Archive for March, 2011
I’ve already mentioned that the nuclear situation is only a sideline to everything else – it’s claimed a sum total of 1 lives right now, while the tsunami and earthquake have killed tens of thousands. Still, with all of the focus, I want to mention several things:
- The reactor in question is from the 70s. We’ve got reactors that have had more safety improvements than cars have made in that time.
- What’s occurred so far is an industrial accident – unfortunate, but not much different from, for example, the recent Hungarian event.
- Japan is taking incredible precautions – which is good, but the fact remains that you can still measure the radiation in bananas. Or Denver.
- Even with all of this, Nuclear remains far safer than our other power options.
If you would like any other details of the situation, there’s pretty good coverage here. But in short, the media and surgeon general are doing us a massive disservice by blowing this incident way, way, way out of proportion.
OPEC and the biggest bond fund, PIMCO.
I’m sure the Democrats’ answer to this is to increase government spending somehow.
Actually, their internet outages resolved themselves amazingly quickly. The internet is probably be the first piece of technology we’ve created that’s truly durable, in an almost biological way.
The Feds are beginning to wonder if its systematic. Given how left-leaning college campuses are in general, and UC in specific…yes, probably.
Why is this food scene underground? Because city regulators (not even food safety ones!) have micromanaged this entire industry to the point of driving out large numbers of businessmen who would otherwise be legitimate, and helping drive business in the community.
I haven’t said much until now, because it’s hard to grapple with what’s occurred. Tens of thousands of people are dead. In some cases, entire towns of people are practically missing. People have been found out to see 9 miles. Even without the financial costs considered, the country has been devastated. The appropriate thing to do right now is help where possible. Although the media would have you believe otherwise, the entire nuclear sideline is just that, a sideline that has killed only 1 person, and is being shamelessly exploited by anti-nuclear groups on the left, fed by the same media.
Using the logic of the Democrats, the fact that we will now officially have the highest corporate tax rates in the world after this April 1st must mean that our economy will thrive. I’m sure there’s no where else in the world businesses would prefer to operate and employ people.
As O’Keefe has recently released…although NPR is still trying to claim otherwise. It would be a much easier claim if they weren’t on video.
Meanwhile:
- NPR now has a new chief, who exclusively donates politically to Democrats, of course.
- Obama’s trying to claim that it doesn’t make financial sense to defund NPR, because they don’t get very much money from the Federal Government anyway. But why do they get any? Would you be fine with us giving Fox a similar amount?
- Here’s some review of why NPR is tax-exempt, and why tax-exempt entities (specifically churches) are supposed to be barred from political speech. Yes, of course it was a liberal who put those rules in place, and of course they don’t enforce them on their own media outlets. Not only should NPR be stripped of federal funding, but it should be stripped of tax-exempt status, as well. What’s the process for that?
- Why is it so easy for O’Keefe et al. to keep on stinging lefty organization after lefty organization? Simple: lefty organizations are used to a system of NO media accountability and oversight. In fact, they’re used to the media deliberately looking the other way – and even helping others do the same. Maybe there are plenty of uncorrupt left leaning organizations out there, but until the media starts doing its job and actually investigating things, it’s not unreasonable to view leftist causes as likely to be massively corrupt. And the media is of course not only painting them as the exact opposite, but painting all right leaning organizations (who they thoroughly examine) as massively corrupt, when they almost entirely don’t have the cover to be.
What to do when increasing numbers of schools are failing students? Change the law that requires testing them!
It’s too bad they don’t post why with those statistics.
I wouldn’t be surprised if America’s insane tax policy of making people pay income taxes on foreign jobs was a big part of it, though.
