Friday, April 30, 2010
Belgium gives up neutrality, joins the Allied side
Belgium, home of the EU aka Surrender Central, has begun to fight against Allah's Army.
France has taken steps in the same direction but apparently hasn't fully banned it yet. ¶ 11:06 AM
Belgium may be in the throes of political disarray, but its squabbling political parties have been able to agree on one thing: The banning of the burqa in public. If the legislation is approved, the Benelux country would become the first in Europe to ban the Islamic face-covering veil.
France has taken steps in the same direction but apparently hasn't fully banned it yet. ¶ 11:06 AM
Rush is probably right about this
Listening to the wild-ass manufactured panic over the oil spill in the Gulf. All of this panic is absurd.
(1) It's not "Katrina 2". Katrina killed lots of people. Even if this oil spill does everything the idiots claim, it won't kill any people (beyond the 11 men killed by the initial explosion) or destroy any houses. It will be hard on tourism for a while, and that's all.
(2) We know from the Exxon Valdez that Nature has a wonderful ability to repair itself. Scientific American, which was still occasionally capable of factual reporting in those years, showed the difference between the areas where we panicked and soaped up everything versus the areas we didn't touch. A year later, the untouched areas had recovered nicely while the soaped-up areas were less hospitable to life. [Qualification: if we were talking about a spill of refined gasoline, I'd be more afraid of serious problems. Refined gasoline contains a number of real poisons, unlike crude oil which is a simple and natural hydrocarbon, basically fermented algae poop.]
(3) OIL FLOATS ON WATER. All this crap about bottom-dwelling oysters being damaged is physically impossible. The only time oil doesn't float is when you add soap to the mix, which we will undoubtedly do as a perfectly Orwellian way to "clean up the mess".
(4) The enemy-controlled media are frothing about "delicate ecosystems" and "endangered species" as usual. Land is not delicate. Shorelines were there before any of us living critters came along, shorelines have been constantly reshaping and adapting for billions of years, and shorelines will continue reshaping and adapting after all of us living critters are gone. If all the "endangered birds" are killed, so much the better. Non-existent birds don't give the terrorist organization EPA an excuse to steal jobs and property from humans.
(5) We are humans, dammit. Our job is to protect humans, not to protect every single example of some goddamn subspecies or subpopulation of worms that happens to be locally rare.
(6) British Petroleum (BP) which owns the exploded well, is one of the main supporters of the "Global Warming" crime. They would clearly rather make money by trading carbon credit derivatives than by the dirty and dangerous work of providing energy to serve human prosperity.
Rush has proposed a paranoid answer: that the whole thing was a neat way to close down all energy exploration. Obama started by pretending to open more territory to drilling. Then the explosion "happened", giving Obama a convenient reason to close everything down, which is certainly his natural desire. (It was also the natural desire of Comrades Bush and McCain, though Rush would never acknowledge that.) ¶ 8:06 AM
Listening to the wild-ass manufactured panic over the oil spill in the Gulf. All of this panic is absurd.
(1) It's not "Katrina 2". Katrina killed lots of people. Even if this oil spill does everything the idiots claim, it won't kill any people (beyond the 11 men killed by the initial explosion) or destroy any houses. It will be hard on tourism for a while, and that's all.
(2) We know from the Exxon Valdez that Nature has a wonderful ability to repair itself. Scientific American, which was still occasionally capable of factual reporting in those years, showed the difference between the areas where we panicked and soaped up everything versus the areas we didn't touch. A year later, the untouched areas had recovered nicely while the soaped-up areas were less hospitable to life. [Qualification: if we were talking about a spill of refined gasoline, I'd be more afraid of serious problems. Refined gasoline contains a number of real poisons, unlike crude oil which is a simple and natural hydrocarbon, basically fermented algae poop.]
(3) OIL FLOATS ON WATER. All this crap about bottom-dwelling oysters being damaged is physically impossible. The only time oil doesn't float is when you add soap to the mix, which we will undoubtedly do as a perfectly Orwellian way to "clean up the mess".
(4) The enemy-controlled media are frothing about "delicate ecosystems" and "endangered species" as usual. Land is not delicate. Shorelines were there before any of us living critters came along, shorelines have been constantly reshaping and adapting for billions of years, and shorelines will continue reshaping and adapting after all of us living critters are gone. If all the "endangered birds" are killed, so much the better. Non-existent birds don't give the terrorist organization EPA an excuse to steal jobs and property from humans.
(5) We are humans, dammit. Our job is to protect humans, not to protect every single example of some goddamn subspecies or subpopulation of worms that happens to be locally rare.
