scream-of-consciousness;
"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
The
working title is "Happy Faces On A Wet Derrière."
The story pretty much writes itself, but I'm stuck, as
usual, on the same old thing. Can the ingenue play
pinochle, and does she have a hare lip? Or not. This
drives me crazy.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
It looks like Pitt and
Syracuse will bolt the Big East and join the ACC. That makes a
lot more sense than having Texas,
but Pitt and WVU make more sense to me. Given my
druthers though ... Here's what I want back —
FINAL STANDINGS 1971 -------------------- ACC ALL ACC Reg Seas Games All N. Carolina 11-3 .786 26-6 .813 S. Carolina 10-4 .714 23-6 .793 Duke 9-5 .643 20-10 .667 Wake Forest 7-7 .500 16-10 .615 Virginia 6-8 .429 15-11 .577 Maryland 5-9 .357 14-12 .538 N.C. State 5-9 .357 13-14 .481 Clemson 3-11 .214 9-17 .346 ----------------------------------------- Total 136-86 .613
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Most people, unfortunately, apply the same
analysis to public debt as they do to private. If sanctity of contracts
should rule in the world of private debt, shouldn't they be equally as
sacrosanct in public debt? Shouldn't public debt be governed by the
same principles as private? The answer is no, even though such an
answer may shock the sensibilities of most people.
”
One of
yesterday's links
to people I link-to
has resulted in a starburst of energetic discovery, and to some extent
repudiation and validation of some of my own positions. This link.
American
Digest Do
Your Duty! You Have the
Responsibility as an American to Make Obama Successful.
Which also contained this post.
“
Put Debt Repudiation On the Table
I propose, then, a seemingly drastic
but actually far less destructive way of paying
off the public debt at a single blow: out-right debt repudiation.
Consider this question: why should the poor, battered citizens of
Russia or Poland or the other ex-Communist countries be bound by the
debts contracted by their former Communist masters? ... Similarly, we
the living did not contract for either the past or the present debts
incurred by the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington. -- Repudiating the National Debt -
Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily
In the old days (1970s), when perhaps the nation's only
broadly
distributed conservative
opinion came via the Wall Street Journal's Editorial pages,
every
Thursday contained what I called the " The Thursday Car-loon"
column. When I began
reading it that column was written by Alexander Cockburn ( later
by Al Hunt, who was as left-wing as Cockburn, but without the
intelligence). This is by way of saying that I think Cockburn is
a
first class A-hole. Had I simply watched the video then, I would
have left happy with the notion that Vanderleun was presenting an
easy target for disdain . Advocating the repudiation of
credit card debt is a distinctly Commie thing to do. A gentleman is
honor bound to his
debts, and must go to his grave having done everything possible to pay
them. Then, I clicked the link Repudiating the National Debt -
Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily.
To the extent that my leathery brain cells can expand to accept new and
unwelcome formulations, they did. Bear in mind that I am quoting from
the Ludwig von Mises Institute web page.
“
In the spring of 1981, conservative Republicans in
the House of Representatives cried. They cried because, in the first
flush of the Reagan Revolution that was supposed to bring drastic cuts
in taxes and government spending, as well as a balanced budget, they
were being asked by the White House and their own leadership to vote
for an increase in the statutory limit on the federal public debt,
which was then scraping the legal ceiling of one trillion dollars. They
cried because all of their lives they had voted against an increase in
public debt, and now they were being asked, by their own party and
their own movement, to violate their lifelong principles. The White
House and its leadership assured them that this breach in principle
would be their last: that it was necessary for one last increase in the
debt limit to give President Reagan a chance to bring about a balanced
budget and to begin to reduce the debt. Many of these Republicans
tearfully announced that they were taking this fateful step because
they deeply trusted their President, who would not let them down.
Famous last words.
Any melding of public debt into a private transaction must rest on the
common but absurd notion that taxation is really "voluntary," and that
whenever the government does anything, "we" are willingly doing it.
This convenient myth was wittily and trenchantly disposed of by the
great economist Joseph Schumpeter: "The theory which construes taxes on
the analogy of club dues or of the purchases of, say, a doctor only
proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from
scientific habits of mind." Morality and economic utility generally go
hand in hand. Contrary to Alexander Hamilton, who spoke for a small but
powerful clique of New York and Philadelphia public creditors, the
national debt is not a "national blessing." T
”
I have to get ready for
the Redskin game, here's
the rest of it. I'll get back to
this. I think. For the record. I want to talk
about what Clint Eastwood said too.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
