Climate Change Debunked
As only Joe Dan can. You really have to check his site out (Intellectual Froglegs). The guy knows his shit. And the music is great!
The Income Inequality Lie
The cries for income equality by Obama and his peeps are making the rounds on all of the lame stream media networks. Obama is screeching about this issue because they need a shiny new object to distract from Obamacare and the upcoming 2014 elections and at the same time placing blame for the troubles of the poor/middle class/students.
Democrats have turned this into an art form, they very are good at it, and the uninformed suck it up like a sponge. They perceive this as another injustice done to them by the evil Republicans and bingo, the democrats get the votes, even though the uninformed voter is in reality, making his plight worse.
2004 essay by Paul Graham, it is long but worth the read.
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Like chess or painting or writing novels, making money is a very specialized skill. But for some reason we treat this skill differently. No one complains when a few people surpass all the rest at playing chess or writing novels, but when a few people make more money than the rest, we get editorials saying this is wrong.
Why? The pattern of variation seems no different than for any other skill. What causes people to react so strongly when the skill is making money?
I think there are three reasons we treat making money as different: the misleading model of wealth we learn as children; the disreputable way in which, till recently, most fortunes were accumulated; and the worry that great variations in income are somehow bad for society. As far as I can tell, the first is mistaken, the second outdated, and the third empirically false. Could it be that, in a modern democracy, variation in income is actually a sign of health?
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way.
Former Soviet Sees Striking Similarities
Amazing contrast from past to present to startling potential future. Go here now and read it in it’s entirety.
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I now live in Northern California, in the heart of the Bay Area, thousands of miles away from my homeland.
And yet the poison of Soviet propaganda seeps through college dorms just as it did in Soviet classrooms.
Living in the Soviet Union, being bombarded with similar nonsense, we had nothing to contradict it. When we walked outside the school, the everyday reality had no traces of the wealth afforded by capitalism. We lived in the grayness and that grayness was all there was.
Americans leave school to go home and they drop by a mall to buy something from an incredible selection of wealth and choice afforded by capitalism. They drop by a small corner store, which could probably feed a savvy Soviet village for a month (dog food is food, too, you know), and they pick up some “entertainment food” that did not exist in the USSR, in quantities that weren’t affordable for an average Soviet family.
Then they go home and write essays on their expensive iPads about how they don’t have the American Dream.
Now, most American news sources are no different than Pravda and Izvestia. Now, the government used the IRS to stifle political opposition. Now, ObamaCare is a wealth redistribution platform disguised as a common good. Now, Obama is being portrayed in academia and the media alike as a charismatic, messianic, “progressive” figure, fighting for the “underdog.” He would feel right at home as the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Now, Obama Youths are me, from decades ago. Leninist academia has had its way with them. Now, just like Soviet leaders, American leaders give lip-service to “social justice” while stocking up on personal wealth for their families.
There’s nothing new under the sun. I’m hardly the only ex-Soviet to point out the parallels. But some things matter enough to bear repeating.
Dear beautiful America, please, stop moving Forward.
Postal Workers Going Postal Over Staples
Read the article then let me know if you see an obvious problem.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces well-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers.
The union plans to hold “sustained” protests this month at Staples stores in the San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., area that would be expanded elsewhere. Union officials also are considering how they can exert pressure on Staples shareholders. “If Staples insists on continuing to refuse to staff those stores with postal workers, we’re going to urge people to take their business elsewhere,” Dimondstein said.
The union says it’s not asking to shut down the program. It wants the counters to be run by postal employees, not workers hired by Staples. The average postal clerk earns about $25 an hour, according to the union, plus a generous package of health and retirement benefits. The Staples post office counters are run by nonunion workers often making little more than the minimum wage.
The Postal Service increasingly has looked to work with the private sector to help increase business. In November, it announced a lucrative deal with Amazon to begin package delivery on Sunday.
So lets be clear, because it is run by the government they have unionized, escalated wages, pensions, and benefits to the point where they can’t be profitable.
So the unions are scared to death to find out that a kid making 8 bucks an hour can do just a good a job as the 25 dollar union dude. I would be nervous if I was them also.
The agency has struggled for years with declining mail volume, but the lion’s share of its financial plight stems from a 2006 congressional requirement that it make annual $5.6 billion payments to cover expected health care costs for future retirees. It has defaulted on three of those payments. The Postal Service lost $5 billion over the past year, though operating revenue rose 1.2 percent.
Which parcel delivery company said that net income in the third quarter soared to $1.10 billion, or $1.16 per share. That was a penny better than analysts expected and an improvement over the $469 million, or 48 cents per share and has union employees?
