We need to spy on the state. The state is our enemy.   The government reads our emails. We should read theirs. I notice a lot of conservatives weeping big salt tears and calling for the assassination of Julian Assange because Wikileaks stole a pile of letters from the US government and made them public,   Yet most of the letters in the latest leak reveal that the US government is run by leftists at every level from top to bottom, and …
The war with Islam was lost on the playing fields of Sidwell Friends
Roissy reports how when the Washington school to which the elite send their children made a poor sporting performance, their response to losing was childish, unsporting, and unmanly. Pajamas Media reports how unsportsmanlike attitudes are inculcated, and masculinity treated as a mental defect caused by testosterone poisoning. If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, America was lost on the playing fields of Sidwell Friends. The childish and unmanly response of the kids from Sidwell …
Decline of the west
The last man on the moon left in 1972 The tallest building in the united states was finished in 1974. Cars are becoming humbler. US electricity production was growing exponentially until 1972. After 1972 it grew more slowly. Per capita electricity consumption seems likely to have peaked around 2007 or so. Supposedly GDP is still growing rapidly, just as supposedly inflation is zero, but it seems improbable that GDP is growing when per capita electricity consumption is not. One could …
Losing to Islam
Parapundit discovers that 130 000 US soldiers have suffered brain damage in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is far too high a price. We have to defeat Islam, but cannot do it this way. We have use methods that inflict much higher costs on Islam, at much lower cost to ourselves.
Like Hell There’s No Inflation
Business Insider tells us: Post Raisin Bran goes from 2.50 to 3.00 per box at Walmart. My favorite yogurt goes from .50 to .58 each at Walmart. Cherry tomatoes go from 4.98 to 5.98 per package. Walnuts go from 9.98 to 13.98 per bag at Sam’s. Bottom round goes from 2.48 to 2.68 per pound at Sam’s. Al Dente tells us What was once purchased for weekly meals at the supermarket for under $100, now exceeds $120. We have cut …
Hyperinflation coming, but not soon
There is a lot of ruin in a nation. Glen Bleck predicts catastrophic instant inflation completely collapsing the currency and government in a single two week crisis. That is not the way hyperinflation happens. Hyperinflation consists of a series of hyperinflationary crises. In a hyperinflationary crisis, the value of money falls abruptly, typically to two thirds, half or a third of its previous value. The collapse occurs so suddenly that by the time most people realize that the hyperinflationary crisis …
How dumb is Obama?
Obama is an affirmative action president. Affirmative action people are always stupid, incompetent, and corrupt. Is Obama stupid, incompetent and corrupt? For corruption, observe that the infamous regulatory revolving door between Goldman and the Treasury continues to spin, even after the wall street financial system imploded, and similarly between Soros and the DoE. Perhaps Bush II was as corrupt as Obama, but Obama’s corruption is more conspicuous. As for stupidity – well clearly, he is a lot smarter than the …
Britain goes totalitarian
Sean Gabb, speaking very carefully to avoid saying things he could be arrested for, tell us: Without thinking very hard, I can remember how Nick Griffin of the British National Party stood trial for having called Islam “a wicked vicious faithâ€. I can remember how a drunken student was arrested and fined for telling a policeman that his horse looked “gayâ€. I can remember how a man was arrested and charged and fined for standing beside the Cenotaph and reading …
The party of the state
The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has doubled in the two years since President Obama took office Update: Bill however argues this is less alarming that it seems: The big jump in % over $150K is all from the fact that the GS scale maxed out less than $150K in 2005 and over $150K in 2010. It’s totally mechanical, an incident of drawing the line at $150K.
Hyperinflation
Officially, America has near zero inflation and a mere ten percent official unemployment. Odd that it has a mere ten percent unemployment when the proportion of young adult males with jobs has dropped a lot more than ten percent. As with third world and Marxist countries, the government’s reaction to bad news is to declare a new era of prosperity. The recession is officially over. With an unprecedented proportion of the workforce on the government payroll, productivity has officially risen …