The country of France has introduced a new law which aims at banning "Psychological Violence" in Marriages. You may be asking yourself, 'What exactly does that mean ?'
Mostly, it means that France is retarded. Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced the law saying it would also apply to co-habitating couples (Not that there's anything wrong with that). The law states that people will now receive criminal records for insulting loved ones during domestic disputes. Electronic Tagging would then be used for repeat offenders. The law is intended to protect woman, who evidently can't handle name calling, from attacks ranging from off-hand comments about their appearance to threats of violence. The Prime Minister went on to say" It's an important step forward as the creation of this office will allow us to deal with the most insidious situations-situations that leave no visible scars, but which leave the victims torn up inside." The government of France will be experimenting with electronic surveillance measures to monitor the effectiveness of this program.
Psychologist Anne Giraud stated the obvious in her critic of this moronic level ineptitude stating: "Squabbling couples will allege all kinds of things about each other, but they won't necessarily be true. The police are likely to be called out more and more when this law comes into force this year, but often it will be a case of one person's word against the other. Psychological violence is a very serious matter, but punishing it through the courts is a very different matter altogether.
Clearly Anne Giraud is a self hating sexist for not supporting the "right to self esteem act of 2010".
January 5, 2010
Intellectuals and Society
Thomas Sowell has published another book titled “Intellectuals and Society”. It was published yesterday on January 4, and even though I haven’t read it I highly recommend it :) In support of Mr. Sowell’s latest work, I am posting his most recent Townhall article which gives an overview of what you can expect in the book.
Intellectuals and Society
Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
There has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have played a larger role in society. When intellectuals who generate ideas are surrounded by a wide range of others who disseminate those ideas-- whether as journalists, teachers, staffers to legislators or clerks to judges-- the influence of intellectuals on the way a society evolves can be huge. Trying for years to understand the nature of that influence eventually led me to write the book "Intellectuals and Society," which has just been published.
Intellectuals generate ideas and ideas matter, whether those ideas are right or wrong, and they matter far beyond the small segment of society who are intellectuals. Ideas affect the fate of whole nations and civilizations. Nowhere is that more true than in our own times, when some people make suicidal attacks to kill strangers who have done nothing to them, as on 9/11, because the attackers are consumed with a set of ideas-- a vision-- and driven by the emotions generated by those ideas and that vision.
Whether in war or peace, and whether in economics or religion, something as intangible as ideas can dominate the most concrete things in our lives. What Karl Marx called "the blaze of ideas" has set whole nations on fire and consumed whole generations.
December 30, 2009
"Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians."
Judicial Watch today released its 2009 list of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians."
Here’s the list: it’s a good one…. and yes, there is a republican on it.
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 "Ten Most Corrupt" list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him. In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat. In 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Senate ethics complaint against Dodd for undervaluing a property he owns in Ireland on his Senate Financial Disclosure forms. Judicial Watch's complaint forced Dodd to amend the forms. However, press reports suggest the property to this day remains undervalued. Judicial Watch also alleges in the complaint that Dodd obtained a sweetheart deal for the property in exchange for his assistance in obtaining a presidential pardon (during the Clinton administration) and other favors for a long-time friend and business associate. The false financial disclosure forms were part of the cover-up. Dodd remains the head the Senate Banking Committee.
President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. Consider just a few Obama administration "lowlights" from year one: Even before President Obama was sworn into office, he was interviewed by the FBI for a criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's scheme to sell the President's former Senate seat to the highest bidder. (Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and slumlord Valerie Jarrett, both from Chicago, are also tangled up in the Blagojevich scandal.) Moreover, the Obama administration made the startling claim that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House. The Obama White House believes it can violate the privacy rights of American citizens without any legal consequences or accountability. President Obama boldly proclaimed that "transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," but his administration is addicted to secrecy, stonewalling far too many of Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act requests and is refusing to make public White House visitor logs as federal law requires. The Obama administration turned the National Endowment of the Arts (as well as the agency that runs the AmeriCorps program) into propaganda machines, using tax dollars to persuade "artists" to promote the Obama agenda. According to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the idea emerged as a direct result of the Obama campaign and enjoyed White House approval and participation. President Obama has installed a record number of "czars" in positions of power. Too many of these individuals are leftist radicals who answer to no one but the president. And too many of the czars are not subject to Senate confirmation (which raises serious constitutional questions). Under the President's bailout schemes, the federal government continues to appropriate or control -- through fiat and threats -- large sectors of the private economy, prompting conservative columnist George Will to write: "The administration's central activity -- the political allocation of wealth and opportunity -- is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption." Government-run healthcare and car companies, White House coercion, uninvestigated ACORN corruption, debasing his office to help Chicago cronies, attacks on conservative media and the private sector, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign donors – this is Obama's "ethics" record -- and we haven't even gotten through the first year of his presidency.
