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Ralph Nader Sends Open Letter to President Bush: The Country You Destroyed

Hey Ralph, remember that time you ran for president and told everyone that there would be no difference between Bush and Gore? How did that turn out?

Arthur Laffer: Inflation does not appear to be monetary base driven

“Usually when you find the model this far off, you’ve probably got something wrong with the model, not that the world has changed,” he said. "Inflation does not appear to be monetary base driven,“ he said.

Is this the first domino to fall?

Gold on track for biggest annual loss in three decades

So all those Ron Paul Austrians experts who warned about currency debasement and hyperinflation have come out and admitted they were wrong, right?

Will Benghazi Facts Penetrate The Right-Wing Bubble?

An exhaustive New York Times investigation into the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, published on December 28, discredited the key elements of the right-wing campaign to politicize the attack – a desperate attempt to bring down the Obama administration and sink a possible presidential run by Hillary Clinton.

No, it will not enter the bubble. There are too many people who are convinced that the Times is a liberal media source and can not be trusted, unlike Fox which is fair and balanced. We are stuck with whitewater 2.0.

A Deadly Mix in Benghazi

GOP conspiracy theories about Benghazi have turned about to be wrong, so we can now expect them to stop, right?

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Zamboni on Flickr. Whenever Zipcar asks how they can improve, I always respond with the same two word response. Zamboni Rentals.

Criminals don’t turn violent. They stay that way.

The rate of violence peaks at 24 months, declines steadily through adolescence and plunges in early adulthood. But as Dr. Tremblay and Daniel S. Nagin, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University, found in a pivotal 1999 study, a troublesome few do not follow this pattern.

This is worth reading.

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Bitcoin May Be Following This Classic Bubble Stages Chart – Forbes

Plant intelligence

In a recent experiment, Heidi Appel, a chemical ecologist at the University of Missouri, found that, when she played a recording of a caterpillar chomping a leaf for a plant that hadn’t been touched, the sound primed the the plant’s genetic machinery to produce defense chemicals. Another experiment, dome in Mancuso’s lab and not yet published, found that plant roots would seek out a buried pipe through which water was flowing even if the exterior of the pipe was dry, which suggested that plants somehow “hear” the sound of flowing water.

I’d like a vegan’s opinion on this. If plants try not to be eaten, when is it moral to eat them? When is it moral to raise them with the purpose of eating them?

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I tend to take the stance that Libertarianism is like Leninism: a fascinating, internally consistent political theory with some good underlying points that, regrettably, makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can only work if we replace real messy human beings with frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density (because it relies on simplifying… Continue reading Untitled