(6) British Petroleum (BP) which owns the exploded well, is one of the main supporters of the "Global Warming" crime. They would clearly rather make money by trading carbon credit derivatives than by the dirty and dangerous work of providing energy to serve human prosperity.
Rush has proposed a paranoid answer: that the whole thing was a neat way to close down all energy exploration. Obama started by pretending to open more territory to drilling. Then the explosion "happened", giving Obama a convenient reason to close everything down, which is certainly his natural desire. (It was also the natural desire of Comrades Bush and McCain, though Rush would never acknowledge that.) ¶ 8:06 AM
Finally a slogan!
In previous decades, Presidents or campaigns have given us slogans like Square Deal, Fair Deal, New Deal, New Frontier, Great Society ... but we haven't had one lately.
Finally, as a result of the Goldman Sachs hearings, we have the perfect slogan for the BushClintonBushObama administration: The Shitty Deal! Packages the whole mess in one huge fraudulent Triple-A-rated derivative. ¶ 7:01 AM
Finally, as a result of the Goldman Sachs hearings, we have the perfect slogan for the BushClintonBushObama administration: The Shitty Deal! Packages the whole mess in one huge fraudulent Triple-A-rated derivative. ¶ 7:01 AM
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Zimbabwe tries a Space Shot
What? This isn't Zimbabwe? It's American advanced technology?
Yeah, I guess that seems more appropriate. Zimbabwe couldn't fuck up this badly.
This is what happens when you lose your moorings and follow false gods. ¶ 12:32 PM
Yeah, I guess that seems more appropriate. Zimbabwe couldn't fuck up this badly.
This is what happens when you lose your moorings and follow false gods. ¶ 12:32 PM
That bigoted woman
The most interesting and newsworthy aspect of Gordon Brown's on-mike moment isn't really what he said.
Evidence that Gordon Brown is an arrogant asshole who thinks he is God?
That's not news.
That's always been blatantly obvious to any normal human who watches Brown for more than one millisecond. His obnoxious leftist aristocracy sprays from every evil cell of his body.
No, what's newsworthy is the universality of the understanding that Brown was wrong. Even the American Commie media acknowledge, implicitly or explicitly, that wanting to protect your own nation from outsiders is not bigotry.
They are unable to say this in a more local context (Arizona) but as usual they can describe events accurately when the events are in another country. ¶ 6:17 AM
Evidence that Gordon Brown is an arrogant asshole who thinks he is God?
That's not news.
That's always been blatantly obvious to any normal human who watches Brown for more than one millisecond. His obnoxious leftist aristocracy sprays from every evil cell of his body.
No, what's newsworthy is the universality of the understanding that Brown was wrong. Even the American Commie media acknowledge, implicitly or explicitly, that wanting to protect your own nation from outsiders is not bigotry.
They are unable to say this in a more local context (Arizona) but as usual they can describe events accurately when the events are in another country. ¶ 6:17 AM
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Claire McCaskill, I love you. (again!)
McCaskill gets the point across clear and crisp.
Must admit that I didn't even understand the function of ordinary betting let alone the Wall Street variety, so this was a double explanation for me.
Gambling is the only vice I've never been able to comprehend. Tried all the others, liked most of them ... but even with the vices I didn't take up, I could easily see why others get hooked. Not so with gambling. It's pure Martian. I can't begin to envision how you could gain pleasure from tossing money down a hole. ¶ 6:07 PM
McCaskill gets the point across clear and crisp.
Must admit that I didn't even understand the function of ordinary betting let alone the Wall Street variety, so this was a double explanation for me.
Gambling is the only vice I've never been able to comprehend. Tried all the others, liked most of them ... but even with the vices I didn't take up, I could easily see why others get hooked. Not so with gambling. It's pure Martian. I can't begin to envision how you could gain pleasure from tossing money down a hole. ¶ 6:07 PM
That's how it's supposed to work!
Now that Arizona has finally cracked down, Mexico has urged its citizens not to enter Arizona. San Francisco has vowed to avoid Arizona, as has DC.
Of course the Al Sharpton Propaganda Factories (CNN, MSNBC, FOX) are screaming and wailing and beating their idiotic chests about these boycotts.
Why?
Law enforcement is meant to be a deterrent above all. The Arizona law was meant to deter crime, and it's having an immediate effect!
If fewer Mexicans, fewer San Franciscans, fewer DC-ites enter the state, Arizona will be a much better place for Americans.
This is normal, rational, good for Americans, and ABOUT FUCKING TIME!!!!!! ¶ 5:27 PM
Of course the Al Sharpton Propaganda Factories (CNN, MSNBC, FOX) are screaming and wailing and beating their idiotic chests about these boycotts.
Why?