Here’s the list: it’s a good one…. and yes, there is a republican on it.
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 "Ten Most Corrupt" list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him. In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat. In 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Senate ethics complaint against Dodd for undervaluing a property he owns in Ireland on his Senate Financial Disclosure forms. Judicial Watch's complaint forced Dodd to amend the forms. However, press reports suggest the property to this day remains undervalued. Judicial Watch also alleges in the complaint that Dodd obtained a sweetheart deal for the property in exchange for his assistance in obtaining a presidential pardon (during the Clinton administration) and other favors for a long-time friend and business associate. The false financial disclosure forms were part of the cover-up. Dodd remains the head the Senate Banking Committee.
President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. Consider just a few Obama administration "lowlights" from year one: Even before President Obama was sworn into office, he was interviewed by the FBI for a criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's scheme to sell the President's former Senate seat to the highest bidder. (Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and slumlord Valerie Jarrett, both from Chicago, are also tangled up in the Blagojevich scandal.) Moreover, the Obama administration made the startling claim that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House. The Obama White House believes it can violate the privacy rights of American citizens without any legal consequences or accountability. President Obama boldly proclaimed that "transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," but his administration is addicted to secrecy, stonewalling far too many of Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act requests and is refusing to make public White House visitor logs as federal law requires. The Obama administration turned the National Endowment of the Arts (as well as the agency that runs the AmeriCorps program) into propaganda machines, using tax dollars to persuade "artists" to promote the Obama agenda. According to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the idea emerged as a direct result of the Obama campaign and enjoyed White House approval and participation. President Obama has installed a record number of "czars" in positions of power. Too many of these individuals are leftist radicals who answer to no one but the president. And too many of the czars are not subject to Senate confirmation (which raises serious constitutional questions). Under the President's bailout schemes, the federal government continues to appropriate or control -- through fiat and threats -- large sectors of the private economy, prompting conservative columnist George Will to write: "The administration's central activity -- the political allocation of wealth and opportunity -- is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption." Government-run healthcare and car companies, White House coercion, uninvestigated ACORN corruption, debasing his office to help Chicago cronies, attacks on conservative media and the private sector, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign donors – this is Obama's "ethics" record -- and we haven't even gotten through the first year of his presidency.
"I Promise, I will Never Die".................
In light of the Senate and House both passing Healthcare Reform, I must reflect on what this “Historic” passage really is. The bills are more historic in the underhanded tactics used to pass them then they are in providing health care. A series of political bribes and closed door meetings, culminating in 2,000 pages of craptastic debt. The bill is not about health care, or the well being of Americans. It is about politics--plain and simple--nothing more.
The whole thing is about passing just about ANYTHING to keep appearances and maintain the illusion of Democrat lead progress . After all, why worry about legislation having a negative effect when it is not even implemented until after the 2012 election?
Think about the process of this reform: the rush to pass it-- the self imposed deadlines (august recess, labor Day, December 1, and finally Christmas). Why the Rush? None of the programs are even implemented for 4 more years. Nearly every Senate and House member questioned about it admits to not having read the bills. Yet supporters for it, and protesters against it, are vehement in their stance.
Thomas Sowell Writes: “The only rational explanation for such haste to pass a bill that will be slow to go into effect is to prevent the public from knowing what is in this massive legislation. That is also the only reason that makes sense for postponing the time when Obamacare goes into action after the next presidential election.”
