Navy SEAL cleared in Iraq prisoner abuse case
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498099/posts
Thank you Rush and Roy Spencer for making CCX Expose Possible
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2505139/posts
Pakistani Taliban Claim Credit for Failed NYC Times Square Car Bombing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2505084/posts
Video shows federal officials knew quickly of potential for massive oil flow in Gulf spill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505211/posts?page=1
[In the meantime, Soros drools over his Brazilian oil stocks, and half a dozen other countries drill off our shores.]
thouworm offers excellent insights and superior youtube reg. Santa Cruz Riot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505201/posts?page=33#33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG63gn0BVjQ
[Anarchists, police an hour late.]
Former NOAA oil spill cleanup boss says Obama waited too long in Gulf disaster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2505307/posts
Recap of Oil Spill Scandal, Soros, and Possible CCX Connection
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2505062/posts?page=104#104
Biden: We’re In A “Depression”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504079/posts
Islam Wacko and Threat to US [Recap]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505266/posts?page=32#32
Obama, U.S. Gov’t Downplay Jihadist Threat in Failed NYC Bombing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2505157/posts
[Times Square over weekend]
Maggief digs deep on CCX [posts 21, 28, 29, and 30]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2505139/posts?page=21#21
The Obama-Ayers meeting: What you haven’t been told
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505277/posts?page=42
Sicko SanFran protests. Thunder90: “Leftists gone wild in San Freaksicko.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2464035/posts?page=201#201
[In Loony Left thread — flagged with warnings.]
VIDEO: Obama: We’ve “Seen The Dangers Of Too Little Government”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504609/posts
US defense of global religious freedom wanes under Obama, panel says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503935/posts
Santa Cruz Riot: VIOLENT LEFTISTS WIELDING TORCHES Riot, Smash Windows, Burn a Coffee House After Immigration Protest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505201/posts?page=1
Sharpton Recap in Thug-0-crat hit list, including murder victims
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2464640/posts?page=172#172
Border Disorder [NYP]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2505063/posts
South of the border, down Mexico way, a new and savage revolution rages just beyond our inspection lanes. After less than five years of fighting, estimates of the dead have reached 22,000.
Faisal Shahzad (Failed Car Bomber) was a Registered Democrat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2506397/posts?page=53
NY Hospital Apologizes to Nurses Punished for Refusing to Facilitate Abortion (Right, and?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2507359/posts
Who is Huma Mian? Wife of Faisal Shahzad, Times Square bomb suspect
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2507329/posts
[She’s now in Pak — authorities have detained her father]
Inside the Brain of Soros [his inspiration — Karl Popper]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2511282/posts?page=1
http://joytiz.com/2010/soros-idol-suppress-disagreement-by-force
The great mentor of Soros was Karl Popper:
“Popper argued that humans have only two possible destinies: one was to live in a closed society in which everyone was forced to believe the same thing. The other would be an open society free of nationalisms and tribal wars.” [Snip]
The goal: a closed society [elites ruling the peons]. If pro-peon arguments sound silly, great — let them keep yammering. But if the pro-peons get too persuasive, Popper believes in using force to end it.
Obama’s Middle Name Ignites Textbook Battle (Texas)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2518219/posts
Lawmakers agree to extend unemployment benefits
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2518008/posts
[How Greek of us.]
FREE SPEECH TRENCHES [Free Republic link list research]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2518240/posts
I will try to have some kind of ping by 8:30 this morning and will explain why I’m not at my best today. FRegards ....
Quick Summary of Oil Spill Scandal:
As Gulf oil spill worsens, Obama flies to San Fran to party with Getty Oil tycoons
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2521373/posts
How the White House destroyed the Gulf
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=157901
“ ... more than a week before any NOAA ships sailed ... o submersibles capable of dumping rock or concrete onto the spill and covering it over (like a cairn) were dispatched ... No submarines fired wire-guided ADCAP torpedoes ... Tom Strickland elected to go on vacation ... Talk was made of starting the oil on fire (not the best option, but better than nothing) and various measures suggested, but little was done. ... Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal [was stonewalled on] barrier islands ...”
Dem Congress Jumps Into Action… Will Quadruple Gas Tax After Gulf Oil Spill
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/dem-congress-jumps-into-action-will-quadruple-gas-tax-to-pay-for-oil-spills
[We’re to be punished for Obama’s failure]
Ted Turner: Gulf mess ‘GOD’s work... He’s sending us message’...
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/17/ted-turner-wondering-if-god-is-speaking-in-gulf-coast-spill
[Was Obama’s impeachable neglect of spill God’s work too?]
