Emily Bronte’s No coward soul is mine is this week’s poem of the week.
Poem of the Week: 6/15/08-6/21/08
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Rant of the Week: 6/15/08-6/21/08
As Spengler points out in this rant, the coming economic problems are going to be a rude awaking for America’s slacker generation. Most of the slackers have never experience a serious economic downturn in their lives and have had their every whim catered to by their wealthy (by historical standards) parents.
But will they respond by saying sir and putting on a tie as Spengler seems to think, or will they respond with the rage of revolutionaries?
Essay of the Week: 6/15/08-6/21/08
As this essay shows, the facts do not support the demonizing of septic systems. Yet that has not stopped a growing consensus amongst supposedly educated people that septic systems are a great danger to environment and human health.
The boy who can echo locate
Part one below….
The rest can be found in the sidebar here….
To much feel good fluff. But well worth watching to the end.
More flooding….
The Midwest is getting soaked…..
At 90, Mary McMahon is old enough to remember the record-setting floods of 1929, when the Cedar River crested at 20 feet. Thursday morning, she came downtown with her son to compare the flood of her childhood with the flood of 2008.
“I just can’t believe it,” she said, as she stood in front of U.S. Bank on Second Avenue and watched dirty brown river water flowing up the street in front of her. “It was bad then, but it was nothing like this… This is worse, a lot worse.”
Engineers and National Guard teams examined dams across this storm-deluged state Tuesday looking for signs of damage from the high water that led to the major collapse that nearly emptied Lake Delton.
The huge breach in an embankment holding back Lake Delton released a torrent that washed away three houses and a stretch of highway. The weekend’s storm also displaced thousands of Indiana residents and was blamed for 15 deaths in the Midwest and elsewhere.
And cities are being evacuated……
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines River has punched a 100-foot wide hole in a levee, allowing water to gush into an area near the downtown of Iowa’s capital and largest city early this morning.
A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for 270 homes in Des Moines. Many residents have already left the area under a voluntary evacuation request issued yesterday.
Good thing the commies lost….
The US government has gone from being the biggest player in the mortgage market to being just about the only player. Per recent reports sent by an alert reader, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae now finance 80% of all mortgages, and the FHA guarnatees another 10%, so these entities now come close to having mortgage finance all to themselves.
Could we stop burning food already?
From the Tristate observer…..
“According to the May 1, 2008 CCC inventory report there are oÂÂnly 24.1 million bushels of wheat in inventory, so after this sale there will be oÂÂnly 2.7 million bushels of wheat left the entire CCC inventory,” warned Matlack. “Our concern is not that we are using the remainder of our strategic grain reserves for humanitarian relief. AAM fully supports the action and all humanitarian food relief. Our concern is that the U.S. has nothing else in our emergency food pantry. There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk powder, no grains or anything else left in reserve. The oÂÂnly thing left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat which is about enough wheat to make ½ of a loaf of bread for each of the 300 million people in America.”
This is what happens when old people make up the bulk of a society
A draft law in Liaoning province makes it an obligation for adult children to contact or visit their parents regularly.
It is the first legislation of its kind in the country.
The province’s standing committee of the people’s congress recently released the draft – Regulation on Protection of Rights and Interests of the Aged – to seek public opinion.
It is expected to become law by the end of the year.
An article says if children do not live with their parents, they should “often send greetings or go home to visit them”.
Why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
* In 2004 the typical family spent more than 18 percent of its income on debt payments, while 12.2% of families spent more than 40% of their income on debt payments.
* Nearly half of all credit card holders have missed payments in the last year.
* 15 million Americans use a payday lender each month, borrowing at eye-popping APRs: 35 states allow APRs of more than 300%.
* In the Rocky Mountain West (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming), the median APR of state usury limits increased from 36% in 1965 to 521% in 2007.
* A household with income under $13,000 spends, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all income.
* In the Texas Lottery, 18- to 24-year-old players spend a median $50 per month on lottery play, the highest level among all age groups.
The right to remain silent
I know I do not speak for the entire editorial staff, but I confess a sense of startlement at reading this post. I really ought to check on the various incidents in this story more thoroughly. If they are largely true as presented, as I suspect they are, it would do me well to wake up and realize that quite real, legal persecution of Christians is not just happening far away across the ocean where everything is strange and exotic. Canada is not so far away.