tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post2204379529385970747..comments2024-03-23T04:05:16.364-04:00Comments on Raw Dawg Buffalo: Label me CowAll-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-78172814679306599742008-10-15T20:55:00.000-04:002008-10-15T20:55:00.000-04:00Mad late response...Bone Thugs sampled BC in the s...Mad late response...<BR/><BR/>Bone Thugs sampled BC in the song "Mo Murda" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4M8022TsYw<BR/><BR/>Respect the blog and your words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-62069695447096485342008-08-09T03:53:00.000-04:002008-08-09T03:53:00.000-04:00@ SLAPPZ: Good points all around. Cooper Union, t...@ SLAPPZ: Good points all around. Cooper Union, though, is probably the last remaining EUROPEAN university in the US. Many of the state and land-grant university systems were excellent and cheap enough to be almost free. I got my MBA from UCLA nearly 20 years ago and I only paid $1100 per year in tuition.<BR/><BR/>At over $20K per year, SUNY, UVA, U of Michigan, Chapel Hill, and UCAL are "bargains" but $20K when Cambridge or Salamanca are close to free? Something's terribly wrong. But it's beyond my ability to understand fully.<BR/><BR/>You and Torrance may well have studied this topic more recently than I did, but I remember reading the Tobin model of "national wealth" and the thesis that a country's net worth as it were can be explained largely by return to the unit of capital and return to the unit of labor.<BR/><BR/>I found some sense in that. I think that a lot of the Japan worship/bashing in the 80s was kind of silly given how strong US labor and capital return was and has been. With regard to the presumed Japanese superiority of the 1980s, I always found the Fremont (CAL) Toyota case a fascinating cross-cultural study well worth reading. What I took away from the case was that American labor productivity especially in the auto sector was excellent and the collective-bargaining system was beneficial to labor and management both. The Japanese system of human resource management kind of replaced a couple of false gods (servitude and uniformity) for two others(drugs and alcohol) and for a little while that worked. <BR/><BR/>But only for a little while. When Toyota Fremont under Japanese corporate culture went bad it when worse than it had when it was a dispirited, drug-addled UAW shop, in a very depressed part of the state. But I digress....<BR/><BR/>I would like to revist Tobin at some point and see if the USA of today is explained by the model and if not can the model be improved or are the results outliers or should the model be tossed in the garbage.KELSO'S NUTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14636889771989672795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-88675821528714667152008-08-09T03:20:00.000-04:002008-08-09T03:20:00.000-04:00Torrance: How did I frighten them? I wrote uncomf...Torrance: How did I frighten them? I wrote uncomfortable things. I wrote what I knew about the Russian revolution and why my ancestors left after the fall of the Tsar. I wrote about Nat Turner and John Brown with the idea that violent systems require violent response or failing that non-violent leaders like Gandhi and Mandela who are absolutely fearless themselves and can inspire the same fearlessness in multitudes plus brilliant political instincts. But that economics and political brinksmanship always play are role.<BR/><BR/>I think my having presented fundamental change in those terms presented a kind of Copernican or Freudian problem for the readership. That what happens at the level of control is beyond just closing your eyes, swinging from the heels and voting "Democratic" or eating vegan! <BR/><BR/>Quite simply, Danton could not get the job done in France. The Mensheviks could not get the job done in Russia.<BR/><BR/>Nat Turner and John Brown were "morally right," but would you have been happy being on the receiving end of the violence? Are you REALLY ready to decide what side you're on? LOL!KELSO'S NUTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14636889771989672795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-34114103539164110312008-08-08T13:44:00.000-04:002008-08-08T13:44:00.000-04:00torrance,Foreign investors have ALWAYS had a stake...torrance,<BR/><BR/>Foreign investors have ALWAYS had a stake in the US.<BR/><BR/>In 1999 the Germans (Daimler Benz) bought Chrysler for about $38 billion. Not long ago they sold it to an American investment company for a net price of about $1 billion. They took a huge beating when they tried to IMPROVE an American car company. <BR/><BR/>GM might disapper in a bankruptcy. But even if it does not, the company must dump thousands of employees.<BR/><BR/>The Japanese bought Rockefeller Center in the 1990s. <BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, as you mentioned, a muslim investment group from Abu Dhabi bought the Chrysler Building. This is good news in many ways. I once had an office in the Chrysler Building. Great place. Great location. <BR/><BR/>Arabs may own the Chrysler Building, but the Don't own the land underneath it. The land is own by Cooper Union (one of the best engineering, archtecture and art schools in the country). Cooper Union collects an enormous rent from the owners of the Chrysler Building and the school uses that rent to cover its operating costs. <BR/><BR/>Students accepted at Cooper Union get FREE tuition as a result.