Trompe l'Oeil
Edward Collier 1699
Edward Collier (as Edwaert Colyer, Breda 1642-London 1708) was a Dutch vanitas and trompe d'oeil painter. The full title of this painting is, A Trompe l'Oeil of Newspapers, Letters and Writing Implements on a Wooden Board. See a sample vanitas by Collier, here 
. American trompe l'oeil painters are
William Harnett (1848 –1892) — always the sentimental favorite, and John Peto (1854–1907) and John Haberle (1856–1933). Trompe l'oeil painters today surpass the old masters if we use convincing ultra-realism as the measure.
Just as any teevee show about black holes must contain the phrase, "nothing can escape, not even light," any mention of trompe l'oeil must note it's French for "fool the eye." Whether it really is or not Remus doesn't know but it's a rule he doesn't take lightly.
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Allegations
In the mid-1800s
essayist
Thomas de Quincey unknowingly summed up our current administration quite nicely:
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.
Thomas de Quincey via en.wikiquote.org (Hat tip: Paul Shlichta at americanthinker.com)
The administration hasn't come to the point of incivility, but startling allegations are being made about the
Benghazi murders and the unraveling coverup. One of the more plainly put, if sensationalist, summaries comes from Dave Hodges at the fundamentalist right Common Sense Show in this article, They Came, They Murdered, They Covered It Up:
When General Hamm received his "stand down" orders from Panetta on behalf of Obama, he defiantly made plans to go ahead with the rescue and was arrested within minutes of contravening the order by his second in command, General Rodriquez.
Out to sea, Admiral Gayouette, the commander of Carrier Strike Group Three, was preparing to provide intelligence and air cover for General Hamm's rescue team in violation of his standing orders and he was promptly relieved of command for allegations of inappropriate leadership judgment.
Both men are being held today in undisclosed locations. As an aside, if there is any kind of a silver lining in these very dark clouds it appears that much of the senior military leadership has had enough of the traitorous Obama and his den of corrupt criminals and some of them are willing to risk career in the name of actually serving the American people.
Mr. Hodges reminds us Hillary Clinton has been connected to a string of suspicious and suspiciously convenient deaths in the past. We also recall former president Bill Clinton is accused by some of handing military secrets to China while in office, and former Secretary of Defense
Leon Panetta's public involvement with a self declared Marxist organization, and president Obama's alliances with terrorist revolutionaries and malodorous race supremacists.
Mr. Hodges's version of the Benghazi event is volatile stuff. It describes near-treason if not treason itself. If the allegations centering on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are substantiated, and if principals in the administration are shown to be complicit, they betrayed their oath and their countrymen on behalf of an active belligerent. It's alleged elsewhere untraceable foreign accounts are a substantial source of their political funding, which may speak to the question of embedded duplicity on a more quantitative basis.
What difference at this point does it make?
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Ms. Clinton needs to understand, deeply and abidingly, "it" makes a difference at this or any other point. The nation should not accept the "mistakes were made" brushoff this time, nor apologies and resignations, nor even outright terminations. We're running out of dirt to draw a line in. If all or most of this is true, it warrants aggressive and decisive legal proceedings to remove co-conspirators from office on an emergency basis, and bulldog prosecution for all involved, top to bottom and side to side.
Liberator
John Kerry's State Department has used the International Traffic in Arms Regulations to force Defense Distributed to remove their 3D "gun printing" software from the internet . DC usually relies on the Interstate Commerce Clause to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms but here the State Department claims jurisdiction because, by posting the blueprints on line they meet the "at least one foreigner could see it" test. It's a stretch, even as a work-around. If State is trying to impress us with their diligence, we notice their regulations didn't prevent secret engine control specs from being transferred illegally by Pratt & Whitney to China for their copy of the US Cobra helicopter—known as the Z-10. There are other examples.
