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. [ . . . ]

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