tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post113446672203805122..comments2024-03-26T16:03:42.608-06:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: Discussambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134618139581414142005-12-14T20:42:00.000-07:002005-12-14T20:42:00.000-07:00Wasn't Krugman an advisor to the Enron BD?Wasn't Krugman an advisor to the Enron BD?buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134617966806088192005-12-14T20:39:00.000-07:002005-12-14T20:39:00.000-07:00The bills that we have to be scared stiff of are t...The bills that we have to be scared stiff of are the SS and MC bills when the boomers start dropping out and needing care. <BR/><BR/>Only hope to avoid taxing the kids to penury is for you Dems to ask your pols on the senate and house finance committees to at least learn enough economics not to flagrantly, flamboyantly, embarrass the entire nation on TV when trying to frame a coherent questions for Alan Greenspan when hearing the topics. <BR/><BR/>THEN maybe we can segue that inkling into some reform of the two systems --that all economists acknowledge are the 'breakers' of this economy. <BR/><BR/>IRS reform would also drop a fortune on the government--and the people. <BR/><BR/>None of these three monsters chewing through our actuarial tables are the fault of GWB, y'know. <BR/><BR/>He's the guy you won't let FIX the damn things--in everybody's favor but the plantation overseers (and their markG8-model stooges).buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134614141244539242005-12-14T19:35:00.000-07:002005-12-14T19:35:00.000-07:00Somehow, he escaped from his association with Ken ...Somehow, he escaped from his association with Ken Lay and Enron--probably took a 'deal' to propagandize embarrassingly in the NYTimes.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134613677835030142005-12-14T19:27:00.000-07:002005-12-14T19:27:00.000-07:00Luskin has wide interests--the 'obsession' bit is ...Luskin has wide interests--the 'obsession' bit is Krugman's harried defense over having a guy truth-check his NYTimes colyums.<BR/><BR/>Luskin is a guest on CNBC quite often, on their econoomics shows, being interviewed on his stock mkt and economics views--with Krugman never even mentioned. Checl the Kudlow show--Kudlow is also a princeton economist. <BR/><BR/>Luskin has made me personally a few large, following his investments, and he's a funny, good-humored player in the world of economic commentary, who happens to detest fakery and fraud, and so spends an hour or so per week on a critique of the NYTimes' Krugman column.<BR/><BR/>The "obsession" is Krugman's, and yours, mark, in your monomaniacal quest to turn what you both know is a demonstrably excellent administration economic policy into some some evil robbery scheme propaganda. <BR/><BR/>Just more effort to crawl your way back into DC via a "demoralize and weaken the most vulnerable" strategy.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134595572141312632005-12-14T14:26:00.000-07:002005-12-14T14:26:00.000-07:00Mark, the frustrating thing about economics, for m...Mark, the frustrating thing about economics, for me, is that it's like the old joke about irish politics: get 5 economists together to talk about an issue and you'll get 6 opinions. At least.<BR/><BR/>That said, Krugman has made a lot of glaring mistakes in matters of fact, and seems to exhibit some annoying tendency to decide his economic opinion depending on the party affiliation of the person whose position he's talking about. This is a fault Brad DeLong doesn't share.Charlie Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586506407851173416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134588276014051772005-12-14T12:24:00.000-07:002005-12-14T12:24:00.000-07:00No time, Mark--but i know he's a PhD and a Princet...No time, Mark--but i know he's a PhD and a Princeton prof.<BR/><BR/>You should take the time and read for 15 minutes inside the NR link, mark. <BR/><BR/>If you stand on the man's CV, you're making the same cognitive error that keeps you guys losing your elections.<BR/><BR/>Peter-LOL, you vicious bastid, you! \:-)buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134584827888073172005-12-14T11:27:00.000-07:002005-12-14T11:27:00.000-07:00You must've read the links. Thanks!You must've read the links. Thanks!buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134580659292800532005-12-14T10:17:00.000-07:002005-12-14T10:17:00.000-07:00And to anticipate charges that the NR writer (Dona...And to anticipate charges that the NR writer (Donald Luskin) is a "Bush-Zombie", he <A HREF="http://www.poorandstupid.com/chronicle.asp" REL="nofollow">savages what needs savaging</A>, left AND right--as does NR, which battered Bush on Miers.