As a legal maneuver it's like charging a person with drunk driving while he sits in his living room because he has car keys in his pocket and the opportunity to buy a six pack. It's a theoretical theory of a pre-pre non-crime. The "arms trafficking" rap amounts to publishing documents. Ridiculous. What's next for these prior restraint thugs, literacy? And where does DC find the time for this, aren't they busy enough sending military aircraft and armor and missiles to foreign countries?
Aside from headline seekers, foreigners aren't hungering to make a clunky, low quality, single shot, one-time use, totally lame .380 which is grossly inferior to its buck-a-copy WWII namesake in every way. No self-respecting warrior would be seen with either one. As an engineering exercise it's sort of interesting but like the original, the Liberator would be useful only to get a real gun, if it didn't fail catastrophically during the attempt. The printed plastic gun is show biz, a test case to be charitable, more likely a spit in the eye by both sides.
Before State intervened on Thursday the software had been on line for about a week, long enough for it to be downloaded and reposted many times over. Yawn. The product proves 3D printed plastic firearms is a dead end, although "printing" ready-to-use metal firearms with laser sintering isn't far off. None of this is actually necessary however, guns are neither scarce nor prohibitively expensive, nor are proven models difficult to make even for garage-scale metalworking shops. In fact, some combat arms were designed for such low-capability manufacture, the Sten and the PPS for two.
Manufacturing expertise in America is widespread and suitable equipment is plentiful, but clandestine arms making would be attractive only if there were a successful confiscation—a dubious proposition in itself—by, say, an army of occupation or a
coup d'état or lawless tyranny. In any event, iffy plastic single shots wouldn't be the product of choice. DC is being either stunningly ignorant or purposely alarmist, but give 'em credit, they can be both simultaneously.
Addendum
Comments on events since Woodpile Report 320 was first posted.
In an effort to give ordinary conspiracies a good name, a distinguished assemblage in congress is attempting to refloat the wreckage of the last gun control bill, "distinguished" meaning illiterate UCLA U2 grads, unintelligable ghetto rats, carwash dropouts and other two-legged piles of lying garbage. The effort is led by an undead fishwife cadaver named Pelosi, noted scold and runner-up for Miss Creosote of 1959, and her fellow creepster, a so far unlanced carbuncle named Schumer who effects peer-over reading glasses in low comedy lunges at gravitas. With so much of the populace now voting at gun shops, this suggests masochism is in play.
The Associated Press, a Reuters captive doing pro bono PR work for DC, so eager to please it all but cleaned White House urinals with a razor blade, which composed news as if it was and should be the administration's background music, was shocked to discover freedom of the press doesn't actually mean, you know, freedom of the press. Turns out Holder, AP's ever-suspicious lover, revealed his gumshoes had tapped their telephone conversations for weeks. AP sent an angry letter to Holder. Unperfumed. Uh oh. Remus sure hopes these two kids make up, they made such an attractive couple, but he suspects AP may look for justice elsewhere, perforce.
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Only liberals are apparently smart enough to save us and micro-manage carbon dioxide levels through punishing carbon taxes, carbon swaps, and other schemes meant to enrich their pockets and to redistribute the wealth of the middle class in the name of social/environmental justice. The global warming alarmists have no credibility with informed and rational Americans, says
Ileana Paugh in this article, Global Warming Thy Name is a Manufactured Crisis, at Canada Free Press.
The EPA's new environmental regulations reduce the amount of airborne fine-particle matter from 15 micrograms to 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air. This means that most wood burning stoves would now fall into a class that would be deemed unacceptable under these new draconian measures. While trying to convince people to get rid of their old stoves and buy the new EPA-certified stoves, they state that these older stove must be scrapped and cannot be resold, says Rob Richardson in this article, EPA To Outlaw Many Wood Burning Stoves, at Off Grid Survival.
All the president's men - CBS News President David Rhodes' brother is Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, who was instrumental in rewriting the Benghazi talking points. But it gets worse. It is now learned that ABC President Ben Sherwood's sister, Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, is a Special Assistant to Barack Obama on national security affairs. But even this isn't it! CNN's deputy bureau chief, Virginia Moseley, is the wife of Tom Nides, who until February was Hillary Clinton's deputy, says
James Simpson in this article at The Examiner.
