Jonah Goldberg at his best, and I'm over at the tailgate with him.....time for all you little Mao wannabes to dry your eyes and wipe the snot from your noses.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snrpt5

Here is the link to the Economic Symposium with Lee Ohanian on October 5, 2015. Very nicely recorded by the University video people if I must say.

https://mediasite.ecu.edu/MS/Play/3e34ba6367ac48c58bfff49a6c704aa31d

Here is the Interview with Lee Ohanian on Carolina News and Views. The Lunchtime symposium was also recorded and I will post that shortly when I receive it.

http://www.newsandviewswithtomandsadie.com/october-5-2015-ucla-economist-lee-ohanian-need-a-gop-communicator-obama-wants-un-to-police-america/

Here is a public program I did last week. I start at minute 17, so move the cursor there if you like. Someone emailed me and said I was "terribly condescending".

This is actually an improvement since a couple years ago, I went on this program and someone emailed me and called me "fat a$$". Well as my late father always told me "son, know who you are and make the most of it".



http://www.newsandviewswithtomandsadie.com/september-23-2015-goodbye-yogi-a-look-at-the-economy-with-ecu-economics-professor-randy-parker/

The more I listen the more I like this guy.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/24/blacklivesmatter-sanders-clinton-anger-column/32055507/

Welcome home Herbert Marcuse....

Let us hear from the great Marxist scholar (a contradiction if ever there was one) himself from his monumental work Repressive Tolerance (and how's that for a title?):


Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.

Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.



Now let's hear from the great sociologist at Washington State University from her syllabus as discussed in yesterday's post:


Gross generalizations, stereotypes, and derogatory/oppressive language are not acceptable. Use of racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, classist, or generally offensive language in class or submission of such material will not be tolerated. (This includes “The Man,” “Colored People,” “Illegals/Illegal Aliens,” “Tranny” and so on - or referring to women/men as females or males) If I see it or hear it, I will correct it in class since it can be a learning moment for many students. Repeated use of oppressive and hateful language will be handled accordingly – including but not limited to removal from the class without attendance or participation points, failure of the assignment, and - in extreme cases - failure for the semester



Well there you have it ladies and gentlemen, there you have it! My fellow speech Stasi I salute you!

That's right...you are forbidden from using the terms male/female and he/she.

Read it for yourself. It is in black and white. I guess the angle is that if you use words like male and female and have figured out who you are, it is oppressive to use those words to those who have not figured out who they are, at least where gender is concerned.

How about this....you don't oppress my freedom of expression which the first amendment protects, and which I in no way mean to be offensive when using the words male/female and he/she and I'll help you along on your life's journey and let you be who you are and protect you against those who wish to do you harm while you are living it and working these things out.

Do we have a deal?

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423375/washington-university-ban-syllabus-male-female-Breikss-professor

I miss this guy....

Christopher Hitchens is gone now and that is too bad. Although I frequently found him to be unnecessarily acerbic he was a brilliant mind. Well, I finally got to his book God is not great. It will certainly shake your faith, but there are many ways for that to be done. I have never bought the line that one must believe all the doctrines of a particular religion ... lock, stock and barrel ...or you are not a "true" believer. Pssshaw to that. This is when religion can be the "metal shackle" that Hitchens long claimed it to be.

Anyway he has true wisdom here that I am going to quote at some length. Here he is talking about his abandonment of Marxism:

"Those of us who had sought a rational alternative to religion had reached a terminus that was comparably dogmatic. What else was to be expected of something that was produced by the close cousins of chimpanzees? Infallibility? Thus, dear reader, if you have come this far and found your own faith undermined-as I hope-I am willing to say that to some extent I know what you are going through. There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking."

He went on in the book to say that he would be willing to posit that religion does some good in the world if the same religious people were brave enough and willing to say that religion was and is a source of great evil.

Here here old boy, and God bless your soul Hitch.

