Global Icing & Murder

"Climate madness you say? Well maybe there is something to this Global Warming hype—I'm for it!"

Euphemisms of Liberalism

Euphemisms of Liberalism: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."—George Orwell

A Very Depressing Picture of Tax Complexity and Political Corruption | International Liberty

A Very Depressing Picture of Tax Complexity and Political Corruption | International Liberty:

72,536 pages of tax code & growing!

22andMe and Regulatory Capture

As an 'old' customer, I get to keep the same services from 23andMe, the innovative company that provides genetic testing and information, but new customers will not get the same information. That means that they will be less informed about their own bodies.

As the WSJ recently noted, «The not-so-benevolent paternalists at the FDA write that "serious concerns are raised if test results are not adequately understood by patients," and 23andMe's direct-to-consumer model may inspire people to "self-manage" their care. For example, a false positive for the BRCA1 genetic marker that increases the risk for breast cancer "could lead a patient to undergo prophylactic surgery, chemoprevention, intensive screening, or other morbidity-inducing actions."

Or maybe it would lead a woman to talk to her physician about the options and, er, double check the results before undergoing a life-altering operation.»

Networks Skip Special Treatment for Obama's Illegal Uncle, But Univision Hits 'Favoritism' | NewsBusters

Networks Skip Special Treatment for Obama's Illegal Uncle, But Univision Hits 'Favoritism' | NewsBusters: "The journalist wondered, "What probability does a person with a deportation order have that his case would be re-opened?" [See Spanish language video at link.]

Immigration lawyer Paula Solorio responded: "Almost none, because when Immigration detains a person with an old deportation order, the government is going to execute the earlier order."

She added, "Obama's uncle had the luck of getting an agreement with the U.S. ICE prosecutor to re-open the case. That's what happened. For any other person, the government is going to execute the order.""

GUN VIOLENCE - THEN & NOW

The difference between then & now is FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER VIDEO GAMES.  Read LCOL Dave Grossman's 'On Killing' and the CT Attorney General's report on the Adam Lanza shootings.  Young children can be programmed, especially if they are already prone to mental disturbance, to be mass killers. It sends chills down my spine to read that Adama Lanza was engrossed in pernicious video games and that the investigation found:

- Two videos showing suicide by gunshot
- Commercial movies depicting mass shootings
- The computer game titled “School Shooting” where the player controls a character who enters a school and shoots at students
- Screen shots (172) of the online game “Combat Arms” ...
- Images of the shooter holding a handgun to his head
- Images of the shooter holding a rifle to his head
- Five-second video (dramatization) depicting children being shot

COPYCAT CRIMES are not a new phenomenon.

(http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Sandy_Hook_Final_Report.pdf)

The Idiocy of Gun Control

Everything You've Heard About Crack And Meth Is Wrong - Forbes

Everything You've Heard About Crack And Meth Is Wrong - Forbes: "“The effects of drugs on human behavior and physiology are determined by a complex interaction between the individual drug user and her or his environment.”"

END THE WAR OF DRUGS.

Pentagon training manual: white males have unfair advantages | Fox News

Pentagon training manual: white males have unfair advantages | Fox News: "“Simply put, a healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives many unearned advantages of social privilege, whereas a black, homosexual, atheist female in poor health receives many unearned disadvantages of social privilege,” reads a statement in the manual created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI)." [page 183 of EOAC Student Guide, April 2012 — http://goo.gl/2tSWJu]

Fred On Everything

«Even the ways in which men get along with each other differ sharply from the female approach. (Thus the desire for venues for men only.) For example, when I once broke a leg in a sky-diving accident, the women in the news room were sympathetic and concerned. At a Special Forces party I attended, there was laughter and sarcasm. “Goddam dumbass Marine can´t even do a PLF right. (parachute landing fall). Hey, let´s break his other leg.” Translated from the male, this meant (a) that they accepted me as one of them, and (b) that to them a broken leg was not a tragedy but an inconvenience. Which it is.»

Fed study says Bush and the banks didn’t cause the Great Recession. The Fed did | AEIdeas

Fed study says Bush and the banks didn’t cause the Great Recession. The Fed did | AEIdeas: "The irony here, of course, is that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is a much-noted student of the Great Depression and of the work of the late Milton Friedman whose landmark book, A Monetary History of the United States, pinned the blame for the Great Depression on a too tight Fed. As Bernanke told Friedman and his co-author, Anna Schwartz, on the economist’s 90th birthday a decade ago, ”You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.”"

And as the comic skit, The Frog and Peach [http://youtu.be/7fY-M41FGzI],  by Peter Cook (PC) and Dudley Moore (DM) reminds us:

DM: Do you feel you've learnt by your mistakes here?

PC: I think I have, yes, and I think I can probably repeat them almost  perfectly.  I know my   mistakes inside out.

DM: I'm sure you will repeat them.  Well, thank you very much, Sir Arthur.

Noonan: ObamaCare Takes On Water - WSJ.com

Noonan: ObamaCare Takes On Water - WSJ.com: "It was Bill Daley—accomplished political player, former commerce secretary and, most killingly, former chief of staff of President Obama, who Thursday, on "CBS This Morning," admitted the scale of the problem. Asked whether Kathleen Sebelius should be fired, he said: "To me that's kind of like firing Captain Smith on the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.""

Armed Citizens May Be the Solution to Terrorism, Says Interpol Secretary General - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Armed Citizens May Be the Solution to Terrorism, Says Interpol Secretary General - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "... allowing people to proactively respond to threats has always been a better idea that trying to anticipate what assailants might consider to be an easy target. You can't fortify every gathering on the planet, and each security perimeter will still have potential victims within it for the enterprising terrorist who can penetrate "extraordinary security."

