The Red White and Blue Pill
Five haredi men indicted for attacking gay black man in Brooklyn
he was walking through the heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Williamsburg on his way home to a nearby neighborhood when more than 12 Hasidic men attacked him while shouting anti-gay slurs.
If 12 members of a Muslim fundamentalist sect attacked a man this way, would it be covered differently? If the attacked man wasn’t gay, would it be covered differently?
Snowden Is The Kind of Guy I Used to Recruit—in Russia
As a former director of operations for the CIA, I see Snowden in a very different light. My colleagues and I in the agency spent our careers looking for people like him—on the other side, that is. We worked hard to locate the kind of person who could be persuaded to give up his country’s secrets: narcissistic, often delusional under-achievers whom we could hope to turn into loose-lipped sources in our enemies’ camps and other hostile locations. We understood just how valuable it was to every aspect of our foreign policy to know the plans and intentions of our enemies; the best way to do this was to look for a source and exploit people like Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, to target for this purpose.
Not totally convinced. Not sure if Snowden even fits the description “narcissistic, often delusional under-achievers” very well. He seems to be pretty well thought out. And despite being a high school drop out, he seems not to fit the bumbling under-achievers mold.
Cliven Bundy’s Highly Inaccurate Guide To U.S. History
Cliven Bundy’s LOLibertarian history lesson.
Militia Leader Lives Off Gov Disability Checks
Democratic Underground user Kpete recalled a story in the Washington Post where it mentions Vanderboegh’s disability checks, while in the next breath, the militia leader speaks against what he perceives as President Obama’s ‘collectivism.’
When he gets a check, he is getting his money back. When other people get a check, they are taking his money.
Bunkerville Held Hostage By Extremist Militia Members With Guns
Armed gunmen riding around on pick up trucks enforcing arbitrary rules on a population they are not accountable to. But don’t you dare compare this to Somalia. Its hurts their feelings.
Nevada Militia Sets Up Armed Checkpoints, Demands to See Drivers’ I.D.
apparently other rightful property owners in rural Nevada don’t feel terribly free under the security regime recently built around them by the militiamen protecting rancher Cliven Bundy.
So if I am stopped by these freedom loving patriots and asked for ID, they are totally not infringing on my freedom? And totally not aggression.
Suppose he had been grazing his cattle on land belonging to one of his neighbors, and had refused to pay for the privilege. That would clearly have been theft — and brandishing guns when someone tried to stop the theft would have turned it into armed robbery. The fact that in this case the public owns the land shouldn’t make any difference.
So, what happens if two ranchers want to use that land? Or if some rancher wants to graze his herd on land that Mr. Bundy owns and isn’t using?
The Koch Attack on Solar Energy
For the last few months, the Kochs and other big polluters have been spending heavily to fight incentives for renewable energy, which have been adopted by most states. They particularly dislike state laws that allow homeowners with solar panels to sell power they don’t need back to electric utilities. So they’ve been pushing legislatures to impose a surtax on this increasingly popular practice, hoping to make installing solar panels on houses less attractive.
Not surprised.
“Maybe I Am A Welfare Queens” Wonders Cliven Bundy (by Sam Seder) Sam Seder comments on CNN interview with Cliven Bundy and points out that he actually more of a thief then a welfare queen. The ranchers that get subsidized grazing are the welfare queens. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Piketty himself is a social democrat who abjures the Marxist label. But as his title suggests, he is out to rehabilitate and recast one of Marx’s key ideas: that so-called “free markets,” by their nature, tend to enrich the owners of capital at the expense of people who own less of it.
On the right, being insufficiently worshipful of capitalism as they define it is now the same as being a Marxist. It doesn’t matter how you reach your conclusions, it doesn’t matter if you disagree with 90% of Marx. If you do not follow the right-wing party line on capital, it’s the same as being a devoted Marxist.