tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post3314980735938406916..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: How the GOP Will Benefit From Impending Economic CollapseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-39731211962664354322010-02-05T15:06:32.286-08:002010-02-05T15:06:32.286-08:00I think the jury is still out on their gains. The...I think the jury is still out on their gains. There just has not been a large enough sample pool in terms of electoral races to reasonably measure any meaningful gains.California bail bondshttp://www.pennybailbonds.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-20734754302120497592008-08-09T19:06:00.000-07:002008-08-09T19:06:00.000-07:00"All Republicans would gladly be Democrats if the ..."All Republicans would gladly be Democrats if the Dems would only do as the Republicans wish."<BR/><BR/>Do I ever agree; and all that worries me now is Democrats thinking they have to be Republicans to win this November.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-41314699216839449452008-03-21T02:13:00.000-07:002008-03-21T02:13:00.000-07:00Anonymous, good British humor. I liked the line: "...Anonymous, good British humor. I liked the line: "Would you like to buy this house before it falls down?"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-3441060100237353762008-03-20T15:03:00.000-07:002008-03-20T15:03:00.000-07:00About those sheep please git yerself an EDUCATION ...About those sheep please git yerself an EDUCATION & watch this !!!!<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/187.html <BR/><BR/><BR/>https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-86161396798479357852008-03-19T08:21:00.000-07:002008-03-19T08:21:00.000-07:00Damien, those are great. Do that equation three ti...Damien, those are great. Do that equation three times and you've got yourself an 'anti-Christ'. <BR/><BR/>By the way, that mathmatician talks like Bertrand Russell and A.J. Ayer wrote. I love it. LOL <BR/><BR/>Great stuff, my friend. <BR/><BR/>Ed Encho said...<BR/><BR/><EM>When it comes down to it I want you up there on that wall at The Alamo.</EM><BR/><BR/>Thanks for mentioning a vernerable site. Downtown San Antonio is one of the world's most 'inviting' spaces -- the River Walk, the Alamo, lots of nice shops and river side cafes. Lots of good music, including Tex-Mex. The food must not be missed. If you have only one city to visit in Texas --San Antonio. <BR/><BR/>Crazy Liberal said...<BR/><BR/><EM> I have a feeling of an impending false flag attack that will lead to martial law.</EM><BR/><BR/>That's my fear, as well. I hope we are both wrong. This fanatic right wing counts on our reluctance to think the unthinkable. Unthinkable for us, it's a modus operandi for them. <BR/><BR/> SadButTrue said...<BR/><BR/><EM> The powers that be have always had a way of skimming off the most benefits when the economy is doing well and putting the burdens on the lower classes when things are not so good. In the first case Smith's invisible hand is reaching into your pocket</EM><BR/><BR/>And when the invisible hand winds up in your pocket, it's not an invisible hand job --it's theft! <BR/><BR/>hizzoner said...<BR/><BR/><EM> I've theorized for years that recessions are in fact just another opportunity for the top 1% to make money.</EM><BR/><BR/>And you are absolutely correct. I've actually heard the bastards whining about 'good times'.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-75191696931272328602008-03-19T08:03:00.000-07:002008-03-19T08:03:00.000-07:00Damien, thanks for the reply.Did anyone notice E. ...Damien, thanks for the reply.<BR/><BR/>Did anyone notice E. J. Dionne's piece in the WaPo yesterday? He "gets it"...and came as close to any MSM columnist yet of saying what Len says in this post....I'll find the "linky-thing" for you but here's a "snippet":<BR/><BR/><I><B>Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy. <BR/><BR/>The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare clients. They are desperate to be bailed out by government from their own incompetence, and from the deregulatory regime for which they lobbied so hard.</I></B><BR/><BR/>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR2008031702154.html?hpid=opinionsbox1hizzonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02446264132937822026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-16975224845875910792008-03-19T06:48:00.000-07:002008-03-19T06:48:00.000-07:00ok, I can't speak French, but I can do some maths....ok, I can't speak French, but I can do some maths. Proof --<BR/><BR/>y = sin x / n <BR/>cancel the n's above and below<BR/>y = six<BR/>ans. 6<BR/><BR/>Then, there's the story of a tourist, farmer and mathematician travelling by train through Scotland. They look out the window and spot a black sheep.