Snivels and rants! Snivels and rants! Snivels and rants and rants and rants.
Well-intended restaurateurs in Tijuana report that the alleged “refugees and asylees” now clustering at our southern border are unappreciative of the efforts made on their behalf to provide food and accommodations, that they complain constantly, and that they generally just mess things up wherever they go.
It’s like they’re ALREADY registered Democrats!
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11 November 2018
Heroic lefties strike at the heart of Henry Ford’s legacy?
Country music is steeped in white privilege.
For days since the horrific attack in Thousand Oaks, the main stream speculation mill seems to have been uncharacteristically quiet.
Usually by now there would have been lectures about…
Racism… militant Islam… gun culture… mental disease…
This time, so far, not so much. What has been reported has been —
“black clad… masked assailant… smoke bombs… blitz attack…”
The tactics of sucker-punchin’ punks.
Similarities abound and questions remain.
What I do believe is that it is NOT the fault of Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Heavy Metal, Reefer, or the NRA.
22 October 2018
There has been a great deal of breast-beating and tooth-gnashing lately over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi –admittedly a despicable crime — yet nary a peep over the regular murders of homosexuals, atheists, and apostates by that same House of Saud, nor their continuing holocaust in Yemen.
Why?
Are the “outrage-o-meters” of most Americans miscalibrated?
Or is it that Saudi Arabia is “America’s friend?”
But “America” has no friends, because “America,” as a cognitive actor, does not exist. Our occupation government has an agenda, and they have interests, and often the House of Saud and the Israeli Knesset (“House of Saul”) and the British Parliament (“House of Clod”) are aligned with those interests. Often the governments of Iran and Russia and Syria are not aligned with those interests; therefore, they are “America’s enemies.”
The previous governments of Iraq and Lybia were not aligned with those interests, and paid heavily for their impudence. Unlike Hussein and Qadafi however, “Pecs” Putin has nukes, which gives our bankster owners pause.
7 October 2018
Correspondent KM shows astonishing insight into the hearts of her adversaries as she writes that “the goal of English-only advocates… [is] to create grounds for discrimination, based on racism,” rather than to promote clarity and cultural comity. Charges of racism have become all too common and all too tedious and all too meaningless of late, yet somehow they retain their pungent arrogant condescension. Or maybe she’s right. Anything to stop the hordes of Danes and Czechs and Letts and Swedes from diluting the rich caramel macchiato that is America today.
While the united States en masse have no official language, many of the individual States exercise their legislative prerogative and recognize English. Hawaii (at least) is officially bilingual. I wouldn’t put a lot of effort into promoting any sort of official action myself. I’d rather have the market cater to my whims than have the state push me around.
As a monolingual Anglophone, I’m naturally more comfortable with and adept at English. Irrespective of that, and of KM’s demerit for having played the race card, there does seem to be Constitutional authority for an official tongue. Congress has authority to establish uniform weights and measures, and language, at its base, is a measure of meaning.
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Jason Williams, columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, claims that he is to blame for our egregious local poverty rate, and so are the rest of us. I endeavor to set him straight.
Mr Williams,
If you truly believe that you are “at fault for Cincinnati’s woeful poverty rate” then I hope you will feel free to enjoy your guilt. When you claim that because you have neglected to give enough you are responsible for the poverty rate, you give yourself too much credit. If we were to distribute your entire income among the indigent of all of Greater Cincinnatistan the difference would barely constitute a ripple.
If your larger point is that neither you nor the rest of us have done enough to help, and that by hectoring us you hope for us all to do more, then you should say as much.
To suggest that you or anyone else who hasn’t helped enough is culpable for poverty is ludicrous and insulting. Ethics are not algebraic. Not succoring is NOT the same as injuring. Otherwise, YOU would be responsible for killing my wife (long passed from complications of diabetes) for not providing the kidneys and pancreas that could have saved her sooner. Well… maybe you and she were poor tissue matches, so you’re off the hook for her. You killed some other innocent stranger instead.
See how twisted that is? I hope you continue to enjoy your ridiculous contrived artificial guilt, and if I can do anything to aggravate the condition let me know.
