Analytics

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Post #3209 M

Quote of the Day

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes  

Tweet of the Day













Image of the Day




Self-Driving Cars








Choose Life:  Siblings' Cuddling







Facebook Corner

(A niece-in-law who was adopted). This story has to do with adoption reform from a source promoting LGBT policy preferences. The Texas legislature is pursuing reform that recognizes the religious liberty rights of non-state agencies (e.g., Catholic). The opposition insists that agencies which "discriminate" against LGBT prospective parents are unconstitutional, suggests that orphans are being victimized by being deprived of prospective available, willing parents. I am not going to rant here on my view that I oppose social experimentation with the traditional marriage and family constructs. I believe that a child is better raised by straight parents, a traditional, not arbitrary construct. It is true that government cannot discriminate arbitrarily, but in this case we are talking about discriminating against agencies which promote traditional values.

What I ask is what further serves the consumer, in this case the child: more agencies or fewer, agencies from the private sector or not.

 I can't even begin to understand this. What happened to "the best interest of a child?" Adoption in Texas continues to have set back after set back. Children deserve better! #adoptionreform  https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2017/05/08/texas-adoption-agencies-ban-jews-gays-muslims-house-bill

No, I don't see any prohibition of agencies that could set liberalized adoptive parent policies. This is from a source that seems to have a political agenda they want to impose on adoption agencies. What we really need is deregulation of adoption, which would truly be in the best interest of children.

via LFC

 Ah, yes, and don't forget: the government "invented" the Internet, which is why growth occurred only after it was privatized.

 " Congress and the states divert roughly 25 percent of the Highway Trust Fund spending to non-highway projects that are not federal priorities." e.g., mass transit. Taxpayers also have to subsidize parasites like Amtrak.

 Excise taxes are NOT user fees which they are controlled and distributed by political whores.
Naive....Should be, "The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties BELIEVE they will benefit"
If the other party believes there was fraud, there are legal rights. For example, you don't own the Brooklyn Bridge. Still, I have the right to demand you hold title. Friedman would probably argue that any dishonest trader would not be able to sustain his livelihood because few, knowing of his fraud, would engage in a similar transaction.

 (National Review). "Do we really believe Donald Trump, after all these months, decided suddenly to fire this guy because he damaged Hillary back in July?" -- Charles Krauthammer 
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/447463/trump-fires-james-comey-krauthammer-calls-it-inexplicable-do-may?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=ctake&utm_content=comey-inexplicable
"He damaged Clinton back in July"? You mean when he exonerated Clinton publicly based on "intent" vs. the facts of national clearance compliance, even though it was not his function to make a decision to prosecute?

 (Institute For Justice). Until last month, North Dakota could require a license to sell home baked cookies or cakes.
But not anymore! http://ij.org/north-dakota-now-open-homemade-food-businesses/
Don't gripe when some kid gets a cookie full of needles or cake made with rat poison. l'd never buy something where the facility was not inspected for sanitation, nor the product. This is an open invitation for some twisted person.
A health inspection from the local government, even if the health inspectors aren't corrupt or incompetent, is only reliable on the day it is done and limited by the nature and extent of the inspection process. And food safety rules are often arbitrary and dubious, e.g., bans of mite-rind cheese.

A vendor has every incentive to maintain food safety standards; he or she is liable for the effects of selling food. Look at the damages, e.g., to Chipolte's sales and profits after E. coli outbreaks. The vendor or industry, even without government, will look to reassure customers, just like public firms will hire accountants to attest to financial statements.

Homemade foods have been sold or shared at schools, dinner parties, potlucks, etc., without evidence of psychopaths out to spread illness or death through intentionally deadly food. This fearmongering by the OP is offensive and disingenuous; it's just protectionist claptrap.


Political Cartoon
Courtesy of Gary Varvel via Townhall

Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists


Amy Grant (with Vince Gill), "House of Love"

Posted by at
Labels: , , , ,