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We have how many now?

If you weren’t already convinced that the Federal Government’s primary, overriding purposes are to propagate and perpetuate itself, reward the faithful with jobs created in an ever-increasing web of bureaucratic entanglement, and call attention to its attempts to address relatively mundane issues with great fanfare, while ignoring issues of more fundamental importance, maybe this will [...]

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2010 09 10 cziltang Economics
Environment
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Wait a minute. This seems sort of familiar.

Our Dear Leader is going to fix the economy by rolling out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways Is it just me, or didn’t we already try the ” 1) Let’s spend some money we don’t have, 2) pretend it will create jobs because we [...]

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2010 09 06 cziltang Capitalism
Economics
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A few links

It’s almost 1:00 AM, so I can’t talk about these in the depth I’d like, but I thought I’d pass them on anyway. From Carpe Diem: For anyone who has both a) a bit of knowledge about economic realities as opposed to the unicorn farts one usually hears in the MSM, and b) spent any [...]

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2010 06 09 cziltang Economics
Health Care
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But I still want my flying car…

Did you ever see the movie The Fifth Element?  Remember the scene where they are reconstructing the Fifth Element from a few living cells?  Remember how the machine created various body parts, including the circulatory system, with all of the veins and arteries and such? It is now possible, using stem cells and a 3d [...]

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2010 03 05 cziltang Economics
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The Day the Dollar Died

John Galt at Shenandoah does a ton of economic analysis.  Some of it is pretty technical, with charts and graphs, referencing technical market trading terms that I, frankly, don’t always follow.  But, if you read it regularly you can pick up a lot of very interesting economic information.  He’s had a number of posts that [...]

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2010 02 27 cziltang Economics
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Steyn on Diversity

In a post about the Ft. Hood massacre: The fact that a grown man not employed by a U.S. educational institution or media outlet used the word “diversity” in a non-parodic sense should be deeply disturbing. “Diversity” is not a virtue; it’s morally neutral: A group of five white upper-middle-class liberal NPR-listening women is non-diverse; [...]

2010 02 26 cziltang Corrections
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Cleaning out the browser tabs again

The organization I work for is on a major “sustainability” kick.  Generally speaking I don’t have a problem with most of the things they want us to do.  Saving paper, turning off computer monitors at night, and a number of the other “suggestions” they make fall generally into the category of not wasting resources.  If [...]

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2010 02 14 cziltang Personal
Science/Technology
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Discovering the premise was wrong won’t stop us from continuing to try to fix the problem by throwing money at it

“Poverty breeds crime” is one of those simple formulations that seems to be pretty much taken for granted.  Everyone knows it’s true, and it is one of the “givens” that we use, either directly or indirectly as a rationale for a variety of social programs.  Having spent 30 years working in corrections, one would think [...]

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2010 02 14 cziltang Corrections
Economics
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For your amusement

A lovely no smoking sign.  As the comment notes, it isn’t really civil disobedience, but it is, perhaps, a start. Folks like me who have been married for years probably find this sort of thing funnier than those of you who are actually dating.  But you should watch DATE WARS anyway.

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2010 01 04 cziltang Personal Comments (0)

Trying to catch Santa in the act

Why else would I still be up at 3 AM on Christmas Morning?  Other than I had to go outside with the dog.  (Something about that -11° wind chill dampens her enthusiasm for the “doing her business” process.  Then there’s the “how do I squat to pee when the snow is already higher than my [...]

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2009 12 25 cziltang Dog Blogging
Health Care
Personal
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