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.
Category: economics
Worse than a crime, a legalism
MF Global did worse than embezzle client funds. They embezzled client funds legally Very large numbers of investors may be in the same position as MF Global’s investors, who thought they were investing in gold, businesses, and suchlike, but were in fact investing in Greek rioters, Italians on welfare, and public servants taking early retirement.
Woman charged with making a false rape accusation!
A woman is being charged with making a false rape accusation! Gasp! Are pigs flying? Has the revolution come? Is marriage going to be legally restored? No. She is charged with making a false rape accusation against a minority. She should have done what everyone else does, make false rape accusations against lower income and/or rural members of the majority ethnic group of males.
Sarbanes-Oxley:
Sarbannes-Oxley does to double entry accounting, what the Occupy Movement did to poop control.
Timing the coming hyperinflation
We have a bubble in government paper. Assessing the end of the bubble is, like assessing the end of any bubble, hard.
MF Global Obama
John Corzine was the US Government, in the same sense, and to the same extent, as the Occupy Wall Street protestors are the US government. He stole his depositors money, and pissed it away, not on wine, women and song, nor on gambling on stocks nor horses, nor at the casino, nor on purchasing little boys for sexual purposes, but gambling on Greece. You know how the occupiers demand virtue …
Paper precious metals start to evaporate
Gerald Celente purchased six figures worth of gold futures, with the intent of taking physical delivery He won’t be. Jim Willie tells us: The CME has advised that 1.42 million ounces of registered COMEX silver inventory is unavailable for delivery due to MF Global bankruptcy, as well as 16,645 registered ounces of gold also unavailable for delivery. He tells us that there will be naked shorting of gold, but it …
Stultum facit fortuna
Consensus leads to the madness of crowds, not the wisdom of crowds. As we move to a society ruled by consensus, madness and evil prevails.
The sins of “Occupy Wall Streetâ€
This should not be necessary, but I observe right wing blogs blissfully unaware of what has been going on, so, a list:
Herman Cain sticks it to political correctness
At 41 seconds into the ad, the speaker says: “We can do this, we can take this country back”, and takes a drag on a cigarette. So who are we taking it back from? We are taking it back from the scolds and self righteous naggers.