A number of dark colored vans and black SUV's closed in on the homes from several different direction. Within seconds dozens of men wearing olive drab jumpsuits with no visible identification stormed into the three homes in a simultaneous attack.
24 hours later, two of the three homes that were targeted where leveled and the debris and contents hauled away, says this article at Cedar Posts and Barbed Wire Fences. Article with photos.
(Hat tip: Brock Townsend at freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com)
Closing the gun control loophole - The Missouri State House voted to send Governor Jay Nixon what could arguably be the strongest defense against federal gun control Second Amendment measures in American history. The votes in both the House and Senate are by a strong veto-proof majority. As law, HB436 would nullify virtually every federal gun control measure on the books – or planned for the future, reports
Michael Boldin in this article at Right Side News.
(Hat tip: survivalblog.com)
Note - The
federal Gun Control Acts of 1934 and 1968 are specifically declared null. The article quotes the bill's salient features and they are sweeping and absolute. This is yet another step in the Balkanization of the US, bad enough, but it hasn't ended there in the past.
Note from Say Uncle - You know what would help prevent gun owners from always being paranoid that gun control activists and politicians were after their guns? Not actually being after our guns.
saysuncle.com
Obama's pick says white Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote - President Obama's pick to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency once said that a "majority of white voters” would never vote for a black candidate and that they should be excluded from “the democratic process." Such voters "need to be factored out of the equation," Watt said, because "I've got no use for them in the democratic process," reports Patrick Howley in this article at the Daily Caller.
"As we excavated the fossil, I thought that we were looking at a skin impression. Then I noticed a piece came off and I realized this is not ordinary–this is real skin. Everyone involved with the excavation was incredibly excited and we started discussing research projects right away," said
Canadian scientist Mauricio Barbi when he saw the 70 million year old intact speciment, in this article, Scientists study rare dinosaur skin fossil to determine skin colour for first time, at PhysOrg.
The Great Gatsby is less involved with human emotion than any book of comparable fame I can think of. None of its characters are likable. None of them are even dislikable, though nearly all of them are despicable. They function here only as types. Almost everything in sight serves a symbolic purpose: the automobiles and ash heaps, the upright Midwest and poisonous East, the white dresses and decadent mansions, carps Kathryn Schulz in this book-movie review, Why I Despise The Great Gatsby, at the Vulture.
Your ownership of the monies that you have deposited with the bank is transferred to the bank and all you have is the right to demand its repayment. And, if the bank fails to repay your monies, your only remedy is to sue the bank and if the bank is insolvent you get nothing, explains Matthias Chang in this article, No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation, at Global Research.
Amendments contrary to the Bill of Rights are not Constitutional as per the original agreement made after the revolution. The Bill of Rights was meant to be sacrosanct, untouchable — period. No Federal law, no State law and no Amendment can be enforced that violates those protections. The Bill of Rights was not created as a rule book for what the people can do; it was created as a rule book for what government cannot do. Once you remove hard fast restrictions like the Bill of Rights from the picture, you give the government license to make its own rules, says Brandon Smith in this article, Statists Use Twisted Logic To Attack The Bill Of Rights, at Alt Market.
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Magazine ad for the 1929 Jordan Playboy
Jordan Motor Company (1916-1931) was a design and assembly outfit located in Cleveland Ohio using outside suppliers for components and subassemblies, not uncommon for the era. Today we'd call it a "screwdriver plant." Jordan relied on racy styling and provocative ads, the underlying vehicles were unremarkable. The ad below is one of the more tame examples.
Note: Ol' Remus overhears imperfectly. Some folks say the most wonderful things, but they say it and say it and say it like some medieval barrister so Overheard takes a machete to superfluous subordinate clauses, annoying parenthetical asides and similar air bubbles. Triple dots indicate ellipses, but he's not perfectly reliable about using them. Don't assume these to be definitive quotes if your dissertation depends on it.
