BooMan — howdie to you and your community….
I’ve posted only a few times here, but before the BooMan went off and became a famous blog-daddy, he and I spent the better part of two years debating among a small group via email, essentially banging our heads against the other’s wall for farrrrrrrr too much of the day. Literally, dozens of emails in a day would fly back and forth between our small group of about six, but mostly they were between “The Boo” and me. I like to think I was his final test before going live here!
Anyway, this is certainly a more productive outlet for that sort of energy. Well done, Boosky. And I certainly get much more work done now that you spare me your frequent shots across the bow.
Which I suppose leads to who -or rather what I am -I am a libertarian consensualist. That means, I’m sympathetic to rants against BushCo / the dangerous empire building NeoCon nuts, and agree they need to be stopped. However, I’m also of the opinion that while BushCo needs to go, I don’t much care to have a new group in power who will not allow me to say “no thanks” to their own brand of “this is how the world should be designed according to our noble vision”. Pu-leeeese! This is the land of the free… or is it?
Anyway, I hope to contribute on these issues. I will also be prone to disagree with many of your prescriptions for solving the problem, but perhaps a little outside perspective from a non-Troll will be valuable.
Welcome, I look forward to winning many arguments against you. 😉
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Thanks.
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
as ‘new Creve Coeur.’
Now, are you ready to tow the line?
The expression comes from the British Navy as I discovered reading fabulous Patrick O’Brian books. It comes from getting sailors to stand in a straight line by getting them to place their toes on a line drawn on the deck.
Other examples include “bitter end” which relates to the very last part of raising the anchor; “let the cat out of the bag,” i.e. the cat-o-nine-tails, that is you said something that will get someone flogged and several more which I shall try to dig up.
And congrats to ‘new Creve Coeur’.
that a “libertarian consensualist” sounds like one is preparing for an orgy or something at the Ayn Rand institute ;).
Welcome to the pond. Hopefully there will be interesting conversations and debates between you and others, including BooMan. I’ll look forward to them.
Ahhh… Rand… Sweet gal, I’m sure… And not a bad thinker, but I’ve never been much for cults, objectivist or otherwise. Oh, Ayn.. you had me all the way to the 80-page Galt radio broadcast (yawn…) diatribe.
Welcome, I am not sure whether to join you or flame you. Much of what you state shakes me to my very core, yet it also triggers thought provoking analysis of my own core beliefs. Thank you for presenting to me an idea that makes me want to look at myself and my belief system. I work diligently to remain free of absolutionist thinking, I pride myself in knowing that I have an open mind and that when I am incorrect in an assessment I can facilitate change within myself. I have no idea what your thoughts and writings will bring to Booman’s community or to my own thought processes, but I welcome you with an open mind and open heart. Thank you for joining our community.
Oh, I wrote this after reading your linked page.
welcome. Tell Samir to get his drunk ass over here too. And to stop ogling the Chaldean ladies…he’s incorrigible.
Samir? No more Chaldean’s for him. That boy is knee deep in wedding plans. The bastard decided on a Seattle Thanksgiving wedding… I talked to him yesterday, and with my site now firmly up and going, he’s feeling like the forgotten kid. So, something is in the works.
that’s a tragedy for women everywhere.
I take it the lucky lady is from Seattle?
And why over Thanksgiving?
Women were weeping in the streets of Detroit and Pittsburgh. She is from Seattle, and also of Indian heritage… I think the date was picked because its an long weekend, and, from the sound of it, neither extended family much cares for Turkey, pilgrims, or the NFL — especially those coming in from abroad. All i know is that its a bad weekend for us… we’ll have a four month old then in addition to the 3 year old and the one turning two in August… Very dicey.
Well anyone who knows me on these pages knows that I am highly tolerant of divergent views, (see my diary, Debate with a Neocon)indeed I seek them out.
To me the best discussions are had with those who do not agree on all or part of an issue and I welcome those. I am also a frequent poster on Conservative sites.
And I welcome you to this site and hope you will take advantage of the ongoing diary Tell Us About you:
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/5/10/92548/2405
I just love “outside perspective” and look forward to your contributions.
Mr Ernharth sounds, like me, to be more of an axonometric afficianado than one into ‘outside perspective’
It’s a very oriental viewpoint, in which things are not depicted larger because they are closer, but because they are more important.
But in extremis of course, this leads to 30 meter high statues of the Great Leaders 😉
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You were lucky. BooMan on his own turf is becoming quite a marksman in his own right!
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
Oui – does this mean your contretemps at Dkos is resolved now?
I am the only one apert from Booman who has made a recommend here – now it looks as if I’m brown-nosing the wordsmith.
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Great support from the BooTrib community – really good analysis and advice.
I had a single strategy …
give an honest account.
Call it a communication glitch or a temporary short-circuit.
Mission Accomplished!
Should I duck now? Watch the insurgents.PS PP and Oui are living less than 50km apart!
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
Welcome. Just curious – who does a libertarian consensualist vote for, say in 2004? From what I gather you support property laws, yet are socially tolerant, in so far as that you see it as none of your business what others do as long as they don’t harm others. Anti-Empire – but pro just war? Feel free to clarify beyond Judge Brown and property rights.
Anti Empire, yes. Power should reside with you and me, not with the latest Napoleon wannabe. Not pro war. Pro genuine defense vs. meddling all over the world. Again, you and i should decide when and what merrits our $$… not some self serving preloaded neocon WMD discovery team. I don’t buy engaging the world with US centric interventionism. That makes enemies. Our expression of global involvement should be commerce and charity — but voluntary, of course.
Pro — letting people decide, and for corporations to pick up their own tab vs. sticking the taxpayer.
A good example of the latter would be oil. We subsidize it with $ billions yanked from the taxpayer. Instead, the oil companies should pay for their own protection rackets, and build the costs of it into the price of their oil. That would have the effect of creating oil / gas that is not subsidized — a fatter price tag. It would enable the end user to avoid companies engaging in crap ideology. And it would enable those people who are getting screwed on the other end to aim their planes at the correct buildings with the right oil company logo vs. a bunch of innocents. Given that the price of oil would reflect true cost vs. subsidized, clean energy alternatives would become more attractive / incentivized.
I could go on for a while, but i’ll be talking these issues here and there for a while. Hopefully that gives you a gist.
Oh, and i voted for the libertarian who got trounced. Oh well.
Sorry I just got this today – just so you know I had the opportunity to read this and thanks for the response. I know quite a few libertarians and get along with them quite well – for the most part they are technically accurate, but lack a vision for practical application – with that I mean generosity doesn’t build roads or educate the public, of course it doesn’t start wars either.
I can agree with you on all of the above in any event.
Nor does it subsidize the flight to the burbs at the expense of then environment, or kill mass transit by making it economically inconvenient…
Of course, generosity doesn’t build anything; wealth does. That has to come from somewhere, and it is least destructive if it is self sustaining.
By the way, did you know that the auto industry originally paved roads themselves, and those costs were built into the price of vehicles? Seems logical.
One could question just how well the government schools are actually “educating” year after year after year…. besides, education is truly relative. To have a group of deep thinkers stand up and say “everyone must know the following or they are dumb, and they must be taught this way facing the head of the class” is so 1850s.
Besides, the education industrial complex is about as self serving a corporate welfare industry as any.
Sorry, but you already lost the argument…this is a Representative Democracy.
Actually, No… The US is a democratically elected republic…and one that was rooted in liberty. Show me the word democracy in the constitution and I’ll buy you a beer.
But I’ll grant you that we act as if we are a representative democracy where the electorate and their representatives have fewer and fewer restrictions on their ability to do as they wish — so long as they have the votes.