Opiate of the People wrote:It is called the "string along" theory.

Opiate wrote:There are no dimensions of Change

Laika the Space Dog wrote:Boy, that explains alot.
I thought Stimulus Bill was the guy who lead the parade at The Folsom Street Fair.

Margaret wrote: I was thinking of the Stimulus Bill as the kick-of-the-cat that scares-the-bird that flies-through-the-air-with-a-string-attached-to-it's-foot that pulls-the-trigger-of-a-gun that shoots-the-target that falls-to-the-ground and bursts open with jobs kind of thing.

Margaret wrote:I think Socialism is actually a Rube Goldberg joke that people of negligible intelligence took seriously and decided to try and build.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:

Opiate wrote:There are no dimensions of Change

Opiate, I hope you know that with that one line you are walking a knife's edge and on one side you will find a purge and on the other a show trial.

The problem though is that I cannot find more Progressive virtues to add to the lying, theft yada yada yada virtues to pump up the string-along theory to get past the supergravity theory.

Which was, until the advent of His O'liness, the highest of all Progressive virtues for it was epitomized by the ass of our Many Titted Empress, the belly of Michael Moore and the legs of Katie Couric.

I do take your point about using dark matter and dark energy to make the 22nd Amendment implode but considering the willingness of the people to be transfixed by the transubstantiation of a one-term senator to being the Roi du Soleil, wouldn't it just be easier for his O'liness to wipe his ass with the 22nd Amendment?

Or if you want to get rid of the whole Constitution, have our MTE wipe her ass with it, along with the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, and all of Leonardo's notebooks.

Opiate of the People wrote:

Margaret wrote: I was thinking of the Stimulus Bill as the kick-of-the-cat that scares-the-bird that flies-through-the-air-with-a-string-attached-to-it's-foot that pulls-the-trigger-of-a-gun that shoots-the-target that falls-to-the-ground and bursts open with jobs kind of thing.

There are many who think the bill will work in exactly this fashion, but only because there is no other conceivable way it could possibly work. So it's Rube Goldberg or bust (or should that be Rube Geithner or bust????)

Margaret wrote:I think Socialism is actually a Rube Goldberg joke that people of negligible intelligence took seriously and decided to try and build.

Ah, but remember it is highly educated people of negligible intelligence that believe in socialism, so that proves it is viable.

Opiate wrote:I am on safe scientific ground here for the dogma is "Change we can believe in" not "Change that absolutely exists." Also, the operative word is "can believe in" and not "must believe in" which allows the observer the option to believe, as heretical as that may appear. You see, I hired Bill Clinton to do the sentence parsing for me

Opiate wrote:that the equations become discontinuous and diverge towards infinity, along with the national debt

Commissar Theocritus wrote:It is also an error to say that the national debt is going toward infinity because we intend to inflate the currency as needed.

Commissar Theocritus wrote: <i>Must</i> you wreathe yourself in pseudo science?

After all that's for John Rawls and others of his ilk. Discontinuous equations? Next you'll be telling me that there is no closed-form solution for proving that the integral from minus to positive infinity for Gaussian distribution is one.

It is also an error to say that the national debt is going toward infinity because we intend to inflate the currency as needed. The Mexicans and the French have all lopped off three zeroes from their currencies to make new pesos and new francs and so what? It made them feel really good. And it only hurt prudent people.

It is hard, looking at the basket case Argentina has become, to imagine what an economic powerhouse the country was before World War II. From the 1880s, Argentina was, alongside the U.S. itself, a prime destination for European migrants. Buenos Aires was one of the world's largest metropolitan areas, in a select club that included London, Paris, Berlin, and New York City. Argentina benefited mightily from foreign investment, which it used wisely to create a strong infrastructure and an excellent system of free mass education. It had the largest and most prosperous middle class in Latin America. When World War I began, Argentina was the world's tenth wealthiest nation.

Right up to the 1940s, American and European economists struggled to explain the glaring contrast between booming Argentina and slothful Australia. As many studies pointed out, both countries had begun at a roughly similar point, as agricultural producers dependent on fickle world markets. Yet Australia remained stuck in colonial status while Argentina made the great leap forward to the status of an advanced nation with an expanding industrial base and sophisticated commerce.

So what happened? Certainly the country was hit hard by the depression of the 1930s, but so were other advanced nations that ultimately recovered, and Argentina profited from intense wartime demand for primary products.

The country was killed by political decisions, and the primary culprit was Juan Perón. He dominated political life through the 1940s and ruled officially as president from 1946 to 1955, returning briefly in the 1970s. Although he did not begin the process, he completed the transformation of Argentine government so that the state became both an object of plunder and an instrument for plunder.

Obamissar Vodkavich wrote:I DENOUNCE ALL OF YOU AS INTELLECTUALS!! I mean, no offense or anything but Denounce a Comrade month is drawing to a close soon and... well... you know.

-OV

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Opiate, you really are thinking too much. That will never do. You need to enter a 12-step program to help you quit thinking.

LONDON (AP) — Britain's prime minister called Sunday for overhauling the country's organ donation system, saying doctors should be able to remove body parts from deceased patients without prior needing consent.

Commissar Theocritus wrote: Opiate, you really are thinking too much. That will never do. You need to enter a 12-step program to help you quit thinking.