THE MENU NOT JUST AFRICA OR MALAYSIA DE BRY BRAZIL 1500s

If you are going to engage in torture for military or strategic reasons, then the logical, evidentiary, and environmentalist, thing to do is to then kill and eat the torture victims. 

You help the environment, get rid of the incriminating evidence, and fill your bellies without spending extra government money. It is truly a win win scenario, under the circumstances.

Bobbitt has noted that he is not opposed to torture, but I doubt that even he would go this far, with the liberal aftermath.

SPEAKING OF MINIMUM WAGE OR QUANTITATIVE EASING WONKISH

We might just as well try to comparative advantage, tariff, free trade, license, franchise, blockade, dump in foreign immigrant or refugee labor, carrot stick trade strategic diplomacize, embargo, subsidize, PPP, grass roots move, entrepreneur, non tariff bar, import substitute, tax the rich poor or both, fight, pray, dream, or reason ourselves back into prosperity!

None of that stupid shit, or all of it together, is ever going to work, ever again!

At least, not here.

JOSH BIVENS KRUGMAN FRIEDMAN BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Krugman refers to progressive economists: do not ask governments to even try to do very much, baby!

Does that sound a little familiar?

Oh, that is what Friedman said re why civic coalitions are stepping in to do grass roots programs which governments have failed, at the local, state, and or federal levels, to do....

Krugman: There are better ways to get to a jobs guarantee than a jobs guarantee.

Maybe he is referring to Friedman's grass roots civic coalitions?

Why is a healthcare guarantee a no brainer for an advanced economy, but a job guarantee an apparent economists' impossibility for that same economy?

Why is a healthcare guarantee an economists' no brainer, but a balanced budget a really bad idea for almost all economists, for the same economy?

Let's put it a little differently, for the idea challenged:

If our government, according to Krugman and Bivens, is guaranteed to queer a jobs guarantee, why then wouldn't it be guaranteed to queer a healthcare guarantee?
Or:
If we are guaranteed to queer a jobs guarantee based on costs overruns, as they admit, then why is a balanced budget a really bad idea?

Have we caught Krugman (and Bivens) in a Morton's Fork? You tell me.

AMERICANS CAN'T MIDTERM ELECT THEIR WAY INTO PROSPERITY

or out of a paper bag, frankly.

KRUGMAN EVERY ADVANCED COUNTRY EXCEPT AMERICA HAS A GUARANTEED HEALTH PROGRAM

Krugman makes a good seemingly incontrovertible globalist liberal point.

Guess what?

With the march of concomitant global income convergence, these guaranteed health systems, existing fleetingly only in advanced countries, will fade as fast eventually as their citizens' religiosity has already done, and their relative wage levels are now doing...

I call it 'leveling the global survival playing field'.

Advanced countries with high standards of living and guaranteed health programs are already becoming now a thing of the past. Not just here. Everywhere they still exist.

You cannot minimum wage your way to domestic prosperity in a global so called economy.

Re Thomas Friedman: You can't civic coalition grass roots your way into being a redevelopmental state. That is something only our failed government might be considered capable of doing, but only in a perfect world.

KRUGMAN SEES THE MINIMUM WAGE FALLACY SEE ALSO THOMAS FRIEDMAN GRASS ROOTS

Minimum wage hikes here don't significantly reduce employment here.

What does that mean?  Why?

1. Not all that much employment here anyway....faux employment numbers....

2. Employment here is much more affected by much lower wages elsewhere than by chicken shit increases in the minimum wage of our already higher wage workers, which fewer and fewer workers here can take advantage of anyway. What these workers have really been looking at is the very real and horrific bogey of global wage convergence. That is the topic Krugman dances all around in discussions like this.  Piketty, didn't touch it, baby!

Re Thomas Friedman grass roots civic coalitions where government here has failed: 

Try grass rooting your ass out of the global flat world situation I have described above, civic coalition grass rooting your way to wage prosperity here in America.

Just to make an important connection they will not:

You could just about as easily minimum wage yourselves to prosperity as you could quantitatively ease yourselves there!

Slavery was a bad, but in North America not all that bad, but it was a guaranteed job. A slave couldn't be fired, and usually had to be fed clothed and sheltered to be worth something.

If you were sold, you had another guaranteed job.

Indentured servants were in very similar conditions, and believe me there were a gadzillion of them too.

KRUGMAN 96% OF ECONOMISTS' THINK BALANCED BUDGET REALLY REALLY BAD IDEA

That is really close to 100% of economists.

That is why I have called them The Doomsday Discipline.

It is not really about simply a balanced budget, per se.

It is all the other dimensions of betrayal that economists have foisted on us that hang together with an unbalanced budget, really since the 18th Century.

Eg Ricardo, adamant for free trade....comparative advantage...

Smith, a byword.

Mill, say no more.

MR GLOBALIZATION HAVE CIVIC COALITIONS SUCCEEDED WHERE GOVERNMENTS HAVE FAILED?

Not much, almost zero, flat, and not for long, baby.

The grass roots world of Thomas Friedman is also his Flat World. 

In the Flat World, almost everything turns flat.

Here's the 800 pound question for Friedman:

Why have globalist flat world governments, which he has tirelessly espoused throughout his career,  and which he now admits, confesses really, in this article have failed, why? 

Why have they so failed their citizens requiring grass roots ostensible rescue? 

Answer: grassroots are flat!

Grassroots movements, when governments fail, are inherently revolutionary. They may be and often are violent. They are fifth columns.

They fill a void abandoned by government. A political spiritual and economic wasteland. The flatland.

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AMERICAN LIBERALS ARE THE DUMBEST SMART GUYS

Well educated elites, etc etc.

They thought globalist liberalism was going to last forever.

Guess what really lasts forever?

Gangster ism and Civilizationality

Civilizationality may be a new word for a very old reality.

RE KRUGMAN RADICAL DEMOCRATS ARE PRETTY REASONABLE

Do they want to eliminate free trade and associated institutions, impose import substitution, trade embargoes, widen tariffs on everything, introduce subsidies for domestic not foreign onshore production and domestic technology development, prohibition of transfer of technology to foreign companies producers, or governments regardless of the legal formats re licensing, joint venture, foreign percentage participation, whatever, loans for domestic businesses only, reduce immigrant labor, break up MNCs and harness the domestic corporate rumps to domestic production only, harden the currency by reducing or eliminating fractional reserve banking, restoring partnership liability for investment banks, gold and or silver standard, whatever means, forget about foreign human rights affrays, eliminate foreign aid and foreign subsidies, for any reason, reduce foreign military commitments to zero.

This is not the so called radical democrats.

Krugman says they are bold (bullshit) but not crazy.
This is Whig bullshit economics. 

Medicare and job guarantees are not very bold at all, baby. 

He can't go along with any domestic policy, even these chicken shit ones, that might possibly queer his liberal globalist positions that do not favor working class Americans over foreign working class or business class folks.

It is also not the radical Republicans who could not approach such ideas.

We can't even do socialized healthcare, as even Krugman points out, and it has been pointed out for about 25 or 35 years now.

We are losing, and have long been losing, out to other quite undemocratic regimes, long being economically home towned in our own so called grass roots chicken shit home towns!

Politically, diplomatically, and economically, we are a known piece of shit.

THE POLITICAL GRIFTERS MENU IMPROV

Let's say you've been out on the Dusty trail all day undermining foreign regimes.......

You get back to your lair, and nothing to eat!

What do you do?

This is what you do:

You get a piece of bread, or some other cooked starch. It can even be canned beans!

You don't have to cook anything, or think about anything really.

Dunk it in olive or other oil, soybean oil is fine for you, seasoned with say Lea & Perrins, or just A1, Mexican hot sauce, and or pepperoncinis and canned olives, or not.

Throw the dishes or cans away!

Remember, you have to make a revolution in another country tomorrow morning!

CAN A STRONGER CONGRESS CHECK THE SUPREME COURT?

NYT Whig sophistry.

MR GLOBALIZATION WANTS AMERICAN POLITICS TO SUCCEED FROM THE BOTTOM UP

Thomas L Friedman, baby.

OLD CELLO QUESTIONS

Friday, December 15, 2017

OLD CELLO QUESTIONS

We have discussed, in the past, the mortized, sharpened and pointed linings running into the corner blocks.

 

Enough said... a German style.....although copied, apparently, by del Jesu, of all makers!

 

So, then, when the German maker builds this old cello, he fails to undercut the sides of the f holes, although that was a style, or his style...He flutes the lower wings, an unGerman flourish in the early 19th Century....so what?

 

He, or someone else, then, or later, places pins near the top and bottom of the back, to throw everyone, off of, or onto, the scent... 

Retail, mostly privileged, customers, dilletantes, though very savvy and highly knowledgeable, surely would have smelled a rat, back in the beginning of the 19th Century, without those telltale pins!

ANTIGONE NATURE CONVENTION DRED SCOTT SLAVERY WRITTEN UNWRITTEN LAWS

Dred Scott's owner is Antigone. For her, divine law and natural law are one and the same.

Slavery had always existed, since the beginning of time. 

Equality, like Creon's decree prohibiting her mourning her brother, was almost brand new.

THEY LOVE THIS ONE RIGHT NOW

Saturday, December 16, 2017

QUESTION: WOULD YOU CONSIDER PILLSBURY A WHISTLEBLOWER OR NOT?

Question 2: Why, or why not?

Question 3: Can one blow the whistle on yourself?

Yes or no.

Question 4: Why?

Question 5: What is a whistleblower?

SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS MAKING A COMEBACK CF DK POST

"...I supported abortion rights early in 1973, as I do now, but I was startled in January of that year when the Supreme Court voted 7-2 that the Constitution contained an implied right to abortion.  This was not the first step towards legalization of the procedure. Both New York and California--then our two largest states--had passed laws legalizing it in recent years, and it was certainly possible that other states might follow.  And to find the right to abortion in the Constitution, the Court had to rely on a relatively obscure doctrine of "substantive due process," which allowed it to declare a right that was not enumerated in the Constitution.  It was not, in short, immediately obvious to an intelligent lay person--and I continue to think that it is not obvious--that Roe V. Wade was in any sense inevitable given the text of the US Constitution.  It is equally clear, in my view, that the Constitution does not ban abortion.

"For proponents of abortion rights, however, the Constitutional issue was secondary from the beginning, while feminist conceptions of rights were primary...." DK

There are so many different things that were not enumerated in the constitution...... 

Substantive due process, phrased in different terms, was an old and venerable thread in British law and in Canon Law.

What the Constitution had stated was left to the people was part of what substantive due process came later to involve. 

The distinctions between law and equity, and that between common law courts and church courts are also implicated in these distinctions.

The term "substantive due process" itself is commonly used in two ways: to identify a particular line of case law and to signify a particular political attitude toward judicial review under the two due process clauses.

Procedural due process protects individuals by ensuring that adjudications are fair and impartial. 

Substantive due process protects individuals judicially against legislation or executive orders that exceed government authority.

Vested or natural or divine rights, versus the police power, was another prism through which to view the issues. 

Nature and convention, or nature versus convention, depending on one's political philosophy....yet another dimension.

J.Taney, in  Dred Scott, pronounced without elaboration that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because an "act of Congress that deprived a citizen of his liberty or property merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular territory of the United States, and who had committed no offence against the laws there, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law."

BEFORE 1776

I suggest watching the whole Teaching Company Course. 

Professor Allison, Suffolk University, Boston. 

Living and working in rather the heart of the beast. great job.

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

For Americans, the American Rebellion really showed them the verdict and judgment of history on the defunct Old European World Order. 

Now, the new order of the day was permanent, universal, and violent democratic revolution.

It set the stage for The French Revolution, and then the rise of communism, and then fascism.

Interminable political drift, 

or sudden cataclysmic convulsion!

Not World Without End

Revolution Without End

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Friday, December 30, 2016

THE MENU TANDOORI CORNISH GAME HENS

This just makes a lot of sense in so many ways.

 

You have a hen a person. You can barbecue (no one over here has a tandoori oven) them whole on a rotiserie after marinating, or bake on high and partially broil in an oven.

 

You can even do a version of Cornish Butter Chicken, call it Butter Cornish Game Hen Tandoori.

 

Butter chicken is a tandoori oven baked dish in which the cooked bird is served in a buttery masala tomato sauce, incorporating elements of the tandoori marinade itself.

Serve with basmati rice and or nan. Substitute buttered pita bread.

Use quail instead, if you can get them.