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September 05, 2015

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Sandy "I stand with Walker - 2016" Daze

Good morning, all.

Have a great weekend.

BR

OT - 10,000 self-identifying morons.

Beasts of England

Roll Tide!!

Beasts of England

Nice to see that policy makers control wages, not market forces. And what does scheduling have to do with wages? And the Times thinks that you can gradually phase in a false market?

The same effect as rising wages would be lowered expenses. How about we roll back regulations and their bureaucracies? The EPA would be a good start.

henry

Yes, classification creates jobs. Just as many as 57 varieties of gender bathrooms.

henry

If policy makers all commit hari Kari and take their rule books with them, jobs and wages might recover.

Beasts of England

I missed the tough enforcement codicil. Expanding the non-wealth producing class raises wages. Forgot about that. Maybe I was sleeping that day in Econ. Silly me!!

Captain Hate on the iPad

Does homo marriage boost wages?

Beasts of England

Of course it does, Captain! Along with henry's broken porcelain theory we'll be at full employment in no time! Recovery Autumn - raise interest rates now!

Captain Hate on the iPad

So Anthony Kennedy and the four lock steppers in black robes were really pursuing an economic agenda? Impressive invisible hand imo.

Beasts of England

Gradual implementation is a great idea, though - gotta give the Times credit for that. I think I'll gradually stop reporting my sources of income to the IRS. Gradually. Maybe forget one or two per year - dividends and interest first. And be vewy, vewy, quiet.

maryrose

RSE
Good point
Let us see how Hewitt behaves at the CNN debate

maryrose

Wonderful day for football!

Captain Hate on the iPad

The only bad aspect of Ahia State winning the football playoff last year was how happy it made Hewitt.

Beasts of England

Ahem!! I'm not sure it was the only bad aspect. :)

Captain Hate on the iPad

Beasts, what was your opinion of Urban Meyer when he was at Florida? He made me do a 180 from Squirrelier because I thought they played exciting football. Yes I know they had an impressive rap sheet with the Gainesville constabulary but it wasn't like Father Flanagan Sweater Vest was running a seminary.

Beasts of England

I never could figure the guy out, Captain. He was obviously skilled, but he always seemed at odds with everything down there.

I think he's where he needs to be now. Very good for college football...

(A)Nuther Bub

I like Hugh Hewitt and believe he'll be entirely even handed in the CNN debate. He's one of the best interviewers I've ever heard. I've listened to his program almost daily for many years. Don't always agree with his point of view but my impression of his personality and style is at variance with what's been expressed here.

Did you hear his 9/3/15 interview with Donald Trump? Their brief debate about what constitutes a 'gotcha,' was without animus and Hewitt was as respectful of Trump as he has been with any of the candidates. Trump came off pretty well, I thought, and it was only later that he tried to make it sound like an important flare up where Hewitt had played dirty and thus deserved the label'third rate.' But that's Donald's style. To me, it's getting very shopworn very quickly and would be about as pleasant over four years in office as Hillary's cackle or Biden's wandering paws.

Beasts of England

Not sure that answered your question, Captain, but I've got to go meet my Mom for breakfast. Being a good boy that I am... lol

rse

If you want a taste for policy makers wanting to prevail over markets this wioa presentation from the august 2015 annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures is an eye-opener. http://www.ncsl.org/documents/summit/summit2015/onlineresources/NCSL_WIOA2.pdf

rse

http://www.ncsl.org/meetings-training/2015-legislative-summit-online-resources.aspx is the entire summit agenda.

Leaves me with the impression that pols and their staffs think there is no area where their meddling won't improve the situation. Completely unaware that the opposite is true.

rse

How could we not look at NCSL's Board and not recognize how deeply embedded this cronyistic vision has become. http://www.ncsl.org/aboutus/ncsl-foundation-for-state-legislatures/board-of-directors.aspx

narciso

Well they miss the main reason, the dollar has been so devalued probably due to the likes of qe infiniti, that even 15 dollars won't do the trick.

The hundreds noticed this five years ago. But the journal denied their own data.

Lazybusy

Kave,
Just catching up. Welcome to Minnesota. Are locating in the Twin City area? Minnesota has quite a State Fair doesn't it?

Miss Marple

To increase wages:
1. Abolish Obamacare
2. Defund EPA.
3. Seal the border


Easy peasy.

