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DanielMuff replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 2:49 PM

"Yet somehow, despite offering no product of any worth whatsoever, this company not only makes payroll every week, but also generates strong profits."

lol

 

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LogisticEarth replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 3:00 PM

Don't know if you guys noticed, but Edgar the Exploiter, the follow-up to George Ought to Help has finally been released:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbYM2EDz40

Basically about the miniumum wage, not too shabby but it would have been interesting looking into some other topics on the employer-employee relationship too.

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Jack Roberts replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 3:27 PM

Qatar is an interesting experiment. I recently visited there, it is a shame that the west did not build cities this fast.

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John James replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 4:58 PM

LogisticEarth:
Don't know if you guys noticed, but Edgar the Exploiter, the follow-up to George Ought to Help has finally been released

No, had no idea about that. wink

 

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Wheylous replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 5:30 PM

:P

 

Also, MLK's former assistant wants to end the Fed:

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John James replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 7:25 PM

Did you know that college students make $30k-50k per year?

 

CNN's Gloria Berger takes special care to remind everyone of that...

 

 

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Wesker1982 replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 7:33 PM

Stefan Molyneux will be interviewing David Barker sometime in the future 

 

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Clayton replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 8:00 PM

LOL - I never broke $30K even when I was working full-time until after I finished college. How out of touch are these people? They land a $350K cable anchor contract and now they think $30K is "college student income"? Are they stupid? Do their brains shrink in proportion to their income?

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John James replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 9:12 PM

Clayton:
Are they stupid? Do their brains shrink in proportion to their income?

No.  I guarantee if you just stopped that bitch on the street and asked her how much an average college student makes, she'd probably give you the correct answer that they are broke as a joke and have quite a bit of debt.

I think it was pretty evident Paul bashing.  She need to marginalize the fact that he was doing so well, so she has to marginalize the demographic.  And of course, what's the default way to marginalize Paul's support?  "It's all just a bunch of college kids who want to smoke pot and are in their 'fight the Man' stage".

The obvious problem is Paul's support goes well beyond that...he takes roughly 42% of the under-40 vote.  Think about that.  This is not just "pot-smoking college kids".

 

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gotlucky replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 9:17 PM

It's possible she was trying to say that young people largely make up that demographic, and by accident she included college kids because she knows that a lot of college kids support Ron Paul.  Normally, I would give the benefit of the doubt.  The thing is, she was specifically talking about the 30k-50k demographic, not just young people in general.  And she repeatedly stated that it was college kids making 30k-50k.  One time could have been a mistake, but in her case she just kept repeating that bullshit.

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gotlucky replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 9:27 PM

Headline on Drudge: "TAX RATE SHOULD BE ZERO" with a picture of Ron Paul.  The article the he links to is actually titled "Remaining Republican presidential candidates spar at South Carolina debate".  The headline Drudge gave it is almost entirely irrelevant to the article itself, with only two sentences having to do with his headline:

The five remaining candidates also sought to outdo one another in calling for lower taxes.

Paul won that competition handily, saying he thought the top rate should be zero.

Does anyone know what his game is?  Years ago I heard he was a libertarian, but after reading his wikipedia page, it says he is a populist conservative.  It seems to me almost as if he has been trying to promote Ron Paul, but I don't know if maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see.

 

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John James replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 9:52 PM

Drudge headlines are quite often not the main subject of the article they link to.  That's a large part of his whole popularity.  He knows how to write a headline.

 

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John James replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 10:05 PM

 

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Freedom4Me73986 replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 10:23 PM

 

 

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Gero replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 10:23 PM

Major Event: Wikipedia Blackout

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Neodoxy replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 10:29 PM

@Gero

Holy ****

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gotlucky replied on Mon, Jan 16 2012 10:53 PM

@ JJ

Yeah, I've just been trying to figure out if he has a motive at all in regards to RP - other than trying to make lots of $$$.

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John James replied on Tue, Jan 17 2012 12:28 AM

Joe Scarborough laments the fall of Huntsman, repeatedly calls him "the most conservative" in the race, and says now all that's left is a bunch of "big government conservatives".

Joe Scarborough Laments Jon Huntsman's Withdrawal From GOP Race (VIDEO)

 

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Hehe.  Even Rush Limbaugh is calling bs.

 

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skylien replied on Tue, Jan 17 2012 1:51 AM

The NYT about „how Yoga can wreck your body“. Looks like that article did stir up a hornet’s nest. Read the comments at NYT and the Guardian.

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, qui custodes custodient? Was that right for 'Who watches the watcher who watches the watchmen?' ? Probably not. Still...your move, my lord." Mr Vimes in THUD!
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John James replied on Tue, Jan 17 2012 2:20 AM

A really nice piece.  For those who try to claim "Ron Paul's not trying to win anything.  EVEN HE SAYS SO!"  (ht LRC PT)

Focusing on Nomination, Paul Plots a Backup Plan

[...] He added: “How much leverage do I have? How many more votes am I going to get? You know, the more pressure they feel, the more they might be willing to look at some of those issues. We want to change things.”

