That's not necessarily the point. A black person is order's of magnitude more likely to be killed by a young black man than a white policeman - and yet look at BLM. Also, it is not irrational to be concerned about islamo-fascist terrorism. One because it exists. And secondly because others say "nothing to see here, move along."
Saying and doing nothing about evil because it's significantly minor is not an answer. The amount of black and Jewish people killed by the KKK was statistically insignificant - maybe 5-6000 over 80 years. And yet the violence, the existence of "strange fruit" matters. And it matters more than highway deaths.
True. But still something must be done. I agree that surveillance is not necessarily the solution. How about saying to all that this is a multi-cultural country and if you want sharia law.... then leave. The problem is the mentality behind terrorism as well as not sticking up for our principles out of fear of being called a racist or an Islamophobe.
GWB (if you want to put it solely on him) refused federal funding for fetus research. Adult stem cell research was fine. And if fetal stem cell research was so promising then where are the results from Japan, China, Korea, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, England, Sweden?
But hominids have been around for 20 million years; mammals for 80 million years (120 - 225 million years depending upon ones classification of mammals).
The point is not that we ignore human activity, spewing poisons etc... but that we don't turn into chicken littles.
I'm not the OP. But "professional" victim, or instigator is part of the American lexicon. It's a phrase, that if parsed, doesn't make much sense, but then the same is true for most colloquial expressions.
Women who claim to be raped but haven't. (Rape should be punished by death)
People who claim racist slogans were painted or crosses were burned on their property (turns out it was done by them).
Muslim girl who claims she was assaulted for being muslim but lied. (This was a couple of weeks ago in NYC)
The problem with the EPA is not the intent of clean water and air. Nobody disputes that. The problem is a bureaucracy that makes its own regulations (which have the force of law). Would you like police departments making its own laws? How about INS?
No?
Then stand back from the rhetorical precipice; see problem; and stop making straw men.
If it drops back down to 200 you might be right. But, take a look at the chart. It moved to 400 and stayed there for a few months. Then 600 and stayed there for a few months. Now it climbed fast to over 1000 and it dropped what? Back to 950? Oooh. So very bad. Even if it goes back to 650? So what. 650 is still a great floor.
Well. I like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Justin Amash. So big thumbs up.
I like Clarence Thomas' positions. I didn't know Clarence Thomas was a fan. Yeah!!!
And. I don't think you understand Ayn Rand's philosophy too well. The concept of selfishness is the we, as humans, have a life to live - for ourselves. Not for God. Not for The State. That we are not part of a great collective that can be sloughed off for the benefit of the Mighty Ruler.
Hmmm. That part, the central part, of her philosophy seems to be pretty modern. Her opposition to socialism was that she considered it to be a collectivist death cult. (Witness glorious Venezuela).
And hero of the party? The party of social conservatives? Very few, except for some cerebral types such as Ted Cruz would hold her in any favor. I hope you realize that you pointed out the gadflys of the party who is fighting the establishment tooth an nail. Cruz and Rand Paul and Ron Johnson are not typical Republicans - they are trying to bring intellectual honesty to the Republican Party. Something both parties are lacking.
And I welcome them over Hillary or Bernie or other nanny state plutocrats.
The same fools who say we have a right to our body for abortion but oppose the very same argument when it comes to drugs, prostitution, gambling, tobacco and every other nanny-state idea that crosses their mind.
Really? As an Ayn Rand fan I don't find that at all. The Republicans I meet are not fans of hers - either because they're social conservatives (and she's an atheist who skewers religion) or because they're corporatists or for other reasons.
Most are hypocrites - just like liberals who pretend that they think people own their own bodies (abortion) but then are for drug laws, prostitution laws and expand the nanny state so that cops will ticket you for not wearing seat belts or helmets.
Read Bastiat, Carl Menger, von Mises, Hayek, Milton Friedman. You'll see them all referring to the government as an agent which helps one set of businesses over another. Government may give loans, bailouts, etc... Free market people are against this.
Corporatism/= Free Market.
Don't only get your information from those who hate individualism and free markets - read (or in Milton Friedman's case listen) to their arguments.
You may disagree with them but you'll see well regarded individuals who say that mercantilism cannot exist without government involvement.
When a business get's government to give it special favors (Soyndra) or to give it tax breaks or a monopoly this is corporatism. It used to be called mercantilism.
