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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Motive for Mumbai Attacks Emerges
A Deccan Mujahedeen gunman has spoken by telephone to a television station from within the Oberoi Trident Hotel (which has since been raided by Indian special forces units), and said the motivation of the attacks was to end persecution of … Continue reading
Where have the strong women gone?
I’ve now read my first real “vampire” book. Okay, so it’s a werewolf book with vampires, but I’m told this is *the* genre these days. Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn. Not bad, not bad in a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Synova's Page, Uncategorized
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Athens into Persepolis
Rasmussen has polled the public on whether they agreed with President Bush’s characterization of capitalism as the “highway to the American Dream.” Only 44% voiced support for capitalism, 33% were undecided and 22% expressed opposition. A grim finding. Only Republicans … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, History
Tagged American Dream, Athens, Bush, capitalism, Carthage, Democrats, Economics, enemy, free market, History, Persepolis, poll, Rasmussen, Republicans, Rome
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Nebraska Boots Ayers
A bit of old news I didn’t have a chance to mention, but it seems that grotesque little terrorist William Ayers won’t be speaking at my beloved UNL. Good for us.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Ayers, Bill Ayers, Nebraska, Terrorism, terrorist, University of Nebraska, UNL
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On Market Forces
(via: Inkcinct)
Posted in Economics, Humor
Tagged bailouts, capitalism, cartoon, comic, inkcinct, market forces
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A Solution to the Financial Crisis? Sharia!
Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni (of Rogue Economics fame), blames the lingering financial crisis in part on the American War on Terrorism, which inaugurated an allegedly “suspicious attitude…toward Muslim investors.” She goes further though, and argues that the only solution to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged academia, academics, bankers, banking, case studies, clients, despotism, dictatorship, Economics, finance, financial crisis, gendr, home loans, islam, Islamic finance, Italian, Loretta Napoleoni, married women, marxism, Marxist, medieval, militarims, Muslim, North Korea, property rights, rogue economics, scholars, sharia, social responsibility, Somalia, Soviet Union, UNM, Vermont, War on Terrorism, women
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Morality of the Bailout
In a Q&A session at the University of the Pacific in October, Dinesh D’Souza was asked about the moral dimensions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. I don’t agree entirely with the causality he posits exists between irresponsible consumer behavior … Continue reading
Bits and Pieces: 11-18-08
Russ Roberts:”Oh Please-President Bush has lost the right to say this.” Also, he has a great Mea Culpa on why he missed this, and a discussion that fits right into my theme about how many missed this meltdown, and advice … Continue reading
Posted in Lance's Page
Tagged Economics, Investing, Playboy, spam, trade, Wall Street
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Flight of the Flightless
Boy, I love this charming ad for the Washington state secret tax on the poor lottery.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged ad, advertising, birds, flight, flightless, marketing, poor, tax, video, Washington Lottery, youtube
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Huckabee: Enemy of Libertarian Republicans Everywhere
Mike Huckabee’s new book is coming out, and in it he takes some pretty heavy shots at libertarian and economic conservatives who don’t share his populist big government views. The real threat to the Republican Party is something we saw … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Libertarianism
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Peter Schiff’s Payback
The insufferable Peter Schiff has a video going around, which frankly, is just brilliant. He may be unpleasant at times, but he nailed this thing, and took mounds of abuse while doing so. More importantly, I KNOW HOW HE FEELS! … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Investing, Lance's Page
Tagged credit crisis, debt, Economics, finance, Investing, Peter Schiff, risk
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De-leveraging
Given the topic of tonight’s podcast I thought a little visual data might help. First, the explosion in US debt: Henry Blodget explains: From the early 1920s through 1985, the average level of debt-to-GDP in this country was 155%. The … Continue reading
A Scandal in Seven Hills
The premier of New South Wales, Mr. Nathan Rees, was reportedly surprised to discover that an illegal brothel was in operation above his offices, in a commercial building in the Seven Hills area outside Sydney. Unfortunately for the brothel’s owners, … Continue reading
Malaysia’s War on Tomboys
Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council issued a warning to human rights groups yesterday that should they criticize its efforts to repress “tomboy behaviour” among Malaysian women, it could result in…further repression. One has to marvel at this sort of thinking. How … Continue reading
Elephant Memory
The less widely known corollary of elephant memory.
