I've been following these two biz's for over 18 months.  I LOVE the idea.  MAy get involved financially in the future as a driver.  The first apps I signed up for on my smartphone were these. 

Forthose who are worried about them putting "poor taxi drivers" out of business ... try this: Taxi medallions have been the best investment in America for years. Now Uber may be changing that. “In New York, taxi medallions have topped $1 million. In Boston, $700,000. In Philadelphia, $400,000. In Miami, $300,000. Where medallions exist, they have outperformed even the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index. In Chicago, their value has doubled since 2009. . . . Deep pockets run this market. The system in Chicago and elsewhere is dominated by large investors who rely on brokers to sell medallions, specialty banks to finance them and middle men to manage and lease them to drivers who own nothing at all.” And their value comes solely from excluding competition. Interesting that the big fear of the medallion owners isn’t losing passengers to Uber, but losing the drivers they gouge. Hey guys, just wait for the self-driving cars. . . .

from the Blogfather

Yesterday I posted an essay from Enviro-apostate Caleb Rossiter.  Not everyone was as welcoming to him as they might have been.  Caleb Rossiter – Missing In Action, Johnny-Come-Lately, Faux Victim, Political Tunnel Vision, or All-Of-The-Above?  Worth reading.

Second, the co-founder of Greenpeace is now on our side: Moore’s Law: CO2 Good; Climate Change Bunk; Greens Follow Religious Fundamentalism

and third:  Matt Ridley: Climate Cure Worse Than Thought breaks down some of the assumptions the left is making to get to the disaster of thier viewpoint.

Remember the left wing eugenics movement?

Remember Carrie Buck?

They're back.  Report: California Illegally Sterilized Dozens of Female Inmates

which happens to be the movie I'm watching - Band Wagon.

Here's the deal - everyone is entitled to legal representation and a defense.  And Defense counsel should zealously represent their clients. No arguement from me.  It's all there in the Bar regulations.  But they don't have to laugh about it.

Child Rape Victim: 'Hillary Clinton Took Me Through Hell'

This is par for the course with the family.  They demonize victims.  The war on women got quite a kick here.  Kathleen Willey ring a bell? 

• Juanita Broaddrick
• Gennifer Flowers
• Paula Jones
• Monica Lewinsky

They're all the same.

As she hawks her new book, Mrs. Clinton is saying provocative things. Her assertion that “American political system is probably the most difficult, even brutal, in the world” has raised eyebrows across the country.

In a world in which violent coup d-etat are still relatively common in many parts of the world, that’s a striking claim. American politicians are toppled by elections, not by violence. The parties hurl invective at each other, not ordinance. As John Adams reflected to Thomas Jefferson in 1823, “I should like to see an election for a President in the British empire or in France or in Spain or in Prussia or Russia by way of experiment. We go on pretty well—for we use no other artillery than goose quills: & our ink is not so deleterious as language & grape.”*

There will be more.  Two more year's worth.

there WERE WMD's.  Whie Dingy Harry and the Fun Bunch in WDC (Home of the Redskins) are revising history I post the following reminders:

Game, set and match

Wikileaks documents, purloined by Bradley/Chelsea Manning, considered a folk hero by many on the left, also show that there WMDs in Iraq. How about that?

It gets better. Let's look at the excellent July 2008 Investor's Business Daily editorial on the topic

W-w-w-wait a minute. Did IBD really cite the venerable Associated Press, who reporters just told us that WMDs "were never found"? Why, yes:

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

Seriously, guys, if this yellowcake had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction (many on the left have falsely argued that the material was only relevant to peaceful nuclear energy uses), why would they have cared about it "crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions"?

And finally, the lie that was true:

This article is part of the Center for Media & Democracy's focus on the fallout of nuclear "spin."

In President George W. Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union 2003 speech, reportedly over 5,400 words long, perhaps the most memorable are Bush's 16 words

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

As some of you know I've been having a lot of ... ahem ... religeous issues with some enviros.  Rather then delve into THOSE details, I offer a smattering of ...stuff.

First - I've been told "science" supported by non-environmentalists isn't really science.  Ad hominem, but whatcha gonna do?  Do what I did: Caleb Rossiter – opening eyes to the uncertainty of global warming claims  Rossiter writes for the NYTimes and until recently was with the progressive "Institute for Policy Studies."

Next up, 100 percent consensus finally acheived on climate

and finally this, on the misplaced priorities of the Greenies, the VA and the whole damned administration: Failure of the primary mission at the VA – vets died while VA bureaucrats obsessed over green energy installation

“If Lerner destroyed her hard drive, odds are nearly 100 percent that she Googled instructions for doing so from either her home or work computer. I’ve heard it suggested that her Google searches from June 2011 might be recoverable with a subpoena.”

IRS commissioner: You know, e-mail isn’t necessarily an “official record”; Update: IRS Manual says it is.

Related: White House notified of missing IRS e-mail 6 weeks before Congress?

By the way, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen came to that job from being Chairman of Freddie Mac during the housing bust.

Two Obama quotes:

"I won.  You lost.  Shut up."

“If you were one of the architects of this mess you don’t get to tell the rest of us how to fix it!"

STEPHEN MILLER: Why The Democrats Own Iraq Now.
 

The arguement of course is MUCH morecomplex than the left wants you to think.  No surprise there.  But they refuse to acknowledge the "when, why and how."

Here's a good start.  Over at Mises Canada there's a discussion on whether income inequality really is increasing, or whether it is a figment of some statisticians imaginations. It’s real alright, but the cause is more obvious than anyone wants to let on/

The income and wealth divide that is now seen as a problem did start right around 1970 (depending on what type of data you want to look at to judge this, it started as early as 1968 or as late as 1973). The income divide is not fabricated, nor are these dates just pulled from thin air.

The period of time right around 1970 was unique in recent history as it was the end of the Bretton Woods era and the start of a pure fiat standard by all the central banks of the Western world. It ushered in a period of unanchored central bank credit creation, and government deficit spending. If one wants to blame something for the inequality that coincided exactly with this momentous event, why not pick the obvious reason?

Read more here.