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 10 Jan 2009 @ 01:21
Following up on the phenomenal success of the L Word chronicle, numerous requests have been received enquiring as to where the complete Calvin and Hobbes's strip from which a panel was displayed in George W. Bush--And the L World, our last instalment of the L World, could be found.....
Fair enough: everybody loves Calvin and Hobbes!
So, by popular demand and without further ado, here it is, the original strip uncut: More >
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 9 Jan 2009 @ 16:34
jan 9 2009
friday
canada
Yes I know its hard sometimes
but just remember its all a blessing....
The Blessing of Now.....!
swanny More >
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9 Jan 2009 @ 14:30
well interesting
a western promuslim activist from canada has been kidnapped in the east for 2 months
and now demands for a 1.5 million ransom have been made.
Somehow I doubt if al queda is going to come up with the money 2 release her
so I suppose she is now a westernized eastern muslim.
ah yes it is a complex world is it not?
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 8 Jan 2009 @ 20:41
Economic Libertarianism has never been tried. Or it had never been tried until now, as it has during the Bush-Cheney presidency. So says Robert Brent Topilin a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The article published on History News Network almost 4 years ago is stunning by its foresight:
Bush and other libertarian-style thinkers that have gained prominence in Washington, D.C. in recent decades champion markets in the extreme. They are enthusiasts of laissez faire who oppose governmental intervention in the affairs of individuals and businesses. Libertarians prefer to reduce government’s activities to a few essential services such as defending the public from foreign threats and protecting citizens from criminals. They seek the privatization of state-run programs (such as Social Security) and massive tax cuts. Often they advance their goal of limited government by squeezing the budgets of social programs.
(More here)
The above 2007 strip from Slowpoke Comics by Jen Sorensen says it well. It is satirical of course, and as such a bit caricatural in its portrayal of the L World, but its basic point is sound. Or, more specifically, as Jacob Weisberg put it:
”…neglecting to prevent the crash of '08 was a sin of omission—less the result of deregulation per se than of disbelief in financial regulation as a legitimate mechanism.
[ Oct. 18, 2008]
Understandably defenders of free market fundamentalism (and its most predictable and immediate consequence: unchecked plutocracy and corporate feudalism) have been scrambling like mad to try and reshape perception and dissociate themselves from the economic policies (or lack thereof) of the Bush-Cheney era.
Some good might come out of all of this: Cato recently posted a long soul searching essay by Roderick Long: here.
Talk to the hand?
“It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring”
---Spanish Proverb
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8 Jan 2009 @ 11:55
jan 8 2009
thursday
canada
A Credible Economy
An economy that is "not" tied to the environment is a false or untrue
and unsustainable economy as it has little no bearing for effects on reality.
The only known credible economy then to date is none except perhaps the beginnings
found in the "climate dollar" concept as it ties a said almighty dollar to a measureable environmental impact and global temperature as well.
In addition if not tied to the environment an economy will be unsustainable as it is in direct and thus prolonged violation of the "Law of Biocapcity" which is a newly discovered and realized law of nature.
For references and more info see Link = [link]
ed jonas More >
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