Snippets of the Presidential debate with corrected audio track:
Clayton -
I hear they’re doing a parody of this Tuesday night.
This was pretty good:
I just ordered this anthology of the Uncle Scrooge series for reading to my kids. I used to watch the DuckTales cartoon when I was a kid (in the 80’s) but I don’t think that cartoon is nearly as valuable in terms of the lessons about money, life, hard work, and so on that Carl Barks put into the original Uncle Scrooge books.
Turns out that Disney actually featured Ludwig von Mises as an important character in the “Duck Universe”!
This got me thinking… LvMI should create Amazon booklists, and a booklist of kids’ books (including the above book) would be a bright idea. In addition to the LvMI store, liberty-minded people could browse Amazon for other good books not directly sold through LvMI.
Clayton -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
Huh, that’s interesting, probably economically infeasible tho–
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Planet made of diamonds.
Recent idea for a warp drive.
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Gentlemen, I think the market will win this space race.
Today I lived through my own personal hell.
I sat through a history lecture of some statist bozo making every classic statist mistake in the book with an air of unbelievable pretension and authority:
Jeffersonian Ideology the same as Wilsonian, Parties are divided as ever yawn, Reagan unleashed the free market, deregulated, cut taxes, and the poor got poorer, Bill Clinton balanced the budget, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney are dangerous individualist ideologues, Bush Jr. unleashed the free market, deregulated, cut taxes too which caused the 2008 crisis, Wilson was a classical liberal and so was Teddy Roosevelt and they curbed the big business power interests, and anyone who wants to cut back the welfare state is a reactionary conservative christian ideologue, whereas democrats are centrist, moderate, and rational.
I was in physical pain for 60 minutes and I could have blown his whole bullshit shtick open with 2 links:
http://reason.com/archives/2008/12/10/bushs-regulatory-kiss-off
That sucks bro. Thanks for the links
One of the things that makes me angry about debating socialists is that many times, as a last resort, they will throw out out Einstein was a socialist, and therefore socialism must be the right way to go.
Where do they get the 1.5 trillion figure from? 1.5 trillion over 40 years averages 37.5 billion/year, the vertical axis maxes out at 20 billion.
Good catch. I have no idea.
So does anyone have a response to the Einstein excuse?
Einstein’s argument promoting socialism had poor economics in it . Einstein was a physicist, not an economist nor a philosopher. If you play the IQ game then you’re going to end up with really stupid results. For whatever it’s worth the smartest man ever was a socialist who then became an ardent libertarian way before it was cool… Kind of…
I know that the whole “Einstein said it was good so it must be” argument is pretty stupid. The thing is though, people do bring it up as a last resort when they have nothing else to throw at you. Look! The smartest guy in the world thinks my ideology is better than yours! It must be true!
Well then use the same argument back at them. The smartest man ever was on your side… Kind of.
Why do you say “Kind of…”
2 Americans win Nobel econ prize for match-making
ACLU says Morgan Stanley over subprime loans
White House mulls how to strike over Libya attack
Austrians proud of skydiver Fearless Felix
Study: Privatized Medicare would raise premiums
FACT CHECK: Be your own fact-checker Tuesday night
Norm Singleton Is Surprised . . .
If Two Men Go Into the Woods Without a Police Officer, How Many Will Come Out Alive?
On the Occasion of the Death of Arlen Specter, Robert Reich Spills the Beans
Ayn Rand Institute Attack on Murray Rothbard
Alex Tabarrok Goes Gaga Over Nobel Prize Winners
Various items: free speech v ‘community’, lawlessness in Libya, sprawling surveillance state
Martha Raddatz and the faux objectivity of journalists
The Brookings Institution demands servile journalism
The Right Thing: The Abe Bolden Petition
Doesn’t the Ad Industry Trust the Free Market?
Questions on Drones, Unanswered Still
Nobel Peace Prize Committee Ignores the Real Heroes of Peace and Freedom
Nobel Peace Prize to the EU Is a Farce
Coming Home: Justice for our veterans
SM,
Despite the fact that Sidis calls himself a libertarian and his system must, if consistently applied lead to a very libertarian system, he nontheless says this:
“It is also important to remember that the whole group of alleged rights known as property rights are not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence’s Preamble at all, and constitute no part of the basic schedule of human rights. At best, they are a device by which a community may deem it advisable to reward services rendered, and cannot be extended to conflict with personal rights, which are much more fundamental. Questions such as wages, returns on investments, currency, taxation, etc., all belong to this class, and do not involve fundamental rights in any way whatever. “Property rights” bulk larger than personal rights in the activities of any government existing under the present economic system, and displace everything else in the estimation of such economic organisations as industries, unions, etc.; but, from the point of view presented here, they merely constitute interference with the issue, which is exclusively the question of personal rights.”
I’m sure this was posted here back around when it came out, but it’s so uplifting I figured I’d post it again.