Regulation Encourages Recklessness

Business, Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Law, Private Property, Regulation

REGULATION ENCOURAGES RECKLESSNESS; private property rights in waterways is the solution to the pollution of the ocean.

FoxNews informs that “The 20-year-old Oil Pollution Act would make BP responsible for paying for the cleanup costs [of the gushing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico]. There have been questions raised about another part of the law that caps their liability at $75 million for other economic damages. … the damages could easily top $75 million. A handful of senators, though, have introduced a bill to raise the cap to $10 billion, which the administration supported.”

State regulation works to the advantage of offenders, as the state and its corporate donors invariably come to an agreement about what constitutes reasonable damages—agreements that usually disadvantage harmed parties.

Leave injured parties to sue for damages. However, for a just tort system to work one needs … private property. Private property rights in waterways, or riparian rights in water that abuts private property—this is the best way to protect the ocean and other hitherto state-controlled expanses of water from being destroyed.

Inflation Central (AKA ‘Global Governance’)

Debt, EU, Europe, Federal Reserve Bank, Inflation

The world’s central bankers, entrusted as they are with keeping themselves in style and their politician friends in power, would very much like to be able to access YOUR wallet. Feel like saving Greece? Bailing out Portugal? The EU’s Uncle Jean-Claude Trichet has a plan: Let’s centralize political spending—incur debt in unison and inflate our way out of the pit. Let the serfs suffer.

FORBES.COM:

“The President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, told Forbes that global governance is extremely necessary if we want to prevent another financial crisis. In his prepared printed and spoken remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations, Trichet emphasized that politicians, economists, and financiers must work across the Atlantic and collaborate on methods to create an international set of standards. It is his belief that through global governance, the resiliency of the global financial system can be assured, noting that ultimately it was governments’ use of taxpayer’s money, equivalent to around 25% of GDP on both sides of the Atlantic, that prevented another catastrophic great depression from occurring.” …

Updated: He's Not Heavy; He's My Bro

Africa, Crime, Feminism, Gender, Political Correctness, Psychology & Pop-Psychology, Sex

Violent, vicious rape, compounded by the very real risk of HIV infection, are a feature of female philanthropy in Africa, and in Haiti—that “Piece Of Africa Transported To The New World.” However, so deeply silly is the prototypical, progressive white woman, in her fantasies (let’s be honest; these are sexual) of rescuing the world, that she discards this reality.

Or, rapes reality with fictitious political constructs to exonerate her rapist and solve her inner-conflict.

Vox Day and his readers are particularly funny in their responses to this not-so-funny stale tale of a self-styled scholar and do-gooder, who travels to Haiti on a rescue mission, only to get raped repeatedly and viciously by the flesh-and-blood object of her advocacy and idiotic projections.

Her rapist could probably have had his way with her, but he preferred to hurt her. Badly. Why? Because the freewheeling, uninhibited spirit this woman so admires moved him in that direction; the act turned him on! Still, all she, Amanda Kijera, takes away from this is a renewed commitment to her oppressed oppressor.

Via Vox Day.

Update (May 3):

• To the usually incredibly skeptical Van Wijk: It is my tendency not to believe this sort of female’s tales of familial abuse. Repressed memory syndrome; satanic ritual abuse: This type of woman would have experienced them all … in her own family. Our educational, cultural and political milieus nurtures the febrile imaginations of feeble-minded fems. To be considered abusive by their relative, it would have been sufficient for Kijera’s kin to be white, christian or conservative.

• George: About the “PMV – Presidential Medal of Victimhood”; rest assured that among Anderson Cooper’s carefully color-coded select “CNN Heroes,” a place will be found for “Women who Went Back For More.” Perhaps AC will even film the ladies as they venture into the lion’s den, much as he films himself swimming with Great Whites.

Sycophant's Supper

Barack Obama, Celebrity, Hollywood, Journalism, Media

It’s a sickening specter: some of the most pretentious, worthless people in the country—in politics, journalism and entertainment—get together to revel in their ability to petition and curry favor with one another, usually to the detriment of the rest of us.

Those gathered at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner are not the country’s natural aristocracy; but a group of people who make their living pretending to be something they are not. Poseurs and parasites all.

Granted, actors do not coerce the citizenry to patronize their (mostly) lousy flicks. However, when they use their celebrity to push unconstitutional, naturally unlawful policies—then they are acting as enemies of the people.

Mostly, I find Hollywood disgusting. Every time I turn around a “celebrity” is preaching and propagandizing for the leftist cause du jour. Some of these tarts were using their tushes and other assets to tell their betters (YOU) to be good and do your “duty.” (Most of them are agitating against Arizona.)

Like nothing else, the annual White House correspondents’ dinner is a mark of corrupt politics. The un-watchful dogs of the media have no business frolicking with the president and his minions. This is co-optation. And when did the phonies of Hollywood become a fixture in this event?

The toxic “tradition” began in 1920, and, as far as I know, is sponsored by THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ ASSOCIATION. “The White House Correspondents’ Association was formed in 1914 as a liaison between the press and the president.” The event and the invited tell a great deal about the Association and its ethics and code of conduct. ”

MSNBC presenters swore by the president’s routine and said he bested Jay Leno. I happen to think Obama can be a very funny guy; but better than Leno? I laughed at this Obama dig a lot:

“I happen to know that my approval ratings are still very high in the country of my birth.”

You have to love BHO a hell of a lot to think that anything he said could approximate JL’s “Cash for Flunkers” skit. Still Leno is getting bad reviews.