politics

Afghanistan PowerPoint slide: Generals left baffled by PowerPoint slide | Mail Online

28 April 2010

Afghanistan PowerPoint slide: Generals left baffled by PowerPoint slide| Mail Online: “‘When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,’ General Stanley McChrystal, the US and NATO force commander, remarked wryly when confronted by the sprawling spaghetti diagram in a briefing.”

It looks like there is a Gordian knot that needs a sword through it.

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Spain downgraded, Europe debt crisis widens – Yahoo! Finance

28 April 2010

Spain downgraded, Europe debt crisis widens – Yahoo! Finance: “Europe’s debt crisis spread its contagion to another country Wednesday when a major credit agency downgraded Spain’s credit rating, even as Germany grudgingly moved closer to bailing out Greece from imminent collapse.”

Well, that was fast, but not exactly surprising.

How’s your financial house doing?

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Greece Cut to Junk at S&P as Contagion Spreads (Update2) – Bloomberg.com

27 April 2010

Greece Cut to Junk at S&P as Contagion Spreads (Update2) – Bloomberg.com: “Greece’s credit rating was cut three steps to junk by Standard and Poor’s, the first time a euro member has lost its investment grade since the currency’s 1999 debut. The euro weakened and stock markets throughout the region plunged.”

This is troublesome.

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The Volokh Conspiracy ? Blog Archive ? President Makes Fifteen Recess Appointments

30 March 2010

The Volokh Conspiracy ? Blog Archive ? President Makes Fifteen Recess Appointments: “During part of the Bush Administration, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would avoid taking full recesses in the Senate to prevent recess appointments from being made.? Not anymore. Back then, Senator Reid maintained that recess appointments were “an end run [...]

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Marginal Revolution: Multiple equilibria Potemkin village economic stimulus of the day

10 March 2010

Marginal Revolution: Multiple equilibria Potemkin village economic stimulus of the day: “Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tyneside.
With 140 empty shops in the borough, council bosses think they have come up with a unique way of ensuring shopping areas remain as vibrant as [...]

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To True.

18 December 2009

TigerHawk: “Senator, we live in a world that has patients, and those patients have to be treated with technology. Who’s gonna invent, develop it, and build it? You, Senator Sanders? You, Senator Reid? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for high health care costs, and you curse new medical [...]

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Just a Reminder of How Bad East Germany Was

5 November 2009

Here is a flickr set of East German designs for everyday items. Remember they only barely worked.

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Cracking the Berlin Wall

4 November 2009

Cracking the Berlin Wall: “On Nov. 9, 1989, large crowds of German citizens from both East and West Berlin approached the Berlin Wall. At several border crossing points, East Berliners began shouting at the armed communist guards, demanding they open the gates and shove aside barbed wire obstacles.”

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American Thinker: By the Book: How Democracies Perish

7 September 2009

American Thinker: By the Book: How Democracies Perish: “While visiting a used bookstore a few weeks later, I found another Revel book, How Democracies Perish. In its pages, I found a chilling examination of the methodologies used to undermine and destroy free market democracies. Written within the context of the cold war, Revel dissected democracies [...]

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Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead: Kevin Hassett – Bloomberg.com

11 June 2009

Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead: Kevin Hassett – Bloomberg.com: “I’ve finally figured out the Obama economic strategy. President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing “failed” firms, that they have developed a scheme to gain the same power over every business. The plan [...]

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