Monday, March 12, 2012

The human right to convenient parking

Rex Murphy: The human right to convenient parking | Full Comment | National Post
So, as the Post’s editorial board detailed, and columnist Matt Gurney ever so industriously expanded upon, the much beset Ms. Howson went to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, pleading — obviously — a diminishment of her human rights.
Ms. Howson is herself a former investigator for the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, so she brings to this matter an expertise that only first-hand exposure to the nebulous clouds of current human rights thinking can supply.

Dichloroacetate and cancer

Dichloroacetate and cancer : Pharyngula
But there is a germ of truth to the story, in that DCA does have potential.
Here's how it works.

Interesting.

Exposer in Stolen Valor case fired

Exposer in Stolen Valor case fired - Washington Times
One supervisor said, “I don’t understand why you made such a big deal.
You’re not even a Marine anymore,” Ms. Campbell recalled.
“Do you understand what they do to earn their awards?” Ms. Campbell replied.

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Add LBGT to anti-dicrimination policy? Muskegon City Commission to consider

Add LBGT to anti-dicrimination policy? Muskegon City Commission to consider | MLive.com
King cites the city’s housing policy that ensures equal opportunity and non-discrimination no matter a person’s “race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, height, weight, familial status, marital status or disability.”
Likewise, the city’s hiring policy prohibits discrimination based upon “race, religion, color, gender/sex, height, weight, marital status, familial status, national origin, age, veteran status or disability as defined by federal and state law.”
No doubt King’s passion for the issue to be included in her city’s anti-discrimination policies would likely be opposed on moral and religious grounds by others.

What Recovery?

What Recovery? | Washington Free Beacon
The labor force participation rate—63.9 percent in February—remains at a near-historic low.
 Individuals who have stopped looking for work do not count toward the unemployment rate, masking the true extent of the jobs crisis.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told members of Congress last month that the current unemployment rate as calculated by the administration “no doubt understates the weakness in the labor market in some broad sense.”

Special Series: Broke Municipalities Look to Bankruptcy Option

Special Series: Broke Municipalities Look to Bankruptcy Option | CalWatchDog

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Detroit Nears Bankruptcy

Detroit Nears Bankruptcy | Via Meadia
For decades, Detroit has been the poster child for urban decline in America.
Now things have reached an even newer low:
The city is projected to run out of money by next month and seems to have no credible plans to make up this shortfall.

Bill Maher: Obama's Million Dollar Man

Unplugged? $100,000 Fisker Karma electric plug-in breaks down during testing

Unplugged? $100,000 Fisker Karma electric plug-in breaks down during testing | MLive.com
The magazine reportedly buys about 80 cars a year for testing and the California-based automaker’s plug-in electric hybrid, which has technology similar to the Chevrolet Volt, is “the first time in memory" that a vehicle was undriveable before it had finished the magazine's check-in process.

The breakdown is the most recent tidbit of bad news along a long road of disappointments regarding the start-up company that received a $528.7 million conditional loan from the U.S.Department of Energy's $25 billion Advanced Technologies Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program

VIDEO: Pat Knight Has Epic Tantrum About Lamar

VIDEO: Pat Knight Has Epic Tantrum About Lamar

Well, they did make the NCAA tourney.

Awesome New Pics of China’s Stealth Fighter

Awesome New Pics of China’s Stealth Fighter | Defense Tech

The Racist Ravings of Derrick Bell

The Racist Ravings of Derrick Bell | FrontPage Magazine
Derrick Bell is best known as the founding father of Critical Race Theory, an academic discipline which maintains that society is divided along racial lines into (white) oppressors and (black) victims, similar to the way Marxism frames the oppressor/victim dichotomy along class lines.
Critical Race Theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently its legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid.
A logical derivative of this premise, according to Critical Race Theory, is that the members of “oppressed” racial groups are entitled—in fact obligated—to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing.
Such a perspective’s implications for the ability of civil society to function at all, are nothing short of monumental.