Even in Texas. A Reason contributor describes a lockdown at the GWB library in Dallas due to a false alarm about someone possessing a gun. In Texas.
The fact is that mass murder and terrorist acts are extremely rare. And murder hasn't been this low in over 50 years. Yet we behave like we live in a Mad Max world. We need to grow up.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Don't talk to the PoPo or FBI without a tape recorder and a lawyer. Ever.
The FBI has a policy of not recording any interview it has with a witness. Their reasoning is that a recording could contradict their claims that a witness lied to them. And of course, lying to the PoPo is a felony, one that is very useful in coercing 'helpful' testimony. And if you haven't recorded the conversation it is their word (minimum two of them) against yours. Reason has the story here.
You're a fool if you trust the boys with guns and shackles because: they're not on your side, they're on their side. The same goes for the rest of our criminal, kleptocratic state apparatus. You should be frightened every time you interact with them. Which is the way it is in Russia and China.
Ironic, no?
You're a fool if you trust the boys with guns and shackles because: they're not on your side, they're on their side. The same goes for the rest of our criminal, kleptocratic state apparatus. You should be frightened every time you interact with them. Which is the way it is in Russia and China.
Ironic, no?
Liberal Fascism MEANS double standard
Legal double standard: Obama administration gives wind energy industry a pass on killing birds, but not oil and gaS. But don't you understand? The Left is righteous by definition. Therefore they can't sin. Can they?
Fascist is as Fascist does
It is a mistake to believe that our rulers are anything but self serving power hungry despots seeking to slip their constitutional restraints at every turn so they can more fully get their way. Place no trust in men because they will fail you. Which is why we need to break it up, break it all up.
A single morning's roundup of Federal Fascist behavior:
Why Did the IRS Target Conservative Groups?
Outspoken conservative business leaders that is: RUMSFELD: IRS also retaliates against outspoken business leaders.
Politico: Israel-related groups also pointed to IRS scrutiny.
EPA waives fee requests for friendly groups, denies conservative groups.
REMINDER: Obama Joked About Auditing Enemies in 2009.
DON’T LET THIS SHAKEDOWN GET LOST IN THE SCANDAL OVERLOAD: Lamar Alexander: Sebelius fundraising ‘arguably an even bigger issue’ than Iran-Contra.
Rep. Schakowsky: ‘Our Survival as a Species is Dependent on Women Taking Charge.’
Top IRS official didn’t reveal tea party targeting. When asked directly by Congress....
Of course it's not lying when Our Lord and Savior does it: BUSTED: WaPo Fact Checker Gives Obama’s Claim That He Called Benghazi “An Act of Terrorism” Four Pinocchios.
“Hillary’s promise of vengeance to the father of a fallen SEAL wasn’t that we’d get the jihadis who killed him but that we’d punish the filmmaker. That’s perverse, but in keeping with the fact that she decided to run ads on Pakistani TV apologizing for the film while Islamist cretins menaced American diplomats across the region.”– Allahpundit, Oct. 25, 2012
The wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time: Nakoula was out on “supervised release” for a federal bank fraud conviction. He was $700,000 behind on restitution payments and operating under an alias when he made “The Innocence of Muslims,” a crappy movie that got turned into a YouTube video clip that in turn became the pretext of riots in Egypt and then — it is now generally acknowledged — was utilized as a flimsy excuse by the State Department in an attempt to distract from its embarrassing failures in the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Having become unintentionally famous, the con man Nakoula was arrested and hustled into federal court amid unusually high security two weeks after the Benghazi attacks. We need not wonder why Eric Holder’s Justice Department made this a top priority:
“We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”
– Hillary Clinton, Sept. 14, 2012 . . . .
But this isn’t really about Nakoula at all, is it?
What the case of Nakoula actually demonstrates is the strangely misplaced priorities of the Obama administration: Eight months later, they still haven’t caught any of the terrorists who killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, but they needed only two weeks to apprehend Nakoula.
And Hillary is a more vicious fascist than Obama will ever be. Fear the Lady Reaper.
A single morning's roundup of Federal Fascist behavior:
Why Did the IRS Target Conservative Groups?
Outspoken conservative business leaders that is: RUMSFELD: IRS also retaliates against outspoken business leaders.
Politico: Israel-related groups also pointed to IRS scrutiny.
