…is it ethical? I like the idea of meat from a vat, myself, but it’s a lot farther off.
Walmart
…defended.
Birds Of A Feather?
A picture has surfaced that may depict Hitler playing chess with Lenin. There is cause for skepticism, of course:
Historian Helen Rappaport, who has just written a book called “Conspirator: Lenin in Exile”, said the etching was probably a “glorious piece of fantasy”.
She said: “In 1909 Lenin was in France and there is no evidence that he was in Vienna.
“In October he went to Liege in Belgium and in November he went to Brussels. He would have visited Vienna before and after that year.
“He liked the place and went there because he travelled around Europe on trains, but he wouldn’t have been there long enough to meet a young Hitler.
“He was also as bald as a bat by 1894 with just hair on the sides of his head.
“And when in exile he was not known as Lenin and instead used a number of aliases.
“The person believed to be Lenin in the etching may well have been one of his revolutionary or Bolshevik associates who was misidentified.
“It may even have been an Austrian socialist with whom he associated in the Second International.
So, maybe it wasn’t Lenin. That right winger Adolf Hitler was hanging out and playing chess with some other socialist.
Not Just A Communist
Van Jones is (or at least was) a Truther. How unshocking.
Why The Smart Grid
…is dumb.
Here’s a concept. Get rid of the antiquated regulations that don’t allow demand pricing, and people will get smart appliances.
Here’s A Solution
The growth in production of hybrid cars is resulting in shortages of rare earths. Well, I know where we can find some, but it’s not on earth.
So When Does School Start, Again?
And these people want to take over our health care? One of the reasons that the administration is tanking in the polls is that it increasingly looks like the gang that can’t shoot straight.
This Is Your Congressman
This is your Congressman on drugs.
I like the part at the end, where he threatens to defenestrate him.
Goody
Health-care reform means even more power for the IRS.
A Revolt Of The Masses
Thoughts from Daniel Henninger:
the lumpen electorate works, and the lumpen bureaucratariat spends. They get away with it because they have perfected the illusion that no human hand causes these commitments. The payroll tax just happens. Entitlements are “off-budget,” presumably in the hands of God. This is government without the responsibility of governance.
Unable to identify who or what has put them in hock to the horizon, national electorates are attempting accountability by voting whole parties out of power. Rasmussen recently found that 57% of voters would throw out Congress en masse if they could. Gerrymandered districts ensure that they can’t.
Problem is, the lumpen bureaucratariat can’t stop spending and borrowing and won’t incentivize growth. Amid the phenomenal spending on the financial mess here, they tried to pass a cap-and-trade bill whose centerpiece was an auction of carbon credits to flow trillions of dollars toward the bureaucracies. Mr. Obama’s people seem weirdly oblivious to the scale of their outlays, programs and dreams.
Something has to give.
[Update a few minutes later]
Will Obamacare be to Obama what Spain was to Napoleon?