<BR/><BR/>(<A HREF="http://www.poorandstupid.com/2003_10_19_chronArchive.asp#106662451782658062" REL="nofollow">more on Luskin/Krugman</A>--Krugman [a former Enron advisor, BTW] IS the NYTimes position-columnist on economics, if ya can believe THAT!)buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134579862993483422005-12-14T10:04:00.000-07:002005-12-14T10:04:00.000-07:00There's more than the left vs right difference bet...There's more than the left vs right difference between Mark Steyn and Paul Krugman. Steyn has never published a single--not one--lie, and Krugman has been caught out so many times <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_luskin/luskin-archive.asp" REL="nofollow">hardly anyone even bothers to count anymore</A> (note that this is not a porn site, this is William F. Buckley's National Review).buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134578037343673292005-12-14T09:33:00.000-07:002005-12-14T09:33:00.000-07:00I could brew a fresh pot of coffee, and talk about...I could brew a fresh pot of coffee, and talk about the importance of morale and belief in mankind, and what every Dem prez since Nov 22 1963 has done to the world's.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134577833535781732005-12-14T09:30:00.000-07:002005-12-14T09:30:00.000-07:00As the entire globe barely skirts disaster and sta...As the entire globe barely skirts disaster and starts the moral recovery of a form of civilized sanity lost back in the 70s, Mark(s), using a bottomless bucket of pixels, flings indictments of the entire world-historical turning--indictments that were they true, 95% of the Right would've already long-since ridden BOOSH outta town tarred & feathered on a fence-rail. <BR/><BR/>Donald Segretti is about the only legit beef I've seen yet. So, because Nixon had this dark side, we now just suicide the planet?buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134577239406032972005-12-14T09:20:00.000-07:002005-12-14T09:20:00.000-07:00Fox ran the cameras in a few of the polling places...Fox ran the cameras in a few of the polling places in the USA upper-midwest where qualified Iraqis could absentee-vote. Ya shoulda seen it. The crowds coming in through the falling snow, old and young, the smiles, the tears, the ladies doing the ululation of joy, the workingmen carrying their babes-in-arms, the heavily accented old woman waving the purple finger and saying "George BOOSH! Anyone who will not see what he has done, can GO TO HELL!"buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134576833416328662005-12-14T09:13:00.000-07:002005-12-14T09:13:00.000-07:00And precisely the hidey-hole that one such as you ...And precisely the hidey-hole that one such as you would use on this particular site.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134576658007174482005-12-14T09:10:00.000-07:002005-12-14T09:10:00.000-07:00"The difference is I don't support torture, lies, ...<I>"The difference is I don't support torture, lies, corruption, record deficits and sneering, disastrous foreign policy"</I><BR/><BR/>Actually, you DO, prima-facie. <BR/><BR/>The only question is, do you know it?<BR/><BR/>If you do--and I'm sure you do--then you're no better than Krugman, whose continual lies are well documented and inarguable.<BR/><BR/>If you don't, then you're guilty of moral idiocy, a well known condition of ultra, hyper partisanship AKA "BDS".<BR/><BR/>Either way, your "Regular-Joe" self-proclamation is just another useful hidey-hole, Mark(s).buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134575863612056312005-12-14T08:57:00.000-07:002005-12-14T08:57:00.000-07:00Goodness, Clark Kentski, thanks for opening the ph...Goodness, Clark Kentski, thanks for opening the phone booth! Faster than a speeding loco, able to watch tall buildings fall without a wince, it's the All-American Hero, Stuporman!buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134575734517160402005-12-14T08:55:00.000-07:002005-12-14T08:55:00.000-07:00markg8,Hey now, I was polite enough to answer your...markg8,<BR/><BR/>Hey now, I was polite enough to answer your direct question. How about returning the courtesy?<BR/><BR/>Soooo... what do you think about the article this thread is about? Does the guy strike you as a buffoon, or do you feel his pain?ambisinistralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134573121442983772005-12-14T08:12:00.000-07:002005-12-14T08:12:00.000-07:00It's the lying that stuns me. Corrosive as hell, a...It's the lying that stuns me. Corrosive as hell, and pointless, insofar as the politics of persuasion are concerned. No, not pointless--counterproductive (and highly so). <BR/><BR/>It occurs, that were I a Democrat, and say, so invested that I could not allow myself to say anything that would help GOP, I'd be on the Dem sites with my net-commentary, trying to help shape-up the party to compete honestly on the issues. <BR/><BR/>As far as the mark-complex, I could do ten times better work against Bushism--with a fraction of the typing--and no lies. <BR/><BR/>I'd have to drop the mask, of course, and come right out with Das Kapital--but it could be spun better than this child-like playground in the garden of the idiots, "the administration-is-a-gang-of-thieves-and-murderers."buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134555132841475602005-12-14T03:12:00.000-07:002005-12-14T03:12:00.000-07:00Can I suggest an alternative explanation? Instead...Can I suggest an alternative explanation? Instead of it being a pattern of paid trolls, it's instead a pattern of thought. Used to see it in USENET too -- the same thing: make an outrageous statement, eventually explain how hard life is and why you shouldn't be nasty, then go back to being nasty. Usually with a collection of offenses against good order and dignity that are drawn back into every argument.