Law enforcement is meant to be a deterrent above all. The Arizona law was meant to deter crime, and it's having an immediate effect!
If fewer Mexicans, fewer San Franciscans, fewer DC-ites enter the state, Arizona will be a much better place for Americans.
This is normal, rational, good for Americans, and ABOUT FUCKING TIME!!!!!! ¶ 5:27 PM
Well, there goes the state.
Polistra noted last year the possible finding of a rare and nasty critter:
Now some complete live specimens of the Giant Palouse Earthworm have been firmly identified. It's not really giant (12 inches, hardly unusual for worms) and it's neither lily-scented nor spitting. But it is a distinct species and it's allegedly rare in the Palouse, so we can now be sure that the EPA terrorists will close down Washington's profitable wheat crops. ¶ 2:58 PM
A Gaian Church group is suing EPA to have the Giant White Palouse Lily-Scented Spitting Earthworm listed as an endangered species because only 4 specimens have been found in Whitman County in the last century. However, the very same worm is quite common a few counties north, around Leavenworth. Under the Endangered Species Tyranny, specimens found near Pullman count as a different kind of animal than the specimens found near Leavenworth, because the specimens found near Pullman are found near Pullman while the specimens found near Leavenworth are found near Leavenworth.
In this situation we are required by "science" to recognize two groups as different when they are precisely identical. With humans, we are required by "science" to recognize groups as the same even when all humans instantly recognize the groups as different.
Seems inconsistent? Not really. The underlying consistency, as Orwell showed us so many years ago, is to confuse and stupefy, to abort every type of thinking at its birth. That's the precise meaning of his Newspeak word unthink. Where logic spots a difference, "science" forces us to see equality. Where logic recognizes two things as equal, "science" forces us to see them as different.
Now some complete live specimens of the Giant Palouse Earthworm have been firmly identified. It's not really giant (12 inches, hardly unusual for worms) and it's neither lily-scented nor spitting. But it is a distinct species and it's allegedly rare in the Palouse, so we can now be sure that the EPA terrorists will close down Washington's profitable wheat crops. ¶ 2:58 PM
I've been unfair
Watching the Senate grilling of Goldman execs. A highly revealing internal view of the operating code of Wall Street. The entity titled "Sparks", which has a vaguely humanoid appearance, is telling us everything by its complete inability to comprehend any human concept. When asked 20 times whether Goldman had any duty to serve the interests of its customers, the "Sparks" entity was unable to even compute the question let alone answer it. "Sparks" finally emitted a sound sequence approximately resembling "We have a duty to efficiently transact".
Clearly my constant use of the phrase Wall Street Mafia is wildly unfair to human Mafias, whether Italian or Russian or Chinese.
Human Mafias have a moral code, a set of limits, a list of crimes they won't commit.
Wall Street has only one code: "I am the Universe. All property and people in the world are Mine. All governments obey My commands."
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Later: It's especially shameful, but unfortunately no surprise at all, to see Republicans like Coburn and the NRO commentators sympathizing with "Sparks". ¶ 9:01 AM
Clearly my constant use of the phrase Wall Street Mafia is wildly unfair to human Mafias, whether Italian or Russian or Chinese.
Human Mafias have a moral code, a set of limits, a list of crimes they won't commit.
Wall Street has only one code: "I am the Universe. All property and people in the world are Mine. All governments obey My commands."
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Later: It's especially shameful, but unfortunately no surprise at all, to see Republicans like Coburn and the NRO commentators sympathizing with "Sparks". ¶ 9:01 AM
Monday, April 26, 2010
Hungary rising
As the English-speaking world swirls quickly down the sewer, parts of Europe are rising into the sunlight.
This trend hasn't been mentioned by America's propaganda factories, because they don't want us to know that alternate paths are possible. They want to keep our eyes firmly riveted on the noisy and colorful fixed wrestling match between the two so-called "parties". They have successfully confused, demoralized, impoverished and strapped down our own people, while freeing, enriching and empowering all our enemies.
Nevertheless, several Euro countries are now pushing back against Mohammedan darkness, pushing back against Leninist chaos. Switzerland, France, Poland, Czechia and now Hungary have various types of pro-national governments, devoted to advancing THEIR OWN PEOPLE while constraining and confusing the enemy. This is, of course, the basic job of any government. English-speaking countries have turned it upside-down.
Hungary's 'secondary' election on Sunday gave the populist Fidesz party a 2/3 majority. This is enough to make serious structural changes, which are still allowed in Hungary (again unlike English-speaking countries). New prime minister Orban has promised not to accept orders from the EU or the IMF. Remains to be seen whether he can stand up to the pressure from the Transnational Progressives, but it's a damn good start. ¶ 7:15 AM
As the English-speaking world swirls quickly down the sewer, parts of Europe are rising into the sunlight.
