Year: 2010
I’m curious
Would anyone want to buy stock in a company that was, IMHO, stolen from it’s original owners? Yes, I know the answer. “Yes,” because investors…
No so Green as we were led to believe
Karen De Coster leads us to the Investors Business Daily and their conclusion that the latest People’s (Green) Car is a fraud. This unGreen ride…
Keeping ’em flying
(Via The Register) Aviation enthusiasts in The Country Once Known as Great Britain refuse to believe that the last airworthy Avro Vulcan bomber should be…
Regulating redbox
Ars Technica has an interesting article that points out, yet again, exactly how government regulation needlessly stifles business innovation, this time in the case of…
Is Hyperinflation on its way?
(Via Timebomb 2000) There is a lot of back-and-forth theses days, among those who opine on things economic, about deflation and hyperinflation. Are we one,…
It’s Saturday night…
And obviously, you have nothing to do, since you’ve just happened by here. Allow me to present you with something that will take up your…
Do what?
How do you have a “Summer of Recovery” that ends in a “soft landing“? “Recovery” means things are getting better; “soft landing” means that a…
I knew it, I just knew it!
Liberalism is a genetic defect. Join the search for the cure now.
OK for me, but not for thee
It’s just fine with Democrats if billionaire George Soros spends his money advancing their cause, but when Raleigh, NC businessman Art Pope does the same…
No inflation?
On average, our basic food costs have increased by an incredible 48% over the last year (measured by wheat, corn, oats, and canola prices). From…
Eric Scott
In case you haven’t been following the story of Eric Scott on your own, the Confederate Yankee has a recap with commentary for you.
And here we are…
We are 6ish days out from The Day We Begin To Take America Back. Or the day we fail to do so, and pull up…
Obviously, they haven’t been to the grocery store lately
In its most recent CPI report for food, the USDA reported that prices are expected to rise in 2011. I guess the rise in food…
Coming soon to a police state near you
Backscatter vans. I guess that whole 4th Amendment thing just isn’t a big deal any more.
The bottom feeders lose one
It would seem that, in at least one part of the court system, common sense holds sway. Righthaven, the company that scours the Web for…
“U.S. .Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes”
As with the mythical “”gun show loophole”, we must again note thatthe 21st century definition of “loophole” is “any law I disagree with”.
It’s back! It’s updated!
(Via Survivalblog) You know it, you love it, it’s the Animated Unemployment Rate Map–updated through the end of August, 2010. Something wicked this way comes…
Better and better
“Reinflation or bust” would seem to be the motto at the Federal Reserve. Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Fed, said that “in my opinion,…
An alternative to the government-approved statistics
Well, by now we’ve all heard that there is no inflation out there, and, as a matter of fact, some of our alleged economic gurus…
OMG!!! It’s a gun store!
And apparently, it’s full of magic talismans that will cause otherwise normal people to become blood-thirsty killing machines. PSH-filled story is here.
The best rant seen on the Intertubz today
Over at The Whited Sepulcher, in the midst of shooting fish in a barrel fisking a Bill Clinton speech, our man cuts loose with: The…
Assualt Bacon
An Islamic center in South Carolina has been defaced when someone spelled out “PIG CHUMP” in bacon strips, police in Florence said Tuesday. LMAO Incoming…
I have to bend over how far?
Debate on the question “Is an expired tax cut the same as a tax increase?” aside, I found this nifty little calculator that will tell…
Interesting and useful
Stratfor on “How to Respond to Terrorism Threats and Warnings“. Sign up for the free newsletter while you’re there.
“suspicious timing”?
That’s putting it rather mildly, I think. A bill that homeowners advocates warn will make it more difficult to challenge improper foreclosure attempts by big…
“Things Will Unravel Faster Than You Think”
(Via Refuge) …far too many people expect events to unfold in a more or less orderly manner, with plenty of time to adjust along the…
They’ve got it all wrong
He was just redistributing the store’s income. Police said a man wearing a mask of President Barack Obama robbed the Sheetz on Somerset Center Drive…