BEYOND HERE THERE BE MONSTERS:

Economic growth is an enemy of all central planners for the simple reason that growth jumps the guardrails of The Plan; it changes the aesthetically appealing flatline of the steady state and makes it jagged. Growth creates new products, destroys old ones and allows people to behave in ways that render PowerPoint projections dismayingly obsolete. Worse, it takes power from the planners.

In order to herd people back onto the official path, planners must tell them that what exists outside the guardrails is too terrifying to contemplate. "Beyond here there be monsters" is the posted sign at every guardrail.

The dirty little secret is that it's the monsters who created The Plan.

OUR UNION PRESIDENT:

For decades, unions have perpetuated the myth that the interests of Big Labor's bosses and of American workers are identical. A tenuous case for that proposition could be made decades ago when unions represented a third of all private sector workers. But doing so today requires a studied refusal to acknowledge reality when fewer than 7 percent are union members. Nevertheless, President Obama often seems concerned only with serving the interests of the union bosses who are among his most frequent White House guests. It is hardly coincidental that recent economic news has gone from bad to worse.

Read the rest.

ACCORDING TO PLAN: Consumers' electric bills likely to spike as coal plants close. Follow the links.

More here.

THE PERFECT DESCRIPTION of Rep. Anthony Weiner: "he's the ultimate dildo - all prick, no balls."

From the comments to this post.

QUOTES OF THE DAY: more proof (if any is needed) that the lamestream media is, well, really lame.

THE AMERICAN DREAM, 2011: "You pay four bucks a gallon to commute between your McJob and your underwater housing to prop up a spendaholic, grabafeelic, paramilitarized bureaucracy-without-end bankrupting your future at the rate of a fifth of a billion dollars every hour. In a sane world, Americans would be outraged at the government waste that confronts them everywhere ...."

From the comments (p. 3) to this post.

THERE WENT MY ESCAPE: Not even rural America is safe from the Obamanauts.

MOMMA GRIZZLY has journalists for lunch. (There's not enough meat on a journalist for a full meal - if you get my drift.)

NO BOUNDARIES: why ObamaCare must be struck down.

MIKE HUCKABEE on Deborah Wasserman-Schultz: “In these days when there are far too many partisan attack dogs stirring up divisiveness and vitriol, it kind of speaks well for her that she’s that bad at it.”

The ultimate back-handed compliment. Linked from the PJ Tatler.

GUYS: What Your Bag Says About You. Several obscene thoughts come to mind ....

BECAUSE IT'S ALL THEY HAVE? Why men send pictures of their penises.

OBAMACARE wrecks Medicare by design, but why? I would suggest that 'why' is rather obvious.

Here from the wayback machine is a post describing health care practice pre-Nanny-State. It's long - and a bit rambling - but well worth the read. I remember those years well (I had polio in the early 1950's) and medical care was not nearly as bad as the pompous poseur practitioners of nanny-state medicine would have you believe.

Linked from this post.

DEAD BODIES demand organic food moratorium. Satire? Or serious? A bit of both, I would judge.

HYPOCRISY, thy name is Debbie Wasserman-Schultz:

Bailout enthusiast Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) protested that those mean Republicans, left to their own devices, would have let GM and Chrisler fail. The Horror. "We would be driving foreign cars!" she warned. One wonders how much time elapsed between the uttering of those words and the firing of the synapses that reminded the gentlelady from Florida that she does, in fact, drive a foreign car, and a rather swanky one, at that: an Infiniti FX35 ($42,850-$59,000).

I doubt that there were any synapses to fire - she's a Democrat.

Excerpted from the June 20, 2011 issue of National Review magazine.

PLEASE DON'T: Protecting Consumers from Themselves.

No, no 'please'. Stop it! Stop it now. I don't want your 'help'.

PAUL GREENBERG: Custom-Tailored History. "Why let an historical detail or two stand in the way of a rousing campaign speech?"

BELABORING THE OBVIOUS: Study Finds SUV Drivers 50% Less Likely to Die in a Crash Than Those in Cars.

HOW TO LOSE what little respect you may once have had. "There’s protesting an event and exercising your First Amendment right, and then there’s dressing up as zombies and interrupting a Special Olympics event to trumpet your cause."

Just another progressive temper tantrum.

THANKS FOR THE HELP: Ohio restaurant closes one week after Obama mentions it in speech.