This trend hasn't been mentioned by America's propaganda factories, because they don't want us to know that alternate paths are possible. They want to keep our eyes firmly riveted on the noisy and colorful fixed wrestling match between the two so-called "parties". They have successfully confused, demoralized, impoverished and strapped down our own people, while freeing, enriching and empowering all our enemies.
Nevertheless, several Euro countries are now pushing back against Mohammedan darkness, pushing back against Leninist chaos. Switzerland, France, Poland, Czechia and now Hungary have various types of pro-national governments, devoted to advancing THEIR OWN PEOPLE while constraining and confusing the enemy. This is, of course, the basic job of any government. English-speaking countries have turned it upside-down.
Hungary's 'secondary' election on Sunday gave the populist Fidesz party a 2/3 majority. This is enough to make serious structural changes, which are still allowed in Hungary (again unlike English-speaking countries). New prime minister Orban has promised not to accept orders from the EU or the IMF. Remains to be seen whether he can stand up to the pressure from the Transnational Progressives, but it's a damn good start. ¶ 7:15 AM
Great writing, but misses the point
Ross Douthat's latest NYTimes column hits hard, and I'm glad he managed to say these things in a place where some Communists may actually end up reading them.
Not quite. Yes it's decadence, but it's not just a grim historical tendency. It's Lenin's grand plan as translated by Alinsky. Using the ACLU, affirmative action, Wall Street Mafiosi, saboteur judges, open borders, free trade, "fair and balanced debate", Global Warming, and a dozen other gambits, Lenin shreds the bonds of society, turns ordinary people into quivering confused blobs of poverty and rage, turns evil people into Masters of the Universe.
A shredded society doesn't simply "knuckle under" to totalitarians, it REQUIRES a totalitarian to restore security. And that's where we are. ¶ 6:12 AM
Our culture has few taboos that can’t be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place.
Except where Islam is concerned. There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing.
This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that “bravely” trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.
Not quite. Yes it's decadence, but it's not just a grim historical tendency. It's Lenin's grand plan as translated by Alinsky. Using the ACLU, affirmative action, Wall Street Mafiosi, saboteur judges, open borders, free trade, "fair and balanced debate", Global Warming, and a dozen other gambits, Lenin shreds the bonds of society, turns ordinary people into quivering confused blobs of poverty and rage, turns evil people into Masters of the Universe.
A shredded society doesn't simply "knuckle under" to totalitarians, it REQUIRES a totalitarian to restore security. And that's where we are. ¶ 6:12 AM
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Behind the curve
The Weekly Standard worries that Obama has unsurprisingly turned the White House Faith-Based Thingamajig into a distribution center for Gaia-worship.
No need to worry. Churches got there first, and have been there for a good long while.
Oddly enough, the Pentecostals started the trend in 1970 with Hal Lindsey's green Apocalypse.
The hard-line Maoist denominations like UCC, Episcopal, Methodist and Presbyterian came to it next, from a different angle. They've been faithfully preaching the full deadly doctrine of the Left for a long time. Feminism, homosexuality, abortion, redistribution of good and evil. When the Party added Gaia to its manifesto in the '70s, these branches of the Party mechanically went along.
Rome was late to the game; didn't solidly switch from Christ to Gaia until High Priestess Benedict decided to surrender to every currently available false god. Mohammed, Gaia, Marx, all fine with the Priestess. (It's always that way with Krauts: at your throat or at your feet.)
Among the big players the last holdout was Southern Baptists, who finally converted a couple years ago.
There must be some minor splinter groups that still stick with Christianity, so I suppose there's a little bit of work for Obama's Faith-Based Thingamajig.
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As far as I can tell, the Churches of Christ haven't switched yet. Maybe because they don't have a central office that can be infiltrated or blackmailed by the Left. (See O'Sullivan's Law). Or maybe even because they're true Christians with enough discernment to detect and reject a false religion? Dare I think it? ¶ 6:26 AM
No need to worry. Churches got there first, and have been there for a good long while.
Oddly enough, the Pentecostals started the trend in 1970 with Hal Lindsey's green Apocalypse.
The hard-line Maoist denominations like UCC, Episcopal, Methodist and Presbyterian came to it next, from a different angle. They've been faithfully preaching the full deadly doctrine of the Left for a long time. Feminism, homosexuality, abortion, redistribution of good and evil. When the Party added Gaia to its manifesto in the '70s, these branches of the Party mechanically went along.
Rome was late to the game; didn't solidly switch from Christ to Gaia until High Priestess Benedict decided to surrender to every currently available false god. Mohammed, Gaia, Marx, all fine with the Priestess. (It's always that way with Krauts: at your throat or at your feet.)
