Oh, man, now I’m hungry for a war with India.
Where the hell are all the Iraqi restaurants, then?
Unlike previous wars in which we welcomed folks who worked with us and needed to get out, we are now blocking Iraqis who are in danger precisely because they were on our side.
Would monsieur like 'iz nuclear mushrooms served *avec *or *sans *truffle sauce ? :mad:
I’m orangeapples and I approve this message. I’ll totally vote for you, as often as it takes. Voter ID be damned. 
Looking around Chicagoland, it seems we’ve always been at war with Mexico.
War is Peace! Ignorance is Strength! Cilantro is Parsley!
Pervert.
And the hits just keep on coming (literally, in the case of Hannity):
You are likely to get your wish, thanks to automation.
Oh, yes, Evil Captor, that was all part of the calculus when I postulated this idea. It started as a lark when I got sucked into a “debate” with a free market type at a party about twenty years ago. I could have argued from a traditional liberal viewpoint but where was the fun in that. So instead I basically made up and justified, on the fly, a system that I labeled “Mechanized Social-capitalism”.
The essential problem, I argued, is that market capitalism as we know it becomes unsustainable when automation and computerization allow for an ever-reducing workforce while still requiring a stable, if indeed not expanding, consumer base.
It was all a joke at the time and when my pigeon was let in on it we both had a good laugh. The thing is, and this is kinda scary, I’m starting to think that I was on to something.
I said that the basic Communosocialsit precept of “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” was too conservative. No, the answer is, “From each machine according to its ability, from each human according to his inclination, to each human according to his desire.”
3D printing is making me think that it may come sooner rather than later.
I recognize that this is kind of OT for the pit topic at hand but maybe not since Republicans will surely oppose any of the steps that would get us from here to there.
FOX commentator thinks the US should start profiling Muslims, praises the use of internment camps against the Japanese during World War II.
I wonder if he wants the US to start interning Arab Christians, too?
Robert Anton Wilson beat you to the punch by about nineteen years.
There’s no such thing, silly.
Miller, the only Wilson I’ve read was the Illuminatus Trilogy and don’t remember much delving into economic theory in that, what with the reanimated Nazis crashing the rock festival and all that other stuff.
I did draw on some SF economics as I made my case, notably Harrison, Reynolds and some aspects of Trek. But most of it was from my own imagination, and if I duplicated the work of others, so be it. It’s so hard to have an original thought these days.
QFT.
I get most of the stuff I put on Facebook right here.
Just kidding. Please don’t ban me.
Georgia Republican Gov. Nathan Deal: Georgia has the highest unemployment rate in the country because the Bureau of Labor Statistics is cooking the books.
Latest GOP ad targeting women’s votes. Ill-conceived to put it mildly.