tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212213992024-03-07T11:28:33.493-08:00Professor Kurgman, PhD., PhD., PhD.Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.comBlogger324125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-28352225244381235372009-02-28T17:32:00.000-08:002009-02-28T17:59:23.510-08:00Total Justice<span style="font-family:arial;">An interesting point from the comments:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;">Are you really suggesting that redistribution will end after the same wealth number is achieved? Then what about the oppressed - the womyn, sun people, transgendered and the like?</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">"Will redistribution end after the same wealth number is achieved?" happens to be a final exam essay question in my graduate economics class. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Therefore, I cannot give away the entire answer -- but clearly, justice encompasses more than just the economic realm. Certainly, a neocultural paradigm that is contextualized into a presemanticist discourse cannot </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >but </span><span style="font-family:arial;">be a subtextual post-semiotic stasis.</span><br /><br />Is it an illusion? Or is it self-mythopotic?<br /><br />I fear so, as the whole of injustice can be substruded beyond a mere materialistic perspectual dyneriacticalacticysm.<br /><br />The cowardice of not sending Attorney General Holder the reparations check that he so merits is but one example of <span style="font-style: italic;">social </span>injustices that are diotronomically and invertudinally so repugnant such that our own President Barack Hussein Obama must also mensaphize and abormalate the vast injustices that have been heaped upon his self, his family, and his people.<br /><br />The hyponeutorical excess of historical injustices will diminsh only in the presence of post-recordance and midistantual aphorximiatic vectors.Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-85229100253239569962009-02-26T14:41:00.000-08:002009-02-26T14:50:58.699-08:00Our Obligation To Help The Vulnerable<span style="font-family:arial;">Some of my more malicious students ask impertinent and libelous questions such as: "To what extent are we responsible for assisting the poor and the vulnerable?" </span><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="1"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="3">Well...aside from removing any possibility of getting a passing grade, such questions also require legal action that holds these "students" (traitors, really) personally liable for damages. And, yes, this is a remarkably stupid question, completely beneath my stature to answer, and an incredibly inefficient use of my massive brain power.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="11"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="13">That said.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="15"><br /></div><div zid="17" style="font-family:arial;">Let's start with a state of nature, where wealth can be measured on a scale. Let's say that the poorest person is a "0" and the richest person is a "10". We, as a society, as a community, and as a nation, collectively decide to follow the advice of our moral leaders <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;" zid="18"><ahem!></ahem!></span> who decide that no person shall have a wealth beneath a "3".</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="19"><br /></div><div zid="21" style="font-family:arial;">At that point, people from "3" to "10" are asked to voluntarily contribute money to the impoverished "0" to "2" crowd in order to avoid imprisonment. And we use <span style="font-style: italic;">democratic principles</span> to ensure that most people do not pay this tax; preferably, only the "8" through "10" people will pay it. And with any luck, these richest people (formerly "8" to "10") will become "7" people, as no one has the right to be rich in the presence of so much human suffering.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="22"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="24">Now, after this transfer, our improved society has a wealth distribution of "3" to "7" instead of the original "0" to "10".</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="25"><br /></div><div zid="27" style="font-family:arial;">Do you know anything about scales? Probably not. So pay attention: The "3" people are <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;" zid="28">rescaled</span> to "0" because they are the poorest, and the "7" people are rescaled to "10" because they are the richest. That brings us back to an unjust "0" to "10" society.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="29"><br /></div><div zid="31" style="font-family:arial;">And because injustice requires justice, and since we as a society, a community, and a nation have already declared that "0" to "2" is unacceptable (to say nothing of the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;" zid="32">unequal </span><span class="Apple-style-span" zid="32">distribution of wealth</span>), we repeat the process to eliminate poverty -- and spread the wealth -- once again. And, again, it is done in a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;" zid="33">democratic</span> fashion, since the majority of people, "0" through "7", will either get a well-deserved government check in the mail, or are unaffected.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="34"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="36">Rescale the old "3-to-7" to the new "0-to-10".</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="37"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="39">Redistribute.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="40"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="42">Repeat.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="43"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="45">Repeat.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="46"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="48">Repeat.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="49"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="51">Repeat.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="52"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="54">Does a "0" still look different from a "10"?</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="56"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="58">Repeat.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="59"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="61">Repeat.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="62"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="64">Repeat.</div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="65"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;" zid="67">In the end, we will achieve social and economic justice when everyone has the same "wealth number".</div>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-7707180888574736362009-02-20T13:34:00.000-08:002009-02-20T15:39:27.018-08:00You Are OWED A Bailout: Credit Card "Debt"Now that people are being tossed a <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29276999/">lifeline</a> to prevent being evicted from their homes for the "crime" of not paying their "mortgage", it is time to extend this principle to other sectors of our economy.<br /><br />Therefore, the next group of people who require bailouts are those with credit card "debt".<br /><br />Say you purchased several thousand dollars worth of solar panels for your house with a Visa card, and then realized that you were not able to, in capitalist-speak, "repay" the loan. Now, whose fault is that? Not yours! After all, this transaction could not have happened without <span style="font-style: italic;">banks.</span> And so, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the bankers must be dragged into the streets to receive some People's Justice, and that you deserve a <span style="font-style: italic;">bailout.<br /><br />Did you know that African-Americans and Latinos (and Latinas) are the most common victims of <a href="http://www.cardratings.com/creditcardnews/2005/06/credit-card-debt-in-african-american.html">credit card aggression?</a> </span>That's right, this is 21st Century <span style="font-style: italic;">slavery. </span>How about some compassion? Isn't that what your "god", Jesus KKKrist told you to do? Instead, it's just continuous <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090220/ap_on_re_us/stimulus_governors">racist slaps in their faces</a>.<br /><br />Well, I think it's time for <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/18/holder.race.relations/index.html?section=cnn_latest">Amerikkkan cowards</a> to have that serious and frank discussion about race. And <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/cheguevara197267.html">I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.</a> Bastards.<br /><br />Don't ever let anyone tell you that you have to "pay" for what belongs to <span style="font-style: italic;">the people</span>. And, never forget, <span style="font-style: italic;">everything belongs to the people.</span> You are owed everything, and retribution is required for anyone who suggests otherwise.<br /><br />Fuck capitalism!<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-57946342691382807582009-02-19T19:21:00.001-08:002009-02-19T19:37:36.552-08:00DemocracyWhile pondering whether the economic stimulus is actually a good thing (it will inevitably create massive wealth, but wealth is what we must avoid to remain pure), I was also thinking about how we must cherish democracy.<br /><br />Democracy = The People Speak!<br /><br />Democracy is what enables the masses of working people to resist the onslaught of the landlords by establishing rent control.<br /><br />Democracy is what enables the many to vote for low taxes so that the few rich can pay progressive taxes.<br /><br />Democracy has allowed science to be determined by popularity -- as it ought to be. Fear global warming. Embrace recycling. <span style="font-style: italic;">Or be punished, minority!</span><br /><br />Democracy has given us a Democratic Congress and our nation's first <span style="font-style: italic;">genuine</span> President, Barack Hussein Obama.<br /><br />Democracy will someday free billions of people from world domination of Zionists!<br /><br />Through democratic institutions such as <a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=44590&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html">UNESCO</a>, the people will be freed!<br /><br />We have the numerical advantage, fascists. We can and <span style="font-style: italic;">will </span>outvote you on our way to destroying you.<br /><br />Death to Amerikkka!<br /><br />Solidarity!<br /><br />Democracy!Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-82752555431860625472009-02-15T16:23:00.000-08:002009-02-15T16:40:46.549-08:00Luckily, You Have MeOne of my innumerable great frustrations is that my advice to others is not enforceable by law. (At least, not yet.)<br /><br />When I approach others and tell them what is good for them, they will sometimes listen to me -- but they will also (to their detriment) not follow my advice.<br /><br />For example:<br /><br />- When I see two people pass each other on the street, I will frequently demand that the richer one (in my infallible estimation) give a large sum of money to the poorer person. (And to do it in <span style="font-style: italic;">good faith</span>.)<br /><br />- When I see a healthy person near a physically challenged person, I will tell the healthy person to express compassion by willingly pouring acid in their own eyes, or breaking some their own toes, or perhaps igniting themselves on fire.<br /><br />In fact, whenever I see someone <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>doing something that I myself <span style="font-style: italic;">would </span>do, I must correct it. Why? Because I know more than they do, and clearly have the academic credentials to prove it.