Among the big players the last holdout was Southern Baptists, who finally converted a couple years ago.
There must be some minor splinter groups that still stick with Christianity, so I suppose there's a little bit of work for Obama's Faith-Based Thingamajig.
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As far as I can tell, the Churches of Christ haven't switched yet. Maybe because they don't have a central office that can be infiltrated or blackmailed by the Left. (See O'Sullivan's Law). Or maybe even because they're true Christians with enough discernment to detect and reject a false religion? Dare I think it? ¶ 6:26 AM
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Opposite of nullification
The new Arizona immigration law is drawing predictable responses from the national level. Comrade Obama calls it "misguided" and brings in the Department of Jesse Jackson.
Pretty much the same response that Comrade Bush (senior or junior) would have given. No state can be allowed to protect civilization; all states must be forced to assist in our national suicide.
FWIW, Manchurian Candidate McCain would have been even worse. Obama and the Bushes take the standard Republicrat side of this question for practical political reasons, namely because Florida, the only state where votes count, has a highly active Spanish constituency. Comrade McCain is different. He has a truly insane passion for eradicating borders, a truly destructive Ebola fetish for flaying off the skin of the nation and letting all the microbes enter without opposition.
I'm puzzled by one thing, though: Oklahoma passed a tough immigration law three years ago without nearly as much screeching from the Stalinists. The Okla law was aimed in a different direction, focusing more on employers, less on police. And it has worked splendidly. Mexicans started moving out of Okla before the law was passed and continued moving out in large numbers. (When an ethnic group drops below a critical mass, the remnants have to assimilate, thus they no longer comprise an "immigration problem".)
And this is how the federal system is supposed to work. Different states try different solutions; states that don't have a particular problem don't need to do anything about that particular problem.
That's an obsolete theory, of course. Dim historical memory of a place called America. All gone.
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Later thought: maybe the diff between Okla and Ariz is also crude practical politics. Arizona is smaller than Florida, but it is a closely balanced 'swing' state. Okla is solid Republican in Presidential voting, so it basically doesn't exist in the minds of DC and the media. ¶ 6:57 AM
Pretty much the same response that Comrade Bush (senior or junior) would have given. No state can be allowed to protect civilization; all states must be forced to assist in our national suicide.
FWIW, Manchurian Candidate McCain would have been even worse. Obama and the Bushes take the standard Republicrat side of this question for practical political reasons, namely because Florida, the only state where votes count, has a highly active Spanish constituency. Comrade McCain is different. He has a truly insane passion for eradicating borders, a truly destructive Ebola fetish for flaying off the skin of the nation and letting all the microbes enter without opposition.
I'm puzzled by one thing, though: Oklahoma passed a tough immigration law three years ago without nearly as much screeching from the Stalinists. The Okla law was aimed in a different direction, focusing more on employers, less on police. And it has worked splendidly. Mexicans started moving out of Okla before the law was passed and continued moving out in large numbers. (When an ethnic group drops below a critical mass, the remnants have to assimilate, thus they no longer comprise an "immigration problem".)
And this is how the federal system is supposed to work. Different states try different solutions; states that don't have a particular problem don't need to do anything about that particular problem.
That's an obsolete theory, of course. Dim historical memory of a place called America. All gone.
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Later thought: maybe the diff between Okla and Ariz is also crude practical politics. Arizona is smaller than Florida, but it is a closely balanced 'swing' state. Okla is solid Republican in Presidential voting, so it basically doesn't exist in the minds of DC and the media. ¶ 6:57 AM
VAT again
As various newscasters discuss the VAT, they always start by describing it as a "national sales tax". No, it's not the same thing ... well, in theory it's not the same.
And then they give an example of how the VAT works, such as the production of a cotton shirt. When the farmer sells the cotton to the mill, VAT takes a chunk. When the mill spins it into thread and sells the thread to a clothing mfr, VAT takes a chunk. When the clothing mfr sells to WalMart, VAT takes a chunk.
Trouble is, every example describes a PRODUCT NO LONGER MADE IN AMERICA. Cotton shirts are made equally in China and Turkey. Everything else is made solely in China.
So the misdefinition as a national sales tax turns out to be correct in practice, because the only economic activity that occurs in America is the final sale at WalMart.
Are these idiots actually unaware that America produces nothing? Or are they so completely steeped in transnational progressivism that they don't comprehend boundaries?
Whether they understand boundaries or not, you can be damn sure the IRS will understand. The IRS will know that it can't impose VAT on the steps of production in China, but it can impose VAT on stages of manufacturing in America in the unlikely event that any such activity should be attempted.