<BR/><BR/>Tourist: Oh look, all Scottish sheep are black.<BR/>Farmer: No, in Scotland, <EM>some</EM> sheep are black.<BR/>Mathematician: You're both wrong. In Scotland there exists at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black.<BR/><BR/>...proving once again that girls prefer football players.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-55901817035325189212008-03-19T03:25:00.000-07:002008-03-19T03:25:00.000-07:00damien sez...There is some evidence to argue, Hizz...damien sez...<BR/><BR/><EM>There is some evidence to argue, Hizzoner, that economies are never stable and will always tend to distribute assets in a skewed fashion (in fact, some simple mathematical models do exactly this). Economists might beg to differ. But a stable economy will never eventuate in Right wing, GOP, trickle-down land. The ideology is too biased. There is no acceptance of the principle that economies are meant to serve the public not the other way round. I'm not an economist but I can recognize that obliging workers to hold down 2 or 3 jobs just to stay above homelessness is an evil economy</EM><BR/><BR/>Well, my math is certainly not your level, Damien. Nevertheless, I tend to agree. I can read the charts and I know just enough stats to know that something has been screwed up in 'merika for a long time. Just recently, I found a recording (in fact, a redo by Bryan) of the famous Cross of Gold speech made by William Jennings Bryan. In those days, political conventions really meant something. Despite the famous Scopes trial, Jennings and Clarence Darrow were, in fact, on the same side of the equation. Both were 'commoners', both championed lost causes. My take is that the 'revolution' was lost in 1911 when the McNamara brothers --members of the iron workers union --plea bargained for their lives. They had been accused of an act of terrorism --blowing up the LA Times building. Darrow was accused of trying to bribe a juror and his reputation, already suffering, was shot to hell. All but forgotten now, it was billed as the "Trial of the Century". Samuel Gompers, who personally urged Darrow to take the defense, had a lot riding on the outcome, as did the entire labor movement. It was effectively the end of the American labor movement. The age of the "Robber Baron" still lives on.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-54984949795865659942008-03-18T23:38:00.000-07:002008-03-18T23:38:00.000-07:00Sorry folks I cannot post live linkshere is the l...Sorry folks I cannot post live links<BR/>here is the link on two lines. It's worth typing in!<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/<BR/>document/document_20070723.shtmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-73772341814305072922008-03-18T23:30:00.000-07:002008-03-18T23:30:00.000-07:00Great column Len, did you all notice Governor Spit...Great column Len, did you all notice Governor Spitzer, was arrested the same day Bernanke came forward to protect Wallstreet a coincidence, I don't think so. You see our good friend Governor Spitzer was one of our few friends who had fought corrupt Wallstreet, when he was Attorney General of New York.<BR/><BR/>February 14, 2008 in the Washington Post Governor Spitzer wrote an article denouncing the Bush Administration for not allowing the 50 States to enact protection laws for the borrower when purchasing homes from these unscrupulous lenders on Wallstreet. <BR/><BR/>The evidence the Fed's used was accumulated on February 14, 2008. What do you think he gets arrested for screwing, while we are being forked. The only guy that had any guts was taken out pretty dam quick.<BR/><BR/>Now, I have a great link from a BBC radio show discussing in detail the 1933 coup attempt of George Bush senior's father and friends. some of the radio show is actual original 1933 tapes. <BR/><BR/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-68000349239806793692008-03-18T18:01:00.000-07:002008-03-18T18:01:00.000-07:00Chaos is the plan, Cowboy.With Bear Stearns we got...Chaos is the plan, Cowboy.<BR/><BR/>With Bear Stearns we got a glimpse of the future: the Feds joining Chase in giving an Offer They Could Not Refuse.<BR/><BR/>With everyone's else's credit line in the margin, of course.<BR/><BR/>The Alamo is an interesting allusion, but not one we should aspire to.<BR/><BR/>Think about it: a good guerilla <I>never lets the Enemy chose the battlefield</I>.