You've Been Owned

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“A top-secret Iranian military installation was struck by a triple blast Tues. Oct. 12 the day before Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon. DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources report the site held most of the Shehab-3 medium-range missile launchers Iran had stocked for striking US forces in Iraq and Israel in the event of war - some set to deliver triple warheads (tri-conic nosecones).”
— DEBKAfile Special Report, October 15, 2010 (debka.com)

“Nuts!” — General Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe, in reply to a German surrender ultimatum while defending Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II

“Bite me!” — presumed Israeli response to threats of annihilation by barking-mad I'madinnerjacket

Those "top-secret" installations have a nasty habit of succumbing to impossible snafus. Must have something to do with the best laid schemes of mice, men and douchebags.

Holocaust deniers delight in rubbing the salt of hatred into the wounded soul of Judaism. But if there is one thing above all others that characterizes the people of the book it's their retention of lessons learned. Every denial, every threat, every aggression perpetrated against them serves as a reminder — never again!

Next time, no more Mr. Nice Guy.

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Free-Market Capitalism in a Nutshell

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“Thanks to the inherent genius of the free market and human innovation, people living today are able to watch true genius at work. I offer for your edification and viewing pleasure, a true genius in every sense of the word: Milton Friedman.”
— Secular Apostate, 10-14-2010 (secularapostate.net)

OK, boys and girls, you're in for a treat.

Milton Friedman, a great American economist, statistician, professor at the University of Chicago, and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, will teach you (posthumously, via the below video) all you need to know to truly appreciate the wondrous way in which free-market capitalism creates wealth for every participant, by breaking the bonds of zero-sum games (i.e., central-planning socialism).

Enjoy!


Milton Friedman - Lesson of the Pencil

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Post 1,451 Free-Market Capitalism in a Nutshell

Frank's trademark confidence not all it's cracked-up to be!

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“WASHINGTON — When US Representative Barney Frank spoke in a packed hearing room on Capitol Hill seven years ago, he did not imagine that his words would eventually haunt a reelection bid. The issue that day in 2003 was whether mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were fiscally strong. Frank declared with his trademark confidence that they were, accusing critics and regulators of exaggerating threats to Fannie’s and Freddie’s financial integrity. And, the Massachusetts Democrat maintained, "even if there were problems, the federal government doesn’t bail them out." Now, it’s clear he was wrong on both points — and that his words have become a political liability as he fights a determined challenger to win a 16th term representing the Fourth Congressional District. Fannie and Freddie collapsed in 2008, forcing the federal government to buy $150 billion worth of stock in the enterprises and $1.36 trillion worth of mortgage-backed securities.” [emphasis added]
— Donovan Slack, October 14, 2010 (boston.com)

Confucius say, "Banking queen standing on head and flapping lips with trademark confidence have big crack up."

Frankly Seriously, Barney, got Preparation H®?

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Yeah, we’ve got an app for that ...

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“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
— Desiderius Erasmus

“In the land of hearts, diamonds, and clubs, the deuce of spades is king, provided spades is the trump suit.”
— TheBigHenry

“In the land of overwhelming numerical advantage ruled by bloodthirsty 7th-century mentality, 21st-century cleverness in science and technology (not to mention money) is king.”
— TheBigHenry

In Erasmus's famous aphorism, the implied constraint, of course, is "all else being equal". For, as important as good vision is for the human condition, it is not necessarily the unique advantage in all circumstances; perhaps not even the crucial one.

The unconstrained mind of man and woman is humanity's singular advantage in the world of the living. It has proven to be, on numerous occasions, not only the equal of the Colt-45 equalizer, but also the ace-of-trump in existential conflicts. In the latter circumstances, it is far superior to sheer numbers of scimitar-wielding homicidal maniacs supported by legions of ethnic-cleansing enthusiasts the world over.

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what the Juice have done (and will continue to do, God willing) over the millennia of contemptible persecution by hordes of homicidal ignoramuses.

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§ I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Lonely Boy

A green lonely boy; lonely and blue ...
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{Song #77 « Song #78 » T•of•C}

§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.

Song #78 is Lonely Boy, written and recorded by Paul Anka in 1959. Anka sang this song in the movie Girls Town.

When released as a single, Lonely Boy topped the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Anka's first song to do so. I suspect that, for some of the girls in my high-school senior-class of 1959, this was the first song that inspired them to do some amazing things, too.

Lyrics for "A Green Lonely Boy"
[with apologies to Paul Anka]

I'm just a lonely boy, lonely and blue;
I'm all alone; I haven't a clue.
I've got everything, you could think of;
But all I want is Obama to love.

Barack Obama to love; Barack is bliss;
Barack to cling to, at a moment like this.
I'd like to hear, somebody say,
"I'll give you my hope, and change every day".

Somebody, somebody, somebody please, send Him to me;
He'll make me happy, just wait and see.
I prayed so hard to Obama above;
That I might find, Barack to love.

Paul Anka - Lonely Boy
Post 1,448 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Lonely Boy

Does Axelrod have any evidence that he’s not contemptible?

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“White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has the burden of proving false the charge by Democrats that the business group is funneling foreign money to Republican campaigns. […] “Do you have any evidence that it’s not, Bob?” Axelrod said on “Face the Nation.” […] Ed Gillespie, the former Republican National Committee chairman and one of the GOP operatives named in the DNC ad, noted that President Obama benefited from millions in undisclosed contributions in 2008 and that Republicans are now using the same rules. […] Gillespie added that it was “an unbelievable mentality” for Axelrod to assert charges about foreign contributions without backing them up.”
— Walter Alarkon, 10/10/10 (thehill.com)

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
— Albert Einstein [paraphrased]

“Well, I'm not a crook.”
— Richard Nixon

“Well, I'm not a schmuck.” or “I have a schmuck.”
— some schmuck [unsubstantiated]

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
— Founding Father Thomas Paine

David Axelrod may be contemptible. In any case, he sure is trying. So are virtually all the playas swinging for the leftist team.

It has been said that desperation elicits [pick your adjective] measures, but the adverb "dangerously" is always lurking around the adjective you choose. When The Won with His finger on the nuclear button becomes desperate, however, "dangerously" becomes inadequate to the task.

Hence, these may be not only "times that try men's souls", but also times that are interesting, albeit in the Chinese sense.

“Entitlementalia is the audacity of dopes.” — TheBigHenry's Truth Axiom

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Only a tad Nazi-ish?

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“An Ohio congressional candidate is under fire after a magazine unearthed a photo showing him dressed in a Waffen-SS uniform as part of a Nazi re-enactment group. […] But Iott, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, defended himself in a statement Saturday after Kaptur's campaign and other groups condemned him. Iott said that as a student of history he has participated in numerous military re-enactments since he was in college and meant no offense by them. […] According to the Wiking website, the organization is devoted to "presenting the history" of the Eastern Front division which fought the Russians, "never against the Americans".” [emphasis added]
— Published October 10, 2010 | FoxNews.com

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, we note the following:

After the war at the Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen-SS was condemned as a criminal organization due to its essential connection to the Nazi Party and its involvement in war crimes.

Are we to assume that Iott participated in so many reenactments that he had to resort to joining an organization that commemorates the World War II exploits of the armed wing of the Nazi Party? Because there were no reenactments to be found that commemorated the WWII exploits of American Armed Forces? British? Canadian? Even Russian (recall that the Red Army was one of our Allies against Nazi Germany)?

Is this guy insane? Never mind answering the latter. I know the answer. Just vote for any old yellow dog running against him.

There are idiots. And then there are f*cking idiots. It's all relative.

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