Memnison Journal

Limbaugh et al: The Democrats invented / created the recession and so on so as to gain control over the business world.  As in nationalize it all, the dirty Marxists. 
*background music: The Red Flag*

Zimbabwe is a complex subject, and the complexities have gotten a whole lot rougher on the inhabitants as time passes by.   Europeans under Cecil Rhodes marched in in the ned of the 1800s and took control of the land from the local chiefs, and passed out all sorts of claims to white settlers, who set [...]

“I don’t know what’s next,” Obama, the presidential candidate, said at an outdoor rally in North Carolina. “By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”

The principle of competition which the Socialists flog has already been discarded; they are whipping a dead horse. No trust promoter believes in free competition. Moreover, most of the Rooseveltian policies - the arid land reclamation schemes, the National forests, the leasing of coal and mineral rights, the renting of grazing lands, the construction of [...]

Being a student of American History and Political Science, I’ve noticed something since - oh, 1930.  When some Republicans, the more wingnut sorts, are behind the eight-ball and trying to stir things up, they call the Democrats commies, socialists or commie sympathizers.  And traitors to the realm.
Go back and check out the commentary about FDR, [...]

Political post on McCain’s campaign’s decline; more after the cut.

From the WaPo: (read it all)
Following his loss to George W. Bush in the 2000 South Carolina primary, John McCain did something extraordinary: He confessed to lying about how he felt about the Confederate battle flag, which he actually abhorred. “I broke my promise to always tell the truth,” McCain said. Now he has broken [...]

…I write as much as I do on political subjects, the answer is simple - because I care.
My view, for as long as I can remember, and has been ever since, is to see the long run, the big picture.  My focus and education was directed at the synthesis of the world around me - [...]

Very good article that explains the real limits of Chinese power down the road.  Here’s a mix of his points and some of my thoughts on the matter:

Cheap labor and fair access to markets is about their main strengths.  Quality is not as important if the manufacturers can slide by.

Labor is starting to [...]

…or the Holodomor, as it’s better known. In the early 1930s, Stalin forced the collectivization of Ukraine, and when the wheat harvest then fell below the levels that Moscow had ordered, he ordered the deliberate starvation of the Ukrainians for their failure to ‘fulfill their duty.’ Several million Ukrainians then starved to [...]

Highly interesting thread in Randy McDonald’s LJ about the ticking timebombs of Chinese demographics and environmental pollution.
In the former, you sit hard on increasing the population by limiting new births, which means that you end up with an oversupply of dateless young men and a large retirement-age population they have to help support.  Happy happy [...]

The whole poisonous-crap-in-Chinese-products thing is expanding all the time.  Here’s a WaPo story going on about the roots of it all; the corrupt deals between the Communist Party powers and fast-buck businessmen who all want to make the quickest buck possible, as the expense of anyone else, and are not interested in being exposed.  That’s [...]

Red Ken is planning a Castro-celebration.
More polar ice breakups.
Hugo Chavez is suppressing entire TV networks in Venezuela.