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I CAN'T BELIEVE IT
LJ IS TRYING TO BAN ALL MY FAVOURITE STUFF
THIS IS BLATANT VIOLATION OF FREE SPEECH!
LJ IS TRYING TO BAN ALL MY FAVOURITE STUFF
THIS IS BLATANT VIOLATION OF FREE SPEECH!
Global Warning
There's been a lot of hot air going round about Global Warming. Those half-baked flower-eating segway-riding liberals have been busy spinning like the Antarctic Smog Storm and I think it's time for some home truths!
Basic Economic Fact: interfering in markets is inefficient and hurts the economy.
We all know that putting taxes on gas and other 'carbon burning' products and processes contravenes our basic human rights to drive a car bigger than the tanks we're sending our troops out in to fight the Iraq war. But it also causes something called 'inefficiency' and 'market failure'.
Economic transactions involve buyers and sellers trading goods and services and money. Market transactions make both parties better off (otherwise there wouldn't be any buying and selling taking place!) This is called economic welfare. In a competitive market, free trading means you'll get the most efficient amount of goods being produced and bought and sold at the most efficient price, so everybody wins. This is all based on the assumption of ownership. If there is clear ownership at every stage of the economic process then all effects are taken into account and welfare is maximised. Taxes and subsidies and government interference screw up the free market process and mean things get bought and sold at non-market prices and quantities. This is inefficiency and is bad for the economy/jobs/prices/etc!
But what happens when there's an effect of an economic transaction that happens outside the market process? e.g. doesn't getting electicity to your home involve pumping the air full of carbon, something that harms the Earth? But since there is no ownership of the Earth or assigned responsibility for protecting its value to all, it's not taken into account by the producers, the sellers, or the consumers! Doesn't that mean that there's an inefficiency here, and the free market is not happening - so welfare is not maximised?
Well, no! We're already established that taxes and subsidies and the nanny state are a priori bad news. If that's the case, then there's no market failure by definition! So that leads us to the inescapable logical conclusion:
POLLUTION DOESN'T REALLY EXIST!
Having established this, we can see that we don't need to take global warming into account, we can ignore potential rising sea levels, increased occurrence of severe weather, and the disruption of the entire planet. All markets are efficient and free and ownership rights are clearly defined by a mysterious, almost magical, process I call the "Idiot's Invalid Use of the Invisible Hand Metaphor Delusion".
Everybody wins! (Except the planet, which doesn't exist.)
Senator V.V. 'Speak No Evil' Conservative
Basic Economic Fact: interfering in markets is inefficient and hurts the economy.
We all know that putting taxes on gas and other 'carbon burning' products and processes contravenes our basic human rights to drive a car bigger than the tanks we're sending our troops out in to fight the Iraq war. But it also causes something called 'inefficiency' and 'market failure'.
Economic transactions involve buyers and sellers trading goods and services and money. Market transactions make both parties better off (otherwise there wouldn't be any buying and selling taking place!) This is called economic welfare. In a competitive market, free trading means you'll get the most efficient amount of goods being produced and bought and sold at the most efficient price, so everybody wins. This is all based on the assumption of ownership. If there is clear ownership at every stage of the economic process then all effects are taken into account and welfare is maximised. Taxes and subsidies and government interference screw up the free market process and mean things get bought and sold at non-market prices and quantities. This is inefficiency and is bad for the economy/jobs/prices/etc!
But what happens when there's an effect of an economic transaction that happens outside the market process? e.g. doesn't getting electicity to your home involve pumping the air full of carbon, something that harms the Earth? But since there is no ownership of the Earth or assigned responsibility for protecting its value to all, it's not taken into account by the producers, the sellers, or the consumers! Doesn't that mean that there's an inefficiency here, and the free market is not happening - so welfare is not maximised?
Well, no! We're already established that taxes and subsidies and the nanny state are a priori bad news. If that's the case, then there's no market failure by definition! So that leads us to the inescapable logical conclusion:
POLLUTION DOESN'T REALLY EXIST!
