"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
The filthy “Occupy Wall Street” dumbasses have gained three new supporters:
Obama extends support for protesters
Naturally.
Nazis and Communists Throw Their Support Behind Occupy Wall Street Movements
Of course.
UPDATE: More commie/socialist/statist-tyrannist birds flock to join the OWS unwashed:
Investors, capitalists, entrepreneurs–you know, actual business people–create jobs.
Politicians destroy them.
See? A it’s just natural division of labor.
…on whom the greedy socialistas prey; They prey on thee.
Elizabeth Warren suggests–nay! blatantly proclaims!–that the greedy capitalists OWE the proceeds of their labor and risk to society (as if, as a “class” [group] they do not already pay a larger share of taxes, both in gross amount and in percentage of income, than other classes).
Readers of Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor blog (and Pournelle himself) point out a few obvious flaws in Warren’s pronouncements on so-called “fairness”.
UPDATE: Although many other sites go into great detail demolishing the sugar-coated toxic proclamations Elizabeth Warren
is making, Roxeanne, over at Datechguy’s Blog has a very readable version of the major arguments. Good reading. A sample? Sure:
According to Elizabeth Warren, the moment you first flip a switch in that factory and start producing a good, you are an evil rich person who needs to “give back”, because building that factory just sort of happened, without effort, intellect, financial risk, or the employment of others. Had this chickie even run a lemonade stand, she would understand the fallacy in her thinking.
Glenn Reynolds suggests Elizabeth Warren do some remedial reading (below the fold)
I would suggest we start by confiscating all of Warren’s assets to go toward achieving the social ends she seeks. I mean, it’s not as if she’s ever done anything substantive to “give back” to society. Lawyer? Law professor? We have too many of those already.
And another UPDATE, this from Jerry Pournelle on 09/28/11:
As to Ms. Warren’s viral speech about how others paid for the roads and the schools and the police force, I would have thought those are mostly paid by local property taxes, and if the factory owner has got away with not paying those he’s pretty clever. I would have thought that factory owners paid a lot of property taxes. How much of that is fair is, I would presume, a matter for local communities. Raise them too much and the factory moves elsewhere, as Massachusetts has long ago discovered. Of course the remedy for that, according to liberals, is to eliminate competition – make the taxes national so they can’t be escaped. Oddly enough that was all debated as part of the Convention of 1787, but you’d never guess that from listening to this Harvard Professor, who doesn’t seem to have read The Federalist Papers or Tocqueville. But then that’s not too surprising.
Indeed. (BTW, you’re up pretty late, Jerry, “Get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything.” ;-))
And do not neglect Ms. Warren’s remedial reading, below.
Continue reading “Ask Not…”
Amazing. Most politicians will score at least 3 out of 9, but our current p-resident of the White Café Au Lait House scores a perfect 9 of 9, as far as I can tell from what is on the record of his past and present behaviors.
1) has a grandiose sense of self- importance ( exaggerates achievements, and talents, expects to be recognized as superior )
2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love)
3) believes he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions
4) requires excessive admiration
5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e, unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his/her expectations
6) is interpersonally exploitive, ie, takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings of others
8 ) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
5 of 9 comprise a definitive diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (DSM-IV, 301.81). Treatment, while primarily via hospitalization with medical personnel who essentially humor the grandiose delusions of these people is essentially just long term “talk therapy” in one-on-one and group babble as the only real treatment options offered.
Personally, I think these sorts of people should just be drugged and warehoused for the protection of society.
No undue disrespect.
…as long as it’s packaged, promoted and sold as snake oil and is actually oil squeezed from real snakes. But the idea that “stimulus” money taken FROM the economy and then passed through the “feddle gummint” money laundering system and passed out to *wink-win-nudge-nudge* “create new jobs” would in any way, shape fashion or form actually BE a stimulus to the economy is a lie that has been openly displayed as such time and time and time again.
For that, those who spout this shit (yes, I mean that what is coming out of their mouths is verbal fecal matter–toxic verbal fecal matter at that) would, in a sane society, be tarred, feathered and set afire to light the way to a brighter tomorrow.
Sadly, the Eighth Amendment outlaws “cruel and unusual punishments” even for the political filth that spread such toxic sewage on the public.
*sigh*
Couldn’t we have another amendment carving out an exception for this filth?
Egocentric personality disorder much?
Zero respect for others from The Zero. Naturally.
In a group photo of egocentrics (they’re all politicians from various countries), The Zero stands out as more self-absorbed than all the rest combined. The guy needs some serious medication. Or ECT. Lotsa ECT*. Continue reading ““Me! Me! Me! Me! It’s All About Me! Me! Me! Me!””
That’s what it sounds like to me.
Gallup: TEA Party demographics represent mainstream America
Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. (with The Zero egging him on):
“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war.”
Yep. Declaring war on mainstream Americans sounds pretty much like declaring war on America to me. Not that it makes much difference, as The Zero and his partners in crime have been at war with America from the inception of this administration. After all, he has admitted–though he’d lie about having done so–that his own policies are against the interests of the American people, destructive of our economy and detrimental to the republic. Don’t believe me? Remember the number $4Trillion (and change) and think… eight years vs 2.5 years. Hmmm, what is he telling us?
(Go ahead and read. I’ll still be here when you get back… )
Of course, participatory government depends upon a literate and well-informed populace, something Iceland has and the U.S. no longer does.
But were such a thing to take place here–a literate and well-informed electorate to effect a peaceful, constitutional revolution, I’d like to see one thing especially come from it.
I’d like to see a change to the eighth amendment excluding both elected federal officials and “feddle gummint bureaucraps” from protections against “cruel and unusual punishment” so those convicted of abusing their offices/positions could be tarred, feathered and used as “parade torches” on July 4th every year.
Of course, it would take following the amendment process fully, so that such proper and due punishments could be effected legally… 🙂