In The sNews
I’m not sure if this fits in this thread, but:
An interview of Joseph Stalin by HG Wells from 1937. At least read the first half or so, and tell me it doesn’t ring familiar.
Fair and responsible coverage of the tax day protests by the mainstream media, and I’m not being sarcastic about that at all.
Yes, that’s exactly the kind of objective reporting I have come to expect from CNN.
EDIT: Here’s what happened at that Tea Party after that “report” was made.
I assume the following is a hypothetical story since there was no link. It’s also fairly obvious because, although this is exactly what would happen in real life, no educator with such views could even get a teaching certificate in this country, let alone become a professor.
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had failed very few students but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “Okay, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.”
“All grades will be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade meaning, obviously, no one will receive an A.” They all agreed to this. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a C. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great dismay the professor failed them all. Then he sent all of them this note: “A socialistic government will also ultimately fail - because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.”
This obvious truth is forever beyond the comprehension of true believers like Obama and his ilk.
If you’ve been paying attention, you may have noticed that missing from the list of American car companies getting a failout payment is Ford. They’re coming out with a car next year called the Fiesta, which will be an American adaptation of one of the tiny, well-made cars they make in Europe. I’ve never really been a “car guy,” but I’ve been loosely following its progress because I think it’s a good idea, and one they should have been doing all along, really.
The guys at car web site Jalopnik got their hands on one and had little but praise for it. These guys write about $50K+ sports cars and SUVs all the time - they’re really car people - so to see them get so excited about a $12,000 compact gets me kind of excited too. I think The Bird, my little ol’ Geo Metro (a rebadged Suzuki Swift), still has some good days ahead of it, but when it’s finally time to say goodbye, cars like these plus the honor of being the only one of the big three to not be suckling Uncle Sam’s teat means I’ll be seriously considering them, despite previously thinking I’d never buy a domestic car in my life. Now how do I break that to my dad, the Nissan salesman…
If you make $40,000 a year, Obama’s “budget cuts” are the equivalent ot your cutting $1 from your budget. This is how he is going to cut the deficit in half.
There’s a hedge fund manager named Cliff Asness who is apparently getting some attention for this essay speaking out against the Obama administration’s handling of Chrysler. It ends with:
I am ready for my “personalized” tax rate now.
Persecuted for owning manga? It could happen to you.
It looks like my fellow Californians are going to reject Arnie’s tax extensions/raises/shell games in the forms of Propositions 1A through 1E, whereas 1F, which freezes the salaries of elected officials in years where there’s a budget deficit, is going to win by a huge margin. It just goes to show you - off-year elections really do attract fewer idiots.
Apparently, AB, you Californians didn’t vote down all those tax hikes because you’re sick of politicians spending your money like water. You voted them down because you’re all worn out from voting and because you’re stupid. Don’t worry. As usual, they’ll get some judge to correct this huge mistake the voters made.
On that same note: Politician is honest about being a crook, gets voted in.
How to deal with a suicidal jumper?
Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand — and pushed him off the ledge.
Chen fell 26 feet onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.
The passer-by, 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng, had been fed up with what he called Chen’s “selfish activity,” Xinhua said. Traffic around the Haizhu bridge in the city of Guangzhou had been backed up for five hours and police had cordoned off the area.
Guy “pulls over” cop doing over 90 with no lights and lying about it - on video. This guy’s a hero. Warning: Plenty o’ NSFW language.
And another one down, and another one down… Another one bites the dust…
Under an agreement reached with the Obama administration, the government will invest $30 billion to support the restructuring of GM, which filed for bankruptcy this morning. The move will give American taxpayers more than a 60 percent stake in the company.
Laissiez-faire say whut?
Didn’t we just do that a few months ago so that they wouldn’t go into bankruptcy? Of course, nobody is going to accuse the Obama Administration of being lazy or fair. It just makes sense that a bunch of people who have never run anything are going to know better how to run a multinational corporation better than people who have been doing so for most of their adult lives.
I can’t wait to get behind the wheel of my new Government Motors car. I hear that they will be able to travel at speeds of up to twenty-five miles per hour and they’re built to last for months! You’ll be able to get one for just under a hundred grand, too.
The Beeb’s Top Gear reviews a Ford Fiesta. Watch it at least halfway.
A review of the Tata Nano, the Indian supersubcompact.
Acceleration does not impress: from a stop, the Nano takes around 30 seconds to reach 60 miles an hour — twice as long as the slowest gasoline-powered new car in America, the Smart ForTwo. And during my test drive, performance deteriorated noticeably when four or five people were in the car.
This is a story that got buried so that the Media could keep us up to the second on the much, much more important story of MJ’s death. (Pay no attention to the fact that it happened almost a week before Jacko died.)
Of course, you have to consider the source.
Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick
Does he really believe his message will ever get through? Plimer smiles. ‘If you’d asked any scientist or doctor 30 years ago where stomach ulcers come from, they would all have given the same answer: obviously it comes from the acid brought on by too much stress. All of them apart from two scientists who were pilloried for their crazy, whacko theory that it was caused by a bacteria. In 2005 they won the Nobel prize. The “consensus” was wrong.’
