ABC news tell us that “hundreds of protestors†showed up to occupy Wall Street, yet their photo shows only nineteen, count them, nineteen protestors, twenty one if we suppose the two well dressed men mingling with police are also protestors, twenty two if we suppose the guy in the distance is also a protestor.
Month: September 2011
No one shows up for Day of rage.
Less than a dozen protestors showed up for the promised day of rage at wall street. Either people are not enraged, or, more likely, they decline to swallow the story that Fanny, Freddie, the FHA, and the rest of the government alphabet soup now merged into FHFA were poor innocent victims led astray by the …
Crony Capitalism
Palin’s brilliant speech on Crony Capitalism seemed to go right over the heads of most of the voters, but the party faithful understood it, and now this talking point is being used to hammer Obama at every opportunity. After it has been repeated one thousand times, the voters might well get it.
Obama’s Day of Rage
A Day of Rage has been declared for this coming Saturday by an obscure leftist group, one sufficiently obscure that anything bad that happens can be blamed on it.
Lets roll
On 2001, September the 11th, on United Airlines Flight 93: At 9:27am, Tom Burnett called his wife, reporting the hijacking. She informed him of the attack on the two towers, from which he concluded the hijackers intended to fly them into a building.
Why unemployment is high and rising
If anyone wonders why unemployment is high and rising, and is inclined to discuss aggregate demand and suchlike, just read Coyote Blog: Dispatches from a Small Business
Why all organizations move left
All organizations move ever leftwards.Â
NGO astroturf
NGO stands for “Non Government Organizationâ€. The butcher and the baker do not call themselves non government organizations, because they actually are non government organizations. Any organization that calls itself a non government organization turns out in practice to be largely a government organization. It follows therefore, that an NGO is a government doing something …
Perry not the establishment candidate
If Governor Perry (welfare for Mexicans) is the anti establishment candidate we are doomed, though perhaps doom will come a little slower than with governor Romneycare.
Sarah Palin’s speech
Sarah Palin has issued a typically brilliant and insightful speech, while still teasing on the issue of whether she is going to run. I think at this stage, getting a bit late to run, better carry on in her lucrative career as a public intellectual, saying the things officially accredited public intellectuals cannot say.