<BR/><BR/>It's not an unknown thing on the other side of the fence, either.Charlie Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586506407851173416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134537490785359772005-12-13T22:18:00.000-07:002005-12-13T22:18:00.000-07:00Sleep well, Luther--don't let Superman getcha! \;-...Sleep well, Luther--don't let Superman getcha! <BR/>\;-)<BR/>Me, too-nite all (glad you liked the recipe, flenser)buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134537163317995292005-12-13T22:12:00.001-07:002005-12-13T22:12:00.001-07:00But if it's all the same guy, he sure, sure SURE d...But if it's all the same guy, he sure, sure <A HREF="http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2005/03/who_is_matt_tai.html" REL="nofollow">SURE doesn't like Pope John Paul II</A>--the soon-to-be Saint of the 2000 year old Catholic Church.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134537138520126802005-12-13T22:12:00.000-07:002005-12-13T22:12:00.000-07:00Oh hell Buddy, I suspect you've known for a long t...Oh hell Buddy, I suspect you've known for a long time that that bucket is full of holes. The difference now is that folks can gather and talk amongst themselves without the intermediary of the MSM, academia and others who would have us lose this great country.<BR/><BR/>But you're right, it is fun. Watching you and Peter work on'em is delightful. What gets me is the sheer obtuseness these folks display. I guess I shouldn't talk, had my head up yonder for a while myself, but in the big scheme of things when someone says they want to kill you, it behooves to listen, and act. These yahoos just don't seem to get that.<BR/><BR/>Reference your 10:05, I wouldn't be surprised. After awhile the fun does go away. Then you're left with...no words...nothing I guess.<BR/><BR/>To bed.Lutherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901441364329385474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134537085408969042005-12-13T22:11:00.000-07:002005-12-13T22:11:00.000-07:00We're all meeting at Buddy's place tomorroww for d...We're all meeting at Buddy's place tomorroww for dinner. BYOB.<BR/><BR/>Since we are on a food theme- conservatives are waffles, liberals are spaghetti.<BR/><BR/>That is, their thought processes involve having all sorts of disconnected ideas, or ideas which ought to be disconnected, smushed together into one big ball. Thats why, whatever the nominal subject at hand, they always trot out the same laundery list of talking points.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Of course, they could just be paid disrupters, but I don't have a food anaolgy for that.flenserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05864178703173384289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134536743657497212005-12-13T22:05:00.000-07:002005-12-13T22:05:00.000-07:00Well, someone reading this site sent me an email s...Well, someone reading this site sent me an email saying they had banned the same name of a guy in Frisco.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134535686101691222005-12-13T21:48:00.000-07:002005-12-13T21:48:00.000-07:00Luther, i think you're right. This mark hints to b...Luther, i think you're right. This mark hints to be from new jersey, but another elsewhere-banned site pest by same name seems to be from the west coast. Wonder if the one in Jersey has had his name hijacked? anyhoo--we may be an "assignment". But, ya gotta admit, it IS fun!<BR/>How else would I, for example, being slow of uptake, realize that the party of the Smart People doesn't really have a single shittin' issue that holds water?buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1134535046606768332005-12-13T21:37:00.000-07:002005-12-13T21:37:00.000-07:00...that's "full"--typo--haven't left a kitchen "fu......that's "full"--typo--haven't left a kitchen "fukll" since that party when i was 17 and the folks were out of town and the only place open was the kitchen table. Then later in life i have three daughters, and the gods get 5000 sleepless nights to teach me the lesson that even teens need to have some respect. So far all that late-night waiting for the girls to get home nail-gnawing remembrance of my own youth has satisfied Olympus sufficiently to keep 'em safe, but it's been a long hard 'earn-off'.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.com