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LIBERTY:

Bizzaro World continues to take over Great Britain. Here's the headline:

"Employer told not to post advert for 'reliable' workers because it discriminates against 'unreliable' applicants"

A little more detail:

"When she ran the ad past a job centre, she was told she couldn't ask for 'reliable' and 'hard-working' applicants because it could be offensive to unreliable people."

We're on the same path in America.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The Fed is already unwinding its monetary base and reducing the money supply in the process. This will undoubtedly trigger another recession.

WAR:

These slanderous attacks on people who support killing terrorists before they kill us are baseless, ugly, irrational and counterproductive to the cause of freedom. I bet this guy would kill his attackers before he allowed them to kill his family. The problem is a difference in policy, not that ordinary Americans who support the wars are evil or hypocrites. They think terrorists in the Middle East are plotting to kill them right now, and they're right. They think we should kill or capture those terrorists before they kill us, and they're right. No honest, sane person would disagree with that. The only question is what is the best policy to keep them from killing us. Dropping bombs on them (or non-terrorists in the case of common mistakes), their families, their friends and the people in the neighborhood who happened to be nearby is not the answer. Waging war across the Middle East is not the answer. Having a system of voluntary exchange with and befriending the mainstream Middle Eastern Muslims who are the natural enemies of the terrorists is the best policy. This is a debate on policy we need to win, but we'll never win it with irrational libertarians calling Americans who just want themselves and their families to survive the terrorists but are misguided on policy baby-killers. Libertarians are supposed to be rational, but there's nothing rational about this irresponsible, dishonest slander.

Our military expansion around the world continues as if George Bush never left office. I don't care if China is infuriated about the sale of Patriot missiles to Taiwan. If Taiwan wants to defend itself from China, we should support that, as long as we don't have troops there manning them. We should always support deterring aggression. The Puerto Rico comparison is dumb too. But putting US anti-missiles on Russia's border makes no sense. Europe has a significantly bigger economy than Russia or any country in the Middle East, and it can take care of itself. I thought Obama nixed that idea last year.

"If earlier plans to deploy ground-based midcourse missiles to Poland evoked, however implausibly, an alleged Iranian missile threat, the Patriots can only be meant for Russia."

That's what I thought. I wouldn't mind if Russia or China sold Patriots to Cuba (a much better comparison) since they're defensive only missiles, but I wouldn't like Russian or Chinese troops stationed there. But I fear these missiles and radar are prime targets for Russia to seize to obtain their technology. They can only heighten tensions between Russia, Eastern Europe and the US, and they'll never stop a committed attack from Russia.

MISC:

Humorous, insightful article on the social harm caused by smoking bans. Any smoker will get a real kick out of this story. It's irresponsible of government to make anybody so miserable.

The digital revolution is making Earth invisible to aliens. Instead of indiscriminately broadcasting in all directions, we beam information point to point except for satellites that broadcast down on the Earth. All those Seti people are not happy.