Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • FOR NOTHING : LAZY GOVERNMENT WORKERS If we are to have any bank labor, and fede

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/18/for-federal-employees-office-often-closed-25-of-fi/#.UwTeBTn0uUY.facebookMONEY FOR NOTHING : LAZY GOVERNMENT WORKERS

    If we are to have any bank labor, and federal workers at all, they must remain open for business as any other service provider: From 8:00 AM to 10PM. How about that for a constitutional amendment?

    I’d also like to get an amendment that prohibits collective bargaining (unions) for government workers, as well as fixed benefit programs.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-19 11:40:00 UTC

  • THE POOR QUALITY OF POLITICIANS One thing that I hear pretty consistently, is th

    THE POOR QUALITY OF POLITICIANS

    One thing that I hear pretty consistently, is that the people in charge of the different political factions, and in fact, everyone in politics here, “Isn’t very good” or “isn’t very smart”. And you really do get that impression.

    I don’t know where the smart people are, or if they left, but you know, I always have this impression that the IQ distribution here is narrower (not sure where to get the data to prove that). I know that IQ is a bit lower (around 96) but again, I’ll bet that if I got my hands on the data, it’s a distribution issue. IQ rapidly degenerates south and east of Ukraine. Anything that the Turks touched was seriously impacted.

    But all that nonsense aside, you don’t seem to find smart people in government. And it’s not an anti-intellectual culture. Just the opposite. But the politicians really just remind you of gangsters and thugs.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 14:56:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE UPDATE: POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS “NO AMNESTY” (lots of booming and banging

    UKRAINE UPDATE: POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS “NO AMNESTY”

    (lots of booming and banging going on)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 14:49:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE UPDATE : 4 DEAD, 100 INJURED They have shut down the subways now

    UKRAINE UPDATE : 4 DEAD, 100 INJURED

    They have shut down the subways now.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 09:29:00 UTC

  • UPDATE: VIOLENCE RENEWS The guys just are spreading the news that the protesters

    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/renewed-violence-breaks-out-today-near-ukraines-parliament-at-least-one-injured-336993.htmlUKRAINE UPDATE: VIOLENCE RENEWS

    The guys just are spreading the news that the protesters are trying to take over one of the government buildings. This comes after they surrendered city hall yesterday in exchange for release of political prisoners and ‘amnesty’.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 07:40:00 UTC

  • IN UKRAINE – WHERE AMERICA IS HEADED (watch)

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=108_1392492062LIFE IN UKRAINE – WHERE AMERICA IS HEADED

    (watch)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-16 15:32:00 UTC

  • UPDATE: GREAT ARTICLE ON RUSSIAN INTERESTS AND SOLUTIONS Russians playing the gr

    http://news.kievukraine.info/2014/02/russias-save-ukraine-memorandum-prevent.htmlUKRAINE UPDATE: GREAT ARTICLE ON RUSSIAN INTERESTS AND SOLUTIONS

    Russians playing the great game, and doing it in public – the western way.

    Very interesting.

    Russian is a pragmatic language and Russians have pragmatic culture. It’s not really idealistic at all. Maybe the opposite. But as a low trust society it’s been difficult for them to move political discourse into the public sphere.

    Westerners of course work by a different ethic: get conflicts out in public so that we can resolve them. And over the past decade you consistently see the Russians moving toward the western model.

    The article below lists in honest terms both why Russia cannot tolerate a european Ukraine, and, how to solve it as a collective crisis that positions Russia as the rational actor against, what the rest of the world (rightly) sees as irrational western immoral political behavior.

    Now, what I would like to see from the western side, is focusing on using Russia to collapse corruption in Ukraine, and to use Ukraine as a model by which to test how to restructure Russia.

    Because these people stilly act like Boyars and Oligarchs: oppressive parasites..

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-15 17:08:00 UTC

  • UPDATE: REMAINING PROTESTERS RELEASED

    http://news.kievukraine.info/2014/02/ukraine-frees-all-protesters-detained.htmlUKRAINE UPDATE: REMAINING PROTESTERS RELEASED

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-15 16:43:00 UTC

  • Voting Morally, Even If Against Your Economic Interest, Is Voting Rationally

    (minor criticism of the myth of the rational voter) [P]eople do vote rationally. Its rational to vote morally even at high personal cost. I dont have time to refute the part Kaplan got wrong. But it should be obvious that he got it wrong. [callout]The failure of economic thought is currently one of insufficient tribalism and insufficient nationalism.[/callout] The failure of economic thought is currently one of insufficient tribalism and insufficient nationalism. Any group that votes immorally will be exterminated by groups that vote morally. That is why the anglo world is dying: its immoral (reproductively destructive).

  • Voting Morally, Even If Against Your Economic Interest, Is Voting Rationally

    (minor criticism of the myth of the rational voter) [P]eople do vote rationally. Its rational to vote morally even at high personal cost. I dont have time to refute the part Kaplan got wrong. But it should be obvious that he got it wrong. [callout]The failure of economic thought is currently one of insufficient tribalism and insufficient nationalism.[/callout] The failure of economic thought is currently one of insufficient tribalism and insufficient nationalism. Any group that votes immorally will be exterminated by groups that vote morally. That is why the anglo world is dying: its immoral (reproductively destructive).