Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Libertarianism means strengthening Chinese communist totalitarianism with every purchase
Kentucky's 4th Congressional District, ladies and gentlemen, Karl Marx's favorite Republican vacation spot.
Free movement of peoples to the US will destroy it, same as free trade
Generally speaking, the protectionist system today is conservative, whereas the Free Trade system has a destructive effect. It destroys the former nationalities and renders the contrast between proletariat and bourgeoisie more acute. In a word, the Free Trade system is precipitating the social revolution. And only in this revolutionary sense do I vote for Free Trade.
-- Karl Marx, Appendix to Elend der Philosophie, 1847.
I dunno, I think motion-activated machine guns in the no man's land in-between Trump's new fences would be more effective than electrifying them
This one got across before the Border Patrol could catch him.
You don't want to electrify the Mexican side of the fence. That just wouldn't be civilized.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Monday, December 2, 2019
Financial Times, 8/28/16: "Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, is backed by the pro-western government that took power after Mr Yanukovich was ousted"
https://www.ft.com/content/c98078d0-6ae7-11e6-a0b1-d87a9fea034f :
The prospect of Mr Trump, who has praised Ukraine’s arch-enemy Vladimir Putin, becoming leader of the country’s biggest ally has spurred not just Mr Leshchenko but Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a US election.
The editor isn't stupid. He just thinks you are.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, climate update for November 2019
Grand Rapids, MI, climate update for November 2019
Max temp 54, mean 66 (third lowest max since 1892)
Min temp 15, mean 17
Av temp 34.6, mean 39.1 (tied with 2018 for tenth coldest on record)
Precip 2.62, mean 2.84
Snow 6.5, mean 6.3
Heating Degree Days 910, mean 771 (ninth coldest on record)
HDD to date 1422, mean 1356 (4.9% colder than the mean, season to date)
I just hate it when Mark Zuckerberg says anything remotely reasonable
It means the robots will soon be almost impossible to detect.
America was an extremist country until 1913
So says this nut, Adam Grossman:
As a Libertarian, some of [Harry] Browne’s economic proposals were extreme—including, for instance, abolishing income taxes.
Well now, since the total public debt is today $23.076 trillion and climbing inexorably, I'd say the extremism is all post-1913. Measured in trillions, the public debt in 1913 was less than $0.00 trillion.
Isn't it obvious that income taxes have become irrelevant?
We spend in deficit every year and simply keep adding to the total owed. Might as well just stop collecting income taxes altogether, since we've decided we can borrow indefinitely. We never pay as we go, let alone make payments on what we owe.
Why are taxes even necessary anymore, since nothing has ever had to be paid for, or paid off?
Income taxes are dispensable.
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