<br /><br />It is therefore mathematically indisputable that the adoption of my demands works to the betterment of society. And from that, the only ironclad conclusion is that my word must be enforced by law; i.e., the people and their army.<br /><br />Regrettably, this is not the case.<br /><br />Except in my classroom. Don't expect to pass economics class if you haven't shown concern about our environment by ingesting the decayed juice at the bottom of the dumpster.<br /><br />And except in Congress. Finally, the rule of experts is The Law.Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-20575055375359825852009-02-12T18:45:00.000-08:002009-02-12T19:17:16.216-08:00Peanut Butter Dilemma<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5Jg6I-CO2gQLbBCYUKLmwWljd5jvvbGRdLTEd6dimr5lbVVPEuN_xJDUmte1dXvn5WaFFYzIZ-yRh4xAoDK4uhHyUPGFVfSvxKhMkPboOeSiybSGuiPDWHIpyNPx57nZWJFi/s1600-h/dead+rat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5Jg6I-CO2gQLbBCYUKLmwWljd5jvvbGRdLTEd6dimr5lbVVPEuN_xJDUmte1dXvn5WaFFYzIZ-yRh4xAoDK4uhHyUPGFVfSvxKhMkPboOeSiybSGuiPDWHIpyNPx57nZWJFi/s200/dead+rat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302115057397900210" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Well, what is this all about?</span> <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/12/peanut.butter.recall/"></a><blockquote style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/12/peanut.butter.recall/"><span style="font-size:100%;">Dead rodents, excrement in peanut butter plant lead to recall</span></a><br /><br /><b>(CNN)</b> -- The Texas Department of State Health Services on Thursday ordered the recall of all products ever shipped from the Peanut Corporation of America's plant in Plainview, Texas, after discovering dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in the plant.</blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;">How can peanut butter be considered "vegetarian" if there are rodent parts in it? </span> <span style="font-family:arial;">You see, this is what raw unfettered dog-eat-dog survival-of-the-fittest capitalism is all about. It's about profits over people. (I just invented that phrase, incidentally.) It's about exploitation. And it's about what I did with my jar of contaminated peanut butter.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Last night, I curled up in front of the food co-op so I could be the first one in this morning. In fact, as it was my "turn" to be exploited in the store's dumpster duty, I was especially livid. And I of course had my peanut butter jar with me, contaminated with rodent parts.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">(I did however eat the rodent excrement, as that is part of Nature's Cycle of Sustainability. As opposed to, say, the Zionist Cycle of Violence, where the Zionists cycle through ammunition on starving Palestinian babies.)<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Furthermore, I needed to relieve myself overnight, so I deposited my precious so-called "waste" in the peanut butter jar.</span> <br /><br />So <span style="font-family:arial;">I burst into the store, smashed the jar open on the community bulletin board, and removed the evidence (with glass shards) with my soft, delicate, and knowing hands.<br /><br />I then looked up at the ceiling, and let out a shriek of despair while rubbing the peanut butter, excrement (rodent and mine), and blood all over my face and beard.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Still shrieking, I approached the manager and spat in his murderous capitalist face: "Do you see this peanut butter? <span style="font-style: italic;">Do you see this blood? Do you see my face? This is the look of <span style="font-weight: bold;">RESISTANCE!</span> Do you understand me?"<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Before he could offer me reparations, I collapsed from the intensity of the battle.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I awoke later, gently resting on a park bench, with the entire contents of my intestinal tract delightfully absorbed in my recycled clothing. </span> <span style="font-family:arial;">I walked to the laundromat, undressed, and placed my clothing on a folding table. After wringing my vital juices out of them and into a cup for later consumption, I placed my pants into a machine, during someone else's mid-cycle (to save energy), and fell asleep, dreaming of being very close to our new President.</span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-79342599877469124822009-02-11T15:41:00.000-08:002009-02-11T16:16:03.340-08:00Back To Work!<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZeUZ4r7b6v7XrosQClFVpP6JbGVJgwz7LpoqWpbSyLcbjO8q1lM4wFNiHYSIOki-K4KURb6WaTJsJpOWy9U9iGm3EIK8NFUSD6X8SiUJj_kftDgh2H4nkZQnxVSxDUtiIHPMq/s1600-h/tractors.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZeUZ4r7b6v7XrosQClFVpP6JbGVJgwz7LpoqWpbSyLcbjO8q1lM4wFNiHYSIOki-K4KURb6WaTJsJpOWy9U9iGm3EIK8NFUSD6X8SiUJj_kftDgh2H4nkZQnxVSxDUtiIHPMq/s320/tractors.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301696941234150114" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The first post-racial Five-Year Plan has been implemented: <span style="font-style: italic;">The people have jobs again!</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: rgb(220, 238, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234395003_4"></span><br /></span><blockquote><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >[Pelosi's] spokesman, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234395003_5">Brendan Daly</span>, said more than two hours after Reid's announcement, "We are moving forward with this legislation, which will <span style="font-weight: bold;">create or save more than 3 million job</span>s."</span> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama estimated 3.5 million</span> in his own celebration of the agreement. He said it would "get our economy back on track."</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />And, under the best economic advisement, the bill will include <span style="font-style: italic;">one of the best incentives to get people to work:<br /></span></span> <blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />"The emerging legislation is at the core of Obama's economic recovery program, and includes help for victims of the recession in the form of <span style="font-weight: bold;">expanded </span></span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234395003_6" >unemployment benefits</span><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234395003_7" style="font-family:arial;">food stamps</span><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;font-family:arial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234395003_8" >health coverage</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> and more..."</span></blockquote> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />The next Five-Year Plan, which needs to overlap with this Five-Year Plan, needs to put even more people to work.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">And so, I recommend the following IMMEDIATELY, as we are now locked in a crisis never before seen in the history of the cosmos:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">- The return of the seven-day work week.<br /><br />- Unemployment benefits at union scale, to encourage people to work those seven-day weeks.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">- A comprehensive system of free everything for everyone forever (except for the ruling class which The Revolution will continue to address).<br /><br />- 100% taxation.<br /><br />- Billions and billions and billions and billions and billions </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">and billions and billions and billions </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">of dollars for education, so that parents can work continuously while we nourish the minds of our nation's children so that they will not grow into greedy war-mongering capitalists.<br /><br />Yes we can!<br /><br />Yes we<span style="font-style: italic;"> did!</span> </span> </span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-62021226069905275232009-02-10T15:33:00.000-08:002009-02-10T15:39:02.078-08:00Very Large Numbers<span style="font-family: arial;">Most people have difficulty comprehending large numbers. Which is why most people are not suited for careers in academia! And so, they turn to gifted mathematicians/economists/sociologists such as myself for an explanation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's look at an article from today's news to help us (i.e., "you") grasp large numbers.</span><br /><blockquote><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The Obama administration is promising an aggressive effort to combat the worst financial crisis in <span style="font-weight: bold;">seven </span>decades, unveiling a program that could mobilize well over <span style="font-weight: bold;">$1 trillion</span> in public and private support to get the frozen credit markets functioning again.</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">There are two numbers here: "Seven" and "$1 trillion". </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's examine "seven". Or, actually, "seven decades". That's seven times ten years, or seventy years. That's a lot of time! And though there have been many financial crises in those seventy years, none...<span style="font-style: italic;">none</span>...have been as awful as what we are facing today. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Now let's look at the other number: "$1 trillion". Well, it's hard to think of many numbers smaller than "1"! So, we can address a monumental problem of seventy years by requesting that the obscenely rich return "1" of their stolen money.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">You probably feel smarter already.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">The new plan would greatly expand an effort to unclog credit markets that provide loans to consumers and businesses. Funding for this effort would see a huge increase from <span style="font-weight: bold;">$20 billion</span> up to <span style="font-weight: bold;">$100 billion</span>, according to administration officials.</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Now we are introduced to two new numbers: "$20 billion" and "$100 billion". What do these numbers have in common? I will tell you: The have "unit commonality". Those are big words! So I'll just put on my "every person" hat to help you understand. Both numbers contain the word "billion". So, basically, they are identical (notwithstanding the fallacious "huge increase" editorializing by the Zionist author of the article -- who will be punished under the 2009 Equal Time Law).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">If a total of <span style="font-weight: bold;">$100 billion</span> from the bailout fund was used, it would be enough to support an additional <span style="font-weight: bold;">$1 trillion</span> in lending support through a Federal Reserve program that was announced in November but has yet to begin operations.</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Uh-oh, now we're confronted with "mixed-unit reconciliation". Fortunately, the "100" is much larger than the "1", so in essence, we are "doing more with less". And...I used the phrase "in essence", which is a powerful connotation of my intellectual firepower.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">The administration also announced a program to create a partnership between the government and the private sector to get private investors to buy bad assets that are currently weighing down the balance sheets of banks. Congressional aides who were briefed on this plan said that Treasury officials said it could involve between <span style="font-weight: bold;">$250 billion</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">$500 billion</span> in government support.</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Thankfully, we're now in the safe waters of unit commonality again, so the numbers can be safely disregarded. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Incidentally, it is clearly excellent public policy to "get private investors to buy bad assets", especially with public money, which as we just learned, is of no mathematical consequence.</span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-82058524496911871302009-02-10T15:24:00.000-08:002009-02-10T15:33:32.508-08:00I Didn't Realize There Were So Many Economists In Europe<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBivalve%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;color:black;" ><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3669706,00.html"></a></span></b></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;color:black;" ><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3669706,00.html">Survey: 31% of Europeans blame economic crisis on Jews</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:Arial;font-size:11;" >