The Voice of Murder
The subject of the bloody 1965 Indonesian mass murder of suspected communists is not often openly discussed history even in today’s Indonesia. Given the pervasive silence, estimates vary on the actual number of people killed, but it’s generally accepted as … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, History
Tagged 1965, antidemocratic, Asian communism, Associated Press, Autocracy, banyan tree, Cambodia, China, CIA, clove cigarettes, communism, communist, Darmo, death tool, decapitation, democracy, freedom, Hamid, History, Indonesia, Indonesian, Indonesian massacre, islam, Islamic clerics, Javanese sarong, mass graves, mass murder, murder, Nahdlatul Ulama, nationalism, PKI, pogrom, preemptive murder, prisoners, purge, Quran, religion, sledgehammer, Suharto, Sukarno, Sulchan, US, Vietnam
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When the Future is Boring
It seems the marriage of David Pollard and Amy Taylor is heading toward divorce, due to Pollard’s virtual affair with a virtual prostitute, uncovered by a virtual private detective hired by Taylor. It occurs to me that the key thing … Continue reading
Scars Are Sexy
According to research conducted in the UK, women find men with facial scars more physically attractive, if the scar appears to be the result of violence. Unfortunately it may be a brief affair for the scarred, as some theories suggest … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged attraction, facial scars, masculinity, men, personality types, relationships, research, scars, sex, UK, violence, women
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The Cardboard Armor Lifestyle
Modern pessimists of the human condition often see the loss of mankind’s dignity deriving from deviation from traditional religious orders. Their secular opponents see the fall conditioned by a retreat from scientific rationalism. They can have their debate. For my … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged cardboard armor, human dignity, LARP, LARPer, lifestyles, religion, science, scientific rationalism, secularism
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Sarkozy The Georgian Hero?
Not sure how true this is, but here’s what the London Times says about how close Putin came to over throwing the Georgian government. With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Foreign affairs
Tagged ceasefire, France, Georgia, Putin, Russia, Russo-Georgian War, Saakashvili, Sarkozy
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Getting Drunk with Oilfield Trash
I was sitting in an airport lounge yesterday and got to chatting with a member of the self-described “oilfield trash” who was bound for Lagos, and then for an FPSO in the Gulf of Guinea. These are rough and ready … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Africa, commerical-adventurer, drinking, drunk, energy, FPSO, grandchildren, Gulf of Guniea, gunboats, incompetent, international watrers, Lagos, Nigeria, offshore exploration, oil, oil exploration, oil reserves, oilfield trash, piracy, pirates, quasi-war, West Africa
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Flaccid in Mexico City
When you think of the numerous problems routinely facing residents of Mexico City, things like an astronomical violent crime rate, standstill traffic, urban poverty, collapsing infrastructure, chronic water shortages, claustrophobia-inducing overcrowding and toxic pollution might come to mind. Even aircraft … Continue reading
Whoopee, its bailout time!
From the comments at Financial Times: Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — In a surprise move today, Whoopee Cushions Inc was approved bank holding company status by the Fed to enable the company access to the recently revised TURD scheme. Imported far-eastern … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Lance's Page
Tagged bailout, Bloomberg, Federal Reserve, Financial Times, industry, Mr Magoo, satire, TURD, whoopee cushions
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Is it the Means or the End that Matters?
Michele Catalano writing at Pajamas Media yesterday, defending Obama’s call for (at one point) mandatory community service, gets it completely wrong. To backtrack a little bit for those who haven’t been paying attention the last week or so, at President … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Libertarianism
Tagged community service, controversy, draft, Michele Catalano, Obama, pajamas media, slavery
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Post Election Polling?