Professor dumped from oil spill team over writings
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2516982/posts
[Politics above a go-to-guy for solutions]
How Obama got into Harvard [Jack Cashill]
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=158901
Jack Cashill rehashes ties between Obama and radical Islamics
Quick summary [my words] Percy Sutton frankly said that Dr. Khalid al-Mansour asked him to recommend Obama to Harvard. Khalid al-Mansour is a radical anti-semite, and top advisor to one of the richest men on earth — audi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
Cashill thoroughly establishes how odd it was for a poor student to enter Harvard.
Great news!!
Oil Spill:
Gulf oil spill: Kevin Costner donates ‘Ocean Therapy’ invention to clean oil from sea; BP OK’s tests
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/05/19/2010-05-19_gulf_oil_spill_bp_oks_tests_of_kevin_costners_invention__device_to_clean_oil_fro.html
[quote] Enter “Waterworld” star Kevin Costner, who has spent years and millions of dollars perfecting a device that cleans oil from seawater. [snip] [$26 million from his own pocket.]
Video: Kevin Costner’s Sweet Oil Centrifuge IN ACTION - Gothamist
http://gothamist.com/2010/05/20/video_kevin_costners_sweet_oil_cent.php
Obama,”I’m Not Going to Rest Until the Leak is Stopped”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2524521/posts
Obama Administration Moves To Distance Itself From BP On Oil Spill Response
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2524992/posts
Obama during oil spill — golf, parties, photo-ops… and more golf! (photos)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2524592/posts
Have You Seen this Man? - The Hunt for William Craig Fugate [FEMA chief]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2524999/posts
Deepwater Horizon Will Be Bigger Than Three-Mile Island, And We Felt That For Three Decades
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2524832/posts
Backhoe: “Not only did this well experience several “kicks” (sudden gas releases in the well) but they KNEW they had a problem with the blowout preventer ...”
Confirming that:
Deepwater Horizon rig: What went wrong? - Nightly News- msnbc.com
May 21, 2010 ... One of the early warning signs was belches or ‘kicks’ of methane gas, which came up from the depths of the well in the weeks before the ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37279113
Gas surge shut well a couple of weeks before Gulf oil spill ...
www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05...
May 27, 2010 ... The report showed that the Deepwater Horizon had received evidence of ‘kicks’ of oil and natural gas coming up the drill pipe several times ...
www.wsws.org/articles/2010/may2010/spil-m27.shtml
Search Oil spill hearings: Crane operator recounts Deepwater Horizon ...
During the explosions April 20 on the Deepwater Horizon, ... enormity of the explosions from unexpected kicks of gas from the well below, ...
www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05...
Reviewing Sunday Ping: Oil Spill surprises [post 601]. Sestak [post 602].
How it goes deeper than Helen Thomas:
Glenn Beck nitpicked by Media Matters regarding quote of Nazi author
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=163877
[Were they have as persnickety with Helen Thomas all these years?]
Richard Cohen: A lesson from Helen Thomas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2529624/posts
“Thomas, of Lebanese ancestry and almost 90, has never been shy about her anti-Israel views ...”
Arab racist Helen Thomas reflects the real conflict: Arab racism, Islamic bigotry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2529603/posts
“For most Conservatives, Helen’s statement last week did not come as much of a shock.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2529503/posts
[Tony Snow nailed it years ago when he “thanked her for the Hezbollah view”.]
[Where was Media Matters all these years? Where were these loving, caring, better-than-everyone else leftists? How did such a racist thrive in their midst all this time when her words betrayed her long ago?]
Reuters caught cropping incriminating flotilla photos
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/06/07/reuters-caught-cropping-incriminating-flotilla-photos.php
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/06/reuters-brings-fauxtography-to-gaza.html
“You may remember during the second Lebanese war Reuters was caught making news pictures look worse than they were with a little touch of Photo Shop.”
[There you have it. Even Reuters is anti-semitic.]
