How the mighty do fall: Ann Coulter pitching right-wing stock-tip scams
By David Neiwert Thursday Nov 20, 2008 4:00pmI'm sure a lot of you were wondering what happened to Ann Coulter this election season. The right has trotted her out to wage culture wars reliably ever since 1998. But she hardly was visible at all this year.
Well, if you happen to be one of those lost souls who belongs to the Conservative Book Club, then you received one of these e-mails in your Inbox this week from Coulter.
[Click here to see the full letter.]
As you can see, it's a letter that starts out by teeing off the emerging right-wing meme attempting to blame Barack Obama for the current economic meltdown, mostly by noting that Wall Street firms donated more heavily to Obama's campaign than to John McCain's:
If you've been wondering why the financial industry is in meltdown -- and taking your 401(k) or investment portfolio down with it -- now you know.
Let's face it: The former frat boys who populate Wall Street today understand economics as well as the pinko professors whose courses they snored through.
Now, it's true that Democrats were heavily preferred by Wall Street campaign donors this year, but that has far more to do with their historic preference for lining up behind the perceived likely winners of a given election season. And even a blind pig -- or a right-wing pundit -- could sense before the season even started that the Republican brand was giving off the distinct odor of fetid slop.
But if those same Wall Street pinko-educated frat boys are as ignorant of economics this year as Coulter claims, then wouldn't they have been equally so in 2000 and 2004, when they gave heavily instead to Coulter's then-preferred candidate, George W. Bush? Something doesn't exactly add up here.
That's all just throat-clearing, though, for Coulter's main pitch: She's selling you a financial newsletter written by a fellow named Mark Skousen, whose PhD in economics seems to impress Coulter mightily (if only she gave as much credence to people who actually won the Nobel Prize in economics).
Three years ago, Skousen was selling the same scam through the Heritage Foundation, promising super-hot stock tips if only you subscribed to his pricey investment newsletter. No word on how that hot tech stock actually did -- but I'd wager it performed about as well the return on assisting former Nigerian prime ministers.
Skousen, however, is not just your average "conservative economist." He actually is an adherent of the same far-right school of "libertarian" economics as Ron Paul: he advocates a return to the gold standard, the dismantling of the IRS and the Federal Reserve, and most of the other conspiratorial nonsense that accompanies these theories. Like Paul, he's a devotee of the Ludwig Van Mises Institute, which promotes much of this malarkey, and he's likewise actually a Bircherite in libertarian clothing. Indeed, Paul was one of the headliners at Skousen's "FreedomFest" earlier this year in Las Vegas.
Like most of the Bircher wing of the libertarian movement, Skousen consistently takes a far-right political position on labor issues, too. He wrote a piece denouncing "card check" union organizing just last month.
Skousen is the nephew of the late noted John Birch/Mormon figure W. Cleon Skousen; his brother, Joel Skousen, is famous for promoting Patriot-style "New World Order" conspiracy theories. All three of them promote the far-right version of "constitutionalism," which is all about the belief that secret elites manipulate the economy and the political process, wield the IRS and Federal Reserve as political weapons along with a huge federal bureaucracy, all of which violates the original unamended (or "organic") Constitution.
So this is what Ann Coulter is reduced to these days: Shilling for Patriot-style right-wing moneymaking scams.
But then, I guess it isn't surprising that Coulter is heading down this same path. During the past campaign, she actually came out in support of Ron Paul.
Well, fools and their money are soon parted. And anyone foolish enough to take their investment advice from Ann Coulter will get everything they deserve.
But I'm wondering when we'll see Coulter turn up in late-night infomercials for gold Liberty Dollars with her own image stamped on them. Because that's the road -- the one leading to ignominious obscurity and irrelevance -- she's headed down.
And I can't think of a more deserved fate.
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Sorry to add to your comment Brad, but I have to put this at the top:
We aren't fond of the bigoted association made between Coulter and transgendered people. We will be deleting comments that lean that way. The transgendered have done nothing to hurt you, my liberal posters, and it's not liberal or progressive to use someone's life condition as a put down. Please also be aware that the sitemonitors here are feminists and may also be women. Keep your misogyny to yourself...Coulter has enough wrong with her "thought" processes, you should be able to denigrate her by sticking to her so-called ideas. -Sitemonitor.
