tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20119470.post2706463543557318131..comments2023-08-20T15:59:58.293+05:00Comments on Dope City Free Press: Watching Television in the Basement With Kool-Aid and CookiesMr. Beer N. Hockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184518909716677938noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20119470.post-90807419982814192502008-11-16T07:12:00.000+05:002008-11-16T07:12:00.000+05:00All the old Anarchists must be laughing in their g...All the old Anarchists must be laughing in their graves. The ones who are alive now surely are.Mr. Beer N. Hockeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07184518909716677938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20119470.post-38991487625601404322008-11-16T06:12:00.000+05:002008-11-16T06:12:00.000+05:00I would call casinos, cardrooms and offtrack betti...I would call casinos, cardrooms and offtrack betting legal bookmaking. Readily available credit at 29% interest seems like loan sharking. Unsupervised investment banking looks a lot like bank robbery and all of them are legal and deregulated. A lot of activities that were formerly considered crimes are now considered to be a legitimate part of our free market business environment. I miss the glory days of the Reagan free market, when you could walk into any gunshop in Florida and walk out with as many machine guns as you could carry, no questions asked. Somebody had to pay for the contra war. Nowadays, heroin is cheaper than gasoline, but they've disarmed the motoring public. Aaah, freedom!Your driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406948739451124566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20119470.post-87606467105087572712008-11-16T04:44:00.000+05:002008-11-16T04:44:00.000+05:00You don't always have to jump through the sky to b...You don't always have to jump through the sky to be a daredevil.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes you can just jump <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvZu6e5vrQA&eurl=http://koboldorum.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">under the hood</A>. <BR/><BR/>(weirdness starts at 1:00; daredevillishness begins at 2:40)<BR/><BR/>.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20119470.post-89742406998305712942008-11-16T04:32:00.000+05:002008-11-16T04:32:00.000+05:00jon--All that stuff your talkin' about....is that ...jon--<BR/><BR/>All that stuff your talkin' about....is that part of the real or the imagined economy?<BR/><BR/>And thanks for the coolin' up with the Borschardt info.<BR/><BR/>_____<BR/>Beer -- Frances Bula says she's going to let the cat out of the municipal election bag @ ~7:30pm, half hour before polls close....might be away for you to make a few bucks in the new/old not quite really real economy that used to be ruled by bookies by instead is now owned, lock-stock-and-barrel by folks with connections to Paddy Kinsella.<BR/><BR/>Or some such thing.<BR/><BR/>.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20119470.post-5998134808768663662008-11-16T00:44:00.000+05:002008-11-16T00:44:00.000+05:00Unlike most Americans, I remember events that took...Unlike most Americans, I remember events that took place in my own lifetime. I was around for the industrial collapse of the 1980's. At that time it was decided that the problem was "over regulation". Subsequently, bookmaking, loansharking and bank robbery were deregulated. This did nothing for the millions of displaced industrial workers, but it allowed us to go deeply into debt with absolutely nothing backing our indebtedness. I'm guessing that next they'll legalize prostitution, narcotics and contract murder in hopes that this will stimulate the bank robbing bookmaking and loan sharking "industries". The Corleone family has gone completely legitimate.Your driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406948739451124566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20119470.post-87309886989060628552008-11-15T23:58:00.000+05:002008-11-15T23:58:00.000+05:00Everybody's hoping that he'll be the new FDR. I'm ...Everybody's hoping that he'll be the new FDR. I'm all for building a bunch of dams and bridges. It would not be a bad idea to try paving the ripped up streets of San Francisco for starters. Canadians have a long history of hoping that America will get it's shit together. I, for one, appreciate your concern. I have a long history of hoping that America will get it's shit together too. <BR/><BR/>Oh, and since I've discovered that everything everyone says everywhere is actually a reference to something about ukuleles, there's a great little uke tune by a guy named Jacob Borschardt, "Punks Not Dead, But There's a Lotta Dead Punks." <BR/><BR/>A while ago I asked that you keep the beaver pelts and maple syrup coming. We are struggling to maintain the northward flow of bourbon, methamphetamines and pornography. Pray for our troubled land.Your driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406948739451124566noreply@blogger.com