This is so typical of leftists worldwide. Reviewing this pansy-boy’s biography, I couldn’t find one item of private sector employment. Just like the Saintly Barack of Honolulu, this man has no idea about how money is actually made. All he knows is how to grab it, and spend it.

These people are vampires. Their raison d’être is to punish people who can make things, who can actually do things. Their whole life is devoted to sucking the life blood out of such people. Perhaps this is how they to make up for their pathetic lack of achievement. In a mass democracy, they are able to find the support of many, many like themselves, equally blood-thirsty and greedy, to destroy the producers and the creative types who make civilization possible. MORE…

A country that is trying to banish sex distinctions

Mark Richardson writes at Oz Conservative:

I’m seeing more things I’ve written about at this site hit the mainstream media. For example, at the quite lefty American website Slate there is an article on Sweden’s efforts to make gender not matter (the subheading of the article is “A country tries to banish gender”).
The Swedish project is an earnest attempt to fulfil the logic of liberal politics. If you believe that autonomy is the highest good, then you will believe that individuals should be self-determining, which then leads to the belief that predetermined qualities should be made not to matter. And our sex is a predetermined quality….
What follows is a list of examples of the Swedes showing intolerance toward sex distinctions. I’ve catalogued many of them myself, but here are some of the ones I missed:

A Swedish children’s clothes company has removed the boys and girls sections in its stores

One Swedish preschool abolished free play because of concerns that when children play freely “stereotypical gender patterns are born and cemented.”

The Swedish Green Party wants to place “gender pedagogues” in every preschool to act as watchdogs on gender

In some Swedish preschools it is forbidden to use the terms boys and girls.

In one Swedish children’s book the words for mum and dad were replaced as being too gendered

Posted by Lawrence Auster at 12:38 AM

Hoodlums throwing rocks at cars from Chicago overpass

Several cars were targeted, the perps escaped.

Because of society’s total silence about and total lack of response to systematic acts of savagery by members of a certain racial group (and the odds are 99 out of a hundred that this latest crime was committed by members of that group), the savages feel empowered, and will keep looking for new ways to hurt people.
MORE…

Posted by Lawrence Auster at 09:06 PM

GAO: Oil shale in American West equals the rest of the world’s proven oil reserves

CNS News reports:

The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Thursday.
The GAO testimony said that the federal government was in “a unique position to influence the development of oil shale” because the Green River deposits were mostly beneath federal land.
“The Green River Formation—an assemblage of over 1,000 feet of sedimentary rocks that lie beneath parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming—contains the world’s largest deposits of oil shale,”Anu K. Mittal, the GAO’s director of natural resources and environment said in written testimony submitted to the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
“USGS estimates that the Green River Formation contains about 3 trillion barrels of oil, and about half of this may be recoverable, depending on available technology and economic conditions,” Mittal testified.
“The Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, estimates that 30 to 60 percent of the oil shale in the Green River Formation can be recovered,” Mittal told the subcommittee. “At the midpoint of this estimate, almost half of the 3 trillion barrels of oil would be recoverable. This is an amount about equal to the entire world’s proven oil reserves.”

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Posted by Lawrence Auster at 07:42 AM

High earners are departing from France to escape the Socialists’ confiscatory taxes

An Indian living in the West writes:

There is something comically stupid about socialists. The phrase cutting off the nose to spite the face comes to mind.

The UK Telegraph article sent by ILW includes this line:

… France’s high earners feel increasingly unwelcome in a country now led by a man who has admitted: “I don’t like the rich.”

Last week I called Hollande a “socialist idiot.” I did not know he had gone this far. It’s sort of the equivalent of Obama referring to his grandmother as a “typical white person.” No, it’s worse.

Here is the article:

The annual mass exodus from the French capital sees the city’s inhabitants while away the August heat in the countryside.
But this week many of the biggest earners across the Channel have been mulling a départ which could be rather more permanent.
The toppling of Nicolas Sarkozy by François Hollande, the first socialist president to lead the country in 17 years, has sent ripples of fear through the wealthier arrondissements of Paris.
Their new president may block the eurozone austerity advocated by Germany’s Angela Merkel, but he is not opposed to his richer citizens feeling the squeeze.
Mr Hollande plans to implement a 75pc tax rate on earnings over €1m (£800m), on top of a 45pc rate for people making €150,000 or more. He is also expected to raise “wealth taxes” on property assets and end his predecessor’s tax incentives to lure bankers back home. MORE…

Posted by Lawrence Auster at 06:02 PM

The horse must have been racist

At his blog The Big Lie on Parade, Cicero reports:

Like something out of the brain of Mel Brooks and the “You can’t make this stuff up” files. A black man “carriage-jacked” a horse and carriage, assaulted the carriage driver and finally wound up punching and kicking the horse! I can only suspect the horse muttered something racist or disrespectful. Or maybe he whinnied Dixie or came from a line of Confederate war horses? I guess we will never know?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at 04:14 PM