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September 28, 2005
Planet Moron
Planet Moron is on a roll recently.
There's the post on disaster relief for Hurricane Katrina, which observes, among other things:
Member companies of the American Forest and Paper Association are also lining up for federal dollars. Why are losses by private interests the obligation of taxpayers nationwide? Because we all know that when that single mom in Oregon comes home from her second job to tuck her children in at night, the foremost concern on her mind is "what can I do to help the timber industry?"
There's the post on Bill Frist's troubles that notes how the trust was more "nearsighted" than "blind".
There's the post on the Communist (sorry, I believe the correct media term is "anti-war") rally in DC recently, which notes:
Over 100,000 people came to Washington DC this past Saturday to attend a protest against the Iraq war. Imagine their surprise when there wasn't one. In its place was a demonstration about worker's rights and global warming and racism and Palestinian rights and hanging chads and Halliburton and New Orleans and every now and then a brief something about a war, possibly Arab in nature.[snip]
The socialist movement is typically populated by young men who think that if they wear a Che Guevara T-Shirt it might get them in bed with that cute liberal arts chick they met in the student union while waiting for White Stripes tickets, you know, the one with 42 different black tops in her closet. Fewer in number are the bitter old guys with gray hair and pony tails who still hold a serious grudge against Mikhail Gorbachev.
In addition to ANSWER and the Workers World Party (and many others), was the "Party for Socialism and Liberation" which had tables full of glossy magazines for purchase. Presumably they had to put up money to have these made in the hopes that they could then sell them to willing buyers in arms-length transactions so as to recoup their original investment with perhaps a little extra left over that could then be reinvested in additional inventory or fixed assets so as to further their venture. If only there were an economic system of some kind based on this basic principle of property rights and invested capital. But I digress.
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
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