It’s all politics people. America doesn’t want the government to run healthcare, but everyone wants something for nothing, and politicians want to be the ones to provide it. Obama continues to ramble that we cannot afford NOT to address healthcare, and he’s right. Our healthcare system is too expensive and insurance costs are far too high. But Obama’s legislation does not, in any way, address the cost of health care. It is an insurance bill. Simply paying less for healthcare won’t mean we have cheaper healthcare. More likely, it will mean we have a lower supply of doctors, medical supplies, and technology advancements. The government tried Medicare and its going bankrupt faster then they ever imagined it would. They tried Social Security, same thing. Medicaid, Veterans care, and on down the line. Why would any person want them to handle this? It is a political ploy that is going to cost us in quality care and supply, not to mention increase our debt. It is another glaring example of how self-interested and diluted our politicians have become. Willing to pass such a terrible piece of legislation because the pundits say they have to.
Where’s the promised bipartisanship? Where is the Promised Transparency? Where is the promised 3 day internet posting of the bill? Where is the Bill? The media is too busy writing stories about how hard it is being Obama to actually think about what is going on We have more news coverage about Sarah Palin’s vacation trips, then we do criticizing this process. They have hidden this bill from the beginning, finally passing it on Christmas eve to avoid the attention of the public. We are being force fed a bowl of crap, so that Democrats can hang their hat on something for next election. The really depressing thing about it is that Obama admits that this is just a first step. So, we are going to have to listen to this debate for years and years to come.
“In a sense, this administration is only the end result of a long social process that includes raising successive generations with dumbed-down education in schools and colleges that have become indoctrination centers for the visions of the left. Our education system has turned out many people who have never heard any other vision and who can only learn what is wrong with the prevailing vision from bitter experience." -Sowell-
The whole thing is about passing just about ANYTHING to keep appearances and maintain the illusion of Democrat lead progress . After all, why worry about legislation having a negative effect when it is not even implemented until after the 2012 election?
Think about the process of this reform: the rush to pass it-- the self imposed deadlines (august recess, labor Day, December 1, and finally Christmas). Why the Rush? None of the programs are even implemented for 4 more years. Nearly every Senate and House member questioned about it admits to not having read the bills. Yet supporters for it, and protesters against it, are vehement in their stance.
Thomas Sowell Writes: “The only rational explanation for such haste to pass a bill that will be slow to go into effect is to prevent the public from knowing what is in this massive legislation. That is also the only reason that makes sense for postponing the time when Obamacare goes into action after the next presidential election.”
It’s all politics people. America doesn’t want the government to run healthcare, but everyone wants something for nothing, and politicians want to be the ones to provide it. Obama continues to ramble that we cannot afford NOT to address healthcare, and he’s right. Our healthcare system is too expensive and insurance costs are far too high. But Obama’s legislation does not, in any way, address the cost of health care. It is an insurance bill. Simply paying less for healthcare won’t mean we have cheaper healthcare. More likely, it will mean we have a lower supply of doctors, medical supplies, and technology advancements. The government tried Medicare and its going bankrupt faster then they ever imagined it would. They tried Social Security, same thing. Medicaid, Veterans care, and on down the line. Why would any person want them to handle this? It is a political ploy that is going to cost us in quality care and supply, not to mention increase our debt. It is another glaring example of how self-interested and diluted our politicians have become. Willing to pass such a terrible piece of legislation because the pundits say they have to.
Where’s the promised bipartisanship? Where is the Promised Transparency? Where is the promised 3 day internet posting of the bill? Where is the Bill? The media is too busy writing stories about how hard it is being Obama to actually think about what is going on We have more news coverage about Sarah Palin’s vacation trips, then we do criticizing this process. They have hidden this bill from the beginning, finally passing it on Christmas eve to avoid the attention of the public. We are being force fed a bowl of crap, so that Democrats can hang their hat on something for next election. The really depressing thing about it is that Obama admits that this is just a first step. So, we are going to have to listen to this debate for years and years to come.
