Saturday, February 23, 2008
Justice League: New Frontier trailerJUSTICE LEAGUE: The New Frontier - Official Trailer (updated)
I loved the comic, so I am looking forward to the film.
Thw comic is about the founding of the Justice League. It takes place in the early 1960s, during the space race. Hence the title. .
Friday, February 22, 2008
The Eye of Sauron Found!Thinking Chess
History of the Credit Card
This documentary is worth watching, so you can see what an abusive, should be illegal business the credit industry is.
If ever you wanted proof of that lobbyists have too much power, teh way they have bought of our politicians to let them get away with damn near everything is sickening.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Federal authorities think that nearly $50 million was stolen in an embezzlement scheme run out of the D.C. tax office, more than double the amount they had previously uncovered, four sources close to the investigation said.
The corruption at the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue went undetected much longer than initially thought, the sources said, extending back almost 20 years. In addition to tracking the missing money, authorities are looking into gifts suspected of being provided to co-workers and others by the woman accused of leading the scam, former tax office manager Harriette Walters.
The scheme is the largest corruption case in the city’s history. Witnesses have told investigators that Walters, who is accused of issuing larger and larger bogus tax refund checks over the years, lavishly spread the wealth, the sources said.
I guess civil servant jobs have all kinds of benefits.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Comedy Relief of the Day
No wonder she’s losing.
No Hillary/Obama Care
Well, at least Obama lets you choose to stay out out his health care system if you want to. I give him credit for that (though how long they would allow this is a good question). But a study of Britain’s NHS that Michael Moore praised in Sicko shows what a disaster it is in reality.
Before American voters embrace either Hillary Rodham Clinton’s universal-health scheme or Barack Obama’s single-payer proposal, they should consider the avoidable deaths that plague the mother of all state-run medical programs: Great Britain’s big-government National Health Service. Low-quality, taxpayer-funded health care killed more than 17,000 Britons in 2004, according to the TaxPayers’ Alliance in London.
The TPA examined the World Health Organization’s latest-available data to contrast the NHS with the Dutch, French, German and Spanish health systems, which are less government-dominated. Specifically, the pro-market group measured “mortality amenable to health care”—those deaths that a medical organization realistically should prevent.
While those four countries averaged a 106.6 amenable mortality rate, Britain was almost 29 percent deadlier, with its rate of 135.3. The TPA thus calculates that the NHS took the lives of 17,157 Britons who otherwise would have survived were they treated by doctors across the English Channel. This figure is more than two-and-a-half times Britain’s yearly alcohol-related deaths, and is quintuple its annual highway fatalities. Comparing 60 million Brits to 300 million Yanks, this is like a federally operated health agency eliminating 85,785 Americans in 2004.
And remember, the NHS forces everyone to pay into it, but is choosing not to take care of people over 70, smokers, drinkers and the “obese”. Those people still have to pay, they just won’t be served.
Government run programs almost always suck. There are rare occasions when they don’t, but as they become more popular or mandatory, their services decline.
The American health care system was fine in the past until the government polluted it with Medicare money and caused doctors to stop making house calls and start charging more and more. Then the health insurance business got in the act and now the system is seriously dysfunctional. The last thing we need to do is adopt systems that are failing all over the world.
The Earth is Flat!!
So say the Koran. You dare not dispute it, kafir!
Now this is Realism
(graphic violence)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
NewsflashThe NY Times tries to derail McCain with the following news item: Eight years ago McCain didn’t have an affair with a female lobbyist.
Okaaaay.
I don’t know if the Times can get any more irrelevant after this one. But bless them for trying. If they keep this up, they’ll definitely achieve their apparent goal of no more readers.