But that is a fallback strategy, and Mr. Paul and his advisers say they are in it to win. They see a route to obtaining the 1,144 delegates needed by not overemphasizing primaries in expensive media markets, especially those where it is harder for independents to vote, and focusing on less-flashy contests where the expected cost per delegate is weighted more in their favor.

They will also try to win delegates through the machinery of state parties, where Paul supporters are now embedded in the apparatus. In Iowa, for example, whose delegates are not explicitly tied to caucus results, they believe they can take delegates that might otherwise be awarded to Rick Santorum, who essentially tied for first place with Mr. Romney, one Paul official said.

This “Moneyball”-like approach to delegates, which takes a page from the 2008 campaign of Barack Obama, is about to be put into play. Mr. Paul may make only one stop in Florida before that state’s Jan. 31 primary and will instead focus his efforts after the South Carolina primary on Saturday on caucuses in Colorado, Maine, Minnesota and Nevada and other places where the cost of television and mail programs is less expensive and where election rules favor his strategy. [...]

 

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John James replied on Tue, Jan 17 2012 3:56 AM

A great one for the "conservatives" with foreign policy issues:

 

 

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fbc91 replied on Tue, Jan 17 2012 9:46 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGrFbXgh-0

Ron Paul SC Debate Highlights.

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John James replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 2:05 AM

If you haven't "Like"ed Ron Paul's page on Facebook yet, could you take a sec and do that please?

 

This is embarassing.

 

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John James replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 2:53 AM

I hear a few hundred thousand dollars in S.C. is like a few million dollars in places like Florida...

 

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John James replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 3:21 AM

SC State Senators Come Forward to Endorse Ron Paul for President

 

 

 

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John James replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 3:46 AM

Send this to any religious voters you know...

(Prominent Baptist Minister offers amazing endorsement of Ron Paul..h/t LRC PT)

 

Why Ron Paul?

 

  

 

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John James replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 6:18 AM

Okay this SC State Senator Tom Davis guy (see above) is cooler than I thought...

 

State Senator Tom Davis endorses…

January 15, 2012 by

…the Mises Academy!

State Senator Tom Davis (who also just endorsed Ron Paul for president) of South Carolina (which is about to have its primary) posted this on his Facebook page last Tuesday:

I just enrolled in a course offered by the Mises Academy on Ludwig von Mises’ classic work, “Theory of Money & Credit.” Attention will be focused on Mises’ theory of value to money and development of (what we now call) Austrian business cycle theory. I highly recommend the academy’s courses. I took one on Rothbard’s “Man, Economy and State” last fall and loved it.

Bob Murphy, who taught all the Man, Economy, and State courses, will be teaching the Theory of Money and Credit course as well.

See what Senator Davis loves about our courses by enrolling in one today!

 

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Wesker1982 replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 10:16 AM

It is cool to know a senator is reading Rothbard and Mises. 

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John James replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 12:23 PM

That's nothing...he's taking classes at the Mises Academy

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John James replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 12:24 PM

This was too good to pass up

 

Mark Wahlberg would have stopped 9/11

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Pretend movie tough-guy/real-life jackass Mark Wahlberg has an interview in the new issue of Men’s Fitness, and let’s just get right to it:

On being scheduled to be on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11:

“If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.’”

So, by extension, according to Mark Wahlberg, all the people who were on those planes but did not prevent them from crashing were pussies. Who didn’t love their kids as much as he does. And the people who fought back on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania were lumbering doofuses and crashed anyway.

Clearly that’s not how Mark Wahlberg, who starred in ‘the Italian Job’, would have done it. He would have defeated the terrorists with his movie punches, then landed the plane, on time, and killed the Arab-looking baggage guys just in case. That sure would have been exciting to see! If it’s not too much trouble maybe Wahlberg could dig up some of the lazy assholes who died that day and act it out for me.

 

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skylien replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 1:29 PM

Bryan Caplan reposts his post from 2007 of what a President Ron Paul could actually do.

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, qui custodes custodient? Was that right for 'Who watches the watcher who watches the watchmen?' ? Probably not. Still...your move, my lord." Mr Vimes in THUD!
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Eric080 replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 5:40 PM

Paul campaign suing the maker of the "anti"-Huntsman ad:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-18/ron-paul-campaign-sues-makers-of-video-deriding-gop-ex-canidate-huntsman.html

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Jan 18 2012 9:50 PM

Wait till the media gets a load of this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087812/Rick-Santorums-wife-Karen-love-affair-abortion-doctor.html

Oh wait, it doesn't involve airline tickets. Nevermind.

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Jargon replied on Thu, Jan 19 2012 12:59 AM

This is not good. All the gingrich people will go to romney.

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John James replied on Thu, Jan 19 2012 10:23 AM

She Is Already the First Lady

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Lew Rockwell

 

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