“In a sense, this administration is only the end result of a long social process that includes raising successive generations with dumbed-down education in schools and colleges that have become indoctrination centers for the visions of the left. Our education system has turned out many people who have never heard any other vision and who can only learn what is wrong with the prevailing vision from bitter experience." -Sowell-
December 28, 2009
ridiculious
I received this forward from a friend of mine last week. It is just another example of the complete lack of character and accountability in our government. There is no common sense involved in these decisions. It is all about who you know.....and in this case, what color skin you have.
Jesse Jackson's Newest Staff Member
You can't make up stuff better than this!
Isn't politics grand?
Jesse Jackson's Newest Staff Member
Mel Reynolds
Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat
Congressman Mel to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll.
Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused
in President Clinton's
last-minute forgiveness spree.
Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year
federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud,
and lies to the Federal Election Commission.
He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving
five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.
This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had
sex with a subordinate...won clemency from a president who had
sex with a subordinate...then was hired by a clergyman who had
sex with a subordinate!
His new job?
Ready for this??
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***** YOUTH COUNSELOR *****
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
December 23, 2009
The Science Mantra
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable.
Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues, and used to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as the 18th century, when the Marquis de Condorcet coined the term "social science" to describe various theories he favored. In the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels distinguished their own brand of socialism as "scientific socialism." By the 20th century, all sorts of notions wrapped themselves in the mantle of "science."
"Global warming" hysteria is only the latest in this long line of notions, whose main argument is that there is no argument, because it is "science." The recently revealed destruction of raw data at the bottom of the global warming hysteria, as well as revelations of attempts to prevent critics of this hysteria from being published in leading journals, suggests that the disinterested search for truth-- the hallmark of real science-- has taken a back seat to a political crusade.
An intercepted e-mail from a professor at the Climate Research Unit in England to a professor at the University of Pennsylvania warned the latter: "Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act" and urged the American professor to delete any e-mails he may have sent a colleague regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
When a business accused of fraud begins shredding its memos and deleting its e-mails, the media are quick to proclaim these actions as signs of guilt. But, after the global warming advocates began a systematic destruction of evidence, the big television networks went for days without even reporting these facts, much less commenting on them.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable.
Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues, and used to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as the 18th century, when the Marquis de Condorcet coined the term "social science" to describe various theories he favored. In the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels distinguished their own brand of socialism as "scientific socialism." By the 20th century, all sorts of notions wrapped themselves in the mantle of "science."
"Global warming" hysteria is only the latest in this long line of notions, whose main argument is that there is no argument, because it is "science." The recently revealed destruction of raw data at the bottom of the global warming hysteria, as well as revelations of attempts to prevent critics of this hysteria from being published in leading journals, suggests that the disinterested search for truth-- the hallmark of real science-- has taken a back seat to a political crusade.
An intercepted e-mail from a professor at the Climate Research Unit in England to a professor at the University of Pennsylvania warned the latter: "Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act" and urged the American professor to delete any e-mails he may have sent a colleague regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
When a business accused of fraud begins shredding its memos and deleting its e-mails, the media are quick to proclaim these actions as signs of guilt. But, after the global warming advocates began a systematic destruction of evidence, the big television networks went for days without even reporting these facts, much less commenting on them.
December 18, 2009
Trouble coming?
From Yahoo news............................................
Iranian forces take over Iraq oil well
NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – Iranian forces took control of a southern Iraqi oil well on a disputed section of the border on Friday, US and Iraqi officials told AFP.
"There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran," a US military spokesman told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
"The oil field is in disputed territory in between Iranian and Iraqi border forts," he said, adding that such incidents occur quite frequently.
An official of the state-owned South Oil Co in the southeastern city of Amara, and west of the field, said: "An Iranian force arrived at the field early this morning (Friday).
"It took control of Well 4 and raised the Iranian flag even though the well lies in Iraqi territory," the official added.
"An oil ministry delegation is to travel to the area on Saturday to assess the situation."
The national security council was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday chaired by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iraqi state television said quoting the minister of state for national security, Shirwan al-Waili.
The council also groups the ministers of interior, defence, foreign affairs, justice and finance.
Well 4 lies in the Fauqa Field, part of a cluster of fields Iraq unsuccessfully put up for auction to oil majors in June. The field has estimated reserves of 1.55 million barrels.
