At the very least try and do some reading comprehension and self awareness. For example, you're lumping Jason in with the GOP in the comments section of a post by him where he rips on the GOP most emphatically. I mean what are you thinking??
Mike, please stop lumping the libertarians in with the GOP. Some of ‘em are but Jason most emphatically isn't. The debate is hard enough as it is without ceding entire spectrums of political philosophy and groups of people to the other side.
It'd really help your arguement and our positions, Mike, if you could lose the profanity, up the content and generally improve your arguement. Beyond the fact that you're violating the commenting policy you're also making us liberals look bad. Your comment below this one was a lot better so it's obvious you're capable of actually debating and arguing rather than frothing and foaming.
Seriously though, please improve your game. I prefer my mouthbreathers on the right where they belong.
I'll quibble in another direction. While I agree that calling for assassination is not cool it should also be noted that Santorum is no Marat. He isn't consequential enough to warrant a glitter bomb let alone a knife in the bathtub.
That thread confused the hell outta me at the time. Bad language was bursting into floppy rainbow flowers between page refreshes and literally right after I'd chided the troll in question to stop trolling from the left. For one heady moment I thought I'd developed super powers. *sigh*
Well I'll be damned, I'm happy you're here Grant! The League now has a resident person who's against the enlightenment ideals based on criticisms from the left to contrast our dear Bob Cheeks who's against the enlightenment ideals based on criticisms from the right. I must confess, I feel a certain delight over this. Like finally acquiring the missing dish in a matching set.
I have no time at all today, alas, but a Republican party that broke up along either foreign policy lines (interventionist/noninterventionist) or even moreso over social policy (libertine/social con) would definitly produce a segment that would have considerable draw to right wingish Democrats I'd think.
My objection, Ward, is merely against the massive lunacy that is bound up in any fence like proposal. The ranch owner is welcome to waste his own private dollars putting up fences that the coyotes will merely evade, penetrate or subvert on his own dime. I have no interest in lending even a crumb of support to our governments doing the same ineffective, wasteful and pointless strategy on a grander and colossally more costly scale.
If we don't want illegal immigration then the only way to stop it is to either:
A) Accept higher prices on a vast slew of products and lower economic growth and target employers of illegal immigrants directly.
Or
B) Making illegal immigration legal by establishing some form of more open legal means for these workers to come here.
Everything else is just political posturing, hair splitting and snuffling after voters or pork.
I guess so? I mean if there's a limited need/demand for free charitably donated clothing then it makes sense that the best condition articles are sorted out and the rest are recycled. If there're people going cold/naked for lack of clothes then obviously nothing should be thrown out and it should all be passed along. It's somewhat ambigous from what you wrote as to which is the case here.
If the dude doesn't want people on his ranch why doesn't he fence it himself? Surely there isn't a zoning regulation preventing it? Why would a libertarian like you Ward want him to be turning to the gummint to fence his property?
Correction: One scenario where Germany gets away with something is if they get the IMF involved. If American and Asian bucks go into the bailout solution then to the extent that happens Germany has scored a coup (but it might still be worth the money to the Americans and Asians to avoid the global recession).
If Germany does bail them out then they're paying for it and they got nothing for free. If Germany doesn't bail them out then they're going to be utterly wrecked economically for the near future as their hyper strong currency plays Cain with their employment and as their banks take a pasting. And this is assuming that the newly non-unified periphary markets keep up free trade with Germany which is a BIG assumption to make and in my minds a foolish one. Germany hasn't gotten away with anything yet and I don't see a scenario where they do.
Unless it's banned I'll be drinking plum wine eagerly. God I love that stuff.
And even in the worst case scenario I don't see the whole country dying. Fukashima was a nasty mess but it didn't irradiate the whole country. I also still think that if their population density started really decreasing we'd see a change in their birthrates but only the future will tell us that.