After the Crash of '29
Remus has been reading news articles and editorials written before and after the Crash of October 1929. Many of the warnings written before the crash are so eerily similar to what's being written today they could be recycled nearly as-is, but the ones written after are more instructive. Here are excerpts from two editorials, one written three weeks after the crash, the other nearly a year later.
What bankers and brokers know very well, however, is that the Federal Reserve is the body primarily to thank for the disaster which the stock market has just gone through. The responsibility of the Federal Reserve, weighty as it is, must be shared by the Coolidge and Hoover administrations. For two years and more, while calamity was preparing, the country was again and again assured from Washington that everything was all right — industry prosperous, business good, savings increasing, the outlook fine.
Editorial, The Nation, November 13, 1929
Everyone recognizes now that this is not a new economic era, in the sense that old-fashioned principles and penalties of economic law have been abolished. The new inventions in the way of manufacturing credit are seen to have been merely a novel way of repeating the very old practices of abuse of credit.
Editorial, New York Times, September 15, 1930
The market may be hitting new highs thanks to traders' games, but the real economy is contracting sharply. This is precisely what happened during the market peaks before the Tech Crash and the 2008 Collapse. We are getting precisely the same warnings this time around. If you are not already preparing for a potential market collapse, now is the time to be doing so.
Graham Summers at gainspainscapital.com
Nobody knows any longer what the real state of the economy is.
Detlev Schlichter at detlevschlichter.com
A new, updated petfoodstamps.org website will be operational by the end of the month and Okon says anyone interested can, "Go to our website, petfoodstamps.org, fill out the application, and within six to eight weeks you get a call back. You verify that you are receiving public assistance, by getting an award letter of benefits from the state agency providing the benefits."
Marc Okon of Pet Food Stamps via dfw.cbslocal.com
Boston bomber lockdown - During the entire 24 hours manhunt the news media was kept at bay so shootouts were not videoed. Even police video cameras were turned off.
Willy Scanlon at opednews.com
Benghazi as a vast right wing conspiracy - My concern is when Hillary Clinton's name is mentioned 32 times in a hearing, then the point of the hearing is to discredit the secretary of state, who has very high popularity and may well be a candidate for president.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein at NBC's Meet the Press via thecable.foreignpolicy.com
The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.
Charles Savage at nytimes.com
The conservatives appearing on Benghazi-obsessed Fox News are a damage patrol with an approach that goes like this: "Lies, paranoia, subpoena, impeach, Watergate, Iran-contra."
Maureen Dowd at nytimes.com
For a long time, it seemed like the idea of a coverup was just a Republican obsession. But now there is something to it.
Alex Koppelman at newyorker.com
By effectively capping most students' future financial obligations from student debt, this plan would remove the last vestiges of price sensitivity from the college tuition market. Colleges can now raise tuition to infinity, knowing that the bulk of it will get paid by the taxpayer some time in the future. Just as the college price bubble looks ready to burst, this is the one thing that could re-inflate it.
Warren Meyer at coyoteblog.com
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed – where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.
Judge Alex Kozinski, 2003, via mac slavo at shtfplan.com
Bullying by NY City schools - First they went after the candy machines. Then they took aim at the sugary sodas. And most of the bake sales. And the greasy french fries at lunchtime. And now the latest target of the city schools’ push to fight childhood obesity is something as simple as butter.
Chapman and Durkin at nydailynews.com
Bloomberg - Talk about a nanny state. Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have been using the company's ubiquitous terminals to keep tabs on some employees of the Wall Street bank.
Mark DeCambre at nypost.com
Yesterday, police in northern Virginia arrested the Air Force's chief of sexual-assault prevention for sexual assault.
Lieutenant Colonel Krusinski's alleged intended victim "fought the suspect off" as he attempted a second groping, and called the police
Spencer Ackerman at wired.com/dangerroom
Tinfoil hats were right, the IRS admits targeting Tea Party, et al -
[IRS statement and relevant facts from the Associated Press, here .]