Sitemonitor, I support your reasoning and actions for these edits. Every day, boys and girls are teased and taunted for being somehow different. This sadness burdens the happiness and progress of society.
Ann Coulter would use the term "gay" as "a school-yard taunt," directed at Edwards, but her admission does not excuse her juvenile behavior. Not everyone can meet the sexual attractiveness and gender-glorification standards pack-behavior society viciously demands.
has only gotten more acidulous with age. Bless her shriveled little heart.
[Deleted. Site Monitor] Obscurity is too good...vanquished to outer Slobovia is where she belongs - never to be seen or heard from again. Ever.
[MsJoanne- One bit of it was too close to advocating violence. Two others give license to misogyny if I let them stand, stars in them or not. Sorry. Thanks. Site Monitor]
There is something about that 'adams apple' that still bugs me...I figure someday, a guy will come up to 'it' and say: "Andy Coulter,from highschool!"...and 'it' will run away...
[Deleted. We aren't fond of the bigoted association made between Coulter and transgendered people. We will be deleting comments that lean that way. The transgendered have done nothing to hurt you, my liberal posters, and it's not liberal or progressive to use someone's life condition as a put down-Sitemonitor]
But if those same Wall Street pinko-educated frat boys are as ignorant of economics this year as Coulter claims, then wouldn't they have been equally so in 2000 and 2004, when they gave heavily instead to Coulter's then-preferred candidate, George W. Bush? Something doesn't exactly add up here.
Yea, the entire framework of the conservative argument. It's like they are putting together a playground while blindfolded and are inviting you to get on the swingset with them.
No thanks, we'll pass
im guessing the opperation to remove bill mahers jaws from her hind end was sucessfull then!
except in her own mind, and maybe in some of the minds of those many have nailed the skinny hateful old bag of bones
C&L, you just wrecked my relatively peaceful day with a thread on this dessicated, adam's apple'd, bleached, rackless, vicious, foul-mouthed bag who shouldn't be given exposure even by your local "15cent wings" joint's flyer. Christ!!
She said: "I think ... women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it...." Comedy Central; Politically Incorrect; February 26, 2001
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Sorry 'bout that, SM. What I meant was that she thinks she's smarter than everybody else.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/john-amato/flas...
Stock market is a vote of confidence for Bush.
but please don't denigrate transsexuals.
When I was a nurse at a hospital in the inner city of Cleveland thirty years ago, there worked a statuesque, intelligent, beautiful female technician of about my age.
She wore a wedding ring, so I did not bother with her other than chit-chat.
She was adept at her medical specialty, professional in her demeanor, witty in her conversation - and she used to be a guy.
I do not believe in gods.
But I do believe that the universe is stranger than we can imagine.
There was no way that THAT person was a male other than by accident.
[You are not a sorehead. We back that very sentiment-Sitemonitor]
"The important thing is that I had an onion on my belt. Which was the style at the time."
that not everyone has a magnifying glass to use on the pic of the letter. Is there a way to make it large enough to read?
Dang, I thought it uploaded the full-sized letter. I'll see if I can fix it.
hey dude who wrote this story: I'got some news for ya', you don't have to be a conspiricy nut to think the fed reserve is basically an extra-legal criminal conspiricy....it is.
Plus what's with all the bullshit hoops I just had to jump through to post this....Damm
Ok love yuz...bye
I was going to the same thing. I thought we needed to go back to a gold standard?
Agreed. There's something to be said for getting away from make-believe, magical, fiat currency.
I'm sure there are plenty of legitimate arguments to be made against the Federal Reserve, but "extra-legal criminal conspiracy" isn't among them. It was created by a constitutional act of Congress. Thus, legal.
True voting fraud takes time. She had to drive around and vote at all those addresses.
That is a pretty low-rent email. Where does one go from there? Wait a minute, I'll bet they are looking for a ghost writer for Sarah Palin's autobiography, "Witch Free or How to See Russia From Your Porch"
why does denouncing card-check union organizing make Skousen "far-right . . . on labor issues?" I'm not arguing that most of his positions aren't "far-right," but this isn't one of them. Being against card-check organizing isn't necessarily anti-union. It can just as reasonably be called pro-democracy.
I know I'm going to get ripped apart for this, but I've always thought that the secret ballot is the best way to produce consensus. The card-check procedure makes union organizing more like door-to-door canvasing. That's fine for campaigning, but bad for making important decisions that affect a whole group of people.
