Saturday, December 31, 2016
Friday, December 30, 2016
Libertarians lacking in cross cultural awareness
A heterosexual libertarian posted this in a Libertarian google group with no irony. I am actually surprised he didn't realize its homoerotic overtones, but I doubt any gays missed it:
And he did it the week George Michaels passed away!
And he did it the week George Michaels passed away!
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Monday, December 26, 2016
Ruff/Daggers 2020: Libertarian Party Line, Episode 1
Ruff/Daggers 2020: Libertarian Party Line, Episode 1
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Cato wishes you a Merry Festivus!
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Saturday, December 24, 2016
CNN: “Drunk Hillary” Beat Sh*t Out Of Bill Clinton On Election Night
A very entertaining YouTube channel
Friday, December 23, 2016
Charge Hillary Now: Petition to Sen. Sessions (President-elect Trump's Attorney General Nominee)
Charge Hillary Now: Petition to Sen. Sessions (President-elect Trump's Attorney General Nominee): Either we are a nation of laws or we a 'banana republic' lead by criminals. After the Watergate scandal, the mainstream media told us repeatedly that “No person is
Christmas Movies
This was published yesterday at Breitbart.
The original Star Trek series, starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, promised that in the future there would be progress.
While later Star Trek franchises featured apocalypse, from the Borg, the Dominion, etc. and while Star Wars gave us a malevolent Empire with a Death Star, in the original 60s, John F. Kennedy era Star Trek, there was no war (back on earth anyway), no poverty, no famine, no disease.
There also seemed to be little private Enterprise in Gene Roddenberry's space. The Federation of Planets is a European Union on steroids, and Captain Kirk's U.S.S. Enterprise, despite its name, is a socialist project in a socialist economy.
It's hard to see how we get there from President-elect Trump promising deregulation and proudly appointing billionaires - not academics, lobbyists, or community organizers - to his cabinet.
Apparently the collective subconscious of Hollywood saw Mr. Trump coming.
In the new Christmas release Passengers, Jennifer Lawrence (writer "Aurora Lane" - really?) and Chris Pratt ("Jim Preston") play starship voyagers who may become star crossed lovers, in a world where government is never mentioned. The two are on a corporate-owned ship, the Avalon, with 5,000 passengers in suspended animation, leaving a gentrified earth, where real estate is so expensive, people like mechanic Jim Preston are leaving for the new Nashvilles and Austins on other planets, where the rents are low and the demand for people who can do Mike Rowe's dirty jobs is high. The planets are being developed kind of like townhouse condominium communities by the same corporations that build the starships.
Though the earth they are leaving doesn't seem to have war, famine or pestilence, it does have more financial inequality than Star Trek did. Preston, who awakes years too early due to a malfunction in the ship's systems can't order expensive Starbucks style coffee drinks from the ship's Siri like automat because he is not a "gold class passenger," and must settle for regular coffee and oatmeal. When Aurora is awakened she can buy him all the fruit, bacon, and pumpkin spice lattes he wants, because she has the first class (and round trip) ticket. [Passengers is actually somewhat of a pro-capitalist syfy remake of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 leftist Swept Away, where an upper class woman and a blue collar stud find passion while stranded on a deserted island.]
It's a very good but not great movie, perfect holiday fare, part love story, part adventure, with beautiful visuals, including starscapes, Lawrence swimming in a giant gravity free bubble of water, and Pratt providing some beefcake in a shower scene. The audience is invited to contemplate some choices involving selfishness, love, forgiveness, and life boat ethics, and this future seems free of cant, social justice jargon, and political correctness.
The original Star Trek series, starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, promised that in the future there would be progress.
While later Star Trek franchises featured apocalypse, from the Borg, the Dominion, etc. and while Star Wars gave us a malevolent Empire with a Death Star, in the original 60s, John F. Kennedy era Star Trek, there was no war (back on earth anyway), no poverty, no famine, no disease.
There also seemed to be little private Enterprise in Gene Roddenberry's space. The Federation of Planets is a European Union on steroids, and Captain Kirk's U.S.S. Enterprise, despite its name, is a socialist project in a socialist economy.
It's hard to see how we get there from President-elect Trump promising deregulation and proudly appointing billionaires - not academics, lobbyists, or community organizers - to his cabinet.
Apparently the collective subconscious of Hollywood saw Mr. Trump coming.
In the new Christmas release Passengers, Jennifer Lawrence (writer "Aurora Lane" - really?) and Chris Pratt ("Jim Preston") play starship voyagers who may become star crossed lovers, in a world where government is never mentioned. The two are on a corporate-owned ship, the Avalon, with 5,000 passengers in suspended animation, leaving a gentrified earth, where real estate is so expensive, people like mechanic Jim Preston are leaving for the new Nashvilles and Austins on other planets, where the rents are low and the demand for people who can do Mike Rowe's dirty jobs is high. The planets are being developed kind of like townhouse condominium communities by the same corporations that build the starships.
Though the earth they are leaving doesn't seem to have war, famine or pestilence, it does have more financial inequality than Star Trek did. Preston, who awakes years too early due to a malfunction in the ship's systems can't order expensive Starbucks style coffee drinks from the ship's Siri like automat because he is not a "gold class passenger," and must settle for regular coffee and oatmeal. When Aurora is awakened she can buy him all the fruit, bacon, and pumpkin spice lattes he wants, because she has the first class (and round trip) ticket. [Passengers is actually somewhat of a pro-capitalist syfy remake of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 leftist Swept Away, where an upper class woman and a blue collar stud find passion while stranded on a deserted island.]
