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ECONOMY:

This explanation of why profits are soaring but jobs are not, while not without merit, misses the much greater problem of credit expansion. Note how the study identifies the Greenspan-Bernanke era as the era when things changed?

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Nature did what nature always does: cleaned up the Gulf oil spill. Clean-up crews can't find it. This is wonderful, expected news for the people who live on the Gulf and for everybody else except the environmental Marxists. It's terrible news for them because it reminds everybody that humans are just minuscule creatures on the face of this awesome planet and are unable to do any serious damage.

Pat Sajak (yes, that Pat Sajak) slams the global warming frauds for their hypocrisy. He does it very nicely as you would expect Pat Sajak to do.

"Let’s assume that a third of the world’s population really believes mankind has the power to adjust the Earth’s thermostat through lifestyle decisions. The percentage may be higher or lower, but, for the sake of this exercise, let’s put it at one-third. Now it seems to me these people have a special obligation to change their lives dramatically because they truly believe catastrophe lies ahead if they don’t. The other two-thirds are merely ignorant, so they can hardly be blamed for their actions.

Now, if those True Believers would give up their cars and big homes and truly change the way they live, I can’t imagine that there wouldn’t be some measurable impact on the Earth in just a few short years. I’m not talking about recycling Evian bottles, but truly simplifying their lives. Even if you were, say, a former Vice President, you would give up extra homes and jets and limos. I see communes with organic farms and lives freed from polluting technology.

Then, when the rest of us saw the results of their actions—you know, the earth cooling, oceans lowering, polar bears frolicking and glaciers growing—we would see the error of our ways and join the crusade voluntarily and enthusiastically."

The frauds aren't going to take their fraud that far, where they actually have to sacrifice themselves, and hooray for Pat Sajak for calling them on it.

Going green in Britain means the people wills suffer 33 percent higher bill even while being forced to cut their energy use. Thanks, global warming frauds.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Mexican prosecutors allege that prison guards use prisoners as hit squads in Mexico's drug war, letting them out, arming them, and letting them use prison vehicles to travel to and from the hit. But who's really on a drug cartel payroll? The guards? The prosecutor? Both? There's no way to know because the war on drugs has enriched and empowered drug cartels to the point that everybody is subject to corruption. The only way to put an end to that is to end the war on drugs.

WAR:

Some key findings of the Wikileaks documents.

POLITICS:

The new black panthers don't scare me. Without government backing, they're just some punks. Government scares me.

LOCAL:

Apparently this is supposed to make us feel good or proud or something:

"Ohio has been named one of 19 finalists in the second round of the federal “Race to the Top” school reform grant competition which comes with a chance to win a share of $3.4 billion."

Yay. Ohio government is in the running to steal part of $3.4 billion from the rest of Americans. How does it feel to be the possible recipient of a huge amount of stolen money? How does it feel to be the victims of theft who might not get any back? I didn't know the Dept. of Education was using stolen funds to fund a lottery. Dayton could receive millions of the stolen money too.

MISC:

Southwest Airlines kicks normal sized woman off airplane to make room for obese teenager who needed two seats. That's a load of crap. That teen should have been charged for two seats up front. If you consume two seats, you have to pay for two seats. I realize this is a stand-by issue, but still.

The longer you sit, the shorter your life. So that means that educated, wealthy, white-collar professionals live shorter lives than uneducated, less wealthy, physical laborers? I doubt it. Non-desk-bound professionals and desk-bound non-professionals must skew these numbers, and stress is probably the single most important factor.