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, businesses from every nation buy pieces of the US when funds are plentiful. The British have been the biggest owners of US assets.<BR/><BR/>If the US is lucky, Toyota will pick up the pieces of collapsing US auto-makers.no_slappzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04207475509053402475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-53098055029191813922008-08-08T12:27:00.000-04:002008-08-08T12:27:00.000-04:00Keisha "Kitten" Isaacs Anytime scholar/poetetssReg...Keisha "Kitten" Isaacs <BR/>Anytime scholar/poetetss<BR/><BR/>Regina <BR/><BR/>That will be the day<BR/><BR/>KELSO'S NUTS <BR/>True, he is the obvious choice over McCain. And slavery may be some proof to your point and I simply dig the Robespierre reference. And how did u scare folks, let me know?<BR/><BR/>no_slappz <BR/>lolAll-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-80658412454283084592008-08-07T22:22:00.000-04:002008-08-07T22:22:00.000-04:00zipzipno_slappzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04207475509053402475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-59425859085386824812008-08-07T20:34:00.000-04:002008-08-07T20:34:00.000-04:00@ JAMES TUBMAN: I think Obama's a young pol who's ...@ JAMES TUBMAN: I think Obama's a young pol who's good and getting better and who has certain gifts. He is an obvious choice over McCain. Whatever other things anyone wants to put on him is his or her opinion.<BR/><BR/>I'm a permanent resident of a foreign nation anyway, so I can't vote. I asked my sister to vote 2x for Obama to cover my vote LOL!<BR/><BR/>I don't know what the fuck I am. I'm from an Eastern European Jewish family. I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My parents always told me to be very suspicious of Americans and that it was not likely that I'd die in the USA. How prophetic. <BR/><BR/>I have European features and a dark complexion. By American standards, I'm White. <BR/><BR/>I've already lived in England, Russia, Spain 3 times and now Panama. But there's a secret about White American people I came to discover. THEY ARE LAZY. THEIR WORK ETHIC IS HORRIBLE AND THEIR INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY IS ABSENT.<BR/><BR/>I only read the kinds of stuff you're writing about f/x and debt here among the regulars and on my site which is a collective of 24 completely crazed-up souls. There is no discussion of economics and national income accounting outside of a tiny little corner of the Black American and international blended blogosphere.<BR/><BR/>The "liberal" White sites are worse than the Wingnuts. They've got some weird hangup about economics and finance that they can't discuss money in material and scholarly terms. They can't be seen to be advocating free-market capitalism! I got booted off a site for criticizing someone who was advocating "revolution."<BR/><BR/>I made the point that my great-grandather and great-great uncles fought as Bolsheviks against the Tsar and it wasn't any joke. Revolution is violent class warfare and it's hideous. To be good at it you have to be willing to kill a policeman or a child in cold blood at the drop of a hat. <BR/><BR/>That's not who I am. Not hardly. I'm a civil libertarian. And I wrote as much. I was told that on that particular site they use the word "revolution" to mean "paradigm change" and not to take it so seriously.<BR/><BR/>I wrote back that I hardly saw an equivalence between the Blackberry Pager and M. Robespierre or F. Beria! I was asked to leave the site because my words were fightening and offending their regulars. This was how I discovered Fairlane and through him Torrance.<BR/><BR/>It's up to all thinking people all over the world to get the word out about how precarious a state the USA is in right now owing to inept, corrupt and sadistic fiscal and monetary policy. We have to keep a discussion going and use whatever ideas work.<BR/><BR/>And we have to be able to squeeze in a fuckin laugh or two.KELSO'S NUTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14636889771989672795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-75871443570688511432008-08-07T19:26:00.000-04:002008-08-07T19:26:00.000-04:00I think for both candidates they have to speak in ...I think for both candidates they have to speak in very basic generalizations because if you start making promises and then win "somebody with a good memory OR somebody who got beef" will surely call them to task! God forbid someone is actually made to come through on those campaign promises...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537995627507688916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-27886096104231802252008-08-07T19:18:00.000-04:002008-08-07T19:18:00.000-04:00Hey Brother!Thanks for the knowledge!Hey Brother!