Just Some More News Articles and Nonsense

The New York Times - The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest. An interesting article and Stephen Colbert had some interesting comments about the change. Raw Story - Colbert: Canadian middle class ‘ice-holes’ bring home more bacon, and it’s that round sh*t. My favorite quote from Mr. Colbert, “How is Canada’s middle class doing so well?” he asked. “I mean, they’ve got socialized medicine, subsidized child care, and high taxes for the rich.” “There are only two possible reasons we are falling behind the ice-holes: one, America’s middle class is lazy; or two, America doesn’t have enough tax cuts for the wealthy.”
“Just think about it folks,” he continued. “How can we rich trickle down prosperity to everyone else unless we have all the money? Our cup must filleth before it runneth over.”

The Washington Times - CARSON: When government looks more like foe than friend. Oh, the hypocrisy. There is a rancher named Bundy who had his cows grazing on federally owned land and refused to pay his permit. The federal government came to take his cows and armed citizen militia came to help the rancher. He is now being called a hero by certain right wing elements. The argument is claimed to be over freedom of speech and to use open spaces. My problems with this case are many fold; but, where these same people when the Occupy movement people, who were legally using public spaces to protest, were corralled and arrested by the police? Heck, where was Mr. Bundy? Thats right, they were applauding the removal of the communist scum. Be careful what you allow to happen to your neighbor or it will happen to you. Lets not forget the Occupy people were unarmed and peaceful.

Yahoo - Soldier in battle to rid home of squatters, Florida sheriff’s office says it can’t do anything [UPDATED x2]. The story says that the police refused to remove a "squatter" from a soldiers home. Great headline, the facts don't support it and the soldier is apparently lying. The "squatters" had been allowed in the house while the soldier was away to make some repairs to the property. They claim that they were allowed to live there while he was gone and he claims they were only allowed in to make repairs. If what he is saying is true then what was he supposed to pay them and did he? That is not in the article because his allowing them to stay there while doing the work was the payment.

Yahoo - Ellen's Good News - Meet the Kid Who Received 150 College Scholarship Offers. An amazing young man who is talented in everyway is accepted to all the big schools, a nice story. Of course he was accepted to all the colleges; but, what about the other kids who don't get into college because the colleges make more by letting in foreign students?

Yahoo - Reuters - Buffett: moving oil by rail safely major industry concern. Warren Buffet bought a railway a few years back, at a time when railroads were losing money. How fortunate for him that we are now shipping oil by train rather than creating a pipeline from Canada.

Stop reading the news to see if they agree with you and try and learn that each story is bent individually rather than being connected to the bigger picture.