Peaceful Muslims indiscriminately attacked and killed Christians in Pakistan after a false report that some Christians had defiled a copy of the Koran.
"The mob opened fire indiscriminately, threw petrol bombs and looted houses as thousands of frightened Christians ran for safety. 'They were shouting anti-Christian slogans and attacked our houses,' Rafiq Masih, a resident of the predominantly Christian colony, said. Residents said that police stood aside while the mob went on the rampage. 'We kept begging for protection, but police did not take action,' Mr Masih said."
Eight members of one Christian family were burned to death and dozens of others were feared killed in a town with 50,000 Christians in eastern Pakistan.
Another day, another example of peaceful Muslims going about their business - killing infidels.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Evidence that Obama is lying about his healthcare plan
Anyone who doubts that Obama is lying about not using a "government option" to gradually squeeze out private insurance and create a government run single payer system should watch this video. Here is the man himself saying that is what he wants to do, before he says it isn't what he wants to do. Hope and change is evidently about changing your story and hoping people won't remember what you said.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
De-capitalizing America
The reason rich countries are rich is that they've managed to accumulate more capital than poor countries. All rich countries have relatively free market economies because that is by far the best way to accumulate capital. Governments in these countries tend to destroy less capital than governments of poor countries.
However, formerly rich countries can destroy enough capital to impoverish themselves. Obvious examples are Zimbabwe, which was among the richest countries in Africa until Marxist Robert Mugabe took over, and, on a longer time scale, Argentina, which was one of the richest countries in the world in 1900, before a succession of populist rulers depleted its capital.
The US government under Obama has recently engaged in an orgy of capital destruction using borrowed capital to fund myriad wasteful liberal causes and special interest groups, and by propping up failing businesses. The latest, and perhaps clearest example is the so-called "Cash for Clunkers" program.
Here the government is paying dealers to destroy cars traded in for new ones which get a whopping 4 miles per gallon better gas mileage. The market value of the used cars is effectively the residual capital value of those cars, so destroying them wipes out that much capital, in addition to raising the cost of used cars for poor people.
Programs like these are precisely how formerly rich countries become poor, as they de-capitalize their economies. Examples like Zimbabwe and Argentina show what happens as this process continues. The governments of both countries have ignored basic economic science to "help the poor", with the result that the poor are now poorer than ever.
The liberal agenda results in the mindless destruction of vast amounts of American capital, with the result that the American poor will be poorer than they would have been. If you doubt that, ask yourself if you would like to live in Zimbabwe.
However, formerly rich countries can destroy enough capital to impoverish themselves. Obvious examples are Zimbabwe, which was among the richest countries in Africa until Marxist Robert Mugabe took over, and, on a longer time scale, Argentina, which was one of the richest countries in the world in 1900, before a succession of populist rulers depleted its capital.
The US government under Obama has recently engaged in an orgy of capital destruction using borrowed capital to fund myriad wasteful liberal causes and special interest groups, and by propping up failing businesses. The latest, and perhaps clearest example is the so-called "Cash for Clunkers" program.
Here the government is paying dealers to destroy cars traded in for new ones which get a whopping 4 miles per gallon better gas mileage. The market value of the used cars is effectively the residual capital value of those cars, so destroying them wipes out that much capital, in addition to raising the cost of used cars for poor people.
Programs like these are precisely how formerly rich countries become poor, as they de-capitalize their economies. Examples like Zimbabwe and Argentina show what happens as this process continues. The governments of both countries have ignored basic economic science to "help the poor", with the result that the poor are now poorer than ever.
The liberal agenda results in the mindless destruction of vast amounts of American capital, with the result that the American poor will be poorer than they would have been. If you doubt that, ask yourself if you would like to live in Zimbabwe.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
One reason medical care costs go up - successful treatment
It's long been known that dead people have very low health care costs. This is probably one of the main cost cutting strategies of Obamacare, along with the fact that poor health care, which leads to an earlier death, costs less than good health care. But he doesn't want to confuse you with those details now.
This article shows how rising survival rates from heart attacks have gone hand in hand with the more expensive interventions needed to secure better results.
"In the 1960s, the chance of dying in the days immediately after a heart attack was 30 to 40 percent. In 1975, it was 27 percent. In 1984, it was 19 percent. In 1994, it was about 10 percent. Today, it's about 6 percent."
Just think, if our survival rates were the same today as they were 40 years ago, we could not only have saved the extra money for more sophisticated and successful heart attack therapy, but all those dead people wouldn't have cost a dime in additional health care all the extra years they didn't live.
This article shows how rising survival rates from heart attacks have gone hand in hand with the more expensive interventions needed to secure better results.
"In the 1960s, the chance of dying in the days immediately after a heart attack was 30 to 40 percent. In 1975, it was 27 percent. In 1984, it was 19 percent. In 1994, it was about 10 percent. Today, it's about 6 percent."
Just think, if our survival rates were the same today as they were 40 years ago, we could not only have saved the extra money for more sophisticated and successful heart attack therapy, but all those dead people wouldn't have cost a dime in additional health care all the extra years they didn't live.