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<br /><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-size:11;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;" >I have already launched a lawsuit against economics textbook publishers that conveniently omit these facts.</span><span style="font-size:11;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-70952702554449377162009-02-09T15:54:00.000-08:002009-02-09T16:00:58.604-08:00Twelve Reasons Why You Should Support President Obama's Economic Stimulus<strong>1. It's a free lunch.</strong> Has any supporter of this bill discussed its costs? No. Therefore, there are no costs. <em>All gain, no pain.</em><br /><br /><strong>2. It increases the federal deficit.</strong> I cried and wailed when Mister Bush increased the deficit -- but now, I <em>embrace</em> it as a foundation of forward-looking economic progress.<br /><br /><strong>3. It spreads the wealth.</strong> I am especially fond of tax credits that shift money from those who "earned" it to those who deserve it.<br /><br /><strong>4. Demand up, prices DOWN.</strong> Any Nobel-prize winning economist can tell you that when demand is stimulated and people buy more and more things, then prices drop. When demand goes up, prices some down. <em>Less is more!</em><br /><br /><strong>5. It is an EMERGENCY.</strong> The emaciated corpses are rotting in the open sewers and the streets are running with blood. How much more suffering can we endure? This bill must be passed <em>yesterday</em>.<br /><br /><strong>6. Experts always know what is best.</strong> Speaking as an expert myself, I of course know what is best for others. But of what use is this knowledge unless it is converted to <em>action</em> and enforced by <em>law?</em> And that is why the entire "spending sector" needs to be controlled by government.<br /><br /><strong>7. It's green.</strong> Our toxic environment has shortened our lifespans to an all-time low. Global warming has already claimed millions of lives and has eradicated the diversity of life on this planet. This is why we need, now, without debate, thousands of new hybrid-electric government vehicles and comprehensive reconstruction of every government office building. Millions of homeowners <em>everywhere</em> are now demolishing their own homes and replacing them with new structures incorporating windmills and ocean energy -- so let's allow them to pay taxes for the government to do the same!<br /><br /><strong>8. It is a <em>bipartisan initiative.</em></strong> Or, at least it will be after we educate the Nazi GOP go along to get along.<br /><br /><strong>9. Did someone say </strong><a id="or6s" title="'" href="http://news.morningstar.com/newsnet/ViewNews.aspx?article=/DJ/200901151843DOWJONESDJONLINE001138_univ.xml"><strong>"Digital TV Coupons"?</strong></a> <br /><br /><strong>10. It is post-racial.</strong> This is a bill devised by our newly-elected post-racial African-American leader, teacher, and mass mentor, President (and Ph.D?) Barack Hussein Obama. Opposition to the bill is therefore racist, and diminishes the stature of President Obama to the typical white person's caricature (and desire) of tossing slaves into gas chambers, just like the Zionists imaginary false claims about themselves. Free Gaza!<br /><br /><strong>11. More government workers, more government contractors, more government projects.</strong> Is there anything more stimulating than millions of government workers at the beck and call of the citizenry? Well, perhaps only this...<br /><br /><strong>12. It enhances my late-night Presidential fantasizing.</strong> Just ask <a id="v3-f" title="this lady" href="http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/sometimes-a-president-is-just-a-president/">this lady</a> (and especially her commenters). I too have an insatiable appetite for Obama...and the Obama family!Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-32264196393170117072008-11-09T15:04:00.000-08:002008-11-09T15:30:35.023-08:00Musings on Other Cultures XVII: Obama Sheep Sacrifice<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbXKJIz6_GNGa_6G47rtZic-cDezBUwlWm8upXqPtl8gf8rh-ZGIG_6Ly5uOUd03CB4INsjbF6b1bamtWohwxVVg0-MuinzXH5HJqOiBuC8r-hzYMfW2My0OHTxhf4rO0OLYBg/s1600-h/obama_sheep.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbXKJIz6_GNGa_6G47rtZic-cDezBUwlWm8upXqPtl8gf8rh-ZGIG_6Ly5uOUd03CB4INsjbF6b1bamtWohwxVVg0-MuinzXH5HJqOiBuC8r-hzYMfW2My0OHTxhf4rO0OLYBg/s200/obama_sheep.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266803494501783154" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13;" >To commemorate President Obama's victory:<br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/dayinpictures?f=/g/a/2008/11/07/dip.DTL&o=5&type=dayinpictures"><b></b></a><blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/dayinpictures?f=/g/a/2008/11/07/dip.DTL&o=5&type=dayinpictures"><b>Forty-four sheep die for Obama:</b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To celebrate Barack Obama's election as the 44th president of the United States, Kurdish villagers in Cavustepe, Turkey, slaughtered 44 sheep. Then they wiped sheep blood over their Obama posters to protect the president-elect from bad luck."</blockquote>You are probably wondering how this square's with <a href="http://www.peta.org/about/index.asp">PETA's Mission Statement:</a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13;" ><blockquote><br />"PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: <span style="font-weight: bold;">on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry</span>."</blockquote><br />Perfectly compatible! Clearly, this slaughtering removes 44 sheep from facing a cruel death in factory farms, torture laboratories, clothing factories, and for "entertainment".<br /><br />In fact, such political speech and religious expression is a human right, guaranteed the world over.<br /><br />Fortunately, the Christianists were unable to stop this event.<br /><br />However, I fear for what the Zionist settlers will do to these villagers as they inevitably metastasize across the entire Middle East and into Turkey. They will be the first to perish in the genocide.<br /><br /><br /></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-78262146053809218422008-11-07T16:07:00.000-08:002008-11-09T17:52:33.034-08:00National Service: An Open Letter to President Obama<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Comrade Obama!</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Professor Obama Kurgman PhD^3 here.<br /><br />And I would like to speak with you about your call to national service, </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://change.gov/americaserves/">as detailed on your official site:</a></span><br /><br /><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Times;font-size:14;" >President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like Amer</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Times;font-size:14;" >iCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America</span>, by developing a plan to require 50 hours </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Times;font-size:14;" >of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Times;font-size:14;" >Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time pr</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Times;font-size:14;" >omoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Times;font-size:14;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />I wept tears of joy at your wondrous plan to <span style="font-style: italic;">conscript people of all ages</span> into community service!<br /><br />May I suggest some excellent community programs for your consideration?<br /><br />First off, I see that it is two days into your presidency, and the Zionist Entity has not yet been obliterated. What are we waiting for? Another Jenin Holocaust?</span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Times;font-size:14;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Here's a picture of what true community service looks like:<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKe4ssYoaXFCoxbuoAIi9mFOVlCTTckXD1PKAntEO0jwllfjSQDDUhLdeO7FVT220mBqOoOS_Ixt5LZdOD99eGpWaS5OX1Wiu2FIoHIkrabmHmvU4ohytniXIE4hAm9oUU2Wb/s1600-h/rachelcorrie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKe4ssYoaXFCoxbuoAIi9mFOVlCTTckXD1PKAntEO0jwllfjSQDDUhLdeO7FVT220mBqOoOS_Ixt5LZdOD99eGpWaS5OX1Wiu2FIoHIkrabmHmvU4ohytniXIE4hAm9oUU2Wb/s320/rachelcorrie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266078093510172594" border="0" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Times;font-size:14;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Now, imagine a ring of Community Service Volunteers protecting every Palestinian Community from the onslaught of vicious Zionist tanks. I'll bet we could conscript plenty of Volunteers from those fascist "Israel" Day Parades to lay down in front of the tanks.<br /><br />For that matter, we also must send Community Volunteers to Iraq to stand down the remnants of the Amerikkkan Army. Picture Amerikkkan troops, poised to murder our Islamic brethren, and then...<span style="font-style: italic;">being intercepted by Conscripted Community Volunteers!</span> It's Amerikkka vs. America!<br /><br />I have already told my students that in order to pass, they will need to Volunteer for one of these details. In a separate message to you, I'll forward their addresses, Social Security numbers, and medical/credit histories. And I'll further indicate which ones might be from families that have not displayed sufficient respect for you during your campaign battle against fascism.<br /><br />I say to my students: Turn in an enemy family, even if it is your own, and you will get a very good grade.<br /><br />I also recommend that the Community Volunteers be taken from wasteful Nazi programs, like math, science, and engineering. Those are not subjects of the heart, and therefore those students will not be missed. Community Volunteer Service, as determined by The Democratic Party, easily trumps anything they do in class. Or in their fascist jobs.<br /><br />President Obama, the youth are our future. They must be separated from the poisonous environments of their so-called "families", and be introduced into the one true family. We will remake them by erasing the toxins from their brains and writing fresh pages on their blank slates.<br /><br />Community Service...it's the highest from of dissent! And patriotism!<br /><br />Thank you, and stay in touch,<br /><br />Professor Obama Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhD</span></span><br /></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-88368372618086298732008-11-06T18:54:00.000-08:002008-11-09T17:50:56.533-08:00Professor Obama Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhD<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Knowing </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7712560.stm">a good idea</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> when I see one, I went to City Hall today to officially change my name to Professor Obama Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhD.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Elated, I even detoured by the Marine recruiting station on my way home. As usual, I paused to display my exposed posterior to them -- though today I was also able to joyously sing that we won!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">What a glorious feeling! We won!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I then took the liberty to projectile defecate on the recruitment station's front window. Listen to me, you murdering animals! We won!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Need more proof? Look at how President Obama already has </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://change.gov/">a web site with a "gov" domain</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. He's not falling for any "wait until January 20th" Pinochet-style Republican trickery!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Still, it will take a long, long, long time to undo the Bush damage -- and especially his legacy of </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE4A4B8820081106?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews">racism.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">But at least I no longer need to move to Zimbabwe, as I was planning in the event of a McCain win.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And speaking of, I next went to the police station to find out when they will be arresting Sarah Palin for her crimes against humanity. The "officer" in charge then oinked in my direction, "Are you lodging a complaint?"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">"Well, you bet I am! Isn't it your job to arrest enemies of The People?"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">He then handed a form to me to fill out. I started entering my personal information...Professor Obama Kurgman...</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >hey, wait a minute! This is a trap to send me to Guantanamo!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Frightened of what might happen to me, I accidentally (honest!) lost control of my bowels, which were transformed into reservoirs of a most liquidy byproduct of organic curdled Soy-Moo. Horrified at the thought of Bush himself attempting to capture me, I hurried out of the enemy camp, and ran home to my rent-controlled apartment. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I proceeded to defend myself by composing an academic paper on mythopoetical dialectic contstructs.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bastards. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We won, but we must continue to fight.</span><br /></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-31949728669145893152008-11-05T13:12:00.000-08:002008-11-09T17:45:23.913-08:00The Nightmare is Over<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-KBmsi32EUy1qQuTvhd4sJRnVniISO0etyK659vYXqQMNw84TEcFyZOVCygkh5FvKQXviUQNzNne98TD37hjmPl694pqJ6epp6-iZvPSa325yWIHZk2tkJmlogOAQWjnH3x0/s1600-h/bush-swastika-bl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-KBmsi32EUy1qQuTvhd4sJRnVniISO0etyK659vYXqQMNw84TEcFyZOVCygkh5FvKQXviUQNzNne98TD37hjmPl694pqJ6epp6-iZvPSa325yWIHZk2tkJmlogOAQWjnH3x0/s200/bush-swastika-bl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265292517252291490" border="0" /></a>Our eight-year nightmare is over.<br /><br />Never in history has there been a more cruel regime than what we have suffered through under the moron-sadist. No people have suffered more than we have. No one. Ever.<br /><br />The Republican Holocaust is over, and we are the Holocaust Survivors.<br /><br />Even now, it is nearly impossible to comprehend the enormity of the cruelty that has been inflicted on us: Torture, lies, and the complete destruction of our most basic human rights.<br /><br />I say: Never again!<br /><br />And so: Let The Revolution begin!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">First:</span> End the fascist propaganda machine! Remember: A government that is needed to do <span style="font-style: italic;">anything </span>is a government that has the right to do <span style="font-style: italic;">everything</span>.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" ><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/htD_-A7pDhw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/htD_-A7pDhw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Second:</span> Allow our <span style="font-style: italic;">true friends</span> to embrace <span style="font-style: italic;">change</span>:<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:arial;font-size:23;" ></span></span><blockquote><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnTRE4A45OU.html">Russia to station missiles near Poland</a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:times new roman;font-size:13;" >In an assertive first annual address to the nation, [Medvedev] defended Russia's war with Georgia, appealed to nationalism and attacked Washington's "selfish" foreign policy and "economic blunders" which he said caused the global financial crisis.</span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:arial;font-size:13;" ></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Third:</span> Oppressed people, unite!<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">American elections </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.mediarabe.info/spip.php%3Farticle1566&prev=/search%3Fq%3DElections%2Bam%25C3%25A9ricaines%2B:%2Bune%2BIntifada%2Bhistorique%2Bnomm%25C3%25A9e%2BBarack%2BObama%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3Dw2g%26sa%3DG">"a historic intifada named Barack Obama"</a><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-size:15;" >Praising in advance the benefits of victory Obama, Atwan said that "(...) the expected change in the USA will undoubtedly have its positive impact on us, Arabs and Muslims, who have suffered a Administration past eight years under the control of Zionists, with the hold-up of the Israeli lobby whose objective is to destroy the Arab world and Islam</span></span></blockquote><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-size:15;" ></span></span>It will take many years to undo The Holocaust; we must begin at once.<br /><br />Hope!<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 24, 255); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:20;" ></span></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-71044710157222379742008-10-30T14:38:00.000-07:002008-10-30T14:49:09.860-07:00Peanut Butter, Jelly, and Enemy Exterminations<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13;" >Before you vote, consider this story:<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">You and I live on a desert island. You produce peanut butter and I produce jelly. We both enjoy eating our products, but we would<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>really<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>enjoy eating peanut butter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>and </i>jelly. So, to increase total happiness, I take some of your peanut butter, mix it with my jelly, and have therefore increased the total happiness of society. Your loss of peanut butter has been vastly mitigated by my enjoying peanut butter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>and </i>jelly. Your wealth has been spread. This is simple mathematics.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Now we are joined by a third person. In order to ensure full employment on the island, I give the third person a uniform and a badge (and a percentage of your peanut butter) to take your peanut butter whenever I choose. Because I have the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>positive right</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to your peanut butter (due to increased societal happiness), neither my officer nor I need to ask for your permission -- nor in any way do we need be grateful for your contribution. It is our entitlement and it is your obligation.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">We are now joined by a fourth person. I turn my jelly business over to him -- and to sustain the island, my officer collects peanut butter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>jelly and brings it to me.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A fifth person arrives and develops a method of making more jelly in less time. However, this is very dangerous for three reasons: First, the island itself has a right to not have its resources exploited. Secondly, what would people on other islands think of us if we were to consume so much jelly? And most importantly, a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>second<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>jelly producer would harm the ability of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>existing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>jelly producer to a fair wage. And so, my officer approaches the second producer and explains that, in order to guarantee the safety of his jelly, he needs an island<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>license<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>to conduct his business. And since the newcomer cannot prove that his jelly will always be safe to eat, he is denied a license.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A sixth person arrives from another island with a barrel of jelly. My officer turns him back to sea with his jelly. The possibility of dumping this jelly on our island would harm our only jelly producer, and must not be permitted. While I welcome free trade, it must also be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>fair trade</i>. And this is most definitely not fair.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Thirty-four people then wash ashore, increasing the island's population to forty. The island's food producers attempt to hire them in exchange for a cup of food per day. However, this is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>worker exploitation</i>, and my sense of economic justice demands that each worker instead be paid<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>three</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>cups of food per day. The producers then have the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>audacity<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>to hire only<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>half<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>of the new residents at this fair wage, leaving the other half unemployed. To address this issue, I (and my uniformed officer) impose an additional fair tax on the richest 5% of the island's population, which happen to be the greedy and exploitative peanut-butter and jelly "producers" who in fact do nothing but reap unearned windfall profits on the backs of working people.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Sixty more people show up, and now there are 100 inhabitants on the island. These sixty are very poor, ill, and have not eaten in weeks. So, in order to protect them, I order the unionization of the island's 17 employees, which results in a labor contract mandating payment of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>six</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>cups of food per day, 45 paid holidays, strictly-enforced job definitions, a no-layoff clause, and a just arbitration process to settle any grievances that might arise. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">And I raise the top tax rate to 75% in order to pay for my expanded People's Police, comprised of the latest wave of migration.