EPA waives fee requests for friendly groups, denies conservative groups.
REMINDER: Obama Joked About Auditing Enemies in 2009.
GEORGE WILL: In IRS Scandal, Echoes Of Watergate.
Hey, even Massachusetts Democrats are saying that.
DON’T LET THIS SHAKEDOWN GET LOST IN THE SCANDAL OVERLOAD: Lamar Alexander: Sebelius fundraising ‘arguably an even bigger issue’ than Iran-Contra.
Rep. Schakowsky: ‘Our Survival as a Species is Dependent on Women Taking Charge.’
Top IRS official didn’t reveal tea party targeting. When asked directly by Congress....
Of course it's not lying when Our Lord and Savior does it: BUSTED: WaPo Fact Checker Gives Obama’s Claim That He Called Benghazi “An Act of Terrorism” Four Pinocchios.
But it's not a coverup unless a Republican does it. Coverup: State Dept. Kept Media From Speaking To Benghazi Attack Survivors.
I'm sure all the coverage is 'fair and balanced': Top CBS, ABC, CNN execs all have relatives working as advisors for White House.
STACY MCCAIN ON The Fate of Basseley Nakoula.
“Hillary’s promise of vengeance to the father of a fallen SEAL wasn’t that we’d get the jihadis who killed him but that we’d punish the filmmaker. That’s perverse, but in keeping with the fact that she decided to run ads on Pakistani TV apologizing for the film while Islamist cretins menaced American diplomats across the region.”– Allahpundit, Oct. 25, 2012
The wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time: Nakoula was out on “supervised release” for a federal bank fraud conviction. He was $700,000 behind on restitution payments and operating under an alias when he made “The Innocence of Muslims,” a crappy movie that got turned into a YouTube video clip that in turn became the pretext of riots in Egypt and then — it is now generally acknowledged — was utilized as a flimsy excuse by the State Department in an attempt to distract from its embarrassing failures in the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Having become unintentionally famous, the con man Nakoula was arrested and hustled into federal court amid unusually high security two weeks after the Benghazi attacks. We need not wonder why Eric Holder’s Justice Department made this a top priority:
“We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”
– Hillary Clinton, Sept. 14, 2012 . . . .
But this isn’t really about Nakoula at all, is it?
What the case of Nakoula actually demonstrates is the strangely misplaced priorities of the Obama administration: Eight months later, they still haven’t caught any of the terrorists who killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, but they needed only two weeks to apprehend Nakoula.
And Hillary is a more vicious fascist than Obama will ever be. Fear the Lady Reaper.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Colleges and Universities: The most 'egalitarian' institutions ever?
Colleges preen about how they are better than private businesses, that their morality is superior to the market's law of the jungle. But even the greediest private businesses don't charge poor people more in order to subsidize their rich customers do they? According to Bloomberg this is standard practice at many well known institutions of 'higher' learning.
For this we give them a tax exemption? Perhaps they're just trying to educate students on how venal and corrupt the world can be.
For this we give them a tax exemption? Perhaps they're just trying to educate students on how venal and corrupt the world can be.
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Damn! Hope and Change be breakin' out all over
We're kicking Euro ass! Poor Europe, they can't even beat us in suckage.
Related: The Idled Young Americans. “The idle young European, stranded without work by the Continent’s dysfunction, is one of the global economy’s stock characters. Yet it might be time to add another, even more common protagonist: the idle young American. For all of Europe’s troubles — a left-right combination of sclerotic labor markets and austerity — the United States has quietly surpassed much of Europe in the percentage of young adults without jobs.”
HT Instapundit
Related: The Idled Young Americans. “The idle young European, stranded without work by the Continent’s dysfunction, is one of the global economy’s stock characters. Yet it might be time to add another, even more common protagonist: the idle young American. For all of Europe’s troubles — a left-right combination of sclerotic labor markets and austerity — the United States has quietly surpassed much of Europe in the percentage of young adults without jobs.”
HT Instapundit
Catastrophic Success
What happens to people when their jobs can truly be automated away?
I think the real question is what is the rate of change? Manufacturing labor productivity has been growing at 5% per year for a long time. This has resulted in massive per capita increases in output but is slow enough for us to adapt to it. If the automation revolution happens much faster, then our institutions may struggle to cope.
Hmmm.