By Jove, I think we're onto something here. But I don't quite think it's what one would autmomatically see considering the partisan divide between us libs and the horrendous flying harpy comments by Ann Coulter.
David Neiwert: But if those same Wall Street pinko-educated frat boys are as ignorant of economics this year as Coulter claims, then wouldn't they have been equally so in 2000 and 2004, when they gave heavily instead to Coulter's then-preferred candidate, George W. Bush? Something doesn't exactly add up here."
Coulter is actually onto something. I hate the [Deleted. Plenty of other descriptive nouns to use that won't give license to misogynists, sphinx. Thanks. Site Monitor] but think about the above statement really hard.
Then think about her criticism of the financial backing of Obama right now.
The two observations are right on but yet they don't fit together because why?
Many, many prominent economists have been predicting for decades what has happened here, this terrible crash under Bush. Why did the wallstreeters back his catastrophic economic spending and fiscal irresponsibility, especially in 2004?
Anyone?
Ponzi scheme.
Fonzi's con-man cousin?
Sure, his Libertarian leanings cause the progressive people some fear. In some social ways, rightly so. But his economic stances are based upon sound and proven policy.
The IRS is abusive of the American taxpayer. As long as the never ending stream of tax revenue is coming in, America will be allowed to borrow and spend without conscience and without regard of it's citizens actual needs. It's like an addict having an unending supply of crack.
The IRS is BAD for Americans.
The abuses of NAFTA and CAFTA? He's been spot on.
The flaws inherent in a FIAT (IOU) based currency...SPOT ON.
He hates the FED and considers it abusive, and as a private institution it IS an unconstitutional abdication of congressional responsibilities. The federal reserve system is inherently EVIL and inherently SELF SERVING.
Why the hate on Ron Paul for his economic views?
It's illogical to continue to do things the way they have been doing things. If you have a better idea, put it forth, but if things don't "fundamentally" change soon, our future as a nation will be in doubt.
It's as free-floating as fiat currency. Why not go to the sand standard?
So when all of the rest of Paul's economics are predicated on a return to the
good old daysgold standard, those views come across as foolish.Actual Gold deposits.
It beats a baseless promise.
I mean it, You and I are paid in "debt"...literally.
Please, suggest something better than "debt".
And actually, our free floating fiat currency is pinned to the international market cost of Gold. This gives the US all kinds of leverage to practice economic tyrrany and terrorism across the globe, since all nations trade in oil, ALL nations thusly, need Dollars.
It's leverage to interfere, and I like the idea of taking that leverage AWAY from my government.
Rings, necklaces, dental work, etc...
Oh, yeah: all gold mining is now nationalized bu the US. All of it. That means you, South Africa, seeing that if we're on the gold standard then you are rich, even though you don't produce much but gold.
Who called for that? We had PLENTY of gold jewelry in 1970.
This isn't a new concept.
In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest:
The Freemen justified this with an argument straight out of Roy Schwasinger's seminars: The federal government was bankrupt and illegally printing bogus money anyway, money that no longer had any basis, since the government took the dollar off the gold standard in 1971. So the Freemen were free to create their own money out of equally thin air -- not only that, but by basis of the "constitutional" nature of the common-law courts that issued the liens, their system was more legitimate than the federal government's.
The alternative-universe notion that the Federal Reserve system prints "funny money" based on no real foundation has floated about on the far right for years, and is a key component of some cult belief systems like Lyndon LaRouche's. In reality, the modern international monetary system is based on the economic engine behind each kind of currency -- the levels of supply and demand that a nation produces. It is, like all economic systems, essentially a mental construct, but it has very real grounding in the work of producing goods and services within each nation. The American dollar's continuing strength abroad is a reflection of our nation's output; indeed, it is still considered the basis of most international currency rates.
Those who argue that money must be based on some hard commodity -- usually gold and silver -- ignore the fact that when a currency is based on gold, the value given to gold is as essentially arbitrary as that assigned to paper currency. That is, the value of gold would rise and decline according to the value of the output behind the economic system using it as a standard. Indeed, since gold is still used in manufacturing and jewelry-making, the crossover between gold as a commodity and gold as an expression of currency had the tendency to destabilize the currency system, which is why the United States went off the gold standard in 1971.
Certificates served this country well for hundreds of years.
