Monday, December 19, 2005

Snippets:
Mises has this:

Durable peace is only possible under perfect capitalism, hitherto never and nowhere completely tried or achieved. In such a Jeffersonian world of unhampered market economy the scope of government activities is limited to the protection of the lives, health, and property of individuals against violence or fraudulent aggression. . . .

All the oratory of the advocates of government omnipotence cannot annul the fact that there is but one system that makes for durable peace: A free market economy. Government control leads to economic nationalism and thus results in conflict.

Yisrael Aumann takes the 2005 Nobel prize for economics.

Arial Sharon has a stroke.

"I've already been at the front (of Israeli politics) for the past 60 years and I definitely plan to continue my job,"

Kangaroo tail soup.

Ingredients:
1 Kangaroo tail
2 pounds Beef
3 Carrots
3 Onions
1 bunch herbs
Pepper and salt
Butter

The Boston Herald has this:

‘Bill and Melinda Gates, Bono named Time’s Persons of the Year’

The Gateses give much to charity, Bono is a bloody dodo (of the third kind).

Time praised the Gateses for building the world’s largest charity - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has a $29 billion endowment - and for “giving more money away faster than anyone ever has” in 2005.

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