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14 years ago @ Big Government - European Central Bank ... · 0 replies · +4 points

"...Interestingly, government consumption is consistently detrimental to output growth irrespective of the country sample considered ..." Wow, that's amazing... sure, it's a hundred and sixty-six years late, but they've finally managed to catch up with Bastiat's 'Economic Sophisms'. Give 'em another five years and maybe they'll catch up to 'The Law'!

If they still exist, that is.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_s...

14 years ago @ Big Peace - No Need To Fear An Ira... · 0 replies · +1 points

"No Need To Fear An Iranian Atlantic Fleet"

Sensible. It wasn't very sensible to fear al queda getting an air force either. As the one loon told his instructor, landing the planes wasn't a concern.

I've no idea what it'd take to put a missle on one of these rust buckets, so that it could shoot up an EMP, or if it was even possible.

But.

I'm pretty sure that this: "The threat has always and still remains the Persian Gulf itself. " was the sort of thought that was considered very respectable on the morning of 9/11/01. I had kind of hoped it had gone out of fashion since then.

Here's my suggestion. First find the dots. Once you've found a few, connect them, but not in a pattern that pleases you, but in a pattern that would please them.

And our own old dots, and our favorite patterns for connecting them?

Please throw them away.

Thank you.

14 years ago @ Big Journalism - Dear Harvey Weinstein:... · 1 reply · +17 points

Poor Harvey. Discovering that words actually mean something is going to be shocking enough, but to also find out that the words of the Constitution were selected for their meaning, and used in order to create something having even more meaning... a meaning which doesn't mean whatever Weinstein wants it to mean... that's gonna mean some serious heartburn.

How well does heartburn go with popcorn and butter?

14 years ago @ Big Journalism - Ten Years Later: Remem... · 2 replies · +13 points

Very well said.

"Ten years later that baby is a young boy."

Ten years later, and my then young boy is now a young man, and he posted on his fb page today that he is where he is, stationed in the middle east with the USAF, fighting in Afghanistan, because of this day ten years ago when he was 13 yrs old.

The politically correct are desperately gasping their last breaths today; they may be loud and hard to ignore, but they will be overwhelmed and snuffed out by those who have seen the truth and refuse to deny or evade it, as the pc are so committed to doing.

The young of then, are growing to adulthood now, and they flatly reject the sick lure of pretending evil can be made better by ignoring it.

They are fighting back.

14 years ago @ Big Journalism - Caught in a Lie: MMfA'... · 0 replies · +17 points

Facts are either hateful things... or stubborn things... depends upon whether you are looking at them from the left, or the Right.

14 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - 'Sons of Bitches' Ask ... · 0 replies · +3 points

ROFLMAO in anticipation! Charge!!!

14 years ago @ Big Journalism - Tea Party Group Respon... · 0 replies · +3 points

A big hairy footed Hobbit thumbs (and toes) up!

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Cowboys and Aliens' R... · 1 reply · +3 points

Eh. I enjoyed the movie. And you missed the key to the story, which was where Clancy Brown's Preacher character tells Craig "God doesn't care who you were son, he cares who you are." It wasn’t about left & right, but Good and Evil (swap time & place and aliens for dragons and you could manage some decent Beowulf comparisons), and what's valuable, and what isn't.

And the rest of it? Call me crazy, but going in to a movie called 'Cowboys and Aliens', I pretty well assumed I wouldn't be seeing Shakespeare and that I'd be seeing some far fetched stuff, so I agreed to suspend disbelief if it was done well. It was done well. Paced well. Exciting and a number of good adrenaline moments. And Olivia Wilde looks pretty darn good stepping naked out of a fire. Definitely a plus... but that wouldn't be enough to recommend it if the movie wasn't good to begin with.

It was.

14 years ago @ Big Journalism - A Quick Lesson for Med... · 0 replies · +5 points

Good post, short and sweet and to the point.

American Conservatives seek to conserve Individual Rights/Property Rights - all the variants of the Left seek to consume them.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - U of Missouri Epic Fai... · 0 replies · +6 points

Well done, well said.

And expanding the context even further, I took a look at the wider context of her established beliefs which she has practiced and preached for the last decade, and in that context, it becomes absolutely clear that she very much believes and preaches that violence is a tactic that should never be taken off the table.

Ancel was so inspiried by the success (!) of the WTO riots in Seattle, that she had this (and much more) to say:

"... this was mainly a U.S. protest, but to succeed in stopping the corporate global agenda, we will have to make this a world-wide movement.
Since 1993, I have been working at the grassroots level on such a movement ... “

And she has been working at the grassroots level on spreading such a movement based upon threatening or causing millions of dollars of damage and injury, in order to accomplish her goals. Yeah, in the educated leftie world, violence is absolutely a tactic to be used whenever and wherever possible, and spread directly into as many students minds as she possibly can.

On your dime.

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