The standard argument is that manufacturing as a whole must now be seen as a quaint, buggy-whip-making type activity — one that technology and economic growth have decreed is no longer a viable creator of jobs. But not to worry! The economy marches on, creating more and better opportunities for all those folks displaced from manufacturing jobs. Automation is simply replacing drudge work, as it always has. The real economy is in information, now, not stuff. Everyone has the chance to move up the value chain.
The problem with that argument is that our machines are far better at working with information than we are, except where it comes to actually understanding information, where we still have a bit of an edge. Automation is poised to start killing white-collar jobs with the same ruthless zeal that it used in going after blue-collar jobs. In fact, the use of the future tense in that sentence is superfluous. This is already happening. How else can we account for an economy that is growing overall — however slowly — while the total number of people who work continues to go down?
I think the real question is what is the rate of change? Manufacturing labor productivity has been growing at 5% per year for a long time. This has resulted in massive per capita increases in output but is slow enough for us to adapt to it. If the automation revolution happens much faster, then our institutions may struggle to cope.
Hmmm.
Is the difference between a Depression and a Recession just the scenery?
The last decade has been the second slowest growth decade in American history, barely outpacing the decade around the Great Depression. Indeed that decade and ours stand out as far worse than any other in the last 210 years. But it doesn't feel like it did back in the 30's: instead of soup lines we have a trebling of Food Stamps, instead of men peddling apples, we have people on their 100th week of unemployment insurance and tripled disability claims. Yet the underlying real unemployment rate remains over 11% and while the misery might not be as visible it is real. For example, suicide rates are up 50% as more and more people fall into despair.
And the sad thing is that with our massive and ever expanding debt and unfunded liability levels, with the brutal regulatory state expanding its tentacles deeper and deeper into every nook and cranny of the economy and with the nation now totally acclimatized to welfarism and rent seeking, there is very little prospect of things changing absent catastrophe.
Last time it took WW2 to pull us out of the statist cul de sac we had turned into. What fresh hell will be required this time?
We have change with no hope.
And the sad thing is that with our massive and ever expanding debt and unfunded liability levels, with the brutal regulatory state expanding its tentacles deeper and deeper into every nook and cranny of the economy and with the nation now totally acclimatized to welfarism and rent seeking, there is very little prospect of things changing absent catastrophe.
Last time it took WW2 to pull us out of the statist cul de sac we had turned into. What fresh hell will be required this time?
We have change with no hope.
If this chart was for the Oil Industry....
During the GWB administration there were constant accusations of special dealing, particularly with respect to the oil industry and Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton - you couldn't drive down the street without seeing yard sins saying 'no blood for oil' or some such.
So pray tell what should we make of the chart below? Mr. Obama comes from the Higher Education industry. And since his accession to the Federal Throne lending to college students - which is almost all Federal - has quadrupled. And of course virtually every dollar of these loans was immediately passed to....the higher education industry. With the liability being held by the rubes....I mean the students.
Hmm. Tricky thing to explain, that. Good thing the President has the press in his pocket. Deep.
So pray tell what should we make of the chart below? Mr. Obama comes from the Higher Education industry. And since his accession to the Federal Throne lending to college students - which is almost all Federal - has quadrupled. And of course virtually every dollar of these loans was immediately passed to....the higher education industry. With the liability being held by the rubes....I mean the students.
Hmm. Tricky thing to explain, that. Good thing the President has the press in his pocket. Deep.
Coincidence?
The richer and more powerful the federal superstate gets, the poorer the people get. I guess you can call it 'progressive trickle down economics'. It's just that it seem that the bloated Federal river runs dry before it gets to the common people.
So since 2001 real per capita spending by the Feds has grown almost 50% or $3,500 in real terms. 10% of (falling) 2012 median income. Yet increasingly little (well now it's none) of this is finding it's way into pay packets. So where is the money going? To social security, Medicare, Food Stamps and other rapidly expanding bits of social democracy to make the people numb to the death of their hopes and dreams. Oh, and to cronies. Lots of cronies.
If I didn't know better I'd call all of this 'progressive' social 'democracy' part of an elite scam to protect their power and privileges in all of what Tyler Durden calls the 'Cartel and Rentier' sectors of our economy. But that can't be true, can it? I mean everyone who is 'great' and 'good' agrees that the glorious Federal super state must wax so therefore the common man must necessarily wane. In modern 'Progressive' parlance we need to be 'nudged'. And poked and shoved and slapped and....looted. Don't forget looted.
