University of California: The Bubble of Bureaucracy
Excerpt:
While the nomination of Janet Napolitano, the
secretary of the Homeland Security Department, as the next chancellor of
the University of California may have been a surprise, it
isn't a comedown. The system has almost 240,000 students and an
operating
budget that exceeds $24 billion, almost triple the state budget of
Arizona, for example…Yet
UC's annual spending exceeds that of most state governments -- amounting
to
roughly $100,000 for each of its students. Much of this is unrelated to
instructional function. The university's bureaucracy is famously
monumental,
centralized and costly:
Pentagon Lays Out
Options for U.S. Military
Effort in Syria
Excerpt: The Pentagon has provided Congress with its first
detailed list of military options to stem the bloody civil war in Syria, suggesting that a
campaign to tilt the balance from President Bashar al-Assad to the opposition
would be a vast undertaking, costing billions of dollars, and could backfire on
the United States.
(That won’t stop the idiots in Congress and the media from waving their hands
in the air and screaming, “Do Something!” ~Bob.)
Congressional panels
approve arms aid to Syrian opposition
Excerpt: The House and Senate intelligence committees have
approved CIA weapons shipments to opposition fighters in Syria, allowing the Obama
administration to move ahead on the stalled program, senior congressional and
administration officials said Monday. (Nothing surer than that some of these
weapons will be used eventually to kill Americans, Israelis and other kuffer.
~Bob.)
Just Fricken Beautiful: Iraq jailbreak highlights al-Qaeda
affiliate’s ascendancy
Excerpt: Hundreds of extremists were feared to be on the run
in Iraq on Monday after
al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the country launched a major assault on the infamous
Abu Ghraib prison, offering a fresh boost to the group’s resurgent fortunes in Iraq and in Syria. (If you're wondering, no, no
one has ever escaped Guantanamo
Bay. -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt.)
Tweet from SunnyRight @sunnyright
Al Qaeda is alive and Detroit
is dead.
Report Finds Gradual
Fall in Female Genital Cutting in Africa
Excerpt: In Egypt,
for example, where more women have been cut than in any other nation, survey
data showed that 81 percent of 15- to 19-year-olds had undergone the practice,
compared with 96 percent of women in their late 40s. (No foreign aid to any
country where more than 20% of the girls are “cut.” End the Muslim War on
Women, supported by liberals. ~Bob.)
Truth,
Ethos, & A Reply to Comment on - 'A Public Letter to the Commandant of the
Marine Corps'.
By
Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Today's commentary could easily have been written as a personal but public
follow-on to my public letter, published a month ago yesterday, to
our commandant. But I opted to craft it otherwise as the greater audience of
Marines, friends of Marines, and the public seemed more fitting as
addressee; the Commandant of the Marine Corps one amongst us. Perhaps he will
read.
Detroit. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: No, Seriously, A Giant Pile of Money Would Not, In
Fact, Help Detroit.
Not Really, Anyway Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that there's talk of
a federal bailout for Detroit.
It's a terrible idea, but we shouldn't be surprised by it. What is surprising
is that the advocates are so blithe about how little a bailout would fix.
Really. Let's assume the federal government didn't have $16 trillion in debt
and had an extra $18 billion lying
around.
Assume that the whole country had a bipartisan spirit of generosity,
eager to help out a city that had, for years, gone to a domed stadium on
Thanksgiving Day to watch their football team lose to some visiting
team. Once Washington writes a check to Detroit to cover the city's $18
billion in
debt . . . then what? You still have the same moribund economy,
the same 78,000 abandoned structures, the
same two-thirds of ambulances not in service, the same failing
schools, the same shrinking population, the same shameful police response time,
the same terrifying violent-crime rate, the same 40 percent of street lights not
working . . . and likely, the same failed leaders, with the
same failed philosophies and viewpoints that got the city in this mess in the
first place. Conservatives outside the city like to point to it as decades of
liberal policies run amok, but let's be fair: They can't even get liberalism right.
Nearly half of the owners of Detroit's
305,000 properties failed to pay their tax bills in 2011. It's the trifecta of liberal policies and incompetence
and corruption that set up the city as a vortex of urban failure so
intolerable that almost anyone who could afford to leave did. The city has to
change — the question is what kind of change the remaining residents
collectively embrace. They need to give people who live elsewhere a reason to
live there: If you bring back residents, you'll bring back customers, who will
bring back businesses, who will bring back jobs. That virtuous cycle will bring
back the tax base, putting money back into the city's coffers so it can finally
afford all those things it got used to buying back when one bondholder after
another kept buying their municipal bonds.
19 U.S. cities have proportionately bigger
workforces than bankrupted Detroit
Tweet from jimgeraghty@jimgeraghty
Car Rescues: Zimmerman 1, Kennedy 0
Tweet from Robert D.@bostonrob9
If only Zimmerman had rescued a black lesbian illegal
immigrant on her way to get an abortion, MSNBC would have imploded.
Facing Facts about Race: Young black males
are at greater risk from their peers than from the police or white
civilians. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Is it ethical for the president to weigh in on a
civil-rights case apparently being examined by his own Justice Department? The
president knows that if it is true that African-American males are viewed
suspiciously, it is probably because statistically they commit a
disproportionate amount of violent crime. If that were not true, they might
well be given no more attention as supposed suspects than is accorded to white,
Asian, or Latino youths. Had George Zimmerman been black, he would have been,
statistically at least, more likely to have shot Trayvon Martin — and
statistically likewise less likely to have been tried.
