Monthly Archives: October 2010
The Polls Are All Wrong
First of all, AP is a hard rightwing organization run by millionaire fundamentalist Christian Texans, some of whom are Christian Reconstructionists, with deep ties to corporate America. AP has a deep Republican bias, and based on their articles, especially by … Continue reading
Filed under Americas, Christianity, Conservatism, Democrats, Government, Journalism, North America, Political Science, Politics, Regional, Religion, Republicans, Texas, US Politics, USA, West
Ireland and Latvia
Uncle Milton engages in his usual sophistry as he shills for neoliberalism again. He’s been shilling for neoliberalism since almost the very day he showed up on this site, but he always denies it. Whatever. …It was US government directed … Continue reading
Filed under Capitalists, Conservatism, Economics, Europe, Government, Ireland, Left, Liberalism, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Political Science, Politics, Regional, Republicans, Scum, US Politics
Capitalism is Bad for Your Health
Libertarian Chuck pontificates (incorrectly) about Cuban health care: RL:The health care is so great that the rich of Latin America, usually very rightwing people, fly to Cuba from all over the continent to have specialty work done that’s not available … Continue reading
Filed under Americas, Capitalism, Caribbean, Cuba, Death, Economics, Health, Latin America, Public Health, Regional, Socialism
Some Recent Failures of Neoclassical Economics
Have you noticed that practically all these neoclassical types do is lie? There’s a reason for that. Their theory is good for the rich and the upper middle class only, and it’s crap for everyone else. They can’t come out … Continue reading
Filed under Americas, Asia, Capitalism, Chile, Conservatism, Economics, Education, Eurasia, Europe, Health, History, India, Ireland, Latin America, Modern, Neoliberalism, North America, Peru, Political Science, Public Health, Regional, Russia, South America, South Asia, The Americas, US, USA
White People Can’t Dance
White people can’t dance LOL.
Filed under Culture, Europeans, Humor, Race/Ethnicity, Whites
Tea Party Assholes
The usual crap. This isn’t a very good video about their assholery, since it’s made by liberal idiots (Color of Change), but it’s OK. Barack Obama does not hate White people, White culture, White America or any of that. He’s … Continue reading
Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan
AJ asks: Neoliberalism works in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. They are rated as the freest economies by the Heritage Foundation. No starvation or shantytowns there. First of all, I would never read anything that the Heritage Foundation says about … Continue reading
Filed under Asia, Capitalism, Economics, Japan, NE Asia, Neoliberalism, Regional, Singapore, Socialism, South Korea, Taiwan
The Place of Horners Among the Major Races
A commenter asks: …I was wondering, is it true that Ethiopians, Somalis, Eritreans, Djiboutis, and some Kenyans (people from the Horn of Africa) are mixed Caucasoid-Negroid? What is “Hornoid”? I’ve seen it in a map on the origin of races. … Continue reading
Filed under Africa, Anthropology, Blacks, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopians, Europeans, Kenya, Mixed Race, Physical, Race/Ethnicity, Regional, Somalia, Somalis
The Failure of Neoclassical Economics in Latin America
Chuck the Libertarian continues: For all your railing against capitalism and in favor of socialism/Communism, the best controlled experiment we’ve had for that is East versus West Germany. Remember, it was the East German government who had to build a … Continue reading
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Neoclassical Silliness on the Minimum Wage Again
Chuck is the latest proponent of neoclassical nonsense to grace our blog: How much worse off would people in those countries be if their children couldn’t work? You can’t apply U.S. ideals to countries that aren’t as far along the … Continue reading
Filed under Americas, Blacks, Capitalism, Caribbean, Cuba, Economics, Labor, Latin America, North America, Race/Ethnicity, Regional, Socialism, Sociology, South, Urban Decay, Urban Studies, USA
