These are the people “protecting” the public from corporate abuses.
Monthly Archives: March 2013
1985 Headline: “Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace”
Reagan meets with Taliban “heroes”
$80,000 bullets in endless “global” war
Swedish IRS films pro-tax ad in Estonia to avoid paying Swedish taxes
If you Google translate this article, you’ll see that the Swedish IRS filmed a series of pro-tax ads in Estonia in order to avoid paying the higher Swedish taxes!
Politics & Science
Liberals (like Marxists) love to claim science is on their side. In the US, they deride Conservatives for having less faith in science. Interestingly, in Europe and Japan, it’s the left who is more skeptical of science. It all depends on whose sacred cows are threatened by the men in white lab coats.
Mexico’s Southern Border
Culture Matters
Curt Doolittle: 
But any idiot who thinks that (a) formal institutions don’t matter -libertarians or (b) that formal institutions are sufficient – progressives, will have history prove him wrong to the chagrin of the people (c) who understand that norms are a form of property (conservatives).
White Privilege Wristbands
Dr. Norman Finkelstein’s famous “Crocodile Tears” rebuttal after he compared Israel to Nazis
His famous book is the Holocaust Industry.
Thomas Sowell (the only Neo-con I admire) — Fallacies of Race and more
* Slavery not racial.
* Bigger income gap between East / West Europeans, than Black / White Americans.
* Hispanic Household Income > Black Household Income, but Hispanic Individual Income < Black Individual Income. (Hint: Hispanic families are larger.)
* Black families more harmed by welfare than slavery.
* Racism is NOT discrimination.
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The Vulgar Pride of Intellectuals
* “At the heart of the social vision prevalent among contemporary intellectuals is the belief that there are ‘problems’ . . . and ‘solutions’ . . .”
* “There has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have planed a larger role in history than the era in which we live.”
* “Intellectuals give people who have the handicap of poverty the further handicap of a sense of victimhood.”
* Acknowledging that wealth is created (instead of arguing over its distribution) would devestate intellectuals’ world view.
* “[Although intellectuals pay a lot of attentions to inequality among racial groups], seldom . . . has this attention been directed . . . toward how the less economically successfull . . . might improve themselves by availing themselves of the culture of others around them.”
(For example, Scots embraced English language and culture to their great benefit in the mid 19th century.)
* “Black unemployment rates were lower than that of whites as long ago as 1890.”
* Minimum wage laws have wreaked havoc upon black employment.
* “Sweeping claims for the benefits of . . . diversity in innumerable institutions . . . have prevailed without a speck of evidence being asked for or given.”
* “At the same time you’re getting all this mouthing of diversity, there’s an extremely narrow ideological conformity that’s being enforced.”
* “In Chicago (unlike Harvard), economics was a full contact sport.” (HA!)
* “I was a Marxist when I went into Milton Friedman’s course. I was a Marxist when I came out. . . . [and then] I went to work for the government . . . . I realized other people’s well being would never be the priority of politicians and bureaucrats.”
* “The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.”
* “I love the use [Obama’s] of the word opportunity. You know, I had just as much opportunity as Michael Jordan to become an NBA star. It just so happened that there was some difference in skill.”
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The Difference Between Liberal and Conservative
Liberal premise: There is nothing in human nature that would cause us to be unhappy. It’s the fact that we have the wrong institutions.
Conservative premise: Man is flawed from day one and there are no solutions, only trade offs.
Most liberal ideas can be destroyed by three questions:
1. Compared to what?
2. At what cost?
3. What hard evidence do you have?
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On Occupy Cry Babies
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On Iran
Britains “White Feather” Propagandists of WWI
North Korean Propaganda Video About American Poverty
Living in tents. Drinking coffee made from snow. This is your life in America, filtered through the incisive prism of North Korean propaganda.
The world’s most militarized society is shaking its head over what it describes as an epidemic of Americans “buying guns to kill each other, especially children.” What’s purportedly North Korea’s latest propaganda video — released this week and packed with stock footage that would impress Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim — brings trolling to the next level.
Fun facts about America, according to the video: there are no more birds in the U.S., as they’ve all been eaten by the starving masses. American houses “blow down very easily,” leaving the American Red Cross to supply emergency housing only thanks to humanitarian aid (including tasty cakes) from Pyongyang. (Read more)
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Top Secret Ex Cia black Ops, Chip Tatum , “neutralizing” Ross Perot
17-million digit prime number!
My inner nerd is jumping for joy!
A new prime number, thought to be the largest ever identified, has been discovered by a professor at the University of Central Missouri.
Curtis Cooper used a giant computer network to do the work to find the 17-million digit number – which is a number divisible only by itself and by one. (Read more)