The field is about 500 metres (yards) from an Iranian border fort and about 1 kilometre from an Iraqi border fort, US Colonel Peter Newell said, adding that it falls on the Iraqi side of a border agreed between the two countries.
There are five other similar fields that also fall into disputed territory, he said.
"What happens is, periodically, about every three or four months, the oil ministry guys from Iraq will go ... to fix something or do some maintenance. They'll paint it in Iraqi colours and throw an Iraqi flag up.
"They'll hang out there for a while, until they get tired, and as soon as they go away, the Iranians come down the hill and paint it Iranian colours and raise an Iranian flag. It happened about three months ago and it will probably happen again."
He added that the Iraqis are "very concerned about the Iranians pulling oil out of fields underneath Iraq."
Iran has prevented Iraqi oil officials from reaching the well in the past, an industry source said. The Iraqis have accused Iran of firing on their people, something Tehran has denied.
There have been a number of meetings in recent years aimed at reaching agreement on border fields, so far without success.
Iranian forces take over Iraq oil well
NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – Iranian forces took control of a southern Iraqi oil well on a disputed section of the border on Friday, US and Iraqi officials told AFP.
"There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran," a US military spokesman told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
"The oil field is in disputed territory in between Iranian and Iraqi border forts," he said, adding that such incidents occur quite frequently.
An official of the state-owned South Oil Co in the southeastern city of Amara, and west of the field, said: "An Iranian force arrived at the field early this morning (Friday).
"It took control of Well 4 and raised the Iranian flag even though the well lies in Iraqi territory," the official added.
"An oil ministry delegation is to travel to the area on Saturday to assess the situation."
The national security council was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday chaired by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iraqi state television said quoting the minister of state for national security, Shirwan al-Waili.
The council also groups the ministers of interior, defence, foreign affairs, justice and finance.
Well 4 lies in the Fauqa Field, part of a cluster of fields Iraq unsuccessfully put up for auction to oil majors in June. The field has estimated reserves of 1.55 million barrels.
The field is about 500 metres (yards) from an Iranian border fort and about 1 kilometre from an Iraqi border fort, US Colonel Peter Newell said, adding that it falls on the Iraqi side of a border agreed between the two countries.
There are five other similar fields that also fall into disputed territory, he said.
"What happens is, periodically, about every three or four months, the oil ministry guys from Iraq will go ... to fix something or do some maintenance. They'll paint it in Iraqi colours and throw an Iraqi flag up.
"They'll hang out there for a while, until they get tired, and as soon as they go away, the Iranians come down the hill and paint it Iranian colours and raise an Iranian flag. It happened about three months ago and it will probably happen again."
He added that the Iraqis are "very concerned about the Iranians pulling oil out of fields underneath Iraq."
Iran has prevented Iraqi oil officials from reaching the well in the past, an industry source said. The Iraqis have accused Iran of firing on their people, something Tehran has denied.
There have been a number of meetings in recent years aimed at reaching agreement on border fields, so far without success.
December 17, 2009
Free Markets....................
Throughout of the duration of the American and Soviet Cold War, there were many strategies undertaken in America’s fight against the spread of Communism. In the end America came out on top not because of better tactics or strategy, but because of capitalism itself. Capitalism works, Communism doesn’t' t. The economic and political contradictions in Soviet Socialism would be the cause of it’s own downfall. It was evident to Americans working in free-market conditions that a society could not survive economically when decisions on production, and use of resources, were based on political interests. Free Markets allow the people to direct the growth of an economy. It efficiently allocates scarce resources to where they are most needed, and rations by prices that are determined by supply and demand.
Dan Oliver, of National Review, writes:
When a collection of free individuals are willing to pay a price for a product that creates “excess” profits, it signals producers to provide more of that product. If the market does not support a given price, producers are forced to redeploy their assets for more pressing social needs. Similarly, if a factor of production, such as labor or capital, changes in price, producers instantly react, sending signals — through the prices of intermediate goods — down to the consumer. Prices effortlessly allocate society’s assets to reflect consumer preference and adjust to accommodate the ever-changing availability of scarce resources.