Captain Hate on the iPad

No, that was a good answer, Beasts. Notre Dame and tOSU were both his dream destinations. ND had a chance when they took instead that fat oaf, Chollie Weis (some online shills had nics of Urban Meyer Bad Hire) who promptly took them, and their equally bloated NBC contract, right in the toilet.

narciso

Noticed how mayor carcetti wants the share of the Syrian influx, that can't go wrong?

narciso

Bruce Bartlett finds a nut, and then goes astray.

sbw

Our editorial, Social media misleads even smart people.

A Facebook post by OccupyDemocrats purporting to show Barack Obama’s record was clicked favorably — Liked — by 794,000 people. That’s ample evidence social media sight bites can con even smart people who see little need to validate claims with other sources of evidence. National media doesn’t help.

The Obama campaign post is like a captain’s poor nautical chart that shows the lighthouse, but not the rocky reef a ship would need to navigate safely past to reach a harbor. The lighthouse may exist, but the map omits other essential information. . . .

narciso

One should know by now, ab, interviews are not about eliciting information, they are about forging a narrative. How many times do we need to learn this.

Janet

THis really is uber sketchy - http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-personally-paid-state-department-staffer-to-maintain-server/2015/09/04/b13ab23e-530c-11e5-9812-92d5948a40f8_story.html?postshare=3851441420685618

"The private employment of Pagliano provides a new example of the ways that Clinton — who occupied a unique role as a Cabinet secretary who was also a former and potentially future presidential candidate — hired staff to work simultaneously for her in public and private capacities.

Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, and Huma Abedin, a close confidant who served as deputy chief of staff, both spent time working for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons personally."

JeanD

Have I lost my mind, or is this the dumbest thing you have ever read? Regarding Hillary's campaign reset:

"A new marketing initiative called "Thx Box," a take on an online makeup subscription called BirchBox, will offer regular home delivery of assorted merchandise. Supporters will also receive a Bitmoji of a pink pantsuit they can impose onto their own avatar."

This is from a USA Today piece (LUN)

If this is how you win the female vote, we are doomed.

narciso

He was retained by state, reputedly working for gartner, for a year after. Remember when they were 'concerned'about whose allegiance Blackwater was to. Its almost as if they weren't really.

(A)Nuther Bub

One should know by now, ab, interviews are not about eliciting information, they are about forging a narrative.

Doesn't matter what the motives are on either side. Interviews reveal the truth about both the questioners and the answerers to observers who pay attention.

Miss Marple

JeanD

Ugh. I imagine that is to get those older women who support her, composed mainly of older university liberal arts profs and retirees in Florida who believe she will show all those men a thing or two.

Don't think the Millennials will be interested.

By the way, my grandson informed me that Millennials now comprise the largest segment in the work force (and I assume therefore the largest voter block as well). He learned that in a business class he is taking at the university he attends.

Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Vulgarian Ignatz

It shouldn't surprise us that socialists don't believe market forces or price discovery have any place in economics or are in any way valid.

We are not actually debating real Keynesians who are mistaken about the best method of goosing a relatively free market. They are socialists masquerading as Keynesians. Sanders is just a less dishonest Hillary.
Let's not forget the intellectual roots of the people now in charge of the Dem party. They're not the heirs of LBJ and Hubert Humphrey; that side lost the Dem civil war.
The Abby Hoffmans and Barry Rubins and Tom Haydens won.
The New Left, that disgusting creation of Marcuse et al, which modified Marx by adding on the sexual revolution of liberitinism and contempt not just for free market economics but all things Judeo-Christian is the progenitor of the scum we now face.

Rick Ballard

SBW,

That's a very good editorial. The actual drop out number is 94 million versus 81 million when Obama's reign of terror was inaugurated. The population over the age of 16 has grown by 16.3 million, the labor force has grown by only 3.9 million and the number choosing life on an EBT card has grown by 12.4 million.

That's Obama's "success" scorecard. The comp numbers for Reagan are 13.9, 14.7 and -1.4.

(A)Nuther Bub

According to Wiki's definition of Millennial, MM, the oldest would be 33 (born between 1982 and 2004). I'd be really surprised if that is the largest voting bloc. When I was in the polling biz we sometimes sought out various age segments for focus group recruitment. You'd usually have to look through 100 names and birthdates to find even a half dozen who were younger than 35. That was 20-some years ago so things may have changed but I doubt they've changed to that degree.

(A)Nuther Bub

And it's even hard to believe that 18 to 33 year olds are the largest segment of American workers, isn't it? Especially now, when young adults seem to stay in college or grad school until many are already going bald.

(A)Nuther Bub

Oops. I should have said "look through 100 names and birthdates" from registered voter lists.