In either case free - market capitalists stand in opposition to it. This is exactly what "laissez-faire" capitalism means: leave us alone, don't play favorites, stay away.
No. They don't. But, for the moment, it looks as if Andy Puzder (Sec of Labor) and Mick Mulvaney (OMB) are fairly good free market people. We'll see. Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has made some free-market comments. (Again, we'll see.)
Sec of Ed looks like she wants to break up an entrenched bureaucracy - might even work to remove Federal involvement. (Wishful thinking on my part)
HUD - I'm hopeful that Ben Carson was hired to break up this ridiculous bureaucracy. If not, at least pare it down.
Now, if only we can remove the VA from it's cabinet level position. It's been more than 70 years since the close of WWII. We don't need the military's head of HR to be a cabinet level position.
Corporatism is the use of government pull to advance your business. The use of law and the police power of the state to aide your business against anothers. This used to be called "mercantilism."
Free market capitalism is opposed to this; the removal of power of pull.
Dude. Stop it. I've read 18th C laissez-faire writers (de Gournay) Bastiat, the Austrian School (Carl Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, von Mises, Hayek), Rothbard, Milton Friedman.
Free Market is opposed to corporatism,
You might hate Ayn Rand but she skewered corporatists as much as she did socialists.
You should read some of these people. You'll see that they are opposed to corporatism. Don't get your information from opponents who create straw men and then, so skillfully, defeat their opponent's arguments.
I have been following. So, if the pressure is to replace the US dollar as the reserve currency why is the Renminbi desperately being propped up and the US dollar surging? Br
If you think this is a temporary phenomenon then this is a good time for you to short the US dollar. You'll make a killing.
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That's not necessarily the point. A black person is order's of magnitude more likely to be killed by a young black man than a white policeman - and yet look at BLM. Also, it is not irrational to be concerned about islamo-fascist terrorism. One because it exists. And secondly because others say "nothing to see here, move along."
Saying and doing nothing about evil because it's significantly minor is not an answer. The amount of black and Jewish people killed by the KKK was statistically insignificant - maybe 5-6000 over 80 years. And yet the violence, the existence of "strange fruit" matters. And it matters more than highway deaths.
Wish I could mod you up. Awesome post.
True. But still something must be done. I agree that surveillance is not necessarily the solution. How about saying to all that this is a multi-cultural country and if you want sharia law .... then leave. The problem is the mentality behind terrorism as well as not sticking up for our principles out of fear of being called a racist or an Islamophobe.
Funny how you latch on to locker room talk and think it represents a person you don't like but ignore statements like:
"he's clean and articulate" by politicians you do like.
So very true. So very true,
Don't forget. Bullets go both ways.
Explain please?
GWB (if you want to put it solely on him) refused federal funding for fetus research. Adult stem cell research was fine. And if fetal stem cell research was so promising then where are the results from Japan, China, Korea, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, England, Sweden?
crickets.
But hominids have been around for 20 million years; mammals for 80 million years (120 - 225 million years depending upon ones classification of mammals).
The point is not that we ignore human activity, spewing poisons etc... but that we don't turn into chicken littles.
You really believe your own BS don't you?
I'm not the OP. But "professional" victim, or instigator is part of the American lexicon. It's a phrase, that if parsed, doesn't make much sense, but then the same is true for most colloquial expressions.
"Professional" is a descriptive term. It refers to people to whom the narrative counts more than the facts.
/sarc tag that I simply missed :)
Professional does not refer to payment or employment.
You ought to know this. Actually I think you do know the difference and are just engaging in sophistry.
Unless there is a
Really? Never any fake hate crimes? Not one?
Take your head out of the sand and pay attention.
Women who claim to be raped but haven't. (Rape should be punished by death)
People who claim racist slogans were painted or crosses were burned on their property (turns out it was done by them).
Muslim girl who claims she was assaulted for being muslim but lied. (This was a couple of weeks ago in NYC)
The problem with the EPA is not the intent of clean water and air. Nobody disputes that. The problem is a bureaucracy that makes its own regulations (which have the force of law). Would you like police departments making its own laws? How about INS?
No?
Then stand back from the rhetorical precipice; see problem; and stop making straw men.
Nah. Guess you're not a racist pig.
