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Topic: Do you want your
goat scruffy or shiny? |
Do you want your
goat scruffy or shiny?
USA Today, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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Posted By:Judy W., 10/9/2012 4:38:15 PM
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| According to a West African proverb, "a goat owned in common always starves." This pithy phrase captures a key truth of human behavior: People are a lot better about taking care of things that belong to them than they are about taking care of things that don't. That's a lesson that applies to more than goats. At the beach place where I'm staying right now, there are some "community" bicycles. They're "free," in the sense that the cost is just built into your rent, so that it doesn't cost any more to use them a lot
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
devnull, 10/9/2012 4:49:48 PM (No. 8921292)
I have been known on occasion to mutter "eff-it, it's a rental"
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
schnapps, 10/9/2012 4:49:50 PM (No. 8921293)
Glenn makes some good analogies. Americans may not relate to goat ownership just yet... but wait.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
thomthomp, 10/9/2012 4:57:51 PM (No. 8921310)
Google "tragedy of the commons" and you will find this, among others:
http://dieoff.org/page95.htm
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 10/9/2012 6:53:47 PM (No. 8921492)
When I think of government controlled health care, I think of government controlled driver's license agencies, government controlled mail and government controlled welfare. Got a problem with your social security? Try getting that fixed! Got a problem with your taxes? Try getting the government tax agency (IRS) to help fix it. Got a troubled situation with your property line or home assessment? See what hell you go through with the government getting it fixed. Now, think about having a lump in your breast or a strange thumping in your chest--- go to the government to help get that fixed? Good luck, brother/sister- you're on your own!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
beancounter, 10/10/2012 12:46:59 AM (No. 8922012)
It takes a village to starve a goat.
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Cleta Mitchell has prepared this comprehensive guide to the IRS abuse of election-integrity and Tea Party groups. (Snip) An interesting narrative split is developing among the Left. As Bryan Preston notes, the reliable Praetorian Press Guard, formerly known as JournoList, has a plan: condemn the IRS and say Obama had nothing to do with it. But others, the speech regulators on the Left, must not have been invited to the West Wing meetings with the JournoList members, because groups like Democracy 21 are busy approving of the IRS abuse.
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/23/2013 9:51:39 AM
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Eva Longoria is backing up her beauty with a whole lot of brain. The actress graduated with a master´s degree Wednesday. Longoria, 38, took home a real degree (not an honorary one) in Chicano studies from Cal State Northridge, where she physically attended classes for three years, according to TMZ. "Big day today!!! Very excited to graduate for my master´s degree in Chicano studies! You´re never too old or too busy to continue your education!" the actress wrote on her Who Say site Wednesday, sharing loads of pics of her big day, posing with her family, cohorts and diploma.
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Conservative radio host Mark Levin is very skeptical of the idea that President Obama had absolutely no idea about the IRS tea party targeting before the story broke in the news mere weeks ago. Levin declared adamantly that it is a “flat-out, bald-faced lie” that Obama didn’t know beforehand, citing prior reports by a few conservative news outlets picking up on the news well before the 2012 presidential election. Levin said, “I don’t believe for two seconds that Obama wasn’t aware of this.”
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Politico, by Reid J. Epstein
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President Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official involved in the editing of the administration´s talking points on Benghazi, to be the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who was until recently State´s top spokesperson, had long been expected to be nominated the post to replace Philip Gordon, who Obama picked to serve as Middle East coordinator for the National Security Council. Nuland´s nomination -- which requires Senate confirmation -- could come under scrutiny from Republicans who see her as playing a central role in shaping
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Houston Chronicle, by Nicole Narea
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/23/2013 10:52:02 PM
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Anthony Weiner’s New York mayoral candidacy was only made more improbable today after he revealed that he visited a Houston psychiatric facility following his resignation from Congress in 2011. Haunted by scandal surrounding his sexually explicit online communications with women, the Democratic former congressman sought treatment for his compulsive behavior from mental health professionals at the Gabbard Center. According to its website, the facility provides “3-day outpatient psychiatric evaluation,” particularly to “professionals who are in personal or professional crises.” While Weiner did not disclose
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Mark Levin: "RINO" Issa Didn´t
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/24/2013 5:38:38 PM
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MARK LEVIN: So why didn´t Chairman Issa hold an investigative hearing a year ago? Why didn´t Chairman Camp, all Republicans, hold an investigative hearing a year ago, and all the other tripping over themselves right now? I´ll tell you why. Because the establishment Republicans, the RINO Republicans, despise the Tea Party. They despise the conservative movement. We exist to be managed, to be shuttled to the polling place, to vote for their candidates. The Karl Roves of the world, and all the rest of them. They fight us in the primaries, they fight us at the grassroots.
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Fox News’s Roger Ailes responds
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Washington Post, by Erik Wemple
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/23/2013 11:00:19 PM
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Fox News chief Roger Ailes has sent a memo to his subordinates at the leading cable news network. He sent this memo to his staff today in connection with the federal investigation into an alleged leak to Fox News reporter James Rosen, a story that the Washington Post’s Ann E. Marimow broke earlier this week. The memo’s a masterpiece, too. For all those who wonder what it is about Ailes that endears his people to him — and that makes him such a good interviewee for any media reporter lucky enough to get an audience
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New Yorker, by Andy Borowitz
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WASHINGTON —In a dramatic departure from existing White House procedures, President Obama requested today that his staff start cc’ing him on stuff. “Look, I know a lot of you think I’m really busy and you don’t want to bother me,” the President reportedly told his staff in an Oval Office meeting. “But cc me anyway. It’s good for me to keep up on what’s going on around here.” “It’s not good when I turn on the news and they’re talking about something at the White House and I’m like, whoa, when did that happen?”
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