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- Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:31 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15629
Re: Immigration / open borders debate
I like a lot of libertarian ideas, but implementability matters. The most beautiful, theoretically correct idea in the world isn't worth a hill of beans if it can't be implemented, which in politics means that it's supported by a majority or an extremely passionate, well-organized, well-funded, pol...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:36 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15629
Re: Immigration / open borders debate
The program is rife with abuse. Of course it is. Its a government program. Law abiding or not it doesn't matter. It matters to you. Or at least it seemed earlier in this thread when you were pointing out illegals as a group have no respect for the law. Would you say legal immigrants as a group h...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:07 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15629
Re: Immigration / open borders debate
But the fatal flaw in highlighting them is the implicit assumption that these problems are somehow politically rectifiable with an infusion of libertarianism, as though a plurality or majority of the U.S. population is somehow going to become sufficiently libertarian as to cause the government to a...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:55 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15629
Re: Immigration / open borders debate
Actually the government has made it relatively easy for people to immigrate legally and illegally. They just put the focus on bad immigration that helps large companies get cheap labor instead of citizens that want a stable and safe society. The H-1B non-immigrant visa requires employment in a spec...
- Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:50 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15629
Re: Immigration / open borders debate
If not, let me state for the record that open borders liberals/libertarians are idiots. Calling on govt to fix a govt-created problem... Who's the idiot now? Is this a trick question? No! Government has made it very difficult for law-abiders to immigrate and very easy for law-breakers. Like with ...
- Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:58 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Immigration / open borders debate
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15629
Re: Immigration / open borders debate
Calling on govt to fix a govt-created problem...craigr wrote: If not, let me state for the record that open borders liberals/libertarians are idiots.
Who's the idiot now?
- Sat Aug 15, 2015 4:11 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9806
Re: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
Don't be sexist. Its perfectly fine for women to wear pantsuits.Ad Orientem wrote:Poor taste.Mountaineer wrote: I think these two might get along too. Might need a resurrection. Looks like it will be a rather large party.
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- Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:22 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9806
- Sat Aug 15, 2015 4:06 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Speculative Rebalancing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11477
Re: Speculative Rebalancing
Understood. So that chart makes it look like rain to you?
- Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:56 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9806
Re: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
lolMountaineer wrote: If it comes to pass, in the land of the woebegone SALs, I will most definitely have to do a poll of this illustrious forum members to determine the exact amount of booze required. I would not want to have any left over that could be absconded by the derlicts in DC.
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 6:11 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Speculative Rebalancing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11477
Re: Speculative Rebalancing
After reviewing some of the literature on market valuation, it seems to me that the stock market is currently overpriced. I'm aware that an orthodox PP implementation eschews speculation of any kind, but how bad of an idea would it be to tactically underweight an asset class while still remaining w...
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:02 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9806
Re: Hillary's Private Emails: The Vise Slowly Tightens (What if...)
I think that is likely. We'll be invited, right?Desert wrote: If Trump and Hillary are both eliminated, I'll throw a major party at my place.
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:16 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Explain differences in property taxes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7563
Re: Explain differences in property taxes
Also Nevada has no income tax and below-average property tax.
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:39 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Has gold lost to bitcoin?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4394
Re: Has gold lost to bitcoin?
You can explore all the different methods of payment to exchange BTC for EUR, which range from paypal, skrill, moneybookers to sending gift cards, to sending cash by mail, to meeting in person, etc. all with an ebay style ratings system so you're not completely blind to who you're dealing with...an...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:17 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Has gold lost to bitcoin?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4394
Re: Has gold lost to bitcoin?
OTOH, there are plenty of ways to hide BTC and a ton of different ways to sell it locally and throughout the EU (ex: https://localbitcoins.com/country/GR). Your link shows a list of banks and Western Unions which would be closed. BTC's problems actually seem worse in your "crisis mode in a situatio...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:39 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Has gold lost to bitcoin?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4394
- Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:26 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Predictions For The Bottom In Gold
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23815
Re: Predictions For The Bottom In Gold
Then Austrian gold Philharmonics would be worth 2x as much as gold eagles.Libertarian666 wrote: I'm pretty sure it won't go below $50/oz., because then the face value of $50 US gold eagles would be worth more than the gold content.
- Mon Aug 10, 2015 4:19 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6091
Re: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)
FTFYReub wrote: What is important is radical progressive/leftists Democrats & Republicans undermining our country by spending us into bankruptcy and opening up our borders to illegals wantonly. And in a million other ways.
- Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:59 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6091
Re: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)
Perhaps they're voting instead for Hillary.Reub wrote: Btw, I believe Paul finished dead last in the post debate polling. Possibly all of his supporters were too stoned to cast a vote?
- Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:36 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6091
Re: NYC Homeless Problem Vexes City Hall, Spurs Action (WSJ)
I guess stating "I am not a libertarian" isn't enough to stop being the libertarian face, eh?Reub wrote: With Rand Paul as your face, libertarians are doomed to more decades of marginalism. Wow is he rude and angry!
Fortunately a face isn't as powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 11:51 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Killing Cecil The Lion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16703
Re: Killing Cecil The Lion
I still don't see what the issue is. People can still go see Cecil.
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 2:37 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Killing Cecil The Lion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16703
Re: Killing Cecil The Lion
roflTennPaGa wrote: A gold-plated hunting rifle with Cecil's image on it, for example, would be tacky.
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:44 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Killing Cecil The Lion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16703
Re: Killing Cecil The Lion
I'm beginning to suspect the same.Pointedstick wrote: My own personal experience with dentists is that they can do more harm than good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7-Ry1bBCU
- Wed Jul 29, 2015 4:13 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In VA, the police raided me (for Reub)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3418
Re: In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In VA, the police raided me (for Reub)
A police state is an existential threat.
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:19 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Dems booed off stage for saying All Lives Matter
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10684
Re: Dems booed off stage for saying All Lives Matter
The solution to offending others by saying "all lives matter" or the solution to being offended by it.TennPaGa wrote: The solution to what?