US presidential election and the future of everything

“What is being challenged is nothing less than the most basic premise of the politics of the centre ground: that you can have free market economics and a democratic socialist welfare system at the same time. The magic formula in which the wealth produced by the market economy is redistributed by the state – from those who produce it to those whom the government believes deserve it – has gone bust.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/9513687/We-should-tune-in-to-the-Romney-and-Ryan-show.html

When government interferes to make things equal, things become more costly

“The reason some people are willing to accept price discrimination when equal outcomes are desired is that they mistakenly assume that a well-meaning and diligent government is capable of managing the efficient production of all goods and services even in the absence of normal market signals, such as competitive prices. But that assumption has never proven to be true. The U.S. college cost dilemma is an example of the fallacy of this assumption.”

…

“(W)e need to stop giving colleges the information that is essential to sustain the price discrimination.”

(Yes, but more than that, we need to chop the billions of federal dollars shoved at potential students in the form of federal loans and federal grants. I have wondered for some time of the influence the 1944 and 1952 GI Bills had on convincing us that every person deserves a college education. If veterans deserved help, why didn’t all people deserve help? That, of course, led to the idea that if everybody is entitled to a college education, but some cannot afford the costs associated with that education, then the government assuring equality must step in and ensure the costs.)

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/august/the-high-cost-of-college-an-economic-explanation

At maggiesfarm.

One of those religion guys big-time liberals like

‘Tutu: Bush, Blaire should face trial at the Hague’

He doesn’t like Republicans, Israelis, and a lot of other folks.

“The Iraq war ‘has destabilized and polarized the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history,’” Tutu wrote.

He should stick to high-level political preaching and leave to others comments on history.

http://news.yahoo.com/tutu-bush-blair-face-trial-hague-094855285.html

Sort of in the neighborhood:

"Pour petrol and burn these Christians.”

http://news.yahoo.com/muslim-cleric-arrested-framing-girl-pakistan-blasphemy-case-062829763.html


(The labels somehow got screwed up. My apologies.)

It's a sticky situation

‘We Gave Canada One Job: “Don’t Lose All the Maple Syrup.” And they couldn’t do it’

“Remember like forty years ago when the world was choosing which nations would be responsible for which exports (United States: popstars, Sweden: frustrating-yet-affordable furniture, China: all goods), and it was decided that ‘maple syrup’ seemed like the kind of thing Canada could handle?”

http://gawker.com/5939581/

Maggiesfarm.

Or, if we were Kim Darby in Better off Dead, that is, en Franch:

Nous avons donné aux Canada un emploi: « Ne perdent pas tous le sirop d'érable. »

Et qu'ils ne pouvaient pas le faire ' « rappelez-vous comme il y a quarante ans, quand le monde a choisir lequel des nations serait responsables pour lesquelles les exportations (États-Unis : popstars, Suède : meubles frustrant-encore-abordable, Chine : toutes les marchandises), et il a été décidé que « sirop d'érable » semblait le genre de chose Canada pourrait gérer? »

If you say these things you are culturally insensitive and a real SOB

Example: "To 'hold down the fort' originally meant to watch and protect against the vicious Native American intruders. In the territories of the West, Army soldiers or settlers saw the 'fort' as their refuge from their perceived 'enemy,' the stereotypical 'savage' Native American tribes."



(I think the dude’s full of stuff from the fort’s stable, but I don’t work for Obama’s state department.)

Fark. (Site found at, not a comment.)

Panoramic view from Curiosity

I'll take the gravel concession when colonization begins.

Here’s a now and then check-back

http://www.mandatory.com/2012/08/31/this-weeks-20-inappropriately-hilarious-tweets/

Tweets. Some really funny; others, That’s so sad.

Fark had it.