My faith is shaken but neither subverted nor abandoned. And I will not let it be a mental shackle. The crusades for an equitable income distribution and the scourge of corporate and personal taxation penance are all the mental shackles this country needs at the moment. Throw in the "(insert suitable color here) lives matter" gobbledygook and our national residence in purgatory is set for some time to come.

Radical Muslims are Nazis. What's the problem with voicing that verity?

It is just that Nazis were easier on the goats.



http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/08/25/espn-suspends-curt-schilling-for-comparing-islamists-to-nazis/

China on the brink....

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/business/dealbook/a-warning-on-china-seems-prescient.html?emc=eta1&_r=0


There is no way to see what is going on in China as anything but a disaster happening. Will it blow into the big one? Probably not. But I remember the Chinese response to the 2008 meltdown. They indicated back then 1) Ha Ha Ha! and 2) the unworkable nature of capitalism and the superiority of the planned economic model.

Come again there Comrade?

The Chinese economy is 22% construction oriented. We were 6% at the height of the bubble popping. And all great calamities have had a simultaneous equity and real estate market unraveling.
Lots of luck Charlie. Now maybe you will stop your bellicosity in the South China Sea?

Gotta love dogs......

The Pope is from Argentina remember........

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0724oc.html

....and I don't need any lectures on economics from someone from Argentina. It is a jolly good thing the pope is only infallible on ecclesiastical matters (or at least since Vatican II; I guess he was fallible before that), because when he opens his mouth on economics he shows the world, well, that he is from Argentina, i.e., an economic know-nothing. Throwing that clown de Blasio in the mix makes it all the more fitting.

Mayor de Blasio

BTW Argentina was the third wealthiest country in the world in 1900. They picked the Soviet

Model after WWII, just as India did, and continue to wallow in economic backwardness. And it is all self-imposed. No thanks. 

Jockies fixing a race? I don't believe it!

Let me ask if I may? Just how far from Dr. Mengele do you think you are?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/07/21/planned-parenthood-abortion-fetus-parts-kirsten-powers/30426475/

A Wall Street Journal quote regarding Uber and Democrats.....

"However open Democrats may be to revolutionary new definitions of marriage, the thought that there might be some nonsexual for-profit contracts between consenting adults keeps progressives up at night."

The stunning beauty of that sentence is incredible.

Any Questions?

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-euro--monetary-unity-to-political-disunity

Welcome home Herbert Stein.....

Ok all you students of history out there, wake up and watch Greece. There is a Great Depression in action happening before your eyes in real time. It will not be pretty. Look at what we have here.... A Prime Minister that is putting a bail out to a referendum and then campaigning against it. That is right....ask the Germans to prolong the bail out and then tell everyone to vote against it. That is nuts.

But far worse is the fact that the people in power are Marxists, Maoists, communists and even a sprinkling of Nazis in there. Throw in a healthy dash of socialists and you have quite a concoction.

Here's a thought, why not pay for all the stuff you want yourself. That is a real novel idea isn't it? Whether you like it or not that is going to be right around the corner.

Mind you, none of this business has anything to do with Greece paying back what they owe, it is about stringing the bail out along. Keep lending to us and we will make our payments...but on our terms and not yours. Here's an answer to that....stick it.

The Greeks deserve everything they got coming. As the late great Herbert Stein said "something that can't go on forever won't." Welcome home Herbert Stein.

Careful what you wish for there old boy....

I will expect Congressman Butterfield to suggest this change by the close of business today.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420142/america-one-nation-indivisible

Earth days of yester-year....

http://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocalyptic-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-2/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=perry18earthday

From today's Wall Street Journal...vote for Hillary and this is what you have coming. Say hi to Herbert Marcuse again.