I’ll take UPS for $500 Alex
Climate Change And Obama
His 2008 announcement served as a warning that his administration would do whatever it can to put in place a carbon tax. Basically, go with the failed science for more revenue and appease your base climate fanatics.
Obama is willing to let left wing agendas dictate policy even when those decisions are bad for America, and that my friends is a sad excuse of a President.
Alan Caruba has an excellent piece on this over at Theo Spark, below is an excerpt and I suggest you read the entire thing.
By Alan Caruba
There is no reason for the U.S. to be in such a slow recovery from the financial crisis of 2008. If President Obama would get out of the way, our national debt could be dramatically reduced and hundreds of thousands of jobs would be created in the nation’s energy sector, leading to the expansion of its manufacturing sector and still more jobs.
One factor stands in the way of this brighter economic future and that is President Obama and those who direct the work of the Environmental Protection Agency—an enemy of the coal industry—and the Department of the Interior which has slowed the provision of leases to energy companies to expand the discovery and extraction of energy resources.
Instead, Obama has delayed the construction of Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would generate jobs to build it and jobs resulting from it. Green says that “As unimaginable as it might have been just five years ago, the right policy decisions could see the U.S. meet 100 percent (100%) of its liquid fuel needs domestically or from Canada by 2014.”
Energy industries already send $85 million a day to the U.S. Treasury in income taxes, royalty payments, and other fees. Obama, though, wants to raise the nation’s borrowing limits after having added six trillion dollars in debt in his first term.
It was Obama who wasted a trillion dollars on a failed “stimulus”, discovering belatedly that there were few “shovel-ready” jobs while at the same time wasting billions in loans to wind and solar companies that went into bankruptcy shortly after receiving them.
Thanks to the EPA 153 coal-fired plants have been shut down!
The Obama administration’s justification for its policies is the bogus claim that carbon dioxide (CO2) is responsible for “global warming” or “climate change” when it plays NO role whatever regarding the Earth’s climate.
The same lies the Obama and Democrats in Congress, as well as the Health and Human Services department told Americans about the Affordable Health Act are reflected in their lies about the nation’s energy sector.
Obama has been waging a war on America’s energy needs and the benefits that would result from its expansion.
Obama Blames Racism For Approval Rating
This has been the administrations fall back option to anyone who questions Obama and his crappy policies. Must be nice to be a complete failure and be able to blame his shortcomings on a myth.
A Nod to Weasel Zippers for the heads up
President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine’s website today.
“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said in the article by David Remnick, appearing in the magazine’s Jan. 27 edition.
Mexico Doesn’t Why Should America
This!
Gowdy Places Blame On Press – Outstanding
I honestly don’t know where all of these “investigations” are going. Daryl Issa’s term is up next year so he may be out of office before any answers on the IRS or the Benghazi scandals can come to light, let alone Fast & Furious gun running. I actually heard a congressman on Megan Kelly last night say “we are going to investigate the investigation” referring to the IRS scandal verdict. Really? Investigate the investigation? Wow.
That being said, Trey Gowdy did a great job in this press conference. He laid the blame partially at the doorstep of a complicit media, and hits ’em with a zinger at the end. Worth the watch.
Resist
And It Begins
I mentioned in an earlier post the backdoor effort by the Obama regime to attack 2nd amendment rights under the guise of mental health. I stated that if they could claim someone who had fought in a war could be deemed mentally incapable of owning guns they would take them. Well, here ya go. The proof is in the pudding.
A Nod to Free North Carolina for the story
When did serving your country become a crime?
(MYRTLE CREEK, OR) – If Pat Kirby has his guns taken away by the federal government, then everyone else is probably going to eventually face the same thing. The clock is ticking. Pat Kirby is a decorated Oregon Vietnam Veteran with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). He never imagined he would receive a letter telling him he will have to turn over his guns, or face imprisonment.
He is the ultimate expression of a law abiding American citizen. He served his country, worked hard to raise a family, and created a nice life in spite of his PTSD. But his comfort zone was jerked away when he was told he had to give up one of his most basic rights for the most unbelievable reasons.
His crime?
There was no no crime. The Veterans Administration has deemed Mr. Kirby “incompetent” because his wife takes care of their finances. He has a good credit rating, he pays his taxes, he has never been arrested in his life, yet the federal government says will have to surrender his firearms and give up his Second Amendment right due to the VA’s designation of “incompetent”. His alleged incompetence is based on his own admission that he does not take care of his own finances.
http://youtu.be/xKlqPnD39kM