November 17, 2011
thedailywhat: SMBC.

thedailywhat:

SMBC.

November 3, 2011
“ You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (via rightsize)

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October 3, 2011
crookedindifference: ALL AT SEA - The Abuse of Human Rights Aboard Illegal Fishing Vessels Fishing is already one of the most dangerous occupations in the world yet EJF’s report documents crews on illegal boats working under slave like-conditions, facing daily exploitation and abuse. The new report calls for urgent international action to address illegal fishing and labour conditions, including a global ban on the use of Flags of Convenience by fishing vessels. Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) or ‘pirate’ fishing is devastating marine environments, stealing from developing nations and unsustainable. It is driven by the enormous global demand for seafood and is symptomatic of the wider crises in world fisheries. Often forced to work at sea for months and even years, in many cases the working conditions suffered by these crews meet International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions of forced labour.

crookedindifference:

ALL AT SEA - The Abuse of Human Rights Aboard Illegal Fishing Vessels

Fishing is already one of the most dangerous occupations in the world yet EJF’s report documents crews on illegal boats working under slave like-conditions, facing daily exploitation and abuse. The new report calls for urgent international action to address illegal fishing and labour conditions, including a global ban on the use of Flags of Convenience by fishing vessels.

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) or ‘pirate’ fishing is devastating marine environments, stealing from developing nations and unsustainable. It is driven by the enormous global demand for seafood and is symptomatic of the wider crises in world fisheries.

Often forced to work at sea for months and even years, in many cases the working conditions suffered by these crews meet International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions of forced labour.

September 20, 2011

thedailywhat:

Trial Separation of the Day: An IKEA store in Sydney recently introduced Mänland, a grown up version of home furnishing retailer’s familiar Småland Play Area for children designed to keep “whinging” husbands and boyfriends entertained while their wives and girlfriend go shopping.

The “play space” comes complete with Xbox consoles, flatscreen TVs, arcade machines, a foosball table, and free hot dogs. You know — man stuff.

Unlike its kid counterpart, Mänland is not supervised, but women are required to return and collect their significant others within 30 minutes. Not to worry — a complimentary buzzer offers a friendly reminder to those who might forget.

[news.com.au / video: vvv.]

August 22, 2011
“ The lemonade stand crackdown illustrates a central law of bureaucracy: Regulation is unthinking and uncaring, allowing for no exceptions. There is no better illustration of this than the words of one public health official responding to a parent interested in having his child run a stand: “What the Lemonade Day organizers should teach the children…is about the importance of learning and obeying the government regulations that prohibit lemonade stands.
Iain Murray, The War on Lemonade (via combattant-de-la-liberte)

(Source: primal-libertarian, via thedailyfiona)

August 18, 2011
Penn Jillette on Charity and Government

conservatarian:

crankyminarchist:

It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we’re compassionate we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

People try to argue that government isn’t really force. You believe that? Try not paying your taxes. (This is only a thought experiment — suggesting on CNN.com that someone not pay his or her taxes is probably a federal offense, and I’m a nut, but I’m not crazy.). When they come to get you for not paying your taxes, try not going to court. Guns will be drawn. Government is force — literally, not figuratively.

I don’t believe the majority always knows what’s best for everyone. The fact that the majority thinks they have a way to get something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don’t want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, I don’t believe you really know jack. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.

THIS. SO. MUCH.

I love Penn.

(Source: laliberty, via thedailyfiona)

July 27, 2011

thedailywhat:

Morning Fluff: I’m with you Jasper. Let’s all grab our blankies and go back to bed.

[sisfti.]

June 29, 2011
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read

conservativebrew:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! 

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation. 

Can you think of a reason for not sharing this? Neither could I……

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“ The politicians don’t just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.
James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union (via combattant-de-la-liberte)

(Source: primal-libertarian, via thedailyfiona)

February 28, 2011
“ Let’s get this straight. We’re going to be ‘gifted’ with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we’ll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke!! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Had Enough Therapy?: The Last Word on Obamacare (via kaching)

Well, there you have it.

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