"You can have sex with animals." Zucotti Sq. - YouTube
These tools are not in power or in the high paying jobs because they are incapable of the rational clear thinking to lead anything.
I'm sorry but you have to work hard to get somewhere.
Someone has to clean the floors and someone has to run companies.
This hippie nonsense will never take hold with the mainstream.
Sionn5 13 hours ago 30
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Double-Dip Recession a Foregone Conclusion
Double-Dip Recession a Foregone Conclusion: Roubini - EU Business News - CNBC
The world's advanced economies are headed for a second recession, regardless of whether there is further chaos in Europe, noted economist Nouriel Roubini told CNBC on Tuesday.
The world's advanced economies are headed for a second recession, regardless of whether there is further chaos in Europe, noted economist Nouriel Roubini told CNBC on Tuesday.
Shocking Costs Of Environmentalism
Shocking Costs Of Environmentalism - Investors.com
Those who fancy themselves to be green progressives are about to get some unwelcome "progress."
Thanks in part to environmental rules, electricity bills are headed for double-digit increases.
'Americans," the Daily Beast/Newsweek reports, "are about to get another kick in the wallet."
Those who fancy themselves to be green progressives are about to get some unwelcome "progress."
Thanks in part to environmental rules, electricity bills are headed for double-digit increases.
'Americans," the Daily Beast/Newsweek reports, "are about to get another kick in the wallet."
Westmoreland - WSJ.com
Book Review: Westmoreland - WSJ.com
The War Over the Vietnam War
A new biography puts an end to the idea that we could not win
The War Over the Vietnam War
A new biography puts an end to the idea that we could not win
Monday, October 10, 2011
Children to be banned from blowing up balloons, under EU safety rules
Children to be banned from blowing up balloons, under EU safety rules - Telegraph
The EU toy safety directive, agreed and implemented by Government, states that balloons must not be blown up by unsupervised children under the age of eight, in case they accidentally swallow them and choke.
The EU toy safety directive, agreed and implemented by Government, states that balloons must not be blown up by unsupervised children under the age of eight, in case they accidentally swallow them and choke.
Netflix Kills Qwikster DVD-Only Business Before Launch
Netflix Kills Qwikster DVD-Only Business Before Launch - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD
Qwikster, we never knew ya: Netflix has killed its plans to turn its DVD service into a separate business.
Qwikster, we never knew ya: Netflix has killed its plans to turn its DVD service into a separate business.
Instapundit
Instapundit
HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY
Many in the West will demonstrate their fierce originality and intellectual independence today by condemning Christopher Columbus using the same shopworn cliches they used last year. For those of a different bent, I recommend Samuel Eliot Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, which takes a somewhat different position. Here’s an excerpt:
At the end of 1492 most men in Western Europe felt exceedingly gloomy about the future. Christian civilization appeared to be shrinking in area and dividing into hostile units as its sphere contracted. For over a century there had been no important advance in natural science and registration in the universities dwindled as the instruction they offered became increasingly jejune and lifeless. Institutions were decaying, well-meaning people were growing cynical or desperate, and many intelligent men, for want of something better to do, were endeavoring to escape the present through studying the pagan past. . . .
Yet, even as the chroniclers of Nuremberg were correcting their proofs from Koberger’s press, a Spanish caravel named Nina scudded before a winter gale into Lisbon with news of a discovery that was to give old Europe another chance. In a few years we find the mental picture completely changed. Strong monarchs are stamping out privy conspiracy and rebellion; the Church, purged and chastened by the Protestant Reformation, puts her house in order; new ideas flare up throughout Italy, France, Germany and the northern nations; faith in God revives and the human spirit is renewed. The change is complete and startling: “A new envisagement of the world has begun, and men are no longer sighing after the imaginary golden age that lay in the distant past, but speculating as to the golden age that might possibly lie in the oncoming future.”
Christopher Columbus belonged to an age that was past, yet he became the sign and symbol of this new age of hope, glory and accomplishment. His medieval faith impelled him to a modern solution: Expansion.
Morison’s book is superb, and I recommend it highly as an antidote to the simplistic anti-occidental prejudice of today — which, as Jim Bennett has noted, has roots that might surprise its proponents:
This is primarily an effect of the Calvinist Puritan roots of American progressivism. Just as Calvinists believed in the centrality of the depravity of man, with the exception of a minuscule contingent of the Elect of God, their secularized descendants believe in the depravity and cursedness of Western civilization, with their own enlightened selves in the role of the Elect.