This timeline reveals at least two extremely unethical actions by the IRS. One, as early as 2010, they targeted groups for political purposes. Two, they willfully and knowingly lied to Congress for years despite being aware that Congress was investigating this practice.
Rep. Charles Boustany via Stephen Ohlemacher at hosted.ap.org
On June 29, 2011, IRS staffers held a briefing with senior agency official Lois G. Lerner in which they described giving special attention to instances where "statements in the case file criticize how the country is being run." Lerner, who oversees tax-exempt groups for the agency, raised objections and the agency revised its criteria a week later.
Juliet Eilperin at washingtonpost.com
On Jan, 25, 2012, the criteria for flagging suspect groups was changed to, "political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement."
Stephen Ohlemacher at hosted.ap.org
It is difficult to credit Lois Lerner's claim that this was merely an error and not politically motivated. Imagine if the NAACP and the United Negro College Fund got hit with this sort of treatment and the IRS denied a racial motive while acknowledging it had deliberately chosen groups whose names contained synonyms for "black."
James Taranto at online.wsj.com
New York Times rides to the rescue - The I.R.S. must not flinch from its duty to enforce the tax code and root out political operatives who are abusing the law and conning taxpayers and voters.
Editorial at nytimes.com
I have to wonder if there isn't a shoe or two more to drop. Why did the IRS suddenly apologize? Could there be legal action pending? A lawsuit settlement? The statement reportedly came in response to a question at the legal conference.
Thomas Lifson at americanthinker.com
I was in that Benghazi hearing. I think the Obama administration is desperate to spin Benghazi, and they can’t. I think they saved this story up for a day like today so that conservatives would focus on this admission.
Rep. Michele Bachmann via Bob Unruh at wnd.com
Tweets from David Plouffe, Senior Advisor to the President
via Staff at twitchy.com
The IRS was wrong for targeting Tea Party groups. But, someone had to stop them from raising so much money.
What IRS did dumb and wrong. Impt to note GOP groups flourished last 2 elections, overwhelming Ds. And they will use this to raise more $.—
Conspiracy theorists out in full force tonight. IRS actions seem indefensible. That rightly is where focus should be. 1/2—
Outlawing 3D printer guns - The end product is a cheap, functional and undetectable weapon that can be produced with nothing more than a home computer and 3-D printer. These weapons create a significant and immediate threat to our public safety. [A threat to what?]
Tommy Wells, D.C. Council member, via Andrea Noble at washingtontimes.com
To my fellow citizens who are anti-gun I say: So long as you deny our humanity, so long as you malign our dignity, intelligence and wisdom, so long as you seek to shade us under a cloud of evil that we do not partake in or support, so long as you tell us that because we own guns we are terrible people, you will prove yourselves absolutely right in that we won't come to the table to talk with you.
Barry Snell,
Iowa State Daily via PolyKahr at polykahr-standingby.blogspot.com
Middle Ages - Christian ideas and values suffused the whole blossoming culture of Europe. Christian contributions range from the mitigation of slavery and a greater equality within the family to the concepts of natural law, including the legitimacy of resistance to unjust rulers.
Ralph Raico at mises.org/daily
We have ended up with a system where the worst of the risk takers have the ability to take the most risk and are currently taking it at extreme levels. We wish we could be more prescriptive and offer more solutions for the problems. But in order to solve a problem, you must first realize you have one. With respect to the Fed, we don't think the U.S. realizes it has a problem.
Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Monsanto, the government of Norway, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Syngenta have built a "doomsday seed bank" inside an inaccessible Norwegian rock Svalbard on Spitsbergen Island, on the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean, 1,100 km from the North Pole. ... "What future do the seed bank’s sponsors foresee, that would threaten the global availability of current seeds, almost all of which are already well protected in designated seed banks around the world?"