<BR/><BR/>When it really hits the fan, your best move will be to be in another room, hitting the circuit breakers. Because if you try to turn it off at the switch, you are only gonna get hit. <BR/><BR/>Remember also, the first duty of a good revolutionary is to not get caught. And finish your breakfast, too.kelley b.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12876520667186152825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-4468450189247045442008-03-18T13:21:00.000-07:002008-03-18T13:21:00.000-07:00Good post.Good post.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06227051499000939578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-67966616030487882682008-03-18T10:22:00.000-07:002008-03-18T10:22:00.000-07:00There is some evidence to argue, Hizzoner, that ec...There is some evidence to argue, Hizzoner, that economies are never stable and will always tend to distribute assets in a skewed fashion (in fact, some simple <A HREF="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mark_whi_070713_a_model_economy_prov.htm" REL="nofollow">mathematical models</A> do exactly this). Economists might beg to differ. But a stable economy will never eventuate in Right wing, GOP, trickle-down land. The ideology is too biased. There is no acceptance of the principle that economies are meant to serve the public not the other way round. I'm not an economist but I can recognize that obliging workers to hold down 2 or 3 jobs just to stay above homelessness is an evil economy, not one befitting decent people -- and certainly not one mandated by some immutable laws of Adam Smith. <BR/><BR/>No, we are seeing plain old criminality at work here. The rich will never accept the principle of income redistribution through progressive taxation. You can ask the Libertarians and the "flat taxers" whether they accept, as a working principle, that governments should ameliorate economic disparities by redistributing income and you will never get them to accept it. It's why they reject death taxes (and insist on illogical malarkey about tax cuts increasing the overall government tax take). Their economic "wisdom" may be summarized in two principles: (1) I am allowed to receive a lot of money (preferably from a government contract or monopoly situation), and (2) I always get to keep all of my money. That's it. And right now the asset strippers and flim flam merchants who made money from the S&L's are set to repeat the process. They are seeking for the US to become like the Phillipines or Indonesia: corrupt oligarchies. It's of no consequence to them how many people suffer or die in that process. All of this was avoidable, in my view.<BR/><BR/>PS. I did read one very interesting, detailed article in the 1970s by an economist who mapped the Dow Jones to global population growth. The fit was very good. In the 1970s he predicted the asset boom of the 1990s and his graphs showed a prolonged recession/depression setting in from 2007 - 2015. He's been right so far. Sadly, I lost the article some time ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-21002529262407423652008-03-18T06:52:00.000-07:002008-03-18T06:52:00.000-07:00I've theorized for years that recessions are in fa...I've theorized for years that recessions are in fact just another opportunity for the top 1% to make money.<BR/><BR/>An economy can only "boom" for a finite period of time. There is only so much liquidity in the system and once that has been milked out, there is nowhere to go but down.<BR/><BR/>That's when the manipulators at the very top of the pyrimid start the recession game...sell short or bail out with a big profit, wait for prices to tank and pick up the pieces at bargain basement prices...not to worry...they are above it all.<BR/><BR/>This cycle is stranger than most though...because the financial wizards figured out a way to pump more $$$$ into the system by creating false "equity" in real estate to turn that into cash to pump into the system. But of course the underlying value was counterfeit so the house of cards had to eventually collapse. This causes me to question whether there will be less or greater "depression profits" to be made with this downturn.