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To everything (purr, purr, purr) There is a season (purr, purr, purr) And a time to every purpose, under heaven A time to be born, a time to die A time to faceplant, a time to leap A time to kill, a time to play A time to ignore, a time to prey To everything (purr, purr, purr) There is a season (purr, purr, purr) And a time to every purpose, under heaven A time to climb up, a time to knock down A time to prance, a time to curl up A time to cast away litter, a time...

Of Wikileaks, and Project Veritas, The Enquirer, and Things. So, by now almost everyone has heard of the Wikileaks emails. Julian Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy overseas, fighting extradition on a charge of sexual assault up in Sweden. There have been a steady stream of drips of emails from Wikileaks, involving John Pedestal (Hillary heavy) and various-and-sundry. The Obama administration, and the Clinton campaign, have been going crazy trying to figure out how to suppress, discredit, or stop the leaks, or at least change the subject. They figured with the Octopussy scandal hitting Trump, the election...

When guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have guns. When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl When politics is outlawed, then only...oh wait.

Paleo is my shepherd, I shall not want carbs It maketh me to lie down with leafy greens, it leads me to drink gallons of water it refreshes my gut flora It guides me along nutritional paths for health’s sake Even though I walk through the valley of chocolate I will fear no eclair For thou art with me thy whey protein and thy reduced portions they comfort me You prepare a table before me in the presence of my trainers You anoint my head with fish oil my cup overflows. Surely glucagon and Omega-3s will follow me all the...

One of the laments of the Democrat has been that evil capitalists have been against “working families” (read: union labor) for the sake of profits; one example being the loss of jobs in manufacturing, or the destruction of the textile industry by shipping of jobs to lower-cost sites in Asia. The rejoinder of the right has been two-fold; first, that the union laborers priced themselves out of the market, and that many more jobs have been lost to mechanization and automation than to offshoring, and that the new knowledge jobs of the future depend on mathematics (e.g. designing and programming...

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In a prior piece, Where the Body Is, The Vultures Are Gathered, or, For Whom the Toll Peals Part I, I introduced the concept of transactions, values, and prices, for both labor and finished goods. In this section, I continue, looking at the Marxist theory of value and its applications and misapplication to the present day, and then move on to newer and/or more complex economic situations. We have seen how quickly an example of a simple exchange, between a blacksmith and a villager, becomes very complex with just the addition of more villagers, more than one blacksmith, and the...

The celebrated British apologist and essayist, G.K. Chesterton, had a good friend, Hilaire Belloc, who is now largely forgotten, but whose fame in his day caused George Bernard Shaw to refer to the pair as the “Chesterbelloc.” Among his many interests (such as writing a Foreword to a collection of P.G. Wodehouse short stories!), Belloc wrote a number of books and articles on the subject of economics. One of his most intriguing works was a book entitled The Servile State. In this book, written before the fall of the Russian Tsar and the rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia, Belloc...

You might be a liberal if : 1…if you think that the US is so awful you want to move to France …but you don’t understand why there are so many illegal immigrants 2…if think that the schools’ most important job is to teach little Johnny all about condoms …and then you conclude the reason “Johnny can’t read” is lack of funding 3…if you honestly believe that Michael Moore has a greater grasp of world politics than Condoleeza Rice 4…if you honestly think that George Bush is a moron, despite his advanced degree from Harvard 5…if you would trust Peter...

It is a commonplace now in certain circles that the era of the West is over. We are soon to be supplanted by the growing powers in Asia. Everyone knows about the pro-globalization, anti-American slant to the annual Davos conference in Switzerland. In another, similar conference in Dalian, China, (billed as the Asian version of Davos) one reporter stated that “several people described the United States as the Great Britain of the 21st Century and nobody disagreed..” And super-investor (and Soros crony) Jim Rogers is on record too, as quoted in Business Week: ”This is the China century," says Jim...

See for example this thread first. Air America should be named 'Err' Cause they've gone as far as they can dare It's Christopher Hitches with atheist bitchin's With their ratings, will anyone care?

Today (Monday October 1), the Rush Limbaugh radio talk show featured an astounding interview with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, but I was equally intrigued by some of the programming which aired after the interview. As it turns out, a number of Democrats in the United States Senate (in conjunction with some liberal groups) have been trying to make a stink over some remarks Rush Limbaugh said in conversation, about our fine troops in Iraq. Well, not exactly. I listen to Rush on occasion, and I heard his original remarks—far from being disparaging of the troops, they were harsh words...

This article is in honor or the opening of the latest session of the Supreme Court. There is a famous law in Physics known as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. If you have only heard of it in the mainstream press, you may have heard of it incorrectly. Some think it means that you cannot tell where anything is – like your car keys, or the last pair of socks in the dryer, only worse. The actual scientific definition is more complicated, and it says that you cannot simultaneously know the position and the momentum of a particle with infinite precision; in...

See for example this thread first. From atop their high and lofty perch The 9h Circus okays a strip search of thirteen year old, when it's for IBUPROFEN! So the Court left that girl in the lurch...

See for example this thread first. In Burma, they're exe-CU-ting monks Hundreds? Thousands? The murderous skunks! What I think we should do Send a B-52 We can show them they're nothing but punks.

During a recent campaign appearance, Hillary Clinton proposed the idea that each and every baby born within the United States be given a $5,000 baby bond in order to help pay for college or pay for a new house. The problems with this idea are too many and too obvious to mention here, but glaring difficulties have never stopped Democrats (or even politicians in general) before. In fact, one could argue that common sense and lack of patronage funds are a greater obstacle to politicians than anything else...but I digress. The question is (to use the Latin), “Qui bono?” That...

See for example this thread first. It's the end of the road for Gingrich And he won't run to challenge the witch Who to vote for instead? Duncan Hunter, or Fred! Don't fall for Guiliani's sales pitch!

See for example this thread first. Michigan workers face a layoff From the GOVERNMENT! Don't try to scoff! "Don't come in on Monday 'cause we can't make your pay!" Maybe they should go union, (cough cough).

See for example this thread first. Controversy erupts o'er King Tut We know that he's an Egyptian, but The claim that he's not black --not by a racist hack! So they CAT scanned his mummy, so what?

See for example this thread first. U.A.W. starting a strike Against G.M. So what's not to like? They say, "Throw off the yoke!" ...but the company's BROKE! So it's time for another price hike!