Posted on 07/09/2011 7:59:22 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Mt Etna showing life.....a paroxysm response.
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My wife and I stayed with a friend in a house at the foot of the volcano. But it didn’t perform for us. We drove to the edge of the crater but all we got was snow-covered roads
Even Still her beauty must have been captivating?
I don’t think so, they’ll try to plug the vent hole, by screwing America into it.
I noticed that too. Computers are great.
...Volcanoes are a part of the natural order of things. Man is not...
Jeez, you gotta get it. Man is an interloper and evil. Somehow,retroactively, man—more particularly American man—is responsible for the dinosaur demise. Surely you understand that.
Your such a bourgeois reactionary, you know.
Yo SaraJohnson—You lost me there. Please enlighten. I’m on my second vodka tonic and things are not computing as I would wish. Tried to listen to the the Usurping Marxist Onada explain the continuing disaster of an economy today and I’ being driven to my third and fourth vodka tonics.
Gotta do something to ease the pain.
Given that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, and that nothing mankind could do to the planet—and that includes nuclear war—could possibly match that, it all does seem a little silly, does it not?
Not going to even ask what that person is doing....lol.
I know....right?! When I first went to snag a picture he was doing maintenance to the camera. by the time I captured a still that is what I got...;-)
I’m all for clean water and air. I mean, who is not? Unfortunately Marxists use ecology as a weapon.
The truth is that the industrialists always take shortcuts, because they are cheapsh...s, one and all. But the work has to be done, and the role of the public is to let them do their thing but always they are to clean up their messes. That’s the deal. They use the nation’s resources, but they do it right. Drill near someone’s home, and you better not stint on the concrete and let the crap get into the water. They must never forget about the common good. If the truck driver driving his eighteen-wheeler has to do it right, so must the indutrialist. E pluribus union. We are all in the same boat.
Capitalism is about making profit. That that is achieved many ways: Wages/benefits as well as cost of fiscal plant, materials and transportation.
I agree that corporate mischief was and is an ongoing challenge. However, I will also say that it is a far smaller problem today than it was 50 years ago and it tends to be self correcting. Consumers simply refuse to buy from companies that produce shoddy products and they go out of business. Detroit lost the bubble to Japan and other Asian car makers. They made junk with pride. Sadly American car maker’s inability to compete is being propped up by a Usurping gov’t in Washington that is hell bent on destroying the American economy.
In fact, gov’t policy is a far greater threat to this country and its citizens than private sector shenanigans. When gov’t screws up there is not one incentive to self correct. It simply keeps repeating what has already failed. The only thing important in Washington is the political elite’s personal power. This is fed by the amount of money they must spend to buy votes. It really is as simple as that.
It is time for a reset in Washington. By that I mean reacquaint ourselves with our magnificent Constitution, throw the ideologues out of office and elect people who will serve the people—not themselves.
Neither our Republican form of gov’t or our Constitution are ideologies. The are an economic and governing system, respectively. In other words they’re adaptive vehicles. Ideologues, on the other hand, believe their way is the only way. They must embrace totalitarianism as the means to force people to submit to their will—particularly when their ideological brand is not working or worse.
I agree with you that corporations are not perfect. But the beauty of our system has always been to reset itself when necessary. Also, as I said before, corporations are ultimately in business to stay in business. When they lose sight of that goal they fail.
Name me one gov’t program that’s failed to achieve its stated purpose and been yanked. There are none.
What I refer to is Jim Burnham book, “the Managerial Revolution.” A large corporation is a small government run along bureaucratic lines. Hence the natural allies of government bureaus.
Business cozying up to gov’t is as naturasl as anything else it does to achieve a competitive edge. However, for most of this country’s history gov’t has acted as a business constraint rather than an ally. Business treat gov’t accordingly.
It is only recently that businesses have taken on an ideological hue and it is red. Present Wall street leadership is aligned with the Usurping Marxist in the WH—as are some large corporations. I give you GE, GM and Chrysler as examples.
Whatever past alliances there were between business and government are small potatoes compared to what is happening now. You it is serious when businesses align themselves with an ideology that is anti-business.
This is corporatism: an alliance between big businsss, the unions and government. Another name for this is fascism, absent only the militarism. Of course, without the militarism, it might be called national socialism. Label matter less, of course, than the reality. We are in the hands of an elite who think they know what is best. Democracy in America has always resisted this natural development, which historically is normal. Here the people rule: that is the motto of the House is it not? God willing the majority in the House will take a stand against “the ruling class.” WEe will soon see.
Guess which Caldera is inflating?.....lol
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