It looks obvious

Well if we are bailing out bankers and car manufactures why not bail out another company? for example this one, his arguments are not much worse than those who got the money…

If I to choose one single thing from the new administration’s agenda that is the most dangerous to our civil liberties, and most harmful to the American dream, it will not be the fundamentally unchanged strategy in Iraq, nor his economic plans and not even the fact that I am pretty reluctant to believe that Obama will restore the balance in the government and enforce restriction on his own administration. For me the single, most dangerous, agenda item is the fact that this administration will act to institute slave labor.

Obviously nobody will call it that, that why we have newspeak! They will call it National Service and Mandatory Volunteerism (Despite the internal logic failure of such horrible term). But despite their best efforts the propaganda campaign cannot change the meaning of the plan to institute national slave labor.

This is radical change from the basic believe that the just government should protect human rights and in its core is the view that the individual is only free at the mercy of the ruler and is subject to service its master (The noble feudal, the virtual collective or what ever form the government is). It is ironic that the first African American President - a significant milestone in the process of establishing equal rights for everybody - will be the one that will act against the 13th amendment:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

This is so extremely familiar:

And as surprising as it may sound - there are things that I simply have no opinion about, nor do I care to have one.

While the Canadian do not consider Freedom of speech as protected right they ruled that obese have a right to two airline seats for the price of one:

Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.

The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are “functionally disabled by obesity” deserve to have two seats for one fare.

I always preferred to identify right as something that one has naturally and can be artificially abused: life, thinking (and as a results speech) or the fruits of one labor. Restrictions on one’s rights are sometimes justified but this does not change the nature of that right. While the canadian approach establish one’s rights on the expense of someone else - the “right” for two seats for the price of one would cost other passenger to pay more for no real reason.

(h/t Free Advice)

While waiting to to the connection flight in NC on the way back from london I found out that my blog vanished. It wasn’t because I did anything but rather some mess during the renewal of the domain. So I hope that now everything is in order and the RSS feeds works properly.

Visit in the UK for the first time is, obviously, a source for many ideas and impressions. One of them is about the lack of elitist education in the US, the kind I was exposed to in one of Oxford colleges visiting my wife old friend who is a professor in this college (And by the way how amazing are the professors offices are their, and how wonderful is the smoking room ).

It was a long flight back, with an unfortunate extra night delay in NC due to extreme weather conditions in NYC, and I have to fight to keep my eyes open. Two things before I end this post: If you are in London go see the following theater shows: Ivanov - which is a wonderful play and wonderfully performed, and the Tragedy of thomas hobbes - which is lack focus but yet worth watching. I took few pictures during this vacation and will publish some of them on the other blog as I process them, I already posted few and you are welcome to check them out.