"Freedom" thread or something

My brother was telling me earlier about the bill that passed both houses...how being "disruptive" while the President is speaking is a crime. Being "disruptive" around anyone protected by the secret service or in certain places is a crime as well.

Naturally, they will point out and say "awww cmon you need to protect these people" but if you were to run up and try to punch Obama you'd be grabbed and put on the floor before you touched him.
Seems clear this would be used to silence protesters.
Loooong before I would even think the words Ron Paul I hated this kind of sh*t. Free speech takes another stab in the back : (


And more proof that while the two parties will argue to death over anything, they agree on civil liberties...removing them of course.
Passed both houses...up to Obama now. Boy I wonder if he'll sign it maybe he'll be "reluctant" about this one as well!

388-3? Not even Slarti will we able to paint this as a gop-dem game. All politicians are repulsive.

another brick in the wall

You can very acutely critique the assumption of rationality in economic thought, but their criticism just does not make any sense. First off, even deterministic systems, such as meteorological effects, cannot be accurately predicted. The large number of variables precludes anything other than a probabilistic analysis. You could say that human subject themselves in mass to a statistical examination and inference, but we remain unable to predict behavior per se. It's not even necessary to mention that though. The rationality axiom basically claims, with some necessary requirements on how preferences are ordered, that individuals will seek to maximize their utility. I can do this while being perfectly unpredicatble.

Silly example: You give me the option of 2 hotdogs or a cheeseburger. I'm rational so I will pick the one which gives me the most utility. You can't predict my behavior because you have no access to my preferences. I pick the cheeseburger. You know have the information that I prefer cheeseburgers. The next day you offer the same choice to me. This day I pick the 2 hot dogs. You failed to predict me. It does not mean failed to act rationally. I still acted with my preferenes. The marginal utility the second hamburger simply is less than marginal utility of my first two hot dogs in a two day period. If preferences were static and known to all, then yes your siblings would raise a valid critique. However, under real circumstances they must attack it via different angles.

Someday I hope to eat a real cheesesteak. A guy can get something called that out here on the West Coast, but it sucks. Funny, there was a "New York Deli" here many years ago, run by a guy from New York. I suppose it was authentic, but he was an in your face combative type of guy and his business did not last long. 

While I was driving today I saw the first cheesesteak place I've ever seen in FL. Alas, it was in a rather bad area, so my chances of eating that apparently libertarian-oriented but definitely artery-clogging delicacy still seem to be low...

"Leave the young people alone and they'll find out they prefer lovemaking to warmongering"  sage words from the old gynecologist.

Pat, there's no doubt, if I ever make it to Philly, I will be running my sandwich tour itinerary by you.  My gut feeling is that  you know the soul of cheesesteak like no one else. 

Cheesesteak commentary for the unofficial cheesesteak thread.