Category Archives: bureaucracy

THE RAPE OF A GIRL – THE REST OF THE STORY

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

The Daily News gives us a chilling report that K.J., a 15 year-old girl with an IQ of less than 60, was gang-raped in class by her special school classmates while the teacher(s) did nothing (Daily News says “teachers,” Daily … Continue reading →

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OLD CZECH TRUISM – AS GOOD AS NEW

Posted on August 15, 2012 by

Here is some humorous commentary on central economic planning that used to circulate in socialist Czechoslovakia’s “underground” (i.e. where the 99% lived).  It strikes me as being eminently applicable as we watch Obama try to implement central planing in the … Continue reading →

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YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY REDISTRIBUTED (RERUN)

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

I thought I’d rerun this rant from November 2011. I have been thinking about a couple of progressive concepts that the Obama regime is likely to employ as a temporary way to feed its spending addiction.  (I say “temporary” because … Continue reading →

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OKAY, GURU OBAMA, NOW I HAVE TRUE UNDERSTANDING!

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

In the summer of 1965, my parents made the potentially life-stopping decision to escape from what was then the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR), to give themselves and their progeny (including moi), a chance for a life in freedom and dignity.  … Continue reading →

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FAILED STATES

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

Foreign Policy has released its annual review of failed states.  (h/t Via Meadia)  Interesting things to be noted here: 1.  there is a very high positive correlation between state centralization (communism, socialism, fascism, corporatism, Islamism) and higher state failure rating, … Continue reading →

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SPEAKING OF SCIENCE…

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

Twelve years ago, in a paper now carefully buried, NASA scientist James Hansen wrote (h/t WUWT): ..we argue that rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as chlorofluorocarbons, CH4, and N2O, not … Continue reading →

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MEMO TO TEACHERS: WATCH IT!

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

A high school teacher in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada has been suspended for the unmitigated gall of handing out zeroes for assignments that have not been turned in, even though such a reaction is contrary to school system policy. (h/t Small … Continue reading →

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L’AFFAIRE LINDT

Posted on May 30, 2012 by

The European Union is in crisis, and it’s not what you think.  Fiscal problems in Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland and other places are nothing next to the — impending disaster represented by the Lindt chocolate bunny. As David Pryce-Jones at … Continue reading →

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CLIMATE SCIENCE IS TOO – UH – SCIENTIFIC!

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

Perish the thought! Mike Hulme, senior scientist at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, founder of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and IPCC lead reviewer, is challenging people to become eco-poets to roll back … Continue reading →

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COMRADE ROMNEY BREAKS COVER

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

Finally! The Hill reports that Mitt Romney has jigged, jagged, did the Vienna waltz, zigged, zagged and sashayed, spent 15 minutes doing a square search and finally did the spinning dervish, and came out believing that the individual mandate is … Continue reading →

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