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Saturday, January 02, 2010A Festival of Rationalizationposted by Joe @ 11:42
José Manuel Barroso is working the only force-multiplier available to a European Union not interested in actually doing anything to earn that respect:
We need to revisit the structures of global governance, to ensure that they work better for people everywhere, and in the interests of both current and future generations. The EU has led the discussion within its own structures and taken it to wider international fora. We welcome the emerging economies' call for reform of global institutions.In other words: the think the world should voluntarily come under the same undemocratic headlock that the populous entities are putting the smaller or less wealthy members of the EU, and we should, of course employ Europe-centered institutions to do it, the ones dominated by European employees. The economic crisis has made progress in the negotiations of the Doha Development Agenda in the World Trade Organisation even more important.That is, the Doha round that the Europeans killed to maintain tacit protectionism. Multilateral engagement is essential for dealing with these threats. The EU has multilateralism in its DNA. Others, too, can benefit from its experience. Europeans are long-standing champions of the United Nations and international cooperation, and continually seek to ensure that stability, freedom, democracy, and justice prevail as cornerstones of international relations.Which is an interesting way to put the passive-aggression that charaterizes anything that happens between EU member states or in the UN where the most extreme and vile resolutions, as unenforcable as they all are, come from nation-states that can do it without any consequence to themeselves, and at no cost to themselves. Pledging tp spend others' money and issuing a pandering condemnation of the politically unpopular hardly amounts to sane or responsible action, let alone "global governance". As it is, what is in the EU's DNA is totalitarian statism whose only addition in the past 20 years has been to put a smily face on it. If, as Barroso claims, that the EU has a growing role, or lessons to teach the world, their historically-recent revelation that they should stop dragging the rest of civilization into their internecine wars and awful top-down authoritarian ideas about social organization (Communism, Socialism, Fascism, etal), there is scant proof that it won't do as much harm in this century as it did in the 20th century.
Our best and brightestposted by Georges @ 01:12
Wonderful news:
Twelve million low-energy light bulbs were posted to households over Christmas by an energy company as part of its legal obligation to cut carbon emissions, despite government advice that many would never be used.The reason: In 2008 the Government ordered the big energy companies to invest in measures for improving energy efficiency and cutting fuel poverty.Who pays for the 'free' bulbs: Companies can pass on all the costs of the scheme to their customers. Over three years it is expected to add more than £100 to the average household’s energy bills.Once again, the reason: In 2008 the Government ordered the big energy companies to invest in measures for improving energy efficiency and cutting fuel poverty.Where would we be without our governmental betters?
Friday, January 01, 20102009 Closes with Less Veneration of Saint Sylvesterposted by Joe @ 13:03
New Years' Eve was declared "relatively calm" in Paris, pot-shots are taken at the NYPD - just because, dontcha know. The French police will be mobilized in large numbers for the traditional New Year festivities. The night of Saint-Sylvestre normally degenerates [in its' safety]. Last year more than thousand cars had been deliberately burned, or 30% more than last year. Update on the mechanisms put in place to fight against this crime.Heal Thyself, Pokey No good deed going unslandered, while taking a non-disapproving position on the improvements in Paris with the special deployment of 45 000 cops, "calm" in New York gets a different characterization. It's declared "draconian". From east to west across the globe, millions of people thronged the streets of major cities around the world to celebrate 2010 and try to forget within a few hours, the climate of uncertainty surrounding and upheavals of the global economic crisis.Hard to believe when the numbers out on the streets are down. In New York, a huge crowd braved the rain and snow to welcome with enthusiasm the midnight descent of the famous crystal ball in Times Square, symbolizing the transition to the new year.So while the statist tendency give's AFP's scribblers the notion that all is well when it takes place in a relatively small celabration in Paris which had one-fifth the revellers, it's jack-booted when it's employed to protect the nominal one million people who converge on time square.