For the greater good, you see.
So since 2001 real per capita spending by the Feds has grown almost 50% or $3,500 in real terms. 10% of (falling) 2012 median income. Yet increasingly little (well now it's none) of this is finding it's way into pay packets. So where is the money going? To social security, Medicare, Food Stamps and other rapidly expanding bits of social democracy to make the people numb to the death of their hopes and dreams. Oh, and to cronies. Lots of cronies.
If I didn't know better I'd call all of this 'progressive' social 'democracy' part of an elite scam to protect their power and privileges in all of what Tyler Durden calls the 'Cartel and Rentier' sectors of our economy. But that can't be true, can it? I mean everyone who is 'great' and 'good' agrees that the glorious Federal super state must wax so therefore the common man must necessarily wane. In modern 'Progressive' parlance we need to be 'nudged'. And poked and shoved and slapped and....looted. Don't forget looted.
For the greater good, you see.
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
L'toilette cest Moi
http://www.politico.com/story/
Just for the record: I too observed a private minute of silence this morning. For yesterday's dinner. Sadly, my photographer didn't capture the historic occasion because she divorced me.
As I often say: L'toilette cest Moi. Well actually, no. I don't believe that I'm a crapper. That would be crazy. Sort of like observing a moment of silence when you are alone in your office and then announcing it to the world. Of course if an egotist spends a minute silent in his office without a photo op, did he really shut up?
Next up; President Obama observes a minute of flossing in honor of Gingivitis Prevention Week. Photo close ups of his pearly whites
Sweden: Social Equality is for the wee ones...
Perhaps no nation on earth has been more social 'Democratic' and 'egalitarian' than Sweden. Yet Swedish Kurdish Chicago PHD Tino Sandanadji points out that this has resulted in Sweden having far less social mobility at the top than the US.
According to one study the share of the richest Swedes who inherited their wealth is around, 2/3 with 1/3 being entrepreneurs, while in the United States it was the opposite, with 1/3 of the wealthiest inherited their wealth while around 2/3 are entrepreneurs.
Thus while the Swedish middle class is large and has a compressed earning distribution, at the very top you have a small number of aristocratic families controlling much of the wealth. Mobility into this group is rare, probably rares than it is in the United States. One reason are stronger informal class-barriers, merely earning wealth is not enough to be accepted a member of the aristocratic upper-class. Another more interesting reason may be the unintended effect of welfare-state economic policies.
Once again my Kurd plays Turd doing the backstroke in the progressive punch bowl. And once again Frederic Bastiat - the king of unintended consequences - shows why he should be the first Economist to receive the Nobel Prize posthumously. Reading Bastiat allows anyone to accurately predict the chaotic denouemont of Social Democracy going on all around the world.
Read the whole thing Here.
Thus while the Swedish middle class is large and has a compressed earning distribution, at the very top you have a small number of aristocratic families controlling much of the wealth. Mobility into this group is rare, probably rares than it is in the United States. One reason are stronger informal class-barriers, merely earning wealth is not enough to be accepted a member of the aristocratic upper-class. Another more interesting reason may be the unintended effect of welfare-state economic policies.
Read the whole thing Here.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Nancy Pelosi Least Liked Politican
This isn't fair - it's a category error. Nancy's a Pelosiraptor, not a human. If she was compared in a poll to other blood thirsty prehistoric predators I'm sure she'd win hands down.
Clown Car of the Police State
A million people cowering in their homes while a bunch of dudes who are clearly compensating for the trauma of getting pantsed in High School ride around playing Army Man. All in order to fail to find one wounded teen who was found by a neighbor who went outside for a smoke.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Progressivism = Puritanism?
The Puritans were an English religious sect seeking to 'purify' the Church of England. Failing in that endeavor, many of them emigrated to New England where they set out to build a "shining city on a hill" - a city so completely in tune with God's will that it would set an example for the world. Not quite, but almost a 'heaven' on earth.
They set about doing this by enforcing a strict moral code - one that has been artfully documented by Nathaniel Hawthorne among others. Yet the Puritan shining city was built in part on the slave trade in which they played a profitable role. While it's not fair to judge Puritans by today's standards, it seems that the Puritan's ferociously enforced moral code had some rather large gaps.
