Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Gov Official Warns Cook County Retirees Of Local Debt
In May, 2012, the collective debt reported by the local primary taxing agencies in Cook County was more than $140 billion! To put that in context, the total debt-per-household in the City of Chicago was $87,720, and $35,774 in the suburbs. Since local governments cannot print money, they rely on property taxes as their main…
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GM Exit Strategy: Taxpayers Eat Billions
The Obama administration said Wednesday it will sell 200 million shares — or 40 percent of its remaining stake in General Motors Co. — back to the automaker and announced plans to completely exit the Detroit automaker by March 2014. The Detroit automaker said it will purchase 200 million shares of GM stock held by…
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U.S., Iran, Syria, Libya & the Petrodollar
There’s been a lot of conflict in the Middle East. And most of it has to do with the petrodollar. Take Iran, for example. The country is undergoing a bout of hyperinflation. This came about because of the pressing sanctions the West placed on Iran. But it’s not the only way America is trying to…
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Pearl High School Shooting: Oct. 1, 1997
I am not insane, I am angry. I am a cross dresser. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society, push us and we will push back. … All throughout my life, I was ridiculed, always beaten, always hated. Can you, society, truly blame me for what…
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Newton CT – Day 3
I wrote something short on the Facebook page of an old friend who called for more “gun control.” He wrote back. I wrote this response. I actually live on the “West Side” near [omitted.] My first comment on the Newton matter was to wonder why the events in Newton & Aurora get big news…
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On Newton CT
I wrote this as a comment on the Chicago Tribune story: While our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Newton CT the sad reality is that 18 children and 6 adults killed is what we in Chicago call the “Second and Third Week in July” every year. Where is our national media…
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CPD Cop Shoots Puppy; His Buddies Intimade Witnesses
While FOX 32’s Larry Yellen was interviewing the dog’s owners, two police officers drove by the home. 90 minutes later, they came back, asked why Phillips why he had contacted the media and gave him a ticket for not keeping Colonel [the puppy] on a leash. via FOX 32 News. So on the same day…
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Cook County Losing Income/People
A wonderful graphic created by Crains. Crains Chicago Business.
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Iraqi Refugee Bombs AZ Social Security Office
On Friday morning, an Iraqi refugee used an improvised explosive device IED to bomb a Social Security office in Casa Grande AZ — the mainstream media remains silent. via Brietbart. Interesting.
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Senate Rejects United Nations Treaty, Will Do So Again
A United Nations treaty to ban discrimination against people with disabilities went down to defeat in the Senate on Tuesday in a 61-38 vote. The treaty backed by President Obama and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas) fell 5 votes short of the two-thirds needed for confirmation as dozens of Senate Republicans objected that…
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