According to the US census, estimated monthly sales have gone up ten percent in dollars between 2010 November and 2011 November. Have living standards gone up? Clearly living standards are falling. Total physical volume of goods shipped by rail has been falling over the past year, consistent with the general experience of falling living standards. Can anyone explain what is going on? This looks to me like slightly worse than ten percent year on year inflation, which is the inflation …
Author: Jim
The latest evil from Google
Google has recently been nailed in two more scandals: cold calling ignorant Kenyans with a scam offer and scary lies about Google’s competitor, and vandalizing open source maps which competes with Google Maps. While Google is wonderfully politically correct, and would never dream of suggesting that black people are stupid, the scam service they are selling in Kenya is predicated on the assumption that black people are stupid.
Burning the past
We are in the greatest era of book burning ever. Libraries systematically destroy their older books, without allowing staff to go through the books and sort out the valuable ones, the ones that would bring enormous prices on Amazon.com. This destruction allows a new past to be written, a demonized and hate filled past.
Mitt Romneycare, enemy of capitalism
Mitt Romneycare tells us: In the general election I’ll be pointing out that the president took the reins at General Motors and Chrysler – closed factories, closed dealerships laid off thousands and thousands of workers – he did it to try to save the business. Now that is an unusual strategy for winning elections.
Economic Decline
The BLS is arguably understating inflation and unemployment.
Ron Paul, only non leftist left standing
The three major candidates are Governor Romneycare, the man who provided the model for Obamacare, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum. Rick Santorum’s nephew tells us: When Republicans were spending so much money under President Bush, my uncle was right there along with them
Economic effect of leftism
I found the 2005 and 2010 values for nominal gross state product of US states. I looked up Wikipedia for which states were right to work states. Over the five years, right to work states grew ten percent relative to non right to work states
Blacks chimp out for Christmas
La Griffe du Lion finds that though the average criminality of blacks is substantially higher than that of whites, the variance is substantially lower. This predicts that under a firm and effective law enforcement environment, in which only the most criminally inclined misbehaved, a black majority area would be safer than a white majority area. However in a lax environment, in modern anarcho tyranny where everything has been criminalized, except crime, which has been decriminalized, the difference between blacks and …
We have a winner
I crowdsourced the task of finding a word to describe the political and social order that is leading us to doom, in a way that explains the fundamental driving forces, explains why the left always wins. Hwan Lewi: How about ‘atheocracy’? It should be instantly recognizable as derivative of ‘theocracy’ and thus retain most of the descriptive and shock value, and it gets around the deism/non-deism issue. From now on, atheocracy it is. In addition to being clear, it avoids …
The word “theocracyâ€
A lot of people complain about my use, and Mencius’s use, of the word theocracy, to refer both to past systems were God endorsed Caesar, and Caesar endorsed God, and the present system where Political Correctness endorses the state, and the State endorses Political Correctness. So I am trying to crowdsource some less confusing terminology.