High Stress Jobs: Note that all of these jobs require huge amounts of social skills... always dealing with people.

Soros: He got his dough through the capitalist system, but now that he has his, he doesn't want you to have yours. He's not just a hypocrite, he's a very dangerous hypocrite: a hypocrite with money to burn.

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I have tried and tried to explain what you did in that post, and never can seem to get the point across to our progressive "friends" on this board.

I think that post just might make things more clear to them--- what an awesome way of explaining the natural market cycle.

Well done!

Question is, will snarkybird respond.

Or will I have to post it elsewhere?

He is one of the oligarch global elites I have talking about. You want to see what him and his Bilderberg cronies have in mind for America? Watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOjckJWqb0A

once you mentioned it.....

i don't know who the monster's gonna be. maybe everyone. but i know who the girl's gonna be. she is us!!!

Swine Flu - I had the shot in, I think, 1976. Anyway, Carter was in office and everyone panicked then, too. I wonder if I'm immune?

Akron and DNA - hummm...this will certainly hinder hiring faculty and staff. Then again, maybe not.

The Videos - I didn't watch them, as I saw one back in the early '90s. Have been vegetarian since then and I can enjoy my food. I am a political Conservative and a food conservative. I don't have a problem with people who eat meat or wear leather, as it is a choice to be made by the individual. While we're talking about "dirty" food, don't drink that California wine or grapes grown in this country...both are cesspools of over-pesticiding.

Badly paid, stressful work: I've only had five jobs in my career of nearly 50 years. Some were stressful due to the work; some of the jobs were easy, workwise, but the boss was "one of those....." and made it stressful.

Minsky's "Financial Instability Hypothesis," simply expresses the “natural process” of human nature with respect to Economics. Economics and free market capitalism have inherent rewards and risks and therefore in its “natural state” free market capitalism is as self regulating as every other natural process.

Take the example of a field populated with grass, rabbits, and foxes... lots of grass means lots of rabbit food means lots of rabbits eating lots of grass; more rabbits means more fox food means more foxes; as rabbits get eaten means less rabbits means less foxes but more grass; repeat...

The natural process is ebb and flow, gradual and constant, and so it is with Economics and free market capitalism.

If you begin with the primes that you can prevent the downturn of financial markets you will hopelessly and frantically engage in a never ending struggle to control something you cannot and thus only make everything worse while never achieving the goal. And while I understand the human spirit when it comes to overcoming challenges I also believe in Ernestine’s definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.

In fact if you take Minsky to heart you would never try because any success in sustaining a boom market means a longer period of time throwing caution to the wind and a bigger market correction when the time inevitably comes.

In the case of the current financial crisis government interference created an artificial playing field and human nature took over. The risks associated with free market capitalism were transferred and deferred thus encouraging a longer period of speculative euphoria which, because of human nature, grew exponentially making the market correction of 2008 an avalanche.

The reality is while risks can be hidden, transferred, or deferred they are still there; no one can take away the risks, they are always there and they are necessary.

The scenarios that lead to market corrections are important to understand so that appropriate decisions and actions can be taken, not so we can eliminate them. We build houses according to the climate; we do not attempt to change the climate and build all houses the same.

If small market corrections are acceptable then let them occur naturally all the while planning for them to occur so you are protected. In other words, do no harm.

What I think is more interesting is the DNS host: MAYFIRST.ORG

I'd also be curious whom else Praxis has ties to.... The tinfoil hat in me says there's more to this than just one group trying to get a POV out.

The over whelming majority of people in the 15 thank-less jobs cited consists of dolts each avid to shoot himself in the foot through dis-economic government meddling such as central banking, fractional reserve banking, direct taxes, bureaucratic regulation, centralism & executivism that void the practic application of checks & balances, environmentalism enforced by the criminal law with a view to convicting on the basis of mere technical guilt absent any provable malign intent, communitarianism, gun control, stalinist child protective services, communist inspired special civil contrived rights normal people neither need nor want, coddling felons, smoking bans, foreign aid, internationalism, compulsory school attendance policies, a-phonic methods of teaching reading, artificially low speed limits, minimum wage-maximum hour statutes, mercantilism, court ordered anger management & thwarting viable official pursuits such as McCarthyism, police brutality, the populist movement for state rights, massive resistance to socialized medicine & isolationism.

Many of these people would do significantly better were their net & gross pay identical, an unrealizable scenario so long as their beloved income tax, rightly named by Frank Chodorov the root of all evil, obtains.

woohoo, geez that took some work to filter through all that crap yesterday and extract what you have here.

Does the "friendliest monster" vid in your "anything goes Friday" link remind you of the government healthcare option too?

Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t series has a great segment on PETA.
However, I urge liberals not to watch any of their stuff - from freaks on gun control to Mother Teresa being a self serving bitch (and lots lots more!) - it's sure to o-fennnnddd them greatly!

Under the most rigorously controlled test conditions, an organism will continue to do as it darn well pleases ...

And since the number of organisms in an economic system is continuously variable, any attempt to predict the outcome of said system is pretty much doomed to failure ...

Looked up their domain name on WHOIS. Here is who registered the domain name: http://www.thepraxisproject.org/about/makani.html

Have you read his last book? Full of drivel and blaming Bush for everything. How a man that has made hundreds of millons on the free market can be so anti-free market is beyond me.

I thought about this when the issue of the Hate Crimes legislation being included in the Defense bill came up, and I think I've come up with a solution. Anyone who murders an individual is clearly targeting people who are alive. Murderers only take the lives of those who have who to take. Living people represent a specific group of individuals, therefore any murder is a hate crime. Oh, wait. Isn't that how our system was already set up? Now I'm confused.

http://www.blog2.tshirt-doctor.com/?p=3016

Hope the libs enjoy being on the receiving end of the witch hunts for a change. The kind of change they want we can do without. As far as hate crimes go it is only considered a hate crime for a privileged few. Other crimes that are the result of hate for the other side seem to go unnoticed and probably outnumber the pc crimes ten to one.

I KNEW teachers would be thrown in and figured every slot would be allocated to a teacher. One of the sacred cows of the left is their belief of the poor, underpaid teacher who is one paycheck away from eating from cans of dog food as they slave away 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, 32 weeks a year.

Oh wait, that's right! Teachers are busy all night grading papers...or not since they simply ask the class to hand work to the student behind the as they grade papers in class.

But teachers are busy creating lesson plans! That they can then shelve and reuse the next year and the next year and the year after that.

One of the things that *****es me off the most with teachers is how THEY seem to believe they are in the only profession that requires them to work outside the hours and confines of their employer. That single example of their collective arrogance shows how out of touch they are.

Anything that has to do with dealing with unruly children means nothing to me. These teachers are the same politically correct fools who excuse, permit, and therefore encourage the very bad behavior they whine about.

But I do give them some pity points for their workday starting so early in the morning.