Excerpt: Last week Detroit
became the largest city in American history to declare bankruptcy. Last year,
five California
cities, burdened by an upsurge in illegal Mexican residents, also declared
bankruptcy. In Detroit's
case the road to bankruptcy began fifty years ago when Blacks started burning
down their five year old public housing projects in order to voice their
disdain for Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. The explosive Black crime
rates drove White tax-paying, law-abiding residents out of the city and into
the suburbs and elsewhere. The flight of Whites from Detroit cleared the way for Blacks to take
control of city and county government. And, as the years passed, these corrupt
Black leaders pilfered from public funds to pad their own bank accounts and
those of their conspirators. Soon one Black mayor after another was caught,
sent to prison, only to have the Black populace elect another crook to run the
place.
What President Obama
Left Out of His Talk on Race. By Bernard Goldberg
Excerpt: What the president did not do is examine these
humiliations from the view of the wary shop owner, or the frightened people in the
car, or the suspicious woman on the elevator. What they all know is that young
black men commit a disproportionate amount of crime in this country. That's why
they're suspicious of African American males of a certain age. Black people
know this too, since they're the ones most likely to be victimized by young
black men. It's worth repeating Jesse Jackson's observation of some years back
about race. "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life
than to walk down the street and hear footsteps then turn around and see
somebody white and feel relieved."
Random Thoughts. By
Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: Random thoughts from wise thinkers:
KKK turns in man who threatens Obama! FBI arrests two
men accused of plotting to kill Barack Obama 'with home-made X-ray weapon'
Excerpt: In August 2012, Mr Crawford travelled to North Carolina to
request funding for his plan from a top official in the Ku Klux Klan, of which
he claimed to be a member. The KKK informed the FBI, which sent two undercover
agents posing as KKK members to meet Mr Crawford.
D.C. Politicos block
Walmart, help special interest, hurt the poor. By Star Parker
Excerpt: Why, when there is no question that nothing has
created more wealth and eradicated more poverty than capitalism, do left wing
politicians hate it so much? After all, it’s supposed to be the left that cares
about the poor. The latest chapter in this ongoing saga of economic perversity
is action being taken in Washington,
DC, to prevent Walmart from
opening stores there.
The Eagle has Landed.
By Daniel Greenfield.
Excerpt: No one who was born after 1935 has walked on the
moon. That period is swiftly becoming a historical relic. A thing that men did
who lived long ago.
What will
give Egypt’s
ruler ‘legitimacy’?
Does legitimacy arise purely from how a leader is elected,
or from how he or she governs once in office? How big does a crowd of
protesters have to be to indicate an elected leader is no longer the voice of
his people? When do self-interested or authoritarian policy decisions go so far
as to invalidate the mandate of an elected government? (Though long, this is a fine piece of journalism—so
fine, I’m surprised it turned up in the Boston Globe. Reading it online
may be a pain in the ass due to the Globe’s ads, but the author has identified
the problem correctly though he offers no solutions. This is also a possible
explanation of why so many leftists expect to be able to “rule by fiat” once an
election has been won, regardless of how large or small the majority. Though
the left they claim to want to protect “minorities”—as long as they either
agree with or can ignore them—they HATE minorities that disagree with them and
that cannot be ignored (like us, for example). The beauty of our Constitution
is that the rights of minorities ARE protected from abuse by the majority. I
seem to recall Robert Heinlein once suggested that law should only be passed if
they had a majority of three quarters or more, and that laws should be repealed
if 40% of those voting opposed it, because anything opposed by that large a
minority was obviously a problem. --Ron P.)
Anthony Weiner
Confirms Authenticity Of New Sex Chats
Excerpt: Nightlife site "The Dirty"
posted images of conversations that allegedly came from Weiner
to a 22-year-old woman under the pseudonym "Carlos Danger."
Tweet from David Burge @iowahawkblog2h
This week: Carlos Danger, Joe Biden threatened by ravenous
monkey pack, Zimmerman rescues family from burning car. It's only Tuesday.
Obama Throws Blacks
the Trayvon Race Bone. By Crystal Wright (Conservative Black Chick)
Excerpt: President Barack Obama using the White House Press Briefing Room July 19, 2013 to
speak about Trayvon Martin’s killing was beneath the office of the presidency.
Did the four Americans slain by terrorists in Benghazi get this much attention from
Obama? More like avoidance. Since when did the death of one black teen rise to
the level of a national crisis? Since the race hucksters and pimps like Al
Sharpton and Jesse Jackson decided it so and Obama obliged.
Quants:
The maths geniuses running Wall Street [Fake tweet plunges Dow Jones 140 points
and wipes out $200 billion in capital]. Sarfraz Mansoor
Excerpt:
A few minutes later the report [a fake tweet that Obama had been injured by
explosions in the White House] was exposed as a hoax and the markets quickly
returned to their pre-tweet levels. But, to many, the idea that one fake tweet
could have such an enormous impact on the financial markets was
incredible. Who was running Wall Street?
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