“The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else: Hernando De Soto”

Property rights anyone?

They were a good first step. Over 600,000 people is a lot, and many of them, and millions more are as passionate as you VMan.

It’s hard to be patient when the Left is racing towards totalitarianism like kids out the door for recess, but I think it’s important to let that process play out. It’s amazing in a lot of respects.

If it doesn’t work, plan b will be necessary.

Here’s my slogan……”Yes it CAN happen here. But through us, four generations will remember”

It reminds me that it’s about the future for our children and friends, not just about taxes or a dimwit Global Warming debate..

It’s hard to say “I’m proud of America” when it looks like it does now. That, I do agree with.

And yes, I’m ashamed of that perversion.

More than 20 polo horses dead as mystery deepens in Florida
(CNN) — Florida agriculture scientists are performing necropsies Monday on 21 horses that died as they were prepared to compete in a Sunday polo match in Wellington, Florida.
“We’ll be testing blood and tissue to see what the common denominator was here — was it something injected, was it bad water and so forth,” said Terence McElroy, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
The horses were part of the Venezuelan-based Lechuza Caracas team and were being kept at the team’s trailers on the grounds of the International Polo Club Palm Beach. Fifteen horses that seemed disoriented died before Sunday’s match, said McElroy, and their bodies were sent to the state-run Kissimmee Diagnostic Laboratories near Orlando, Florida.
Two horses initially collapsed, and as veterinarians and team officials scrambled to revive them, five others became dizzy, Tim O’Connor, spokesman for the polo club, said Sunday.
Peter Rizzo, executive director of the United States Polo Association, was at the match and saw the horses drop to the ground. “It was surreal,” he said, calling the deaths “unprecedented.”
“It is a horrible tragedy,” he told CNN.
Some of the 15 horses died immediately, but some lingered for about 45 minutes, Dr. Scott Swerdlin of the Palm Beach Equine Clinic said Sunday, according to a report in the Sun-Sentinel newspaper. The clinic is the International Polo Club’s consulting veterinarian group, the newspaper said.
Six of the 21 horses were kept overnight in the same trailer in Wellington, said McElroy, and died sometime between Sunday and Monday. Their bodies have not been taken to the Kissimmee lab.
The U.S. Polo Association, the sport’s governing body, is expected to open an investigation Monday.
Celeste Kunz, chief examining veterinarian at the New York Racing Association and a 19-year veterinarian, said Monday that she suspected a tainted substance was injected into the horses.
“[It was] something that was administered for it to work in a short amount of time and have an animal succumb that quickly,” Kunz said. “My thought is that something was injected because it would have to affect the central nervous system.”
She dismissed the chances that the horses ingested something because it would take longer to metabolize and they would show signs of illness sooner than they did before the match.
Anabolic steroids are not likely to have caused the deaths either, she said.
“It takes at least five days for [anabolic steroids] to really work, and the effects aren’t real obvious at first,” she said. “Most of the time [anabolic steroids] are used to build up their muscularity.”
… The horses were between 10 and 11 years old and were valued at about $100,000 each, club spokesman O’Connor said, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
The owner of the Lechuza Caracas is Victor Vargas, a Venezuelan multimillionaire who started playing polo when he was 24, according to the North American Polo League Web site. Vargas is also president of the Venezuelan Bank Association and director of the Latin American Banks Federation, according to the site…

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/.....index.html

Color me paranoid, and I don’t even want to venture a guess as to which “side” killed these horses.

I think we all feel like that. We’re in your corner.

That’s certainly true, but there is something even more interesting about the phenomenon.

OSoros has made them brazen about their socialist mania.

You might say that they have come out of the basement. The closet leftists now want to grab their “benefits” before all of the other deviants feeding at the government trough use them up.

Most likely they didn’t know someone had written down what all they were supposed to believe and think until now.

This is about the most stupid thing I’ve heard in the last 15 mins…we get so many stupid things competing with it….

It MUST be the lefties buying this book. No self respecting Conservative would lay out their hard earned money out for this stupidity. Let alone want to their money to go to this little dictator.