I couldn't resist

Adding a few more links today. Courtesy of Lee at Right Thinking, we have a link to Tim Blair regarding a Human Shield who's adopting a baby. Why is this so interesting? Let me give you a quote.

They think she was born without limbs somewhere in the south of Iraq, a frequent occurrence where Saddam Hussein's long-term use of chemical and biological weapons against the mainly-Shiites has left many children limbless and malformed.

You get that? Because the rest of the article is the same Blame-America bullshit that we've come to expect from the press, such as "The US military doesn't seem to value Iraqi lives and not least the lives of disabled Iraqi orphans. What chance do they have?”. But hidden in the middle of it all is that particular gem. Keep that close, folks. Because as soon as the editor who let that slip into the news is found, it's not going to happen again. Remember: Saddam using chemical weapons on Shiites and causing horrible deformaties in children? A-OK, according to the Left. Removing Saddam? Baaaaaaaaad. With the mental twists these people have to make in order to justify their position, I'm surprised they can utter two sentances in a row without screaming some slogan or another.

Next up, the Libertarian Samizdata, who leads us to a site called DownsizeDC.org. It's an interesting site, but what caught my eye was this piece on the .Ponzi scheme known as Social Security.

Now, I don't know the ages of everyone on this blog, but I'm willing to bet that none of us are reaching retirement age just yet. In my case, I'll be willing to bet that Social Security will not be around by the time I get to retire. This is just one massive scheme to take our money, folks. There is no Social Security lockbox, and there never was. The SS payments are taken out of last years tax payments. There's no reserve left, benifits are decreasing, retirement age is going up, and most of the Baby Boomer generation hasn't even started drawing on it yet. The whole thing is going to collapse, and the only way to make it work is to either take more of our money, or decrease the payments going out. In short, it's shot.

And do you know who I feel sorry for? Those people who actually believed the government when it said "Don't worry! We'll take care of you!" They're stuck between a rock and a hard place, with nowhere to go. When I was growing up, we had a few older neighbors living out our way who sold their property (Around 150 acres or so) that their grandparents had farmsteaded in the late 1800's. Do you know why they sold it?

Because their Social Security payments couldn't cover the cost of property taxes.

Did I mention that I loath the whole SS racket?