Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans’ Misery

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/world/africa/02zimbabwe.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

This article highlights the folly of the anti-business crowd. For example....
* Taking land from people that know what to do with it and giving it to people that don't, is not smart,
* Legislating human nature is fruitless,
* In a society where accomplishment is not rewarded, political correctness is,
* One cannot repeal the free market,
* "Mugabe's misery" is supported by the UN illustrating the principle that no matter how bad it gets, anything goes inside the borders of a given country and despots will be protected,
* The only difference between Zimbabwe and Venezuela is oil income,
* This catastrophe is the logical endpoint of anti-corporatism.
* Extreme poverty is the result of government policies, not western consumption.

Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans’ Misery

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/world/africa/02zimbabwe.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

This article highlights the folly of the anti-business crowd. For example....

* Taking land from people that know what to do with it and giving it to people that don't, is not smart,

* Legislating human nature is fruitless,

* In a society where accomplishment is not rewarded, political correctness is,

* One cannot repeal the free market,

* "Mugabe's misery" is supported by the UN illustrating the principle that no matter how bad it gets, anything goes inside the borders of a given country and despots will be protected,

* The only difference between Zimbabwe and Venezuela is oil income,

* This catastrophe is the logical endpoint of anti-corporatism.

* Extreme poverty is the result of government policies, not western consumption.

There is no sound so sublime as the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of liberal teeth. The cacophony of collective moaning by people dependent on bad news for validation, is wonderful. Thanks.

Shooter, we're all bemoaning the overt participation by the military in "dog-and-pony shows" for the press in Iraq, designed to leave the flawed impression that Iraq is going well.

Nobody, anywhere, has said that Iraq is going "well". That acceptance by one and all is what makes the "sturm and drang" by you folks so laughable. The two guys from Brookings allowed that progress MIGHT, underline MIGHT, actually be possible, and that has sent the Greenwalds of the world into a tizzy.

As for the "overt participation by the military in dog and pony shows for the press" what would you expect? That reporters get shoved out the door of the green zone with a notepad and white flag? Maybe the beheading of Daniel Pearl didn't register with you? Perhaps you thought that the military would do a "Michael Moore" on itself?

As a supporter of the war, Shooter, you of all people should be interested in the unvarnished truth. But instead, you and your dead-end 30%ers would rather flatly ignore the continuing assessments of our military leaders as they describe the lack of political process and other enormous hurdles to Iraq success, and focus instead on this made-for-TV movie filmed in Iraq.

Heh. One editorial does not a movie make. Apparently you folks have that particular movie running in your heads and can't handle the possibility of a happy ending.

Consider this about the military's press relations. Your side of the aisle has portrayed the military as a force for evil, by closet homicidal maniacs, but you mean that in a good way. It's really Bush's fault that America and it's military are compared to nazis by a Senator, murderers by a member of the House, torturers by the press, and genocidal beasts by the Lancet. Do you think the military should just stand by, and let that be it's characterization without comment or contention? Please. When attacked politically, one has to respond politically.

Ironically it is that realization that is bringing about the potential for something positive in Iraq. Isn't that better than just clearing out and leaving the ME to the "killing sands" like leaving Vietnam preceded the "killing fields"? I should hope so, but the fear of progress demonstrated here leads to no other conclusion but that bad news is all you will accept.

And you even sound proud of your ability to focus on what is clearly bullshit, and claim it as truth, as if this were the winning move in a game among children. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.-- paulpsd7

LOL. you mean like kicking the game board over when you're losing? Yes that is pathetic.

To all those commenting on Democrats "kicking over" the game board when losing I apologize. I should have said "stealing" the game board when losing. Like I always say, it's the Democrats that set the standard for skulduggery, and fraud. And as always, IOKIYAD.

House erupts in chaos
In a massive flare-up of partisan tensions (video link courtesy Breitbart.tv), Republicans walked out on a House vote late Thursday night to protest what they believed to be Democratic maneuvers to reverse an unfavorable outcome for them. http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0807/House_erupts_in_chaos.html

Points for chutzpah though. Heh.

You'd think that Kos could afford a professional outfit for this. It does not speak well to actually delivering a product... which at the moment is not being delivered at all, much less badly.

I guess the Politico is trying to be so even handed that it can't get the facts across. On a vote last night amending a bill to read that none of the money in the bill could be used on illegals -the Dem chair McNulty, gaveled in the vote he wanted before the votes are all accounted for. In other words, he actually did on TV what you folks think happened in 2000. Like I said, Chutzpah.

Between that, and Obey deciding who gets what pork, without votes getting in the way, The Dems can eventually do away with voting all together.