Like the Puritans, the modern Progressive seeks to implement rules, regulations and codes that manipulate human behavior to produce their version of a shining city on the hill. Like the Puritans the define anyone not living up to their definition of morality as being a 'bigot' or worse, a 'tea partier' (oh the irony). Yet like their slave trading precursors, their ferocious morality is strangely selective. Instead of black victims, the modern progressive has young ones, both aborted babies and bankrupted future generation.
One thing is clear: Progressives are completely convinced of their right, nay their duty to use the guns, shackles and steel boxes of the state to compel others to do what these Modern Puritans say is 'good' for them.
The Christian God says that pride is the greatest sin of all. And in their absolute certainty that they both know the answers and the methods to those answers Progs demonstrate that they are the true successors to the Puritan impulse in America.
Most Americans just want to be left alone. Tragically, that is something no Puritan or Prog will ever do.
They set about doing this by enforcing a strict moral code - one that has been artfully documented by Nathaniel Hawthorne among others. Yet the Puritan shining city was built in part on the slave trade in which they played a profitable role. While it's not fair to judge Puritans by today's standards, it seems that the Puritan's ferociously enforced moral code had some rather large gaps.
Like the Puritans, the modern Progressive seeks to implement rules, regulations and codes that manipulate human behavior to produce their version of a shining city on the hill. Like the Puritans the define anyone not living up to their definition of morality as being a 'bigot' or worse, a 'tea partier' (oh the irony). Yet like their slave trading precursors, their ferocious morality is strangely selective. Instead of black victims, the modern progressive has young ones, both aborted babies and bankrupted future generation.
One thing is clear: Progressives are completely convinced of their right, nay their duty to use the guns, shackles and steel boxes of the state to compel others to do what these Modern Puritans say is 'good' for them.
The Christian God says that pride is the greatest sin of all. And in their absolute certainty that they both know the answers and the methods to those answers Progs demonstrate that they are the true successors to the Puritan impulse in America.
Most Americans just want to be left alone. Tragically, that is something no Puritan or Prog will ever do.
Proof that nobody knows anything
Admit it: none of you would have invested in any of these companies. We don't know anything about the future until we see it working. Which raises a question: why do our fearless leaders behave as if they know everything about the future? One reason we need markets is because the 'experts' are wrong about so much. The market lets anyone take a shot at doing something worth cash money no matter how stupid it looks up front to the cognoscenti. This is as true for government policy as much as for internet services.
Break it up, break it all up.
Facebook - the world needs yet another Myspace or Friendster except several years late. We’ll only open it up to a few thousand overworked, anti-social, Ivy Leaguers. Everyone else will then join since Harvard students are so cool.
Dropbox - we are going to build a file sharing and syncing solution when the market has a dozen of them that no one uses, supported by big companies like Microsoft. It will only do one thing well, and you’ll have to move all of your content to use it.
Amazon - we’ll sell books online, even though users are still scared to use credit cards on the web. Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. They’ll do it for the convenience, even though they have to wait a week for the book.
Virgin Atlantic - airlines are cool. Let’s start one. How hard could it be? We’ll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes.
Mint - give us all of your bank, brokerage, and credit card information. We’ll give it back to you with nice fonts. To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green.
Palantir - we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based defense and intelligence agencies!
Craigslist - it will be ugly. It will be free. Except for the hookers.
iOS - a brand new operating system that doesn’t run a single one of the millions of applications that have been developed for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. Only Apple can build apps for it. It won’t have cut and paste.
Google - we are building the world’s 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. We’ll strip out all of the ad-supported news and portal features so you won’t be distracted from using the free search stuff.
Github - software engineers will pay monthly fees for the rest of their lives in order to create free software out of other free software!
PayPal - people will use their insecure AOL and Yahoo email addresses to pay each other real money, backed by a non-bank with a cute name run by 20-somethings.
Paperless Post - we are like Evite, except you pay us. All of your friends will know that you are an idiot.
Instagram - filters! That’s right, we got filters!
LinkedIn - how about a professional social network, aimed at busy 30- and 40-somethings. They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching.
Tesla - instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. During a recession and a cleantech backlash.
SpaceX - if NASA can do it, so can we! It ain’t rocket science.
Firefox - we are going to build a better web browser, even though 90% of the world’s computers already have a free one built in. One guy will do most of the work.
