Unless you are from Iceland, who is the "we" in "are we suppose [sic] to just let all these resources lie fallow . . . ." And because I'm not as smart and well read as you HJ, how does "allowing resources to lie fallow in the ground" help an Icelander bureaucrat "preserve their legal monopoly of force in perpetuity?" Now I will grant that maybe I'm not appreciating your intricate sense of tiing and humor, so maybe you would be willing to lower yourself to my level and explain? Of course you'll probably just insult me and finish of with …
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Oops! Typo in second paragraph "tiing" should be "timing."
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Oops! Typo in third paragraph "of" should be "off." Sorry maybe I shouldn't post in response to HJ because his lack of edits seem to be contagious. Uh oh, I probably just made myself a target for more bathroom jokes from HJ.
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HJ, why are you so angry? I'm sure I could have inferred from your Randian beliefs that Icelanders themselves shouldn't have anymore say over the uses their natural resources should be put to than say the American public should about their own. Of course you would have insulted me for putting words in your mouth or inferring the obvious. Of course you can comment on anything you want. It is interesting to me that you seem to be saying, in true Randian fashion, that the only good use for a natural resource is a consumptive one and prefereably one that is …
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Resources are only for consumption huh? How about "resources" for mutual public enjoyment/consumption as decided through the outcomes of the political process? Let's take fish for example. Cabo San Lucas and Hawaii have incredible fisheries. Arguably a depletable/renewable public natural resource that belongs to whom? I would say collectively to the people of Mexico and the United States respectively. How it should be consumed or managed and who should decide in what degree are the big questions. You, contrarily, would say that the individual capitalist who has the wherewithall and capital to exploit this public resource to its finite limit for …
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Dude. Nice non sequitur logic. Clear cutting was DUE TO the fact governments leased public land. Sorry it doesn't follow. Clear cutting occurred because there was no value other than economic efficiency at play, which is consistent with your wacky worldview. And assuming you have a formal education (which I don't assume you do) and can read comments with precision I never made the statement that ALL things are or should be public goods. Here is one for you. All property rights flow from the sovereign--a legal concept not an economic one. So at some initial point as is evidenced at …
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Hey HJ, You really are delusional and your revisionist world history continues to annoy me. Lay off the Dr. Reisman and Ayn Rand drivel and maybe you'll catch a clue. "private property came long before state power"--yeah where. Egypt, Ancient Rome, Greece, Europe, Persia . . . (didn't see any of the serfs or slaves asserting their individual ownership rights over land in these periods but did see the sovereign asserting its right of divine ownership and its capacity to grant rights to others for the sovereign's benefit). Here is a quote "As the right of society, to prescribe those rules …
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Hey douche nozzle HJ, it is interesting that my definition is a quote from Webster's which is not to say there aren't others. As I told you before I've read all of the methamphetamine's queens works and take them for what they are--delusional and overwritten. The only one that needs a lesson in world history, is you, you anal fixated delusional racist troll. BTW why are you fixated on the anus and my genitalia in particular? Are you transgender possibly midway between man and woman. I'm sorry for you confusion and the attendant social persecution that accompanies such an unfortunate plight. …
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You really are the most vile person I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. Oahu's flying of confederate flags surely must do wonders for the tourism industry. Another of you infantile lies? Again please don't ask that I touch your diseased body. 1000 pages would never scare me and neither do your assinine views. I am tiring of this base level of discourse. Continuing to trade insults with you is a waste of time so I will leave you to your mental and physical masturbations at the keyboard. Again I wish you only the worst and hope that your overt racism …
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Didn't see your edit douche bag. BTW I'm white and I gained admission to law school the same way 99% of people of any color do--competitively. As to factoring in race in admissions, I certainly have no problem with creating an opportunity for an equally qualified minority applicant under affirmative action policies. This isn't out of collective guilt but you and those who predeceased you of the racist stripe did so much damage to african americans and others that extending the hand of opportunity is the least of my concerns. I would give you my address but you are just stupid …
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Florida . . . "coon hunting" . . . like I said bigot, fuck off. The only one getting pummeled here is you. You hate racist rhetoric? Maybe you should peruse your past posts because your selective memory has failed you yet again. BTW I graduated from an accredited law school in the top 50 in this country. My guess is you didn't graduate from any school anywhere like most Florida bigots. BTW in another 40 years or so your flat bug infested home state will be under water thanks to "free market ideology." Of course you could care less because …