A people numerous and armed was the original Homeland Defense of the United States—and still remains so.

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Reinventing Yourself | TechCrunch

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Reinventing Yourself | TechCrunch:

Three types of mentors

(1) Direct. Someone who is in front of you who will show you how they did it. What is “it”? Wait. By the way, mentors aren’t like that old Japanese guy in “The Karate Kid.” Ultimately most mentors will hate you.
(2) Indirect. Books. Movies. You can outsource 90 percent of mentorship to books and other materials. 200-500 books equals one good mentor. People ask me, “What is a good book to read?” I never know the answer. There are 200-500 good books to read. I would throw in inspirational books. Whatever are your beliefs, underline them through reading every day.
(3) Everything is a mentor. If you are a zero, and have passion for reinvention, then everything you look at will be a metaphor for what you want to do. The tree you see, with roots you don’t, with underground water that feeds it, is a metaphor for computer programming if you connect the dots. And everything you look at, you will connect the dots.

‘Awesome!’ Veterans remove Barrycades from memorials, transport to White House [pics] | Twitchy

‘Awesome!’ Veterans remove Barrycades from memorials, transport to White House [pics] | Twitchy

Getting Involved Helping Veterans Get Civilian Jobs

There are no "bad" jobs, just individuals that do not like to get down & dirty.

Your Headline, My Face « Profoundly Disconnected: "Given the juxtaposition of my face with your headline, a reasonable person might conclude that a “Dirty Job” and “Bad Job” are one and the same. This sentiment is not only inconsistent with my own view of hard work, it’s completely at odds with the Dirty Jobs Code of Conduct, a collection of life lessons painstakingly compiled from the men and women I’ve met on Dirty Jobs.
Over the years, the Dirty Jobs Code of Conduct has kept me from saying stupid things in the press. Today, it’s used primarily to assist writers like you with the approved use of my name and likeness. Obviously, you have never seen or heard of the Dirty Jobs Code of Conduct, since most of your article violates every clause and restriction therein. I must therefore take a moment to assure your readers that the appearance of my face in such close proximity to your headline is in no way a personal affirmation that certain types of jobs are in fact “bad.”"

Review of Spin Video-Chatting Service - WSJ.com

Review of Spin Video-Chatting Service - WSJ.com: "Now, there's a new video-chatting service for mobile devices and it's free. It allows up to 10 parties in a single chat session and it doesn't require an account to participate in a chat. This new service, called Spin, also allows you to share photos and videos with others during a chat. And it's built for touch so you can swipe or flick in and out of chats, which it calls "gatherings." Or you can pinch and zoom to enlarge the whole gathering, or just the small tile representing an individual in that group."

Bitmessage Wiki

Bitmessage Wiki: decentralized communications with encryption, first steps.

Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan : The Freeman : Foundation for Economic Education

Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan : The Freeman : Foundation for Economic Education:

«State management of society is not only contrary to human liberty; it is also unworkable. It cannot achieve what it seeks to achieve, which is often all-round control of some sector of economic and social life. The attempt provokes a social backlash. People find loopholes and workarounds or just invent new ways to make progress possible. This is because people will not be caged. They struggle to be free and sometimes they succeed.

Over the last century-plus, the Leviathan State has gained the upper hand, sometimes through big periods of upheaval but mostly through a million daily nicks and cuts. What if this process is being reversed in our time? What if the apparatus of control is being undermined with a million acts of entrepreneurship that evade the State’s attempt to plan and command? There is a fundamental asymmetry between the structure of government and the structure of a networked people.

In our times, innovation has provided people with more tools. And often they use these tools to get around the barriers that politicians and bureaucrats have erected. Some of us take note of them every day. And while we may revel in their cleverness, we don’t take time to look at the big picture. Here is where this phenomenon of small ways to break out from and break down the system—which pop culture often labels “breaking bad”—gets really interesting.

Utopian? Let's hope not.

Who owns nature? Who owns the national parks?

Machiavelli: Art of War: Book 1

Machiavelli: Art of War: Book 1: "As to being apprehensive that such organization will not deprive you of the State by one who makes himself a leader, I reply, that the arms carried by his citizens or subjects, given to them by laws and ordinances, never do him harm, but rather are always of some usefulness, and preserve the City uncorrupted for a longer time by means of these (arms), than without (them). Rome remained free four hundred years while armed: Sparta eight hundred: Many other Cities have been dis-armed, and have been free less than forty years; for Cities have need of arms, and if they do not have arms of their own, they hire them from foreigners, and the arms of foreigners more readily do harm to the public good than their own; for they are easier to corrupt, and a citizen who becomes powerful can more readily avail himself, and can also manage the people more readily as he has to oppress men who are disarmed. "

How Did Rich Connecticut Morph Into One Of America's Worst Performing Economies? - Forbes

How Did Rich Connecticut Morph Into One Of America's Worst Performing Economies? - Forbes:

     In retrospect the symptoms are clear—somebody let the foxes into the henhouse!

Though the Emperor hath not cloth enough to wrap His Encumbrances, the Empress doth Imperial robes don and shews the proper method for cover-up.

Anonymous -- Response To Obama's 2013 Gun Control Policy - YouTube

Anonymous -- Response To Obama's 2013 Gun Control Policy - YouTube:

An excellent summary of the Bill of Rights and the natural right of Americans to bear arms without infringement from the Federal Government.