Hot air reviews an interesting report from Britain. Patients were left unwashed in their own filth for up to a month as nurses ignored their requests to use the toilet or change their sheets; … Wards were left filthy with blood, discarded needles and used dressings … … … Food and drink were left out …
Month: February 2010
Microsoft the good guys
Google is evil in that they spy on users, and that they censor their services, and politically cook their search results. Microsoft’s Bing has not yet been detected cooking their search results Microsoft reports to law enforcement to what extent they spy on users, the report was leaked, and the interesting fact is that they …
The suicide of the elites
Participatory transexual vomiting as high art. This illustrates Unwin’s “Sex and Culture†– that no civilization long survives the end of the patriarchy and female chastity. Unwin’s suggested explanation for this observation is that civilization is produced by the Freudian energy of sexual repression. I favor the theory that civilization is created by patriarchs for …
The problem with peer review
Peer review is not part of the scientific method. In most fields, for example physics, it is a new thing, and wherever it has become a standard thing, we see stagnation. Peer review keeps out cranks, but it also keeps out the impious. It makes it safe for a science to become a religion, and …
The bubble in government paper
The US budget proposes that by 2020, debt service on federal debt will be ten percent of GDP. This is politically impossible. The interest will be paid by borrowing more money.
Where the money went
The government has been shuffling the money around to obfuscate who stole it. It lends money, and then announces that there is no problem, the money has been paid back. But after much fiddling, the money has mostly come to rest, in that the government is now the proud owner of about one trillion dollars …
Affirmative action and the mortgage crisis
Four hundred firemen died attempting to rescue people on 9/11. Not one “firefighter†died, for women do not fight fires. It is not in their physique, nor their psychological nature to do so. Obama and his wife are typical affirmative action blacks. Michelle’s Princeton thesis is a whine about racial prejudice and is full of …
The brilliance of Sarah Palin
Business management 101. If the CEO cannot find out where the money was spent, it was embezzled. Sarah Palin knows this. The moron press does not.
The cause of the crisis 5
The green room has a wonderful summary of the economic crisis in the form of a children’s book. They neglect, however, to mention George Bush’s role in making the CRA even worse than it already was.
Animal spirits
Everyone knew that things were going to collapse, but wanted to stay in till the last minute because there was money to be made, so it was not animal spirits, but people trying to rationally judge when to run to the exits.