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">For inexplicable reasons, the capitalists then reduce production. They are, quite clearly, traitors. And having been exposed as Enemies of The Island, they are set off on a raft to reeducation facilities -- wherever such facilities might happen to be.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">At this point, the people are quite upset. They want a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>solution</i>. They realize that our half-measures have not sufficed. So, in order to satisfy the cries of the people, The Island nationalizes and assumes direct control of all production of peanut butter and jelly. Half of the island's population now joyously works, and the other half performs police services. In the peanut fields, they gleefully sing, "Let's boast to the world about this year's bumper peanut harvest!"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">An election is held, and 100% of the people elect me President for Life of the new Democratic People's Island Republic. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The other islands are so impressed with our success that they cheer the arrival of the DPIR's People's Police to liberate them as well.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">As the chains of oppression are broken on each island, the DPIRPP listens to the working class as they identify members of the exploitative class: They, and their families, are shown the only justice that is fitting for such parasites. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">As proof of our success, there is never again any dissent, anywhere. All infections have been eradicated.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">***</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The above tale is a fiction of what can happen to several hundred people. It is not what I would personally want to see. Instead, I yearn for this to happen to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>millions</i>, if not<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>hundreds of millions</i>, of people.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Imagine: Our entire planet, in unity, striving for this permanent and irreversible state of justice. The leaders shall guide with their wisdom, the workers shall endlessly toil for all, and our enemies -- millions and millions of enemies -- shall be silenced forever. And yes, I do mean silenced by death -- for total extermination is the only permanent silence. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">To interfere with the will of the people is to label oneself as an enemy of humanity. And there can be no mercy for enemies of humanity.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Please remember this when deciding who to vote for. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Unfortunately, we lack a candidate who can be so candid with us. Instead, we must strive for second-best. Listen to them carefully, and see whose vernacular comes closest to mimicking the above story. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">That is who you should want as your leader.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><i>God DAMN Amerikkka!<br /><br />Cross-posted at <a href="http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?p=46381#46381">The People's Cube</a><br /></i></div></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-6110268841457119932008-10-27T15:10:00.000-07:002008-11-09T17:49:39.001-08:00President Obama and Negative Rights<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:arial;font-size:13;" >Barack Obama concisely <a id="auya" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/mccain-to-attac.html" title="sums it up:" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);">sums it up:</a><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><blockquote>It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties</b>. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf</b>, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. </blockquote></span></div><br /><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Exactly.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Imagine you are on a desert island with only one other person, and you are hungry. His negative right would<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>constrain</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>you from taking his food. But your positive right would<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>compel</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>him to give you his food. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Multiply that by millions and millions of people, and you can see how negative rights leads to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>exploitation</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the worker, and how positive rights leads to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>liberation<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>of the worker. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">And that is one of the biggest problems with Amerikkka's KKKonstitution. That is, the warped concept of "negative liberties"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>constrains</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the government. It says that the government has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>no right</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to help its people. That the people lack the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">positive right</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to demand what they need.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">So, the new constitution must be reformulated with positive liberties. That is, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>right of the people to</i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">get </span><i>what they need</i>. To<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>demand</i> food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education, a media free of fascist thought, a world without Zionism, etc. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">In short, a proper constitution would be an living and breathing orgy of emotional eruptions that would satisfy the peoples' cries for social and economic justice. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Remember: If something,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>anything,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>is demanded, then someone else ought to be compelled to provide it. It is your<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">positive right</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that makes this happen.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">God <span style="font-style: italic;">Damn </span>Amerikkka! God <span style="font-style: italic;">Damn </span>the Amerikkkan KKKonstitution!</div></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-68860555169681793202008-10-24T05:27:00.000-07:002008-10-24T05:51:26.817-07:00Book Review: "Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQZmXFT-4io25IcmGhIbsIEUr-8mT8po5amAppbhGYNbWvTm4hTwTGuFspWxtcVJ1pMzygmfnpRPLMxPg9OXa0HdBlZ8vnv9ObBpPZE8qiIIvAbTgLZIrQSnJMfo94Ghtj1bQ/s1600-h/obamaisgod.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQZmXFT-4io25IcmGhIbsIEUr-8mT8po5amAppbhGYNbWvTm4hTwTGuFspWxtcVJ1pMzygmfnpRPLMxPg9OXa0HdBlZ8vnv9ObBpPZE8qiIIvAbTgLZIrQSnJMfo94Ghtj1bQ/s200/obamaisgod.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260701575743078706" border="0" /></a>As usual, my busy schedule does not allow me the luxury of reading books. But I can nevertheless assure you that this is THE book that you want your child to read.<br /><br />I don't recall anything notable about children's books about, say, John Kerry or Al Gore, but I can assure you that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Obama-Promise-Child-Hope/dp/1416971440/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224851062&sr=8-1">"Son of Promise, Child of Hope"</a> is <span style="font-style: italic;">worth it!</span><br /><br />The book is so penetrating, so compassionate, and so poetic that I am willing to accept that there might be a God who has been guiding Barack Obama along his monumental journey into our hearts. For even as the book acknowledges, God has in fact spoken with Barack. And as we know, if a child's book says it, then it must be true.<br /><br />For his journey is our journey, one of overcoming oppression, overcoming racism, and overcoming the slave-chains of the corporate war-whore Zionists and their capitalist lackeys.<br /><br />In a few weeks, all of us will be the happy subjects of God, as He reveals himself through the body of President Barack Obama. President today, President tomorrow, and hopefully President for Life. (No, not <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> kind of life, you murderous Christianists.)<br /><br />God for Life.<br /><br />I am ready to obey.<br /><br />Teachers: Please please please persuade your school to spend its budget on several copies of this book for each child, so that he/she (or any combination of transgendered children) can have multiple copies for home, the playground, or wherever their National Service detail happens to be.<br /><br />I have already filed a lawsuit with my university to replace its library with a new "Barack Obama Library" to contain nothing but this book.<br /><br />Soon, the Hitler-Chimp will be replaced by God.Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-63250767349905123892008-10-23T23:35:00.000-07:002008-12-08T22:55:19.005-08:00Obama Endorsements<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc79eqyF215rP6qNwYDMWN9RJbwbMqzMk_lobWTJQHwt2RnlbI1Hzux0UgYuTMm6Ba_oUjep8RP6KzQHfLNX1xqVJcmgrpUmV9-GdUTupAkeDLBKq5Ofhjs1ydwXSt2Ri52dZv/s1600-h/Kim+jong+il.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc79eqyF215rP6qNwYDMWN9RJbwbMqzMk_lobWTJQHwt2RnlbI1Hzux0UgYuTMm6Ba_oUjep8RP6KzQHfLNX1xqVJcmgrpUmV9-GdUTupAkeDLBKq5Ofhjs1ydwXSt2Ri52dZv/s200/Kim+jong+il.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260543234636156498" border="0" /></a>Don't take my word for electing President Obama; here is a partial list of other progressive people and nations that support the candidacy of Barack.<br /><br />Starting with, of course, the one nearest to my heart, the <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/communist-party-backs-obama-for-prez">Communist Party USA:</a><a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/communist-party-backs-obama-for-prez"> </a><br /><blockquote>"If Obama’s candidacy represented nothing more than the spark for this profound initiative to unite the working class and defeat the pernicious influence of racism, it would be a transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term."</blockquote>And...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dprkstudies.org/2008/06/24/north-korea-endorses-barrack-obama/">The Democratic People's Republic of Korea</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc79eqyF215rP6qNwYDMWN9RJbwbMqzMk_lobWTJQHwt2RnlbI1Hzux0UgYuTMm6Ba_oUjep8RP6KzQHfLNX1xqVJcmgrpUmV9-GdUTupAkeDLBKq5Ofhjs1ydwXSt2Ri52dZv/s1600-h/Kim+jong+il.jpg"></a><blockquote>"Pyongyang favors Obama because he has vowed to meet leaders of rogue states, such as the North Korean leader, without conditions if elected."</blockquote>Columbian Liberation Group, <a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/captured-farc-computers-name-barack.html">FARC</a><br /><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><blockquote>"Obama will not support "Plan Colombia" nor will he sign the TLC (Colombian Free Trade agreement."