tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.comments2023-04-17T05:14:56.211-07:00Fortuna's FavorCCWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587219217175769848noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-21948560028587527732009-05-14T20:40:00.000-07:002009-05-14T20:40:00.000-07:00The more I pay attention to what's going on, and t...The more I pay attention to what's going on, and the way our lord and master (the One) is dealing with it, the more I think about what Hayek wrote. <br /><br />I'm still depressed.il Tucchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10273107058052172246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-14913419521309700822008-12-23T15:22:00.000-08:002008-12-23T15:22:00.000-08:00Ahhhh... the ironic vagaries of technology...Multi...Ahhhh... the ironic vagaries of technology...<BR/><BR/>Multi-million dollar stings brought down by adolescent boredom and duct tape...<BR/><BR/>Gotta watch it with these electronic computer gizmo thingies - makin' us lazy...<BR/><BR/>Ex: How many of your friends / family members / therapists can you phone from memory?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05720904226709885358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-32103416962309475572008-12-19T14:38:00.000-08:002008-12-19T14:38:00.000-08:00From our friends at Al-Jazerra...www.sockandawe.co...From our friends at Al-Jazerra...<BR/><BR/>www.sockandawe.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05720904226709885358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-7432818419181868912008-12-16T18:25:00.000-08:002008-12-16T18:25:00.000-08:00Finally. Your Chicken Little routine was making my...Finally. Your Chicken Little routine was making my teeth hurt. And this passage..."At any rate, I suppose it's up to me to prepare my daughter for living in these interesting times. Anyone who has a stake in the future ought to do the same with those around them who will be yoked to the mistakes of the past -- regardless of with who the fault lies." ...hints at an interest and optimism not at all existent in the black heart of your.mathlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10626911397892676884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-57223021084254925582008-12-16T17:36:00.000-08:002008-12-16T17:36:00.000-08:00Thank you, Wendy! I made the body font larger and ...Thank you, Wendy! I made the body font larger and lightened the color.CCWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587219217175769848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-6686098803021991502008-12-15T22:25:00.000-08:002008-12-15T22:25:00.000-08:00I like this look a lot better. But the font for th...I like this look a lot better. But the font for the body of the post is too small and dark relative to the big post titles.<BR/><BR/>Also, the header is so big that it crowds out the posts -- if it were smaller, you could see more of them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16538658693955688061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-12630421409392270202008-12-14T11:00:00.000-08:002008-12-14T11:00:00.000-08:00Cogent argument for the monarchy, Curt!Cogent argument for the monarchy, Curt!CCWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587219217175769848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-37355834921264973282008-12-14T04:12:00.000-08:002008-12-14T04:12:00.000-08:00Monarchy is the best form of government for a numb...Monarchy is the best form of government for a number of reasons:<BR/><BR/>Per Hoppe: because they make decisions that create cultural capital by taking the long view. They treat their rule as property, and therefore maintain it, rather than try to consume it before someone else does.<BR/><BR/>Because the government is fundamentally weaker at being able to impose it's will on people, (and as Hoppe states, because you can kill a king who gets out of hand - and it's usually done by his family members)<BR/><BR/>Because it is harder to concentrate capital necessary for creating wars of expansion. (Democracies it turns out are more warlike, and the nation states are nation states in an effort to counter the napoleonic problem of mobilizing a nation for total war)<BR/><BR/>Because a monarchy can't get very big without a government working for it, yet it can dspose of that governmnet when it gets out of hand. ("While Her Majesty Rules, none can take over the army, none the judiciary, none the state. This is her highest purpose." Denying power.)<BR/><BR/>Because a monarch with a government working for him, must deal only with exceptions - with threats to the people in the abstract: by preventing the accumulation of power by anyone. This is the true purpose of kings: to deny others power. To permit government while denying power to government.<BR/><BR/>Because the purpose of government is creating and administering social services. Because the purpose of the king is to prevent the usurpation of power. These two things must exist in a division of labor for complex motivational reasons.<BR/><BR/>Because people can understand a monarchy. It is similar to a family, and it something we all understand. It is understood the world over.<BR/><BR/>Because people will love their king, queen, monarch . Otherwise they will hate themselves. It prevents nihilism. <BR/><BR/>Because people can move between monarchs, between kingdoms, creating competition for government services, and competition for delivering them cheaply and effectively.<BR/><BR/>Because kings are intimately intertwined with Property Rights, and Economic Calculation, and Money, and Tradition, and as such are a better means of preserving those tools, institutions and freedoms. (A statement too hard to defend on a blog entry.)<BR/><BR/>The german princedom's were the highest form of government we yet produced. They survived partly because the larger states agreed along with the papacy, not to interfere in german affairs, since germany defended europe against the east. We should instead restore monarchies because they defend all of us against not just the east, but the avarice of our own people.<BR/><BR/>Kings were undermined all across europe, by making a laughing stock out of the divine right of kings. We must make a laughing stock out of the divine right of the masses, and the divine wisdom of democracy. Monarchy works because of epistemeological reasons that no other governmnet form can manufacture.<BR/><BR/>In the end, the history of man is the history of the development of monarchy, with brief and painful interludes between. Monarchy is the rule, not the exception, and it is so because it is simply a better method of organizing the world we live in, in every possible dimension. <BR/><BR/>Government by contrast, using other methods, is simply a means of institutionalizing theft by one class from another.Curthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07783643071088103705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-37386811871659469032008-12-12T16:16:00.000-08:002008-12-12T16:16:00.000-08:00He's using the wrong eye for a right handed shot. ...He's using the wrong eye for a right handed shot. That bullet's going 10 feet right at 50 yds. HA!