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Monday, 25 August 2008
The Wall Street Journal recently opined that For Most People, College is a Waste of Time. Actually, Charles Murray did the pontificating, under the Journal’s masthead. I digress.
Here’s a nutshell:
Outside a handful of majors — engineering and some of the sciences — a bachelor’s degree tells an employer nothing except that the applicant has a [...]
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Posted in Apropos Rumination, Correct Me Please, Education, Personal Notes | No Comments »
Monday, 25 August 2008
Government, by its very nature, engenders some pretty idiotic news stories. This is one of the dumbest I’ve read in years. Intent is no longer an issue in the giant plantation of subjects we called the United States of America. Nancy Pelosi, being one of the overseers, must be protected, even when no one is [...]
Tags: authorities, citizens, colorado department, department of public safety, grand hyatt hotel, nancy pelosi, pinedale wyo, police officers, professional response, rifle case, secret service, states of america, weapons
Posted in Banality of Bureaucracy, Correct Me Please, Current Events, Federal Wars, Government, Memewars, Nanny State of Mind, Plain Old Stupid, Political, Politics, United States, War on Drugs, War on Intelligence | 8 Comments »
Thursday, 14 August 2008
So what exactly is the legal status of the nearly 20,000 people who forgot or simply didn’t want to present ID in order to fly?
The TSA began storing the information in late June, tracking many people who said they had forgotten their driver’s license or passport at home. The database has 16,500 records of such [...]
Tags: airports, american civil liberties, american civil liberties union, barry steinhardt, checkpoints, civil liberties advocates, civil liberties union, felons, government bureaucrats, kip hawley, law enforcement agencies, passport, scrutiny, security purpose, security threat, terrorists, troublemakers, tsa, usa today
Posted in Banality of Bureaucracy, Citizen Soldier, Correct Me Please, Federal Wars, Government, Memewars, Nanny State of Mind, War on Intelligence | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Scientists sometimes introduce a predator into an ecosystem in order to take care of a pest that is threatening say, the potato crop. These experiments often go wrong - the predator turns out to be more dangerous than the pest. Social engineers do the same thing as scientists, except with human beings. One example is [...]
Tags: berwyn heights, contraband drugs, Drug War, false premise, Government, home invasion, human freedom, innocent civilians, overpopulation, potato crop, pound package, social engineers, swat team, two dogs, violent assault, war on drugs, war on freedom
Posted in Apropos Rumination, Citizen Soldier, Correct Me Please, Current Events, Drug War, Federal Wars, Government, Ideas, Inhumanity, Memewars, Nanny State of Mind, Politics, Self Defense, United States, War on Drugs, War on Guns, War on Intelligence | No Comments »
Monday, 11 August 2008
Today, Mikheil Saakashvili has an editorial in the Wall Street Journal wherein he expounds on the reasons the West should intervene in the conflict.
On Friday, hundreds of Russian tanks crossed into Georgian territory, and Russian air force jets bombed Georgian airports, bases, ports and public markets. Many are dead, many more wounded. This invasion, which [...]
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Posted in Apropos Rumination, Correct Me Please, Current Events, Global, Government, Memewars, Military, Nanny State of Mind | 1 Comment »