</blockquote></strong><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/26/castro_calls_obama_speech_formula_for_hunger/">Fidel Castro:<strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;"></strong></strong></a><strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigzxELyj6ZHyOEB3nitKLFIy1eANQqc2FwRwJ1MoSm5K6cuuxd0CwR2QQ-LuJt01Lelqwi2IXUFpmVYsTMCGAG4Yiwg9qb2XrQig7FaL1uSpSHbU_VncGQrGqfRH6f8jLBXmiF/s1600-h/fidel_castro_dead.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigzxELyj6ZHyOEB3nitKLFIy1eANQqc2FwRwJ1MoSm5K6cuuxd0CwR2QQ-LuJt01Lelqwi2IXUFpmVYsTMCGAG4Yiwg9qb2XrQig7FaL1uSpSHbU_VncGQrGqfRH6f8jLBXmiF/s200/fidel_castro_dead.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260543095241090146" border="0" /></a></strong></strong><blockquote>"Obama without doubt is, from the social and human<strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;"></strong></strong> point, the most advanced candidate running for the U.S. presidency."</blockquote><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Hamas_Endorses_Obama/2008/04/17/88754.html">Hamas</a><br /><blockquote>“We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections."</blockquote><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8V13IMO1&show_article=1">Louis Farrakhan</a><br /><span class="lingo_region"><blockquote>"This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better."</blockquote></span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3611840,00.html">The Iranian Parliament</a><br /><span class="text14"><span><blockquote>"We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational."<br /></blockquote></span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGgRaApkcP8">Father Michael Pfleger</a><br /><br /><span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSemkPChvHo">Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi</a><br /><br /><br /></span>...and the heartwarming and inspirational <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2FCJ7zWEQ">Pastor Jeremiah Wright.</a><br /><br />People! Ask yourselves: If Barack Obama is getting their support, how could his victory <span style="font-style: italic;">possibly</span> be a bad thing?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Update:</span><br /><br />Thank you, commenter Chimpeach, for pointing out even more endorsements:<br /><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127867"><br />Syrian President Bashar Assad</a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" ><st1:country-region st="on"></st1:country-region><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:country-region st="on">"...Syria</st1:country-region> wants Senator Obama to win the presidential election to help Syrian President Bashar Assad bring back prosperity to <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Syria..."</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></blockquote><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></st1:country-region></span><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/14/america/LA-POL-Nicaragua-Ortega-Obama.php">Marxist Thinker and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega</a><br /><blockquote>Ortega said he has "faith in God and in the North American people, and above all in the youth, that the moment of great change in the U.S. will come and it will act differently, with justice and equality toward all nations"</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Update II:<br /><br /></span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpWKmigwxxW1A2jytCVQ00edBLw8Ny-7NTdD4qf3uyVgFJQxZ-7RqJFDjjbpeVC41qAh6BCGtq2-LA92X6Ycudj2z4rhy-RWMjY3xTzl1HsAUZ8kHJD04qlC9oWvE8coV-DKIZIw/s1600-h/Barack+Obama+-+-+Change+We+Can+Believe+In+-+NEW+BLACK+PANTHER+PARTY_1205944437171.png">The New Black Panther Party</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Update III:<br /><br /></span><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49T76620081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true">Al-Qaeda</a><span><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:verdana;font-size:13;" ><blockquote>"O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him," Abu Yahya al-Libi said at the end of sermon marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, in a video posted on the Internet.</blockquote></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Update IV:</span><br /><br />Now my brain is convulsing: <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/obama_or_mccain_american_nazi_party_suprises_us_20081103/">The American Nazi Party</a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><blockquote>"We have a black man, who loves his own kind, belongs to a Black-Nationalist religion, is married to a black women--when usually negroes who have ‘made it’ immediately land a white spouse as a kind of prize--that’s the kind of negro that I can respect."</blockquote><br />Thank you for the tip, Mr. <a href="http://shlemazl.blogspot.com/">Shlemazl</a>...<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" ></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-61334912357921475162008-10-23T16:58:00.000-07:002008-10-23T17:15:13.481-07:00Mugging Hoax<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDmS2-Oq3ioYCI1iG0sb_Nq8SpSc13enymBo937uiG6UgIhbXGylsOiKe3hKPIoY1NWG_mWRzRk2ccKFbIZRuX58Py0DnDdInvIELXO1z_SKtiD4tooniPVor1qhmvuutfahgb/s1600-h/1023083inside1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDmS2-Oq3ioYCI1iG0sb_Nq8SpSc13enymBo937uiG6UgIhbXGylsOiKe3hKPIoY1NWG_mWRzRk2ccKFbIZRuX58Py0DnDdInvIELXO1z_SKtiD4tooniPVor1qhmvuutfahgb/s200/1023083inside1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260506240847695842" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Supposedly, a 20-year old McCain volunteer <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1023083twitter1.html">was beaten by a "6-foot 4-inch black man"</a> who then carved the letter "B" on her face. The claim is that he saw her McCain bumper sticker and then attacked.<br /><br />I call bullshit!<br /><br /> A) It is obvious that the injuries are fake and/or self-inflicted.<br /><br /> B) The accusation is racist.<br /><br /> C) Such an event is physically impossible. Warm Sun People do not attack Cold Ice People. (You can read more about Sun People and Ice People <a href="http://kurgman.blogspot.com/search?q=jeffries">here.</a>)<br /><br />Need more evidence? Well, here you go: <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3561067">The forensics experts speak out!</a><br /><br />I am FAR more frightened of Sarah Palin than any fictitious racist claim about "black men".<br /><br />Besides, she had it coming.<br /><br />God DAMN Amerikkka!<br /></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-65257214696192690382008-10-23T06:12:00.000-07:002008-10-23T06:20:27.836-07:00Reason To Vote For O-BA-MA!!Apparently, this video has been around for a few months, though I just happened to come across it.<br /><br />It alone provides all the reasons you need for voting for Barack Obama.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ghSJsEVf0pU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ghSJsEVf0pU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />And to think that all the while, my main source of inspiration was this:<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jc2FCJ7zWEQ&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jc2FCJ7zWEQ&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-86121731621479548312008-10-22T17:31:00.000-07:002008-10-22T18:48:16.817-07:00Elasticity of Supply<span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5p_phSiWehFwsIJnOTIWEtW4ZHbrQxjkaDsoAWAjJ1hfpnq0rYsksNETjghdYtgp3RIimf2Yh1iD3mFcaLcpSPooj3H0B0nKVgTYxPrxCY4509EpBp_gqxOC3Dt3x8R91MSNb/s1600-h/Supply+Elasticity.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 60px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5p_phSiWehFwsIJnOTIWEtW4ZHbrQxjkaDsoAWAjJ1hfpnq0rYsksNETjghdYtgp3RIimf2Yh1iD3mFcaLcpSPooj3H0B0nKVgTYxPrxCY4509EpBp_gqxOC3Dt3x8R91MSNb/s200/Supply+Elasticity.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260141190834986994" border="0" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Did that subject line, "Elasticity of Supply", and the adjacent equation intimidate you?<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">It should have! Remember, you are reading the words of a hypereducated multiple-degreed full tenured professor. A person who can demolish any of your "lay" arguments (and your reputation!) with just an iota of my enormous reservoir of brainpower, expertise, and jargon. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">So, I invite you to unquestioningly accept this lesson in "elasticity of supply" and use it to reinforce your decision to elect Barack Obama as President.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I will now explain how President Obama's plan to raise taxes is as sound as any law of physics.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Let's use Starbucks as an example of a capitalist entity that is swimming in profits on the backs of labor. Yes, the obvious moral solution is to shutter Starbucks and allow the people to drag the owners into the gutter for merciless beatings. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">But we will save moral arguments for another time, and concentrate for now on science.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">And the science, as President Obama knows, is to tax Starbucks to spread the wealth. So, let's say that a cup of coffee costs $5, and President Obama decrees (after legislation is passed in The People's Assembly) that a tax on this item should be $4. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">What happens next?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A right-wing propagandist would say, "That would raise the price of a cup to $9. And since no one would pay $9 for coffee, Starbucks would go out of business, no one would get any coffee, and no taxes would be raised anyway."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">If only!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">If only it were that easy to kill Starbucks!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">But even the fascist propaganda has a kernel of truth: "No taxes would be paid anyway."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">But "no taxes" is the antithesis of a just nation.<br /><br />Remember:<br /><br /><i>Nations are judged by how much the rich pay in taxes.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(At least until The Revolution is complete.)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Here is what would really happen when a $4 tax is applied to a $5 cup of coffee: Simply put, the price will remain at $5 -- of which $4 will be returned to the people. And this is because of the elasticity of supply. In common language (for uneducated common people), the "elasticity of supply" refers to how much less (or more) of an item capitalists would be willing to sell if its price declined (or increased). That is, the change in supply divided by the change in price.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">In this case, the "Before Obama" profit was $5, and the "After Obama" profit will be $1. So, we need to determine how many fewer cups of coffee Starbucks will be willing to sell if they only received $1 per cup instead of $5 per cup. And the answer is: There would be absolutely no change! How do we know this?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><br /><br />Because the supply elasticity is always zero!</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Capitalists and their corporate marketing departments are insensitive to everything, and so will continue to force us to buy things we do not want.<br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Let's look at the mathematical proof:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="border: 1px dashed rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">A $5 tax is only one penny higher than a $4.99 tax. And does anyone really believe that a difference of one lousy penny would make any difference to anyone? Don't be stupid! Of course not! </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">And a $4.99 tax is equal to a $4.98 tax. How do we know this? Because we just proved that Starbucks executives will not change their policies based on a difference of just once cent. </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Similarly, a $4.98 tax is equal to a $4.97 tax. A $4.97 tax is equal to a $4.96 tax. And continuing, we see that a one-cent tax is equal to no tax at all.