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Eliminating over-regulation and the alphabet soup of agencies and stopping illegal immigration would undoubtedly help the middle class, but the number one factor harming the middle class for the last 6 years certainly, but even prior to that has been monetary policy.

The middle class is enriched by the creation of wealth. What the Feds and the Fed specifically have been diligently creating for the last 6 years in historic proportions, and even prior to that in slightly smaller fashion, has not been wealth but free money.

Free money, to the extent it is available to the middle class is harmful as the Nasdaq and housing bubbles clearly demonstrated.
Free money is often beneficial to the wealthy who take advantage of it because they can access such huge sums they often reap a net positive before the house of cards falls down, but even they are often suckered into bad decisions which can wipe them out.

But the economy as a whole and the entire nation suffers because rather being engaged in the actual creation and expansion of new wealth (a process which either completely mystifies the left or which doesn't even believe exists) the nation is engaged in pursuing asset bubbles inflated by the ocean of free money. No actual lasting wealth is created that can sustain higher wages for more production from the vast middle that produces goods and services. Prices merely rise either generally or in those limited areas which the hot, free money flows to; presently, the stock market, art, automobiles and other esoteric asset classes.

In a free money, debt bubble environment productivity and innovation investment are retarded as the free money essentially commodifies all assets. Those with free money to invest chase the latest misallocation of investment because supply/demand and price discovery are hopelessly distorted.

And the longer the central banks continue to provide free money to avoid the necessary reckoning to eliminate the misallocations, not only is the inevitable crash bigger but the even bigger disaster of all the wealth that was never created to build upon in the first place that would have provided a higher base to start over after the reckoning is almost completely unseen and unrecognized.

And in our global economy it is even easier for the whole world to go insane at once as it has been doing for the last few years.
More information is greatly beneficial when man is rational.
Unfortunately he seems to usually be bent on his own self gratifying destruction and more information in those situations means he gets to fly an SR 71 into the side of a mountain instead of a cessna.

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

--And it's even hard to believe that 18 to 33 year olds are the largest segment of American workers, isn't it?--

Well, she did say he learned it at a university.

Captain Hate on the iPad

Yes, that stat is hard to believe because it seemed like a mini baby boom happened when my children were born and they're slightly older than the millennials. That's just anecdotal and somewhat location specific but the stat might be a reflection of just how much immigration has increased.

Beasts of England

What A(B) and Ig said. If they're the largest segment of the work force, then they're either part-time or underemployed as baristas.

peter

sorry, haven't found the link yet, but must read is Paul Sperry column "On the Right" in today's print edition of Investors Business Daily, about the real reason Obama took the name McKinley off the mountain and his plans to de-colonize Hawaii by creating a special class of Pacific Islanders

Beasts of England

When you've been running for president for the last decade and you have to reset your campaign - after bring your party's prohibitive favorite - you may have a problem.

Pink pantsuit emojis probably won't solve that. Oh, well. ;)

peter

back on topic,
Lower the capital gains tax, repeal Obamacare, shut down HUD, the Department of Education, the EPA, and announce a plan to double the size of our Navy fleet over the next ten years.

Beasts of England

How great is Kickoff Saturday! Still nice enough out for a boat ride or a quick nine holes before cheering on the home team. Now, if I could just squeeze in a quick dove hunt...

Miss Marple

One would think this trivial but in this administration there is nothing trivial:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/03/white-house-blocks-visitor-records-for-obamas-prince-concert/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

JeanD

So Beasts, are you saying we shouldn't put you down for a subscription to the "THX BOX" at this time, but that you will keep it in mind?

Remember, Christmas is coming! What would the Bikini Babes love more than an assortment of Hillary! approved and endorsed products?

We'll send you a blast email reminder in October, okay?

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Peter's IBD link.

daddy

Landed an hour ago and just got home. Took off my monkey suit in the garage, then walked into the house wearing shorts, sox and a T-shirt. Instantly the dogs heard me and came barreling down the stairs and attacked me, so I laid on the rug in the Living room and have spent the last 10 minutes being play-bitten and nuzzled and licked to death.

Man is that fun! One of life's greatest pleasures. Now I am all stinky with dog hairs all over me, but momma finally broke up the celebration, so I have crawled up to bed to start JOM catch-up until my bloodshot eyes cross and I begin drooling and pass out. Momma has just headed out for their morning walk so I should be undisturbed for a few hours. There's nothing better than dog licks to make a person feel consequential:)

Clang, clang, clang.

Early Bird, it's titanically icebergwardly navigated.
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Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

They don't care to block the personal records of our intelligence and other gov employees or our state department emails or NSA records but they do care we don't find out who went to a Prince concert.
Priorities.