Having established this, we can see that we don't need to take global warming into account, we can ignore potential rising sea levels, increased occurrence of severe weather, and the disruption of the entire planet. All markets are efficient and free and ownership rights are clearly defined by a mysterious, almost magical, process I call the "Idiot's Invalid Use of the Invisible Hand Metaphor Delusion".
Everybody wins! (Except the planet, which doesn't exist.)
Senator V.V. 'Speak No Evil' Conservative
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WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED???
Am I seeing right? Spend-o-crats in charge of the House and maybe the Senate. We don't want any goddam Dove-o-crats.
Goddam liberal tree-humping Osama-loving tax-raising gay-sex-having liberal onion-eating God-hating planet-saving baby-killing FUCKING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.
Our moral values are under attack. They'll take this country straight to Hell, and I'm not talking about the amusingly named town in Poland, I mean the one where non-believers and environmentalists and the Beast himself live and fornicate.
And you know what happened last time they were in charge in the Senate? They put FUCKING ONIONS IN THE SENATE BEAN SOUP. SWEET GOD.
Therefore as my first act when the Senate reconvenes (let's hope we can pull off Virginia or I might start looking at quiet villas in Belarus) I shall propose a book burning to show that our ideas are great and theirs are a bunch of crap. All books by the following are a good place to start:
Hillary Clinton
Al Gore
J.K.Galbraith
J.K.Rowling
Charles Darwin
Eugene Debs
John Rawls
Senator I.M.Liberal
John Stuart Mill
The fightback starts here.
V.V.
Am I seeing right? Spend-o-crats in charge of the House and maybe the Senate. We don't want any goddam Dove-o-crats.
Goddam liberal tree-humping Osama-loving tax-raising gay-sex-having liberal onion-eating God-hating planet-saving baby-killing FUCKING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.
Our moral values are under attack. They'll take this country straight to Hell, and I'm not talking about the amusingly named town in Poland, I mean the one where non-believers and environmentalists and the Beast himself live and fornicate.
And you know what happened last time they were in charge in the Senate? They put FUCKING ONIONS IN THE SENATE BEAN SOUP. SWEET GOD.
Therefore as my first act when the Senate reconvenes (let's hope we can pull off Virginia or I might start looking at quiet villas in Belarus) I shall propose a book burning to show that our ideas are great and theirs are a bunch of crap. All books by the following are a good place to start:
Hillary Clinton
Al Gore
J.K.Galbraith
J.K.Rowling
Charles Darwin
Eugene Debs
John Rawls
Senator I.M.Liberal
John Stuart Mill
The fightback starts here.
V.V.
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Good evening.
I have returned from a long break from my blog to post about a subject that is very close to my heart.
My new book!
Goodless
by Senator V.V.Conservative
"A fair and balanced look at those idiot evil liberals and the way they're taking this country straight to hell." (National Far-Right Library)
"Quite possibly the best book I've ever read. Don't those liberal/atheists/gays/Muslims/French/pac
"We should print one copy for every person in the world and make them read it under threat of torture." (Ann Coulter)
"A good read." (Sauron)
In my book I examine why liberals - and their allies in the axis of evil - are to blame for everything that has ever gone wrong in the history of this country and the world. For example:
-How and why a global alliance of secularists and homosexuals supplied nuclear components to Kim Jong Il
-How the environmentalist movement secretly plans to take power and install a military dictatorship
-Convincing evidence that modern liberalism was invented by Satan himself
-Why terrorist attacks will increase by 2500% if we elect a Democrat as President
-How Osama Bin Laden is working to undermine the Patriot Act
-Why all non-Christians should have their citizenship removed
All profits go to Senator V.V.Conservative's team of spin doctors!
I have returned from a long break from my blog to post about a subject that is very close to my heart.
My new book!
Goodless
by Senator V.V.Conservative
"A fair and balanced look at those idiot evil liberals and the way they're taking this country straight to hell." (National Far-Right Library)
"Quite possibly the best book I've ever read. Don't those liberal/atheists/gays/Muslims/French/pac
"We should print one copy for every person in the world and make them read it under threat of torture." (Ann Coulter)
"A good read." (Sauron)
In my book I examine why liberals - and their allies in the axis of evil - are to blame for everything that has ever gone wrong in the history of this country and the world. For example:
-How and why a global alliance of secularists and homosexuals supplied nuclear components to Kim Jong Il
-How the environmentalist movement secretly plans to take power and install a military dictatorship
-Convincing evidence that modern liberalism was invented by Satan himself
-Why terrorist attacks will increase by 2500% if we elect a Democrat as President
-How Osama Bin Laden is working to undermine the Patriot Act
-Why all non-Christians should have their citizenship removed
All profits go to Senator V.V.Conservative's team of spin doctors!
