Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I very often hear of our progressives comparing the national economy to a gas engine. Their point, as I understand it, is that all the ingredients can be there for high performance — valves closing as they should, spark, fuel, aspiration and so forth — and the net output might be zero simply because the machinery hasn’t been started. So lack of motion equals lack of motion. Prime the pump. Close the switch. Spin the crankshaft and off we go.
It leads to a mistaken conclusion because the economy is much more like a pair of wild animals. If the species are compatible and the attraction is there, nature will take its course, and if it doesn’t then something’s wrong. Or…if it really is a gas engine, the “starter” theory is mythical. An economy with all the working parts in place & in good order, will take off with no starting necessary. If it isn’t running, that’s your reading on how good the parts are & how well they’re fitting together.
If we are to fit the liberal message and strategy into the gas engine analogy, the plan is to siphon the gas out of the tank while the engine is running, until such time as the engine quits. When it quits, indulge in your “starter” theory, charging the taxpayers somewhere between half a trillion and a full trillion per yank…a service the liberal will have to provide, since everyone else is too stupid.
And don’t anybody even think of putting more gas in the tank because that would be greedy.
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“…the economy is much more like a pair of wild animals.”
- CaptDMO | 09/10/2011 @ 15:33I must have had a different economic philosophy professor.(OK, I NEVER had an economics professor in college)
I envision a 90% efficient economy as a herd of 40 cats, 36 mice a day, and no purina
that appears, as if by magic. That’s NOT what the Invisible Hand does.
Sure “everybody” will have to sacrifice “some” of their “fair share” of apples to the pigs to “protect” the community, but WHERE’S THE SAUSAGE?