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Must Reads For The Week 4/25/15

April 25, 2015
The pen is mightier than the sword...

 The pen is mightier than the sword… (Photo credit: mbshane)

People Are Voting With There Feet, at washingtimes.com. In the last 10 years the population in over regulated states is decreasing and the population in states with more freedom is increasing.

Can You Solve This Moral Dilemma From A Real Job Interview, by Jason Stevens, at thefederalistpapers.org. One guy comes up with a creative solution. See if you’re this clever.

Two TSA Agents Fired For Pre-Planned Groping, at targetliberty.com. A couple of points. 1) I thought people turned in their pitch forks and horns for a halo when they became public servants? 2) Their union must not be very good because I’ve heard of union members jobs being protected for doing worse. 3) Whats the real difference between a, by the book pat down, and what these two did? Don’t you feel violated either way?

What Happened To Book Sales In Israel After A Year Of Price Controls And Minimum Payment Mandates To Authors, by Sharona Schwartz, at economicpolicyjournal.com. Anyone want to take a guess what happens with these price controls? Why do politicians and bureaucrats think that this time it will be different?

Stunned Greeks React To Initial Capital Controls And The Decree To Confiscate Reserves, And They Are Not Happy, at zerohedge.com. The Government mandated that any idle reserves be transferred to the Greek Central Bank for investment in short term state debt, (Isn’t that theft?). Something like this couldn’t happen here, could it?

DISGUSTING Republicans Vote To Hide Congress’s Obamacare Exemption, at targetliberty.com. The Senate Small Business Committee voted to not subpoena secret documents that show how the House and Senate members got an exemption from joining Obamacare exchanges. They think of themselves as the ruling aristocracy that doesn’t have to abide by the very rules they’ve forced us to obey.

Heal Wants To Be The “Uber” For Doctors Making House Calls, at targetliberty.com. This app brings doctors and patients together without any third party interference. Just as I’ve said before, Obamacare will create a free market for healthcare. Unfortunately the tax payer will have to fund both the free market system and Obamacare.

Regardless Of Obama Care, ‘Self Pay’ Primary Care Models Will Thrive, at selfpaypatient.com. This article explains that getting rid of third party pays is the way to go to fix healthcare. If Obamacare hadn’t passed, market realities would have started to fix the high cost of healthcare. Now we’re stuck with a huge Government program that tax payers will have to fund forever because Republicans don’t have the stones to get rid of it.

Get Ready For The ‘Achocolypse’: The World Is Running Out Of Chocolate, by Kate Taylor, at entrepreneur.com. A fungal disease and dry weather have cut the worlds coca supply by a third, at the same time world demand for chocolate is increasing. If prices are allowed to rise to ration this scarce resource, there won’t be a shortage, like the shortage of water that California is experiencing during this drought because of fixed prices. Read Prices Will Solve California’s Water Crisis.

Lets Laugh! Cartoons From theburningplatform.com.

Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel

Political Cartoons by Steve Breen

Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy

Political Cartoons by Steve Kelley

 

 

 

Observations From The Margin

October 21, 2013
Observation Tower

Observation  (Photo credit: mooglet)

– If you were a number one draft choice, and you hired the republican leadership to negotiate your contract with the team that drafted you. You would probably have to pay the team a signing bonus to play for them.

– What a sweet deal Government workers have. They will receive back pay for not working for two weeks. Maybe they should ask for unemployment compensation to go along with their two week paid vacation.

– The republicans were convinced they would lose seats in the 2014 election if they continued the shutdown and didn’t extend the debt ceiling. The deal they agreed to just delays dealing with the problem for three months. I have to ask, If you were afraid of losing seats a year out from the election, how much more afraid will you be nine months out? Do you think the republicans will be more eager to surrender or fight?

– The administration wouldn’t pay death benefits to families of soldiers killed in combat during the shut down. When they finally passed the CR to fund Government, section 134 specifically gives a death benefit for the widow of Senator Frank Lautenberg (his net worth is $56.8 million). What’s the difference between being a serf and being member of the ruling aristocracy? A serf is used as a pawn to be sacrificed in the political chess game, and nothing can be denied what is the birth right of the ruling class.

– During the shut down, I heard people talk as if the Government is the economy. Question, does the Government produce what it consumes, or does the private sector produce everything and Government confiscates what it consumes? Who is the parasite and who is the host in this relationship?

– When a politician uses the phrase, “the American people” want or need or think something, he is presuming more knowledge about how individual Americans think than he can possibly know. It’s a phrase designed to stop arguments that are counter to his position, by claiming a majority agree with him.

– Some related cartoons from, The Burning Platform. See more here.

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Some Humor To Take The Edge Off.

August 13, 2013

I saw these cartoons on theburningplatform.com.

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Related videoJay Leno, “We wanted a President that listens to all Americans – now we have one.”

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Related article – Sgt. Robert Bales Pleads Guilty to Killing Civilians.

Related Video showing drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004.

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Some Humor To Take The Edge Off

July 17, 2013

I found these on theburningplatform.com.

Related ArticleWhat Is Tyranny? at austrianaddict.com.

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Related ArticleThe Economics of Health Care vs. The Right to Health Care, at austrianaddict.com.

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Related ArticleYoung People Get Hooked Into Huge Debt When They Take The Student Loan Bait, at austrianaddict.com.

Related ArticleThe Most Recent Arbitrary And Unrestrained Exercised Of Power By The Federal Government, at austrianaddict.com.

TV Station KTVU thinks it’s revealing the names of the pilots who crash landed the Asiana  flight at San Francisco International Ariport, but it turns out to be a prank. How long would it have taken you to figure out what was going on?

 

Some Humor To Take The Edge Off

July 9, 2013

Here are some cartoons I found on The Burning Platform, click for more.

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THE DAILY SHOW JOHN OLIVER HAS SOME FUN WITH THE NSA SCANDAL, AT THE PRESIDENTS EXPENSE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmKy30ppLyw

Some Humor To Take The Edge Off.

June 12, 2013

I got these cartoons from theburningplatform.com. I picked the ones I liked but there are others that are very good.

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One way to diminish the power of  bureaucrats and politicians is to laugh at them every time they say something.

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The main stream press can be added to the  groups that can be laughed at.

STRATEGY TO COUNTER DATA COLLECTING

Watch this NSA Wiretapping Public Service Announcement, at funnyordie.com. It is great satire but also a great strategy. Overwhelming the system works for them it should work for us. If everyone is a suspect, nobody stands out, and the data that is mined isn’t as usable. It’s like trying to find a needle in a stack of needles.