Are we Reliving the 1930’s? Antisemitism on the Rise
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2529831/posts
Little Jihadi Girl at School [Vanity]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2527010/posts
“[A 6 year old muslim girl] walked up to my daughter (aged 6) and told her that she was going to “cut her dirty Jew throat” and shoved her down. Out of the blue. Completely in seperate classrooms. This was in the USA, btw. ... School is involved. They don’t want me to call the cops ...” [snip]
Lone Jewish boy attacked by Muslim mob in Los Angeles
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2526878/posts
High School Kids Play Beat the Jew
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2525469/posts
I DON’T WANT TO GO TO ISRAEL ... Mark Steyn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2525835/posts
“I think the headline of this Jonathan Kay column sums it up. In the European media, the loathing of the Jewish state is palpable - and alarming in its implications.” [snip]
“That somewhat banal thought used to occur to me whenever I’d be in a ‘moderate’ Muslim state chatting up some westernized Arab hottie and, just at the point at which I’d be thinking we were getting along gangbusters, she’d say something utterly nutty, invariably involving Jews. These days, the thought is as likely to occur at London dinner parties. There’s no “incursion” or “disproportionate response” by Israel that prompted Elvis’ divestment from the Zionist Entity: These days, it’s just business (or lack of it) as usual.” [snip]
Here’s a quote to ponder: “[In Palestine] only one side lives under continuous threat of extermination.”
Another “Macaca” moment? Not for Helen Thomas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2530017/posts
“Following the Macaca video, the Post ran no fewer than 131 articles on Allen’s slur. Thirteen of the articles slammed Allen on the front page, and 34 were in the national section... “
[So where is Obama?]
Groups want stronger U.S. defense of Israel, Obama not obliging
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2526356/posts
[Actually, he’s stirring up trouble for Israel as noted in dip-lunacy research found in my profile.]
Iran Beats the War [aka oil] Drums:
Iran’s navy offers to escort Gaza ships
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528911/posts
AHMADINEJAD [Iran]: FLOTILLA RAID STEP TOWARDS ISRAEL’S ANNIHILATION
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2529941/posts
‘Iranian ships won’t reach Gaza’ [Israeli officials]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2529968/posts
[How’s 0bama Dip-lunacy working for you?]
Primaries show off the power of the broom
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530700/posts
Tea Party Candidates Win Some Primaries
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530695/posts
Palin, Romney Play Chess in Primaries
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530337/posts
Angle wins US Senate primary in Nevada [Dingy Harry, say HELLO to your worst nightmare!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530652/posts
Culver will face Branstad [Iowa]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530674/posts
Carly Fiorina wins GOP Senate nomination [vs. Boxer CA]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530645/posts
Blanche survives [for now]...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100609/D9G7K1LG2.html
*Palin’s backing pays off...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2530708/posts
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38302.html
Republican Women Dominate...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2010_Elections/primary-races-nevada-arkansas-south-carolina-california-measure/story?id=10856058
Hannity on radio this afternoon will talk with idea people regarding oil cleanup.
Obama Flashback 2008: I Ran a Big Campaign So I Can Handle a Gulf Disaster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2529857/posts
“Thanks to Byron York for bringing it to our attention. On September 1, 2008, Barack Obama, fresh from his Roman-colonnade speech ...”
Norah Moved By Plight Of . . . Obama Staffers [Morning Joe]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2529992/posts
“O’Donnell gets choked up as she describes Obama aides waking up in the middle of the night with nightmares of gushing oil.”
Who’s the BP boycott really hurting?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530407/posts
“BP does not own a vast majority of its gas stations. They’re run by small business owners ...” [snip]
BP: ‘Virtually all’ oil to be captured soon...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9G7D7F80&show_article=1
Second leaking rig near Deepwater Horizon...
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/another_gulf_oil_spill_well_ne.html
Deep Bay of Rigs Research by Diogenesis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2530184/posts?page=9#9
MILES OF OIL CONTAINMENT BOOM in Warehouse- Just Sitting- Waiting For BP or US to Collect (Video!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530539/posts
Maine factory owner begs feds: Why aren’t you buying the oil barriers I’m churning out?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530565/posts
Broken Window Fallacy
French economist Frederic Bastiat
That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen
by Frederic Bastiat, 1850
http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#broken_window
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen: it is well for us, if they are foreseen. [snip] Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, - at the risk of a small present evil. [snip]
I. THE BROKEN WINDOW
[My words outside of brief quotes]
A brat breaks a window, and some economists might think, “Great. It creates work for the glazer.” So the glazer puts in a new window and earns six francs. “Stop there! your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen.” ... “It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another.”
So there you go. True progess comes from a NET gain in humanity’s property. Progress is set back when property is lost, when labor is wasted, and when dreams are shattered like a broken window. Even the brat — he’s out breaking windows rather than learning a useful trade. The glazer is just restoring what was lost. The man buying the window needs to cut his budget and postpone genuine progress. Other people would have earned that six francs that would have advanced humanity’s net property.
Looking deeper: a misanthrope is glad to reduce humanity’s net property. A person who hates his fellow man hopes to manipulate others into stagnation and setbacks out of some selfish desire. He attempts to talk useful idiots into buying his contorted theories.