I don't know...the pinning of the dollar to the international oil market is more damaging in my view.
As I said...it provides undue leverage over oil production, especially when corporations like Exxon and BP seem so thoroughly to be in bed with banks and willing to manipulate.
It's too easy for us to intervene on behalf of corporate interests internationally, whenever our elected officials believe the value of the dollar (and oil) is threatened.
The system, as it exists, is broken and too easy to manipulate, always at the detriment to the working class.
Also understand this, a FIAT currency is easier to manipulate than one based upon an internationally traded commodity. (i.e. Bernanke at the Fed keeping interest rates artificially low for years while the housing bubble expanded exponentially based solely upon debt)
Regardless....these are good arguments, but they do not explain the hate on Ron Paul for economic policy that had worked for centuries. A truly free market would be responsive to buyers, as opposed to a manipulated market which leads consumers to respond to the market.
We haven't had a free market in a long long time.
But as you've seen with the South African example of diamonds, the value is determined by the production rate. There are lots of diamonds in the ground, but they control the value of them by digging them out slowly, and limiting the supply. So, the gold producers of the world would suddenly be controlling the economy.
(Also, I think that's the point at which Aurc Goldfinger would explode an atomic bomb in Fort Knox, rendering all the gold in the U.S. federal reserve radioactive, and increasing the value of his own gold by ten fold. Didn't we learn ANYTHING from James Bond????)
Why not go to the sand standard? Ironically, if we keep going the way we're going, we'll end up with a PAPER standard. Where the value of money is determined by the cost of ragweed paper and green ink.
Although, having said that, please don't confuse me with a flat-earth libertarian who thinks we should go back to a gold standard. In the middle ages Europe had the ULTIMATE gold standard, as money was literally made out of gold, silver and copper. The western economy didn't start to expand until the Europeans learned how to print PAPER money from the Chinese, who ran their economy with paper money coverd by a federal reserve. Ironically, we're about to come full circle from that, and when this economic meltdown, caused by the reckless borrowing of so called "fiscal conservative" politicians, is overwith we'll be back to a world where the Chinese have a vibrant economy, and people in the western world will be bashing each other over the head with clubs to get each other's gold.
led to sky-high inflation in Europe. With all that gold and silver in the coffers the prices went up on everything. And it sucked for Spain because the Spanish economy didn't produce much of anything for export, so the gold and silver didn't come back- unless they went to war and "won" it back.
That's because the rare metals pouring in increased quantity supply so much, that the prices went down for said rare metals.
That's what he's saying. Pinning the value of your currency on some arbitrary metal is not, in and of itself, a hedge against inflation. Not when you can vary the supply.
In fact, I remember in 1979 when the price of gold was sky high, some smartass reporter went to the local university where they were running a cyclotron in the physics department. They asked the professor how much it would cost to turn lead into gold in the cyclotron, and he answered "with the price of electricity, it would cost about $1000 per ounce." At the time, gold was selling for about $200 per ounce. It was a cute little piece, but it just proves that pinning the value of your currency on a commodity doesn't change the rules of economics. The value of your currency will then just be at the whim of the production rate for that commodity. Heck, if we're going to go THAT route, why not pin the value of the dollar (and all other currencies) to the price of oil? That would make more sense than pinning it to the price of gold, although both ideas would hurt the world economy.
Also the reason the Spaniards had little to export was because they were still based on the feudal system that was agrarian. Western Europe was moving more and more to a mercantile system, unhampered by central government, but working to support theirs, because they were the one's who set much of the trade treaties.
pretty sure the idea behind pinning currencies to a commodity is to choose one that is relatively stable compared to other commodities and is so universally. Gold does not necessarily have the attributes for all time, but it did and still does - especially compared to oil.
it's like all the nations are players sitting at a poker game and we need a reference point to determine how much money we all have. say you're at a game and no one has any cash. by agreeing upon, and accepting a standard of value, we could determine how much we all have - that wrist watch could be traded for x ounzes of gold, and that equals y dollars.
If a relatively unstable commodity is used as a standard, then deflation and inflation would become problems as that commodity fluctuated in value.
Because the value of the standard setting commodity is universally accepted, it also makes nations accountable in regards to money supply, which under the current system seems to have absolutely no check or balance (no puns intended).
The expressions, "printing money out of thin air" and, "he can't just print his way out of this one", come to mind.
