There is no one to blame for Hurricane Katrina. But it’s difficult now on day 5 to think that anyone in government is doing anything productive. (more…)
Something else I saw on Bill Maher’s show (transcript) was this exchange with Barney Frank. Now, I love Barney Frank because he has the guts to get out and proclaim he’s gay and make it a political point of his campaigns. But he’s a liberal tool in every other way, and I can’t make sense of him half the time. Like this bit on “Real Time with Bill Maher” where he says that capitalism requires inequity to function. Huh?
Here’s my summary version:
FRANK: …not all people with money are bad people. Sometimes it’s nice to help them. … We have an economic system, capitalism, which is based on inequality And inequality is necessary for it to work. We’re supposed to have a political system that doesn’t wipe out the inequality but puts some limits on it.
Yikes! I haven’t seen an episode of Bill Maher’s HBO-show, “Real Time” in a while. But someone mentioned to me that he was supporting the war in Iraq recently, so I went to find a transcript.
According to Maher, Iraq is turning into a success story. But it’s only because of Bush’s stupidity that it happened. Or maybe it was his plan from the start, but he lied to us about WMD to achieve all this democratic goodness. But in the end, the Iraq war was a Good Thing, saved countless lives, and will possibly lead to peace in the Middle East… according to Bill Maher. (more…)
In Atlas Shrugged one of the main characters invents a fabulous new metal. He calls it Reardon Metal. It is stronger and lighter than steel. It will revolutionize industry, but it will also compete “unfairly” with existing steel producers. The State Science Institute, a fictional government agency which lately focuses more on socialistic concerns than science, issues an official statement condemning (more…)
This week, Iraq voted for the first time in decades. Anti-Bushies might have scoffed that Iraq has voted many times in recent years. For example Saddam in 2002 received 100% of the votes in an election with 100% voter turnout. Zero votes were received against him. Pretty incredible! In 1995 Saddam was also elected, but there were 3,052 votes against him. I wonder what happened to those 3,052 people? Did they change their minds by 2002? If we can find one still alive, maybe we can ask him.
But my scoffing-fears were abated, when the Sunni came to my rescue. They boycotted the election. It may be claimed that the Iraqis have had regular elections over the past several decades. And it may be claimed that the Iraqis have regularly shown us up with their remarkable turnouts. But this election the Iraqis had something that they have been missing for a long time: the freedom not to vote.