‘Financial Times Outlines Problems with Piketty’s Inequality Data
Thomas Piketty’s  “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” has been widely praised by the left for its conclusion that capitalism is driving wealth inequality to levels not seen in over 100 years.
Financial Times did some checking on the underlying data which French economist Thomas Piketty used to under-gird his bestselling book. What FT found was a series of errors and unexplained data selections which, taken together, seem to undercut Piketty’s main thesis….’

Wait for the usual “fake but true” defence from leftards….5..4…3…2…

 ‘Possibly the world’s most valuable Ford offered for sale’

‘AUSTRALIA’S can-do ­national character is under threat from an emerging culture of grumbling and expectation.
Social demographers say they are watching a “culture of expectation” bloom – drowning out the values of mainstream Australians – even though the population is healthier and wealthier than ever before.
…On average, Australian families will pay $12,935 in income tax this year, but receive $9,515 in benefits – leaving a net yearly contribution to the public purse of just $3424.
..Demographer Mark McCrindle said the change in culture was most prominent in Gen Y – the most financially endowed generation in the nation’s history.
“Their parents have been the most financially generous to their children,” Mr McCrindle said.
“Yet many of the younger generation expect to start their working life in the manner in which they have seen their parents finish their working life.”..’

The Cartoon says it all, the facts spell out the rage-

We in America could try and pin all the scandal on just the Obama administration, but in all fairness ALL of our recent administrations have failed our veterans miserably, the current one is simply the latest and the worst.What we have is a tragedy, it is a failing on even the most basic level to fulfill the promises we made to our greatest .

We have inherited a bureaucracy that is so complex, so convoluted in its function that we have become complacent in trusting it to run on autopilot preferring to believe that the machine was functioning as it should. The truth of the matter is that it wasn’t and hasn’t been for a long time.

We should have seen the signs, the toxic mold scandal at Walter Reed hospital.The way Tombstones were thrown in a pile like discarded cobbles at Arlington National Cemetery.The way money was misappropriated to pay for junkets in motels for management staff meetings.The Veterans committing suicide at home because of untreated illness or traumatic experiences they couldn’t forget.We continued though in the false belief that the machine would fix everything given time.We were wrong and we are all guilty, the sin of complacency stains us all.

We owe our Veterans a massive debt, some say it’s a debt we can never repay.I disagree, we can repay them for their service and making healthcare work for them is the down payment.The best way to fix this mess is not to fix it, the machine is simply beyond any hope of repair.What is needed is a complete tear down and rebuild from the ground up.Nothing short of total replacement will do,the job is just too critical. It was said once that trying to change government is like trying to steer an oil tanker with a canoe paddle meaning it is nearly impossible. What we need then are a lot more paddles.

I would ask everyone reading this to please pass this on.If you’re a fellow citizen then call and e-mail your local Senator or Congressman daily, be relentless, chase them to the gates of Hell until they move to action or quit their office.If you can remember to make your morning coffee you can remember to write your morning e-mail and click send.

Even if you are not a US citizen I would ask you still, please help us hound these people into submission, many of you might be speaking a different language or would still be behind the Iron Curtain if these men had not made the sacrifices they did for the cause of human freedom.I would ask all of you to use the power in front of you to help us fight for them and effect change.If we don’t fight for them now, who will fight for us in the future? Taking care of our Veterans is a contract written in blood, their blood and if we forget that we do so at our own peril.

Sincerely, Son of a US Veteran.

‘Kids’ book a 9/11 shocker’

Mark Steyn:  Nigel vs the Lunatic Mainstream
‘…The British media spent 20 years laughing at UKIP. But they’re not laughing now — not when one in four electors takes them seriously enough to vote for them. So, having dismissed him as a joke, Fleet Street now warns that Farage uses his famous sense of humor as a sly cover for his dark totalitarian agenda — the same well-trod path to power used by other famous quipsters and gag-merchants such as Adolf Hitler, whose Nuremberg open-mike nights were legendary. “Nigel Farage is easy to laugh at . . . that means he’s dangerous,” declared the Independent. The Mirror warned of an “unfulfilled capacity for evil.” “Stop laughing,” ordered Jemma Wayne in the British edition of the Huffington Post. “Farage would lead us back to the dark ages.” The more the “mainstream” shriek about how mad, bad, and dangerous UKIP is, the more they sound like the ones who’ve come unhinged…’

‘EXCLUSIVE: UK Government Hands Almost £500,000 to Anti-UKIP Campaign Group’           Breitbart

‘California university, students revolt against failing cafe named for Che Guevara’
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‘FBI: More People Killed with Fists and Hammers Than with Rifles and Shotguns
….Taken together, the rate of murder by fists and hammers was nearly 100 percent higher than the rate of murder by rifles or shotguns.’

‘WASHINGTON –  Local officials in New Mexico warn a move by the Obama administration to designate nearly a half-million acres as a national monument could open up a crime corridor making it easier for illegal immigrants to cross the border and for drug cartels to operate undetected…’