Burt, it very much isn't, there're people sitting unemployed everywhere. That is a huge amount of potential slack that the economy has to bring to bear if the demand for dollars were to flag. Unless we somehow get stagflation (and despite Libertarian shrieks to the contrary the US doesn't have the kind of direct government interference in the ecnonomy that it did to bring on stagflation in the 70's. I mean the feds were dictating commodity prices and instituting wage and price controls), inflation needs lower unemployment to really rev itself up.
Remember, every investor in the world wants dollars right now, the dollars' principle competitor, the Euro, is in the midst of a massive meltdown.
I think the radioactivity is overstated but Japan, while a big economy, is a very aging country which has only its people as resources and they very pointedly do not have an immigrant friendly culture or government. They're going to be a nursing home country very soon, quite possibly the first nursing home country in fact. The certainly will be in no condition to be a reserve currency.
I'm gonna go with Jesse on this. You don't buy a billion barrels of oil with jewery and a hodgepodge of Canadians dollars and Israeli Sheckls. There's an enormous financial demand for a reserve currency and the US is the only currency game on the globe at the moment. The Chinese are too poor, too corrupt and too dictatorial. The Russians are too corrupt and too moribund. The Euro right now is out, in the future it'll depend on what they settle on. The rest of the currencies are simply tied to economies that're too small.
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On “How Republican is That?”
At the very least try and do some reading comprehension and self awareness. For example, you're lumping Jason in with the GOP in the comments section of a post by him where he rips on the GOP most emphatically. I mean what are you thinking??
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Mike, please stop lumping the libertarians in with the GOP. Some of ‘em are but Jason most emphatically isn't. The debate is hard enough as it is without ceding entire spectrums of political philosophy and groups of people to the other side.
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It'd really help your arguement and our positions, Mike, if you could lose the profanity, up the content and generally improve your arguement. Beyond the fact that you're violating the commenting policy you're also making us liberals look bad. Your comment below this one was a lot better so it's obvious you're capable of actually debating and arguing rather than frothing and foaming.
Seriously though, please improve your game. I prefer my mouthbreathers on the right where they belong.
On “Boycotting the All-American Muslim”
Second Jaybirds decision. This was entirely beneath the comment floor. No arguement, just a pointless (and worse: boring) assertion.
On “There Can Be Only One! (in which I use Highlander to finally figure out the GOP)”
I'll quibble in another direction. While I agree that calling for assassination is not cool it should also be noted that Santorum is no Marat. He isn't consequential enough to warrant a glitter bomb let alone a knife in the bathtub.
On “And yet another sort of conscientious objection.”
Likewise, I physically winced. Thanks be that I've never had to experience something so personally devastating.
On “Crystal Cox vs. Jenkins vs. Georgia”
Agreed, good thoughts.
On “The Music of the Trolls”
That thread confused the hell outta me at the time. Bad language was bursting into floppy rainbow flowers between page refreshes and literally right after I'd chided the troll in question to stop trolling from the left. For one heady moment I thought I'd developed super powers. *sigh*
On “How the left can elevate the level of political discourse (and stop making a fool of itself)”
Well I'll be damned, I'm happy you're here Grant! The League now has a resident person who's against the enlightenment ideals based on criticisms from the left to contrast our dear Bob Cheeks who's against the enlightenment ideals based on criticisms from the right. I must confess, I feel a certain delight over this. Like finally acquiring the missing dish in a matching set.
On “22 Years Later”
I was 10... I don't even remember hearing about it. Too young myself.
On “Why Cain Was Never Going to be President – and Why Gingrich Won’t Be Either”
I have no time at all today, alas, but a Republican party that broke up along either foreign policy lines (interventionist/noninterventionist) or even moreso over social policy (libertine/social con) would definitly produce a segment that would have considerable draw to right wingish Democrats I'd think.
