Saturday, March 7, 2009
Watchmen who's going to watch it?
Want to read it? (Phil, thanks again for turning me back on to this incredible masterwork).
Ok, the totally legit way: Click here.
Feeling frisky (better know how to use torrents): Click here. and then here if on PC or here on MAC.
Hope all is well at the APXarena.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
We are not worthy!
Ok, so I promised to dig this up and now that things are settling down after baby, new jobs, etc...
Why do I think Blacks were barred from receiving the priesthood whilst King Noah, Laman, Lemuel, meadow massacre participants, etc., etc. where or where likely ordained? Don't know accept that in several instances we did:
http://www.blacklds.org/history
Hope all is well with the night crew.
Why do I think Blacks were barred from receiving the priesthood whilst King Noah, Laman, Lemuel, meadow massacre participants, etc., etc. where or where likely ordained? Don't know accept that in several instances we did:
http://www.blacklds.org/history
Hope all is well with the night crew.
Friday, January 23, 2009
The Ultimate American Dollar Collapse
Think we've hit bottom think again.
Here's a another good one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3g5lUgkWk
more about "The Ultimate American Dollar Collapse", posted with vodpod
Monday, January 19, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
$10 extra for you fatty
Canadian airlines recently decided that people should not have to pay for a second seat if they are too large to fit in just one. If they “spill over” into the next seat leaving it occupied, should they pay for the extra seat?
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Bailout Game
Ok gentlemen take a look at the BAILOUT GAME.
Greenspan's advice is totally bogus (i.e. if you know even the 1st thing about the guy you know most of that advice is not what he'd say -- but he's the latest scapegoat so why not slander the guy Blue Earth Interactive it should get you more hits right?). If you don't bailout everyone (as I did not) the earth goes into a depression and since there is not enough prozac everyone becomes a zombie and that's the end of the human race.
But it's not biased in any way so it's safe for everyone to play. Afterward we can all have a meaningful discussion about how everyone should get a bailout and if we just had the gumption to do so we'd all live in temporal bliss and likely everlasting peace. The last thing this economy needs is a liasse faire capitalist solution. Remember that's precisely what we've had for 8 years (i.e. you may not have thought so but it's true -- really) and see how that turned out.
Greenspan's advice is totally bogus (i.e. if you know even the 1st thing about the guy you know most of that advice is not what he'd say -- but he's the latest scapegoat so why not slander the guy Blue Earth Interactive it should get you more hits right?). If you don't bailout everyone (as I did not) the earth goes into a depression and since there is not enough prozac everyone becomes a zombie and that's the end of the human race.
But it's not biased in any way so it's safe for everyone to play. Afterward we can all have a meaningful discussion about how everyone should get a bailout and if we just had the gumption to do so we'd all live in temporal bliss and likely everlasting peace. The last thing this economy needs is a liasse faire capitalist solution. Remember that's precisely what we've had for 8 years (i.e. you may not have thought so but it's true -- really) and see how that turned out.
Friday, January 9, 2009
The Death Penalty
This seems to be a topic that we are sufficiently divided upon, and I for one am opposed to the death penalty. I used to be a strong proponent of the DP, but after I looked more into it there were things that turned me away from it and I want to go over some of those here. All of the information has come from the Department of Justice. The DP was reinstated in the United States in 1976 and since then 82 people sentenced to death were later found to be not guilty; that is 1 in every 7. One in seven! Assuming that nobody executed was innocent one in seven is too much room for error.
Now I am an economist so I also look at this economically. All of us can agree that we don't want to execute an innocent person, so how can we be more sure they guilty? We have to have more detailed trials, longer appeals, better public attorneys, higher qualified jury members, etc. These things cost a lot of money, but they are all necessary to insure that the person really is guilty-sure people complain about the costs when the person turns out to be guilty, but no one complains when it is found that the person was really innocent. Taking all the costs into account the average death row inmate costs 2 million dollars and life in prison costs on average 500 thousand. The cost of the death penalty is four times as much. This can only be justified if we as a society value putting someone to death over removing them from society so much we would be willing to pay an extra 1.5 million dollars per person.
The Death penalty has also been shown to not be a deterrent to crime. Crimes worthy of the death penalty are often crimes of passion or committed by people who don't care about consequences. The death penalty does not deter since the type of people who kill are not calculating the risk of getting caught or what the consequences may be. Illogical acts to not beget logical thought. Texas, with the most people executed than any other state, has a murder rate 6 times higher than Wisconsin who does not have the death penalty. That is taking into account the population difference already. The United States also has higher murder rates than all the countries in the world that have abolished the death penalty since the money spent of the death penalty process is channeled into other sicial programs aimed at reducing crime or increasing education.
Personally I think that the death penalty is something we as people should outgrow. Killing a killer is not the solution to a societal problem. We should be better than that, but that's just me. Also, I would like to remind everyone that arguments against the court system are not arguments for the death penalty. If you think it should be run differently then blog that, but don't think that the system being flawed supports the death penalty. If anyone can show me a system that does not convict innocent people and always knows who is guilty while spending less that 500 thousand dollars I will then reconsider my position.
Now I am an economist so I also look at this economically. All of us can agree that we don't want to execute an innocent person, so how can we be more sure they guilty? We have to have more detailed trials, longer appeals, better public attorneys, higher qualified jury members, etc. These things cost a lot of money, but they are all necessary to insure that the person really is guilty-sure people complain about the costs when the person turns out to be guilty, but no one complains when it is found that the person was really innocent. Taking all the costs into account the average death row inmate costs 2 million dollars and life in prison costs on average 500 thousand. The cost of the death penalty is four times as much. This can only be justified if we as a society value putting someone to death over removing them from society so much we would be willing to pay an extra 1.5 million dollars per person.
The Death penalty has also been shown to not be a deterrent to crime. Crimes worthy of the death penalty are often crimes of passion or committed by people who don't care about consequences. The death penalty does not deter since the type of people who kill are not calculating the risk of getting caught or what the consequences may be. Illogical acts to not beget logical thought. Texas, with the most people executed than any other state, has a murder rate 6 times higher than Wisconsin who does not have the death penalty. That is taking into account the population difference already. The United States also has higher murder rates than all the countries in the world that have abolished the death penalty since the money spent of the death penalty process is channeled into other sicial programs aimed at reducing crime or increasing education.
Personally I think that the death penalty is something we as people should outgrow. Killing a killer is not the solution to a societal problem. We should be better than that, but that's just me. Also, I would like to remind everyone that arguments against the court system are not arguments for the death penalty. If you think it should be run differently then blog that, but don't think that the system being flawed supports the death penalty. If anyone can show me a system that does not convict innocent people and always knows who is guilty while spending less that 500 thousand dollars I will then reconsider my position.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Burris turned away by the Senate
Roland Burris was turned away today by the senate. Burris was appointed to fill the vacant senate seat left by Barrack Obama. The kicker is that he was appointed by Governor Blagojevich who is under investigation for some "shady business". The Senate secretary claims that the appointment needs to be signed by the Illinois Secretary of State. It has not been signed which is why they wont seat him. If you were in the senate, would you vote to seat him and allow him to be sworn into office?
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