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You wouldn't recognize a losing argument if it hit you in the face and everyone in the room said you were wrong--typical delusional bigot. Denying the holocaust--classic. Question is are you challenging me or threatening me? If you are threatening, which is all deluded bigots can do (maybe hide behind the occassional bush with a high powered rifle--would that qualify as cowardly), please read up thread my fair warning. As for cowards that seems a particularly apt description of you what with your "widely" held belief system. Maybe you should change your name from Hawaii Jack to Leonardo DaVinci--as in a …
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Top of executive of what "very large" corporation--Bigot Dumbasses Inc. Threats, lies, intimidation and BS are all you have to offer the world Mr. Dimbulb so I find it hard to believe you actually hold a job. What does your company sell--poisons, hate or both or is it traditional scams like real estate investment seminars. How do you replenish those natural resource? Do you sell Confederate flags and swastikas along with Holocaust "debunking" literature to your vast customer base of ideological cronies. Racist and anti-semitic beliefs worked out real well for George Allen recently. Maybe "Macaca George" is in need of …
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Hawaii Jack--A legend in his own deluded mind . . . all league, all state, all coast, ALMOST. Kickin' everybody asses in the blogosphere . . . only problem is he's the only one who thinks so. Apparently you're bigger, faster, stronger, and smarter than everyone else on the planet having never lost an argument or had someone take you up on your "dueling challenge." How antiquated--a duel! Sabers or pistols at 50 meters Sir? I didn't notice any dueling in Ayn Rand's books--something you picked up from another one of your revisionist history texts? What a fraud. Your views are …
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wow top executive jack, did it really take you over an hour between each post last night to come up with those cutting edge insults? So much for your superior sense of humor and intellect. What happened, get stuck cooking the books and counting the profits from your racist literature publishing company. Oh what's that I hear . . . cacaw cacaw cacaw . . . your flock of bigots is circling overhead wanting you to come out for goosestepping practice in your Grand Wizard dress . . . cacaw cacaw cacaw . . . or is it "brownshirt day" . …
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What's wrong jackie boy cat got your tongue? Are you too blissed out, in a mystical trance from seeing the prophets words, to speak? What's that I hear in the background . . . cacaw cacaw cacaw . . . your hitler youth friends are calling you jackie . . . come out to play-e-ay . . . don't forget the pointy hat that fits ever so snuggly over your pointy head . . . cacaw cacaw. Do you carry around a picture of the prophet in your waterproof velcro wallet or taped inside your Himmler's Atrocities lunchbox? Do you keep …
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Poor Jackie boy can't even trade insults with the mean old grown up progressives in the blogosphere. You are a fraud . . . "poops and smegma"? Straight outta the 5th grade insult book, how clever. Explains your anal fixation though. My guess--10th grade bigot, failing out of school, gets his ass kicked alot for being the only kid in Hawaii dressed in a leather trench coat. Close? Nobody is buying the "top corporate executive" thing. Better not let Der Fuhrer (your daddy) catch you running up the internet bill or he might put his stormtrooper boot up your ass and …
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Hi blondemike. Nice to see that the other resident quasi racist and deluded libertarian has decided to chime in. BTW, "Mongoloid quota" is a real clever turn of phrase that I find antiquated yet consistent with your bigoted screen persona. Interesting to me, if I'm not mistaken, that you are married to a lovely Jewish woman. Are you also an "executive for a top corporation" in Oakland as HJ is in Oahu? Hey, why do you stay in Oakland if you hate your neighbors so much? A slave to the libertarian economic imperative? Are you going to immediately threaten me with …
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OK. Here it is for the cheap junior high libertarian seats. How is it that a bigot marries a jewish woman or is your bigotry simply confined to African Americans. If Rand's views are anti-government and anti statist why do Randians waste any time trying to convince anyone of their beliefs--why don't they simply choose to live in the country with the least pervasive government. Since Randians only care about profit then why not pursue the path of least resistance and move to another country? Could it be as I've tried to explain to HJ that your ilk are the worst …
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A new old dimbulb . . . welcome back blondmike . . . your projection was predictable. What happened to the tried and true digression into "mother insults and bathroom humor?" I thought that was your default method of argumentation. Sorry your reading comprehension is so limited and that we can't discuss the hypocritical Randian viewpoint or your more disturbing racist viewpoints. I really could care less because the libertarian/Rand viewpoint will continue to be what it has always been--marginal. Buh bye.