</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Therefore, a $5 tax has the same effect on supply as no tax at all. The elasticity of supply is zero, and Starbucks will not alter their behavior regardless of how much the taxes are.</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">So, tax levels have no relation whatsoever to corporate behavior, and President Obama would be justified in taxing the entire $5 of a $5 cup of coffee</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Q.E.D.</span></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Of course, that was just a sample exercise. In practice, this 100% taxation model should not be applied to Starbucks -- but should be applied to Starbucks, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, automobile manufacturers, home builders, etc., etc., etc.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">After all, as Barack Obama Sr. pointed out, "<span style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><a id="gr_g" href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302137342405551" title="there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income">there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income</a>."</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">For extra credit, think about the effects of a tax that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>exceeds</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>100%. That is, a $6 tax on a $5 purchase. Where would that money come from? Hint: They're called CAPITALists for a reason.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">You can now go ahead and feel smart for having read my words, even if you lack the cognition to understand them. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">Not a problem, though; you will always be taken care of when you leave the decisions to people who are smarter than you.<br /><br />*****<br /><br />This post is dedicated to the memory of my junior-year microeconomics professor, who in defending the minimum wage, correctly observed that "no supermarket will fire their baggers if their wages increase by a few cents." The present-day ubiquity of supermarket baggers is a testimony to this man's penetrating insights. Rest in peace, comrade; I will carry the torch for you.<br /><br /><br /></span></div></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-23801059614132077322008-10-17T13:18:00.000-07:002008-11-09T17:57:19.799-08:00A Children's Fable<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXV2_e4LbIlz39rZCkl6XpHgWFybIKFPkUESEkoPmf6wHzZMiKbrkitSjSgcN0rvwjS-hJwYtaEYn_9Cw7RuBZHOtnj8u0ZUd0H4kaAY0_BaxSKolRuKWo_72ZCivEcEGTFitw/s1600-h/ant+and+grasshopper.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXV2_e4LbIlz39rZCkl6XpHgWFybIKFPkUESEkoPmf6wHzZMiKbrkitSjSgcN0rvwjS-hJwYtaEYn_9Cw7RuBZHOtnj8u0ZUd0H4kaAY0_BaxSKolRuKWo_72ZCivEcEGTFitw/s200/ant+and+grasshopper.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258220297998124578" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >I think I will write a children's story book. And when I do, it will include this story:<br /><br />Once upon a time, there was an ant and a grasshopper. The ant was a wealthy capitalist who owned a chain of "big box" stores, and spent all summer counting his money, while the grasshopper labored very hard making money for the ant.<br /><br />In short, the ant <span style="font-style: italic;">exploited </span>the grasshopper.<br /><br />All summer long, the ant would smoke cigars, drink martinis, and see prostitutes. The grasshopper would simply work as a slave for the ant and turn over his meager pay to <a target="_blank" href="http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage">A.N.S.W.E.R.</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rachelcorrie.org/">The Rachel Corrie Memorial Fund,</a> and the Barack Obama campaign.<br /><br />Then the winter came. It was a cold and dark winter, and the grasshopper had nothing to eat. The bitter temperatures were caused by global warming, as the ant-made pollutants created heat pockets that actually lowered temperatures.<br /><br />The grasshopper was hungry, for he had no money left. And so, he approached the ant: "Ant, my dear dear ant, please find it in your heart to spare just a tiny morsel of food so that I and my family might survive to see one more day."<br /><br />The ant thought about this humble request. After several days of contemplation, the ant went to the grasshopper's house and approached the grasshopper's family. And then, without any hesitation, the ant raped the grasshopper's daughter so violently that she would have preferred death instead. However, the ant realized what the consequences of his actions might be, and so went from abortion clinic to abortion clinic, tossing gasoline bombs, dismembering doctors, and raping nurses. All in the name of Jesus, he would say. It is what the bible told him to do.<br /><br />And so, without abortions, the grasshopper population multiplied far beyond its scientifically-calculated sustainable optimality. And all these new grasshoppers were hungry.<br /><br />By the spring, half the grasshopper population died from either starvation or from the ant's insistence on sending grasshoppers to far-off lands to launch wars against innocent Islamic grasshoppers.<br /><br />However, that summer, the grasshopper got himself a different job -- at The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. His job was "Assistant Deputy Analyst" in the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hud.gov/news/release.cfm?content=pr08-150.cfm">HOPE</a> program, which mandates that ants pay the mortgages of those home-owning grasshoppers who have more pressing needs than to pay fort heir own homes. The grasshopper's responsibilities included "being able to analyze and prepare official HOPE documents while demonstrating proficiency in equivalent tasks and programs". In practice, this required the demands of attending many meetings and learning how to use "email".<br /><br />Much of the HOPE time was spent making contributions to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.unitedforpeace.org/">United for Peace and Justice</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.noi.org/">The Nation of Islam</a> from the grasshopper's desk.<br /><br />And once again, hunger arrived in the winter.<br /><br />And the grasshopper approached the ant: "Hey ant, I'm gettin' in your face this year, know what I'm sayin? You owe me, unnerstan'? I got demands and you better respec' them."<br /><br />The ant returned to his guarded estate, and a few days later, received a visit from someone unfamiliar. It was a grasshopper, but one whom he had never before met.<br /><br />This new grasshopper said, "Ant...I am here to collect your money, which I will then give to the other grasshoppers, and will keep some for myself. If you do not agree, I will, at gunpoint, drag you to a prison cell where you will be anally violated while your life rots away in isolation."<br /><br />The new grasshopper had a badge. It said "I.R.S."<br /><br />And the ant turned over his plundered wealth to the I.R.S. grasshopper.<br /><br />Forevermore, for the rest of his life, the ant, with his bottomless pit of money, would give and give to the grasshoppers -- providing for their food, their health care, their housing, their homes, and everything else that the grasshoppers could ever want or need, as determined by their educated leaders.<br /><br />Moral: Rich capitalist ants have an endless supply of wealth that was stolen from the working class. It can never be depleted and it will always be there for taking -- by any means. It is not theirs, it belongs to the people, and shall be controlled by the people's leaders.<br /><br />Kids: Let's educate your parents, kill the capitalists, and live in a Socialist Paradise!<br /><br />God DAMN Amerikkka!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Cross posted at </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?p=45197#45197">The People's Cube</a><br /><br /></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-72943789027784871772008-10-16T15:06:00.000-07:002008-11-09T16:04:45.830-08:00Presidential Debate III<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I was very proud of Barack Obama at last night's debate; he has been listening to me!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I played back this debate fourteen times already (with the McCain parts erased), and although I would like to post the entire transcript here, fourteen times over, I will only select the best of Barack:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And the financial rescue plan that Senator McCain and I supported is an important first step. And I pushed for some core principles: </span><b style="font-style: italic;">making sure that taxpayer can get their money back</b><span style="font-style: italic;"> if they're putting money up.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course everyone will get their money back. That’s why they must contribute, whether or not they think it’s a good idea. If this was a bad idea, we would not make the taxpayers contribute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Making sure that CEOs are not enriching themselves through this process.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Again, correct. When CEOs become rich, everyone else gets a smaller piece of the pie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I want to end the tax breaks for companies that are shipping jobs overseas and provide a tax credit for every company that's creating a job right here in America.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is only fair. Taxpayers need to pay more in order to ensure that Americans spend less time working in industries like aeronautics and pharmaceuticals -- and instead recover the jobs that are done abroad, like sewing buttons on clothing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">That's why we included in the financial package a proposal to get homeowners in a position where they can </span><b style="font-style: italic;">renegotiate their mortgages</b><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Trivial. Simply force people who <i style="">are</i> making mortgage payments to also make payments for those who are<i style=""> not</i> making mortgage payments. They shall be sent <i style="">two</i> bills: One for their own homes, and one for the homes of those who cannot pay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And 95 percent of working families, 95 percent of you out there, will get a tax cut.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And when we teach the remaining 5% what it is like to <i style="">really</i> pay taxes, it will have no effect whatsoever on prices that the remaining 95% pay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And that requires us to make some <b style="">important choices</b>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I weep with joy at lines like this. To see the best, the brightest, and the most concerned make important choices for the people!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Then Exxon Mobil, which made $12 billion, record profits, over the last several quarters, they can afford to pay a little more so that ordinary families who are hurting out there -- they're trying to figure out how they're going to afford food, how they're going to save for their kids' college education, they need a break.