I’m signed up to recieve emails for Zogby Polls so I too noticed the strange questions a reader at Clayton Cramer’s blog did. If you knew Barack Obama supported a plan to place a 75% excise tax on the sale … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged 2008 election, gun control, Obama, polling, Zogby
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The Joys of the Recession Vacation
Don’t complain to me if there aren’t any new posts on ASHC. I’m sitting on a beach in Miami and thus completely out of the necessary frame of mind to bitch about Obama and triumph of statism. Now, these other … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ASHC, bikinis, Catch-22, cocktail, fire sale prices, Florida, hotels, miami, Obama, palm tree, recession, recession vacation, south florida, statism, vacation
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Applied Russian Bride Rule
Our friend Steve Newton picks up on my post of Rudius Media’s forum rules, and applies it to the comment management of Delaware Liberal.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Ayn Rand, cult, Delaware, Delaware Libertarian, forum, libertarian, Radius Media, Rudius Media, rules, Steve Newton
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Tequila into Diamonds
Scientists have developed a process for turning tequila into diamonds. I’m more of a whiskey man myself.
On Forum Dissent
Quite possibly the best board rule of all time: If you expect to come here, spout idiotic opinions, write poorly, or just otherwise make an ass of yourself, don’t expect to be mollycoddled. If you are not smart, not funny, … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
Tagged board, Dissent, educational system, forum, rules, Russian bride, web
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Sarah Palin in 2012
Rasmussen reports today that Sarah Palin is the choice of 64% of Republicans for the 2012 Republican nomination, and that a staggering 91% of Republicans have a favorable impression of her (equally remarkable, 65% rate their view as ‘highly favorable’). … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics
Tagged 1976, 2012, conservative, establishmentarian, Foreign affairs, George HW Bush, Gerald Ford, GOP, grassroots, Howard Baker, John McCain, nomination, Palin, poll, Rasmussen, Reagan, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin
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A Very Modern Crime
A daring scheme to use craigslist to rob a bank was ultimatley foiled by DNA.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Anthony Curcio, bank robbery, craigslist, Crowdsourcing, DNA evidence
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Three Banks to Rule the World
The winners of the global financial turmoil look to be three American ‘superbanks’: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. The institutions have all grown to occupy such a predominant position in the marketplace, that all three recently … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged Asia, Bank of America, banking, banks, democracy, domestic deposits, Europe, exports, financial crisis, housing crisis, JP Morgan Chase, markets, recession, superbanks, Wells Fargo
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Government by Rich and Poor
Sadly, Myrna Bushell, Bideford (UK) town councillor and stripper/phone sex business owner, is resigning her office due to a lack of respect from colleagues. But in parting she also cited the time constraints necessary for local councilpeople, concluding that you … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Bideford, government, Myrna Bushell, phone sex, resignations, stripper, town council, UK, unemployed, United Kingdom, wealthy
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Operation Leper
RedState launches Operation Leper to expose recently unemployed McCain aides who are trying to pin their failures on Sarah Palin. Hardly unexpected. As Grover Norquist noted yesterday, the only time the McCain campaign led the polls was during the two … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Grover Norquist, McCain, Operation Leper, Palin, Sarah Palin
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Change the Leadership
This is good. This is great. This is not. John Boehner has presided over nothing but Republican defeats, why not keep him around eh? If you’ve had enough House GOP, you might notice someone of quality was reelected.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Eric Cantor, GOP, House of Representatives, John Boehner, John Shadegg, Republican leadership, Roy Blunt
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Blaming the Social Conservatives
As readers will know, I’m certainly no apologist for the social conservative movement in either its style or purposes. But it seems to me to be an awful injustice to lay at their feet the defeat of John McCain, in … Continue reading
1948 After All
Interesting: [W]e are on pace for the worst reaction to an election since Truman won in 1948. Interestingly, the only times the DJIA has ever declined by more than 1% [are] the day after a presidential election when the Democratic Party won complete control. (Bespoke)
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Investing
Tagged 1948, Democratic Party, DJIA, Dow Jones, harry truman, Obama, Stock market, Truman
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Our President
Yes, Obama has made history and been elected president. I didn’t vote for him nor support him, but I have supported every US president in my lifetime and President Obama will be no different. I am going to disagree with … Continue reading
Animal Sacrifice and Sacrificial Punditry
Delighted with the American election result for whatever reason, Kurdish villagers in Cavustepe, Turkey have sacrificed 44 sheep to honor Barack Obama. They also smeared the blood of the offering on Obama campaign posters, purportedly for good luck. Now there’s … Continue reading →