there’s a renewable fuel source America has plenty of
heh
Tag: us
Proof of procreation
the Defense of Marriage Initiative would require that couples file proof of procreation within 3 years of the date of marriage or have their marriage automatically annulled
is this a joke?
Pesos death threats
National pizza chain Pizza Patron received death threats and xenophobic emails after it announced that it would accept pesos, as well as $, at its stores
such insecurity
Almost a Christmas present
NRA Comic
one of the biggest threats to the white suburban hunter: dirty hippies and their evil sidekicks: the dynamite-carrying owl, sinister pig, angry Wall Street bull, dire wolf, terror chicken and Land Lobster.
US Boy Scouts are a sick joke
6 years ago, the Boy Scouts convinced the US Supreme Court that their principles gave them a constitutional right to exclude gays and atheists. Now the California Supreme Court has been asked to look at the other side of that coin — whether the Scouts are a religious organization ineligible for certain types of government aid, including $-a-year leases of public land.
hard to believe how stupid boy scouts are in the us. i never mention my history with scouting when in the us for that reason.
Underground Economy
This book treats crime, gangs, poverty, micro-finance, the foundations of cooperative behavior, urban economics, Jane Jacobs, what the police maximize, and why so many barbershops rent out their back rooms to prostitutes, all rolled into one fascinating and profound volume.
the underground economy in the us is a sizable portion of GDP. about time that it got more attention. i also heard that grameen bank is now doing microloans in the us.
Got Milk?
A maverick dairyman named Hein Hettinga started bottling his own milk and selling it for as much as 20 cents less than the competition, exercising his right to work outside the rigid system that has controlled US milk production for almost 70 years. Soon the effects were rippling through the state, helping to hold down retail prices at supermarkets and warehouse stores. That was when a coalition of giant milk companies and dairies, along with their congressional allies, decided to crush Hettinga’s initiative. For 4 years, the milk lobby spent millions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions and made deals with lawmakers. Last March, Congress passed a law reshaping the Western milk market and essentially ending Hettinga’s experiment — all without a single congressional hearing.
the account of the dairy industry cartel
Income inequality
In 1916 the richest 1% got only 20% of their income from paid work, whereas the figure in 2004 was over 60%.
Handout Republicans
The most solidly red states in the nation tend also to be the most reliant on federal handouts — farm subsidies, water projects and sundry other earmarks. It’s hard to be the party of small government when you represent the communities that benefit most from big government.
the sweet irony of red state republicans. They’re called red states because they’re net beneficiaries.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 