And the Children Still Blindly Follow his Wisdomposted by Joe @ 11:40
Thursday, December 31, 2009You will Read the Numbers now, Liebschenposted by Joe @ 06:36
Is it a parody of stereotypical irritatingly self-absorbed central European experimental film or the crude tailings of cold war espionage? Be the judge.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009N/A in the 2nd Year of Age of Oposted by Joe @ 06:32
- Thomas Jefferson
Tuesday, December 29, 2009Mr. Mota will take Care of that “Mr. Socrates,” Ha Ha Ha...posted by Joe @ 10:25
- Statement which at the time of this writing is still on
A Massive Intellectual Regression In Which State Intervention Has Become the Panaceaposted by Erik @ 00:25
As The Seventh Dimension is published, Michel Garroté brings us an interview with the book's author, namely Guy Millière. On semble oublier tout ce que l’ouverture planétaire des marchés a permis en termes de recul de la pauvreté et des pénuries en deux ou trois décennies, et entrer dans une grande régression intellectuelle où l’interventionnisme étatique serait devenue la panacée.
Monday, December 28, 2009Cow Mutilations are Up!posted by Joe @ 10:45
Yea, verily, ManBearPig hath spoken, and he makes about as much sense as nuts who can’t decide it cattle mutilations are caused by UFOs or nefarious secret military experiments. Do you think that’s a stretch? Wheeeell, how cracked do you have to be to want to put a near septagenarian railroad engineer as the center and final judge of all geophysical science? ![]()
Sunday, December 27, 2009WWII-Era Higgins Boat in Actionposted by Erik @ 10:12
Hugues Eliard's World War II-era Higgins Boat in action…
Cette vidéo fait partie d’une série actuellement en cours de montage et tournées en mai/juin dernier durant l’opération "Objectif Omaha". Celle-ci est prise le 31 mai à Caudebec en Caux, lors de notre arrivée [à bord du LCVP PA30-4] à la station des Pilotes de la Seine, alors en route vers Honfleur.
As Revealing as a Barium Enemaposted by Joe @ 08:11
The perpetual rigamarole surrounding the formation of the EU over the past 4 decades is rather more revealing of the state of the European political mind than one thinks. It’s an accounting of unredacted reactions, expressions of instincts, and the willingness to live with broad, warm-sounding feelings of communatarianism that wants to magnify it’s power around the world for no reason, while all the parties act like they want to take their ball, leave the sandbox, and go home.
Saturday, December 26, 2009Bright Lights, Big Cityposted by Georges @ 21:58
Just curious if anyone else has experienced this phenomenon. Whilst preparing for one of the myriad holiday parties served up at Chez Moi, we replaced our regular light bulbs, in a rather longish L-shaped hallway (residential), with the new greendom CFL types.Upon transiting the newly illuminated and environmentally friendly hallway, guests emerged in some combination of confusement, disorientation and/or irritation (one guest was found flushed, sweating and muttering that his name was Leonard Zelig). Do note, these events happened prior to cordials being served. Suggestions?
"Just a Cute 'Lil Firecracker"?posted by Joe @ 12:16
Re-edited moments ago to say that "a passenger believed it was a firecracker" The AP appears to be trying to minimize an attack on civilians, saying in a video report that Nigerian-British student Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, was merely playing with mere party poppers, and mentioning nothing about the significance of the date of the attack. The man who tried to blow up a US airliner as it prepared to land at Detroit on Christmas Day had an explosive powder strapped to his leg which he tried to ignite by injecting chemicals with a syringe, Fox News reports.The reasoning behing calling it a firecracker came from a passenger statement like this one, carefully omitting what law enforcement described the IED to be: One US intelligence official said the explosive device was a mix of powder and liquid. It failed when the passenger tried to detonate it.