Ya see, getting the Fed to print money that does not represent any agreed upon "value" just delivers short term relief while devaluing all existing currency. That's not right-wing, that's just how it is.
The value of the dollars (Federal Reserve Notes) in circulation should represent the GNP of a nation. Simply printing more money only causes inflation. We are only spending money for which no real value exists. It is speculation. And it is a problem with monetary systems - how do we TRULY assign value to currency. It must be based on some consensus AND a commodity we all accept as valuable.
Anyways, why the jump off into attacking Ron Paul because of some stupid email Ann Coulter wrote? Where have you provided any substance to your criticisms, Mr. Neiwert? What do you THINK about the Fed Reserve and monetary system. Seriously! It's incredibly important to our economy and deserves more than the passing-over you get away with.
I respect your passion and writing and your commitment to issues progressive. The last 8 years cry out for it, but journalism needs standards, too.
BrianK
I still disagree with the idea that pinning the value of currency to the supply of a valued commodity has any meaning, or is constructive when there is no such thing as a commodity with a relative value that can't be changed by altering the production rate. It might make sense if everybody in the world decided to stop looking for gold, so that there was a fixed amount of it from this point onwards. Barring that, however, there are other ways to try and deal with the value of money.
Your poker game analogy applies more to currency exchange rates, which is fair enough. But, as I said, I don't think pinning it to the relative value of a commodity helps when the supply of that commodity can be changed. There are other ways to deal with the issue, like purchasing power parity, for example.
collects bills.
Services rendered require fees to be paid.
It's a pain in the ass.
But I like adequate public transportation.
Healthcare is a human right in this advanced day and age.
Can be raised in more appropriate fashion, or the IRS can be severely reigned in.
There ARE better ways.
but civilised people pay their bills for services.
Perhaps services should be provided for by subscription.
If you don't subscribe to the paramedic program : you die.
But you win, because; although you may have died needlessly - you died with low taxes.
Congratulations!
What about a flat tax? Make taxes on all incomes equal so that Mr. I-Make-Money-Because-I-Was-Born-Into-Money gets taxed the same as the guy who actually has to work for a living.
And vice-versa.
But has nothing to do with the comment you replied to...
Revenue can be raised more efficiently and more fairly than is currently being done.
Give me more meat like this.
Thanks for allowing me to put away my feminist/supportive-of-transsexual ire. I enjoy the comments when they're not abusive. And folks, please remember that it's not polite to bash women for having numerous sexual partners.
Considering how Bill Maher was one of her sexual partners, I ...
No. On second thought, I think I'd rather not consider Bill Maher having sex with Ann Coulter.. that's just eww.
Skousen, however, is not just your average "conservative economist." He actually is an adherent of the same far-right school of "libertarian" economics as Ron Paul:
Oh goodie...watch the Ron Paul cultists come out of the walls, and onto this thread, like termites out of a FEMA trailor on fire.
FEMA trailors don't catch fire - too much asbestos!
The analogy could still work. Ron Paul libertarianism in the American structure is as welcomed as asbestos in the walls of a FEMA trailor.
Actually, the formaldehyde acts as an accelerant to ignite the lead paint.
GWB?
we have to be PC like Kos?
Why is it that to be liberal we have to be so fucking uptight?
[So you think using the life condition of other humans to denigrate someone you don't like is alright? What's liberal or progressive about making transgendered people feel bad and cry because you want to be an a-hole? We don't allow other bigotry here. Sack up, Gollem. Now you have to be creative and thoughtful. Teh horrorz-Sitemonitor]
Well personally, this liberal doesn't like f***ing women who down-under are loose and sloppy.
get tired of the Coulter/transgender issue. Coulter has so many despicable qualities that seem so much more relevant than sexuality.
........or lack there of.
But the continuous bug is that she uses sexuality as a way to mediate her sales.
[Deleted. It's really not smart to challenge or call out a site monitor, unless you are wanting to be banned. This is the second time I've had to have a word in under 12 hours. If you don't like our commenting policy, you don't need to post here. It's very simple-Sitemonitor]
how dare someone have the temerity to disagree with the almighty sitemonitor. Fascist.