Indeed. Nonetheless, Bennett thinks that a different Italian deserves the real credit. (Reposted from 2005, but it still fits.) [Doesn't this leave you vulnerable to charges of recycling too? --ed. I prefer to think of it as "They came at us in the same old way, and, you know, we beat them in the same old way."]
I post this every year, as it’s evergreen. The original link to Bennett’s column seems to have succumbed to link-rot, but I believe this is it.
Posted at 8:24 am by Glenn Reynolds
HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY
Many in the West will demonstrate their fierce originality and intellectual independence today by condemning Christopher Columbus using the same shopworn cliches they used last year. For those of a different bent, I recommend Samuel Eliot Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, which takes a somewhat different position. Here’s an excerpt:
At the end of 1492 most men in Western Europe felt exceedingly gloomy about the future. Christian civilization appeared to be shrinking in area and dividing into hostile units as its sphere contracted. For over a century there had been no important advance in natural science and registration in the universities dwindled as the instruction they offered became increasingly jejune and lifeless. Institutions were decaying, well-meaning people were growing cynical or desperate, and many intelligent men, for want of something better to do, were endeavoring to escape the present through studying the pagan past. . . .
Yet, even as the chroniclers of Nuremberg were correcting their proofs from Koberger’s press, a Spanish caravel named Nina scudded before a winter gale into Lisbon with news of a discovery that was to give old Europe another chance. In a few years we find the mental picture completely changed. Strong monarchs are stamping out privy conspiracy and rebellion; the Church, purged and chastened by the Protestant Reformation, puts her house in order; new ideas flare up throughout Italy, France, Germany and the northern nations; faith in God revives and the human spirit is renewed. The change is complete and startling: “A new envisagement of the world has begun, and men are no longer sighing after the imaginary golden age that lay in the distant past, but speculating as to the golden age that might possibly lie in the oncoming future.”
Christopher Columbus belonged to an age that was past, yet he became the sign and symbol of this new age of hope, glory and accomplishment. His medieval faith impelled him to a modern solution: Expansion.
Morison’s book is superb, and I recommend it highly as an antidote to the simplistic anti-occidental prejudice of today — which, as Jim Bennett has noted, has roots that might surprise its proponents:
This is primarily an effect of the Calvinist Puritan roots of American progressivism. Just as Calvinists believed in the centrality of the depravity of man, with the exception of a minuscule contingent of the Elect of God, their secularized descendants believe in the depravity and cursedness of Western civilization, with their own enlightened selves in the role of the Elect.
Indeed. Nonetheless, Bennett thinks that a different Italian deserves the real credit. (Reposted from 2005, but it still fits.) [Doesn't this leave you vulnerable to charges of recycling too? --ed. I prefer to think of it as "They came at us in the same old way, and, you know, we beat them in the same old way."]
I post this every year, as it’s evergreen. The original link to Bennett’s column seems to have succumbed to link-rot, but I believe this is it.
Posted at 8:24 am by Glenn Reynolds
Video: 'Occupy Atlanta' Silences Rep. John Lewis Via Jazz Hands
Video: 'Occupy Atlanta' Silences Rep. John Lewis Via Jazz Hands - Guy Benson
Having watched this clip all the way through several times, I still can't stop chuckling.
Here's a quick primer to prepare you for what you're about to see:
You must watch this video to get a sense of the idiocy that is sweeping our country.
Funny.....but sorta creepy.
Actually really creepy.
Having watched this clip all the way through several times, I still can't stop chuckling.
Here's a quick primer to prepare you for what you're about to see:
You must watch this video to get a sense of the idiocy that is sweeping our country.
Funny.....but sorta creepy.
Actually really creepy.
Sunday, October 09, 2011
‘Time short’ for eurozone, says Cameron -
‘Time short’ for eurozone, says Cameron - FT.com
David Cameron has urged European leaders to take a “big bazooka” approach to resolving the eurozone crisis, warning they have just a matter of weeks to avert economic disaster.
David Cameron has urged European leaders to take a “big bazooka” approach to resolving the eurozone crisis, warning they have just a matter of weeks to avert economic disaster.
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