*** August 2012 low content thread ***

Bain documents offer details on Romney holdings

AP Exclusive: Romney uses secretive data-mining

RNC demonstrators vow to protest, rain or shine

Court upholds block on graphic cigarette warnings

Ohio doctor helps perpetuate rape pregnancy ideas

US doping agency erases Lance Armstrong’s titles

WaPo: The Ron Paul Revolution Will Not be Happening

What Has the War in Afghanistan Accomplished?

Max Keiser: Woods is ‘Running Scared’; I Respond with a Challenge

Men, Who Needs Them?

Holy ******* hell.

Empire State Building shooting victim says NYPD fired ‘randomly’ into street

A friend just linked me to a video of the shooting in NYC.

WARNING It shows Johnson being killed.

What blows me away is that you see one of the two officers with his gun drawn approaching Johnson, one handed. Then when Johnson pulls out his gun, the cop begins to start shooting ONE HANDED. This cop thinks hes John McClane. It is almost unbelieveable but for some reason I am not surprised.

Neil Armstrong passes away

He almost certainly never set foot on the moon, however. I think the astronauts are generally good guys and likely did whatever they did on the notion they were serving their country by helping defeat the Soviets in the “Space Race” which the hawks held as a crucial parallel front in the Cold War. They were all originally military men (test pilots).

In a 1994 speech commemorating the Apollo landings - Armstrong said, “… we have only completed a beginning. We leave you much that is undone. There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of the truth’s protective layers. There are places to go beyond belief…”

With the end of the Cold War and the passing of some of the Old Guard, we may get a chance to peek under some of the truth’s protective layers. RIP Mr. Armstrong.

Clayton -

http://news.yahoo.com/nypd-empire-state-victims-hit-police-gunfire-180844387.html

All nine people injured during a dramatic confrontation between police and a gunman outside the Empire State Building were wounded by gunfire from the two officers

Law enforcement working to protect you at its finest.

I sometimes think we libertarians pay too much attention to how many people get killed in what accident, but actually this is exactly the virtue people in a free society should have - active vigilance to keep their chosen police department in check. Such things are vital.

Ugh.. The moon landing now too? Is nothing sacred?!

Weiner’s recent comic, in case you missed it. I’d like to think it’s about unintended consequences:

My favorite bit:

“We’re replacing ‘maternity leave’ with ‘leave maternity’” :stuck_out_tongue:

Good movie: “In Time”, it’s based in the future where no one ages past 25 and money is time. They trade labor and goods for time that they somehow keep on their wrist. The rich capitalist in the movie calls the society a pure Darwin capitalist natural selection society. The theme is the rich steal from the poor so they can live forever while the poor die.

i think it’s a very good interpretation of what the socialist in Hollywood believe capitalism is.

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Good movie: “In Time”, it’s based in the future where no one ages past 25 and money is time. They trade labor and goods for time that they somehow keep on their wrist. The rich capitalist in the movie calls the society a pure Darwin capitalist natural selection society. The theme is the rich steal from the poor so they can live forever while the poor die.

i think it’s a very good interpretation of what the socialist in Hollywood believe capitalism is."

Yeah I heard about that, and thats a good point. Socialists think that the rich are essentially controlling their lives by controlling their income. What they don’t realize is that the stereotypical rich business owners/investors are actually indirectly benefiting them, and they dismiss all attempts to convince them of that as trickle-down theory. They may loathe the conservatism because they notice the alliance between governments and businesses, because in their minds government should be helping people, not businesses (except when the businesses give people JOBS), but they don’t see how it could be different if government was out of the picture entirely.

Some may think that the poor should be wealthy because they do what is seen; they labor hard, work long hours. They see an apparent injustice because they see poor people working their butts off for little, while the rich get much for seemingly nothing. Yet, a lot of things are unseen, as people need business investors to identify where it is productive to work, they need capitalists to bear the initial costs, so that the laborer can work his job, confident that his money will come independent of whether the business “works”. Yet the importance of deeds such of this is hard to notice.

Crony Chronicles: I Want To Be A Crony

Cronies Out to Lunch

Willy Bays for Crony Clean: The spray that breaks down bureaucracy!

People before Profits!

Success and Risk as The Times Transforms

Has ‘Europe’ Failed?

14 Wacky “Facts” Kids Will Learn in Louisiana

This made me lol. From the article you find releases by A Beka Book, such as United States History: Heritage of Freedom, “Perhaps the best known work of propaganda to come from the Depression was John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath…Other forms of propaganda included rumors of mortgage foreclosures, mass evictions, and hunger riots and exaggerated statistics representing the number of unemployed and homeless people in America.” - because that never happened.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/speech-nixon-never-gave-event-moon-disaster-171446192.html

The speech that Nixon never gave: ‘In event of moon disaster’

http://news.yahoo.com/prosecutor-ga-murder-case-uncovers-terror-plot-173341769.html

Four Army soldiers based in southeastGeorgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect ananarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks

Sigh. Non-AnCaps giving anarchism overall a bad name.

I was one of the guests on a segment on Bitcoins on Huffington Post Live today. (I take the against position)

Some more kick-ass Larken Rose:

Clayton -

Is larken rose an austrian Ancap?

gif i want to use one day…

someone write a brilliant post so I can have an excuse!

Hah! Is that Holmes? I love that show! I recently discovered it on Netflix Instant Play, and it’s amazing!

I was one of the guests on a segment on Bitcoins on Huffington Post Live today. (I take the against position)

I like how one of the top comments at the moments is bitbutter.