An Open Threadposted by Joe @ 10:22
Friday, December 25, 2009Will Hillary Clinton Get it This Time?posted by Joe @ 16:23
![]() Like a parody of history, the willing idiots will autonomically rally to rationalize the legality of illegality to pitch a "lite" version of Communizing revolutions, and it will sound as clumsy as the same tired rhetoric did in the 70's and 80's when said willing idiots were little more than the unwelcome result of a broken condom. The whole empty "coup" routine we heard with Zelaya's attempt to sieze power will be parrotted when this gofer pops up to talk his way into a "permanant Presidency". Lawmakers are refusing to recognize a Supreme Court decision that would allow Ortega to run again in 2011 by overturning bans on consecutive re-election and serving more than two terms.The question is, will the US State Department be as inept and spineless with Daniel Ortega as it was with Zelaya?
A Y Pestis of Youthful Ignoranceposted by Joe @ 06:38
Suddenly, David Aaranovich’s observation of the Copenhagen festival of self-hatred started sounding historically familiar.
Thursday, December 24, 2009Christmas Address From the White Houseposted by Erik @ 12:22
Not a Franciscan, but Rather a San Franciscanposted by Joe @ 11:39
Michael Phillips calls out the new authoritarians for what they have become.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009Diplomatic Pauchposted by Joe @ 14:34
In the wake of the stench of sulfur that Chavez left in the Bella Center, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla called U.S. President Barack Obama:
Well, that didn't take longposted by Georges @ 11:11
From those who are never ever responsible for anything (sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively):European Union leaders on Tuesday sought to deflect criticism that they had fumbled their strategy at the Copenhagen climate summit meeting, just as a feud between the British and the Chinese over whom to blame for the outcome worsened. What's that? European-only leadership on greendom would put Euro-industry at a global disadvantage? How so, we seem to recall something about transitioning to green-jobs and green-economies being sure-fire money-makers. Europe will be that much further ahead of all the other economies, right? Just talk? What is this: Philippe de Buck, the director general of BusinessEurope, a powerful lobby group, suggested over the weekend that industries based in Europe would increasingly move their operations to less regulated parts of the world as a result of the weak accord struck in Copenhagen.We seem to recall something about Europe being so far advanced and nuanced about the brotherhood of man and beyond such seedy things like money and profits. Just talk?
A Salvo of Domestic Desertions in Time of Peaceposted by Erik @ 08:47
Because of the disastrous war in Iraq and Afghanistan, America's armies are plagued by waves of desertions, writes Nathalie Guibert in Le Monde, unlike the pacifist-minded armies of Europe, which have so many lessons to… No, wait a minute. Those soldiers deserting aren't Yanks; they are French!The French army is the one that is plagued by une salve de "désertions à l'intérieur en temps de paix". One particularly memorable time (violence-minded Yanks will be happy to learn), a desertion followed a farewell party: en août 2008, des sous-officiers très alcoolisés ont entamé une bataille rangée avec les premières classes qui s'étaient invités. Dans le garage où se tenait la fête, les gradés ont saisi pelle, hache, chaîne de tronçonneuse.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009Got That, You &^#%#?! Cycling Jerseys That Make a Statementposted by Erik @ 22:00
6 inches of Snow Brings Much of the UK to a Screeching Haltposted by Joe @ 18:33
6 Questions on Health Care for Foreigners and Expatriatesposted by Erik @ 15:18
Saying that "we are on the verge of socializing our health care system", Louisiana Conservative wants to ask foreigners and expatriates half a dozen questions (please answer in the comments section)…
1. What do you like about the government ran health care system? 2. What don't you like about the government ran health care system? 3. What would you change about the government ran health care system? 4. How long does a normal visit to the doctor take? 5. How has the system affected you or your family positively? 6. How has the system affected you or your family negatively?
Ils se Sont Tiré Dans le Piedposted by Joe @ 11:11
Half of the arrogance of the Donkey Show is founded in ignorance. While the lauding of the health care provided outside of the US has diminished with a growing number of people who are familiar with alternate international systems speak up, the delusions are still there. Leftists want “what they have in ___” or more to the point, what Leftists THINK they have in ____, when in fact most western European governments have spent a politically agonizing decade privatizing medicine in spite of their domestic Marxist-Leninist leaning loonies in order to improve the quality and availability of the care.
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