A big difference between Germany and the current U.S. currency is its global distribution. The bills are coming due. If the U.S. pays for the bill itself, all of the burden will fall on domestic tax sources and future generations in the form of decreased assets and services. If it's inflated away, Saudis, Chinese and other foreign holders of the dollar will pay a share.
Administrative tribunals do all sorts of work that I doubt you'd want to see go away, everything from wrongful dismissal to religious freedoms to not firing the pregnant girl. The problem is that they wanted them to be under the executive so as to be more politically accountable. I think that instinct was short sighted and wrong.
Subsidizing plaintiffs is a bit of a red herring. You get what you pay for. If you had a legitimate complaint would you really want to rely on the overburdened, under-qualified public offering? It's not unheard of for complainants to be charged. It's possible that they can even be ordered to pay for the respondents legal fees. Much of the vitriol that comes out of the Canadian Right against these tribunals is admittedly ignorant. Why someone would read Warren, Levin, or Steyn see that they state they don't understand the processes and then repeat their rantings is a mystery. At the very least these tribunals act according to statute. To do otherwise would be "judicial activism" -- going against the actual law.
They need to be made part of the judiciary where they can have independence. This experiment with having them part of executive, or administrative justice in general is a wrong way road.
Hopefully, you can have an actual Habana instead of the rural Washington variety, though I'm not sure scoring a point against me earns you more than a generic cig.
I do believe that passivity is a cultural artifact that continues to be taught north of the line. I was just reading, with some incredulity, a story of a couple of lads stopping a burglar. Of course, the authorities first response was that civilians shouldn't interfere, stay at a safe distance and leave it to the Richmond Fire Department.
I've just relocated to Vancouver full time. It looks like an architects model and functions well for where we are. We take a boat across a small inlet to a public market. We have a beach, a number of manicured urban parks within walking distance, my partner walks to work, and there's a new downtown Costco within striking distance of the little boats or a short bike ride. Still for all of its usability I miss the distinct neighborhoods of Portland, Seattle, or San Francisco that add a quality of life that is much more than meeting one's structural needs.
I'm thinking of the problems of gradating society from the National to the family level in conjunction with the many different types of protectionism. Is investing in education a subsidy for the industries that eventually employ the students? Is the ban on exportation of water, or State water rights a form of protectionism? How about local investments in energy infrastructure. Can the benefits of that investment be kept for local populations? Down the road can that be cast as protectionism on the export side? Basically, I'd argue that protectionism can be more complex than a federal government imposing an import tax and that not all forms of protectionism are bad.
Isn't talking of sin in this context encouraging local behavior that doesn't resort to the institutional variety? Is the only kind of protectionism institutional? If I put up billboards encouraging people to buy Cascadian, is that fundamentally different than having my neighborhood association, city, or State (Province) doing the same? Do you consider resource or environmental protection, restrictions on internal investment, to be protectionism?
I don't think the US is doing particularly well, is particularly unified, or is functioning politically. Of course, I think this is yet another area where the anti-federalists were much more prescient than the federalists.
Applying the logic from the linked piece to the subject at hand, it's apparent that eventually we're going to have wrest Banff back from the Prairie Chickens. ;-)
"I understand your bottom-up position, but I wish you might have found a better term when discussing marriage"
Good one, at least it's not in the context of D/s.
Bob: if civil unions (unions minus the religious and traditional content) are superior, it gets harder to understand the opposition. Why not take the cherry and wait for everyone else to catch up?
On “the last fiscal conservative”
A big difference between Germany and the current U.S. currency is its global distribution. The bills are coming due. If the U.S. pays for the bill itself, all of the burden will fall on domestic tax sources and future generations in the form of decreased assets and services. If it's inflated away, Saudis, Chinese and other foreign holders of the dollar will pay a share.
On “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town”
Administrative tribunals do all sorts of work that I doubt you'd want to see go away, everything from wrongful dismissal to religious freedoms to not firing the pregnant girl. The problem is that they wanted them to be under the executive so as to be more politically accountable. I think that instinct was short sighted and wrong.