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the knowledge!Keisha "Kitten" Isaacshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02481825775250529786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-11159153484744147502008-08-07T17:14:00.000-04:002008-08-07T17:14:00.000-04:00Blog Queen Well just cvhecking jonesDemon Hunter B...Blog Queen <BR/>Well just cvhecking jones<BR/><BR/>Demon Hunter <BR/>Babz is the truth, u need to chk out aunt Jackie too<BR/><BR/>James Tubman <BR/>I just want him to be prepared folk<BR/><BR/>sista gp <BR/>I know babe, babz told me to chk on u and I will call 2nite how is hubby, kids and my aunt<BR/><BR/>Sheliza <BR/>Thanks mom LOL, just found out today<BR/><BR/>Garth Sullivan <BR/>Garth, I will give u that and u know I am not attacking him, I want if his handlers read this to prepare HIM FOR WHAT IS REALLY REAL, I agree whole hardely – it is the media and I know u don’t fault me for making us the we in the people think about suchAll-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-18443706210688647222008-08-07T16:47:00.000-04:002008-08-07T16:47:00.000-04:00I see you got that official nominee button for the...I see you got that official nominee button for the web awards. That's pretty exciting! You know I'm pulling for you!Shelly- Mom Fileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05577936271946309958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-58048270175891227892008-08-07T16:21:00.000-04:002008-08-07T16:21:00.000-04:00LOL. You are making me hungry. Can't eat. Had wisd...LOL. You are making me hungry. Can't eat. Had wisdom tooth extracted yesterday.Sista GPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06782105568336804901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-70502616709735488832008-08-07T15:14:00.000-04:002008-08-07T15:14:00.000-04:00our people arent ready to know who the real obama ...our people arent ready to know who the real obama is <BR/><BR/>im glad a blogger is talkin bout some real news<BR/><BR/>this is the future <BR/><BR/>the white boys who run this government has completely messed this country up <BR/><BR/>running it into deeper debt borrowing from places like japan, england (their mother country) and china<BR/><BR/>and now they are coming back in to claim their debts by buying up major american institutions like fannie mae and others <BR/><BR/>the world is getting ready to dump the dollar for the euro <BR/><BR/>and now you are just starting to see the ripple effects of that movement <BR/><BR/>and the poeple who are really feeling it unfortuantely are the black middle class<BR/><BR/>martin luther king said it best <BR/><BR/>"injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere <BR/><BR/>the jews said during he holocaust "today me tomorrow you"<BR/><BR/>now we are starting to be affectedJames Tubmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04192686802895547676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-45798345871372822232008-08-07T14:50:00.000-04:002008-08-07T14:50:00.000-04:00Good points, Lovebabz. I agree. :-) I love Octavia...Good points, Lovebabz. I agree. :-) I love Octavia Butler too. Life imitating art. :-/Tyhitia Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14070000168178880911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-52534771932905712402008-08-07T14:48:00.000-04:002008-08-07T14:48:00.000-04:00What's up Doc! I've been buzzing in and all. Thank...What's up Doc! I've been buzzing in and all. Thanks for bringing the issues that are of the utmost importance but for whatever the reason the media and the candidates don't seem to be interested in addressing. Always can get my daily dish of the goings-on right here...<BR/>RoschelleAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02577780679140276988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-46149639351492302852008-08-07T14:34:00.000-04:002008-08-07T14:34:00.000-04:00KELSO'S NUTS I will join, and I wish I had the kin...KELSO'S NUTS <BR/>I will join, and I wish I had the kind of loot u got and I land grab too<BR/><BR/>Lovebabz <BR/>I would never call u jaded or cynical<BR/><BR/>OG, The Original Glamazon <BR/>My kind of woman<BR/><BR/>Lena <BR/>You should read every word<BR/><BR/>Kai <BR/>Wine yummy<BR/><BR/>Rich <BR/>Luniz<BR/><BR/>THE NOCTURNAL<BR/>Any time<BR/><BR/>Tamra <BR/>Thanks, I will look it up.<BR/><BR/>Kitty <BR/>And we don’t know what hitting us<BR/><BR/>Monroe Anderson <BR/>Well u know I wrote about three times in past year<BR/><BR/>The Socialite <BR/>I would be escorted out with da quickness<BR/><BR/>Ticia <BR/>Thanks ghon how have you been<BR/><BR/>THE PRINCESS "CC" <BR/>LOL, what do u find him attractive lol. And u looking at too much videos, but I had a post suggestion for u after reading your last two<BR/><BR/>Thembi <BR/>Yep and the root is us letting them folk run our lives instead of us doing such<BR/><BR/>Curious <BR/>Now that we can do good friend lol<BR/><BR/>Waiting for Zufan! <BR/>Yes, Rockstar, stud, gigolo and make them order them. Thank uAll-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-20171938768025680972008-08-07T13:05:00.000-04:002008-08-07T13:05:00.000-04:00Love the title.Bet things are going to get a lot w...Love the title.<BR/><BR/>Bet things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. There isn't an easy fix to this mess that the big Arbusto has gotten us into.