Are you courting disaster?

Those who accept credentials over direct experience court disaster.  --L. Reichard White, Thursday, April 01, 2010 7:03 AM

Another place to find the truth - - -

"Always listen to The Fool! 'Cuz he's the one allowed to tell the truth!"  --Rich Paul

Radical replacement

Agreements instead of laws! NOW!!  --L. Reichard White, Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:08 PM

The REAL drug problem?

We've got to get off federal largesse. It's been refered to here in Utah as Federal Crack: You get addicted to it and it's hard to get off. ...They [Washington D.C.] are clearly dysfunctional. We can't pass that dysfunction on to the states. --Utah Governor Gary Herbert, CNBC, March 19, 2010, 07:48:35

The REAL bad guys?

"...the Security Council passed a resolution...calling on all states to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty and to solve all their conflicts within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty without any threats of force. Well, that particular part of the resolution was not exactly headlined here, for a simple reason: it was directed at two countries, the two countries that are regularly threatening the use of force, the United States and Israel. The threat of force is in violation of the UN Charter, if anybody cares about that stale old stuff, even older than the ’60s. But that’s never mentioned." --Noam Chomsky on Obama's Foreign Policy, His Own History of Activism, and the Importance of Speaking Out, DemocracyNOW!, Monday, March 15, 2010 11:49 AM

Where 911 came from?

1. It is impossible to kill enough people to end up with no enemies.

2. For every person your military kills, you create 100 more enemies from family, friends, countrymen, religion colleagues, etc.

3. Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate. --via Jomama and with apologies to Intech Concepts 34, DougBuchanan.com  </a>

The intelligence services call it "Blowback," of course.

Unless you believe 911 was an inside job.

It might do more than set you free - - -

The truth MAY set you free, but these days it could piss you off so much you get in trouble. --L. Reichard White, Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:05 AM

Controlled markets

Of COURSE we have controlled markets!

The question is, who controls them better, bureaucrats or customers? --L. Reichard White, Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:31 AM

Failure?

"Failure" is a subjective judgement in most cases. Try "I haven't failed, I just haven't succeeded yet." --L. Reichard White, 1978

What "bi-partisan" means

Keeping in mind that the "bi" in "bi-partisan" means two, referring to the Democrats as one of the two and Republicans as the other one, "bi-partisan" means: If you're not a hard core Democrat and you're not a hard core Republican, YOU are not included. --L. Reichard White, Sunday, March 07, 2010 10:29 AM

Seriously - - -

Seriously, why should I respect authority?? --L. Reichard White, Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:21 AM

Just for kids - - -

Obedience is for kids -- and only for kids. 


OK, maybe not even for kids.   --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:48 PM

Midwife?

Deflation is the midwife of hyperinflation. --Howard_Beale, Fri, 02/26/2010 - 19:53 #247566

Comeuppance?

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. --Ludwig von Mises, Human Action (pg 572)

Groundhog day a couple of weeks late - - -

On Thursday night, Feb. 18, the FED (Federal Reserve) unexpectedly raised interest rates a quarter point.

~"This is the FED's version of Groundhog Day. ...It saw it's shadow (inflation) and so it raised rates."  --Pimco's Bill Gross, CNBC, February 19, 2010, 08:45:19

The Millennium - - -

We'll know the millennium has truly arrived when keyboarding becomes an official Olympic event.  --L. Reichard White, Sunday, February 21, 2010 1:20 PM

Anachronism?

If useful at all, hierarchies are designed for emergency circumstances where the situation is clear, usually dire, requires special knowledge and/or information held by one or only a few and a quick co-ordinated response.  And a bad outcome otherwise.  Since this requires accurate anticipation of the future at all stages -- which decays the further ahead you look -- clearly hierarchies have very limited usefulness which spoils rapidly.  Thus, as Sufi traditions suggest, they should never be created as permanent -- and should be encouraged to decay rapidly.  --L. Reichard White, Saturday, February 20, 2010 8:16 PM

Child abuse?

We used to pay off the mortgage and leave our kids the farm; now we mortgage the farm and leave our  kids the payments.  --The Unknown Politician

We weren't on the wrong side [in Vietnam'] - - -

We weren't on the wrong side [in Vietnam], we were the wrong side. --Daniel Ellsberg, The Most Dangerous Man in America, NewsBusters.org

User fees - - -

Taxes: User fees paid by someone other than the user. --L. Reichard White, Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:08 PM