LONG WINDED LIBERTARIAN?
🙂 I prefer the term ‘verbose’ myself. lol (A necessary consequence of analytical philosophy unfortunately.)
I’ll comment when and if Nigel approves my friend request?
You’re awesome.
Curt
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-26 16:49:00 UTC
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/us-usa-housing-rebound-idUSBRE83N0SK20120424″NO HOUSING REBOUND IN OUR LIFETIMES”
[rational argument off]
See? I said no ‘perceptible’ end to the recession through 2014, and then we run into the next major cycle shortly thereafter, with something major by 2020. That’s just obvious from the demographics, the movement patterns, the concentration of groups exiting the middle, the effect all of it has on generational cycles, and the distribution of ‘useful’ knowledge in the population. Sure, the low point is well behind us, but houses are still cheap outside of the destination cities. And baring some great policy madness, they’re going to stay that way.
(And yes, I’m still sensitive about enduring Steven Salta’s ridicule over writing catastrophe manifestos from a cabin in the woods. 🙂 Oh. I still owe him 100 bucks on that bet on Iran though. I gotta pay up on that one. 🙂 )
{/rational argument on]
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-24 21:28:00 UTC
http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/28161.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TaxPolicyBlog+%28Tax+Foundation+-+Tax+Foundation%27s+%22Tax+Policy+Blog%22%29I DON’T BUY THE 70% TAX MAXIMUM EITHER. I JUST DON’T.
William McBride At The Tax Foundation Questions The Argument. (With graphs)
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-24 21:10:00 UTC
http://times247.com/articles/pew-republicans-better-informed-more-empatheticHOW MUCH TROUBLE CAN I GET INTO WITH THIS POSTING? 🙂 (I BET IT’S A LOT.)
If Republicans skew male, and Democrats skew female, and men accumulate more economic and political knowledge than women, and women have fewer and less diverse friends than men, then isn’t the fact that Republicans are better informed and more open minded than Democrats simply an artifact of the distribution of men and women between the parties?
The classical liberal system was designed to create separate houses for different classes of males. It has not survived the addition of females to the electorate. We should not have eliminated the class division of houses, we should have added to it. Then we could compromise rather than conduct ideological warfare, class warfare, and gender warfare.
And the results of these polls would be obvious.
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-23 10:07:00 UTC
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/22/olbermann-almost-deliberate-gas-price-hikes-are-to-hurt-obama/Um. Obama doesn’t need help hurting himself. He does fine on his own.
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-23 04:16:00 UTC
AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, IRAN
I am perfectly fine with wandering around the world and punishing people and governments for not controlling the actions of their citizens. If you make the mistake of establishing a state, you by definition are responsible for your people’s actions.
But you can’t teach the illiterate superstitious tribal inbreeding peasantry to adopt democratic government. It’s antithetical to them. Might as well try to train apes to play chess. And it’s just as likely to succeed.
But as other have said, it certainly feeds the military contractors, even if the soldiers don’t think it’s something that they should be doing. The purpose of soldiers is to kill people and blow stuff up.
Manufacturing civilization can’t be outsourced to a foreign contractor. It’s a purely domestic production process. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-21 13:12:00 UTC
BODRUM
I wish the conference hadn’t been moved to the fall. I need a fix.
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-19 21:00:00 UTC
http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/04/19/from-interfluidity-depression-is-a-choice-yes-its-a-lower-cost-for-freedom-than-the-alternatives/The Conservative Strategy Is Consistent. It’s not a psychological thing. It’s a strategy. And its working.
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-19 12:07:00 UTC
http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/04/18/this-america-uk-issue-over-argentina-in-strategic-context/USING THE ARGENTINiAN GAFFE AS A WAY OF ILLUSTRATING WHY THE USA WILL GO TO WAR WITH IRAN
(READ THIS: This is one of the better geopolitical things I’ve written lately, so if you want to learn something about the grand strategy behind US policy then this might be worth your time. At the very least you’ll have something insightful to say at the next dinner party.)
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-19 09:54:00 UTC
Why Isn’t Obama Supporting Britain On Argentina? – My Telegraph http://soc.li/Ov8SDDD
Source date (UTC): 2012-04-19 02:05:40 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/192796075017510913