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

--There's nothing better than dog licks to make a person feel consequential:)--

As long as they've been wormed. :)

Beasts of England

That was rather short-sighted of me, JeanD - sign me up!!

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Everyone should read peter's IBD link.
Disgusting and puts Barry's move to rename Mt McKinley in context. He's such a healer.
Our first clean and articulate black Marxist president.

It's hybritic.

The trouble, Iggy, is that it is contempt for all things. Not a friendly spirit for we bits of clay.

M Rufus King

" To me, it's getting very shopworn very quickly"

Someone please fetch A(nuther) Boob the smelling salts...


"Poll: Trump beats Hillary head-to-head" (9/4/15)

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/252825-poll-trump-beats-hillary-head-to-head


Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

The dumbass Trump shill doesn't seem to grasp that Trump gains supporters by kicking in the teeth the creeps who would rule over us and who are wrecking the country, not by kicking others who detest the very same people.

Miss Marple

http://freebeacon.com/culture/something-rotten-in-the-state-of-britain/

Johns_Creek_Bill

I would look to enact a law that would require any federal regulation not expressly provided for in an underlying law that will cost a taxpayer a certain amount (say $100) through increased prices of the item or service being regulated be approved by Congress and signed by the President.

This would be a way to make the unaccountable bureaucracies to the people.

I would endorse a flat tax with a sharp reduction in corporate taxes.

Any thing to eliminate the twin evil of bureaucrats and rent seeking parasites is good for me.

peter

Thanks, Iggy for finding the Paul Sperry link LUN. I remember on my one vacation to Hawaii, seeing a fairly large number of pro-nativists bumper stickers. Does this mean Red States, particularly Texas, which was a Republic, can also become semi-sovereign states, with special rights for some? Why not all the states of the Louisiana Purchase, can we set up some special rights for those who were of French extraction?

narciso

No peter, those would be considered settler states who dispossesed their original inhabitants like south Africa or Australia.

Extraneus

Thanks, Peter. The McKinley move make a lot more sense now.

I wonder what else is on his bucket list.

Beasts of England

Putt has been floating the islander fantasy for a long time. I put nothing past that jerk or our lapdog congress.

Rick Ballard

Johns Creek Bill,

I would prefer to see personal liability attached to upper level bureaucrats for actions taken by their departments. Use SarBox as a model and include all those with undersecretary and equivalent rank.

narciso

Farage's response to the kurdi tragedy is more insightful than etonian Cameron's wallowings

narciso

I stand corrected we know a little more about 'vinnie from queens, he may have been a medical student, and was in camp bucca for a while. We knew much more about gotti, for instance.

Captain Hate on the iPad

Beasts, McKinley isn't the hill on which to make a stand.

Stephanie

LOL Capt considering the size of that 'hill.'


Tebow has been released by the Iggles. Shame.

narciso

This is why we can't have nice things, Stephanie.

David brat, honey badger with a PhD has some interesting things to say (ht treehouse)

(A)Nuther Bub

Putt has been floating the islander fantasy for a long time.

Indeed, Beasts. The article said it all began in 2010, but when Obams vacationed here during his first campaign, in 2007, he met with the activists and promised that if elected he would get Hawaiian Sovereignty through Congress (that was before he discovered he'd have a pen and a phone). It's pretty unpopular here, except among the usual suspects. I wrote the questionnaire and final report for a survey sponsored by a conservative group, to measure community opinion in the matter. A substantial majority opposed it and even ethnic Hawaiians -- a closer split -- were non-supporters by a small margin.

James D.

Ig, that Sperry essay sounds spot-on as to Zero's motives.

And I can see the R Congress going right along with it all, too.

Beasts of England

But Obama hears the voices of those who didn't respond to your poll, (A)B. ;)

Captain Hate on the iPad

Tebow lit up the J-E-T-S so I'm not sure what more he could've done to make Chip's squad.

Stephanie

Not been Tim Teabow - Christian?

Old Lurker

The only improvement I would make to Rick's 12:25 application of personal liability to all Federal Employees of Undersecretary and up rank would be to also apply it to all under that same rank.

Just sayin.

Stephanie

I think Caro's FB page has been hacked. I'm getting some weird personal messages from someone purporting to be her.

Frau X-Bein

Misogynist troll's
Pitiful selfie reveals
Woeful ignorance


Captain Hate on the iPad

For all you POI fans wondering why you haven't seen it on any upcoming CBS nightly lineups, no new episodes will be aired before 2016. It's like they put Rather and Mapes in charge of programming.

