If you are one of the multitude of folks out there who think that somehow you will "get Mr. Exxon" with a magical tax on oil profits let me disabuse you of the notion. Such a tax would only hurt you the consumer and the economy at large.
Firstly, costs are fungible. Whether these costs are material inputs, labor, or taxes makes no difference as all are equally redistributed not to the business itself but rather to the consumers who bu...
Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF):
• FOX and the Washington Times reported that there was a possible terror threat against Ft.Huachuca
• These claims are bunk because if there had been a threat it would have succeeded (details below)
FOX news echoed a rather dated report from the Washington Times which claimed that Ft. Huachuca, AZ (where I am at and was at the time):
“changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels...
Should an IT guy's hair matter more than his skills? A while back I was thinking of moving jobs because my current employer had shown no great enthusiasm for raising my pay despite the fact that I had just become worth a great deal more than I had been through the miracle of professional certifications (CCNA, CompTIA + certs, etc…). A bit of Monster.com activity produced a satisfying level of activity from all over the country and withi...
It is nice to see that simply being a Slashdot nerd doesn't disqualify you from understanding nothing about the rest of the world except for the sure and certain knowledge that whatever "authority figures" say HAS to be completely inverted.
If "they" say terrorists exist then the world must instead be filled entirely by altruistic pixies who would certianly never wish harm on anyone anywhere. Tales of war are either exaggerated or fabricated ...
If any JU mods happen to se this and have a moment please consider banning the "owner" of this JU blog.
The author is a simple medical product spammer:
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No replies to any topics, no original material, just crap pharmaceutical spam. They should probab...
Casual Interest SectionWhere is the line drawn for personal responsibility? What factors free you from it? Age? IQ? Education level? Race? Gender? While most people will probably agree that a 1 year old with an IQ of 30 and a kindergarten level of education isn't capable of understanding the terms of a home mortgage, the same folks would probably agree that once you are an adult you have to have some responsibility for the things you do. Af...
Time is Money.This saying is also reversible to:
Money is Time.
More properly, money is an abstraction of time used by societal groups to efficiently allocate the time of it's members. Wealth is created by making time available more efficiently to members of the group.
A simple example of how this evolves in the (fictional yet strangely progressive) Neolithic Uj tribe in the tiny Village of Kcodrats&nb...
*For those wondering about my long absence: See the end of the article. -GW
Expertise in technical and combat fields should be a top priority for any Army. For the U.S. Army it simply isn't. The institution doesn't value it and your security as a citizen is put at risk by this fact.
This isn't the first time I have seen the following words in print nor was the first time I saw them printed the first time I knew t...
Record labels think pirating music is theft.
Record labels also seem to think that giving away music you made is also theft since they don't get a cut.
Just look at the latest kerfuffle over Prince allowing a newspaper to give away his new CD:
"The Entertainment Retailers Association said the giveaway "beggars belief". "It would be an insult to all those record stores who have supported Prince throughout his...
Anyone know how to start a new blog group? It used to be a feature under "My Account" IIR but it seems to have gone away.
*Edited for a title typo. I have no idea what a "blgo" might be but it isn't what I wanted to ask about.
Apparently I am a member of the press. So are most of you reading this according to barack Obama's campaign folks who turned away Jerid of Buckeye State Blog from an event that was "closed to the press". Note that this guy was not turned away because he had a major blog like the Daily Kos or Instapundit but simply because he stated that he had a blog.
Where is the line drawn then? If you talk to people about your political views offline does that co...
Just when I thought he was quietly fading away into Billary's shadow Barack Obama pulls out a big gun:
"Barack Obama is vowing to detail all his earmark requests today and is challenging his Presidential rivals to do the same. " -TPM Cafe
Not only has he made the challenge, he has followed through already here.
Will Billary et al follow suit? If they do will it hurt them?
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Paging Ben Stein... the President desperately needs someone to vet statements like this:
"Mr. Bush said the $4.4 billion would “come from the fines and penalties that we collect from those who have come to our country illegally” and apply for legal status." -NYT
Really? Thats truly amazing. I wonder how it is that Arnold Kling never stumbled across the branch of economics known as "Magic". After Al Gore g...
This priceless quote is from the Governor of Massachusetts :
"“We want a vote that goes the right way, that keeps us off the ballot,” -Governor Deval Patrick via National Review
The vote in question is a vote by the Massachusetts legislature to allow the People of Massachusetts a public vote on a marriage amendment. Specifically:
"“When recognizing marriages entered into after the adoption of this amendment ...
Most people would find it unthinkable that a businessman would be willing to spend anywhere from $400,000-multiple millions of dollars to open a business but then be unwilling to spend a few hundred or few thousand more to help that same business succeed but it happens every day. Right here in town 2 of our favorite restaurants have gone out of business (much to EL’s dismay) because of just such a mentality. Spend huge quantities of cash to ...