In These Times

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• • 08 Jan 07
  • 4:47 pm

  Unless you are from Iceland, who is the "we" in "are we suppose [sic] to just let all these resources lie fallow . . . ." And because I'm not as smart and well read as you HJ, how does "allowing resources to lie fallow in the ground" help an Icelander bureaucrat "preserve their legal monopoly of force in perpetuity?" Now I will grant that maybe I'm not appreciating your intricate sense of tiing and humor, so maybe you would be willing to lower yourself to my level and explain? Of course you'll probably just insult me and finish of with …

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• • 08 Jan 07
  • 4:48 pm

  Oops! Typo in second paragraph "tiing" should be "timing."

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• • 08 Jan 07
  • 6:06 pm

  Oops! Typo in third paragraph "of" should be "off." Sorry maybe I shouldn't post in response to HJ because his lack of edits seem to be contagious. Uh oh, I probably just made myself a target for more bathroom jokes from HJ.

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• • 08 Jan 07
  • 7:50 pm

  HJ, why are you so angry? I'm sure I could have inferred from your Randian beliefs that Icelanders themselves shouldn't have anymore say over the uses their natural resources should be put to than say the American public should about their own. Of course you would have insulted me for putting words in your mouth or inferring the obvious. Of course you can comment on anything you want. It is interesting to me that you seem to be saying, in true Randian fashion, that the only good use for a natural resource is a consumptive one and prefereably one that is …

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• • 09 Jan 07
  • 3:10 pm

  Resources are only for consumption huh? How about "resources" for mutual public enjoyment/consumption as decided through the outcomes of the political process? Let's take fish for example. Cabo San Lucas and Hawaii have incredible fisheries. Arguably a depletable/renewable public natural resource that belongs to whom? I would say collectively to the people of Mexico and the United States respectively. How it should be consumed or managed and who should decide in what degree are the big questions. You, contrarily, would say that the individual capitalist who has the wherewithall and capital to exploit this public resource to its finite limit for …

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