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05720904226709885358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-72712129163949862152008-12-12T16:09:00.000-08:002008-12-12T16:09:00.000-08:00Ha! I've gotta find that on YouTube, Bob. Hi, Ho S...Ha! I've gotta find that on YouTube, Bob. Hi, Ho Silver-san! Makes me think of Band of Brothers from the other side of the war.CCWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587219217175769848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-9965843339254828492008-12-12T14:40:00.000-08:002008-12-12T14:40:00.000-08:00Reminds me of seeing Japanese made westerns years ...Reminds me of seeing Japanese made westerns years ago; seeing a bunch of Japanese cowboys and Indians is a bit strange. It was even worse than the dubbed-in versions of The Lone Ranger. The Ranger sounded like a eunuch, Tonto sounded like a 500lb Sumo wrestler, and every time the Ranger took off on his horse he yelled "Hi-ho, Siver-san!"BobGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405172215849046373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-90504563531570312102008-12-11T04:54:00.000-08:002008-12-11T04:54:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.goooooood girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08464853146888246329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-82963960751011648162008-12-10T16:46:00.000-08:002008-12-10T16:46:00.000-08:00Me thinks you dost protest too much. Fascist! I do...Me thinks you dost protest too much. Fascist! <BR/><BR/>I don't even think crypto-libertarian is a proper phrase word, but it cracked me up when I wrote it.mathlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10626911397892676884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-52320349705003105182008-12-10T16:40:00.000-08:002008-12-10T16:40:00.000-08:00Oh Jesus F Christ, only a Philosophy MA from U San...Oh Jesus F Christ, only a Philosophy MA from U San Francisco would classify me as a neocon. You probably think everyone to the right of Mao is oppressing you.CCWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587219217175769848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-29302589671486956962008-12-10T15:53:00.000-08:002008-12-10T15:53:00.000-08:00I like it, but I like the old name "At War With Lu...I like it, but I like the old name "At War With Luck"<BR/><BR/>Fortuna's Favor sounds like Fortune is eating a tuna sandwich. <BR/><BR/>The real problem is your crypto-libertarian, pro-neocon ideology. There is no simple fix for that severe ailment, I am afraid.mathlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10626911397892676884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-67254439361307538152008-12-10T14:02:00.000-08:002008-12-10T14:02:00.000-08:00Yay - thanks!Yay - thanks!CCWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587219217175769848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-83911394794409840782008-12-10T12:16:00.000-08:002008-12-10T12:16:00.000-08:00Thank you for using my template design. I want to ...Thank you for using my template design. I want to say that I think this blog will be more interesting if you edit "Think On It" widget. I recommend you to write your sentences in a <B>paragraph</B> form. (You may just add "<", "p", and ">" at the start, then "<", "/", "p", and ">" at the end.)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03526459852783383661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-30851734367572376822008-12-09T03:42:00.000-08:002008-12-09T03:42:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.goooooood girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08464853146888246329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-17875486254277108962008-12-09T03:42:00.000-08:002008-12-09T03:42:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.goooooood girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08464853146888246329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-91151275851572487242008-11-27T09:30:00.000-08:002008-11-27T09:30:00.000-08:00Sound reasoning, but not as eloquent as the At War...Sound reasoning, but not as eloquent as the At War With Luck blog. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05720904226709885358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-91825389842171510792008-11-26T17:06:00.000-08:002008-11-26T17:06:00.000-08:0014th Amendment!!!! Love it!14th Amendment!!!! Love it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09542976376008256188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-18447217753206825802008-11-19T16:28:00.000-08:002008-11-19T16:28:00.000-08:00The Library of Congress tried a project with Flick...The Library of Congress tried a project with Flickr along the same lines: <BR/><BR/>http://www.flickr.com/photos/Library_of_CongressAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16538658693955688061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-69289853608793909372008-11-17T22:50:00.000-08:002008-11-17T22:50:00.000-08:00Thanks, C! I appreciate it. :)Thanks, C! I appreciate it. :)CCWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587219217175769848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-6715346836143342452008-11-17T22:50:00.000-08:002008-11-17T22:50:00.000-08:00Yes, the argument is that it is moral to back Isra...Yes, the argument is that it is moral to back Israel regardless. But it seems that whenever our other moral imperatives are in conflict with Israeli policy, Israel wins out. this is how we turn into the world's inept policeman.<BR/><BR/>In your second paragraph, I think you mean Kissingerian realpolitik, not pure libertarian. The pure libertarian would say that any alliance of that type is wrong, interest or no.<BR/><BR/>The problems of Wilsonian moralism are so huge and insurrmountable I don't want to rehash them overly in the comments; you know what the arguments are -- read the GOP platform for any year up to 2004 for the cliff's notes.CCWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587219217175769848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569487672209885176.post-82865949004428588002008-11-17T22:44:00.000-08:002008-11-17T22:44:00.000-08:00I think you're right bobg, just for some reason I ...I think you're right bobg, just for some reason I had a mental block. It was obvious to me how left-wing ideology was fantasy, but only recently have I realized that it's true of my side as well.CCWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587219217175769848noreply@blogger.com