No Treason

With all of the nonsense going on, particularly from progressive liberal quarters that Obama’s bills are necessary, last night I couldn’t help but picture Obama, Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi casting incantations over scraps of parchment, sprinkling dried toad and sulphur over blue flames, and the masses, gathered outside the window of the castle laboratory, straining their necks upwards, waiting for lightning bolts and signs of nature’s forces mustering.

That’s what the ignorant masses regard legislation as today.  Spell casting.

With this stimulus bill, we will create WEALTH!  With this budget, we will create PROSPERITY!  Keynesianism is synonymous with black magic.  When Bush did it, he kept the secret power spells hidden, but Obama and Pelosi have brought out the tomes of forbidden knowledge, for the good of mankind!

Abra cadabra!  Poof! Magic!

Flaherty says G7 agree to avoid protectionism

This is proof that if you give politicians enough power, money and time, they will eventually figure out what the rest of us know.

Exploiting high time preferences provides a lot of entrepreneurial opportunities during a boom when people will literally pay for anything advertised on TV, but if you blend exploiting high time preferences, with the promise to help resist high time preferences, then that is just pure sick and evil genius.

Continue reading Exploiting High Time Preferences

I banned myself for a month over at the Mises forum. Not wanting to create any drama,I didn’t bother posting on my profile or anything so I figured the small handful of people who might wonder where I am after a couple days could possibly end up here.

I wasn’t sure if it was possible to ban oneself, I don’t think it is possible on other community and forum software systems.  I’m quite happy it worked.  Begging someone to ban you can be a hit or miss proposition.

If you need to contact me before my ban is up, email dixieflatline [at] n-o-treason.com (remove dashes and other stuff).

I think I am going to take a break from reading, writing and arguing about liberty.  I’ll probably post to the blog once in a while, but for the next few weeks, I think it’s time to focus on something else.

So in the meanwhile, here is what is up;

Mike G. has linked an interview conducted by Sunni.  It’s so in depth and comprehensive, I’m not sure my interview project has anything to add.  It had stalled out for awhile, and I planned to use snippets of my random convos with Mike to flesh it out, but for now, check out Sunni’s interview.  It’s quite a wild ride.

David_Z is quickly becoming the Anarcho-Libertarian blogger on the web (courtesy of StandAloneComplex)

Wombatron moved from Blogger to WordPress, probably in an attempt to hide from me.  No one can hide from me.  Don’t talk crap about the highwayman.

Roderick Long’s blog continues to give me much enjoyment.

Just now Rachel Maddow’s show is featuring a clash between Maddow’s economically and historically illiterate assertion that FDR’s domestic programs ended the Great Depression and Mitch McConnell’s economically and historically illiterate assertion that World War II ended the Great Depression. Whee! Left-wing ignoramuses facing off against right-wing ignoramuses! Salvation through slaughtering piglets versus salvation through slaughtering people! Where’s that libertarian channel?

If there will be a libertarian channel, it won’t be started by left-libertarians, although I am sure they will petition and cry until someone allows them their own time slot, which they will use to talk about how many moles Proudhon had, memories from SEK3′s Saskatchewan childhood, or who would win between Benjamin Tucker and Henry George at arm wrestling or tiddlywinks.  I recommend the show be called “The Power Snooze Hour”.

Now this might be too obvious, but anti-authoritarians, who are anti-capitalist, probably aren’t ideal candidates for entrepreneur of the year.  One of us filthy misoid vulgar libertarians will have to manage that role.  Until then Dr. Long, may Rachel Maddow, in all of her exquisite lesbo-feminism (which is totally hot imo), continue to rile and perturb you.

Random: I really hate cross posts.  It’s like, “read this here, or read this there, I don’t care”.

I need more money.  Back to work.