“Every time the US ‘saves’ a country, it converts it into either an insane asylum or a cemetery.”--Latin American author Eduardo Galeano
The Pirates' third baseman is 31 and has not played in the major leagues for over three years. He's hitting .111. He does, however, have a baseball face.
Reynolds looks like he can play. But they have a lot of number six hitters. And they all play the outfield.
Marte might consider academics. He is the most arrogant underachieving player I can recall. And he is dumb.
They have a power hitter in AAA. He plays first.
The warning from the canary can come from anywhere. Consider this: "Calvin Klein is facing intense backlash from the LGBTQ community for an ad that features Bella Hadid kissing a female robot-influencer Lil Miquela."
That is from People Mag and you can read the whole article--which is truly astounding with many concepts as staggering as "robot-influencer." Surely some revelation is at hand.
The Supreme Court ruled consumers can proceed with a suit challenging Apple’s control over the marketplace for iPhone apps, threatening the tech giant’s slice of billions of dollars in sales.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) will call for a ban on for-profit charter schools and a temporary moratorium on funding for public-charter-school expansion in a campaign speech to be delivered Saturday, CNN first reported.
For socialists, one size must fit all.
The wet weather has allowed the planting of only 30% of the corn in the mid-west.
"To Beard" is a slang term describing what might be described as flying a false flag. A gay man might bring a girl date to a party to disguise he was gay. I recently heard it used twice to describe the suit against Harvard's racial profiling of Asian applicants to decline their admission. The observer said that the case was using the Asians as a beard to disguise their prejudice against blacks.
So racism always trumps logic, fairness, and philosophy--on both sides of the argument.
Smallpox killed 300 – 500 million people in the 20th century alone.
Over 500 varieties of pasta now offered by some American specialty stores.
There is radiatore, a finned pasta made to look like old-fashioned heating radiators. Mafalde is a pasta named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, a long pasta with a double row of ruffles. Zucca means pumpkin and the pasta resembles an open pumpkin that can hold creamy sauces. Creste di gallo is from Italy’s Marche region and looks like a rooster’s crest. Vesuvio is from south of Naples is made to look like the nearby explosive Mount Vesuvius.
The round corzetti dates back to a coin from the Middle Ages. Its faces are stamped with the images of the actual coin. Lumaconi translates into “big snails” and is made in Italy’s south to look a local variety of smails. Foglie d’ulivo is shaped like the olive leaves that are so common throughout Italy. Cappellacci dei briganti is made to look to look like the cone-shaped hats worn by the outlaws that used to operate in southern Italy.
And some people think they know the will of the people.
“We have a free market, but that free market operates under the conditions created for it by policymakers. Those conditions should reflect our national priorities. And one of our top national priorities should be creating strong and stable jobs upon which strong families and strong communities can take root.” This was said by Marco Rubio--a small government Republican--confusing nice ideals with government policy. He's going to help families. Before you think I am just cherry-picking, he then said this: “We need to get back to a point where we don't solely analyze the American economy on traditional economic measures,” he said. “GDP growth is important, but that alone doesn't tell us the full story. It has to be not just growth that we care about, but the kind of growth that creates stable jobs that allow strong families and strong communities to develop, which are the backbone of a strong economy. Our public policy should reflect that.” Success through anti-economics.
CNN reported that US puppet Juan Guaido actually won the presidential election against Nicolas Maduro when in fact Guaido never even ran for president.
On the domestic side of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, 65 percent of Ex-Im activities benefited 10 giant American companies, including GE and Caterpillar. Boeing alone benefited from 70 percent of the loan-guarantee program and 40 percent of the bank’s overall activities ($48.4 billion), earning Ex-Im the nickname “the Bank of Boeing.”
An arrest warrant was issued on this day in 1593 for Christopher Marlowe, after fellow writer Thomas Kyd accused Marlowe of heresy. Marlowe was eventually killed in a bar fight, the subject of Burgess' A Dead Man in Deptford.
The Will of the People
Whenever you hear someone defer to the "will of the people," you know it's time to hide the women.
The "General Will" is a concept introduced by Rousseau in Article Six of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen ), composed in 1789 during the French Revolution: "The law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have the right to contribute personally, or through their representatives, to its formation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, positions, and employments, according to their capacities, and without any other distinction than that of their virtues and their talents." Elsewhere he defines "law" as, "a public and solemn declaration of the general will on an object of common interest." Here is Rousseau trying to come to grips with a new idea in the west: Freedom and the people, not the nobility, not God, making law.
There is an organic, cohesive quality about the idea that does not hold up well to serious scrutiny, though. Individuals themselves are often conflicted. Households have only rare themes, and they are mostly defensive. It is hard to visualize a societal "general will" in any but the most extreme of circumstances. And law, at its best, is nothing more than a hodgepodge of interests--or the result of a successful campaign of special interest.
Isaiah Berlin argued that Rousseau's association of freedom with obedience to the General Will allowed totalitarian leaders to defend oppression in the name of freedom, and made Rousseau "one of the most sinister and formidable enemies of liberty in the whole history of human thought."
