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  3. “Trying to tell a marine mammal to stay on one side of an imaginary line across the water was a dumb idea”
    It only took the geniuses at U.S. Fish and Wildlife 25 years to figure that out.
    http://www.businessinsider.com/no-otter-zone-ended-in-california-2012-12

    After a 25-year ban, California sea otters are now free to float along the entire coast without being captured and hauled back to Northern California.
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ended its “Southern Sea Otter Translocation Program” on Tuesday, Dec. 18, which forbid otters from paddling south of Point Conception — where the Santa Barbara Channel meets the Pacific Ocean — to the Mexican border.

  12. This was thorough and quite good — An opinion on gun control by Larry Correia [http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/]

  13. I can add the Mayans to the list of people who’ve disappointed me.
    Why?
    It happened just like the Mayans predicted: One cycle ends another cycle begins, just like a clock. Notice how they’re both circular. That’s not an accident.

  14. National Post, Friday, Dec. 21, Armine Yalnizyan of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives to Reality, on “inequality”.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/21/armine-yalnizyan-sorry-andrew-coyne-but-income-inequality-is-a-real-problem/
    AY: “From the 1970s to the ’90s, inequality grew because more people lost ground at the bottom of the income distribution in the wake of two big recessions. After the mid-’90s, on the other hand, the gap grew because the rich did so much better than everyone else, seeing the lion’s share of income gains from economic growth. So much for trickle-down economics.”
    All through these periods, governments at all levels have been shovelling massive amounts of money into welfare state programs. Some of this over-spending led to the two recessions noted here. Many observers wring their hands and want still more, while claiming welfare is a rotten way to live and doesn’t provide nearly enough incomes for the poor — all the while advocating further strangulation of the economy through regulations, bizarre tax loopholes and incentives, and other measures such as the phony “human rights” regime. Their goal is not to help the poor, their goal is to destroy capitalism, and to blame its demise on its own alleged internal contradictions rather than pressures imposed from outside.
    Another thing: can we please eliminate the phrase “trickle-down economics” once and for all? Wealth does not trickle down in the economy. An economy consists of instances of voluntary trade for mutual benefit. Wealth is created and traded, obtained by both parties simultaneously; it does not trickle down.
    AY: “The IMF has warned that higher inequality is correlated to shorter spells of growth, and more market volatility. The Conference Board of Canada cautions that Canada’s levels of inequality mean squandered potential.”
    These are the only sentences in the op-ed that refer to why inequality might be a problem, and they are far from convincing.
    AY: “Poverty, we are told, should be of far greater concern than income inequality.” … “But improving the lives of the poor means providing either more opportunity or more cold, hard cash.”
    No, it doesn’t. First of all, it is up to each individual poor person to do the things necessary to improve his own life. Second, what the state should mostly do is get the hell out of the way. Today, this means removing the regulations and interventionist measures that drag productivity down. It’s the extreme left who want to add as many idle Canadians as possible to the welfare rolls, by denying them opportunities in the economy. If social assistance recipients were able to find productive work, we wouldn’t need social assistance any more, after some years. But that is precisely what is anathema to the leftist ideologues.
    Finally, Yalnizyan takes on the recent Fraser Institute study. The problem with that study is that it was looking at the wrong thing. It showed that most people’s wages rise over time as they learn more to become more productive. But the problem is that entry-level wages are declining from year to year, and the idea that has been floating around for a couple of decades that “the next generation will be the first one to be worse off than their parents”. That problem is caused by the leftists’ depredations. It will be solved by restoring the free market economy.

  16. Ok BM. How does one use the strike line,please.(maybe a hint as a Christmas gift?)Feliz Navidad all.

  17. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ended its “Southern Sea Otter Translocation Program” on Tuesday, Dec. 18, which forbid otters from paddling south of Point Conception — where the Santa Barbara Channel meets the Pacific Ocean — to the Mexican border.
    –
    ROFLMAO.
    Maybe they could spend money to train my dog not to take a shit in the neighbors yard.

  18. I can add the Mayans to the list of people who’ve disappointed me.
    –
    I had dreamed of a day when we would finally be rid of Nancy Peskily,
    Harry Greed, Eric Holder, Joe Bidden, John Kerry, and King Oblamer.
    Guess we will just have to wait for a better day?

  19. Ok BM. How does one use the strike line,please.(maybe a hint as a Christmas gift?)Feliz Navidad all.
    –
    it should be strike
    after strike,
    and then after the word.
    but it might not work on a new system 5

  23. Red-Green AGW GWGCSevereWeatherClimate News.
    …-
    “Florida-based NextEra opens its first wind farm in Ontario with more on the way
    With one done and seven more going through the approval process, renewable energy giant NextEra Energy says it will consider building more wind farms in Ontario if it gets the chance.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
    …-
    “Heavy snowstorm renders more than 100,000 households powerless in Quebec regions”
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Heavy+snowstorm+renders+more+than+households+powerless+Quebec/7737350/story.html

  24. via maz2: “Heavy snowstorm renders more than 100,000 households powerless in Quebec regions”
    I know that Mother Nature’s brutal, but I imagine that corruption in la Belle Province has had something to do with so many Quebecers being without power. One is no longer shocked when “Quebec” and “corruption” appear in the same sentence.
    The surprise would be if they didn’t.
    batb

  28. Justthinkin’ @4:38 – just do this: [del]Line[/del], but instead of square brackets use the less-than and more-than symbols you find at the bottom of the keyboard next to the “m” key. Line. I think the “del” stands for “delete”.

  31. Ann Coulter: “We Know How To Stop School Shootings”
    Black Mamba:
    Ann Coulter has never been shot at. Easy to be an armchair philospher. A few years ago at our public school, shortly after the Ecole Polytechnique incident in Quebec, someone phoned our local RCMP to report, and I quote, “a strange man poiting a firearm at the school.”
    It turned out that it was a surveyor using a transit level to check out drainige levels. I can imagine some trigger happy 24 year old novice teacher taking potshots at a Sask Water engineer.
    Where would this end? Armed guards at the teeter-totter? Tanks at the school bus parking zone??
    A roll of duct tape over Ann Coulter’s trap would solve a good part of the problems that have led to the USA’s warped thinking and distorted image.

  33. plainzdrifter – she’s a writer, so I’m not sure how “a roll of duct tape” over her “trap” would diminish her powers. Also, FYI, we’re calling it Duck Tape now.
    Can you argue with her on the facts?

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