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Hans "Der novotenführer" von Spakovsky


^*The largest shark, and likely largest predator fish ever. It died out some 1.5 million years ago. The Genus is still in dispute, between either Carcharodon (Great White) or Carcharocles (broad toothed Mako). So in jumping C. Megalodon, you have jumped the biggest shark ever.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

—Willem Buiter

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

—Honore de Balzac

See full Tom Tomorrow cartoon here.

Please note my profanity expurgation exception for Twitter.
Shanda fur di Goyim!

"There is nothing that cannot be ruined by an application of modern American Financial techniques."

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As I've noted before, this may not as big a deal as one would think, as achieving air superiority comes down to training and tactics, so even with an inferior platform, particularly when backed up by superior numbers and logistics.

^*As I have asked many times, "Is there anything that big finance can't make destructive and evil?"^†
†If the goal is to involve Wall Street in a public service, the effect will harm that service. QED.

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Betteridge's law of headlines, "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

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Corrupt Former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin^™

(יש"ו) (Y.S.) yimakh shemo יִמַּח שְׁמוֹ "May his name be obliterated"

Kung Fu monkey has the final word on Rand and her Randroid followers:

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Out Standing!

^*At Naked Capitalism, in the aptly named post, "Neo-liberalism Expressed as Simple Rules," gives two basic rules:

1. Because markets.
2. Go die!

No Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die

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The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself.

The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.

Iron law of institutions - RationalWiki

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I'm shocked! Shocked! To find that gambling is going on this establishment

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This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.^*

^*What, you've never seen Ruthless People? Great movie.




condi quote with link:

Trust me, she is no expert on the Soviet Union
I actually saw this ditz in action. She came to Berlin and was giving all the strategic intel troops in Europe a speech about the Eeeeevil Empire :shudder: and how they were so numerically and militarily superior to our troops, how they had Super Weapons That Could Shoot Through Fifty Feet of Concrete...and all this time, I'm looking over at my guys like "we're talking about the same Soviets, right? The ones we have can't shoot, can't march, are underfed, can't run..." We're passing notes between the Berlin contingent, the Augsburg contingent, the Bad Aibling contingent, the human-intelligence guys, the Spetsnaz analysts...and we all came to the same conclusion: the Soviet Army Condi Rice was working was a hell of a lot better than the one we were.

Finally my colonel looked at me and said, "Jim, I've had about enough of this shit." He actually stood up and said, "Ms. Rice, one question. What are the true-unit designators and honorifics of the units you are describing?" Condi Rice's response was classic: "What is an honorific?" If you do not know what an honorific is you are no expert on the Soviet Army, and Condi Rice didn't know. (We didn't tell her either; we all left at that point.)

All Soviet units had a true-unit designator and an honorific. The TUD was easy enough to understand: your unit is the 1st Guards Army or the 20th Motorized Rifle Division. (The title Guards was awarded at the end of WWII to units who fought with great valor.) Each Soviet unit was organized in honor of a famous communist--maybe you were the 144th "Feliks Dzherzinsky" Guards Artillery Battalion. Feliks Dzherzinsky was your unit's honorific. They'd hang Feliks' picture in your unit dayroom and everything you did was to impress ol' Feliks.

IOW, the colonel was telling Condi to put up or shut up; we knew their guys weren't half as good as Condi was telling us.

Condoleezza Rice was an expert on Ronald Reagan's Soviet Army, the unstoppable bogeyman raised to justify the runaway military spending of the Reagan era. But Reagan's Sovs and my Sovs were two completely different armies. Condi's Sovs were absolute masters of the art of land warfare; my Sovs trained for five months, rotated a quarter of the company, and did the exact same five-month training schedule again. (Later, after reunification I went to a Soviet Army base on an open-house tour and saw a genuine Soviet Army company training schedule. It was painted on a sheet of plywood and bolted to the wall.)

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You have problem with Corporate Capitalist ^™®©, comrade?<sup>*

*</sup>H/t CZ at the Stellar Parthenon BBS for this quote.

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^*Full disclosure, my great grandfather, Harry Goldman, and her grandfather, Sam Goldman were brothers, though we have never met, either in person or electronically.

This is Not Star Trek. In Startrek, the Evil Spock has a goatee. In our world the evil James O'Keefe is clean shaven, a chief cat-herder for the Massachusetts Pirate Party, has a goatee.

This is why I call Barack Obama the worst constitutional law professor ever.

As Eric Falkenstein observes:

People who meticulously avoid email should not be trusted, because it is simply too calculating, as if they know they are regularly committing crimes. A phone conversation can always be disavowed, you just say you were talking about last weekend's bar mitzvah.

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Round up the usual suspects

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Control fraud occurs when a trusted person in a high responsible position in a company, corporation or state uses their powers to subvert the company and to engage in extensive fraud for personal gain.

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It's spelled al Qaeda

>We don't care, we don't have to ……… we're the phone company.