Nukevet found it and posted it at his place, where I found it.
It is called: Rational Thought 101, the facts about the Iraq War meet the brain.
Every left winger in the country will recoil from this post like a vampire recoils from the light. And almost for the exact same reason.
Yes, it is that well done.
A misunderstanding.
A gentleman that I call a friend read my post about the $4.9 Billion dollar gap in the Washington State union employees pension plan and took away from it that I “have taken up the cudgels against public employees generally�. I figure that if he was able to gather that out of the post, there are probably others who did so as well and I need to get more specific here.
First off, nothing could be more wrong than the assertion that I was beating up on all public employees.
Not only am I married to a public employee, I am the son of a former one. I hold nothing against those who do the job with pride of purpose, just as I do mine. And although I believe that the majority of public sector jobs could be contracted out to private companies and get the same job done at less cost to the taxpayer, including the job that my wife does, that is another post in and of itself.
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Back with more pipes today I give you the standard for New Years at midnight
Swing on by Saturday, we’re going to blow out the bandwidth and load up some tunage for first thing in the morning 01/01/06
Observe the link between statism and militarism in the intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Just as the destruction of capitalism and the rise of the totalitarian state were not caused by business or labor or any economic interests, but by the dominant statist ideology of the intellectuals – so the resurgence of the doctrines of military conquest and armed crusades for the political ideals were the product of the same intellectuals’ belief that “The Good� is achieved by force.
Ayn Rand: The Roots of War – 1966
Courtesy of FlashReport, here’s an article of interest. Money quote:
Keeping in mind the days when authorities used federal tax code violations to go after mafia gangsters, Sheriff Carona … wondered if there was not a way to use immigration laws to go after hard-core criminals.
Here in California, that’s a large percentage of criminals we’re talking about that are vulnerable to an immigration charge.
It’s more than a little frustrating to see the hoops this guy’s had to jump through (starting with federal legislation, fer cryin’ out loud) in order to get this idea as far as he has. Read the article to see.
If this is the best he can come up with….
But it is the Democrats that are doing it, so it’s legal.
In 1997, the Washington State Legislature secretly gave themselves a raise. Not to their monthly incomes, this was more of a ‘future raise’ that Washingtonians didn’t see coming until now.
The legislature voted in an addendum to their pension plan, the same plan that the rest of the retired former employees of Washington State draw from, currently approximately 114,000 people, that ups the dollar amount in the monthly check if the pensions investments do better than expected.
Sounds fair, doesn’t it? Sure it is. If your pension plans has more money than it needs, you should benefit from lending them the money to invest with in the first place.
But that isn’t the whole of the plan.
What the legislature included in that plan was that if the investments do poorly after doing better than expected, the previous monthly pay increase would stay and the taxpayers would have to make up the rest.
But wait, it gets better!
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So yeah, the whole ‘The Feds interrogated me because I wanted to read Mao’s Little Red Book’ story by the UMass student was bullshit.
Like we didn’t see that coming. That book is checked out by thousands of college students a year and none of them were interviewed, so why should we have believed that this kid was? Oh, because the story about the tapping of international calls came out just days before? Pfffft!
I’m sorry, I’m all for distrusting the government at every opportunity, but members of the ‘Hate-Bush above all else’ sect in this country are right up there on my “Do Not Trust� list.
They don’t exactly have an exceptional record as this post by Michelle Malkin and the list of other leftie lies at the bottom of it shows.
Murdoc chimes in with similar sentiments,
Why is it that virtually all of the total crock stories are anti-Bush/War? Shouldn’t these honest mistakes fall more or less evenly across the board? Does the media more-readily swallow the stories that support their position? Or are there more liars on the Left?
Remember that private citizens – whether rich or poor, whether businessmen or workers – have no power to start a war. That is the exclusive power of a government. Which type of government is more likely to plunge a country into war: a government of limited powers, bound by constitutional restrictions – or an unlimited government, open to the pressure of any group with warlike interests or ideologies?
Yet it is not a limited government that today’s peace-lovers are advocating.
Ayn Rand: The Roots of War – 1966
For the students hoping to graduate from a Washington State high school in 2008, a standardized test called the “Washington Assessment of Student Learning� test (aka WASL) will be administered and they will have to pass in order to get their diplomas.
The testing for graduation starts in the tenth grade, which is perfect because it asks questions at a tenth grade level. For those who do not pass the first time around, the test is re-administered at least twice a year until the end of their twelfth grade year, giving each student at least six opportunities to pass.
In 1991, it was determined that students in the state public school system were being failed by the system, so then Democrat Governor Booth Gardner created the ‘Governor’s Council on Education Reform and Funding’ and they decided that the system needed a way of evaluating student progress and this is what they came up with by the end of the legislative session in 1993.
Yes, you read that correctly; it took them over a year and a half to figure out that they needed to test student knowledge and then another 12 years to implement it.
And now the former Governor who started the ball rolling has come out of retirement to say that it won’t work. (Article is in the archives. To access it sign in as ‘AK1’ with a password of ‘cowbell’)
His basic contention is that since there are students with varying cultures, their knowledge will be different and all this standardizing will alienate all the non-white students.
I don’t know if he actually means that Black, Asian, Hispanic and Indian kids are stupid, but that is what I’m taking that he believes.
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