Let Hawaii starve! Wait, what? We already are?

Via Reason TV, Hawaii's competitive disadvantage explained.  If you thought the reason Hawaii is an expensive state to live in is the problem of isolation you're right - but probably not in the way you expect.

Here's the way forward - step one

Image via varight.com

With a downgrade of the nation's credit rating, the reverberations are being felt around the world.  Israel's stock market nosedived, China is saying the world will abandon the dollar, and all eyes are turning to the Asian markets for Monday morning to see how bad the bleeding is going to be.  Standard and Poors says there's a 1 in 3 chance another downgrade will occur in the next 2 years from AA+ to AA.  In light of that frenzied panic, and/or coming panic for some, certain things are going to have to happen at this potential inflection point in American history.

Dictator Watch - Mar 1, 2009

A special Putin-only edition.

Protectionism and disdain for fly-nowhere-near country. In Russia it's followed by Special Forces dispatched to quell the demonstrations. Hopefully Obama doesn't pick up on that last point the way he's picked up on other Soviet-style ideas.