But governmental interference in prices, through taxation, subsidies, and regulation, complicates this process — affecting not only the consumption of final goods, but also the economic calculations that are necessary to provide intermediate goods and services. Higher-order division of labor fails. Poverty results. For example, while Chinese and Russian central planners were busy setting quotas for steel mills, there was no method for consumers to signal that they preferred food — and millions starved to death.
No matter how well intentioned the government or political activist might be, they are unable to compare with the free market principles that are supposed to guide out economy. Today, the political class’s of the world (left and right) have decided to go with the so-called “Third Way”.
Dan Oliver, of National Review, writes:
When a collection of free individuals are willing to pay a price for a product that creates “excess” profits, it signals producers to provide more of that product. If the market does not support a given price, producers are forced to redeploy their assets for more pressing social needs. Similarly, if a factor of production, such as labor or capital, changes in price, producers instantly react, sending signals — through the prices of intermediate goods — down to the consumer. Prices effortlessly allocate society’s assets to reflect consumer preference and adjust to accommodate the ever-changing availability of scarce resources.
But governmental interference in prices, through taxation, subsidies, and regulation, complicates this process — affecting not only the consumption of final goods, but also the economic calculations that are necessary to provide intermediate goods and services. Higher-order division of labor fails. Poverty results. For example, while Chinese and Russian central planners were busy setting quotas for steel mills, there was no method for consumers to signal that they preferred food — and millions starved to death.
No matter how well intentioned the government or political activist might be, they are unable to compare with the free market principles that are supposed to guide out economy. Today, the political class’s of the world (left and right) have decided to go with the so-called “Third Way”.
December 15, 2009
8 year old student suspended for this?
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and came up with what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child's father said Tuesday. Chester Johnson told WBZ-TV that his son made the drawing on Dec. 2 after his second-grade teacher asked children to sketch something that reminded them of the holiday.Johnson told the Taunton Daily Gazette, which first reported the story on Tuesday, that his son has never been violent in school. An educational consultant working with the Johnson family said the teacher was also alarmed when the boy drew Xs for Jesus' eyes. The boy was cleared to return to school on Dec. 7 after the evaluation found nothing to indicate that he posed a threat to himself or others. But his father said the boy was traumatized by the incident and the school district has approved the family's request to have the child transferred to another school. "They owe my family an apology and the kid an apology and they need to work with my son (to) the best of their ability to get him back to where he was before all this happened," Johnson told New England Cable New. The father said in the days before the incident the family had gone to the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro, where there are crucifixion statues. "That was fresh on his mind," he told NECN. "And that was a good thing that he saw." Superintendent Julie Hackett said she could not discuss an individual student and did not address the drawing specifically or the teacher's reaction to it, but did say the school has safety protocols in place that were followed. Hackett did not return multiple calls from the Associated Press on Tuesday.
Let's jump straight to the point here, this flat out ridiculousness. Are we really so paranoid as a society that an image of the crucifix merits a child's psychological evaluation? I probably drew the same image a hundred times in school and never heard a word about it. I had friends who drew it all over their backpacks. It is insane that this teacher, not to mention the schools administration, found suspension and psychological evaluation an appropriate response. What did they think he was drawing? Are they so unaware of the Christian religion and it's relation with "the holidays" that they didn't make this very simple correlation? Do they not understand that kids usually draw X's on the eye's of people who are hurt, because that's what cartoon's on TV do? This response is so far over-board that it would be more appropriate to evaluate the teacher. I guess I didn't realize that the crucifix was such an offensive and dangerous symbol for the holidays. I hope this teacher never enters a catholic church, or she may go into cardiac arrest.
Let's jump straight to the point here, this flat out ridiculousness. Are we really so paranoid as a society that an image of the crucifix merits a child's psychological evaluation? I probably drew the same image a hundred times in school and never heard a word about it. I had friends who drew it all over their backpacks. It is insane that this teacher, not to mention the schools administration, found suspension and psychological evaluation an appropriate response. What did they think he was drawing? Are they so unaware of the Christian religion and it's relation with "the holidays" that they didn't make this very simple correlation? Do they not understand that kids usually draw X's on the eye's of people who are hurt, because that's what cartoon's on TV do? This response is so far over-board that it would be more appropriate to evaluate the teacher. I guess I didn't realize that the crucifix was such an offensive and dangerous symbol for the holidays. I hope this teacher never enters a catholic church, or she may go into cardiac arrest.
