the IDIOT

oh, that glorious wikipedia — quoted authoritatively by mushbrains over the world.

again i attempt to correct the stupid: if the wikipedia article you’re quoting as an authority is properly written, it will list its sources, and those sources (preferably stripped to their origin), at best, are what you should quote. original research is, with only extremely rare exception, prohibited by wikipedia policy.

me, writing the author of a post lew rockwell pointed to as a supposed refutation of helicopter bernanke:

"Even wikipedia".

absent referral to the direct source(s) that any properly written wikipedia article must have for any assertion (thereby bypassing wikipedia, except perhaps to say it's where you found your source), "wikipedia" is essentially a fancy way of saying "someone no one's ever heard of", while pretending it bears great weight.

then, in perspective, "Even [someone you've never heard of]" says blah blah? wow!

it marks you.

despite the sick subject, i burst out laughing after reading this:

[...] Hunter’s son, Ken Hunter, said he’s alarmed by comments that called the pilot a hero.

“How can you call someone a hero who after he burns down his house, he gets into his plane … and flies it into a building to kill people?” Hunter told ABC.” “My dad Vernon did two tours of duty in Vietnam. My dad’s a hero.” [...]

requisite premise for such insanity: before destroying, get a “permit”. from who? the world’s biggest crime gang.

cavemen had more acuity.

chalk up as most useless internet trend from the last year: thwapping a non-programmatic “@” in front of the name of someone you’re talking to or about.

it’s unnecessary. it’s sheeplike. it’s stupid. use the person’s name. get your nose out of the herd’s ass.

death to the useless @ (useful on twitter and in email addresses, of course). and take “hat tip” to the dumpster on your way, with “form factor”, “price point”, wah, wahnk, blahnk, blah.

from the same school that launched recently the inane writing on hand equals cheating; writing on note card does not “principle”, walter block partakes of the trendy dishonest stupidity of the supposed intelligent battling the “global warming” clods, falling for this dubious equation: 20°F not embarrassing to GW fetishists; 20°F plus visible moisture embarrassing to GW fetishists. (more…)

when entering an argument, check your premises.

that advice may reek randroidocity; still good. the founding premise of “intellectual property” is revealed in the name, and it’s false. there is no property right in how others arrange the electrons or vibrations or whatever of their property — regardless of that arrangement mimicking fully one you created. the intellect-as-property school foolishness eventually comes down to a question of violence: will you advocate that someone be punched in the nose for copying with his property how another’s property is arranged. do you assert a right to do so?

in this article the copyblight premise has so waylaid the writer’s direction that, while assuming an air of devil’s advocate, he leaves out the most immediate and obvious kill of the article’s subject (beyond the property problem): (more…)

sad that so few get the importance of straight language in politics. today LRC links to an AP article quoting vermont secession advocate peter garritano:

“The only hope is to just say, ‘Look, this isn’t working for us. We want to start fresh again, with a real democracy,’” Garritano said. “I think that’s the answer. Hopefully, it won’t take another horrible economic breakdown to realize that the people running things don’t look out for the little guy, or us, or the soldiers. It’s all about profit and getting the last drops of oil on Earth and trampling people’s rights.”

so long as fools in the goonited state use “democracy” as an essential good, they’re going nowhere but worse. (more…)

swatting RP dullards is fun. had my first LOL moment of the 2012 “campaign” by entering only this as a comment on an RP cult video at YouTube: (more…)

LRC’s diarrhea-mouthed asterisk child asserts,

, LRC reader Cory Nott sent me this very interesting observation:

“There are a large number of Persian Jews living in the United States and, while we don’t hear much from them, they have money, influence, and own many businesses. I wonder if Rep. Barrett would advocate the deportation of Jews, or if it’s just “bad” Iranians?”

(more…)

i dig this:

By PHILIP ELLIOT, Associated Press Writer Philip Elliot, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jan 9, 2:59 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 presidential bid and are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign. [sic]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” Obama is the nation’s first African-American president. (more…)

interesting that the near concurrence of the letterman/woods affairs has placed the logically obvious (to voluntarists — see walter block via rothbard) at the nose of the average dullard. tmz:

The guy who allegedly masterminded an extortion plot against David Letterman is now using the Tiger Woods scandal as precedent to get the charges against him thrown out ..according to new documents obtained by TMZ.

Robert Halderman’s lawyer, Gerald Shargel, filed legal papers asking that the charges against his client be dismissed. In the papers, Shargel notes that when news of Tiger’s infidelity surfaced, Mistress #1, Rachel Uchitel, reportedly inked a multi-million dollar settlement in return for her silence — with the help of Gloria Allred.

Shargel notes, “Their behavior was capitalist, not criminal.” (more…)

magic.

contrary to the foolishness of paulists and other psychotic poltroons, any year-spanning dollar comparison not adjusted for material debasement is deficient.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Film box offices were poised on Wednesday to eclipse 2007’s record $9.68 billion in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales with Hollywood eyeing more than $10 billion this year as audiences flocked to theaters during the recession. [...]

oh wow!

buried after the headline and hype: (more…)

war street journal assures the stupid:

The Real Rules of War
Sometimes the good guys do commit ‘war crimes.’

but they’re still “the good guys”. why? well… well, because… they’re the good guys! stop with the questions already. (more…)

When it is a question of taxes, gentlemen, prove their usefulness by reasons with some foundation, but not with that lamentable assertion: “Public spending keeps the working class alive.” It makes the mistake of covering up a fact that it is essential to know: namely, that public spending is always a substitute for private spending, and that consequently it may well support one worker in place of another but adds nothing to the lot of the working class taken as a whole. Your argument is fashionable, but it is quite absurd, for the reasoning is not correct.

read bastiat, confirm the logic, then be rattled to your core that the same colossal preening lying dumbbells and their inferior sheep still exist ~160 years after he destroyed them on the field of intellect. it is not intellect that survived. cheerleading from the whatever “estate”? yes, that survived: (more…)

BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhuanet)–

“In the last decade we have seen that the temperatures haven’t gone up very much, but they are clearly a lot warmer then they were in the previous decade,” said Doctor Vicky Pope, the head of climate change advice at the Met office.

ah. yes. understood.