Board 8 > Freedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - The Topic [no wars] [no income tax] [no TSA]

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That's what Stu does best. He also has a great dry/sarcastic sense of humor. If he quit and started his own show I'd probably follow him and not even bother with Glenn anymore.

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Yeap.

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<p>From: SmartMuffin | #301
and not even bother with Glenn anymore</p>
Heresy!

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/another-randslide-in-kentucky-124301.html

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Well, THIS is certainly interesting...



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*high-fives fellow Paulites*

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drones scare the **** out of me

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http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/woody-allen-would-appreciate-this/

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So, I'm going to be gone until Sunday. If someone could keep this bumped, I'd appreciate it!

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SmartMuffin posted...

So, I'm going to be gone until Sunday. If someone could keep this bumped, I'd appreciate it!

I'm going to be gone Friday - Sunday.

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JDTAY do you need someone to bump your e3 countdown topic?

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More awesomeness from Stu.

http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/05/23/stutistics-obamas-unemployment-numbers/

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bump

bump

http://m.usatoday.com/article/money/55106114

Don't go to AMC anymore. Spread the word.

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Is there something particularly bad that that company has done?
If you mean to boycott all of China, you're going to have a hard time doing so.

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bump

Yeah, I don't get that. Libertarians would never boycott a company solely because of the race or ethnicity of the owners.

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up for freedom

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Chris Christie continues to be a badass.

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7970130/new-jersey-defy-federal-law-move-forward-sports-betting

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Obama's in trouble with Poland:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/obama-polish-death-camps-comment-spurs-polish-ou

To be fair, I think his words were wildly misinterpreted.

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I'm usually pretty light on people who obviously misspeak (because absolutely EVERYONE does it) but that seems like an incredibly stupid error to make...

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possible new DWMF tonight

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SmartMuffin posted...

possible new DWMF tonight

So hype.

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With the hockey game going into OT, it's almost certainly gonna have to be tomorrow.

In the meantime, did anyone read this piece?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all

There's just SO much in here to discuss. So many different angles in play here. My main take-away from it was really the arrogance of the man. The idea that he says "I have to personally approve every kill" might come across as responsibility to some, but I don't think you can take credit for "taking responsibility" if you keep everything a secret and don't actually take responsibility when things go wrong (as they often have).

To me, it's more of a "I know better than everyone else" deal, which just strikes me as crazy.

The level of technology we have is scary now, though. The idea that the President of the United States can personally approve every war casualty is ****ing nuts.

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/31/president-obama-secret-kill-list/

tell em judge

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http://dudewheresmyfreedom.com/2012/06/01/bloombergs-economic-fallacy/

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/persecuted-homeschoolers-wow-brazilians-by-winning-numerous-prizes-in-acade

Yet another area where the government can't compete, so it simply forces you to comply.

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From: SmartMuffin | #333

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/persecuted-homeschoolers-wow-brazilians-by-winning-numerous-prizes-in-acade

Yet another area where the government can't compete, so it simply forces you to comply.

That's pretty awesome. Other than the oppression part.

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http://krugman-in-wonderland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/krugman-solves-another-mystery-and.html

A great post that lays out the basics of the Austrian argument for austerity.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2144907/Why-repealing-law-insulting-language-victory-free-speech-common-sense.html

Well, at least SOME British people apparently actually DO see the problem with throwing people in jail for "offensive speech."

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http://krugman-in-wonderland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/krugman-solves-another-mystery-and.html

A great post that lays out the basics of the Austrian argument for austerity.

Excellent post. I wonder if Krugman would agree with the statement: "money is fiction." Bernanke has already come out and said gold is not money, so I think he would agree with that statement also.

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An interesting George Soros speech about the future of the Euro. His claim: The Eurozone will inevitably break up unless Germany is willing to abandon imposing austerity on the peripheral Eurozone countries.

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Speaking as someone who participated in the National Geography Bee, I always thought that homeschoolers had an unfair advantage, since their parents could obviously divert entire lesson plans to help them study for the event. Plus the National Geographic Society had a backwards system where they would pay for teachers' hotel rooms, but not the kids' parents, so the homeschoolers' parents got to come for free, while everyone else's parents had to pay (in my case at least, my teachers had jack **** to do with my successes there, which made this rule infuriating for my parents.)

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So Soros is now predicting the same thing the Austrians predicted when the Euro was first being formed?

*yawn*

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I was gone for a week, but you guys seemed to miss my point concerning the Chinese buyout of AMC. I think we shouldn't care that AMC was bought by a Chinese company, but rather we just shouldn't want to support a Chinese company. We have no problem with Chinese people supporting them financially. We would just rather support companies that create domestic jobs. The acquisition itself is not an issue.

Personally, I try to only buy American-made stuff as much as I can. Obviously it's pretty much impossible to do this with EVERYTHING, but who said there couldn't be a grey area? http://americansworking.com/

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From: TomNook7 | #341

I was gone for a week, but you guys seemed to miss my point concerning the Chinese buyout of AMC. I think we shouldn't care that AMC was bought by a Chinese company, but rather we just shouldn't want to support a Chinese company. We have no problem with Chinese people supporting them financially. We would just rather support companies that create domestic jobs. The acquisition itself is not an issue.

Personally, I try to only buy American-made stuff as much as I can. Obviously it's pretty much impossible to do this with EVERYTHING, but who said there couldn't be a grey area? http://americansworking.com/

Not gonna get into it with you that much, but this is absolutely NOT the standard doctrine of austrian economics, libertarianism, whatever. Belief in efficient and free markets trumps nationalism. "Buy American" means "allow yourself to accept inferior or higher priced goods due to nationalism"

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Hm. Shouldn't it be a pretty high priority though? I mean, shouldn't investing in our own economy rather than someone else's be pretty important?

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I mean, if I go by what you say, I might as well just give up and shop at ****ty ass places like Wal-Mart and Gamestop just to save myself a buck.

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From: TomNook7 | #343

Hm. Shouldn't it be a pretty high priority though? I mean, shouldn't investing in our own economy rather than someone else's be pretty important?

Not really. The better product is the better product. Are Americans inherently better people than Chinese? If the answer is no, then why should we prioritize investing in the American economy over the Chinese one?

From: TomNook7 | #344

I mean, if I go by what you say, I might as well just give up and shop at ****ty ass places like Wal-Mart and Gamestop just to save myself a buck.

Pretty much, yeah. Although money isn't the only factor. Stores also offer a quality of experience, customer service, etc. I shop at Wal-Mart sometimes because the prices are great, but I prefer Albertsons because it's cleaner and less crowded, even though the prices are higher.

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I don't know if I can agree with that. I respect the free market and people's rights to choose how/where to spend their money, but I can't encourage shopping at certain places or buying certain goods that will invoke poor economical consequences.

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How is it a poor economic consequence? An American merchant is not more worthy of your money solely by virtue of being American.

The free market doesn't give a flying crap about arbitrary political borders. Only power-hungry statists do.

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I don't support businesses just because they're American, though. I support them because those businesses keep the money in our country. Wal-Mart is an American business, but China gets billions from them a year. And I'm sure China will get billions from AMC now too.

Sure you can get shoes cheap from a name brand that hires overseas sweatshop workers, but wouldn't it be better to invest in shoes that were made with American jobs?

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Not really. Why is an American job better than a Chinese job?

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Because American jobs stimulate our economy and Chinese jobs do the exact opposite? We're Americans under the American economy, so shouldn't this matter?

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