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On Capitalism

The Economist has a great opinion piece this week on globilization and reflecting on the spread of economic vs political freedom around the world in the time since the fall of the Berlin Wall20 years ago, today.
I recommend reading the entire article, but this part on capitalism caught my attention:
At present capitalism is too often judged by the excesses of a few bankers. But when historians come to write about the past quarter-century, Lehman Brothers and Sir Fred “the Shred” Goodwin will account for fewer pages than the 500m people dragged out of absolute poverty into something resembling the middle class. Their success is not just a wonderful thing in itself—the greatest leap forward in economic history. It has also helped spur on other chaotic freedoms: look at the way ideas, good, bad and mad, are texted around the world.
It continues:
For in the end, no matter what China’s leaders tell Mr Obama when he visits Beijing later this month, economic and political liberty are linked—not as tightly as people hoped 20 years ago, but still linked. Look forward, and China’s internet-obsessed emerging middle class will surely have an appetite for liberty beyond the purely economic. Change could happen as unexpectedly as it did in 1989. Even the most fearsome fortresses of repression can eventually be breached. Then it was Honecker and Ceausescu; tomorrow it might be Castro, Ahmadinejad or Mugabe; one day Chávez or even Hu.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.

 

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The Most Offensive Protest Sign Ever

I cannot imagine a sign more repugnant and reprehensible than this one. And I am not easily offended.
National Health Care = Nazism

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Our base is under a tack

Our base is under a tack.

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Scozzafava's edsorses Owens; Limbaugh rebukes for 'widespread bestiality'


Stay classy Rush.

NY-23 just keeps getting better. Contrary to what Fox News reported, Scozzafava did not endorse the Conservative candidate, Doug Hoffman. She endorsed Democratic candidate Bill Owens instead. The RNC released a radio spot endorsing Hoffman. And Rush Limbaugh warns PETA about Scozzafava’s widespread bestiality.

Dede Scozzafava Robocall For Bill Owens  
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Dede Scozzafava Robocall For Bill Owens.mp3 (588 KB)
Rnc Radio Ad In Ny - 23 - ‘echo’  
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01 RNC Radio Ad In NY-23 - ‘Echo’.mp3 (714 KB)

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1611, Praise God

From their website:

Come to our Halloween book burning. We are burning Satan’s bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, ect. These are perversions of God’s Word the King James Bible.

We will also be burning Satan’s music such as country , rap , rock , pop, heavy metal, western, soft and easy, southern gospel , contempory Christian , jazz, soul, oldies but goldies, etc.

We will also be burning Satan’s popular books written by heretics like Westcott & Hort , Bruce Metzger, Billy Graham , Rick Warren , Bill Hybels , John McArthur, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll , John Piper, Chuck Colson, Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart, Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham , Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn , Joyce Myers, Brian McLaren, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa , The Pope , Rob Bell, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning, William Young, etc.We are not burning Bibles written in other languages that are based on the TR. We are not burning the Wycliffe, Tyndale, Geneva or other translations that are based on the TR.

We will be serving Bar-b-Que Chicken, fried chicken, and all the sides.

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Is this new? - Find your friends on YouTube!

This popped up on my home page. I’ve never noticed it before.

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The remotest place on Earth

Nowhere, three weeks from anywhere It’s official, the world’s most remote place is on the Tibetan plateau (34.7°N, 85.7°E).

From here, says Andy Nelson, a former researcher at the European Commission, it is a three-week trip to the cities of Lhasa or Korla - one day by car and the remaining 20 on foot. Rough terrain and an altitude of 5200 metres also lend it a perfect air of “Do Not Disturb”.

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25)

  1. Small Night Orchestra (13) 
  2. Parov Stelar (10) 
  3. Miles Davis (8) 
  4. Monodeluxe (4) 
  5. Emotional (4) 

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz


Google Social Search now live at http://www.google.com/experimental/

Read the blog post or watch the demo video and opt-in here.

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Image montage software that'll blow your mind: Sketch2Photo

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