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15 September 2018
Owners of Apple and Samsung “smart phones” can take pride in their contributions to the betterment of Congolese cobalt miners. The material properties of cobalt apparently make it a suitable heat sink for the energetic lithium batteries that many are now carrying. From our comfortable “First World” perspective of abundance, security, and opportunity we are readily appalled by the primitive work conditions and risks involved and we are quick to pity the struggling laborers in cobalt rich Kolwezi.
The (arguably) “well-meaning” left will campaign loudly and passionately for “fair trade,” “ethical sourcing,” and “environmental responsibility,” but they neglect their history. Every successful free market society is descended from earlier ages when things got cold and hungry a lot. Through hard arduous often dangerous work, free exchange, and capital accumulation, each society eventually achieved a level of affluence that allowed it to spend more on safety, leisure, health, and education.
Until then, people are going to go into the mines, and maybe even sell their safety equipment if they can get a good price for it. It often means the difference between eating or not. Clumsy attempts to “regulate” international markets, impose minimum wages, or otherwise restrict free association and free trade condemns millions to short and painful lives of penury and privation.
“Greedy capitalists” did not create child labor.
Hunger created child labor.
“Greedy capitalists” cure hunger.
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Big government apparatchiks (and part time US Senators from Ohio) Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown act to bail out their sponsors in AmTrak, America’s socialized choo-choo, but it is we who are being railroaded with yet another insider subsidy. Though the edifice of Cincinnatistan’s Hall of Justice (or “Union Terminal” if you insist) does indeed make a powerful and evocative architectural statement, is it really worthy of tax-victim support?
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I don’t really mean it. My initial misgiving is that Brett Kavanaugh is too much in the John Roberts mold. Still, the resemblance is clear, and I like to imagine new professional opportunities for Bob Odenkirk; I’ve generally enjoyed his work.
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1 July 2018
Correspondent EM “got completely torn apart by [the] TSA” the other day, very nearly missing her flight, over which correspondent GJ opined that he has “nothing but contempt” for them.
I too have plenty of contempt for the TSA, but as a former federal employee I also sympathize. Some of us are so spectacularly incompetent at the arcana of people’s delicate little fuh-fuh-fuh-feeeeeelings that such drone work (or cashiering at the QuikkStopp by the Interstate) is the best employment that we can score.
Of course, when I actually witness one of these tax-feeders DELIGHTING in their abuse, then all sympathy fades.
Do I confirm correspondent GJ’s theory that the TSA “is just a govt work program for low-IQ individuals?” I don’t know if I confirm it, but I guess I do offer a little corroboration, as well as some counter-argument.
Irrespective of “low-IQ” employees, I’d say the TSA is more than “just a govt work program.” More importantly, it is public relations at its most nakedly honest. It is, to swipe the wit of the writers of Colony (DO NOT MISS IT!), their way of showing us who’s the bug, and who’s the kid with the magnifying glass.
“It’s either or…”
“Now isn’t the right time…”
“First we have to get rid of the welfare state…”
“First we have to get rid of democracy…”
It seems like it’s never the “right time” for steps in the libertarian direction, but is there ever a wrong time to do the right thing?
As an open borders anarchist myself, I say, “Let them starve at home or starve here.” If you want to deal harshly with trespassers onto your own ranch, then I guess that’s up to you. As for broad peaceful use easement onto MY public lands, MY sidewalks, and MY streets (paid for with MY stolen monies), I’d rather you didn’t molest my mules as they brought up my marijuana from Mexico. On the other hand, I guess I wouldn’t mind buying it at Kroger instead.
Correspondent JS asks, “Why would closed borders not be a step in a libertarian direction?” What constitutes trespass? What constitutes violence? Closing a border rather strongly suggests prohibiting people from traveling at will. How we stop them often requires brute force, usually by employees of The Occupation wearing government issued firearms. Exercising one’s right to life and liberty often takes some work, travel, and innovation. Interfering with any peaceful transit IS trespass, and caging travelers for declining to carry sanctioned documentation IS violence. And, before you play the “New Democrat Voters” card, yes, I already agree that VOTiNG is ALSO ViOLENCE, and that the only legitimate use of a franchise is defensive.
I do appreciate the temptation to “Nip it! Nip it in the bud,” but I tend to lean more towards due process than prior restraint if we’re going to infringe on people.
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