<BR/><BR/>hizzhonerhizzonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02446264132937822026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-39334201994975534092008-03-18T03:49:00.000-07:002008-03-18T03:49:00.000-07:00First the neocons steal the elections. Next they s...First the neocons steal the elections. Next they start wars and plunder our country, leaving us looking in bewilderment. <BR/><BR/>Then we get angry and vote democrats to control both houses only to have them take impeachment off the table. <BR/><BR/>I have a feeling of an impending false flag attack that will lead to martial law. Why are all those detention centers (read: concentration camps) being built by Haliburton? Bush has nothing to lose by doing this and more. <BR/><BR/>Hell, we had a nice country and Bush gleefully fucked it up by design for the <B>haves</B> and <B>have mores</B>.Crazy Liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577577088343286414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-71675435136385010302008-03-17T20:16:00.000-07:002008-03-17T20:16:00.000-07:00First off, wow that is some world-class non-sequit...First off, wow that is some world-class non-sequitur there Don, I just gotta say.<BR/><BR/>Great post Len. The powers that be have always had a way of skimming off the most benefits when the economy is doing well and putting the burdens on the lower classes when things are not so good. In the first case Smith's invisible hand is reaching into your pocket, in the second it forms into a fist and punches you in the face.<BR/><BR/>Jane Smiley has another great post on the same subject at HuffPo.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/its-the-economists-stup_b_92006.html" REL="nofollow">It's the Economists, Stupid</A><BR/><BR/>"<I>And who has kept up the drumbeat for deregulation, not only here but everywhere, if not those screwy, and tenured, free-market economists? Their whole job for the last thirty years has been to prop up the egomania and greed of corporate CEOs by making that greed and ego-mania look both positive and unavoidable.</I>"<BR/><BR/>What's coming up ain't gonna be pretty, that's for sure.SadButTruehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977090207448656065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-74511415425011951732008-03-17T17:58:00.000-07:002008-03-17T17:58:00.000-07:00The whole deal is about obfuscation, the art and r...The whole deal is about obfuscation, the art and religion of building up all society ever more complex, until no one understands it, though many claim to, and a few profess educational certification that denotes them as priests who are supposed to know, BUT, who are too busy trying to and succeeding in copulating (fucking) your children you've sent off to school to be educated by these certified pedophiles.<BR/><BR/>This is the human condition. It has been the human condition for thousands of years.<BR/><BR/>Now. What to do?<BR/><BR/>Stop sending your children off to those schools for all those teachers to screw. Seems simple enough, doesn't it?<BR/><BR/>The other thing is, stop having so many god damned children, fools.<BR/><BR/>THAT is the source of human poverty, unfettered pregnancy.<BR/><BR/>The money thing will straighten itself out. It's the poverty-pregnancy thing that's going to take some real self control.<BR/><BR/>The only other alternative is the status quo.<BR/><BR/>Don Robertson, The American PhilosopherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-48352075495716394302008-03-17T17:13:00.000-07:002008-03-17T17:13:00.000-07:00When it comes down to it I want you up there on th...When it comes down to it I want you up there on that wall at The Alamo.<BR/><BR/>Now that this thing is collapsing there is an opportunity to inform and to as Saul Alinsky once said:<BR/><BR/>"rub raw the sores of discontent."<BR/><BR/>Time to once and for all put the blame for this exactly where it belongs - pinned right on the tail of the Reagan jackasses.<BR/><BR/>EEEd Enchohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115026421446447438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-49884662908843945332008-03-17T16:39:00.000-07:002008-03-17T16:39:00.000-07:00Thanks, Ed! You are absolutely correct, my friend....Thanks, Ed! You are absolutely correct, my friend. Keep the heat on and keep up the great work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-28263233613115423402008-03-17T16:19:00.000-07:002008-03-17T16:19:00.000-07:00Another brilliant effort Len, it has been obvious ...Another brilliant effort Len, it has been obvious to those who truly understand the monstrosity of this system that the end game has always involved turning us into cattle for their prison gulags.<BR/><BR/>I'm tellin' you pardner, the shit is about to hit the fan and the fan is on high.<BR/><BR/>All the more reason to keep pouring it the fuck on and getting this all out while there is still time.<BR/><BR/>EEEd Enchohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115026421446447438noreply@blogger.com