Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Troglopundit, by way of Ed Driscoll at Instapundit:
This is a bit of a leftover from this couple-days-old post, about Wisconsin launching up the lists of “business friendly” states since Gov. Walker took over:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Texas remains the top state for business and California still holds the title for the worst, according to an annual ranking of states by Chief Executive magazine released on Wednesday.
Chief Executive each year surveys CEOs and asks them to grade states in which they do business. This year 650 responded, giving Texas high marks “foremost for its business-friendly tax and regulatory environment,” a report on the survey and ranking said on the magazine’s website.
“Texas easily clinched the No. 1 rank, the eighth successive time it has done so,” the report said. “California earns the dubious honor of being ranked dead last for the eighth consecutive year.”
California “appears to slip deeper into the ninth circle of business hell,” the report said. “Each year, the evidence that businesses are leaving California or avoid locating there because of the high cost of doing business due to excessive state taxes and stringent regulations, grows.”
I believe what I’m feeling right now is called “Schadenfreude.”
Yeah…which I don’t share, and can’t share, since I’m sitting right here.
This does have the look and feel of repetition of an experiment that has been tried many times before and found futile. The question posed by the experiment would be: Once you put an organized and governed region — a state — under the tutelage of the unproductive, thereby placing unproductive people in charge of determining how productive people are to produce…and, as a direct consequence things start to go to hell…can the trolley ever be knocked far enough off the rails that the unproductive people eventually are forced to pull their heads out of their asses whether they want to or not? Can that happen? Does the machinery have a fuse that pops at some point?
And the answer science provides based on the experimentation that’s been conducted thus far, is rather unmistakable. Every time the coffers run dry, as I’ve noted before many times — and they do — the policies need no change, because the policies are not to blame. Those darn taxpayers didn’t pay enough, that’s the problem. In other words, there’s a reason that unproductive people are unproductive, even if they’ve been elected to California’s Assembly and Senate. If they had what it took to say “Hey, this whiz-bang idea I had is not netting the results I wanted it to, I shall have to try something else” — for the most part, they wouldn’t be there. They are where they are, because of what they are and how they do things. They lack this ability. And they’re making the decisions.
So…no fuse. It’s been tossed away and replaced by a paper clip. The machinery will just juice up and juice up some more, until the whole thing melts down.
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Of course, the Legislature is not concerned about any of this in the least.
Instead, they’re working on NINE gun-control bills at the moment, plus another to make it more difficult for homosexuals to seek counseling for their unnatural urges.
Gotta love this state.
- cylarz | 05/08/2012 @ 12:29