Author: Jim

party politics

Yes, Obama is a Muslim.

I  doubt Obama believes in anything, not in God, not even the evidence of the senses – but to be officially a Muslim, you have to publicly pronounce the Shahada:  “There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet”.  Obama did as a child, and recently repeated in public as an adult.  To …

party politics

Vote Cthulhu

Why vote for the lesser evil? Bush, of course, launched numerous expensive new programs and entitlements, and failed to restrain the inherent growth of Clinton’s affirmative action easy mortgage program.  He encouraged the growth of that program, though to judge by the screaming of the Democrats at the time, probably slightly less than the Democrats …

economics

Fixing the financial system

We are in trouble, the entire west is in trouble, in substantial part because the financial system has been leaking a lot of money.  So has every other part of the governing apparatus, but the financial system is the biggest hole in the bucket. Now a lot of people are saying that this is a …

economics

hyperinflation of the US$

A great storm first manifest as clouds on the horizon. The Republicans are going to wish they had not won the 2010 November elections. Supposedly US inflation is near zero, yet food, fuel, and heating oil has risen substantially. Gonzalo points out Grains as a class have risen over 33% year-over-year. Refined oil products have …

politics

Sarah Palin proposes an insignificantly tiny reform

Sarah Palin proposes an insignificantly tiny reform. The impressed response to Sarah Palin’s suggestion, the horde of blogs thrilled by her suggestion, shows how rare such suggestions are. She suggests a tiny move rightwards, while normally the extreme right wing of the Republican party merely proposes that we move leftwards at a slightly slower rate.