"Organic" food no healthier than regular food
One of the many cons perpetrated by the environmental movement over the past 40 years is that so-called "organic" food is healthier than other food. Scientifically illiterate people by the millions have bought into this nonsense, needlessly paying higher prices, often out of constrained budgets, for vegees fertilized with cow poop instead of "chemical fertilizers", as if manure, and everything else, isn't composed of chemicals.
Finally there is a definitive study.
Pass this article along to your "organic" friends. Unfortunately, since environmentalism is a religion, rather than a science, many people will continue to worship their environmental gods regardless of the evidence.
Finally there is a definitive study.
"Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its perceived health benefits...
A systematic review of 162 scientific papers published in the scientific literature over the last 50 years, however, found there was no significant difference.
'A small number of differences in nutrient content were found to exist between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs, but these are unlikely to be of any public health relevance,' said Alan Dangour, one of the report's authors.
'Our review indicates that there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organically over conventionally produced foods on the basis of nutritional superiority.'
The results of research, which was commissioned by the British government's Food Standards Agency, were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition."
The environmental movement has always used junk science to advance its agenda by preying on the fears of ignorant people. One wonders how long they'll be able to keep the "organic foods" movement going after studies like this one.Pass this article along to your "organic" friends. Unfortunately, since environmentalism is a religion, rather than a science, many people will continue to worship their environmental gods regardless of the evidence.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Why can't our voter identification system be as good as Mexico's?
This article describes the Mexican voter identification system, which unlike ours, actually verifies a voter's identity. It's interesting that one of the main "arguments", if one can call it that, against voter identification in this country is that it would somehow discriminate against Hispanics, while our Hispanic neighbor to the south uses a system far better than any state in America.
"In Mexico, every registered voter has an official ID card, complete with photograph, fingerprint and a holographic image... When a Mexican voter presents his card, the poll worker looks up his photo to see if it matches up...After voting, the Mexican voter's thumb ink is applied to his thumb. That way, if he shows up at another polling site to vote, they know he's already voted elsewhere."
It's obvious to anyone but clueless liberals that the reason for resisting effective voter ID laws is to facilitate massive voter fraud by the Democratic party. At least since the 1960 presidential election was shifted to Kennedy by vote fraud in Chicago, Democrats have used vote fraud to win closely contested elections.
Their attempt to win Florida in 2000 by inventing new votes was blocked by the Supreme Court, but since then, they've used that same process to "win" the Washington governor's race in 2004, and the just concluded Minnesota Senate race by the clown Al Franken.
Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder denied the state of Georgia the right to verify the citizenship of voters, which will have a chilling effect on any other state which attempts to implement a similar capability. This opens the way to voter registration for millions of illegal aliens, which should be sufficient to move a number of swing states into the Democratic column in future elections.
If Republicans don't get serious about voter identification, and stopping the use of recounts to produce imaginary votes in future elections, we won't have to worry about elections anymore - they'll be mere formalities to provide the illusion of legitimacy to a permanent Democratic one party government.
"In Mexico, every registered voter has an official ID card, complete with photograph, fingerprint and a holographic image... When a Mexican voter presents his card, the poll worker looks up his photo to see if it matches up...After voting, the Mexican voter's thumb ink is applied to his thumb. That way, if he shows up at another polling site to vote, they know he's already voted elsewhere."
It's obvious to anyone but clueless liberals that the reason for resisting effective voter ID laws is to facilitate massive voter fraud by the Democratic party. At least since the 1960 presidential election was shifted to Kennedy by vote fraud in Chicago, Democrats have used vote fraud to win closely contested elections.
Their attempt to win Florida in 2000 by inventing new votes was blocked by the Supreme Court, but since then, they've used that same process to "win" the Washington governor's race in 2004, and the just concluded Minnesota Senate race by the clown Al Franken.
Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder denied the state of Georgia the right to verify the citizenship of voters, which will have a chilling effect on any other state which attempts to implement a similar capability. This opens the way to voter registration for millions of illegal aliens, which should be sufficient to move a number of swing states into the Democratic column in future elections.
If Republicans don't get serious about voter identification, and stopping the use of recounts to produce imaginary votes in future elections, we won't have to worry about elections anymore - they'll be mere formalities to provide the illusion of legitimacy to a permanent Democratic one party government.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Wild horse welfare
Most of us knew that Barack Obama combined with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress would lead to wild spending and untold insanity. Here's one of the latest examples.
And this is one of the smaller examples of liberalism run amok. There should be a TV sitcom about these sorts of incredible stories. Oh, there is one, the news.
"H.R. 1018 is the 'Restore Our American Mustangs Act.' It can fairly be described as a welfare program for horses. Believe it or not--this isn't satire--here is what the bill will do:
[T]he 'Restore Our American Mustangs Act' ... would create a new $700 million welfare program for wild horses. The program:* Conducts a horse census every two years
* Provides 'enhanced contraception' and birth control for horses
* Establishes an additional 19 million acres of public and private land for wild horses
* Covers $5 million tab to repair horse damage to land
* Mandates that government bureaucrats perform home inspections before Americans can adopt horses
'Enhanced contraception' for horses? Maybe I'm out of touch, but I didn't realize that wild horses use contraception at all...
And this is one of the smaller examples of liberalism run amok. There should be a TV sitcom about these sorts of incredible stories. Oh, there is one, the news.
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