You know, like a plant

Sandeep
For some reason I get RNC campaign emails, and the latest one is from W. himself, who seems to believe that politicians have supreme control over complex, emergent phenomena.

Republicans also have a solid record when it comes to growing this economy.

Economists have failed if most people take these words seriously.

thepokerclub shall henceforth recognize

Charlie 

Thanks to Wikipedia’s “On this Day” calendar, I found out today was Constitution and Citizenship Day!

As such, I thought a passage from Lysander Spooner would be most appropriate.

The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a contract between persons living eighty years ago. And it can be supposed to have been a contract then only between persons who had already come to years of discretion, so as to be competent to make reasonable and obligatory contracts. Furthermore, we know, historically, that only a small portion even of the people then existing were consulted on the subject, or asked, or permitted to express either their consent or dissent in any formal manner. Those persons, if any, who did give their consent formally, are all dead now. Most of them have been dead forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy years. And the constitution, so far as it was their contract, died with them. They had no natural power or right to make it obligatory upon their children. It is not only plainly impossible, in the nature of things, that they could bind their posterity, but they did not even attempt to bind them. That is to say, the instrument does not purport to be an agreement between any body but “the people” then existing; nor does it, either expressly or impliedly, assert any right, power, or disposition, on their part, to bind anybody but themselves. 

Take note, thepokerclub shall henceforth recognize September 17th as Lysander Spooner Day.

Fantasy World of Politics

The interesting-but-why-am-I-not-amazed feature of this picture is that the Bocskai tér station of Metro 4 in Budapest does not yet exist.

By the end of this year…

Charlie 

…inflation in Zimbabwe may hit 100, 000 percent.

Savior socialist Robert Mugabe, mission accomplished!

A sampling of current commodities prices:

• Bar of Dove soap: Z$140,000

• One kg of rice: Z$230,000

• One litre of fuel, where available: Z$300,000

• 200g local cheese: Z$230,000

• Tin of tuna: Z$290,000

• Tin of baked beans: Z$65,000

• 500ml sterilised milk – where available – Z$32,500

• No chicken, beef, pork, sausages, cooking oil, sugar, flour, margarine, fruit cordial, matches.

Dulakodás lett a képviselő igazoltatásából

Sandeep

When a politician gets in a brawl with police wearing nothing but swimming trunks in central Budapest and then beats himself up at the police station in an attempt to prove he is the victim of police brutality, something very strange is going on.

From “The International Voice of Underground Hungary”, Pesticide.hu.