New member of the community - hello! glad to be here.

[John_James]

@The Texas Trigger

Haha, no. I should clarify: I have posted on a lot of forums that work just like this one so I am familiar with all of the functions. However, I am a little uncertain as to why there are two text boxes to respond in. What does each one do. I understand that to quote I highlight the words then hit quote and the text appears in the second box. Is that all it’s for? If so, its kind of inconvenient because I have to copy and paste it in the top box and when I want to quote something else I have to do it again by scrolling up, find it, highlight it, scroll down, hit quote, scroll to second box, highlight, copy, paste above, rinse, repeat. What am I missing?

I’m not sure you are missing anything. That’s probably the least confusing thing about this forum. That’s why I made the newbie thread. You might at least just take a look at it.

Please let me know if there is a way other than Mises’ publishing it officially, since that seems a bit up in the air.

Scribd.com?

my recording studio got ransacked. My studio is kind of out in the boonies because It was originally this old 1920’s school house that I turned into a place for musicians to get out of the city and into the woods as kind of an artist’s retreat that also doubles as a bed and breakfast. So they pay me for recording time as well as a place to stay, eat, and write. However, sometimes there are no artists booked to stay at the house. They are just local musicians looking to record. To cut costs, I don’t keep a full time cook and maid staff there because they would be just sitting around doing nothing. This means there is no one there to look out for the place. Long story-short I had the whole studio robbed. They ran through the barbed wire gate with a huge truck and trailer and cut the locks to the main doors. My alarm went off and the police showed up, but because it is so far out there, it took them over an hour to respond (it is a de facto dry county so of course they have to spend lots of time trying to catch these evil drinkers who get drunk in the county over then come back). By the time they arrived, all of the robbers were gone along with about 100G’s of recording gear, not to mention some irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind instruments my partner had restored. Gotta love that tax-funded protection provided by our friendly local government, huh?

Um. Holy shit. Please tell me you had insurance.

And I would love to go sing karaoke with murphy. I know all the best places t do it in nashville, of course he probably does also. As for his email address, I dont remember which one I used. It was on one of his websites/blogs. It’s been awhile. I’ll have to try it again.

Maybe just try the contact form on his blog (and of course save a copy of your message for yourself).

I did do debate all through high school and college. I was even pretty good at it. I guess I am more talking about casual day to day unplanned debate you have with peers, co-workers, etc… Even in formal debate, like the Lincoln-Douglas style, you know pretty specifically what the topic is, like say healthcare reform. Time is on your side because you can research, have notes and sources in front of you, and research your opponent and his style. In day to day debate, yeah, you may be debating politics, but you never know what will lead into that conversation. It MIGHT be healthcare, but it could be environmental policy, foreign policy, etc. Because your topic range is so much broader, you need to know a lot of information. I tend to forget really specific info, such as a single statistic, a few weeks after I’ve written it in my papers. That might make me a bad scholar, I don’t know. I’m glad I dont make my living from it, or I’d probably be doomed once the interviews and debates came. In day to day debate you also might not know your opponent, although you might know him really well also, I suppose.

Yeah you’ll notice Schiff doesn’t bother with a lot of data, but then again he rarely ventures deeply into politics either. Facts he usually uses are recent economic or market data, but he’s looking at that stuff all the time for his work, so I imagine it’s not that hard for him to always have some of that stuff on tap at any given time. But you can hear on his radio show that he’s obviously pretty knowledgeable. He will pull out historical knowledge every now and then that I wouldn’t necessarily expect him to have. Again I think it just comes from practice. Sure you have to acquire the knowledge at some point, but I think the largest part about the recall is just having had those conversations often enough that eventually almost no conversation is “new”…most of the time you’re combating the same tired, flawed statist positions, which you can debunk again and again using the same information and arguments.

[John_James]

@TripleT:

You were mentioning wanting to meet various scholars of the Institute…I was just reminded Art Carden lives in Memphis. I realize that’s not exactly close to Nashville, but I thought with your music biz you might go through there at some point. He’s a friendly guy.