Publicani

1. Say it’s not a big deal
2. Question motivation of everybody including interviewer
3. Don’t answer questions
4. Complain that you are interrupted because you disagree
and if all else fails ask:
5. What about the Bush administration?

Russian strategic nuclear bombers are flying near U.S. airspace and we stopped intercepting them. “We just leave them alone,” said adm. Winnefeld: Why? What’s our new military strategery? “Obama administration has done a good job of trying to hit the reset button with these guys, and sooner or later they’ve got to respond.”
Another example of Washington-speak from the same interview:
‘Asked about incursions of Russian nuclear submarines near U.S. shores, Adm. Winnefeld said, “We haven’t had one since I’ve been here.” He assumed command May 19.’ He obviously didn’t want to answer what was happening before that. If there were no incursions of Russian submarines, he would’ve said so. It’s logical to assume that we also stopped intercept nuclear submarines near U.S. shores.

MSNBC Debate On Israel’s Justification for Attacking Aid Flotilla

Paraprosdokian

Q. Are you against any government regulation of banks?

A. I am against Federal Government regulations.  States could do whatever they want.

Q. Why are you against the federal regulations?

A. Because if they are wrong (and they often if not always are) they can bring the entire country down.

Q. What is wrong with the current regulation of banks?

A. Money is a product that can be saved, created, bought and sold, the same as potato. We created federal monopoly on production of this particular product and we regulate its price. This way money could be passed to the special interest under the disguise of a loan. If the true price, the market price of the loan is much higher, it’s not as apparent but is equivalent to passing money from taxpayers to special interest for help in reelection, future jobs, and consulting fees for politicians and members of their families. Such practice of legalized theft of taxpayers money  is the main source of politicians power.

Q. But everybody agrees that current regulation will decrease systemic risk?

A. Not everybody. I coauthored a paper that proves that any regulation of risk increases risk.

Q. Maybe we just need global financial regulation?

A. No, global regulation just increases the risk, the same way as federal regulation increased the risk compared to the state regulation. And it also helps politicians to redistribute money from taxpayers to politicians global special interests. This is often done not as a loan but as a swap. We’re making swaps in trillions of dollars for euros. The word “swap”sounds innocently enough, as if it is a fair exchange. Only few people understand that any swap has a price, and because our counterparty enters in a swap with us, it means we offer it for a cheaper price. With this swaps and loans from IMF we are channeling American taxpayers money in 100’s of billions to special interests around the Globe.

From Rand Paul’s interview:

MADDOW: Do you think that a private business has the right to say we don’t serve black people?

PAUL: I am not in favor of any discrimination of any form. …

…In the totality of it, I’m in favor of the federal government being involved in civil rights and that’s, you know, mostly what the Civil Rights Act was about. And that was ending institutional racism.

Right answer:

The Civil Rights Act should have been passed by the states. [Read more →]

By Walter Williams

2 min Video

Best explanation (6 min video)

“A New York Times Bestseller.”
Then you can add this line to your resume: Published A New York Times Bestseller.
Other possible titles?
“The best book on [insert subject] ever written.”
“A Wiener of the Nobel Price in Literature.”
“Book that was read by every member of the Obama administration.”