Twitter - it is like email, SMS, or RSS. Except it does a lot less. It will be used mostly by geeks at first, followed by Britney Spears and Charlie Sheen.
Break it up, break it all up.
Facebook - the world needs yet another Myspace or Friendster except several years late. We’ll only open it up to a few thousand overworked, anti-social, Ivy Leaguers. Everyone else will then join since Harvard students are so cool.
Dropbox - we are going to build a file sharing and syncing solution when the market has a dozen of them that no one uses, supported by big companies like Microsoft. It will only do one thing well, and you’ll have to move all of your content to use it.
Amazon - we’ll sell books online, even though users are still scared to use credit cards on the web. Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. They’ll do it for the convenience, even though they have to wait a week for the book.
Virgin Atlantic - airlines are cool. Let’s start one. How hard could it be? We’ll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes.
Mint - give us all of your bank, brokerage, and credit card information. We’ll give it back to you with nice fonts. To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green.
Palantir - we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based defense and intelligence agencies!
Craigslist - it will be ugly. It will be free. Except for the hookers.
iOS - a brand new operating system that doesn’t run a single one of the millions of applications that have been developed for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. Only Apple can build apps for it. It won’t have cut and paste.
Google - we are building the world’s 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. We’ll strip out all of the ad-supported news and portal features so you won’t be distracted from using the free search stuff.
Github - software engineers will pay monthly fees for the rest of their lives in order to create free software out of other free software!
PayPal - people will use their insecure AOL and Yahoo email addresses to pay each other real money, backed by a non-bank with a cute name run by 20-somethings.
Paperless Post - we are like Evite, except you pay us. All of your friends will know that you are an idiot.
Instagram - filters! That’s right, we got filters!
LinkedIn - how about a professional social network, aimed at busy 30- and 40-somethings. They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching.
Tesla - instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. During a recession and a cleantech backlash.
SpaceX - if NASA can do it, so can we! It ain’t rocket science.
Firefox - we are going to build a better web browser, even though 90% of the world’s computers already have a free one built in. One guy will do most of the work.
Twitter - it is like email, SMS, or RSS. Except it does a lot less. It will be used mostly by geeks at first, followed by Britney Spears and Charlie Sheen.
Rube Watch
From Instapundit.
CHANGE: Roofers union calls for Obamacare’s repeal.
The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers is reportedly the first union to officially call for repeal of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The health care law is prompting some serious buyer’s remorse in Big Labor, which worked hard on behalf of the administration to pass it.
I guess they didn't understand that the only people the One works for are government employees or its subsidized clients. Roofers are just the dupes.
CHANGE: Roofers union calls for Obamacare’s repeal.
The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers is reportedly the first union to officially call for repeal of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The health care law is prompting some serious buyer’s remorse in Big Labor, which worked hard on behalf of the administration to pass it.
I guess they didn't understand that the only people the One works for are government employees or its subsidized clients. Roofers are just the dupes.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Some things never change: Progressive racism
A century ago today our first ]"Progressive" President segregated the Federal government, firing blacks by the drove. Our current Progressives run the most racialist administration since....well since the first Progressive Administration - different winners and losers, the same obscene racist impulse. When you worship the state you use it to discriminate in ways that are useful to you or please you. Only a minimalist state can minimize prejudice. Markets can't afford to be prejudiced. HT Instapundit.
PROGRESSIVE RACISM: On this day in 1913, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson segregated the Civil Service. “Prior to the segregation of the civil service in 1913, appointments had been made solely on merit as indicated by the candidate’s performance on the civil-service examination. Thereafter, racial discrimination became the norm. Photographs came to be required at the time of application, and African-Americans knew they would not be hired. The existing work force was segregated. Many African-Americans were dismissed.”
PROGRESSIVE RACISM: On this day in 1913, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson segregated the Civil Service. “Prior to the segregation of the civil service in 1913, appointments had been made solely on merit as indicated by the candidate’s performance on the civil-service examination. Thereafter, racial discrimination became the norm. Photographs came to be required at the time of application, and African-Americans knew they would not be hired. The existing work force was segregated. Many African-Americans were dismissed.”
He was just modelling the President's fiscal policy
Politician arrested for masturbating while going 90 MPH.
He's what you call a party stalwart. Or a stalwart partier.
He's what you call a party stalwart. Or a stalwart partier.
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