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  • DARWIN’S HUMOR OF THE DAY: A 46-year-old man and a friend had gone hunting duck

    DARWIN’S HUMOR OF THE DAY:

    A 46-year-old man and a friend had gone hunting duck hunting along with a dog on Sunday about 8:30 a.m. on the north end of the Great Salt Lake.

    The two men were in a canoe-like boat in a shallow marsh area. One of the men got out of the boat to set up or collect decoys and laid his 12-gauge shotgun across the bow of the boat

    Shortly thereafter the dog jumped up on the bow and stepped on the gun. The gun fired and shot the man in the buttocks from a distance of ten feet.

    Medical crews later removed 27 pellets of birdshot from the victim.

    The moral of the story? It’s called a ‘safety’ for a reason. Use it. 🙂


    Source date (UTC): 2011-12-01 08:40:00 UTC

  • know, back in 2006 I didn’t resort to calling people ‘idiots’ when they suggeste

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2011/11/30/bernanke-ecb-throw-more-dollars-at-europes-crisis/You know, back in 2006 I didn’t resort to calling people ‘idiots’ when they suggested that the world was decoupling. (I leave the name calling to Paul Krugman.)

    If there was any illusion left, it was wiped away today.


    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-30 22:31:00 UTC

  • Dying Climate Religion

    http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/11/green-junk-15000-abandonded-windmills.htmlThe Dying Climate Religion


    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-30 22:11:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/11/krugman-watch-what-will-happen-with-conservatives-in-three-houses-of-government/


    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-25 09:50:00 UTC

  • What will happen when (conservatives) control all three branches of government?

    What will happen when (conservatives) control all three branches of government? Not much really. The stalemate will continue indefinitely.

    However, if we’re lucky, we will restore our search freedom over equality, restore merit over Harrison-Bergeron’ing, support commercial invention over redistribution, restore the western tradition by eliminating the DOE and teaching history, philosophy and literature, mandate our anglo language, restore our common law and constitution, return sovereignty to the states, and thankfully, reverse the anti-white-male bias and narrative.

    The west is special because of balance of power. Balance between states. Between classes. Between the church and state. The anglo west is special because of its class-based system of government, and its use of constitutionalism, common law, and property rights. Despite being the poorest, most remote from the first cities, and the least populous civilization, first Greece then England developed the industrial revolution – science, logic, reason and debate. And it did so because the militial culture of the aristocracy wished to retain their sovereignty while cooperating toward common ends and had to develop debate to do so. This set of affairs led to the last most important talent of the west – which was, that despite small numbers, they were the best warriors on earth.

    That is what made the west special and nothing else. And it is that special nature that the left seeks to replace — with the same poverty-inducing authoritarian, egalitarian tyranny-of-the-bottom that had eventually taken over the rest of the world — and which we escaped for nearly half a millenium, until the 20th century liberal took on faith that he had discovered the end of history, and could abandon the political and economic system that made prosperity possible.

    The foolhardiness of Schumpeterian Public Intellectuals is writ large on these pages daily. It is silly public intellectuals that bring about tyranny.


    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-25 09:41:00 UTC

  • Efficiency and equality are dirty words. Break up the eurozone. That’s what shou

    Efficiency and equality are dirty words.

    Break up the eurozone. That’s what should be done.

    Why create another even more totalitarian bureaucracy that abuses our freedoms in europe to match the one in the USA?

    THe west is special because no one was unable to consolidate power, and had to rely upon the balance of powers, specialization and trade.

    China solidified, the muslims and ottomans solidified, the hindus solidified at least somewhat, and look what happened. The west, despite being poor and backward invented the industrial revolution TWICE. No one else invented it even once.

    The balance of power and freedom are more important to us and to humanity than efficiency and equality.

    “Efficiency and equality are dirty words.”


    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-24 16:41:00 UTC

  • The learning curves and forgetting curves of individuals in society, are shorter

    The learning curves and forgetting curves of individuals in society, are shorter than the learning curves and the forgetting curves of money in society. … fiat money makes it far too easy to boil the frog.

    🙂


    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-19 16:36:00 UTC

  • “Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without Hell. You have to have

    “Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without Hell. You have to have atonement for ridiculous levels of spending both the US and Europe have gone through. The spending idiocy of the world is going to catch up to itself. And that’s where we are today.” — Kyle Bass, Hayman Capital


    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-19 07:55:00 UTC

  • Ask Men is conducting it’s annual top 99 survey. But you can’t nominate anyone.

    Ask Men is conducting it’s annual top 99 survey. But you can’t nominate anyone. Sure, you can vote for the obvious Nicole Kidman and Ann Hathaway. But what good is a survey without Emily De Ravin and Sienna Miller, or even Gwyneth Paltrow? (And what is Pippa doing on that list?) I’ve been working on a long essay on beauty for the past couple of years, on and off. (Did you know people are actually getting better looking?) But like fashion, beauty is becoming a domain of the lower classes, just as have become the arts. Sigh. More vulgar and sexual than representative of human excellence, perfection and grace. … I follow The Sartorialist daily. (Everyone who loves fashion should.) But he captures, better than anyone, the reality that it is a product all too often of the lower middle, and proletarian classes. On the other hand, Ralph Lauren and Gucci pretty much have a creative monopoly on influencing elegance. Fashion is signaling. And from an economic perspective, it’s fascinating.


    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-18 20:50:00 UTC

  • are the first class citizens now. The rest of us, we’re all the n-word

    http://www.libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/18/the-new-slave-masters/Police are the first class citizens now. The rest of us, we’re all the n-word.


    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-18 13:48:00 UTC