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Who's sleeping with this lumpy bag? *shudder*

I like a synthetic fiber pillow that's medium thickness so I can lay facedown on it without suffocating. I sleep on my stomach.

Juuhhhhhsh, you know what I'm talking about :P I treat Chris with a lot of dignity. We talk about deep subjects and share interesting iddeas with each other. Occasionally I'll say something that makes him uncomfortable but he sticks around because he secretly loves it.

Chris is a trooper for putting up with my aggressive come-ons. He totally deserves respect for that, lol.

Chris is telling me about how good his night's gonna be. Even without me there... :(

Haaaaay y'all. My breath smells great.

Sometimes I wonder what certain politicians would be doing if they hadn't gotten power. What would Brown be good for? He's sort of pudgy and unathletic, so he'd probably work at a paper company in Slough.

Certainly it appears idealistic to a statist, because it doesn't have the same framework of bureaucratic support structure that a government has. So if a statist ever has a question or theory about what might happen in a particular situation, he can simply revert to the omnisufficient answer: "The government will take care of it." But this is weakness. It's like saying "Oh well God did it." when you should be asking scientific questions. The theory that there is a vicious cycle of depressions (where credit contracts, then people stop spending, then companies lay off workers, then people spend even less, then credit contracts more, etc) is something Keynes dreamed up. But it has no bearing on reality. Because in society, there is always demand for goods and services. If we are all dropped naked and stupid in a jungle, with no inherent reason to demand things, eventually a market economy will evolve from our voluntary interactions. It's not a vicious cycle, it's virtuous cycle. If you are useful in some way, there is someone who has use for you. It strikes me as odd that people who are often great supporters of (and understand) Darwinian evolution can't see the parallel in free market economics. Only in a free market, people aren't killed or starved to death - it is much more tame than statists would have you believe. Government is a friction, a drain on a voluntary market. It is the source of all poverty.

Okay on the point about ships being "parked" full of fuel - this isn't as evil as it sounds. There are a couple of things to take into consideration here: 1. While these ships are parked, they are costing their companies money, because they aren't in service. Simply storing oil isn't profitable unless the price of oil climbs enough to justify taking the short-term hit of taking the ships out of commission for a while. 2. As the price of oil climbs, and it suddenly reaches the point where freeing up the oil on the ship is profitable, the oil company will do that. The market will again be flooded with the new oil, and this will in turn cause the price to drop again to a reasonable level. So there's an economical decision going on here, and it's not all evil "profit-mongering" or whatever. This is called "arbitrage" and it helps the price of commodities like oil remain more stable than they otherwise would be (which helps people plan - because you wouldn't want the price of oil to constantly be bouncing up and down on a daily basis).

I don't have a problem with people bucking social trends at all, but I think this sort of resentment is just a sign of emotional weakness on the part of the women. Professional men do the same sort of thing with their wives - come home expecting the house to be spotless, when there are 3 kids running around. Housework isn't a job that can be squared-away and "finished", it's an ongoing process. Unless there's egregious laziness going on, people need to be sensitive to the fact that most chores don't get a "DONE" stamp applied to them.

lol true, there are two types of immigrants, the sorts who want jobs and the sorts that don't. Either way, they're brown people and therefore should be treated with the most suspicion and prejudice! :D

Chuck, I really want you to read some stuff about Praxeology, I can find you an article if you'd like. I think you'd be really interested in it. The theory goes that all your life is comprised of many individual choices back-to-back. Even when you aren't doing anything, that's a choice. So every decision you make is economical, including how you spend your time - either working or at leisure. I think Americans are often overworked, I agree. But I don't think this is a byproduct of "hyper-capitalism" or whatever. It is the employment friction and difficulty holding a job that gives employers a huge advantage when it comes to having discretion about who to hire and fire. In an economy without regulation or interest-rate manipulation, employment would remain full at all times. There is always work to be done, and always people who are willing to trade a portion of their free time for dollars. Involuntary unemployment is not a natural part of a free market because demand is unlimited, and credit is never naturally so monopolized by one entity (the federal government). I think in a free market, unemployment would only be frictional (below 2%) and all employment would be voluntary and rewarding for everyone involved. Prices would be held low so quality of life is maximized for the lower and middle classes. Saving would be easy and nobody would NEED to work long hours in a grueling environment. This type of relationship isn't beneficial to the employer or employee. Bosses would be friendly and accommodating because finding other work would be a snap for a laborer in a vibrant, entrepreneurial free market.

Maybe they wouldn't have this problem if they weren't constantly handing out free goodies to every lazybones. It's so easy to milk the system when you know how to fake disability.

Anarcho-capitalism is pure anarchism, because capitalism is an anarchic economic system (has no central planner). The currency is determined by the individual members of the economy, and typically those individuals choose a currency that has solid backing and common usage like gold or a third-party-verified credit system. Hayek writes a lot on this subject of spontaneous order in markets, including spontaneous acceptance of a common non-government currency. All the other forms of government listed fall into a single category: kleptocracy. Anyway that's the simplified voluntaryist perspective!

He was pretty hot in Wanted.

I just got a facebook yesterday. So far so good. I won't let this get out of control. I promise.

What WILL these pesky brown people think of next? Having jobs!?

AMAGAH!!! Stormtroopers are adorable! :heart:

I'm just thrilled at the barrage of totally-deserved gay-bashing that is about to come my way.

I FOUND IT! I FOUND IT! *waits for Nathan's comment*

It's mostly taxes. And it's a quite sinister tax, at that, because it disproportionately affects the poor as they spend a greater % of their income on fuel than the rich do.

Food Network isn't just for watching. Try some new things, and invite friends over to help you. Cooking can be fun, but people often just order pizza and watch TV alone.

I added another video with a blatant Obama lie. This time about forcing people to pay for health insurance.

Whoa whoa whoa! When you murder a child you don't get a second chance.

How did I miss this post?? Just shut up and take your shirt off, you silly goose. :heart: