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What happened to Chuck Grassley’s relevance? Such a shame. I don’t know how we’ll get through health care reform without him.

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

It’s hotter than a sidewinder’s belly on the fourth of July round these parts and steamier than Old Faithful herself, but that doesn’t mean we’re not sucking in the news. I think the real problem is a rash of pregnant women among the SB writers, and those that remain, either lack real internet access or real posting gusto. That said, let’s call it “Summer Vacation.” See you soon!

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has joe the plumber ever had to dodge barrels flung by a rampaging ape? fuck that guy.

So, this year, Obama’s been selling a lot of buttons, t-shirts, signs, and various other things imprinted with his logo. It’s a pretty nifty idea: run a store on your campaign website and file purchases as campaign donations. Your logo sees broader exposure, you get to report super-high donation totals each month, it’s easier for supporters who live in places without a campaign office or frequent campaign events to get campaign gear, people who would already have made donations get a little token for their trouble. Everybody wins.

But I wonder why it seems to take at least several weeks (and sometimes a few months) for orders to be shipped. I’m not complaining in a “where’s my stuff?!?” way, since Obama was gonna be getting my money even without a store on his website. I’m wondering why distributing campaign advertisements isn’t seen as more of a priority. It took my window sign almost 10 weeks to arrive, and I’ve lately been showered with apologetic emails telling me that my buttons, stickers, and t-shirts (ordered weeks ago) just might be shipping soon (though I’m not to expect them to arrive for a few weeks after they’ve shipped). That’s a lot of weeks that I could have been displaying Obama’s logo everywhere I went.

I suppose the cynical answer is that Obama doesn’t really care about people putting signs in their windows, handing out buttons to their friends, putting stickers on their cars, etc., and is really just after the money. That might be the case, though that would be a little surprising, given the amount of importance Obama’s campaign places on the ground game. The online store is supposed to generate revenue and increase campaign visibility, and I seriously doubt the Obama campaign would sacrifice one almost entirely in order to maximize the other.

Rather, it seems like they’re just being really cheap, which I can appreciate. I’m sure they want to maximize the “profit margin” of the Obama gear, and hiring cheaper, slower manufacturers and using cheaper, slower shipping options would certainly be part of that. But really, I’ll be surprised if my “first edition!!!!1!!1!!!” Obama/Biden stickers and buttons get here before election day, at which point their advertising potential will be moot, and the items themselves will either carry a neutral emotional impact or will be depressing reminders of a very bad day.

porn loves the iPhone. the long-nailed and the fat-fingered don’t. (no worries, though — mash the touchscreen with your palm to obtain a special dialing wand from apple.)