[Yes indeed. Now try to post-Sitemonitor]
You might want to think twice about that. Deleting comments because you consider them to be inappropriate or offensive is one thing, and it's fair enough. Banning somebody because they pissed you off is just petty and small minded. [Let's see -- you heap assumptions upon me, then tell me off for your assumptions. Since you don't know what happened here, you really don't speak from a position of knowledge about the situation. You might want to think twice about making a post like this. This is inappropriate. If you have a question about monitoring, write the site monitor email. Edited-Sitemonitor]
Banning somebody because they pissed you off is just petty and small minded.
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no. they got banned because they kept talking back.
you don't like the rules, you are free to leave! :)
I never said I don't like the rules. (Although I never saw a rule about "talking back" per se.) But the people who enforce rules are fallible, just like anybody else. :)
I was referring to the comment I responded to, and which is still visible, not the part you deleted. :)
Actually, now that I think about it, while I do think your monitoring is a bit heavy handed, I'm really sorry I attacked you for it like that. :)
Ends with a .......
Gee, maybe Chrissy Matthews can invite her on his show again.
I stopped watching both of them after her last visit - or the visit where she went after Mrs. John Edwards.
I'm going now to watch my new collection from the old Sheena TV show. I don't think there's any doubt Irish McCalla was born a woman.
http://www.oldies.com/i/boxart/large/54/08921...
So - did they deliberately keep her bony ass off the talking head shows? Hard to believe --- Hannity - he loves him some Ann Coulter.
Then again - she's not quite as attractive as she used to be.
[Edited. Please see the sitemonitor's comment in the first comment. We mean it. Thanks for understanding-Sitemonitor]
Spotting your comment I had edited it myself - this is exactly as I last left it.
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I wouldn't want governments doing things based on James Bond. You might have people storming into places guns blazing and leaving an epic trail of destruction ... oh wait ...
James Bond in Ian Fleming's books didn't seemed to like violence. He was good at it, like a well-trained soldier, but found no delight in it. Although he preferred clean kills with a gun from a distance, he often had to stab and even strangle people to death while they died in his hands. When he killed "Grant" toward the end of the book From Russia With Love, he was pinned down on the floor by his corpse, while he literally bled most if not all of his blood out onto the floor from the stab wound in an artery behind his thight.
He used a limpet mind to try to bring down Mr. Big's yacht in the book Live and Let Die. Only he had to watch as people were thrown from the exploding boat badly injured and bleeding and then screaming as they were ate by sharks.
Bonds usual reaction to intense violence, like a bomb blast that throws him against a tree, a poisoned centipede set on his sleeping body, or after having half his ribs crushed by a couple of gay hitmen wearing US football cleats was to throw up.
In fact, usually after a case was over, Bond would go into an extreme state of depression that he blamed on the excitement being suddenly lifted, but it seemed he had a sense of scruples, but wouldn't admit to any.
In fact in the book On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond was skiing away from Blofeld's eyrie mansion being chased by Blofield's men. Bond executed a tricky move, and when one of his pursuers to to follow, he fell into a snow blower. Ian Fleming described in some detail, but not too much, what it's like for a man's body to be ground up and spewed out by a giant snow blower. Bond got sprayed with a lot of it, and it made him feel sick. In the excellent movie with George Lazenby as Bond, they simply showed reddened snow, and a bad quip from Bond, "That man had guts."
Is she even relitive anymore/
Change the political landscape and Coulter`s fortunes sink
like the GOP`s fortunes.
Coulter and the gang at Fox are becoming increasingly
irrelevant. Sweet.
"far-right school of "libertarian" economics as Ron Paul: he advocates a return to the gold standard, the dismantling of the IRS and the Federal Reserve, and most of the other conspiratorial nonsense that accompanies these theories. "
this stuff becomes very popular during a Democratic administration
If it's really a hot tip, it wouldn't be shared. Ever.
Fuck Ann Coulter. I didn't bother to read her "letter". Poll out today: 61% disapprove of the GOP. They're dying a fast death, and irrelevant. So are all these "right-wing pundits". They lost: elections have consequences.
I notice Ms Coulter hasn't been attacking Obama as much as she did with Clinton, Gore or Edwards. Maybe she (and other conservatives for that matter) hasn't attacked Obama for fear of being accuse of being RACIST.
It would be interesting if any conservative would attack Obama race instead of his policies.
Time will tell.
Was wondering where that life support system for a vagina went? Now we know.
ann coulter didn't call for anyone's death or disembowlment.
The meds must be working.