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Welcome to the cold, dark night.
Bin Laden releases new tape
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6363306/
President Bush can protect you from this guy! Even though he hasn't caught him yet after 3 years and he said that he really isn't concerned if he does or not!
Bush never wavers in his core principles. Don't say that he first wanted Bin Laden dead or alive, then said he didn't care if we captured him. That's obviously not one of his core principles. Bush has never wavered in his belief in:
re-election
giving billionaires lots more money
spending as little time in the Oval Office as possible
letting Cheney and Rumsfeld play with their 'big bang' toys
scaring the American people
beating his golf computer game hi-score
making everyone else angry with America
making Tony Blair look like an idiot
Also, during the last 5 years he has been personally responsible for the discovery of the world's largest supply of deceitful platitudes, and has based his entire economic, foreign, and domestic policies on this valuable renewable resource.
Lastly, when he says he trusts the people, and doesn't trust the government, he means it. He's turned the largest budget surplus ever into the largest budget deficit ever with reckless tax cuts and wasteful military spending, breaking just about every rule of fiscal policy ever. Could anyone trust such a government? Not me! And not him either!
President Bush can protect you from this guy! Even though he hasn't caught him yet after 3 years and he said that he really isn't concerned if he does or not!
Bush never wavers in his core principles. Don't say that he first wanted Bin Laden dead or alive, then said he didn't care if we captured him. That's obviously not one of his core principles. Bush has never wavered in his belief in:
re-election
giving billionaires lots more money
spending as little time in the Oval Office as possible
letting Cheney and Rumsfeld play with their 'big bang' toys
scaring the American people
beating his golf computer game hi-score
making everyone else angry with America
making Tony Blair look like an idiot
Also, during the last 5 years he has been personally responsible for the discovery of the world's largest supply of deceitful platitudes, and has based his entire economic, foreign, and domestic policies on this valuable renewable resource.
Lastly, when he says he trusts the people, and doesn't trust the government, he means it. He's turned the largest budget surplus ever into the largest budget deficit ever with reckless tax cuts and wasteful military spending, breaking just about every rule of fiscal policy ever. Could anyone trust such a government? Not me! And not him either!
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The election is getting closer, and many of my LJ friends list are wondering if there is any way that you can vote for that nice Mr Bush without being homophobic. Well, that is rather missing the point of one of his main attractions as a candidate, but since people are wondering, yes there is! Just take three issues, the war on terror, the economy, and small government.
1. The War on Terror: Bush will make you safer
With George W Bush you can guarantee that we won't bother finding the guy who masterminded the biggest attack ever on US soil - instead, he'll go after someone who had absolutely nothing to do with it! This will make America safer because Rush says so, haven't you been listening to the radio? The surest way to prevent more terror attacks is to provoke Islamists into violence against us and our allies. So, first we get rid of all our allies so they concentrate exclusively on us, and then we give them all the moral ammunition they could ever want by attacking Muslim countries and then making an utter mess of the occupation. You can trust George to get foreign policy right, look at the success he's made of Afghanistan and Iraq!
2. The Economy: Bush will make you richer
Bush has an excellent economic record, as demonstrated by the recession, the record deficit, and the biggest loss of jobs since the 1930s. And what better way to deal with our huge problems of poverty, unemployment and deprivation than giving all the spare money the Treasury doesn't have to our long-suffering multimillionaires? George also believes that you should be allowed to keep the money you earn, even though you don't have any anyway because the minimum wage is barely the hourly wage of the average Bangladeshi leper, if you're lucky enough to still have a job! The economy is always safe with the Bush family.