100 reasons why Global Warming is not man-made
From the Daily UK:
A report issued by the well respected European Foundation, argues that a higher level of carbon dioxide is not a problem because it helps to boost crop yields. The Foundation also claimed that the warming we are now experiencing is “mostly natural”, pointing to historic shifts in the climate such as when Vikings farmed on Greenland in medieval times.
Political analyst Jim McConalogue, who wrote the report, said: “This demonstrates how tenuous, improper and indeed false the scientific and political claims are for man-made global warming.
From claims that climate change can be controlled by human activity, to the proposition that CO2 emissions represent a severe threat to our way of life, McConalogue argues that there is little evidence to support any of these claims.
He warned that the Copenhagen Climate Summit was likely to lead to “nonsensical targets” to reduce emissions, which would result in a “burdensome regulatory agenda”. After Copenhagen, voters around the world “will see what travesty has been done in their name, as foolish politicians and indifferent industry associations have engulfed their countries in emissions legislation”.
click on the Read More link below to see the European Foundations 100 reasons why Global Warming is natural and not man-made
A report issued by the well respected European Foundation, argues that a higher level of carbon dioxide is not a problem because it helps to boost crop yields. The Foundation also claimed that the warming we are now experiencing is “mostly natural”, pointing to historic shifts in the climate such as when Vikings farmed on Greenland in medieval times.
Political analyst Jim McConalogue, who wrote the report, said: “This demonstrates how tenuous, improper and indeed false the scientific and political claims are for man-made global warming.
From claims that climate change can be controlled by human activity, to the proposition that CO2 emissions represent a severe threat to our way of life, McConalogue argues that there is little evidence to support any of these claims.
He warned that the Copenhagen Climate Summit was likely to lead to “nonsensical targets” to reduce emissions, which would result in a “burdensome regulatory agenda”. After Copenhagen, voters around the world “will see what travesty has been done in their name, as foolish politicians and indifferent industry associations have engulfed their countries in emissions legislation”.
click on the Read More link below to see the European Foundations 100 reasons why Global Warming is natural and not man-made
December 11, 2009
Friday Night Quote............................
- Michael Crichton
Praise for China's one-child policy is insane..............
As the Copenhagen Conference (meeting December 7-18) on climate change continues, reports from the Eco-Nazis on the dangers facing our world are becoming more and more extreme. The two latest stories I saw focus on the dangers of overpopulation. Shockingly, both writers strongly embrace instituting the “one-child policy” that was put in place in China. Check out these excerpts from the National Canadian Newspaper:
A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate. Doing nothing will result in an unsustainable population of nine billion by 2050. Humans are the only rational animals but have yet to prove it. The world can only accommodate so many people, especially if billions get indoor plumbing and cars.
There’s something that you should take away from that paragraph. Mainly, the lack of common sense. Preachers of environmental disaster have been screaming about population control for over 200 years. Educated predictions of future world population have gone from a high of 20 billion, to 15 billion, to 11 billion (1990 UN estimate) to now 9 billion in 2050.
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich published the highly referenced book; The Population Bom. The book predicted that by 1985, overpopulation would lead to world famine, the death of the oceans, a reduction in life expectancy to 42 years, nuclear war, and the wasting of the Midwest into a vast desert. Overpopulation has been
A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate. Doing nothing will result in an unsustainable population of nine billion by 2050. Humans are the only rational animals but have yet to prove it. The world can only accommodate so many people, especially if billions get indoor plumbing and cars.
There’s something that you should take away from that paragraph. Mainly, the lack of common sense. Preachers of environmental disaster have been screaming about population control for over 200 years. Educated predictions of future world population have gone from a high of 20 billion, to 15 billion, to 11 billion (1990 UN estimate) to now 9 billion in 2050.
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich published the highly referenced book; The Population Bom. The book predicted that by 1985, overpopulation would lead to world famine, the death of the oceans, a reduction in life expectancy to 42 years, nuclear war, and the wasting of the Midwest into a vast desert. Overpopulation has been
Federal employee's enjoy financial boom throughout recession...........