Oh boy! Just what we need! One more competitive disadvantage!
A pure national end-point sales tax would make tremendous sense for lots of other reasons, and it would NOT give us a new disadvantage. ¶ 6:25 AM
And then they give an example of how the VAT works, such as the production of a cotton shirt. When the farmer sells the cotton to the mill, VAT takes a chunk. When the mill spins it into thread and sells the thread to a clothing mfr, VAT takes a chunk. When the clothing mfr sells to WalMart, VAT takes a chunk.
Trouble is, every example describes a PRODUCT NO LONGER MADE IN AMERICA. Cotton shirts are made equally in China and Turkey. Everything else is made solely in China.
So the misdefinition as a national sales tax turns out to be correct in practice, because the only economic activity that occurs in America is the final sale at WalMart.
Are these idiots actually unaware that America produces nothing? Or are they so completely steeped in transnational progressivism that they don't comprehend boundaries?
Whether they understand boundaries or not, you can be damn sure the IRS will understand. The IRS will know that it can't impose VAT on the steps of production in China, but it can impose VAT on stages of manufacturing in America in the unlikely event that any such activity should be attempted.
Oh boy! Just what we need! One more competitive disadvantage!
A pure national end-point sales tax would make tremendous sense for lots of other reasons, and it would NOT give us a new disadvantage. ¶ 6:25 AM
What would you do with....
News features another one of those ordinary people winning $258 million on some lottery. Without reading the article, I know he will "keep his job" and he will use the $258 million to "pay some debts" and "buy a better car, maybe remodel his house."
Always short on imagination.
Those are things you could do with $258 thousand, not with $258 million.
I know exactly what I'd do with a monster sum like that. Invest the first half-million for my own comfort. Distribute the rest among three or four outfits that already have experience and expertise at fighting the govt-owned terrorist organization EPA. Outfits like Western States Legal Foundation. Tell them to hire as many hungry shark-like attorneys as they need.
Goal: Sue the terrorists down to an abject standstill for a couple of years. Keep them busy 24/7 preparing discovery documents, answering depositions, and attempting to defend genocidal lies against plain truth. ¶ 6:02 AM
Always short on imagination.
Those are things you could do with $258 thousand, not with $258 million.
I know exactly what I'd do with a monster sum like that. Invest the first half-million for my own comfort. Distribute the rest among three or four outfits that already have experience and expertise at fighting the govt-owned terrorist organization EPA. Outfits like Western States Legal Foundation. Tell them to hire as many hungry shark-like attorneys as they need.
Goal: Sue the terrorists down to an abject standstill for a couple of years. Keep them busy 24/7 preparing discovery documents, answering depositions, and attempting to defend genocidal lies against plain truth. ¶ 6:02 AM
Friday, April 23, 2010
Porn-busting = Pork-busting
All the talkers are roaring this morning about the SEC employees spending their time on porn. "Sixteen Thousand Files! Had To Store DVDs In Boxes!"
Juicy, yes, but misses the target. And not accidentally.
The problem isn't the "senior employees" watching porn, the problem is that SEC management didn't have anything better for the senior employees to do, obviously didn't care what the senior employees were doing.
If SEC had been enforcing the laws during the last few years, there wouldn't have been a spare minute for talking or porn or any other leisure activity.
This story must have been planted in the media by SEC itself. Same principle as the idiots who stir up outrage over earmarks and pork-barrel spending ... if you can keep the voters pissed about trivial peccadillos, you can get away with serious crimes. ¶ 9:30 AM
Juicy, yes, but misses the target. And not accidentally.
The problem isn't the "senior employees" watching porn, the problem is that SEC management didn't have anything better for the senior employees to do, obviously didn't care what the senior employees were doing.
If SEC had been enforcing the laws during the last few years, there wouldn't have been a spare minute for talking or porn or any other leisure activity.
This story must have been planted in the media by SEC itself. Same principle as the idiots who stir up outrage over earmarks and pork-barrel spending ... if you can keep the voters pissed about trivial peccadillos, you can get away with serious crimes. ¶ 9:30 AM
Don't be Hamlet!
Stupid tactics by Arizona gov Jan Brewer.
When you consider any action, law, regulation or project that the Communist Party opposes, you have to do it HARD AND FAST.
Dithering around, waiting till the deadline, does a tremendous amount of harm. It allows the Party-controlled media and the Party-controlled mobs to work up a frenzy.
The Party media function solely on "could" and "might"; they are totally uninterested in facts. And the mobs will calm down after the Party knows that your opinion has already been registered. Much harder to rile up the rabble about a fait accompli.
Aside from those tactical considerations, the people on your own side (and even the neutrals) need to see decisive action from an executive at all times. When you dither, you demoralize your friends.