(A)Nuther Bub

But Obama hears the voices of those who didn't respond to your poll, (A)B. ;)

Heh, Beasts. I had forgotten about those who don't vote.

It will be disastrous for Hawaii and probably hardest on the native population who now see only power and money in it but will eventually suffer the reality. Since it will harm most everyone, we can be certain he'll ordain it.

Beasts of England

I try and have breakfast with my Mom a few times per month, and even we meet, she always makes me a ridiculous amount of Italian food. She thinks I'm too thin - which is laughable.

Anyhoo, in addition to my lasagna and spinach-stuffed shells, she brought me some vino. A big box o' vino. She said that she's been hearing about it and wanted (me) to try it. Curious, I just, uh, uncorked it. It's quite decent.

3.0 liters for $19.00. Black Box cab. Give it a try! :)

Beasts of England

Your analysis is right on the money, (A)B. Their ilk is not worried about the fallout or the fairness - just the accumulation of power and payback.

Miss Marple

Beasts, is it better than Frontera Chilean Merlot?

That's my go-to cheap wine, 8.99 for a 1.5 L bottle at Kroger, 6.99 at Sam's.

Beasts of England

It's also a Chilean wine, Miss Marple! Not sure if it's better or not, but I'm curious how long it will keep in the fridge - which would be a benefit. Looks like the bag will collapse into itself, so oxidation shouldn't be an issue. Of course, it's at the lake at the end of the season, so it could be May before I can render a full opinion! :)

jimmyk on iPhone

On topic, Landsburg has been skewering Krugman on his pro-minimum wage increase arguments, pointing out that they don't pass the Econ 101 litmus test.

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2015/09/03/minimum-logic-part-2/

Miss Marple

Beasts,

I used to buy Australian wines but with the exchange rate becoming unfavorable I tried this one suggested by my nephew's partner, who has traveled extensively in South America and really is a fan of Chilean wines.

It's quite good and a bargain for the money. (I am not a wine expert or picky about things, hence my drinking Miller High Life beer.)

The ONLY thing I am a stickler on is gin, and will only drink Beefeaters. I can taste the difference between it and supposedly better-quality gins like Tanqueray. If it was good enough for the Queen Mum, it's good enough for me!

Frau Eure Hoheit

Certain WH residents were taking notes:

After their arrival, the king (of Saudi Arabia) and his entourage made their way to the Four Seasons where they booked every room! Guests at the hotel were forced to switch hotels after the king rented every room on every floor. Reports say he even brought his own luxury furnishings to the hotel, including red carpets and gold decorations.

Beasts of England

Welp, it's time to grab my 20-ga. and golf clubs and head to the boat. Hope the Bikini Babes bring plenty of bird shot...

clarice

I always keep some boxed wine in the pantry for cooking.As Beasts says, the plastic container keeps air from getting in and its always usable --don't have to open a new bottle just to cook with.

Miss Marple

clarice, I never thought of doing that. What a good idea!

I would like to cook more with wine, but I am trying to please daughter who doesn't want to eat too much red meat, no pork (due to pigs being cute) and is convinced she is lactose intolerant.

I have eaten so much chicken I feel like I will start cackling.

Miss Marple

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/a_brief_history_of_white_privilege.html

This is a really good article. As a descendant of Clan McClain who fled to the Carolina highlands after the Battle of Culloden, I sympathize with this author's take on "white privilege."

Janet

Ted Cruz camo & hunter gear!

https://store.tedcruz.org/product-category/hunters-gear/?utm_source=p-email&utm_medium=email210&utm_campaign=email

clarice

Yes, Dunn's article is great.

rse

The box wine works well for cooking with red.

For white vermouth substitutes well or better in virtually any dish. I especially use it when I make clam linguine.

kim-there is a well-connected troubling school template I was looking at this morning and there was Bill Nye the Science Guy on the Board. I suppose he thinks lousy education is a good way to keep anyone from being able to contradict his 'insights' in the future.

Dave (in MA)

As the guys on Red Eye Radio like to point out, they tip their hand when they propose to gradually phase in the increase. If it was a good idea, they wouldn't have to do that.

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

--It will be disastrous for Hawaii and probably hardest on the native population who now see only power and money in it but will eventually suffer the reality.--

With a little luck Barry will make them as happily sovereign as our other "native" Americans.

narciso

this is the piece I was referrring to:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/05/removing-politi-speak-with-plain-speak-va-rep-dave-brat-interview-on-current-politics/

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

SurveyUSA finds Trump beating Hillary and other Dems.

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