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s right, you selfish bastards at Exxon Mobil. How about ponying up a little more, like maybe a dime a week, to provide the starving people, the near-corpses lying in the gutter, the most basic sustenance so that you can whip some more work out of them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But there is no doubt that <b style="">we've been living beyond our means</b> and we're going to have to make some adjustments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!! Wayyyy beyond our means! Notwithstanding the Exxon Mobil inflicted famine referenced above, the rest of us are driving cars (we need more buses, peeps!), eating too much fast food (nationalized food co-ops, my dream…), and using too much energy (you don’t have to actually cook potatoes, you know).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">…if we're going to focus on lifting wages that have declined over the last eight years and </span><b style="font-style: italic;">create jobs here in America</b><span style="font-style: italic;">, then Democrats, independents and Republicans, we're going to have to be able to work together.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I believe that universal conscription into an anti-capitalist youth corps will create plenty of jobs when they burn the banks, put wrecking balls to Walmart, and trash rich people’s homes. Full employment will be achieved to fix everything so that we can destroy it again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Bill Ayers is a professor of education in </span><st1:city style="font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A professor and a friend of mine, I might add. Those qualifications should negate anything else about him, however fabricated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">ACORN is a community organization…</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The evidence is in, not guilty!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">…it is absolutely critical that we </span><b style="font-style: italic;">develop a high fuel efficient car that's built not in <st1:country-region st="on">Japan</st1:country-region> and not in <st1:country-region st="on">South Korea</st1:country-region></b><span style="font-style: italic;">, but built here in the </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">United States of America</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As aggressors against the Democratic People’s <st1:placetype st="on">Republic</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:placename st="on">Korea</st1:PlaceName>, I fully agree that <st1:country-region st="on">Japan</st1:country-region> and South “<st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region>” should be punished, severely. And to accomplish this, we should draft Americans from whatever other jobs they’re working on – and put them to work (with rich people’s tax dollars) to build a non-polluting car in GM and Ford factories. No matter how much GM, Ford, and the AWU object to receiving tax dollars, this is an important move that must be done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And when it comes to </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic;" st="on">South Korea</st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic;">, we've got a trade agreement up right now, they are sending hundreds of thousands of South Korean cars into the </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic;">. That's all good. We can only get 4,000 to 5,000 into </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">South Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic;">. </span><b style="font-style: italic;">That is not free trade.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank you, Barack, for pointing that out. And don’t forget: <st1:country-region st="on">Italy</st1:country-region> sends us hundreds of thousands of gallons of olive oil, but we can’t get any of our olive oil into <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <b style="">That</b> is not fair trade, either.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">If you want to do the right thing with your employees and you want to provide them health insurance, we'll give you a 50 percent credit </span><b style="font-style: italic;">so that you will actually be able to afford it</b><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s half way to a 100% tax credit, which is on the path to a 100% government subsidy. Fact: When one group of taxpayers gives money to a second group taxpayers, then the second group can afford things (like healthcare) easier, and there is no effect on the first group – like the employees who paid the taxes to begin with. If you cannot understand that, then you truly are hopelessly uneducable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fact: Costs can always be lowered when a leader wills them to be lower.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And finally, this question:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The question is this: the </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic;"> spends more per capita than any other country on education. Yet, by every international measurement, in math and science competence, from kindergarten through the 12th grade, we trail most of the countries of the world. The implications of this are clearly obvious. Some even say it poses a threat to our national security. Do you feel that way and what do you intend to do about it?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And Barack’s answer:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">…we are going to have to invest…</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">An investment! Clearly, spending more than any other country is not enough, and only an <i style="">investment</i> can remedy this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">…recruit a generation of new teachers…</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">More teachers! Quantity always equals quality, so more is <i style="">more</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">… an army of new teachers…</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Armies of teachers! I hope the AFT does not object. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">…give them higher pay…</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Highest costs per capita in the world…pay them more! Wait…I’m in academia, so I need more, too! Pay me more! I am entitled to more!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">… and I think it's important for us to make college affordable….</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So true! So true! And here it comes…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And that's why I've proposed a </span><b style=""><span style="font-style: italic;">$4,000 tuition credit, every student, every year, in exchange for some form of community service, whether it's military service, whether it's Peace Corps, whether it's working in a community.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gaaaaaa!! Tuition credits! Community service! Conscription for the common good! </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">I played that part back well over one hundred times. <i style="">If the leader wills it, it shall be free!!!! </i>Please, Barack! Let’s give every student $100,000 per semester to attend college! That will really drive tuition down. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">.. If we do those things, then I believe that we can create a better school system.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And then we can do the same thing to everything else, from food to clothing to manufacturing to the arts to research to literature to the entire realm of anything and everything that anyone does anywhere, anytime, and anyplace. <span style=""></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""></span>I turn all decisions to you, my new leader -- for if you will it, it will happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>God DAMN Amerikkka! </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-64436192259674280442008-10-14T18:12:00.000-07:002008-10-14T18:15:25.102-07:00Obama Will Put An End To This, Too<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is good to know that <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081007155100.htm">this</a> will not be an issue under Barack...</span></span>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21221399.post-6376835993786852902008-10-14T17:57:00.000-07:002008-10-14T18:09:24.966-07:00"You Make It, We Take It"<p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">"You Make It, We Take It" </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p>The above slogan (which I advise Barack Obama to use) is catchy, truthful, heartfelt, and compassionate. </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">Of course, I am referring to Barack's pledge to ask the top-income 5% to return their stolen wealth to the bottom 95% -- who we, as benevolent guardians, must care for. </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">This rests on the basic economic theory that <b style="">a society's health is best determined by how much rich people pay in taxes.</b> In academic circles, we jest that "taxing is relaxing". (The humor in that phrase is derived from the fact that "tax" rhymes with "relax". To be sure there is nothing funny about the concept. And there is absolutely nothing to laugh at in hard economic times like these.) </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">Here is how we are all better off when the rich people contribute their so-called "earnings" back to the community: Say you are a filthy blood-sucking moneybags pig, like an owner of Walmart. And you make your money selling...what does Walmart sell anyway? Weapons to Zionists? Probably. So, let's say that a poor person comes into Walmart looking for a way to disembowel Palestinian babies... </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">Wait, this will not work! Zionists are rich, and are therefore not compelled to shop at Walmart. </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">So, let's instead say that a person of color is coerced by capitalist exploitation to buy their tofu at Walmart. Normally, tofu costs $10 per pound. (At least, that is what I pay at the food coop.) So, Walmart probably charges $100 per pound. This, clearly, is obscene. So, we (that is, the government) will apply a tax on Walmart. Let's say the tax is $25. Ha ha! Fuck you Walmart, you now have to add a $25 tax to the $100 price, and charge $125 a pound! See? The price was $100, but under Barack, it will be $125. But $25 of that is a tax, so Walmart loses! </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">At that point, Walmart will be forced to contribute that $25 tax to Barack and our new government, whereupon it will be used to further the greater good by establishing a national-service youth corps, purchasing windmills from government contractors, and investing in insured no-interest housing mortgages. </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nothing can go wrong with this plan. Ever.</span> </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">Meanwhile, 95% of the population is protected because they are not being taxed. The tax is applied to Walmart instead, and there is no possible way this can translate into a negative for people shopping at Walmart. In fact, hurting Walmart is just one of many benefits of this tax plan. </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">When the rich pay, everyone wins. </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;">Win, win, win, win, win.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><br /></p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Cross posted at </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?p=44997#44997">The People's Cube</a><br /></span></p>Professor Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16833946161404359853noreply@blogger.com0