3. Small Government: Small meaning 'small benefits for you'
George believes in small government. Why, he's got rid of all the excess reserves from the Treasury! His philosophy is that government shouldn't help people live their lives - in fact, government should actively hinder you living your life, so if you're an atheist or you know any Arabs, then watch out! His love of small government is why he has introduced some of the most drastic curtailments of civil liberties we've ever seen: government spending only really counts if it's helping people, so the more money we spend on sinister, authoritarian policies, the less we spend on real government spending, say, on the environment, schools, or health care!
So, as you can see, there are many reasons why you can vote for George W Bush, even if you ignore all his anti-gay views.
1. The War on Terror: Bush will make you safer
With George W Bush you can guarantee that we won't bother finding the guy who masterminded the biggest attack ever on US soil - instead, he'll go after someone who had absolutely nothing to do with it! This will make America safer because Rush says so, haven't you been listening to the radio? The surest way to prevent more terror attacks is to provoke Islamists into violence against us and our allies. So, first we get rid of all our allies so they concentrate exclusively on us, and then we give them all the moral ammunition they could ever want by attacking Muslim countries and then making an utter mess of the occupation. You can trust George to get foreign policy right, look at the success he's made of Afghanistan and Iraq!
2. The Economy: Bush will make you richer
Bush has an excellent economic record, as demonstrated by the recession, the record deficit, and the biggest loss of jobs since the 1930s. And what better way to deal with our huge problems of poverty, unemployment and deprivation than giving all the spare money the Treasury doesn't have to our long-suffering multimillionaires? George also believes that you should be allowed to keep the money you earn, even though you don't have any anyway because the minimum wage is barely the hourly wage of the average Bangladeshi leper, if you're lucky enough to still have a job! The economy is always safe with the Bush family.
3. Small Government: Small meaning 'small benefits for you'
George believes in small government. Why, he's got rid of all the excess reserves from the Treasury! His philosophy is that government shouldn't help people live their lives - in fact, government should actively hinder you living your life, so if you're an atheist or you know any Arabs, then watch out! His love of small government is why he has introduced some of the most drastic curtailments of civil liberties we've ever seen: government spending only really counts if it's helping people, so the more money we spend on sinister, authoritarian policies, the less we spend on real government spending, say, on the environment, schools, or health care!
So, as you can see, there are many reasons why you can vote for George W Bush, even if you ignore all his anti-gay views.
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My hed is pastede on yay!
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I, Senator V.V.Conservative, hereby announce my support for my colleague and friend John Kerry as the next President of the United States.
His support for workers and minorities, his mistrust of large corporations, his cautious and multilateral foreign policy, his respect for the environment, and his concern for civil liberties persuaded me that this is the man to beat that dumb, bigoted, trigger-happy corporate minion Dubya.
I believe that John Kerry is the right man to lead America, and I urge you to vote for him in November.
Senator V.V.Conservative
April 1st, 2004
His support for workers and minorities, his mistrust of large corporations, his cautious and multilateral foreign policy, his respect for the environment, and his concern for civil liberties persuaded me that this is the man to beat that dumb, bigoted, trigger-happy corporate minion Dubya.
I believe that John Kerry is the right man to lead America, and I urge you to vote for him in November.
Senator V.V.Conservative
April 1st, 2004
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If you call me V.V.Conservative, you are most people.
If you call me Senator, you are most people who meet me IRL.
If you call me darling or Vulcan, you are
mrs_v_v
If you call me 'The Dark Lord', you are a Democratic Senator.
If you call me 'Number One', you are a subordinate in my organised crime syndicate.
If you call me 'Number Two', you are Beelzebub.
If you call me 'Our best friend in Washington' you are Ralph Reed, Jerry Falwell, Fred Phelps, Ann Coulter or Osama Bin Laden.
If you call me Senator, you are most people who meet me IRL.
If you call me darling or Vulcan, you are
mrs_v_vIf you call me 'The Dark Lord', you are a Democratic Senator.
If you call me 'Number One', you are a subordinate in my organised crime syndicate.
If you call me 'Number Two', you are Beelzebub.
If you call me 'Our best friend in Washington' you are Ralph Reed, Jerry Falwell, Fred Phelps, Ann Coulter or Osama Bin Laden.
