Comments 6-17-13

Insane Timelapse of a Rotating Supercell Looks Like an Alien Spaceship [rdbrewer]


VDH: Illegal Immigration: Elite Illiberality
"The elites favor de facto amnesty for a variety of self-interested reasons. For the corporate echelon, creating a guest-worker program and granting amnesty — without worrying about securing the border first — ensures continued access to millions of cheap laborers from Latin America." [rdbrewer]

Interview: Helen Smith Talks Men on Strike [rdbrewer]

The Wealth Effect, RIP? Dems have long claimed that "trickle-down economics" is a myth; looks like their own policies have managed to strangle it, because those with money are now hoarding it. [Fritzworth]

Neil Munro: Obama runs immigration bill from White House, according to new report
"The White House is playing a larger role in developing the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill than its supporters publicly admit, according to a forthcoming article in The New Yorker. ‘No decisions are being made without talking to us about it,’ the official said of the Gang of Eight negotiations." Thanks to commenter "Vic." [rdbrewer]

Amesty bill equals disaster for low income workers
Democrats and liberal Republicans couldn't care less. The corporate interest is in more low wage workers. And money talks. [rdbrewer]


Navy Researchers Put Dark Lightning to the SWORD
Dark lightning? "Discovered “by accident” by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2010, dark lightning is a surprisingly powerful — yet invisible — by-product of thunderstorms in Earth’s atmosphere." Added: New map shows large scale cosmic structure. [rdbrewer]

Hot News Tip: The Democrats aren't pushing the amnesty bill because it'll help the GOP. Just sayin'. (Must credit rdbrewer.)

USA Today: 3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so
"They had spent decades in the top ranks of the agency, designing and managing the very data-collection systems they say have been turned against Americans." [rdbrewer]

An amazing essay on something you might not have heard of: "Survivorship Bias".
Successful people can't tell you what NOT to do because they didn't do it. (or they did it and got lucky) It's a long one. Coffee! [ArthurK]

Jonah: Freedom: The Unfolding Revolution
"The libertarian idea is the only truly new political idea in the last couple thousand years." [rdbrewer]

Forbes: Hubble May Have Discovered A Planet That Shouldn't Exist [rdbrewer]

Israel Builds Sinai Border Fence; Illegal Crossings Drop 99.9%
Don't they know fences don't work? According to our politicians, they'll just build a longer ladder or dig a deeper hole. [rdbrewer]

mooB
MAB! (yesterday's big news had the reset button pressed) [ArthurK]

DNCC tries an insurance/tax scam. Why else would they file a post-convention police report that includes a lost 13" MacBook Pro listed as being worth $75K, an iPhone worth $30K, a Blackberry worth $54K, and so on, for a total of over half a million dollars? [Fritzworth]

Boom
BAM! [ArthurK]

Snowden's online life revealed. Yeah, he's a mole.
Hung out in that wretched hive of scum and villainy - Ars Technica! [ArthurK]

Looks like most of Congress flew home instead of attending the Classified NSA briefing on Friday.
This isn't 1984 - it's Idiocracy! [ArthurK]

Channel NewsAsia: Lost medieval city found in Cambodia
"A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology, a report said Saturday." More from the Sydney Morning Herald. [rdbrewer]

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Comments 6-14-13

Pathological Altruism. The Left excuses all its excesses on the basis of altruism and will not, must not, acknowledge the damage it does in the process. Plus, I believe the concept of co-dependency very much describes the relationship between the Left governing class and the Low Information Voters. Read the whole thing. [Fritzworth]

Need a place to crash, rent-free?
Other duties will involve catching and eating the fish and crabs that I will occasionally throw to you whilst you are being the walrus. ht @jamestaranto [ArthurK]

Video Dump [rdbrewer]:
• Hot Tub Rabbit
• Cat Adopts Birdie
• Kitten Punch
• Kitten vs. Parrot
• Bird Loves Cat
• Mercury Balloon
• Whale Steals Fish
• Rib Stain Camo
• Amazing Movie Phone Call
• Flash Flood
• Highway Lazy Boy
• Crowd Sings Bohemian Rhapsody