17 Miles in Just 78 Minutes! Light Rail vs. Reality in LA
(POP up video)
I took the light rail in Salt Lake City one time and it was completly empty, except for two day laborers. This was on a Sunday* so everyone was at home, but it raises the question, “why was it running?”
*They’re Mormon, so they don’t leave the house on Sundays.
I thought this was pretty good. Who is Romney today?
It’s nice that even the Onion is taking notice, but the ridiculous examples they make up make it sound like they’re mocking those who point out Romney’s blatant inconsistencies…as if those people are being unreasonable. Kind of like when assholes put words in the mouths of people calling for a new 9/11 investigation…claiming anyone calling for a new investigation thinks that there were no planes and that green lizards in human suits carried out the whole thing.
Anyone else seeing this flood of Alan Greyson ads?
link em
Self promotion for my blog, my recent post Red Meat is Cancer. Out of everything that came up in a search I did (which was surprisingly easy for this), only one article with no evidence to back itself up on MensHealth.com claimed that red meat causing cancer was a myth.
Do you only count the first result of a google search?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/73040.php
http://www.meatsafety.org/ht/d/sp/i/41359/pid/41359
and many more articles…
Found with this search on google: http://tinyurl.com/czxcqmm
BTW: I am not interested to argue about this topic. But this argument is really lame..
I don’t know if anyone’s actually listened to any of the Louis Jordan songs I’ve posted, but in any case here’s another one - Inflation Blues:
Do you only count the first result of a google search?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/73040.php
http://www.meatsafety.org/ht/d/sp/i/41359/pid/41359
and many more articles…
Found with this search on google: http://tinyurl.com/czxcqmm
BTW: I am not interested to argue about this topic. But this argument is really lame..
I did the first five pages, but the search was a bit out of routine for me. If you go through the blog itself you’ll see I try to find articles from medical journals (I mainly just go through Google scholar), something that’s actually credible. That’s the first post where I was posting articles from mainstream news sites. Why? To show how easy it is to come by this information.
But…
http://www.meatsafety.org/ht/d/sp/i/41359/pid/41359 - A website called Meat Safety giving a rebuttal that meat causes cancer, and they attack the Cancer Project because it’s funded and operated by vegans and animal rights activists? That makes a lot of sense.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/73040.php - The articles I find that proves there is a correlation between red meat and cancer are more extensive than this.
http://tinyurl.com/czxcqmm - I like that the first article to pop up is from Mens Health, and they offered no science to back their case.
You don’t have to argue this, but you don’t have to say it’s lame either. I have all the information I need on my blog to make my case.
Correlation/causation?
Either or.
So if you keep up with any of the libertarian outlets, you’ve probably come across this Veronique de Rugy woman. Virtually everyone has had her on their program, from John Stossel to Judge Napolitano to Reason TV to Cato. If you can’t remember her name, you might end up simply calling her “the chart lady”, as she’s become famous for graphing everything.
While she does do some good by showing the idiocy and just plain falsity of a lot of government claims, my main problem is she’s ultimately a statist who seems to simply be arguing for a better, more efficient, more competent government. She takes the government’s claims, and puts them on a chart, and then charts the reality, and shows they’re full of shit. But then she follows it up with something like “what a stimulus is supposed to do is put out that money right away”…which kills the most important part of her argument (government = bad) and leaves the argument to be simply “the government didn’t perform its statist functions properly.”
Watch how she ruins this otherwise good idea for showing how the stimulus didn’t work. It’s such a waste, because now I can’t send this video to anyone.
10 min vid by Journeyman Pictures covering current status of resident uprising. Father of slain businessman claims his son had no need for a state, he just wanted his freedom and vows to become a terrorist if justice is not found for his dead son. Also noticed a circle A on a tree and a few dudes dressed in black and yellow.
Haha! If we could only turn Egypt into a stateless society 
Edit: Whoopsies. Caught my statist mistake there → “If we could only turn Egypt into a stateless society” ← Who is this “we”? We can’t make a people do something. They themselves must initiate it for it to work
Bert, read again what you claimed:
“Out of everything that came up in a search I did (which was surprisingly easy for this), only one article with no evidence to back itself up on MensHealth.com claimed that red meat causing cancer was a myth.”
This means that you found only one article that argued against “red meat causes cancer”, and as kicker you mentioned that it didn’t even cite any scientific study. This is a plain wrong assertion. There are lots of articles who argue against “red meat causes cancer” with or without citing studies. It’s that simple.
Again I am not going to argue about the validity of the arguments used in the examples that I picked at random only to show you that there is many more than one..
I called it lame, because this looks very much like you are trying to formulate an artificial “consensus” argument, only brain dead narcissistic MensHealth readers would dare to question.
By the way: I am not subscribed to MensHealth, nor have I ever read it or similar magazines 
Ron Ripped Off AgainPosted on December 12, 2011 by Lew Rockwell
Writes Travis Holte:
“Here are the stats. Ron Paul, though running in a solid second place in the Iowa polls, received the fewest turns talking, 9, as well as the smallest amount of time at 8:40. Note: it was the most-watched debate yet, with 7.6 million viewers.”
[for past times, see here and the link at the bottom]
Via Tom Woods:
Reader Asks: How to Challenge My Economics Professor?
A reader writes:
I am currently taking an Economics 101 class in college. My professor is clearly a Keynesian economist (and worked for the Fed). I have done my best to read about Austrian Economics and I know enough to realize that he has it all wrong. It makes me feel uncomfortable that the entire class is being indoctrinated, so I sometimes raise my hand and ask a subtle, provoking question. We are currently learning about the Fed and its powers, and we just got started on Open Market Operations. Forget that I’m slightly confused about the topic, do you have any ammunition for me to ask him about it during class? While you’re on that, do you have any general issues for me to raise during class?
Before I share the answer I gave him…