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In comparing the auto mechanic industry with organ treatment centers which perform very few transplants each year (less than a dozen), one specialist noted:
“I wouldn’t take my car to be serviced by someone who repaired nine cars over the past three years. Would anyone do that?”
Yet, the organ industry is not the only market that is socialized and therefore suffers from economic shortages. As Russell Roberts points out, so too is the market for vaccines.
Per usual, South Park did their best at bashing everyone, including the Hardy Boys, in tonight’s new episode: Mystery of the Urinal Deuce.
They took on the 9/11 conspiracy that suggests that the government planned and executed, in perfect detail, the most elaborate terrorist attack ever. Ever. [As quoted in the show]
And as Vanity Fair recently publicized: NORAD was not only ineffective at responding to the crisis while it was developing, but that the fighter jets who were scrambled, did not know where the White House was in order to protect it (let alone shoot down passenger planes as suggested by conspiracies).
Here are some choice quotes from recently released transcripts of that debacle (note, Major Nasypany was the mission-crew commander at the regional NORAD headquarters):
Nasypany: “Goddammit! I can’t even protect my N.C.A. [National Capital Area].�
[A] dramatic chase towards the White House continues. Two more problems emerge: the controllers can’t find the White House on their dated equipment, and they have trouble communicating with the Langley fighters.
CITINO: 15 miles. One-five … noise level please … It’s got to be low. Quit 2-6, when able say altitude of the aircraft.… Did we get a Z-track [coordinates] up for the White House?
HUCKABONE: They’re workin’ on it.
CITINO: Okay. Hey, what’s this Bravo 0-0-5 [unidentified target]?
FOX: We’re trying to get the Z-point. We’re trying to find it.
HUCKABONE: I don’t even know where the White House is.
Perhaps to the chagrin of conspiracy theorists everywhere, the military is inept at executing a known plan, let alone devising a new plan altogether.
After all, a military is “pure” socialism in action, and the organization therefore suffers all the same ailments that every centrally planned and managed organizations suffer from: poor communication and planning (among many others).
Hot on the heels of the neat animation of the historical Middle East throughout the ages, comes an overview from BBC of mankind using the coasts to spread and multiply.
While that is certainly not earth shattering, I thought it would be a germane time to mention how the Nile river used to be fed. In part, by glaciers in Africa.
For instance, two of the main tributaries that feed into the Nile today are the Blue and White Nile, which are fed by Lake Tana and Lake Victoria respectively.
Near good ol’ Mount Kilimanjaro lie two big ice caps: Furtwängler and Rebmann. In the past, their annual thawing contributed to the waters found in the various lakes and rivers that eventually fed into Lake Victoria. However, due to thousands of years of climatic change (starting from the last Ice Age), they no longer carry that large volume of water.
In fact, even if all the ice fields melted, the water level of the Nile would remain about the same due to the fact that the majority of the water now comes from elsewhere (namely the rainforest and other areas of relatively low elevation).