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wow, now you're arguing on behalf of the "Bell Curve." Evidently context when arguing anything is beyond you or HJ. "Nearly all the research that Murray and Herrnstein relied on for their central claims about race and IQ was funded by the Pioneer Fund, described by the London Sunday Telegraph (3/12/89) as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics." The fund's mission is to promote eugenics, a philosophy that maintains that "genetically unfit" individuals or races are a threat to society." Nuff said. Would anyone, including me, not agree with the premise that there is a …
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Well, I'm sure that maybe, back in the day, your "score on the LSAT was 1650" but as of today the scaled range yields a number in the 3 digits (like 165 or 140 or 180 being the highest). As to my sarcasm at your and HJ's expense, I certainly didn't start this uncivil dialogue with HJ, or you, as you both can research up every thread where we've conversed. I initially attempted to politely solicit an explanation of your viewpoint. Unfortunately your collective Randian superiority, despite its marginal merit and the fact you regurgitate opinions based on the works of …
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And by the way, how's about you and HJ shelve the whole "obviously you've never worked for a living which is why you don't agree with us" crap. We all work. I've worked since I was fifteen. Manual labor (farm work, house painter, cement block manufacturing company, Avia athletic shoe company), self-employed, and 13.5 years as a civil servant before I went to law school. I put myself through undergrad by working swing shift and attending class during the day and still did well enough to get into law school. As I've said I disagree with you on a rational and …
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"Anti-white racist?" Interesting. That statement would imply what: that I believe white people are intellectually inferior based upon the color of their skin and less deserving of opportunity and empathy. Facially it is an absurd comment. BTW who exactly is a white person? Somewhere on another thread I probably self-identified as white yet that would be imprecise. My mother's family is from Spain via Mexico via Colorado so I'm assuming I'm genetically also part indiginous native South american and the mixed genetic history of Spain. My father is Scottish to the best of his knowledge. The point being what individual is …
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Again apparently your reading comprehension is limited because you are the only one (and HJ) threatening anyone with phyisical violence. Here are the direct quotes again, 1. " . . . saying some of the vile things you say on this site in the wrong crowd could lead to a serious ass whuppin if they weren't as tolerant of free speech as some of us." 2. "wrong crowd" means someone who might be a direct target of your bigotry and prone to a violent reaction. This is not and was not intended as a veiled threat by me regarding any hypothetical …
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Wow, you are angry. What's wrong internet genius, frustrated because someone doesn't think or do exactly what you want them to. BTW, despite your riveting legal analysis, I've almost got a sure thing--legally speaking. All I'm missing is the "imminence/apparent ability" element and it's a slam dunk. Be very very careful. Maybe in your deluded la la land you think what you've said isn't actionable but you keep threatening me with physical violence and I find out who you are and where you live we'll see if it's actionable or not. I'm sure I could plead a prima facie case which …
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P.S. You have friends? Where exactly does your Brownshirt group assemble so I can alert your neighbors. I'm sure they wouldn't find your racist invective very entertaining.
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Dear BM (bowel movement--ironic don't you think) It is Germar Rudolf BTW so if you're going to attempt to disseminate your racist clap trap at least spell the high priest's names correctly. Rudolf--right wing Nazi sympathizer, chemist not historian, theories debunked by Richard Green and Jamie McCarthy. Mattogno--premier Italian revisionist nut job whose prime claim is that "no records of people being put through ovens means no mass extermination." Difficult to disprove a negative, but nevertheless handily debunked by eyewitness reports. Rassiner, Leuchters were both debunked in the Zundel trials and the Irving v. Lipstadt trial. As fate would have it …
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How can someone claim to be an "engineer" without an engineering degree? Self taught or amateur engineer/inventor or home mechanic I suppose would be a more accurate description. Apparently I wasn't aware that by working with engineers in Vietnam in the 60's that entitled one to the title of engineer. Again you've taught me something new. Just like you can be one of the "chosen" few experts on the holocaust because of your vast knowledge of sources which consistently reinforce the same poorly constructed revisionism--how convenient. How is it that every opinion that doesn't comport with the opinion of your wretchedly …
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Dear Mr. Hawaii Jack, Why is it "china-phobia" to spend you political career lining up on the side of civil rights for "all" people regardless of nationality or in trying to use trade leverage to avoid the inevitable "race to the bottom" for the world's labor pool. How does doing morally correct things with ones political opportunities equate to a desire to engage in "military" war with China? Are you suggesting Pelosi and the neo-cons are motivated to seek the same ends? Would American democracy, in your mind, have been "working" properly had republicans maintained their majority status in Congress? And …