This is just part of the reason that growing the government doesn’t work. The average pay for federal employees is now $71,000.00. That’s over $30,000 more than their private sector counterparts. The government is now a wasteful subsidiary of public unions, overpaying for unnecessary work while limited and restricting private growth. It needs to stop. Here’s the article from USA Today detailing the misuse of our money……………………………………………
For feds, more get 6-figure salaries
Average pay $30,000 over private sector
By Dennis Cauchon
USA TODAY
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted. Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.
For feds, more get 6-figure salaries
Average pay $30,000 over private sector
By Dennis Cauchon
USA TODAY
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted. Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.
December 10, 2009
Expanding Medicare??????????
A new poll conducted by ROC and CNN shows that only 36% of Americans support the Senates Nationalized health care plan. Not only that, but a whopping 61% are flat out against it. That may seem like an extreme swing, but anyone in their right mind should be appalled by the current plan. Senate Democrats in their quest for public admiration, have compromised sanity to get a healthcare bill passed.
In their infinite wisdom, and through a total lack of economic common sense, the Senate has decided to EXPAND Medicare. This news will be sure to please doctors and hospitals, who already believe that Medicare is unsustainable. Medicare currently compensates providers below cost, with many doctors refusing care, and others capping how many patients they can afford to see. Under the Senates compromise Medicare will expand to cover patients as young as 55 years old. This will ensure a massively expanded unfunded mandate on American taxpayers for years to come. To show you just how stupid this plan really is, I have copied an excerpt from the Medicare 2009 annual report.
Medicare's financial difficulties come sooner—and are much more severe—than those confronting Social Security. Underlying health care costs per enrollee are projected to rise faster than the earnings per worker on which payroll taxes and Social Security benefits are based. The fund again fails our test of short-range financial adequacy. The fund also continues to fail our long range test of close actuarial balance by a wide margin. The projected date of HI Trust Fund exhaustion is 2017, two years earlier than in last year's report. Projected HI dedicated revenues fall short of outlays by rapidly increasing margins in all future years. The Medicare Report shows that the HI Trust Fund could be brought into actuarial balance over the next 75 years by changes equivalent to an immediate 134 percent increase in the payroll tax, or an immediate 53 percent reduction in program outlays. The projected exhaustion of the HI Trust Fund within the next eight years is an urgent concern. Congressional action will be necessary to ensure uninterrupted provision of HI services to beneficiaries. Correcting the financial imbalance for the HI Trust Fund—even in the short range alone—will require substantial changes to program income and/or expenditures.
In their infinite wisdom, and through a total lack of economic common sense, the Senate has decided to EXPAND Medicare. This news will be sure to please doctors and hospitals, who already believe that Medicare is unsustainable. Medicare currently compensates providers below cost, with many doctors refusing care, and others capping how many patients they can afford to see. Under the Senates compromise Medicare will expand to cover patients as young as 55 years old. This will ensure a massively expanded unfunded mandate on American taxpayers for years to come. To show you just how stupid this plan really is, I have copied an excerpt from the Medicare 2009 annual report.
Medicare's financial difficulties come sooner—and are much more severe—than those confronting Social Security. Underlying health care costs per enrollee are projected to rise faster than the earnings per worker on which payroll taxes and Social Security benefits are based. The fund again fails our test of short-range financial adequacy. The fund also continues to fail our long range test of close actuarial balance by a wide margin. The projected date of HI Trust Fund exhaustion is 2017, two years earlier than in last year's report. Projected HI dedicated revenues fall short of outlays by rapidly increasing margins in all future years. The Medicare Report shows that the HI Trust Fund could be brought into actuarial balance over the next 75 years by changes equivalent to an immediate 134 percent increase in the payroll tax, or an immediate 53 percent reduction in program outlays. The projected exhaustion of the HI Trust Fund within the next eight years is an urgent concern. Congressional action will be necessary to ensure uninterrupted provision of HI services to beneficiaries. Correcting the financial imbalance for the HI Trust Fund—even in the short range alone—will require substantial changes to program income and/or expenditures.
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