By letting the immigration law stay in the "could" category for several days, by making it clear that her opinion is still open to influence, Brewer has strengthened the Party and weakened Civilization, making the job of her own police much harder if she does finally decide to sign the law.
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Update: She finally did sign the law, before the deadline. Good. I was beginning to wonder..... ¶ 7:34 AM
When you consider any action, law, regulation or project that the Communist Party opposes, you have to do it HARD AND FAST.
Dithering around, waiting till the deadline, does a tremendous amount of harm. It allows the Party-controlled media and the Party-controlled mobs to work up a frenzy.
The Party media function solely on "could" and "might"; they are totally uninterested in facts. And the mobs will calm down after the Party knows that your opinion has already been registered. Much harder to rile up the rabble about a fait accompli.
Aside from those tactical considerations, the people on your own side (and even the neutrals) need to see decisive action from an executive at all times. When you dither, you demoralize your friends.
By letting the immigration law stay in the "could" category for several days, by making it clear that her opinion is still open to influence, Brewer has strengthened the Party and weakened Civilization, making the job of her own police much harder if she does finally decide to sign the law.
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Update: She finally did sign the law, before the deadline. Good. I was beginning to wonder..... ¶ 7:34 AM
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Lenin's birthday
Here we see about 100 middle-school kids walking to school today to "celebrate Earth Day."
Well now, let's see how much energy they're saving. Assume they're 7th graders. Today would be about their 1400th day of school. (180 days per school year * 7 full years, plus about 140 this year.)
Until today (and again after today!) each of them has been ferried back and forth in Mom's SUV. Mom's SUV is rated at 17 miles per gallon, but the way Mom drives it's more like 12. 1400 trips of about 4 miles = 5600 miles. 5600 miles / 12 MPG = 466 gallons. So all 100 kids have used 46600 gallons of gas up till today.
By walking today they saved 33 gallons altogether. Roughly 7 hundredths of one percent of their lifetime total up till now.
Even if you buy the Carbon Cult's monstrous structure of genocidal lies, this is completely trivial.
Far more important, but not even mentioned in the Earth Day ratshit:
If these kids walked every day, they'd live longer, better and saner.
With 4 miles of exercise and sun each day, they wouldn't need ADHD drugs. They'd be in closer contact with the physical world, they'd have a better understanding of seasons and proportions and causality, thus they'd be less likely to fall for fantastic evil propaganda like Earth Day. ¶ 1:08 PM
Well now, let's see how much energy they're saving. Assume they're 7th graders. Today would be about their 1400th day of school. (180 days per school year * 7 full years, plus about 140 this year.)
Until today (and again after today!) each of them has been ferried back and forth in Mom's SUV. Mom's SUV is rated at 17 miles per gallon, but the way Mom drives it's more like 12. 1400 trips of about 4 miles = 5600 miles. 5600 miles / 12 MPG = 466 gallons. So all 100 kids have used 46600 gallons of gas up till today.
By walking today they saved 33 gallons altogether. Roughly 7 hundredths of one percent of their lifetime total up till now.
Even if you buy the Carbon Cult's monstrous structure of genocidal lies, this is completely trivial.
Far more important, but not even mentioned in the Earth Day ratshit:
If these kids walked every day, they'd live longer, better and saner.
With 4 miles of exercise and sun each day, they wouldn't need ADHD drugs. They'd be in closer contact with the physical world, they'd have a better understanding of seasons and proportions and causality, thus they'd be less likely to fall for fantastic evil propaganda like Earth Day. ¶ 1:08 PM
Hit'm, Andy!
A very informative debate going on within NRO. Yesterday Jim Manzi posted a wildly illogical mess of Gaia-worshipping schizoid babble. Manzi was using a Mark Levin book as target, which is unfortunately easy because Levin is an unintelligent partisan hack. Levin's partisanship happened to be correct in this case, not because Levin understands the Carbon Cult but because he happened to follow people who do understand the problem.
Manzi has been vocally pro-Gaia and anti-science for a long time, but this insane skrawk went beyond all bounds. Even the High Priests of the Church like Phil Jones and Michael Mann no longer sound this wild.
Today Andy McCarthy pureed Manzi in a centrifuge of perfect logic and perfect science.
HIGHLY satisfying. ¶ 8:50 AM
Manzi has been vocally pro-Gaia and anti-science for a long time, but this insane skrawk went beyond all bounds. Even the High Priests of the Church like Phil Jones and Michael Mann no longer sound this wild.
Today Andy McCarthy pureed Manzi in a centrifuge of perfect logic and perfect science.
