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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
11:50 am	The truth about Honduras Great fill in on WSJ. It's disturbing that they are trying to cover this up Basically the President acted illegally in violation of the Honduras Constitution in attempting to violate Constitutional term limits. The Congress and Supreme Court ordered the Army to arrest him. It's a very rare example of the rule of law being upheld in central America. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
2:37 pm	Guardians Clear Naxx Saturday Took a while but we got thru it in one session. Ppl rly need to work on their DPS though. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
10:35 am	Guardians Naxx raid Sat (tomorrow) at 2pm It will happen. We will PUG people if we can't fill with Guardians. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
2:33 pm	Hahaha twinks NERFED XP in BG's now. Anyone can turn off XP gains for everything, but then they will only face other people with XP off;) I love it. The rest of the 3.2 PTR patch notes (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
11:50 am	Funny Keynesian Antics Krugman did cause the housing bubble (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
3:38 pm	Reform Now! Pay Later Good article on health care reform at Reason: There are only three ways to pay for this ($1.2T) expansion of health insurance coverage: increased taxes, reduced benefits, or shiny gold ingots falling out of the sky. Voters emphatically prefer the latter option, so that is the one most likely to be embraced by Congress and the administration. Another good one on drug interdiction: Instead of importing Mexico’s prohibitionist approach to guns, we should stop exporting our prohibitionist approach to drugs. (Comment on this)
Monday, June 15th, 2009
11:18 am	Grats Shard (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
3:39 pm	Old was too long. New post to discuss the new junta. This WSJ article pegs it. By stepping over the bright line between the rule of law and the arbitrary behavior of men, President Obama may have created a thousand new failing businesses. That is, businesses that might have received financing before but that now will not, since lenders face the potential of future government confiscation. In other words, Mr. Obama may have helped save the jobs of thousands of union workers whose dues, in part, engineered his election. But what about the untold number of job losses in the future caused by trampling the sanctity of contracts today? The value of the rule of law is not merely a matter of economic efficiency. It also provides a bulwark against arbitrary governmental action taken at the behest of politically influential interests at the expense of the politically unpopular. The government's threats and bare-knuckle tactics set an ominous precedent for the treatment of those considered insufficiently responsive to its desires. Certainly, holdout Chrysler creditors report that they felt little confidence that the White House would stop at informal strong-arming. Aside from the economic ramifications, I can assure you the members of the Indiana State Teachers Association's whose retirement fund just got plundered, because they had the poor judgment to invest in an American company, feel pretty clearly what it's like to have the government violate the law. (33 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
1:41 pm	RIP: The Rule of Law, Viva The Rule of Mob Ginsburg put it momentarily on life support Monday, and there was some hope the patient might pull through. Alas it was DOA at the Supreme Court. The plaintiff is a retirement fund (tough luck Indiana teachers!) who had the bad judgment to assume that we still lived under the rule of law. Their case was that this decision is illegal, violates 150 years of precedent and violated due process and thus the Fifth Amendment. The defense case by the government basically amounted to, it'll be bad for Chrysler if we follow the law, and you know, Chrysler is too big to fail. Justice Delayed is Justice Denied, Justice Denied is definitely justice denied. When Bush used TARP money to nationalize bail out the car companies, we at least had some hope it could be called to account at some point for the illegal act it was. Now there is new precedent. They government will just take whatever it wants and the SCOTUS will just refuse to hear challenges if they can't figure out some plausible rationalization to back the government. Sotomayor will fit right in. (68 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 8th, 2009
12:05 pm	WoW stuff Finally got rid of the old spell scalpel. Nine days of dailies and FK now wields: It's all animated and the blade goes like a reciprocating saw:D There's epic weapons for every class and you may start doing the quests at 77. The dailies are a breeze, quite profitable, and get you scads of Argent Crusade, Silver Covenant, and main city rep. Click the pic for other weapons and stuff you may buy. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
11:31 am	The Constitution is not just a good idea.. ..apparently it's merely a rule of thumb. Apparently when you make notable unconstitutional rulings you're perfect for the SCOTUS. Her judgments have been overturned as unconstitutional twice (Malesko v. Correctional Services Corp and Riverkeeper v. EPA) and almost certainly a third (Ricci v. DeStefano). She further ruled on the wrong side of the Second Amendment (Maloney v. Cuomo, likely to be challenged on the basis of Heller). In other happy news the credit rating of the United States is at risk for the first time in 100 years. (18 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 15th, 2009
5:58 pm	Veronique de Rugy on the budget ..That's bad news, because even Obama’s doctored projections still show gigantic deficits in our future, dwarfing even the deficits of the Bush years. While President Obama promises a new era of responsibility, what he’s delivering is a continuation of President Bush’s fiscal recklessness—this time on steroids. Unfortunately, we already know the consequences: slower growth, more unemployment, a lower standard of living, and higher levels of poverty (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
11:02 am	Due to Swine Flu Mexico Calls off Cinco de Mayo jumps directly to Cinco de Seis (Comment on this)
Monday, May 4th, 2009
12:14 pm	Another mini WoW notice Children's week is this week and ends Thursday. The achievments for the title, necessary for the Purple Proto drake (310% mount) can be completed in one day with effort. The achi that says complete 5 dailies in 5 days is really just 5 dailies, so you can do it all at once. (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
12:27 pm	Woman charged with BWI breastfeeding while intoxicated (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
6:12 pm	First case of Cochon de Flu in New Orleans I figured it was inevitable with Jazz Fest going on the last week. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
12:38 pm	WOW event update I was able to complete the Noblegarden event in one session last night to get the title, including the mage polymorph bunny. Friday is the last day, then Orphan's week starts so don't put it off. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, April 27th, 2009
3:28 pm	WOW news. New seasonal mount requirment! They added a new seasonal event called Noblegarden that started yesterday and lasts till this weekend. If you've been taking a WoW break you may not have heard about it, hence this post. If you want the purple protodrake mount for completing all the seasonal achi's this is a new requirement. There's also a mini pet you can get and mages can get a polymorph bunny. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
11:54 am	Jedi at Scotland Yard UK to issue lightsabers to Bobbies (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
5:02 pm	The police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets Botched coverup? Ok, not like one doesn't already get suspicious when the CFO of Freddie Mac, which is under investigation by the SEC turns up dead by hanging or was it a gunshot Suicide by hanging gunshot! (2 Comments |Comment on this)