RE CHINA'S NEW SILK ROAD

Guess what?

Mary Poppins will have a much harder time setting down there along that road than, say, in the SCS, or the Pacific.

CHINA MINE OWNER KILLS HIMSELF

This should become a model for American entrepreneurs.

The fewer entrepreneurs of this kind we have, the better.

TERMS SEARCH

rail to rail

CLASSIC CARTOON BLAST PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/mise-en-scene-maverick-executive-free.html

CLASSIC PAST BLAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-spanish-prisoner-eu-and-us-real-road.html

classic past blast

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-spanish-prisoner-eu-and-us-real-road.html

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RE DEBATE OVER MULTILATERALISM

The internet should never have been globalized up front.

Huge mistake.

UNFORTUNATELY THE ISSUE OF GUN CONTROL OR RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

this is just the most momentarily visible example of a multitude of longstanding, and deeper, structural and constitutional disquietudes. 

They were mostly created, and or left totally unaddressed, at the time of the founding, and certainly those few fought over during the Civil War were not at all brought to a reasonable resolution or solution by it.  

The Civil War, frankly, only dealt, badly, with certain few problems, which we always had had, not by any means all or even most of them.

FOR BOUPY

Honey:

Hoppy dawg burp day!
Tweny sumting.

Guess what?
You're neither a teenager, nor yet an adult.

You're in 
(Twilight Zone theme music)
two two two two
two two two two

the Two Zero Twilight Zone

Break a leg!

The Un Menu, 
for your Barf day;
dings yu can't eat:

No ouzo
No escargot
No pepper chips
No blood sausages, eg Bastourmas
No vindaloo
No Tarzan stek tartar
No Dover soul (sic)
No human blood (very popular now, I don't know why)
No absinthe
No Pernod
No Caesar salad done right or wrong
No Boeuf Wellington
No rabbit
No Leopard Man cuisine
No keema nan
No squirrel
No retsina
No caviar
No tarrapin
No vodka
No possum
No Cheetos
No chardonnay
No sweetbreads
No Rocky Mountain Oysters
No beer

Dis gives ya sume idea wat is ok on dis day.

Audio ref: Steppenwolf, Happy Birthday

Photo ref, here I am celebrating, in costume:




Awl da bescht,
De ole Schmuck

PAST BLAST KENNAN

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/02/re-1944-1945-kennan-patton-etc-kennan-p.html

RE DK POST SLAVERY WEAPONS CENTRAL BANK RIGHTS CURRENCIES

Right to keep and bear arms.....

5TH Amendment, nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.

Most countries phased slavery out by compensated emancipation. It was not politically feasible, with tiny exceptions,  to get compensated emancipation in 1861 here.

It is ok, now, to bail out big banks.  

Inflation is a sort of taking. 
How about quantitative easing? A taking? How about QE as taxation without representation?

Why have a currency which is merely a promise to pay?
Pay what? A promise to pay? It used to mean something different.  

(Piketty) was worried, in

passing,  that going off the gold standard requires close governmental 

regulation...........banks can then just print money..........endlessly.......

ULTIMATELY

Civilizational class systems incorporating slavery at the bottom, would be neither more, nor less, evil, than a global universalist direct democracy were that possible even as a thot experiment.

DK CURRENT POST

"In the 21st century, widgets are guns. In the 19th century—with due respect to those involved, who were people, not things—widgets were slaves.  To be sure, the issues are not entirely comparable.  Although guns kill more than 30,000 Americans a year, according to the CDC, they are not doing the harm that slavery did. But, while we all agree now that slavery was evil, we violently disagree about guns.  The history of the two issues has many parallels, and points to the terrible difficulty of reaching a consensus...." DK

While I would agree that slavery is suboptimal as a class category, I would not go so far as to claim that we all now agree that it was evil back then. We now think of it as having been evil, which is a misconception of history really in my view. 

If you look at the history of it, some important Muslim states did not abjure it until I believe 1960, and they are even now considering bringing it back. 

For billions, life now in greater poverty and degradation than the lot of slaves in America, while unfortunate, is not an evil, either. 

Nor is it something which Americans should think themselves anointed somehow to eradicate.

Moreover, although there is a lot of misunderstanding about this, it is not a goal of market capitalism, or liberal capitalism, or of cartel capitalism, or of monopoly capitalism, to reduce poverty. The goal of these institutions is merely to increase profit and invested wealth (private property interests).

Re property rights, stamping out 'global poverty' (lack of property), in practice, means mainly transferring Americans', and other wealthy entities', private property to them in various ways. Many billionaires are now doing just that. 