If it drops back down to 200 you might be right. But, take a look at the chart. It moved to 400 and stayed there for a few months. Then 600 and stayed there for a few months. Now it climbed fast to over 1000 and it dropped what? Back to 950? Oooh. So very bad. Even if it goes back to 650? So what. 650 is still a great floor.
Really? Where?
The TVA is still subsidizing electricity?
Well. I like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Justin Amash. So big thumbs up.
I like Clarence Thomas' positions. I didn't know Clarence Thomas was a fan. Yeah!!!
And. I don't think you understand Ayn Rand's philosophy too well. The concept of selfishness is the we, as humans, have a life to live - for ourselves. Not for God. Not for The State. That we are not part of a great collective that can be sloughed off for the benefit of the Mighty Ruler.
Hmmm. That part, the central part, of her philosophy seems to be pretty modern. Her opposition to socialism was that she considered it to be a collectivist death cult. (Witness glorious Venezuela).
And hero of the party? The party of social conservatives? Very few, except for some cerebral types such as Ted Cruz would hold her in any favor. I hope you realize that you pointed out the gadflys of the party who is fighting the establishment tooth an nail. Cruz and Rand Paul and Ron Johnson are not typical Republicans - they are trying to bring intellectual honesty to the Republican Party. Something both parties are lacking.
And I welcome them over Hillary or Bernie or other nanny state plutocrats.
The same fools who say we have a right to our body for abortion but oppose the very same argument when it comes to drugs, prostitution, gambling, tobacco and every other nanny-state idea that crosses their mind.
Really? As an Ayn Rand fan I don't find that at all. The Republicans I meet are not fans of hers - either because they're social conservatives (and she's an atheist who skewers religion) or because they're corporatists or for other reasons.
Most are hypocrites - just like liberals who pretend that they think people own their own bodies (abortion) but then are for drug laws, prostitution laws and expand the nanny state so that cops will ticket you for not wearing seat belts or helmets.
Read Bastiat, Carl Menger, von Mises, Hayek, Milton Friedman. You'll see them all referring to the government as an agent which helps one set of businesses over another. Government may give loans, bailouts, etc... Free market people are against this.
/= Free Market.
Corporatism
Don't only get your information from those who hate individualism and free markets - read (or in Milton Friedman's case listen) to their arguments.
You may disagree with them but you'll see well regarded individuals who say that mercantilism cannot exist without government involvement.
When a business get's government to give it special favors (Soyndra) or to give it tax breaks or a monopoly this is corporatism. It used to be called mercantilism.
In either case free - market capitalists stand in opposition to it. This is exactly what "laissez-faire" capitalism means: leave us alone, don't play favorites, stay away.
No. They don't. But, for the moment, it looks as if Andy Puzder (Sec of Labor) and Mick Mulvaney (OMB) are fairly good free market people. We'll see. Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has made some free-market comments. (Again, we'll see.) Sec of Ed looks like she wants to break up an entrenched bureaucracy - might even work to remove Federal involvement. (Wishful thinking on my part) HUD - I'm hopeful that Ben Carson was hired to break up this ridiculous bureaucracy. If not, at least pare it down.
Now, if only we can remove the VA from it's cabinet level position. It's been more than 70 years since the close of WWII. We don't need the military's head of HR to be a cabinet level position.
Corporatism is the use of government pull to advance your business. The use of law and the police power of the state to aide your business against anothers. This used to be called "mercantilism."
Free market capitalism is opposed to this; the removal of power of pull.
Dude. Stop it. I've read 18th C laissez-faire writers (de Gournay) Bastiat, the Austrian School (Carl Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, von Mises, Hayek), Rothbard, Milton Friedman.
Free Market is opposed to corporatism,
You might hate Ayn Rand but she skewered corporatists as much as she did socialists.
You should read some of these people. You'll see that they are opposed to corporatism. Don't get your information from opponents who create straw men and then, so skillfully, defeat their opponent's arguments.
Stop the B$. It's getting boring.
He's hired primarily free market people as opposed to corporatist so your fu(7ing comparison doesn't work.
I have been following. So, if the pressure is to replace the US dollar as the reserve currency why is the Renminbi desperately being propped up and the US dollar surging?
Br If you think this is a temporary phenomenon then this is a good time for you to short the US dollar. You'll make a killing.