Our Glo­ri­ous Amer­i­can Sys­tem of Wel­fare and Enti­tle­ment has been, in no small part and despite Bill Clinton’s inef­fec­tual efforts to the con­trary, instru­men­tal in increas­ing the size of the Welfare-​​​​dependent pop­u­la­tion of this coun­try. If you’re poor, one of the fastest ways to get money with­out hav­ing to do any [Ed: well, much] work is to have a baby. Hav­ing more kids means you get more money from TANF, more food stamps from WIC, more tax cred­its, more free ser­vices. Now, Demo­c­ra­tic Pres­i­den­tial hope­ful Hillary R. Clin­ton wants to give every baby born in Amer­ica an auto­matic five grand. The [ . . . ]

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The Road­run­ner decided it was afraid of a lit­tle (really, quite minor) thun­der­storm and quit on me for sev­eral hours. Which is to say, the Inter­nets were on hia­tus and I didn’t notice ’cause the TV didn’t go out. Very con­fus­ing. Cable sucks. See my post, The Road to Ruin. Ended up that the Word­Press couldn’t save all of my big huge long sub­stan­tive post I had planned for you this evening, and I lost a big chunk of it. I’ve re-​​​​written most of it, but it’s only about three quar­ters fin­ished and I have to go to bed. I’ll fin­ish it up tomor­row. In the [ . . . ]

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We have cov­er­age on the YouTube. Here they are. I just have to watch them now...

I’m wait­ing for the video to turn up on the YouTube. In the mean­while, here are some choice quotes: We don’t have homo­sex­u­als. I don’t know who told you we had it. I would have laughed long and heartily on read­ing that one, but for the fact that it’s true. Iran doesn’t have any homo­sex­u­als. They only have dead teenagers. [NB: Graphic link.] We oppose the way the U.S. gov­ern­ment tries to man­age the world. . . . We pro­pose more humane meth­ods of estab­lish­ing peace. Indeed? You know, the Nazis were well on their way to estab­lish­ing “peace” by “humane” meth­ods. They [ . . . ]

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