Courage does not always roar.
Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow".
Anonymous
We're Still Here...
I first saw this spoof in one of my emails and found a copy loaded on at least one website. Note there is no forecast for tomorrow. The History Channel was running related apocalyptic specials yesterday, and FX ran the movie "2012". There is a touch of an iconoclast in my character; I remember the Y2K fear-mongering which I knew was overblown but even won then Fed Chief Greenspan's attention; a DBA I worked with was a survivalist; ;he's probably still eating from his food stockpile
No doubt all attention will now turn for the annual predictions of such worthy items as the gender of Prince William's unborn child. People believe in all sorts of nonsense, like Obama can stop the seas from rising and heal the earth--or that some career politician with no administrative experience or knowledge of business or economics--can "fix" the economy.
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Wants Armed Security for Schools:
Thumbs DOWN!
Have we learned NOTHING from the massive, overly expensive overreaction from 9/11? We have lost more men in Afghanistan and Iraq than people lost on 9/11. Over a trillion of that $16T debt spent on nation building. We have seen individual rights trampled by the TSA and/or various government agencies.
No, there are diminishing returns, and manpower is very expensive. I don't want to convert schools into de facto prisons. There are ways to harden school access points just like cockpits, redundant/layered security layers, improved surveillance and alarms, screening employees, and improved profiling (e.g., loner young men).
Blaming the culture seems to suggest some sort of unconstitutional censorship and I don't believe there are credible studies establishing such a link. In the Newtown tragedy, we are dealing with a mentally ill young man, and I didn't see a takeaway addressing the point.
Former Presidential Nominee John Kerry
Nominated for Secretary of State: Thumbs UP!
As a college student, Kerry had a keen interest in foreign policy and was skeptical of American empire-building. He has met with foreign leaders like Syria's Assad and currently serves as Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Beating a Dead Horse
I have written several segments on the bogus claims that FDR's New Deal and/or WWII got us out of the Depression. (I have referenced and/or embedded relevant videos from Robert Higgs and Tom Woods on the topic. A 3-part Higgs lecture on the Great Depression and "Great Recession" is embedded below) Why is this topic relevant? The short answer is that Obama has plagiarized several pages from FDR's playbook: he has ludicrously blamed an unfettered free market for the "great recession", a laissez-faire predecessor, added entitlements, favored unions versus business owners, championed infrastructure spending, jawboned SCOTUS, etc. while ignoring easy money policies of the Fed (and in fact giving the Fed more responsibility in "financial reform").
Musical Interlude: Christmas Retrospective
Classic Christmas Hits: Dean Martin Let it Snow- Bing Crosby White Christmas- Frank Sinatra Have Yourself Merry Little Christmas Nat King Cole Silent Night-Andy Williams Holy Night
