Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 12, 2008	Military Bloggers
Via the 50 most busiest blogposts , I stumbled upon The Army of Dude , a U.S. Mil-blogger who was based in Iraq, who also happens to be a good writer .  For us mere mortals who don't really know what it's like to run around legitimately shooting people, while some other bastard is trying...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 11, 2008	Mod Goviyas
Picture of the day, comes from The Colombo Post: Sri Lankan Government ministers, trying their hand at farming. Subsequently, one of them got bombed, but survived . Lots of antics, for the rural vote.  ... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 11, 2008	Silly statements
Two silly statements I read today,   "Government will not sell any state owned property under any circumstances" : President  " No state institution will be privatized" : Minister . Let's forget that 2. for the moment. Why do  His Excellency thinks the govt. should not sell any...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 10, 2008	Where your taxes go (where they actually think it will go edition)
This is how the government intends on spending your taxes. At least partly how it will be spent. We can't afford the whole thing so the rest will be financed by debt and aid (yes, yes, eventually paid by you).  The largest expenditure is for defence, the largest ever allocation of Rs. 177...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 9, 2008	The atlas of the real world
is very interesting . It resizes the world map according to different criteria. Sri Lanka is really big in a few things: First, number of book published (per million). This was a genuine surprise. And the annual rate of forest depletion : And not so surprisingly, we do "well" in...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 8, 2008	The Stupid Atheist
Dinidu de Alwis thinks those who practice religion are stupid .  He mentions my name repetitively in his pos t, so I’m compelled to write something. My biggest beef with this ‘argument’ is not so much its conclusion – the assertion that religious people are stupid, which after all is...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 5, 2008	Help Map Sri Lanka
Today, I find this extremely useful Google Map Maker . The application basically allows you to map things you know (businesses, cafes, towns and yes, islands) on Google Maps. So go ahead help, map your town, your neighborhood and help put Sri Lanka on the Google Map. Here is a short tutorial...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 5, 2008	Mises vs. Marx (Hax0r edition)
I saw this in the Mises Institute Blog today: Background : In the 1920s, way before the collapse of Socialism and central planning, Ludwig von Mises (and later his student F.A. Hayek) argued that socialism was unworkable , because the socialist system couldn't 'calculate' . There was...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 4, 2008	Who Would the World elect?
When whowouldtheworldelect.com ran the polls, Ron Paul came on top. Now, it's the economist's turn . So far McCain has a clear lead in Macedonia. Sri Lanka has 30 electoral-college votes and Obama's thrashing McCain 69%-31% right now. Bob Barr is not included. Obama is also taking the entire...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 4, 2008	We need the Rs.200 note
The Rs.200 note. Whatever happened to it? ( Pic by PVGM ) Seen any 50 cents recently? (coins, not the rapper) I haven't either. They probably don't mint it anymore. If they did, that would be a subsidy for the guys who mint coins because the metal required to mint the coin would cost...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 3, 2008	WTF statement of the day
Comes from the JHU. According to a  Daily News report, The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) has called for the appointment of an independent commission to probe the activities of INGOs involved in relief work in uncleared areas in the North. Such a commission should comprise a team of...... [view]