally mandated minimum wage increases, workers will want to obtain more hours but employers will want to give them fewer. The burden will fall disproportionately on the poor, particularly minorities. Difficulty in finding employment will inevitably affect a college student from an affluent suburban family in much less dire ways than it will a single, urban mother. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation The economic situation in Zimbabwe is dire. A hamburger costs billions of dollars. Vending machines are breaking down from the sheer volume of coins needed to vend a single soda. Zimbabwean workers can barely make ends meet. Their earnings are not rising fast enough to keep up with the prices, which are rapidly accelerating. What does this have to do with the United States? Everything! (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute In his classic Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt applies Frederic Bastiat's "broken window" fallacy. Many still haven't learned the lesson, apparently: this article from the Boston Globe argues that this year's earthquakes in China will be good for Chinese economic growth and that disasters can be good for the economy more generally. Disaster-induced institutional change might lead to higher growth over the long run, but in general the proposition flies in the face of one of economics' simplest ideas: destroying resources makes societies poorer, not richer. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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Aggression: The 'COPS Effect' They really didn't have to wreck the house, but they did it anyway. There was no tactical advantage to be gained by perforating the house with tear gas grenades (one of which remained, for a long time, embedded in an attic vent), blowing out five windows, leaving part of the ceiling collapsed and the whole house uninhabitable because of the suffocating residue left by the gas attack. Paralyzed man claims Chicago police dragged him from car when he didn't get out quickly CHICAGO - A paralyzed man claimed in a lawsuit Thursday that seven Chicago police officers dragged him from a car and beat him unconscious when he was too slow to obey their order to get out of the vehicle. [Yes, really! He's paralyzed, yet he was charged and CONVICTED of "battery and resisting arrest." Just how much resistance, let alone "battery" is one paralyzed person capable of, especially against armed cops? Insanity squared!] Please
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