If you haven’t read “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” then I urge you to take the time. It’s “science fiction”, but not really, if you know what I mean…..
You can now get a copy ONLINE. Gratis.
The story, written in 1966 is relevant even today. VERY worth your time to read.
HT: Linoge
Old Jarhead REALLY get this one right.
I have nothing to add.
Some things are perfect just as they are, and adding to them is like painting the crown jewels.
Read. Laugh.
Despite the hopes of Mayor Bloomberg and Ms. Brewer…
Raids regarding the NYC Times Square screwup bombing.
Several people are in custody after the raids search warrants were served.
I feel sorry for the folks who aren’t Jihadists but look like the folks detained by the authorities.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
– Robert A. Heinlein
Although there is, apparently, some hope.
Or is it that they wish to damage this already reeling country’s economy even farther?
How many other businesses must fail…How many other people must lose their jobs?
Y’know, it they would just leave the country and the economy alone for a year, then things would get better fairly quickly. This continuous meddling (first health care, now what is essentially Cap+Trade) does nothing but damage an already fragile economy.
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Are they trying to damage the country even more?
I used to think it was incompetence……I am beginning to think that it is instead malice. All under, of course, the aegis of preventing the now debunked Global Warming….
I think that I will go check my rope. At some point we are gonna need to use it.
HT: Moonbattery
Seems that the Democrats are (again) eyeing your 401(k) and other retirement accounts as a way out of the fallout from their spending spree budget deficit issues…I toldya. They’ll never stop. Anything that the socialists can do to take money from those of us who have stolen earned it and give it to those who are poorer and therefore more deserving of the wealth.
The method has worked so well everywhere else it has been tried, so why not have a chance to let it fail here as well?
We are rapidly heading down the path that has already been Greeced by Greece.
Why can’t our supposedly well educated leadership type folks understand that Socialism fails every time it is tried? Sometimes, with enough manipulation, it can hang around for years and years, but it ultimately fails no matter where it is tried and no matter how many times the system is propped up and/or manipulated by the current government?
Bankruptcy.
Yet all the other partially socialized governments and banks and the IMF keep propping them up, just to stave off the day of reckoning.
I was under the impression that Mr. O was smarter than this….Misguided, but smarter. But here we see an example where education does not confer judgement or wisdom. Again.
No doubt they think they are making a statement. And that the desecration is justified to get their point across.
Actually, just making enemies.
As other have said; “build one twice as high”. If anyone knows where to donate, please email me or let me know in the comments.