Alan C.

Why are Venezuela’s supermarkets so empty?

36% of Generation Starting to Turn 21 This Year Born to Unmarried Mothers Such a terrible tragedy. What happened in the 1960s, I wonder?

Fairbanks spent $7G defending mayor's $37.50 fine

Revealed: How fear of being seen as racist stopped social workers saving up to 1,400 children from sexual exploitation at the hands of Asian men in just ONE TOWN

Crazy people are searching for validation by soliciting acknowledgement from others.

The article is a worthwhile read.

Young fan who dresses like Cuba's Fidel Castro meets his idol There is a brief video at the link. I didn't see the boy's father in the video; only his mother. Also note the Che Guevara picture on his wall.

Food Stamp Enrollments Never Drop Below 45M for 3 Consecutive Years The Obama recovery is in full swing.

You will likely have to deal with bullies indefinitely. You didn't initiate force because he consented.

Cuba’s Anarcho-Capitalist Club Plants the Seed, Defies State Oppression A worthwhile interview to read. It's nice to see these ideas penetrating into oppressive societies.

More Than A Thousand Stood Under Heat & Sun For Free Food In Miami

Venezuela Proposes Fingerprinting Shoppers

It's called intellectual myopia or intellectual near-sightedness. It means that a person lacks depth of intellect and foresight. It's a result of lacking life experience which is why children view the world this way. Some people never grow out of it and so they retain it as adults. We see this among left-liberals/progressives like Sam Seder and Ana Kasparian who view the world through the eyes of children. It's possible for people to posses exceptional talent and still retain a child-like mentality. Intellectual myopia has been recognized and written about in the past: William Penn wrote, "If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools." Herbert Spencer wrote, "The ultimate result of shielding men from the results of folly is to fill the world with fools." Frederic Bastiat wrote a book called, That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen. Henry Hazlitt referred to it in Economics In One Lesson as the fallacy of overlooking secondary consequences. Thomas Sowell subtitled one of his books, Thinking Beyond Stage One. The cure for intellectual myopia is life-experience (specifically consequences). In a state of nature, natural selection would purge stupidity from the gene pool. The State interferes with this process by insulating people from the consequences of their mistakes, bad choices, and poor judgement.

Again, who knows if this legit. Nobody knows who this "source" is. Even if this proves to be factual, it won't stop the race hustlers from inflaming tensions. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have made careers convincing people that there are racist boogeymen hiding around every corner. Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source

Not sure what this is all about, but it's a new fad among decadent lowlifes.

France’s Relentlessly Deteriorating Unemployment Fiasco According to Wikipedia, France has a population of 66.6M. That works out to about 43% of the population working.

Sober woman arrested for DUI after being hit by police car

Not sure if this is legit, or if the police are simply using reporters to spread propaganda. Over a Dozen Witnesses Corroborate Officer’s Story In The Death of Michael Brown

Ferguson protesters: The peaceful, the elders, the looters, and the ‘militants’ Ferguson is a sign of things to come. What is happening there is exactly what will happen in the event of a dollar collapse.

Free-market regulation of computers and electronics.

Photos of property destruction in Ferguson The legacy of left-liberalism is a legacy of destruction. Everything left-liberalism touches leaves a smoldering heap of wreckage in its wake. Meanwhile, hundreds of Blacks are murdered in Chicago annually, but don't expect race hustlers Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to show up and stoke the fires. There are no political points to score there. Looting Decimates Small Businesses in Ferguson

'Slavery,' pregnancy drove California professor to accost teen pro-lifer, say defenders

VA Spent $1.4 Billion in Stimulus Funds on Green Energy Projects, Cemeteries Local VA finds another 1,146 unread patient images Also see my other thread: Veterans languish and die on a VA hospital's secret list

I didn't think that Popeye was a bad movie. I saw it with my family in the theater when I was a kid. I recall reading somewhere that Robin Williams didn't like the movie and regretted acting in it. If I had ever had the opportunity to meet him, I would've told him that he shouldn't feel that way and instead be proud that he brought joy to millions of children.