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Today’s Interesting Stuff: 10/12/2009
Where’re the headlines? Interesting Reason.org reports on a study published in October 2008 in the Journal of the American Medical Association which busts the balloon of “common knowledge” regarding who clogs emergency rooms and doe...
What Is “Business Friendly”?
There are many misconceptions standing in the way of informed consent on the part of the American Electorate. Bugbears and villains and bogey-monsters are trotted out each election cycle to herd the voting populace into the desired frame of mind. One...
I’ve Been Let Go
On Wednesday afternoon I was laid off from my job, along with two others from the Service Desk. ACS Inc is going through a belt-tightening and they cut the McDonalds IT Service Desk US Crew from 8 to 5. We were a good team and I had good times with a...
The More Things Change…
…the more they stay the same. How command-economy solutions failed the free-market and extended the economic dip of the 1920’s – 1930’s into the Great Depression. And how far we’ve come today. One question: They aren...
True Individual Freedom Cannot Exist…
…without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. ~Franklin D Roosevelt I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public...
The First Lesson Of Economics…
…is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. ~Thomas Sowell...
Does He Really Believe This?
Regarding the energy bill going through Congress right now, Obama claims the legislation “will spark a clean energy transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution that threatens our planet”...
Walmart And The Healthy Free Market
In case you had trouble guessing: I like businesses. If there weren’t business there wouldn’t be internet, iphones, cars, bicycles, buildings, tents, sleeping bags, fresh produce in the middle of winter, heat and A/C, in cars too, hospita...
A Good Evening’s Thought
All I need is a pipe: This was yesterday evening. I was actually reading Anna Karenina, not Tolkien’s Silmarillion. But the Tolkien book was better for the picture. Frank and Earnest, May 20th, 2009 No Goliath (or GM) is too large to fail. La...
Government Economy: Ignoring Facts
In our increasingly government-controlled (-manipulated, -throttled, -ridden) economy, we get to see how people who do not believe in the free market expect the engines of American capitalism to run. It’s not like we haven’t been able to ...
Government-Run Business, Epic Fail
As I’ve said before, several times, government involvement and control of business is a recipe for failure, disaster, loss, pain, hurt, evilness, etc. In the Wall Street Journal, John Steele Gordon: In 1913, for instance, thinking it was being ...
Obama Can Innovate
The fawning over Obama has not yet ceased in the mainstream media. BBC headlines a story this morning with the appallingly thoughtless “Obama to curb vehicle emissions“. First off, grammar police here to say: didn’t your mother tell...
Grasping Government Gags
Add this to the heaping mountain of evidence against the Government controlling anything: In Network World magazine issue May 4th, 2009 (hardly the political rag), Johna Till Johnson writes “Of subways, gov’t subsidies and broadband“...
If I Ran The World
If I ran the world I would tell people: I’m the government, and the government cannot fix all your problems. The good things I can do are limited to: Protecting the entire nation and it’s immediate interests of safety and commerce throug...
Dilbert . . . in this new economy
Here is a priceless article out of the WSJ. There are no real “slick” lines in the article or fancy catchphrases, just sound, well though out reasoning. The article details how the economies woes are no longer the fault of the Bush admini...
Chipotle And The Beneficent Free Market
This is a slight commentary on Chipotle (the restaurant chain) and how it symbolizes the significant superiority of the free market economy and accompanying extreme wealth and their many benefits to the world at large. Have you eaten at Chipotle? If ...
Productive Efficiency
RE: Twitter Updates for 2009-01-09 This was more in reference to those who would agree with the condemnations of a consumer culture as strident as those found in “The Story Of Stuff“. Efficiency in production: the ability to produce thing...
Already Too Late?
Obama is now saying this recession could last for years, will cause double digit unemployment, and cause $1 Trillion drop in GDP. In other words, his policies and “stimulus” will not work. Big surprise. But since the liberal mindset cares...
The Day The UAW Died - Or Not
And they were singing: Bye, bye miss American pie… Yesterday the US automakers, the UAW, and the US government failed to reach an agreement that could have secured a bailout for the “Big 3″. GM is consulting with bankruptcy lawyers....
Sliding Into Socialism & Smile
Some mornings I wish I didn’t peruse the news. Today was one of those mornings. The stories were thick of people expecting things from the government, wanting the government to reach down and touch them, trying to get things through misuse of g...
Truth Has No Chance
I’ve read several articles thanks to links from bloggers and news pages which claim that the ‘first’ Thanksgiving was nothing but the orgies of Europeans occupying the homes and tilling the fields of the deceased tribes of Native Am...
Whats Happening?
Copyright © 2008 ShatteredChina. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/20/whats-happening/.So . . . I spent some time browsing and have some news to share. Iran is working on nuclear capabilities and has the neccessary nu...
Inclusion Not Dillution Or Surrender
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/12/inclusion-not-dillution-or-surrender/.Michael Medved opened my eyes. On his radio show he was trying to explain on “Disagreement Day” to dishe...
StoryOfStuff - Part 7
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-7/.Continued from part 6 Salvation: God set up a system of free will. It is not the nicer, or cleaner, or prettier system. But it is the...
StoryOfStuff - Part 6
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-6/.Continued from part 5 10 Little and Big Things You Can Do: 1: Hypocrisy: Publicly-”Green” people tend to fly more, take m...
StoryOfStuff - Part 5
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-5/.Continued from part 4 CONSUMPTION: “Golden arrow” “heart of the system, the engine that drives it. “Protectin...
StoryOfStuff - Part 4
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-4/.Continued from part 3 DISTRIBUTION: “Selling all the toxic, contaminated junk as fast as possible” “Keep the prices...
StoryOfStuff - Part 3
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-3/.Continued from part 2 PRODUCTION: “Use energy to mix toxic chemicals in with natural resources to make toxic contaminated produ...
StoryOfStuff - Part 2
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-2/.Continued from Part 1 EXTRACTION: “Trashing the planet” 1st limit: running out of resources = using too much stuff. Last...