Ileana Paugh at canadafreepress.com
Scarcity of physical PMs - For all of recent memory, the price of precious metals has been determined in the paper marketplace. That may now be changing. Should the availability of physical bullion start setting the price action, the spot price quoted in the paper market for gold or silver will become an anachronistic irrelevance.
Adam Taggart at peakprosperity.com
Today, we have 11 million people who came into our country illegally. The lesson learned: You reward illegality, you get more of it.
Sen.Max Baucus via Eliana Johnson at nationalreview.com
Internet sales tax - This isn't about taxation—it's about Amazon, WalMart and a handful of other large online retailers forcing others to bear compliance costs that they voluntarily assumed as a consequence of their business model and which these other firms have legally avoided through their business model.
Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org
Markets are fueled ALWAYS by the majority being wrong.
Martin Armstrong at armstrongeconomics.com
Bloomberg - Hundreds of thousands of immigrants could get the right to vote in New York City elections under a proposal that would mark the biggest expansion yet of efforts to enfranchise them. The measure, aired at a City Council hearing Thursday, would make New York the biggest locale to let non-citizens cast ballots. Advocates estimate that more than 800,000 green card and visa holders would be able to help choose the mayor, council members and other city officials.
Jennifer Peltz, AP via washingtonpost.com
Bloomberg - There is no practical ways to pay our workforce given the current environment, current tax structure, current other obligations we have more than what we have been doing, with the possible exception of dramatically raising taxes. ["Dramatically" means up to 50%]
New York Mayor Bloomberg via newyork.cbslocal.com
I see each and every day dawn with a bit less luster, a few more clouds, and a bit darker future. The "authorities" have used the "monetary and fiscal policy" and it hasn't worked for the vast majority of Americans—nor can it "work" because the intent was never to actually fix what was broken.
Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org
In the 40 years I’ve been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality. Asset markets are in the sky and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. Something will break very bad.
Marc Faber to Darcy Keith at theglobeandmail.com
The law is justice—simple and clear, precise and bounded. If you exceed this proper limit—if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, literary, or artistic — you will then be lost in an uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it upon you.
Francis Porretto at bastionofliberty.blogspot.com
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith
1723-1790
What was the fate of the guards and KAPOs when the Nazi camps were liberated? Really want to know? Photos here at CODOH Forum.
Freeland Borough, PA's Mayor Tim Martin died from esophageal cancer on September 2, 2010.
Yet, amazingly, Mike Bloomberg's anti-gun coalition still claims him as a member on their website as of November 8, 2011... the deceased mayor has signed his name to at least two advertisements, three letters to Congress, and one letter to the President sent by Michael Bloomberg's office.
Bitter at pagunblog.com
(Hat tip: survivalblog.com)
Discussing the finer points of the US Economy at this stage of the game is akin to discussing the literacy improvement of a Death Row inmate.
TwoShortPlanks, comment 3540029 at zerohedge.com
In 2002, the U.S. military had just two kinds of camouflage uniform. One was green, for the woods. The other was brown, for the desert. Then things got strange... In just 11 years, two kinds of camouflage have turned into 10.
David Fahrenthold, Washington Post via stripes.com
Our roads are slowly but surely being transformed into a revenue generating control grid.
Michael at theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration. It's been 44 years since we stepped on the lunar surface, and I think the progress since then is a little slow. I've always felt that Mars should be the next destination following our landings on the moon.
Buzz Aldrin, via Jason Koebler at usnews.com
I see no reason why many of America's high schools should remain open.
Chris Matyszczyk at news.cnet.com
The trouble with tolerance is that there is always someone deciding what to tolerate. It is a natural process for individuals, but a dangerous one for governments and institutions.
Daniel Greenfield at sultanknish.blogspot.com.au
Interest - Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of any modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
Artistotle via Jeet Heer at prospect.org
Zero Hedge - Yep....more folks are tuning in here - hence, the new anti-discrimination policies. Slowly, but surely, ZH is being pulled into the Matrix. [Political correctness, the all-purpose solvent]
11b40, comment
3552474
at zerohedge.com
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