http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com Politics, Philosophy, and BS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:56:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yep, while California continues to restrict kangaroo products by placing them on the endangered species list, Queensland is being overrun by the hopping rats. Farmers in northern Australia say a plague of kangaroos is overrunning their properties. The most comical part of the article is the conclusion: Animal rights campaigners believe ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/22/kangaroo-plague-in-queensland/ Obamacare is urgent! Desperately urgent! It must be rushed though so quickly that no one can be permitted to even have time to read it all (even assuming they wanted to) or to consider the implications. Well, here's a taste of the nonsense contained in it, and a tiny foretaste ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/22/a-taste-of-things-to-come-obamacare-the-horror-show/ There's a lot of talk about freedom in the United States... but the Hayek quote, and in particular the part about being subject to the whims of a bureaucrat, got me thinking. Since I know China moderately well, I'm going to use China as a standard with which to judge ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/22/land-of-the-free/ Now why don't they make works like this a core reading in many college courses ... instead of Marx, the hero of the Academy. What our generation has forgotten, is that the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/21/some-words-become-even-more-true-as-time-passes/ It turns out Wikipedia has a rather large page dedicated to pointing out historical inaccuracies in the Rowen Atkinson comedy series Blackadder. There, you will learn such shocking facts as: A) Richard IV is depicted as capturing Constantinople from the Turks with a fruit knife. In fact, the Turks have never ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/21/blackadder-and-historical-accuracy/ In reporting the chaos with the Channel Tunnel, the AP report seems to go through a heart rending struggle to come out and say what was the main cause of the problem. We hear about "a glitch" and cancellations, and anger amongst passengers, but the first three paragraphs say nothing ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/21/how-hard-is-it-to-say-cold-weather-pretty-hard-if-youre-the-msm/ Well, he specifically said it was the US government, but that is the one being led by President Obama, so hard to tell the two apart I would say: "The Iranian nation opposes the aggressive and arrogant policies of the U.S. government and will stand against them forever," Ahmadinejad told ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/20/iran-obama-is-aggressive-arrogant/ Another fascinating map by the people who did the history of the Middle East in the last post. Which party has led more US citizens to their deaths in war? The answer was as I expected, but not as the MSM, Hollywood, etc. would have the general populace believe. As ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/20/which-party-republics-or-democrats-have-led-usa-to-more-war-deaths/ A history of the Middle East in 90 seconds. Kind of cool. Follow the link. http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/20/a-history-of-the-middle-east-in-90-seconds/ I'm no fan of NASA, but Pelosi really is a troglodyte: Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was personally skeptical of manned space missions and warned that NASA's future funding could depend on whether it was likely to create jobs. Yeah, because there are no benefits to conquering the next ... http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/12/20/yet-another-reason-to-loath-pelosi/