schachterrific!

Here is the next piece of the puzzle. Now that the economy of south-central US is in shambles, time to head north:

U.S. agency’s action may kill Bucyrus deal, cost 1,000 jobs

Bonus question: How many times can you spot the word “China” in this article?

Just to show that I’m still alive, here’s a sweet little video from the Japanese visual performance group Bosanjo….

Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

For the longest time, I’ve thought that the world is being run by idiots, but felt it wasn’t PC to say that out loud. (Come to think of it, the whole concept of PC is pretty idiotic, so what does that say about me?) Anyway, along comes American Thinker and puts to print my whole point. In. Its. Entirety.

As a nation we are under the thumb of idiots. Not just indoctrinated, or wrong-thinking, or power-hungry, or manipulative, or even malevolent people. No, I mean real lowbrows, people who constantly fall for really stupid ideas. Neanderthals. (Look at the Governor of California just running the state budget into the ground. See what I mean? That’s not just incompetence. It takes special stupidity, almost a deliberate, willful absence of real thinking.)

The Federal EPA is about to officially declare carbon dioxide to be a pollutant. That’s not just false and unscientific; it’s not just an excuse for taxing everything in sight, including breathing. It’s not merely wrong. It’s idiotic. It marks a low point in our national conversation. Scientists or engineers with a grain of sense shouldn’t be taking the EPA seriously for a second. Forget the “climate experts,” with their grossly inadequate computer models. Normally intelligent people should boggle at the EPA. They are bizarre. Only the truly ignorant could fall for this level of ignorance. Or those who just can’t think.

Read more here. A real eye-opener.

Loyola Economics Professor Thomas J. DiLorenzo takes a withering look at how governement uses the big lie to manipulate the populace in this great article from the Mises Institute:

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not. Throughout history, governments have used violence, intimidation, coercion, and mass murder to enforce this system. But governments’ first line of “defense” is always a blizzard of lies — about its own alleged benevolence, altruism, heroism, and greatness, along with equally big lies about the “evils” of the civil society, especially the free market.

The current economic crisis, which was instigated by the government’s central bank and its boom-and-bust monetary policies, among other interventions, has once again been blamed on “too little regulation” and too much freedom.

Will Americans ever catch on to this biggest of all of government’s Big Lies?

Read the rest here.

I’m starting a new section called Trains of Thought. These will be links to a series of articles that I think everyone should read, really do not want to lose, but have no logical reason to bookmark them on my browser. So here, immortalized on the internet (provided the articles themselves are not removed), you and I will be able to find them.

Jews in Genes

Just What is Genetically Coded in the History of Judaism?
Crypto-Supersessionism
Why Can’t Muslims Take a Joke?
Why are there so many Jews in comedy?

Take it or leave it.