<BR/><BR/>In response to your comment: I DID look for one of your books once, at Borders; said it had to be ordered, and I wasn't quite that ambitious... If I do read one, which one am I gonna like best, you think? Got a recommendation?Waiting for Zufan!https://www.blogger.com/profile/00251869333168942963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-27286435687428368192008-08-07T12:27:00.000-04:002008-08-07T12:27:00.000-04:00You know the British have always been the largest ...You know the British have always been the largest land owners in NYC, at least since the 70's and they were ususally followed by the Japanese and the Dutch. So there is nothing new there. And with a weak dollar and much stronger pound or euro or other currency, why not buy some big apple it will only pay off in the end. In fact because of the weak dollar NYC has received goo gobs of foreign tourists spending their money because everything in the US is so much cheaper. And that goes not just for NYC but Miami and many other cities that attract foriegn spending.<BR/><BR/>Neither Obama or McCain will be able to prevent this and the real question would be why would they want to. We live in a global econonmy where many people in many places will buy here(where ever here is)and spend there and capital will flow and economies will grow and the wealth for all will increase, at least that's the theory.<BR/><BR/>BTW Freddie and Fannie may not be government agencies but they have always acted as such. If Mccain or Obama were to allow those 2 to fall, the economy would really collapse and the repercussions for the poor and middle class would be so devastating, you'd hear people start to call for the good old days of Joe Stallin. <BR/><BR/>So take your beef and throw it on the grill where it belongs and I'll bring the beer. Maybe a nice Belgian brew, Bud perhaps.Curioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03784893681266233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-15727551819022021732008-08-07T12:19:00.001-04:002008-08-07T12:19:00.001-04:00"Id Rather Be With You" = Adina Howard's "Freak Li..."Id Rather Be With You" = Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me" sample for those who aren't in the know...<BR/><BR/>As to globalization, this country really is going to hell in a handbasket no matter who wins this one. We've been burying the root causes to economic problems for so long that the public just cant bear it.Thembi Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01444442842465183297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-34196818898457711962008-08-07T12:19:00.000-04:002008-08-07T12:19:00.000-04:00excellent point re mccain and obama, but what do y...excellent point re mccain and obama, but what do you expect?<BR/><BR/>I mean really.<BR/><BR/>And i like the "beef" comment, classic.<BR/><BR/>Has anyone ever told you, you favor the rapper MJG he's from memphis too right??? I noticed this on a new UGK video he appears in. Especially with the hair.THE PRINCESS "CC"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16661171576017790668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-79606092954727320282008-08-07T11:55:00.000-04:002008-08-07T11:55:00.000-04:00Good info Torrance.....Man.....these folks taking ...Good info Torrance.....<BR/><BR/>Man.....these folks taking over America - where are our politians!Ticiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13956393573041401364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-31306235407150785482008-08-07T11:50:00.000-04:002008-08-07T11:50:00.000-04:00I wish someone like you was sitting in the audienc...I wish someone like you was sitting in the audience with the Press to ask them these type of questions, instead of pointing out that Obama is a celebrity and McCain is old.The Socialitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14408582309125793106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-40845947895548475942008-08-07T11:02:00.000-04:002008-08-07T11:02:00.000-04:00There's a bigger problem than gentrification. Chin...There's a bigger problem than gentrification. China is slowly but surely making moves that will result in its owning the biggest chunk of the USA.Monroe Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06856226188529368355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-24278729754629304172008-08-07T10:25:00.000-04:002008-08-07T10:25:00.000-04:00Dang that's a shame.Dang that's a shame.Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16842665205996051815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-37325682844930082092008-08-07T09:33:00.000-04:002008-08-07T09:33:00.000-04:00Found this http://research.stlouisfed.org/publicat...Found this http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/92/05/Foreign_May_Jun1992.pdf<BR/><BR/>--it appears to have been published in 1992, but it's still interesting and quite relevant.<BR/><BR/>The author, Cletus C. Coughlin, has written a whole lot of other interesting papers about the US and global economies (google him). It'd be interesting to see some of his thoughts and analysis about the evolution of and prognosis for the crap we're facing right now in comparison to some of what he wrote previously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com