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|9.20.05 @ 12:31PM|#
"North Korea has agreed to give up all nuclear activities and rejoin the nuclear non-proliferation treaty until such time as... it decides not to."
Outstanding! Now's the perfect time to attck!
|9.20.05 @ 7:03PM|#
Fich Deutschland.
Let 'em all decay under their oppressive welfare state and bad music.
David Rollins|9.20.05 @ 10:03PM|#
Jeff, this is a cheap shot -- Houston is like New Orleans with all of the fun sucked out. We get that the repopulation is a power grab by Nagin and a ratings grab by Bush, but one would think that libertarians would appreciate that NOLA is the closest America will get to Amsterdam. Not all of us care about the types of "opportunities" elsewhere -- in food, music, and fun, NOLA is matched only by NYC. (Increasingly less so, thanks to Bloomberg and the invasion of the chain stores.)
Having grown up down there, I'm the first one to admit that it is paternalistic, racist, overtaxed, and hopelessly corrupt. But only La. had the balls to thumb their noses at the feds' highway money in order to keep the drinking age at 18. How many other cities have drive through daquiri stands?
NOLA will survive because the tourist areas have survived (Garden District & Vieux Carre); the rich still have homes to come back to. The oil industry seems to have recovered nicely as well. The question is, where will the housing be for the crap dealers and bus boys? Let the market decide, preferably without the guarantee of federal flood insurance.
I don't understand what Bush gets from the new deal in New Orleans. Can it be that the Grover Norquist types are having him intentionally bankrupt the govt. in hopes of forcing cutbacks in entitlement programs? He hasn't backed down on the tax cuts (to his credit).
|9.20.05 @ 11:04PM|#
bad music
?! Sez you. Funker Vogt, :wumpscut:, KMFDM, Project Pitchfork, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, and Wolfsheim (among others) are tops in their respective genres. You must be thinking of France. Oh, and the word you are looking for is "fick"... although no German would use that expression.
David Rollins|9.21.05 @ 9:27AM|#
I still think there is hope for Germany, if only because they can look to the Sudetenland for relatively more free market conditions. Austria and Switzerland are doing OK with much freer economies. Eventually that's gotta sink in. Right?