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If you don’t want to be treated like “jack-booted thugs”, don’t be “jack-booted thugs”. Just sayin’. UPDATE: Maybe this guy is a nice guy and this is just a bad shot, from the Wiki-Commons site it says he’s Canadian. All Canadians are nice right (actually I find them to be but…)? The point is, [...] First, I think this headline is hilarious: (god knows the stupid people need help). Second, here’s the money quote: “Here’s what I need you to do: Stay informed, know the facts because stupid people are ruining America.” Third, and finally, everyone agrees that “stupid people are ruining America” we all just disagree about which [...] Just sayin’… NYT reporting on Italy’s crisis and Berlusconi’s resignation: In the end, thus, it was not the sex scandals, the corruption trials against him or even a loss of popular consensus that appeared to end Mr. Berlusconi’s 17 years as a dominant figure in Italian political life. It was, instead, the pressure of the markets and [...] More “humanitarian” killing coming? UPDATE (11/09/2011): Fortunately, apparently not, at least for now. I say “fortunately” with some ambivalence. Like Libya I’d be happy to see the Syrian leadership go, but the current use of war like water isn’t a healthy state of affairs. Adam Smith via Krugman regarding banking regulation: “Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; [...] From the comment section of Matt Yglesias’ blog: “God save us from Constitution fetishists on the right and left…” This in reference to, the 5th amendment clause that says: No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law Apparently being against the government having the option to kill its [...] In the last couple of posts I’ve indicated at best an ambivalence, and what could most probably be expressed as a complete lack of empathy toward Anwar Al-Awlaki and Ibrahim Hassan deaths. There’s both some truth to this implication, but I also admit some posturing to bring home the point that, should these men be [...] Here’s another reason the 5th Amendment crushing assassination of an American matters: Underwear-bomb maker believed dead in Yemen strike CAIRO – A Saudi militant believed killed in the U.S. drone strike in Yemen constructed the bombs for the al-Qaida branch’s most notorious attempted attacks — including the underwear-borne explosives intended to a down a U.S. [...] Any country that could have this as a viable title of a “news” report: has lost its bearings. This is particularly true when one considers we probably gave Rezwan Ferdaus the idea. All terror, all the time. You gotta even fear the toys (I’m kind of surprised these haven’t been implicated yet…). [...] |
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