Reason Writers on the Tube: Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Housing and the Fed at Freedom Watch

Reason Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward appeared on Freedom Watch to discuss how the Federal Reserve gave billions of dollars to Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and others. Airdate: July 7, 2011.

About 8 minutes.

Comments

[spencer]

Is it morally bankrupt to suggest a "women of reason" calendar?

[Comment Tater]

No, but it would end at March.

[PersonalJustice]

You just need to broaden the scope. Imagine: "The Women of the Kochtopus" (with a few strategically placed tentacles).

[Mr Whipple]

I think you would have to fit Blythe Masters in there somewhere, no?

[rather]

I hope these serious journalist get so fed up with your sexism that they publish your faces and asses to be rated by the women of Feministing
....and skip the blah blah blah it's a compliment

[AlmightyJB]

You seem upset. Is it that time of the month:) jj

[rather]

Did I threaten to rip out your scrotum?

[Comment Tater]

See, this is why you can't be Miss April.

[rather]

epi would be Miss April sunshine

[AlmightyJB]

I usually have to pay extra for that kind of abuse:)

[rather]

lol. What you do with your mother, sister, hooker or priest is none of my business

[AlmightyJB]

What do you mean "or". They're all one person:)

[rather]

Hmm, I didn't know libertarians have their own church?

[Comment Tater]

It's not a church per se. More of a fraternity. The Brotherhood of the Perpetual Jacket.

[rather]

I'm sure the initiations are sweet

[Comment Tater]

Instead of wooden paddles, they use sarcasm.

[rather]

I hear their maxim is
Up crack with a paddle 😉

[Almanian]

What Comment said, and "lol"

[AlmightyJB]

Feds: Pot has no medical purpose
Marijuana will remain in the same class of drugs as heroin

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43.....alth_care/

[Mr Whipple]

So, how is oxycodone not in the same class as heroin?

[Almanian]

Please. Don't. Give. Them. Ideas.

*retires to living room to indulge in leftover oxvcodone from last broken bone*

[Otto]

Duh. Doctors use oxy. They don't use heroin.

Well, they do in the UK, but not here, because heroin has no medical value in the US like it does in Britain.

[Mr Whipple]

I had a feeling that was going to be a Lou Reed link.

[Charlie Parker]

Spare change?

[Otto]

Just listened to the song prior to coming here.

The whole "medical use" BS might ultimately be the undoing of the drug law nightmare we have in this country.

As someone mentions downthread, it's BS to begin with, considering the choice aspect. However, even on its own terms, it's bullshit. Marijuana has obvious, well documented medical benefits. The two most prominent are lessening intra-ocular pressure in glaucoma patients and reducing or eliminating nausea in cancer & AIDS patients receiving chemo or anti-viral meds.

In a way, the Feds' total and complete dishonesty may well be their ultimate undoing - that they cannot be honest about the most benign substance currently on the illegal drug list should show Americans with integrity that they are not to be trusted to determine what people should and should not be allowed to take. The only question is how long it will take for that penny to drop.

[Amakudari]

DHHS concluded that marijuana has a high potential for abuse, has no accepted medical use in the United States, and lacks an acceptable level of safety for use even under medical supervision.

At the end of the day, the War on Drugs kills people and ruins countless lives. Americans who support it are responsible, and its executors even more so. How could any doctor -- or semi-literate adult, for that matter -- come to the reasoned conclusion that marijuana is extraordinarily addictive, impossible to use safely (just try to kill yourself by smoking too much pot at once), and has no effect on pain, appetite, glaucoma, etc.? What scumbags.

[squarooticus]

Even more fundamentally, why do most Americans think it is any of their business what other people ingest?

My body, my choice.

[rather]

Even more fundamentally, why do most Americans think it is any of their business what other people abort?

My body, my choice.

[squarooticus]

You're the kind of dork who explains punchlines at parties, right?

[rather]

Hmm, never been called a dork. How quaint

[Mr. FIFY]

Smoking tobacco, wearing seat belts, consumption of trans-fats... we can play this game all day, rather.

[spencer]

What if you abort it and he eats it? That's everyone's choice right? We're all happy then, yes? I'll film it and put it on the webs.

[rather]

Already been done

http://rctlfy.wordpress.com/20.....ck-holmes/

[dunphy]

actually, to be precise they do not say ADDICTIVE (in the medical sense, which is what that word implies when you refer to doctors especially) they say "prone to abuse"

a not unsubtle difference, and all that is required under schedule I

not defending, just clarifying.

[christian louboutin shoes]

yeah!Maybe it would ended at April.louboutin 2010

[christian louboutin shoes]

woo!I like it ,Maybe it would ended at April.

[AlmightyJB]

"creating a .secure domain where Fourth Amendment rights to privacy are voluntarily foregone"

Voluntary for how long?

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech.....r-threats/

[AlmightyJB]

Maybe they can create separate airline terminals where people can choose to not go through a security checkpoint.

[Mr. FIFY]

Don't they have those for politicians and other Chosen People?

[Otto]

I've heard if you fly on privately chartered planes (or your own plane), you can avoid the lines.

[Gray Ghost]

Exactly. The ability to dodge the TSA lines/baggage headaches, added to the original purpose of being able to go to smaller, out of the way airports, is IMO the main reason for going private in the first place.

I haven't looked at the economics of charter jet general aviation, but I'd be surprised if every new TSA crackdown didn't result in large increases in GA demand. Even at the $5000 a flight and up that a jet card typically costs.

Unless I have to fly for work, any future trips I make are going to be done by car. I doubt I'm alone in that.

[Amakudari]

The idea goes something like this: China and other regimes around the world inherently have an upper hand...

Please go play in traffic, Mr. Hayden.

But I'm sure with the CIA in control .secure would be totally secure.

[Otto]

Just so there can be one on-topic post on the subject (I feel bad about participating in the threadjacks), Katherine's point about there being winners and losers in the housing crash is important.

Were I of a more conspiratorial mindset, I'd suspect those calling the policy of the MSM of dictating that this be overlooked, b/c they've already bought their houses.

[rather]

I feel bad about participating in the threadjacks
Ya, sure

[Furthermore]

"Otto" is toot" spelled inside out.
Both are palindromes.
The end.

[dunphy]

i was a winner. i made a LOT of money on the house i sold and didn't have to buy a house until 3 yrs later when houses were way fucking cheeeper

housing market bubble/collapse was a DEFINITE win for me!

[russell_barnes]

Try betasell.com

[russell_barnes]

You should try @ betasell.com

[rosetta stone]

The book was fun. I liked the reprinting of his sexual fantasy letters to Penthouse.
His fiction was outstanding, even then

[rosetta stone]

The book was fun. I liked the reprinting of his sexual fantasy letters to Penthouse.
His fiction was outstanding, even then

[granite countertop]

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[Air Jordan Ol School]

That's cool!