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Posted May 7-8, 2008.
She's melllltingggg! Nicholas Munchkin of TLDville hopes it's not premature to make a joyful noise:
"Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices," writes Erik Eckholm of the New York Times, "the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach
That is a deliberate distortion.... [Continued.]
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead.
Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up, you sleepy head.
Rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead.
She's gone where the goblins go,
Below – below – below.
Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong, the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know the Wicked Witch is dead!
There's obscene, and then there's obscene. The New York Times recently unleashed its propagandists to bemoan a sharp increase in the use of Food Stamps — one of the most openly obscene welfare programs because it was designed not to feed the hungry but to keep American farmers prosperous by increasing the purchase of food. Stop and think: Why else would it have been created by two farm-state legislators — Bob Dole (R-Kans.) and George McGovern (D-S.D.) — instead of by inner-city (code word for black) pols?
Posted May 8, 2008.
Michael Nolan, who has contributed to a couple of libertarian Websites, asks a very good question in this piece for Dissident Voice: "Who Gets Totally Obliterated, Iran or the U.S.?" He wrote it before his main targets — Hillary and her co-conspirators — took their body blow on
The story illustrates the possibilities for sneaky implementation of Negro "reparations," though in this case they are not reparations for slavery. If Obama makes it into the imperial palace, perhaps he won't have to be so sneaky. Now there's some cold comfort for you.
Jennifer Rubin has penned a piece for the conservative vehicle Human Events that you might want to read, because chances are you won't be seeing much mention of the scandal in your daily paper: "Farmer Reparations." Editor's intro: "A Reparations bill Obama and Hillary just love."
Elites stink bad when they rot. This Wall Street Journal column succeeded in deepening my contempt for the ruling class's highfalutin' Ivy League, which I hadn't been sure was possible: "Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment," by Joseph Rago. It's not a case of colored (or P.C. white) students vs. a non-P.C. white prof this time: in journalistic lingo, such stories have been rendered almost "dog-bites-man." This time it's a turnabout, though that doesn't necessarily mean we must abandon all of our canine metaphors.
Here's a January piece by Alexander Cockburn that I've just tumbled to: "I am an intellectual blasphemer." It's at Spiked, and the editor's promo reads: "When Alexander Cockburn, author of the forthcoming book A Short History of Fear, dared to question the climate change consensus, he was punished by a tsunami of self-righteous fury. It is time for a free and open
'battle of ideas,' he says."
I find an interesting companion piece at Business & Media Institute: "Report: Global Sea Ice at 'Unprecedented' Levels," by Jeff Poor. Editor's intro: "April 2008 had the third highest recorded amount since records were started in 1979, contradicting media coverage of diminishing sea ice."
Poor writes, understandably enough, that we should not "expect to hear this reported on the your evening newscast." I did, however, hear some mention of it on MSNBC.
Pursuing TLD's mission of delivering "fair and balanced" coverage, I have to link also to this Reuters piece that attributes the increased sea ice to — Global Warming!
"Climate change warms Arctic, cools Antarctica," by Deborah Zabarenko
Whether or not any of their conclusions are true, it must be said that there's something very Marxist (and Freudian) about the way these Goreites think.
Several years ago senior editor Ronn Neff noted the interesting fact that people never seemed to wonder why they didn't buy their health insurance in the same way they bought their car insurance. What was Mr. Neff getting at? D.W. MacKenzie, writing at Mises, sheds light on the question in examining the arguments of health-socialists: "The Relentless Process of Socializing Health Care." MacKenzie finds their criticism of employer-provided health care to be
A taste: "There are ... reasons to blame the American government for the alleged distortions of employer-paid health insurance. Were it not for the expense of health care in this country, health insurance would be a small part of either an employer's expenses in an employer-paid system, or household expenses in a consumer-financed system."
At USA Today, Dennis Cauchon reports: "Hiring leaps in public sector / First-quarter gain most since 2002." Oh, great.
Note the magical thinking contained in the lead: "Federal, state, and local governments are hiring new workers at the fastest pace in six years, helping offset job losses in
the private sector" [emphasis added]. Bastiat, we need you now more than ever!
Ronn Neff and I wonder whether the "federal" part of this might be an effort by the executive branch to make the economy look better in the short term and thus influence this fall's elections.
It's nice to know that some of today's New Yorkers can get het up over totalitarianism: "Raw milk lovers upset over Amish arrest," by Matthew Lysiak at the New York Daily News. The totalitarianism here is of a typically fascist variety, benefiting established and politically connected dairies with a stake in regulation and the suppression of competition.
It's too much, naturally, to expect neocon David Brooks to talk about racial differences, but I'm afraid this piece of his at the New York Times may lead others to commit that very form of crimethink: "The Cognitive Age."
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