It’s funny, BTW, how the Left are against rich white immigration, and the “Right” are against poor brown immigration – they do have something in common, don’t they.
– serial commenter Alisa
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“Yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is a terrible thing to do — unless there’s a fire.” Thomas Dolan, Barron’s. He was writing about a wonderful financial market practice – sometimes legal, sometimes not – known as “naked short-selling”. His article explains what that means. I got interested after getting a DVD in the mail, called The Wall Street Conspiracy, that reckons that this practice was responsible for destroying many an honest business. Sounds a bit like Michael Moore, but I will give it a view to see if it stacks up or is a pile of crap. One quick thought: the idea of selling something you don’t own or haven’t even borrowed yet does sound awfully close to outright fraud, like insuring a house against fire if you don’t even own the house. Or like fractional reserve banking……….Aaarrgggghhh… March 19th, 2012 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
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I dislike windmills because they are inefficient, destabilise the grid and put up my electricity bills. That I think, should be enough to stop building the things. That they kill bats and birds is not something that we should making too much of a fuss about. Buses, aircraft, and just about everything that moves does too. If we ban windmills because of the threat they pose to wildlife then logically there is an equal case to do the same to really important things. Remember, the Green lobby don’t actually love animals, they hate humans and anything they can do to screw up our society they will do. – Bishop Hill commenter “AndyS” March 15th, 2012 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
(David Cameron is) a communitarian, he is not clever, but he is fashionable. – Delectably named commenter ‘New Boiled Potato Peeler’ March 12th, 2012 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
I’m single and have no children and I would love to meet someone – but looking like Kim Jong-il doesn’t help. – William Cheong, 43, a plumber who lives in Acton, West London. March 9th, 2012 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
The current U K problem seems to be that despite the growing conflicts there of principles with interests, there is no “grass roots” movement nor electorate concerns that no election party is strong enough to represent principles. – Redoubtable commenter RRS March 8th, 2012 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Amazingly, @SteveBakerMP is a Tory. But when it comes to preventing bank abuses, he’s the man: http://bit.ly/yVwuXT March 7th, 2012 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. – Matt Ridley hails The Beginning Of The End Of Wind. Let’s hope he’s right. The piece is quoted from at greater length by Bishop Hill and at WUWT. See, or rather, hear also: Matt Ridley’s eloquent recorded talk a while back, on the general subject of environmental scaremongering, of the sort that has been used to excuse the wind farm disaster, also linked to by Bishop Hill. March 5th, 2012 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
“When egalitarian redistributors make an effort to justify the assumption that the state has the legitimate right to rearrange entitlements to achieve equality, it’s usually in the form of an invocation of the theory that all production is inextricably joint, that is, that all that you have (at least above the barest and meanest possible kind of brute existence) would be impossible without the farmers in the fields growing the crops that nourish you, the cop on the beat protecting you from thieves, and so on, and that none of the inputs into that process could be added or withdrawn. It’s the cop on the beat, i.e., the state, however, that gets the attention, since it’s assumed that the enforcement of claims to wealth and income is what accounts for the fact of your having wealth and income at all, and thus the state, as the sine qua non of that wealth and income, is entitled to dispose of all of it.” March 2nd, 2012 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
“I think it’s an interesting reflection on politics today when the choice in a major election is between a drunken, possibly alcoholic, philanderer and a philanderer. I’ve nothing at all against booze, excessive consumption of such, extra-marital legovers nor even illegitimate children. All add enormously to the gaiety and variety of life and no society with even the slightest claim to being liberal or free would say different. But it is an interesting insight into the characters of those who rise to the top in politics, isn’t it?” Well, if you explore the history of the 18th Century and 19th, for example, you will find political figures who were drunks, wife-beaters, adulterers, duellists (Andrew Jackson, the US president, fought several, as did British political figures such as Fox, Castlereagh and Canning); indolent fools, frauds and con-artists. Plus ca change…… February 29th, 2012 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
Frederic Bastiat, quoted over at Bleeding Heart Libertarians. I also liked this following paragraph:
Bastiat is also described in this piece as a “Ninja”. Nice! February 28th, 2012 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
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