last week the front tire on the iron maiden was flatter than a pancake, you know the story. today the rear tire became flatter than a pancake at a far greater distance from home. i had a long walk and bus ride home. tomorrow i'll have to make the repairs and install the other new tire i purchased last week. yeah, i know i should have replaced both tires at the same time but my time was better spent on something else last week.
i started reading WHY NATIONS FAIL a few days ago and kept saying to myself, "i've heard all this before". then i realized, it's a punched up version of the thimscool manisfesto. it's going to be a tough read. not because of difficult subject matter but because i'm probably going to disagree with a lot the stuff being said. who knows, maybe next week i'll be able to tell you why nations fail. at this moment i'm pinning the blame on low income housing where the dumb fuck deadbeats break their empty wiskey bottles on the pathways and rather than clean up their mess, they complain that someone else isn't cleaning up their mess. so it goes.
ANYONE WANT TO GO HALFS ON A ROB FORD BOBBLE HEAD?
flat tires, failing nations; who give a shit. let's dance!
i love you sons of bitches
23 comments:
Friedman (the man who believes the world is flat) is an interesting critical viewpoint for this subject matter. I'm now curious about the source material for this book review.
Extractive vs inclusive is necessary but insufficient to analyze and predict sociopolitical and economic systems.
Ideally a society should be both extractive and inclusive, in that the elites would invest in the infrastructure, and spend their wealth as they earned it: powerfully, and in support of
improving their base of power.
But now the world is flat! Or it certainly looks that way when you're working on the 42nd floor of 30 Hudson Street. So now they have to think about investing that money elsewhere, and why not?
What makes us special, anyway? The same society that yielded Berkshire Hathaway could have easily arose in Eastern Europe, or India, or China! And now that those poor bastards have access to the capital, they too will be able to prosper, making the whole world a smashing success! Sure looks that way from 770 feet! Yertle never saw the world this clearly!
Sorry about your pancakes. I feel certain that science has a solution. If these two fempowered Swedish hotcakes can make an airbag in a sash, then the tire problem must be solvable. I think this is the solution: Liquid Armor.
thanks for the tip on tire protection. i'll be putting on the flatguard tire tomorrow and if i get more flats then it'll be time to line the inner surface of the tires.
i haven't read the book yet but i have a few thoughts on what makes a nation succeed. firstly you need to be the master of your own domain, this is being destroyed by globalization. secondly the citizens need to have a carrot to chase, a chance of betterment. that also seems to be in danger as upward mobility is becoming nothing but an illusion for a large part of society.
yes, the poor bastards have access to capital but with liquidity of capital, there is no guarantee that the can hang onto the capital. we've become a society of immediate gratification and if the captains of industry don't see a good return on their capital, it's gone.
am i optimistic about the future, yes but not for every one. obama, the great man of the people, is presiding over the greatest shift of wealth in recent history. profits and executive compensation are skyrocketing while spending power of the masses is on the wane.
in summation, hope is the key ingredient and it's in short supply these days.
30 Hudson Street! Flat and filthy!
i like goldman sachs and hope to a big swinging dick in my next life.
When I was about six I had a bike with solid rubber tires, jarred my head a bit, but no flats.
Plus whenever I said something stupid people would say:
"It's okay, his bike has solid rubber tires."
Maybe not the route you want to take, but an option.
"Institutions" is a favourite word of political theorists, but all institutions depend on people behaving in a certain way. You learn more about a country by looking at the behaviour of its people than examining its "institutions". The authors are wrong about China - it's no more authoritarian than South Korea and Taiwan used to be before becoming sucessful nations.
Nations fail because collectively mankind is fucking stupid.
How do you get so fucking many flat tires? I don't recall getting a flat bike tire in the last 30 years.
I've looked at a lot of pictures of the storm aftermath in the Philippines and haven't seen any dogs, anyone going there should take some dogs with them.
I've never tried this myself but it's supposed to be GOOD STUFF...
gb -soon the sun will never set on the chinese empire? but will the citizens emigrating from china have any loyalty to the mother ship?
king - maybe some asshole has placed a curse on me or the bike?
Better send the asshole a bottle of booze to reverse the karma.
Come to think of it, its cunts that place curses, better send them pushup bra’s from Fredricks.
the tire has been replaced and so far so good. i rode it home and nothing is flaccid.
and as an added bonus, i figured out how to fix my broken hand pump.
BBC declares,
"......Nations fail because collectively mankind is fucking stupid......."
I agree!
".....I've looked at a lot of pictures of the storm aftermath in the Philippines and haven't seen any dogs, anyone going there should take some dogs with them......"
Now that, BBC, is fucking funny as hell!
I know, right?
I don't know if it is funny but it is reality, I'm guessing that a few dogs still get eaten in this country.
Don't spoil it for me BBC. It was funny.
Dog is tasty. And it doesn't taste like chicken. It tastes like dog.
I recall reading recently about a man that did kill his dog and eat it and it kept him alive until rescuers found him. But I don’t recall if it was in this country. Generally, in a situation like in the Philippines you wouldn’t eat your dog, you would eat the neighbors dog, or a stray.
I have plenty to eat but this afternoon I’m going to go see if I can lick the new bartender, in my delusions I think I make her wet (now, that’s funny) and she is in pretty good shape for someone my age.
Toronto councilors votes to strip mayor of powers…… Now he can go snort some more lines.
my tires are still hard as rocks and jesus loves me like crazy today.
i have an excellent story about asians eating dogs but i'm too lazy to put it to pen at the moment.
So Bob Ford...pussy...I SO want to move to Canada!
Geez Teri, Ford? Your pussy can do better than that.
Good old Rob Ford. Jon Stewart is loving that guy this week. Hope the Iron Maiden is up and running at 100 percent capacity soon, BP. Have a good one buddy.
Coyboy up and tell the story, Pilgrim!
Frump likes to do some muff diving and he needs cheering up.
Hahahahahaha
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