the IDIOT

though a welcome deviation from the cauterizing “nationalization”, even “seizure” doesn’t true up the action of the state to the action of unofficial criminals:

CARACAS (Dow Jones)–President Hugo Chavez ordered Sunday the seizure of a French-owned retail chain on accusations that it raised prices after Venezuela devalued the currency by half.

“Until when are we going to allow this to happen?” Chavez asked during his Sunday television program in reference to the alleged price hike by Almacenes Exito SA (EXITO.BO), headquartered in Colombia and controlled by French retailer Casino …

the noive of those rat bastard producers! take your raping like a… like a…

note chavez’s feigned-incredulity routine, a nearly obligatory element of official banditry. the most effective (with morons) defense of coercionism is an early and big incredulity performance.

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…)

surprised to see the usually superior manuel lora (of LRC/LvMI) today fall into the language of statists, ending a blog post with, “I’m sorry to inform you, Mr. Perry, that you have no rights.” (more…)

two of my favorite subjects, slammed home by susan hogarth today at LRC:

The most common refrain from the war-crazed Clinton/Bush oligarchy these days is (as Hillary Clinton most recently expressed it) “We cannot take any option off the table in sending a clear message to Iran that they will not be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons.”

No options off the table. Truly?

If eviscerating her daughter in public would send a clear message to Iran – and surely it would send a blazing telegram of deadly seriousness – would she consider that to be an option on the table? I always wonder about the minds of people who can make this sort of pronouncement. If destroying an entire city by bombing – and make no mistake about it, this is what she and others are referring to in this latest round of bomb-rattling – is an option to send a message, then wouldn’t simply murdering her own daughter be an improvement? After all, think of the lives saved! As for messages – what could possibly send a stronger message to the world that a person is serious (or crazy, which in the political world comes to the same thing) than that she would willingly sacrifice her own child for peace? There’s even biblical precedent for such an option. [...]

man, is it sad to watch people with no first principles wallowing in their stupidity projection. hey, if they’re stupid, everyone else must be too, right? the painfully stupid ezekiel emanuel:

Nearly two decades after the West’s victory over communism, one might have thought it possible to discuss reform of the health-care system without invocations of the old saw “socialized medicine.” But no.

is that kinda like the “old saw” where you call somebody who murders someone a “murderer”, ezekiel dumbshit?

but i spoke too soon! he has an explanation: (more…)

neocons, like all political bullshitters, anchor their indefensible crap in language distortion. any rational observer knows this, yet the crazy “let’s push this beyond the limit” choices of the nitwits can sometimes surprise regardless. wasn’t until this morning, arguing with some in-denial YouTube clod, that i took a serious look at a major dictionary’s definition of insurgent. what. the. fuck. (more…)

what alternate universe do thugs inhabit where they get away with spouting this obfuscatory bullshit masquerading as language?

When officers were only able to place one handcuff on Meyer, Sgt. Eddie King gave the order to use the Taser.

“One contact Tase to the man’s left shoulder was deployed,” King said.

you shot him with a fucking taser, asshole. (more…)

the more i understand about liberty — a surprisingly slow process sometimes — my disgust and hatred for impostors calling themselves libertarian grows. if you’re in the circuit, you must’ve noticed the rise of these low creeps, concerned primarily with packaging their socialism rather than seeking liberty. so many of them scorn the principles of liberty openly that their adoption of anything based on that word may rightly be considered pure usurpation. as the now “classical” liberals lost their beautiful word (from the latin liber, meaning free), so have libertarians lost another.

the scary bit is that this onslaught often comes from snot-nosed PR whores more eager to see their name in internet lights than to advocate something bound to principle. perfect example (via “A libertarian think tank from Orange County, California”):

Doling for Columbine
Five Reasons Why Welfare Should Be a Libertarian Cause
Matt Harrison

The libertarian rightly distrusts the welfare state. It is, at its core, the politics of illusion, fostering the socialist fantasy that income can or should come as a result of inaction. It is ripe for exploitation by those who wish to free-ride on the system. And it also encourages laziness, depriving the economy of the very productivity that allows the welfare system to exist.

But at these costs, it has important benefits – both as an economic policy and a political position.

1. It keeps criminals off the streets and on the porch. Really

Welfare discourages crime. [...]

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the sop media continue in their delusion that those pesky guns need looking after or they’ll decide to fire.

Two Secret Service officers were injured on Tuesday after a gun held by another Secret Service officer accidentally fired inside the White House gate, according to a spokesman, Darrin Blackford.
[...]
“It appears that at approximately 2:10 p.m. (1810 GMT) there was an accidental discharge of a service issued weapon, which occurred inside the Southwest Gate at a security post near the White House,” Blackford said.

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lately i’ve become even more sensitive to what a guy at wikipedia the other day called “peacock writing”. i’ll go to some sites now that sell themselves as among the high-brow elite (hint: think the ridiculously named higher education), and i just laugh. so infantile, that hack style with its preset phrases. makes me wonder if some of the elderly-phrase-jukebox operators ever read their “output”. hey, fuckers, some of us are onto you! you sound like dilberts. (more…)

recommended — katy delay

…The core problem is the one Mises identified. Every form of intervention generates an imbalance that seems to call forth a next step toward markets or toward further intervention. The choice determines whether the social system will be pushed toward the economics of prosperity or that of poverty. The Third Way, in short, attempts to combine policies that are internally contradictory. To attempt a pivot between laissez-faire and socialism is to be caught in precisely the imbalance that afflicts the US and Europe today. …

my opinion on “third way” preening.