It's a very good but not great movie, perfect holiday fare, part love story, part adventure, with beautiful visuals, including starscapes, Lawrence swimming in a giant gravity free bubble of water, and Pratt providing some beefcake in a shower scene. The audience is invited to contemplate some choices involving selfishness, love, forgiveness, and life boat ethics, and this future seems free of cant, social justice jargon, and political correctness.
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
U.N. fires Wonder Woman as soon as an Israeli actress gets the role...hmmm
As soon as an Israeli actress Gal Gadot appears on screen as Wonder Woman, the U.N. fires her.
U.N. fires Wonder Woman after complaints about her race, boob size and figure:
'The character's current iteration is that of a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions,' reads a U.N. petition.
U.N. fires Wonder Woman after complaints about her race, boob size and figure:
'The character's current iteration is that of a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions,' reads a U.N. petition.
GOP's Swearengin Won't Run For California Governor. Might Peter Thiel?
GOP's Swearengin Won't Run For California Governor. Might Peter Thiel?: A prominent Republican says she won’t run for California governor in 2018. Outgoing Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin’s decision to pass up the race raises the question of whether the GOP can recruit a competitive candidate.
Monday, December 19, 2016
Monday's recommended reading: Electoral College Jingle Bells & Nested Dolls
Sunday, December 18, 2016
What Really Happened in the Campaign
What Really Happened in the Campaign: How Steve Bannon won the election with one brilliant idea There have been so many stories looking back and offering some interpretation of why Trump won. My favorite review of the issues that...
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Saturday recommended reading: the Fake News Hoax
Facebook: Fascists and Liars - and the Intend to Censor What Your Read (The Federalist)
How "Real" aka Mainstream i.e. Fake News (Propaganda) Organs Made up the "Fake News" Hoax (Examiner)
Latin Americans roll eyes at CIA "news" that Russia interfered in elections (Rochdale Press)
EXXON changed position on climate change under Tillerson (TheHill)
Rogue One worth the ticket (TheResurgent)
Friday, December 16, 2016
AEI Fellowships
The new year is still a few weeks away, but we are already recruiting students for our 2017 Values & Capitalism Summer Honors Program. During two weeks in June 2017, we are offering four week-long, fully-funded courses on topics of faith, economics, public policy, and constitutional law. This year's instructors include AEI's Michael Strain and Michael McShane, as well as John Inazu of Washington University School of Law and Stephen Smith of Hope College. See below for more details.
If you know of any undergraduate students who may be interested in the program, would you consider forwarding them this email? Thanks in advance for spreading the word.
Best wishes,
Tyler
Tyler Castle
Manager, Values & Capitalism
If you know of any undergraduate students who may be interested in the program, would you consider forwarding them this email? Thanks in advance for spreading the word.
Best wishes,
Tyler
Tyler Castle
Manager, Values & Capitalism
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Libertarians on Rick Perry
LP congratulates Perry for opportunity to abolish Department of Energy
A modest congratulation
The Libertarian Party extends a hearty congratulations to Gov. Rick Perry for his announced nomination by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Energy.
“Gov. Perry has a rare opportunity to head one of the agencies he pledged to abolish,” said Nicholas Sarwark, Chair of the Libertarian Party. “Even though most Republican politicians have proven incapable – or insincere – when it comes to abolishing anything in government, I’m confident he really means it this time.”
During Perry’s 2012 run for the Republican nomination for president, he pledged to abolish the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Education.
“No doubt he will be at least as successful as President Ronald Reagan and his Department of Education appointee, Bill Bennett, who promised to abolish that agency in 1980,” said Sarwark.
The Department of Education grew under Bennett’s leadership and has continued to grow, both in authority and dollars spent, ever since.
“Of course if the governor finds, like most Republican politicians, that he’s really not interested in shrinking government, or that the DOE is a gold mine for crony capitalist friends, he can always appease some of his supporters by simply transferring the functions currently run by the DOE – which include climate research and regulation of nuclear energy - to other departments within the federal government,” said Sarwark. “Not a single federal employee needs to be left unemployed. They can get a pink slip on Friday and report to a ‘new’ job down the street the following Monday doing the exact same work.”
Perry, who was governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015, is known for his cozy relationship with the oil and gas industry. Texas energy industry executives made substantial donations to his campaigns for governor as well as his 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns.
“And if that proves to be inconvenient,” Sarwark continued,” there’s always the rename option. He can simply ‘repeal’ the ‘Department of Energy’ and ‘replace’ it with the ‘Department of Alternative and Traditional Energy Oversight’ -- and continue operations without a hitch.”
"Why drain the swamp in Washington D.C. when you can simply declare it endangered wetlands?"
The Blood of Aleppo is on Obama’s Hands
The Blood of Aleppo is on Obama’s Hands: The Blood of Aleppo is on Obama’s Hands, Obama’s CIA has been aiding the Islamic terrorist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda for the purpose of overthrowing the Syrian regime
Thursday, December 15, 2016
The Unseen — and Exorbitant — Costs of a Prison Phone Call
The Unseen — and Exorbitant — Costs of a Prison Phone Call: As incarceration rates continue to grow around the United States, the enormous costs of some prison services are increasingly being paid by those who...
Thursday recommended reading: Bill of Rights Anniversary Day readings
Indiana police department quits after being asked to commit illegal acts (CounterCurrentNews)
Why can't Obama admit ISIS commits genocide against Christians? (Investor's Business Daily)
Ayn Rand is proof that Russians have been meddling in American elections since 1925 (Stalon)
Liberals in media terrified because Trump cabinet picks are so good (TheLid)
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