Paul Krugman is a massive retard

Dear Paul,

In your recent article (linked HERE) you seem to conflate two things that aren't necessarily connected.  That is high tax rates and prosperity/individual income growth.  The taxes weren't being redistributed in the 1950's ->70's.  At least not in the manner we talk about today.

Here are things you fail to mention:

• US Economic Boom due to rebuilding Europe post WW2
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Project (new valuable infrastructure making commerce easier)
• We created NASA and went to the Moon and created many new technological innovations along the way.
• Computers went from industrial to home/business use
• US rebuilding Japan and much of south east Asia.

That is just a few matters.  Primarily what you will notice is that we were producing tangible things and large volumes of durable goods and exporting them.  Our trade deficit was a surplus...until 1975 which was the last time the USA had a trade surplus where exports were greater than imports.

Paul.  You're far to glib and people who take you at your word are idiots.  

It is a shame you won't read this.

How YOU doin?

So as the whole Petraeus thing expands I'm going to ignore it at the moment in favor of the Jill Kelley story as socially it seems far more interesting.  The one comment I shall make about Petraeus is that he should have known better, and anything that now comes his way (though a shame) is entirely brought on by his own bad decisions.  That doesn't mean that he didn't do very good things for the US Military or for our security as D/CIA.

Jill...Jill, you're hot and you know it.  Broadwell clearly felt threatened by your behavior in some way.  Which is interesting now that the FBI agent you roped into this investigation is now off the case for being "obsessed" with you.  This is very interesting indeed. You're an 'unpaid social liaison at MacDill AFB.  That title can mean that you run bake sales...or that you sleep with every officer in sight and you get off on the whole guys in uniform thing.

I tend to believe both of those things to be true.  Here's why.  You are married to a doctor who is in high demand for his surgical skills and technique and who must be busy a large portion of the time leaving you free to cavort all over town.  This town HAPPENS to have many single testosterone filled men wearing uniforms and they are quite a bit more physically fit than her husband.

So she's a social butterfly with too much time on her hands and men all around her.  He's working all the time.  Let us see where this train of thought takes us.  She is socially adept so she picks up on body language clues better than most so I'm betting she knows how to manipulate men pretty well.  She may have done nothing but smile suggestively at Petraeus or Gen. Allen (clearly more than smile at Allen), but nonetheless Broadwell (herself a hussy) recognized those games Kelley was playing and got all defensive about HER MAN.  And so the walls they came a tumblin' down.

Jill is the weak link here because she's an attention whore.  That is why she volunteers on a base full of horny, young, physically fit men.  So, Dr. I suggest getting yourself an STD screening about now.   Additionally there is no way that a trained FBI agent suddenly becomes obsessed with Jill Kelley.  No way.  She has obviously set him up for the fall after she was done using him for her own ends.  She's a manipulative sociopath at the least.

The photo above is Jill with her husband, the Doctor.  She is faced away from him in the photo which to me suggests that she's saying..."I'm married to him but not really with him."  Even if she never cheated on her husband she definitely made it seem like she'd be open to the idea with Gen. West, the FBI agent and intimated such things to Broadwell about Petraeus.

Avoid this woman at all costs.  Unless you want to end up in jail for falling into the honeypot.

Election Day 2012

As of 12:50pm EST, I am calling the Election for Barak H. Obama.

The reasons I am calling it for him are:

• He is the incumbent President.  That alone gives him the edge.
• He is still relatively popular across the major population zones/major cities
• Union Backing.

Romney could win, but I agree with most statistics that give him only a 7% chance of winning.

Frankly they are both terrible and the only candidate running that gives a rats ass about your freedom is Gary Johnson on the Libertarian Party.  He isn't insane or authoritarian.  The major parties blacklisted him from the official debates which are now just party debates rather than Presidential Debates.

-JC

So who is the dick now?

One thing is funny in politics.  That is the sheer level of apathy for every other human being involved in politics.

Sen. Harry Reid (D- NV) today said that he "couldn't" work with Romney. (link)
Of course for the past few years if not a decade + he has been whining about bi-partisanship (or the lack thereof) on the part of Republicans.  Of course this means that bipartisanship is just another word for forcing the other side to agree with you on major principles (surrender).

Of course saying that there are only two sides to an argument is also a glib statement to begin with, but that is what our current party structures are based on.  You have a choice between a turd sandwich and a giant bottle of douche.  And they like it that way.  Modern political parties have divided us in order to conquer.  The third parties are more niche in their concerns and in reality have a great deal more in common across broad issues than Democrats and Republicans do.  Libertarians as an example would be very happy to cooperate with Greens on foreign policy by and large as both have many anti-war views.

But back to the main topic:

Harry Reid in fact CAN cooperate, but he will choose not to because it works to his party's political advantage to be just as obstructionist as the Republicans have been to them.  There is no reward for cooperation in the party.  You are just consorting with the enemy.  Statesmanship is a description that we reserve for people prior to Henry Kissinger by and large.  Harry Reid is merely the latest in a long line of politicians on every side of the aisle who seeks to gain influence by being the biggest roadblock possible.  This is after all about power...now about what is good for the USA.

Follow the money.