Subsidizing plaintiffs is a bit of a red herring. You get what you pay for. If you had a legitimate complaint would you really want to rely on the overburdened, under-qualified public offering? It's not unheard of for complainants to be charged. It's possible that they can even be ordered to pay for the respondents legal fees. Much of the vitriol that comes out of the Canadian Right against these tribunals is admittedly ignorant. Why someone would read Warren, Levin, or Steyn see that they state they don't understand the processes and then repeat their rantings is a mystery. At the very least these tribunals act according to statute. To do otherwise would be "judicial activism" -- going against the actual law.
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They need to be made part of the judiciary where they can have independence. This experiment with having them part of executive, or administrative justice in general is a wrong way road.
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Are there actually people that praise the Human Rights Commissions/Tribunals?
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Hopefully, you can have an actual Habana instead of the rural Washington variety, though I'm not sure scoring a point against me earns you more than a generic cig.
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You've got me there. Point taken. My partner has some mean elbows.
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Not in anyway backing up or lending cover to Stein or his ilk.
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I do believe that passivity is a cultural artifact that continues to be taught north of the line. I was just reading, with some incredulity, a story of a couple of lads stopping a burglar. Of course, the authorities first response was that civilians shouldn't interfere, stay at a safe distance and leave it to the Richmond Fire Department.
On “Meh.”
Too much information? Where's the job security for future historians?
Let's have as many first person accounts as possible. It's not like you can get the info from the freedom of information act.
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"I’m with Peggy Noonan."
I'll second that.
On “(Don’t) Carry Me Back To Ol’ Virginie”
The South is still a thorn. How's that winning? Won the battle maybe.
On “Car Culture and Families”
I've just relocated to Vancouver full time. It looks like an architects model and functions well for where we are. We take a boat across a small inlet to a public market. We have a beach, a number of manicured urban parks within walking distance, my partner walks to work, and there's a new downtown Costco within striking distance of the little boats or a short bike ride. Still for all of its usability I miss the distinct neighborhoods of Portland, Seattle, or San Francisco that add a quality of life that is much more than meeting one's structural needs.
On “individualism, properly understood”
I'm thinking of the problems of gradating society from the National to the family level in conjunction with the many different types of protectionism. Is investing in education a subsidy for the industries that eventually employ the students? Is the ban on exportation of water, or State water rights a form of protectionism? How about local investments in energy infrastructure. Can the benefits of that investment be kept for local populations? Down the road can that be cast as protectionism on the export side? Basically, I'd argue that protectionism can be more complex than a federal government imposing an import tax and that not all forms of protectionism are bad.
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Isn't talking of sin in this context encouraging local behavior that doesn't resort to the institutional variety? Is the only kind of protectionism institutional? If I put up billboards encouraging people to buy Cascadian, is that fundamentally different than having my neighborhood association, city, or State (Province) doing the same? Do you consider resource or environmental protection, restrictions on internal investment, to be protectionism?
On “Rod Dreher needs a little perspective”
The problem is there always seems to be more rubes than sneering elites, regardless of the comparative ease of either camp, at any given time.
On “Nationalism as Prerequisite for Pluralism”
Great link E.D.
I don't think the US is doing particularly well, is particularly unified, or is functioning politically. Of course, I think this is yet another area where the anti-federalists were much more prescient than the federalists.
Applying the logic from the linked piece to the subject at hand, it's apparent that eventually we're going to have wrest Banff back from the Prairie Chickens. ;-)
On “ethnic nationalism inevitably breeds hate”
"“I’d much rather give them Florida.”
Have you been recently? We lost Florida to them in the 60’s."
Would there eventually be settlements in Alabama and Georgia?
On “Ah, Abortion”
Just as I thought, a boi.
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m.c. I'm amazed that people mistake you for a male as well. It's clear isn't it?
On “At last”
"I understand your bottom-up position, but I wish you might have found a better term when discussing marriage"
Good one, at least it's not in the context of D/s.
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Just something to think about.
"establishing separate intuitions" should we let this one slide? ;-)
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Bob: if civil unions (unions minus the religious and traditional content) are superior, it gets harder to understand the opposition. Why not take the cherry and wait for everyone else to catch up?
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"what might have happened had the two water fountains been, in fact, identical "
As long as you don't leave me with the religiously tainted drinking spot, I'm all good.
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If I can't have a CU, it does. I know, I know... I can have a CU with any man I want.
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"But I still can’t help feeling like a wonderful, transcendant point is being missed."
Well said.
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