The Pirates' third baseman is 31 and has not played in the major leagues for over three years. He's hitting .111. He does, however, have a baseball face.
Reynolds looks like he can play. But they have a lot of number six hitters. And they all play the outfield.
Marte might consider academics. He is the most arrogant underachieving player I can recall. And he is dumb.
They have a power hitter in AAA. He plays first.
The warning from the canary can come from anywhere. Consider this: "Calvin Klein is facing intense backlash from the LGBTQ community for an ad that features Bella Hadid kissing a female robot-influencer Lil Miquela."
That is from People Mag and you can read the whole article--which is truly astounding with many concepts as staggering as "robot-influencer." Surely some revelation is at hand.
The Supreme Court ruled consumers can proceed with a suit challenging Apple’s control over the marketplace for iPhone apps, threatening the tech giant’s slice of billions of dollars in sales.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) will call for a ban on for-profit charter schools and a temporary moratorium on funding for public-charter-school expansion in a campaign speech to be delivered Saturday, CNN first reported.
For socialists, one size must fit all.
The wet weather has allowed the planting of only 30% of the corn in the mid-west.
"To Beard" is a slang term describing what might be described as flying a false flag. A gay man might bring a girl date to a party to disguise he was gay. I recently heard it used twice to describe the suit against Harvard's racial profiling of Asian applicants to decline their admission. The observer said that the case was using the Asians as a beard to disguise their prejudice against blacks.
So racism always trumps logic, fairness, and philosophy--on both sides of the argument.
Smallpox killed 300 – 500 million people in the 20th century alone.
Over 500 varieties of pasta now offered by some American specialty stores.
There is radiatore, a finned pasta made to look like old-fashioned heating radiators. Mafalde is a pasta named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, a long pasta with a double row of ruffles. Zucca means pumpkin and the pasta resembles an open pumpkin that can hold creamy sauces. Creste di gallo is from Italy’s Marche region and looks like a rooster’s crest. Vesuvio is from south of Naples is made to look like the nearby explosive Mount Vesuvius.
The round corzetti dates back to a coin from the Middle Ages. Its faces are stamped with the images of the actual coin. Lumaconi translates into “big snails” and is made in Italy’s south to look a local variety of smails. Foglie d’ulivo is shaped like the olive leaves that are so common throughout Italy. Cappellacci dei briganti is made to look to look like the cone-shaped hats worn by the outlaws that used to operate in southern Italy.
And some people think they know the will of the people.
“We have a free market, but that free market operates under the conditions created for it by policymakers. Those conditions should reflect our national priorities. And one of our top national priorities should be creating strong and stable jobs upon which strong families and strong communities can take root.” This was said by Marco Rubio--a small government Republican--confusing nice ideals with government policy. He's going to help families. Before you think I am just cherry-picking, he then said this: “We need to get back to a point where we don't solely analyze the American economy on traditional economic measures,” he said. “GDP growth is important, but that alone doesn't tell us the full story. It has to be not just growth that we care about, but the kind of growth that creates stable jobs that allow strong families and strong communities to develop, which are the backbone of a strong economy. Our public policy should reflect that.” Success through anti-economics.
CNN reported that US puppet Juan Guaido actually won the presidential election against Nicolas Maduro when in fact Guaido never even ran for president.
On the domestic side of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, 65 percent of Ex-Im activities benefited 10 giant American companies, including GE and Caterpillar. Boeing alone benefited from 70 percent of the loan-guarantee program and 40 percent of the bank’s overall activities ($48.4 billion), earning Ex-Im the nickname “the Bank of Boeing.”
Hayek worked in the context of the near death of civilization in the world wars, near-universal enthusiasm for socialism among the intellectuals, and repeated exhortations in the face of periodic economic troubles that this time really was the Final Crisis of Capitalism.
An arrest warrant was issued on this day in 1593 for Christopher Marlowe, after fellow writer Thomas Kyd accused Marlowe of heresy. Marlowe was eventually killed in a bar fight, the subject of Burgess' A Dead Man in Deptford.
The Will of the People
Whenever you hear someone defer to the "will of the people," you know it's time to hide the women.
The "General Will" is a concept introduced by Rousseau in Article Six of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen ), composed in 1789 during the French Revolution: "The law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have the right to contribute personally, or through their representatives, to its formation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, positions, and employments, according to their capacities, and without any other distinction than that of their virtues and their talents." Elsewhere he defines "law" as, "a public and solemn declaration of the general will on an object of common interest." Here is Rousseau trying to come to grips with a new idea in the west: Freedom and the people, not the nobility, not God, making law.
There is an organic, cohesive quality about the idea that does not hold up well to serious scrutiny, though. Individuals themselves are often conflicted. Households have only rare themes, and they are mostly defensive. It is hard to visualize a societal "general will" in any but the most extreme of circumstances. And law, at its best, is nothing more than a hodgepodge of interests--or the result of a successful campaign of special interest.
Isaiah Berlin argued that Rousseau's association of freedom with obedience to the General Will allowed totalitarian leaders to defend oppression in the name of freedom, and made Rousseau "one of the most sinister and formidable enemies of liberty in the whole history of human thought."
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