“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: Where is Ragnar Danneskjöld when you need him?
(Via the Drudge Report) It may not be cargoes of machine tools, food or raw materials, but a cargo of currency–even fiat currency–could go a…
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Hard to imagine a T-Rex in feathers
The age of dinosaurs was a feathery one. My worldview has been dreadfully upset.
Hi there!
Anyone remember me? You might want to start paying attention to my whereabouts before I show up on a milk carton.
Well, of course
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is likely to suggest to European finance ministers on Friday that they leverage their bailout fund along the lines of the…
Because, you know
(Va the Drudge Report) You couldn’t possiblysurvive TEOTWAWKI without a steady stream of porn.
Once again, in the country once known as “Great Britain”
(Via the Drudge Report) They’re putting kids (as young as 3) into databases and tagging them as “racists” and “homophobes”. In an alternate universe, Big…
If you pay attention to economics, you can’t help but click on this headline
(Via SurvivalBlog) We’re All Greece – And On Fire It’s like a bowl of peanuts at a bar–you just can’t help yourself.
What caliber for gators?
In South Carolina, the.357 magnum has been found to do the trick.
Are you a John Wayne fan?
(Via CNBC) Some of The Duke’s personal possessions are going up for auction.
Funny
The Fed wants to know how big banks would have an orderly wind-down of business in a crisis. Yeah, I bet in a bank failure…
Polite?
Mr. Polite may have been less than polite to the intruders who broke into his home, but he had the right idea. A Winston-Salem homeowner…
Hey rich folks!
(Via Big Hollywood) You don’t have to wait! Send all that extra money in now!
Don’t agree with all of it…
But there is a lot of stuff in “How to Beat Terrorism: Refuse to Be Terrorized” that’s worthy of consideration.
Want graphic evidence that capitalism is better than any other ism?
(Via RobertaX) A light map of the Korean peninsula.
Well I’ll be…
(Via Karen de Coster) It seems that our Fiddlin’ Government actually keeps track of the real level of unemployment in the country. Currently at 16.4%.
A decade later
So here we are, at the end of a week-long festival of sackcloth and ashes over 9/11. Not to belittle the actual event, mind you–I’m…
Would it surprise you…
If I said I support Obama’s jobs plan 100%? As a matter of fact, I think double, triple, dodeca it. Can we start printing $100,000…
Another miracle of government medicine
(Via the Drudge Report) Family doctors have been ordered to ration the number of patients they send for life-saving cancer scans to save money. They…
Perhaps it was the pitch of his voice that gave him away?
(Via FoxNews) Nathan Mark Hardy Arrested With Live Lobsters In Shorts: Cops
“Atlas Shrugged” was a warning, not a manual: It’s only sexual assualt if they’re not government employees
(Vai the Drudge Report) As a government agency, the TSA is not subject to the sorts of market forces that cause companies and corporations to…
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day
(Via the Drudge Report) $1 trillion in stimulatin’ didn’t work, so let’s try another $300 billion–that we don’t have–and see how many jobs that creates.…
If you ain’t smilin’ before it’s over
(Via Smallest Minority) Then something is way wrong with you.
In the country once known as Great Britain
(Via SurvivalBlog) The Olympics start in less than a year. But if your a kid and you want to see one of the shooting sports,…
As Tam would say
Stop touching it! Authorities say a woman was accidentally shot by her boss at a South Florida convenience store. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office…
Luqidate!
(Via the Drudge Report) “…liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate… it will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of…
Your “Duh!” of the day
“The job market is even worse than the 9.1 percent national unemployment rate suggests.” In the midst of theirpreparations for the reanointment of the Light…
We’re from Apple, and we’d like to search your house
(Via the Drudge Report) What’s next–checkpoints on the local roads? Police officials said they helped Apple investigators, who searched a man’s home here recently. They…
Will you be in Aurora, Indiana September 23-25?
I sure wish I was, because I’d be going to tour a World War II LST. Of course, it’s home port is relatively nearby in…
Say it ain’t so
I haven’t said much on the Gunwalker scandal, mostly because other folks are doing it much better than I. But… Just hours after the death…
How far do you trust an entity that is “too big to fail”?
Me? Not so much. Counties across the United States are discovering that illegal or questionable mortgage paperwork is far more widespread than thought, tainting the…