@ WillyTruth
I was waiting for this. thats how incredibly awesome inside baseball it is. I know you guys were too, as soon as you heard about all the broken windows. hahaha
^^Haha, awesome. Prosperity, ho!
Now it makes sense. I saw some conspiracy theories that it wasn’t a meteor, that it was planned. Clearly, it was a plan to break a lot of windows and improve Russia’s economy!
Interesting lecture on savings (although it would more accurately be called ‘time preference’) and its relation to language:
Lee Doren interviews Barack Obama (seriously)
Whoa.
Clayton -
Since this “sequestration” business that the Federal Gov’t is totally taking super duper seriously, what’s the best resource (video/article) to show a sophisticated layman that the economy will not be destroyed by the elimination of some gov’t jobs on the grounds that gov’t jobs are anti-productive?
The media is going to start bearing down hard on this idea, I’ve already seen alarmist headlines asking “Will the sequestration knock the US to a 2nd rate power” and this excerpt from Politico: “While most of Washington agrees the consequences of the sequester could be disastrous — economists have said it could cause another recession and military leaders have said it would harm national security”
EPIC.
“Oh my gawwwwwd.”
Ugh. How can you get through these kinds of videos?
… Lulz?
MSM trying to launch an anti-Rome orgy. I have written critically of Rome and I remain critical of Rome, but not because it is a religion, nor because it “keeps secrets” - a privilege that any private organization has and ought to have. Rather, my criticisms of Rome are theological, philosophical and - to the extent that Rome mires its hands with political entanglements, openly or secretly - political. The Vatican has every right to keep its mouth shut on whatever it chooses to. It has every right to talk to whoever it chooses to talk to. The assault on this aspect of the Vatican is nothing but a continuation of the long assault of the political establishment on the Roman church insofar as it is a beacon of traditional values that impede the onward, upward march to ever greater State tryanny. Privacy - secrecy - is the foundation-stone of private property. Even if you are an atheist or non-religious, you should not welcome this assault against Rome by a bunch of tyrants seeking to expand the modern Leviathan’s already Orwellian peeping powers to every nook and cranny of life.
Clayton -
Today in my history class, we split up into 3 groups of senators and debated the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles. I was in the group that wanted to reject it all together. The other two groups were the ones who wanted to accept it as is, and the ones who wanted to accept it with some changes. I didn’t speak up,since I’m horrible at public speaking, but as I was listening, three Bastiat quotes kept coming to mind:
“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don’t you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
“Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, and their chains, and their hooks, and their pincers! Away with their artificial methods! Away with their social laboratories, their governmental whims, their centralization, their tariffs, their universities, their State religions, their inflationary or monopolizing banks, their limitations, their restrictions, their moralizations, and their equalization by taxation! And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun — reject all systems, and try of liberty.”
I must say,it was an interesting discussion. Lots of stuff about preventing war,etc. Wilson,naturally,is regarded as a hero,a peacelover,etc. We’ve also been discussing imperialism this week, from what I can tell my teacher holds the Leninist theory to be the correct one.
Anyways,I thought that it was interesting,but not interesting enough to warrant a new thread.
Biden: No Ordinary American Is Concerned About Their Constitutional Rights, Facebook Questions are Plants
Such a tool.
Clayton -
No, he is a plant.
Niceee…
