Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Pentagon Ready to Brief Incoming Administration Immediately
November 5th, 2008The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election […]
2008 U.S. Presidential sElection Open Thread
November 5th, 2008I wasn’t planning to do this, but people want to talk about the sElection. Let it rip!
Fed Hires Bear Stearns Risk Boss
November 4th, 2008Via: Clusterstock: In a move that is sure to put to rest the notion that there are no second acts in American life, former Bear Stearns chief risk officer Michael Alix has landed a job in the office of the Federal Reserve charged with assessing the safety and soundness of domestic banking institutions. We suppose […]
AIG Bailout Just Another Government Boondoggle
November 4th, 2008Via: Washington Post: A number of financial experts now fear that the federal government’s $143 billion attempt to rescue troubled insurance giant American International Group may not work, and some argue that company shareholders and taxpayers would have been better served by a bankruptcy filing. The Treasury Department leapt to keep AIG from going bankrupt […]
Chinese Factories Closing by the Tens of Thousands
November 3rd, 2008This story uses the phrase, “Government statistics.” Not just any government’s statistics, but China’s government statistics! HA. Anyway, here’s some of the follow-on effects of Joe and Jane Six Pack not being able to use their house as an ATM anymore. Via: Los Angeles Times: Financially troubled plants are being abandoned by the boss, leaving […]
China Is Becoming the Biggest Producer of Pharmaceutical Ingredients in the World
November 3rd, 2008Via: New York Times: Concerns about Chinese drugs have become so intense that just three weeks ago, the Health and Human Services secretary, Michael O. Leavitt, announced that the F.D.A. would open an office in Beijing by the end of the year and offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou next year. The agency still plans to […]
The 2008 sElection
October 31st, 2008Very briefly, I’d like to write a couple of things about the next farce, nonsense pageant that’s about to go down. The way I see it is as follows: If Obama and Biden are installed, it means that the U.S. will continue to be Sovietized for integration into the ascendant global prison system. Biden is […]
European Countries Tired of ‘Difficult’ Irish Says Eurocrat
October 31st, 2008People standing in the way of a greater Soviet Europe will need to be made offers they can’t refuse. Via: Belfast Telegraph: European countries are in no mood to renegotiate the Lisbon Treaty just to accommodate the “difficult” Irish, according to the highest-ranking EU civil servant from Ireland. Secretary General of the European Commission, Catherine […]
UK: Maniac Nanny State Kidnaps Obese Children
October 30th, 2008Via: Telegraph: Obtained under Freedom of Information laws, reports showed one boy aged six in Derby was taken from his home by social workers because he was dangerously obese. Another boy in London, aged 12, was put into care with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28 – 60 per cent above the 17.5 average […]
Massachusetts State Senator Accepted Bribes, Stuffed Cash Into Bra
October 29th, 2008I don’t normally pay any attention to corruption cases involving elected officials, any more than I pay attention to taking a dump or thinking about the sun rising in the sky each morning. All of these things just happen. They’re not newsworthy. But this one just made me chuckle. Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson stuffed […]
