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Archive for June 16th, 2011

O Canada

Posted by Richard on June 16, 2011

Here's something you don't hear often: they're rioting in Canada. Apparently, some Vancouver Canucks fans aren't taking it well that their team folded like a house of cards:

Unhappy Vancouver Canucks fans are rioting in downtown Vancouver, and people are looting merchandise from major department stores.

People the mayor has described as "hooligans" smashed windows, lit innumerable cars on fire and started fist fights throughout the downtown core after the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final 4-0 against the Boston Bruins.

Canadians rioting and looting — is this a sign of the apocalypse? My world-view is shaken.

Are they at least rioting politely? Are the looters apologizing as they cart off the flat-screens? 

 

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Luddite in Chief

Posted by Richard on June 16, 2011

I guess after two and a half years, the Obama administration figures the "blame Bush" rhetoric just isn't working anymore. So now they have a new explanation for the unemployment, underemployment, and generally sucky state of this so-called recovery: blame technology and automation. It's all those infernal machines and devices that are preventing you from getting a job! The Prez explained it thusly:

“There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate.”

Man, the economy would be going gangbusters if only we didn't have ATMs or airport kiosks. Or self-service elevators. Or long-distance phone calls that don't require an operator. Or online shopping … online bill-pay … and the whole damn job-destroying internet, actually!

Now I understand why $800 billion worth of stimulus didn't turn things around. It's all those bulldozers, graders, dump-trucks, jack-hammers, and backhoes. Think of how many "shovel-ready" jobs would be created if we just destroyed all that diesel-burning, greenhouse-gas-spouting machinery and used men with picks and shovels and wheelbarrows instead!

Socialists are basically all Luddites. 

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