Oh Mike. You know I love you. Yes, we're both heterosexual. After I wrote my post you won the hand. That was breathtaking.
Let me tell the list about a phone call that came in during a voice lesson I was teaching to a local colo-rectal surgeon. She's a perfectly wonderful cabaret singer who knows what she wants out of life. The phone call was from the National Rifle Association who wanted to tell me about how Iran, Iraq, Korea and Russia were trying to take our guns away through the auspices of the United Nations. I put the phone on speaker so the doctor could hear the conversation as well. When they came back after a recorded message, they wanted to know what I thought of that. I told them that my war correspondent friends informed me that the Middle East and especially Iran was the most armed area in the world. My war correspondent friends said that: "every ten year old child had a gun and most were Uzis." So I asked the NRA spokesman how those folks were going to take my gun away since I'm a liberal. They said, "well they will through the UN." To which I said that their Supreme Court has misread the Constitution and that we didn't carry guns out of fear of the government. If we carry guns it's because the conservatives were carrying guns and they were dangerous. I also said that I had six years in the military and qualified will with guns and that if I heard the conservatives were bringing guns to a political event I would as well and that if they started anything I would finish it and I could. The doctor was amazed. She said, you really are from Oklahoma and an Indian reservation. I concurred. Traditional Cherokee law says that if anyone causes a death we are honor bound to return the favor. That's what governments are for. So that people like me and my idiot cousin Senator Tom Coburn who got the law passed to have guns in National Parks [and that faux East Indian governor Gin-dell of Louisiana who broke the western tradition of sanctuary in religious institutions by passing a church freedom to carry firearms law] so that violent, mean people like us are kept apart and under a social contract. My grandfathers used to have gunfights for fun. They rarely caused a death because the other side would have been allowed to pick off anyone of our relatives as payment. There is a famous picture on the internet of my Grandpa Clark's livery stable in Ada, Oklahoma with four men hanging from the rafters by vigilantes who knew the local business people would have gotten the killers off so they just left them there. But our people did shoot at each other. That was America. Is that what we want again? Obviously Denninger is a man on the way. There are always consequences and these Wall Street city slickers just believe that the only reason for the law is to be able to buy their way out of consequences for their actions. Regards to Paris and to Fernande REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:14 AM To: [email protected]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Krugman's Insanity, And The Hard Mathematical Truth I must say that when I come across another breathless account of the "discovery" of some immutable law of this or that -- mathematics, physics, cycles etc.etc., by somebody whose bona fides are an unbeatable winning spree over the last half day at the local dog track errr stock market, I reach for my bathroom air freshener... I think that the issue of debt is not whether or not it will be repaid, most agree that it will/should, but rather the timing and the terms. If I owe you 100 Uzbecki roubles and you insist on being paid on the Saturday of a long weekend in deepest rural Maine I am very likely to go into "default", on the other hand we can think of rather different timing and terms which would allow me to satisfy that debt obligation with relatively little strain on my purse or mental well-being. And then there are those completely unreadable charts; the variations in fonts, bolding, underlining, italicizing, and punctuation--all, one has to presume, to achieve an emphasis and an agreement with the author's sentiment in the absence of any effective argument that might intellectually persuade... And then there is this canard (I'm currently in Paris after all ;-)... "absolutely nothing the government does produces anything" ... The "gubbumint" of course produces nothing but the orderly social, legal and normative framework that makes any of this type of nonsense and the associated economic processes possible. In the economic state of nature wished for by folks of this ilk we can all spend our time in the free standing markets with our pistols at the ready and our armed militia well to hand to ensure that our transactions are enforced. I'm sure that the folks in Somalia etc. currently living in this blissful state of de-gubbuminted nature could provide us all with pointers and training in the requisite survival skills. Happy almost to be Bastille Day. M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Kurtz Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 1:11 AM To: Futurework Subject: [Futurework] Krugman's Insanity, And The Hard Mathematical Truth Mike G will be tempted to call this a Conservative rant. Ad hominem doesn't refute his argument. 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