The Finger Biting Has Commenced

Not content with nail biting (their own) over the prospects of health care reform Democrat operatives have begun finger biting (other's). It seems particular unfair to me - this finger tax. Couldn't they just have asked for the shirt off his back? Or a twenty year lease on his first born?

Well actually no one knows if the mysterious stranger with a hunger for human fingers was a Democrat operative. He may have been a moveon.org operative. No one is sure (right now). But the incident is regretted by those who fear the negative publicity.

Ilyse Hogue, the director of political advocacy and communications for the left leaning MoveOn.org, called the incident a “regrettable act of violence.”

“While we don’t know if either party involved was a MoveOn member, we regret any violence that may have occurred yesterday, and we support the Ventura County Sheriff’s investigation into the situation. It is our firm hope that this event does not detract from the tens of thousands who were out peacefully making their voices heard for health care reform and a public option.”

As far as I know there is no word yet if it detracts from the tens of thousands who were out peacefully making their voices heard AGAINST health care reform and AGAINST a public option.

No matter what, there is usually a book by someone that can shed light on these matters:

A History of Cannibalism: From Ancient Cultures to Survival Stories And Modern Psychopaths

I think it is especially important for the socialists of various stripes to pay attention to the Psychopaths. They seem to attract an inordinate share of them. Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini.

Although Hayek in The Road to Serfdom says that Socialists always have trouble matching resources to consumers and must inevitably resort to population trimming to bring supply and demand in balance. It is not a bug, it is a feature.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

Billionaires for Kerry

There was a secret meeting of the billionaires for Kerry club in Aspen.

It was supposed to be a secret.

In the days following the Democratic National Convention in Boston this past August, several billionaire Democratic activists secretly met at the famed Aspen Institute in Colorado.

The purpose of their clandestine meeting was "to use their fortunes to engineer the defeat of President George W. Bush," The New Yorker magazine reports in its most recent edition.

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When The New Yorker inquired about the meeting, an assistant to one of the attendees was surprised by the call.

"No one was supposed to know about this," the aide told the magazine. "We don’t want people thinking it’s a cabal or some sort of Masonic plot!"

Apparently the leader of the secret cabal is billionaire Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Cleveland, Ohio-based insurance company Progressive Corporation.

Like another attendee, wealthy financier George Soros, Lewis has poured millions into Democratic 527 groups, including Americans Coming Together and MoveOn.org.