Love to read comments, not leave them but this time I have to speak up. I can't believe the comments made here about Mr. Ron Paul. Why, I think I remember this very site chalking him up around the time of the runoffs this past Feb., I used to frequent this site for insight because I, for some ungodly reason, thought I was on the same page with most of the posters and blogers here, apparently not. I am dissapointed with Crooks and Liars, my last bastion for intelligent thought and writing. You have shown your true colors and I will not return.
Ann Coulter is pontificating to her own audience...which is an ever decreasing group of people who are tired of the dishonesty and hate. One-fourth of evangelicals voted for President-Elect Obama while their preachers condemned them to hell. They voted their pocket books and not their religion because they see truth and not theological dogma and bigotry.
When I read the comments of Coulter, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity and their colleagues, I'm reminded of an old chinese proverb: "Sarcasim and cynisicm are the identical-twin off springs of jealsousy and hate"
thank you, site monitor, for standing up against the transphobic comments being made when it comes to Ann Coulter. That is something that has always driven me nuts!
I can't believe Coulter used the slur "frat boys." Hasn't she heard the old frat boy mantra? "Don't call your fraternity a frat - you wouldn't call your country an Ann Coulter."
I'm no expert and not in the US either, but the arguments presented in Zeigeist/Addendum and Te Money Masters against the current fiscal policy seemed reasonable and compelling. I would like to hear any serious counterarguments you might have.
As for what should the currency be based on: work. (The Golem Standard, for Pratchett fans :) There are numerous precedents in history where such systems were implemented and they seem to work quite well, at least locally. Please comment.
I'm sure this thread is nearly dead..... but I had to say something regarding that loaded statement about "conspiratorial nonsense".
By that statement you're implying that all these people were tinfoil hat wearing nuts:
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson - "I have unwittingly ruined my country"
Louis T. McFadden
And most notably John F. Kennedy - who went so far as to print United States Notes
(of which I am the proud owner of a $5 US Note)
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On June 4, 1963, John F. Kennedy signed a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, a mere four months before his assassination on November 22, 1963. This decree returned to the U.S. Federal government the Constitutional right to create and "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury."
The importance of these bills is not to be underestimated. The regular Federal Reserve Notes are created through the Fed who exchanges them for an interest-paying government bond. These "United States Notes" were directly created through the U.S. Treasury and backed by the silver held there.
There was no interest to be paid on these bills by the government (or more correctly, by the tax-payer) to the Federal Reserve.
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By your logic - JFK must have been the most insane man alive to do something like that.
I started reading the original post because I'm not a fan of Ann and enjoy a chuckle or two because of her flaws - but as I read on, my expectation quickly turned into disappointment by both the statement in the article and by the comments posted in favor of it being some ridiculous crackpot idea.
Bummer....
To David (and the commenters):
I know the post was originally about the blond creature - but I (and a few others in this thread) would really appreciate an educated follow up on why you consider it conspiratorial nonsense.
Thanks in advance...
Wasn't the free market stillborn?
So the ignorant, bleach blond bimbo finally crawled out of her grave??
Neiwert states that 'return to the gold standard, dismantling the IRS and Federal Reserve' is based on conspiratorial nonsense and that followers of the Von Mises School of Austrian Economics like Peter Schiff and Ron Paul are full of 'malarky' but, does not provide any refutation or counter argument as to why.
The U.S. dollar is fiat currency backed by nothing but the good name of our nation, the IRS is an illegal government strong arm not endorsed by the U.S. Constitution while the Federal Reserve is a private corporation owned by the Central Banks ramrod through a 1913 Senate recess bill that sets monetary policy with no government accountability.
Neiwert is a shill only parroting the Democrat and to a far more dangerous extent the hidden Republican line against those of us who aspire to a true capitalist economy free of Central Bank and Wall Street manipulation and now the accompanying massive taxpayer bailout with all it's subsequent fraud and embezzlement. Economic retards like Neiwert have no counter against true free market economy so he attacks ad hominem without counter argument.
What will the Fed do when unemployment hits 10%, gold at $2000z versus a $0.10 dollar, personal debt out of control and an IRS that can't collect taxes from an empty till absent creditors. Investors with liquid are fleeing the U.S. Market for foreign dividend paying stocks and metals. The Feds command control economy is not free market capitalism and does not work. Just look out the window at U.S.A. 2008.
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