On “A World of His Making: Newt Gingrich and the Far-Right Mind”
My objection, Ward, is merely against the massive lunacy that is bound up in any fence like proposal. The ranch owner is welcome to waste his own private dollars putting up fences that the coyotes will merely evade, penetrate or subvert on his own dime. I have no interest in lending even a crumb of support to our governments doing the same ineffective, wasteful and pointless strategy on a grander and colossally more costly scale.
If we don't want illegal immigration then the only way to stop it is to either:
A) Accept higher prices on a vast slew of products and lower economic growth and target employers of illegal immigrants directly.
Or
B) Making illegal immigration legal by establishing some form of more open legal means for these workers to come here.
Everything else is just political posturing, hair splitting and snuffling after voters or pork.
On “No really, don’t buy this jacket.”
Maybe time use? Travel? I honestly don't know. Homes (number and location) perhaps?
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I guess so? I mean if there's a limited need/demand for free charitably donated clothing then it makes sense that the best condition articles are sorted out and the rest are recycled. If there're people going cold/naked for lack of clothes then obviously nothing should be thrown out and it should all be passed along. It's somewhat ambigous from what you wrote as to which is the case here.
On “A World of His Making: Newt Gingrich and the Far-Right Mind”
If the dude doesn't want people on his ranch why doesn't he fence it himself? Surely there isn't a zoning regulation preventing it? Why would a libertarian like you Ward want him to be turning to the gummint to fence his property?
On “A Financial Marshall Plan”
Correction: One scenario where Germany gets away with something is if they get the IMF involved. If American and Asian bucks go into the bailout solution then to the extent that happens Germany has scored a coup (but it might still be worth the money to the Americans and Asians to avoid the global recession).
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If Germany does bail them out then they're paying for it and they got nothing for free. If Germany doesn't bail them out then they're going to be utterly wrecked economically for the near future as their hyper strong currency plays Cain with their employment and as their banks take a pasting. And this is assuming that the newly non-unified periphary markets keep up free trade with Germany which is a BIG assumption to make and in my minds a foolish one. Germany hasn't gotten away with anything yet and I don't see a scenario where they do.
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That's a one sided spin on it, utterly inaccurate since it ignores the periphery's half of this bargain.
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Unless it's banned I'll be drinking plum wine eagerly. God I love that stuff.
And even in the worst case scenario I don't see the whole country dying. Fukashima was a nasty mess but it didn't irradiate the whole country. I also still think that if their population density started really decreasing we'd see a change in their birthrates but only the future will tell us that.
On “A World of His Making: Newt Gingrich and the Far-Right Mind”
Cool, just wanted to make sure they were on your list. Part of my ongoing project of helping paleolibertarians talk to lefties.
On “A Financial Marshall Plan”
Very much so.
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Burt, it very much isn't, there're people sitting unemployed everywhere. That is a huge amount of potential slack that the economy has to bring to bear if the demand for dollars were to flag. Unless we somehow get stagflation (and despite Libertarian shrieks to the contrary the US doesn't have the kind of direct government interference in the ecnonomy that it did to bring on stagflation in the 70's. I mean the feds were dictating commodity prices and instituting wage and price controls), inflation needs lower unemployment to really rev itself up.
Remember, every investor in the world wants dollars right now, the dollars' principle competitor, the Euro, is in the midst of a massive meltdown.
"
I think the radioactivity is overstated but Japan, while a big economy, is a very aging country which has only its people as resources and they very pointedly do not have an immigrant friendly culture or government. They're going to be a nursing home country very soon, quite possibly the first nursing home country in fact. The certainly will be in no condition to be a reserve currency.
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Yes we're generally on the same page on this. I agree.
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I'm gonna go with Jesse on this. You don't buy a billion barrels of oil with jewery and a hodgepodge of Canadians dollars and Israeli Sheckls. There's an enormous financial demand for a reserve currency and the US is the only currency game on the globe at the moment. The Chinese are too poor, too corrupt and too dictatorial. The Russians are too corrupt and too moribund. The Euro right now is out, in the future it'll depend on what they settle on. The rest of the currencies are simply tied to economies that're too small.
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