From columnist George F. Will’s keynote address at the inaugural Disinvitation Dinner, hosted in New York City on April 15 by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale to honor those whose invitations to speak at U.S. universities were retracted because of their views:

Free speech has never been, in the history of our republic, more comprehensively, aggressively and dangerously threatened than it is now. The Alien and Sedition Acts arose from a temporary, transitory fever and were in any case sunsetted and disappeared. The fevers after and during the First World War and in the early culture war era also were eruptions of distemper rooted in local conditions and local issues bound to disappear, which they did.
Today’s attack is different. It’s an attack on the theory of freedom of speech. It is an attack on the desirability of free speech and indeed if listened to carefully and plumbed fully, what we have today is an attack on the very possibility of free speech. The belief is that the First Amendment is a mistake. . . .
Yesterday the Democratic Party, the oldest political party in the world, the party that guided this country through two world wars and is more responsible than any other for the shape of the modern American state—the Democratic Party’s leading and prohibitively favored frontrunner candidate for the presidential nomination announced four goals for her public life going forward, one of which is to amend the Bill of Rights to make it less protective. It’s an astonishing event. She said that she wants to change the First Amendment in order to further empower the political class to regulate the quantity, content and timing of political speech about the political class—and so far as I can tell there’s not a ripple of commentary about this on the stagnant waters of the American journalistic community.

The statistics are shocking.....

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-matters-more-productivity-slowdown.html

Don't call them ISIS or ISIL or Daesh.....They are the United Pretend State of Goat Foggers.

That's UPSOGF for short.

Gonna throw my daughter off the Leaning Tower of Pizza? I got three words for you and the first one isn't "I".

Apparently ISIS is going to throw homosexuals off the Tower of Pizza!

I hope they at least let my step daughter and her life partner get a slice of pepperoni before they give them the old heave ho!



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2963229/ISIS-vow-Rome-throw-homosexuals-leaning-tower-PIZZA.html

Happy Valentine's Day!

Why not?

The world burns and the president lectures us on the moral equivalency of Christianity and Islam. We are in a lot of (insert word here that rhymes with trucking) trouble.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/06/obamas_comparison_of_christianity_to_radical_islam_defies_logic_125517.html

Modern Love. That Geek must be gay (and there is nothing wrong with that).

Quote of the year so far....

Ralph Peters: "The burning of the Jordanian pilot to ISIS was better than the best sex they have ever had and it is easier on the goats."

M-A-R-C-O....P-O-L-O!

Marco Polo (World Traveler) is quoted as saying the following, “The law which their Prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.”

How do I love thee? Let us count the ways...and add the Jordanian pilot to the list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamic_terrorist_attacks

Wisdom from football carries over to the track.

http://www.paulickreport.com/horseplayers-category/towers-patriots-coach-bill-belichick-would-be-an-excellent-horseplayer/

This Lady has guts and courage.

http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/24893/how_to_answer_the_paris_attack.html?breadcrumb=%2Fexperts%2F2635%2Fayaan_hirsi_ali

Wisdom from the 18th century....

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire

Which one is the scum sucking Nazi?

Answer: Every one of them. There is no difference between these pathetic sub-human animals.

Nazis among us. "It is us today. It will be you tomorrow."

For all you young folks out there who have ever wondered what it was like in the 1930s when Naziism was on the rise, well wonder no more. You are living it. Radical Islam is of the same DNA that gave us Adolf Hitler and all of his brown shirted, jack booted little dears. They must be resisted and destroyed. Like Hitler, they kill in the name of a higher authority and exterminate you for no other reason than being Jewish (see Paris Deli for but one example), or Christian, or impure and an infidel. If they are the pure ones, then you are impure and must be put to the sword or AK-47.

Time to pick a side...today. The global war on Western values is in full swing. As Haile Selassie said before the League of Nations after Ethiopia was invaded by Italy in the 1930s, "It is us today. It will be you tomorrow." If you think this is just about Paris, you need to read the line above one more time.

Hey Islamo-Nazis....screw you. The caption says "100 lashes if you don't die laughing."