Moving over to blogger

Hi, I've decided to move over to blogger with all the rest of my stuff, it's a google world now for me I guess. I'll be back on top of things this week for everyone who likes to read my opinions of the world.
It's November 11th today, and I have to say I agree with the late Mr. Vonnegut that changing this holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day was a great mistake, but typical of the trajectory of the US in the 20th century.

First in a while

Sorry, if anyone actually reads this blog for the long hiatus, but I'm back and will start updating again. This is a very interesting talk by Terence Kealey that covers multiple interesting topics.
The one that I found most interesting was his discussion about the costs of research. That to copy an innovation costs the same amount as to invent it in the first place. This is a very strong practical argument against one of the fundamental tenants of patent law.
The argument that one hears most for patent law, especially concerning the drug industry is that without patent protection all of the drugs would just be copied and that no one would invent new medicine and we would all die. Well, since it is no cheaper to copy the medicine than it is to invent it, this makes little difference. There would be a period of natural monopoly for the drug inventor while the other companies invented their version of the drug, giving an incentive to invent and then a drop in prices when their drugs came on market, using market share as the incentive to copy.
There would also be an in incentive for the original inventor to sell his drug formula to the other companies at a time discount, thereby increasing the speed of innovation, but maintaining profitability.
All that the current patent regime has done is to slow innovation, increase the price of goods by artificially extending the period of what would be a natural monopoly and transforming it into a state monopoly and generally wasting time and money.

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Republican Projection

When I was reading Eric Margolis's article over at Lewrockwell.com this morning the thought occurred to me that the description of Islamic groups and governments as "Islamo-Fascist" must in fact be some type of projection for those who even understand what they are saying.

It should be obvious to anyone that knows what those words mean and knows anything about these groups or governmental structure in the non-Asian Muslim world could see very plainly that Fascism neither describes their current structure nor anything like the desired social organization of these groups.  In fact the more "fundamental" in their religious beliefs they are, the less Fascist and vice-versa.

Joe Biden Huh?

All I can say is wow!  The democratic party has picked a vice presidential candidate that essentially erases the few good points about Obama.  I'm glad to see that the major political parties are still able to put a ticket together that is completely and totally horrible for every person living in America, and the rest of the world for that matter.  Why not just have Obama and McCain be co presidents, when one doesn't want to do a terrible thing for the American people the other one can act as president and vice-versa.  What a world.

To learn from the Catholic Kings of Spain

It seems to me that there is much to be learned from the ideas of the 15th and 16th century kings of Spain in they what they saw was their job in ruling.  Although many people seem to think that this was an era of repression and something that we as enlightened democrats of the English tradition fought against; mostly I think this is English anti-Spain anti-Catholic propaganda we should re-examine these ideas.

The mode of rule that I was talking about, is that the duty of the kind is to emulate Christ in his rule, in the sense that he must sacrifice everything, even his life for the good of his people.  This seems to me to be

At least they used to be honest

It's nice to see that at least during the Wilson administration they were honest about being socialist. I think that our great war with the Soviet Union has so corrupted the language; in that no party in United States will admit to being any sort of collectivist, that we have forever lost the language to argue about political positions as they really are. We seem to exist in an age of new speak, and as Orwell made so clear, the corruption of language is a method to corrupt thought and empower those who wish to rule us.

clipped from www.lewrockwell.com Bernard Baruch, chairman of Wilson's War Industries Board (and the son of a German who fled that country to avoid conscription) unflinchingly espoused the concept of state ownership of its subjects in an August 7, 1918 newspaper editorial: "Every man's life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man's property. We are living today in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is his only as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and possessions at the call of the state."

Draft Anyone

The national service idea is back in the media today, supported strongly by very old congressman and AARP of course. Wondering if any of them will be showing to be drafted? Glad to see that the fascist art style of the 1930s and 40s will work for fascist propaganda in every era. Along with the fact that this is a hidden draft, and state slavery, but no one seems to mention that this is also essentially the NEW new deal. It will involve a gigantic public works project that will dwarf the CCC and other new deal programs. No depression huh?

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