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I’m not saying Dan Riehl definitely puts on lederhosen and fucks baby penguins.

That would be irresponsible — there simply isn’t enough evidence to say one way or another.

All I’m saying is, from what we know at this time, it’s premature to say for sure that Dan Riehl doesn’t put on lederhosen and fuck baby penguins.

I check Yahoo mail a couple of times a day, and their splash screen links five or so AP headlines that seem to change throughout the day. For the last several days, there has always been at least one story up about the grad student who was murdered at Yale. Yesterday, there was also a story about a criminally insane murderer who escaped from his asylum day-trip to a county fair, and that he’s still at large. In a normal world, that would be fucking huge news, since an actual danger exists (he was believed to be heading toward his family, who were uniformly puzzled why he was allowed to go on the trip), and since it seems so much like a horror movie. Instead, the focus of the story was procedural: how such a person could end up at a county fair in the first place. The AP’s story, in other words, wasn’t that a crazy murderer was on the loose, but that the gubmint has failed yet again.

And, of course, that story is already down the memory hole, and there’s nothing about it on Yahoo today. After all, the woman the escapee killed was elderly, and we all know that it’s not news unless the victim was young and pretty.

Attention readers:

You may be interested to know that financial deregulation and pure unchecked greed were not the cause of, but are in fact the obvious solution to, the ongoing economic crisis. What’s more, none of this would have happened if not for the Federal Reserve and the 16th amendment — Hayek, Friedman et al predicted it!

If this strikes you as a compelling thesis, slap on a Ron Paul button, wipe the semen off your copy of Atlas Shrugged, and head on down to the IMU for what promises to be a stimulating series of conversations.

[AcadStudorg] Austrian Economics, book/discussion club!!
Students for Austrian Economics (UI) [austrian.econ.uiowa@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:08 AM
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Hello,

In light of the near total meltdown of our banking and financial systems in Fall of 2008, much more attention is being paid to the field of economics. In particular, many more scholars are paying attention to the Austrian School of Economics, which unlike other economic schools of thought, saw our current crisis coming years ahead of time and have a theory to explain the events we have seen.

Are you skeptical of multi-trillion dollar deficits and debt?

Do you trust a monolithic, all-powerful central bank that centrally plans monetary policy and sets interest rates?

Do you believe that freedom, and not government, should be the driving force in the economy?

If you are concerned about any of the above questions, then you will likely be interested in attending the regular weekly meetings of ‘Students for Austrian Economics (UI)’

Come Join Us! Every Thursday at 6 pm, beginning this Thursday, September 10th, in the Kirkwood Room (257) of the Iowa Memorial Union.

We will be studying economics in the traditions of the great 20th century economists Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard!

We will begin introducing the basic concepts that make the Austrian School distinct and follow up with pertinent conversation about current events.

It will be a wonderful, intellectually stimulating time!
Thank you for your consideration,

-Students for Austrian Economics-

www.mises.org

so i do this thing sometimes, for perverse reasons i don’t fully understand, where i email spammers back. i doubt anybody ever reads them, but i get some jollies out of it.

i think this is the first time i’ve written one of these emails back to a list that i willingly signed up for.

stimulus:

from Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com info@barackobama.com
reply-to info@barackobama.com
to josh@stickybuffalo.com
date Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM
subject Now, it’s our turn

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com wrote:

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> Joshua –
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> Last night, President Obama called on our representatives to pass health reform that brings stability and security to Americans who have insurance, affordable coverage to those who don’t, and reins in the cost of care.
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> Now, it’s our turn. After last night’s speech, members of Congress have no doubt about where the President stands. But to win this fight, we must show that Americans from every state and every background support his plan — and we need Congress to do the same.
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response:

From: josh@stickybuffalo.com
Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Subject: No, it’s still HIS turn
To: info@barackobama.com

Mitch,

You guys have some solid brass cojones on you. You follow up the defining capitulation of Obama’s first (only?) term by trying to rally the faithful, mindless beasts of burden that we are, once more unto the breach. For what? You just punted on the one proposal that had a snowball’s chance in hell of addressing the problem he so eloquently outlined last night, a proposal he campaigned and won on — which, by the way, still has broad majority support among the public, despite the summer’s barrage of insane demagoguery that you guys utterly failed to anticipate or respond to.

If the President isn’t willing to fight, or even put up the pretense of willingness to fight, for the public option, where does that leave us? Where does he get off asking “us” to sacrifice more time and energy to help America swallow whatever nuggets of “reform” might be coaxed from the suppurating, campaign-contribution-lubricated asshole of Max Baucus? Maybe if we work real hard we can get ourselves mandated into buying private insurance with no provision for making it affordable — that’s one big bowl of shit I can’t wait to dig into! I’ll be sure to call my congressman right away.

Brass fucking balls. If only you’d show the same testicular fortitude in confronting the insurance lobby and the shrieking idiots, instead of pissing on the people who worked to get you elected, maybe we’d get some real reform. Until that day comes, good luck with this turd of a presidency — I’m sitting out 2012.

Josh

P.S. My favorite touch is how you remembered to include the “Donate” link at the bottom of the email. You guys are friggin’ adorable! Sorry, I need that money to pay my exponentially increasing health insurance premiums.