HIGHLY satisfying. ¶ 8:50 AM
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
GM coming back
Polistra is happy to see General Motors coming back toward profitability and repaying the bailout. She believed from the start (well, almost from the start!) that GM deserved a bailout if we were going to do bailouts at all. Wall Street deserved jail, not bail.
And events have turned out predictably. Wall Street is using the money to re-enrich and re-bonus the same handful of criminals, while GM has used the money to re-tool two factories, giving new jobs to Americans.
Polistra is especially cheered to see that one of the re-tooled plants will be Fairfax, the easternmost point in Kansas. (Fairfax bulges just a little beyond the straight line of the Kan-Mo border.) Fairfax began as an Army airfield in WW2, served for a while as the KCK downtown airport, then served GM for many years. KCK has always been an industrial city, and richly deserves to have its plant running full speed.
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Incidentally, this is one of the few questions where American politicians show real differences, and where the meaning of Populism can be quantified neatly.
We have two binary choices (Bail Mafia, Bail GM) forming a total of four combinations.
The Republican establishment voted to bail only the Mafia, and has gone on to defend Toyota and mock GM, showing themselves to be complete and total criminals, complete and total traitors.
Many of the lower-level Republicans voted to bail neither, which is a consistent ideological choice that agreed with most voters at the time.
Obama and most of the Dem establishment voted to bail both, which is also a consistent ideological choice though it disagreed with most voters.
The Populists (eg Marcy Kaptur, Elijah Cummings) voted to bail only GM, showing their loyalty to America and their correct understanding of what makes an economy run.
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Or, hitting the same point from a different angle.... Republicans are constantly quoting the obsolete dictionary definition of Socialism as "government ownership of the means of production." This definition was always a distraction, never described the real difference between Soviet brutality and Western freedom.
In fact govt-owned industry can be better than privately owned or it can be worse. This has become especially obvious in the details of various health care systems. The best countries include private non-profit, mixed, and pure govt systems. The worst (ours) is a mixed system. No correlation between ownership and quality.
The important variable is not the ownership or the name of the system. The important variable is the motivation of industries, how they measure their success. For the last 30 years we have allowed our industries to use share price instead of profit as their motivation, which led to the collapsed mess we have now. Worst of all worlds.
GM's current motivation is to pay back the gov't and get back to profitability. Historically this is an unusual goal, but it turns out to be a lot better than share price! ¶ 7:40 PM
Polistra is happy to see General Motors coming back toward profitability and repaying the bailout. She believed from the start (well, almost from the start!) that GM deserved a bailout if we were going to do bailouts at all. Wall Street deserved jail, not bail.
And events have turned out predictably. Wall Street is using the money to re-enrich and re-bonus the same handful of criminals, while GM has used the money to re-tool two factories, giving new jobs to Americans.
Polistra is especially cheered to see that one of the re-tooled plants will be Fairfax, the easternmost point in Kansas. (Fairfax bulges just a little beyond the straight line of the Kan-Mo border.) Fairfax began as an Army airfield in WW2, served for a while as the KCK downtown airport, then served GM for many years. KCK has always been an industrial city, and richly deserves to have its plant running full speed.
= = = = =
Incidentally, this is one of the few questions where American politicians show real differences, and where the meaning of Populism can be quantified neatly.
We have two binary choices (Bail Mafia, Bail GM) forming a total of four combinations.
The Republican establishment voted to bail only the Mafia, and has gone on to defend Toyota and mock GM, showing themselves to be complete and total criminals, complete and total traitors.
Many of the lower-level Republicans voted to bail neither, which is a consistent ideological choice that agreed with most voters at the time.
Obama and most of the Dem establishment voted to bail both, which is also a consistent ideological choice though it disagreed with most voters.
The Populists (eg Marcy Kaptur, Elijah Cummings) voted to bail only GM, showing their loyalty to America and their correct understanding of what makes an economy run.
= = = = =
Or, hitting the same point from a different angle.... Republicans are constantly quoting the obsolete dictionary definition of Socialism as "government ownership of the means of production." This definition was always a distraction, never described the real difference between Soviet brutality and Western freedom.
In fact govt-owned industry can be better than privately owned or it can be worse. This has become especially obvious in the details of various health care systems. The best countries include private non-profit, mixed, and pure govt systems. The worst (ours) is a mixed system. No correlation between ownership and quality.
The important variable is not the ownership or the name of the system. The important variable is the motivation of industries, how they measure their success. For the last 30 years we have allowed our industries to use share price instead of profit as their motivation, which led to the collapsed mess we have now. Worst of all worlds.
GM's current motivation is to pay back the gov't and get back to profitability. Historically this is an unusual goal, but it turns out to be a lot better than share price! ¶ 7:40 PM