Ultimately, it will fuel a further clash of civilizations already well under way.

PAST BLAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/torah-richard-elliott-friedman.html

LOCUS CLASSICUS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-nation-building-works-editorial.html

SEE RANDALL COLLINS' CURRENT POST

JAMES JOYCE’S WHORES AND STREETFIGHTS

KEEPING AND BEARING ARMS FOR EXAMPLE LAZY FARE

Why shouldnt' Blackwater or someone like that, a private contractor, be able to deploy ballistic missiles to defend its clients against private or tyrannical threats, wherever the private clients are?

If they blunder, it's a civil wrong, or a foreign crime or civil wrong, not a federal crime.

That's an NRA possible hypothesis......

Laissez faire, after all.

RE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

Under the Constitution there are no limits on this. 2nd Amendment etc.

In fact, the idea of the colonists was to put colonists on an equal footing with the Crown's standing army, which they abhorred as an unnatural abridgment of British liberties.

Why can't all wealthy, and not so wealthy, Americans protect their freedoms with ICBMs etc? Say a ICBM condo association?

The Constitution appears to condone this parity as a necessary protection against tyranny.

I will provide a citation anon. 

Should the NRA seek, on principle, to repeal this legislation, which I will cite?

TITLE 18 USC Part I Ch 1138 sec 2332g

If a rich person or company pays off a state, they are immune under this code section, it appears.

You're the smart citizen, you be the judge.

RE THE ROAD TO DALLAS TARGET PATTON

Read many passages in The Road To Dallas recently.

I can see why he leaves open Oswald as a possible CIA agent.

Having previously read Target Patton, and Bazata's revelations, this is rather easier to envisage.

Ragano's book gives a real insider's story.

RE S & H DK POST

Professor

Great post and comments.

I haven't read S & H. What little I know of that I picked up from you. So, I really have no scholarly right to criticize their theories. 

Nevertheless,

RE crises, I don't see the American Rebellion, The Civil War, or WWII as comparable to each other, really, for very many different reasons, regardless of domestic generational considerations.

Re leaders, I do not see Washington, Lincoln, or FDR as similar to each other, in any respect, except that a large military conflict happened on their watch. I do not see their emergence as the result of generational forces. What, for example, about Wilson? Or Teddy? George Wallace? Nixon?

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre....."

COLONIAL IMPROVS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Of course, Rousseauian utopianism, and its strain of individualism,  was, in part, a reaction against Enlightenment utopianism...

Just think, for a moment, about implications for colonial ideologies, and then, later, for American political history, about how well just these two, or so, utopias have played together over time. 

UTOPIAN IMPROVS COLONIAL AMERICA

There was of course a strong thread of Rousseauian utopianism, which, in part, fed into and became known as Romanticism.

CHINA $60 B FOR AFRICA DEVELOPMENT THEY ARE THEIR FRIENDS

Maybe they want to move some into China.....say 200M poor Africans for example.

Take a look at how they feel about that.....

UTOPIAN IMPROVISATIONS

How many significant utopian visions were there in the colonies?

A number of religious groups, many with an opposition background, came here to escape religious and political persecution, and or to expand their base.

Most of these I guess were Whigs, called Old Whigs. See wikipedia, whiggism.

RE CONSTITUTIONAL IMPROVISATIONS

"...That is part of the price of citizenship in a democracy, which by definition forces us to work within the whole society in which we live, and ultimately dooms any attempt to recast society according to a particular Utopian vision...." DK

He implies here that America abhors, and always has, utopian visions.

This I fear is a flawed remark in various ways.

America actually was based, in my view, on at least three or five utopian perspectives, which did not then at the founding coalesce into one non utopian one, or later.

Let us take a brief look, next time at what those Utopian views or perspectives of the founders might have been, back then.

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ON THE SUBJECT OF NIXON HUMPHREY 1968

Apparently the Teamsters gave the JFK election to him....then he betrayed them.

As DK points out, the mob then moved over to support Nixon in 1968, a very close election, Wallace, a spoiler for the Democrats. 

Question: Did the Teamsters do for Nixon in 1968 what they had done on the other side for Kennedy?  That makes a lot of sense. 

But Nixon I think would take money from anyone, then later work out what he would do, just as Kennedy had done. That may be why he delayed so long in springing Hoffa: others had payed him something not to do it.

These are America's great politicians......

JUST TO BE NONPARTISAN

Nixon was ok springing Hoffa from the Kennedy stretch for 1M under the table, according to Ragano, who should know.