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Pelosi beating the war drums against China . . . any proof or link to such a claim or is it just more of your masterful understanding and memory of the political and historical American scene I should be relying upon. I'm not sure that a self description of your posts as "rebuttals" is wholly accurate given your standard responses (like "blow it out your keister" or "ignorant comments" to anything posited with which you disagree). I will say that I hope that you, like your many ill informed non-neo-con conservative "friends" in San Francisco (or however you would like to …
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Wow. Nancy Pelosi's "hawkishness" includes wanting to hold China's feet to the diplomatic fire for China's policies including: human rights violations, forced abortions, taking political prisoners from Tiananmen and before, nuclear and chemical weapons proliferation, massive trade imbalances and intellectual property disputes. Well HJ I guess you are right. Standing up for these sorts of things "clearly" is the moral equivalent of "beating the war drums." You got me again, I'm so clueless and stupid, how could I have not seen the world through your cash green cataraced lenses. I will say this to you HJ: advising me that "shit belongs …
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War with China? Seems a little unlikely given the amount of capital tied up in Chinese markets. Wouldn't that be bad business for you Ayn Rand types? Also it seems a little unlikely, given your fallen hero W's catastrophic blunders in the middle east, that anyone will be spoiling for a fight with China. What an astute observer of the political scene--"most dems elected were blue dog dems." Interesting that you can pigeonhole the freshman before they've even had a chance to work or take a voting stand on the issues. As is typical you are living in your own little …
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Logical inference that you read the Weekly Standard given you quoted it above i.e. " . . . the big enchilada as the weekly standard put it." Another logical inference is that if you drop Ayn Rand and objectivism enough I'm going to lump you in with the kooks at the Ayn Rand institute and if your not concerned about "maximizing your economic potential" then how can you claim affiliation with Ayn Rand's views? Lastly, I could care less what a bigot (refresher quotes from your past posts . . . "incompetent blacks, woman . . . japs . . . …
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So now after you've criticized me for not doing my own research you admit that you quote what other people tell you. A second hand hack then would be a more accurate description of you. So who exactly is the intellectually lazy person in this dialogue, if it can be called that? As far as being a zero, coming from you, who cares. As I've made it abundantly clear, based on your opinions, anything you have to say is meritless and often backward. Thankfully America is a place that even welcomes idiots like you. Why don't you try refuting the inferences …
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Dear Blondemike, I'm curious about something (unless the above comment is to be taken as snark) on Nov. 24, 2006 at 10:31 am in the midst of a heated discussion with Redhorse and Whattheheck you made this statement regarding Senor Chavez, "Nina and I are big Chavez fans." What has changed in the span of less than a month to change your view on Chavez as stated above? Or is it that you just like to take a contrarian point of view on every subject?
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Dear Mr. Hawaii Jack, "Get more skilled and offer the consumers what they want." Interesting premise. By becoming more skilled I assume you are referring to more education i.e. become lawyer, doctor, engineer, accountant etc. Maybe you should do a little more research into the history and consequences of unrestrained "free market fundamentalist ideology" because no amount of becoming more skilled is going to change the fact that engineering, and certain parts of the legal and medical professions (along with just about any production endeavor) can be "outsourced" in the name of "profitability and efficiency." So given the lack of fair …
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wow a racist bigot ("japs" . . . "incompetent women and blacks" . . . "zionist wars"). Not a real shocker given your views on what is wrong with America. First you are wrong about ancient greeks being lilly white. Second customers don't create "wants" in society nor does business generally cater to needs outside the basic industries of housing, clothing, food and public utilities. Big business does attempt to tie ones consumptive desires to ones self esteem through extravagantly funded marketing and advertising campaigns which begin targeting consumers shortly after birth. Third, arguing with someone who believes "markets" exist in …
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I have read Ms. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Which apparently has become the "racist libertarian" bible in the 50 years since that "methamphetimine slut princess" wrote her overwritten manifesto. If you think dropping Dr. Reisman's name will impress me you must be on the same grade of meth that Ayn Rand was. Why do you even bother commenting on a nominally progressive web site? If Mr. Sirota is watching I hope he bans you because the only place your Ayn Randian world view is going to get any play is in the "Olin and Scaife Foundations funded echo chambers" you like …
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