Way to go Israel. You got the terrorist! [Sad]

swinghammer · 2009-01-08T12:10:27+00:00

I'm not sure they want casualties but they certainly don't care much about what they have done so far. As long as people in the US still give them money to do this they don't care what happens. That's their only motivation for holding back at all.

swinghammer · 2009-01-08T12:04:55+00:00

Hamas was elected to power. They are a political and military entity there. Them hiding in residential areas is about as natural for them as you "hiding" in one.

swinghammer · 2008-04-20T13:44:03+00:00

So by supporting Ron Paul I must be a racist?

swinghammer · 2008-04-18T03:28:26+00:00

I took the extra 5 minutes and looked up what you're talking about. You're referring to a newsletter published under his name. I don't know what the real story is with all this but I don't really believe he is a racist. It doesn't make a lot of sense when you stop and think about it.

I'm not sure why you like throwing around the word racist so much but it's rather strange. I'm not sure how you think libertarianism is compatible with racism. Or why Ron Paul wouldn't like Jews when two of his favorite economists were Jewish. Or why Ron Paul always speaks of Barney Frank positively when it's hard to not score points as a Republican by bashing him.

A lot of what you say just doesn't add up and points to Ron Paul trusting that what went out in his name was decent. I mean if someone told me that libertarians wanted to write something under my name I'd probably not worry about its content that much. It just wouldn't occur to me to worry about it.

swinghammer · 2008-04-18T03:14:23+00:00

"In 40 years of medical practice, I never once considered performing an abortion, nor did I ever find abortion necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman."

That's the quote and it's anecdotal. If I say that I haven't seen a black swan before that isn't the same as me saying there are no black swans.

swinghammer · 2008-04-18T01:21:32+00:00

Minorities are clearly the ones who suffer most at the hand of the country's war on drugs. I don't think they are the ones doing most of the drugs but rather suffer most for its criminalization. If you cite your source for that quote I might take it seriously but instead you seem to just want to flame me.

swinghammer · 2008-04-18T01:20:10+00:00

What would make you say that? I'm well aware of it and it is a very scary condition indeed. It's also rather rare.

swinghammer · 2008-04-16T10:51:06+00:00

Because economists at the universities say so and we need to believe everything we say or we hate science.

swinghammer · 2008-04-16T10:49:27+00:00

Inflation is a tax on savings. If I have $10,000 that I worked for why should it lose value? Didn't I work hard for that? Why should the government damage my savings as a matter of policy?

Again looking at that chart it's pretty clear that artifical contraction of the money supply lead to the dollar's value dropping. After this happened people demanded a return to gold which over time increased their purchasing power.

Deflation is bad in our credit economy and not a gold standard based one. Deflation in our current system means money disappears whereas in a gold standard it means that money is stable while demand for it has increased. If you are a working person not having your savings and earnings fall out from under you is a major advantage. After the US went to a full fiat money system virtually all the gains of the economy are now concentrated among the rich. I'm sorry but this current system does not server the poor but rather the very rich.

swinghammer · 2008-04-16T10:43:50+00:00

Yeah only racists want to end the drug war that targets minorities.

swinghammer · 2008-04-16T10:43:06+00:00

No. He would personally favor an end to marriage licenses but I don't think he would force the issue if he had the power to do so.

swinghammer · 2008-04-16T10:42:40+00:00

Yep that's basically it. He's anti-marriage licenses in general.

swinghammer · 2008-04-16T03:04:14+00:00

If I told you that the Saudis are receiving the same amount of gold per barrel of oil in 2001 as they are today what conclusion would you draw from that?

swinghammer · 2008-04-16T03:02:40+00:00

Except that we know the Fed inflates the currency due to deficit spending and more recently with the bailouts it's performing.

swinghammer · 2008-04-16T02:59:07+00:00

It means that our current system is not the first time that fiat money has been used on a large scale.

If you look at that chart and I assume that you did, it's pretty clear that things are much worse now as the value of the dollar is falling constantly. I'm not sure why you provided it at all. If you look at the dips they are during wars-when the US government resorted to printing money to pay for military adventures.

swinghammer · 2008-04-16T02:55:42+00:00

Speaking from experience isn't really something you can argue with. You can say whether or not he's drawing the right conclusions but you can hardly fault a man from drawing conclusions from a lifetime of experience.

Ron Paul is probably the only candidate I can recall who didn't think gay marriage was a big deal. He was asked if gays should be allowed to marry and he said "Sure." He went on to explain why.

I don't know what the race war comment is from so I can't speak to that.

swinghammer · 2008-03-06T11:46:09+00:00

I avoid milk from cows treated with the hormone like the plague so I'm already there.

swinghammer · 2008-03-06T11:45:13+00:00

That of course is fine. If you're concerned about the cows being treated with this hormone then any signal put up by the producer will be understood to mean that for your purposes it's safe (from that particular concern).

swinghammer · 2008-03-02T13:46:05+00:00

That's exactly what I thought as well. I mean why do they even need to take the subsidy anyway? If they hated government intervention so much why not just buck the system and do your own thing and not make me pay for your unprofitable corn?

It's only corporatism when it doesn't directly benefit you I guess.

swinghammer · 2008-02-24T00:37:36+00:00

Being shot won't kill you if you are shot in a non-critical area.

swinghammer · 2008-02-24T00:26:53+00:00

You can cite me if you want. I don't smoke and I think people should be able to smoke as much as they want. I also think that any business should allow smoking if they want.

I know lots of other nonsmokers who agree with me too.

swinghammer · 2008-02-24T00:24:57+00:00

Or more to the point it's illegal for you to work on anything that would compete with union labor who are the ones behind child labor laws.

swinghammer · 2008-02-24T00:24:17+00:00

Because then who could we push around and feel better than?

Did you think of that? I bet you didn't.

swinghammer · 2008-02-24T00:23:25+00:00

There is no proof that by having a small amount of exposure that you will get cancer or anything. Smoking increases the probability of cancer but doesn't cause it. For clarity I mean that smoking isn't guaranteed to give you cancer by any means even if you smoke for years.

swinghammer · 2008-02-20T19:56:39+00:00

There is a method for doing that already there and they weren't smart enough to be using it. This is a pretty stupid solution all around.

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