Was It Boehner?

This was a DrudgeReport headline. They did not name names.  I have my suspicions.



DECEMBER 21--A federal employee was formally reprimanded this month for excessive workplace flatulence, a sanction that was delivered to him in a five-page letter that actually included a log of representative dates and times when he was recorded “releasing the awful and unpleasant odor” in his ... office.

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First, Destroy Small Business

"We want voluntary compliance, and then if not..."

It would be important to look into the history of this Police Detective for a history of corruption.  His argument, that a burger stand should do its own policing is a good one, for there is absolutely no reason to ever have a police department.  But for the Police Detective to argue this is nonsensical from the police perspective.  It sure looks like a case of shakedown.


When that neighborhood is too dangerous for the police to enter, then this small business will be safe.

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Jesus & the State, Part II

Following up on yesterday's post on Jesus and Anarchy, the problem of St. Paul in Romans 13 advising submission to the Government, we also have to take into account  St. Paul in 1 Corinthinas 6, in which Paul excoriates people who turn to the Government to advance lawsuits.

Now, how come after requiring submission to Government authority, Paul turns around and says stay out of the courts?

6 When any of you has a grievance against another, do you dare to take it to court before the unrighteous, instead of taking it before the saints? ² Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? ³ Do you not know that we are to judge angels—to say nothing of ordinary matters? ⁴ If you have ordinary cases, then, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church? ⁵ I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to decide between one believer^[a]and another, ⁶ but a believer^[b] goes to court against a believer^[c]—and before unbelievers at that?

⁷ In fact, to have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? ⁸ But you yourselves wrong and defraud—and believers^[d] at that.


Something I have a hard time understanding is when bible commentaries cover anything relating to the Bible and the state, the commenter either ignores what the bible says, or says it does not say what it says.  Typical commentary on the above passage says "O Paul is only talking about not taking church disputes to the Government courts."  Well, no, that is not what it says.  It says stay out of the Government courts.

Now if on the one hand, Romans 13 Paul says submit to Government authority, but here in Corinthians he say stay away, then what to make of that?  I see no inconsistency.

As pointed out yesterday, the State, what we call Government, is condign punishment for rejecting God.    The state killed Jesus and Paul.  And Peter and countless other Christians.  As God said in 1 Samuel 8, you'll get the Government you deserve.

Now any village preacher will advise when in trouble to stop sinning.  What is a lawsuit except going to the Government and saying "fight my battles for me?"  To initiate a lawsuit is to personally renew the events of 1 Samuel 8.  Especially business people should never make things worse for themselves by initiating a lawsuit.  If there is a business dispute, settle it at the business level.

The theme from part one is God expects more out of business people since business people are customer-employed, anarchists, and know better, therefore are to be treated more harshly when they do ill, like the merchants at the Temple.

But what if you are summoned to appear?  Then appear, pro se. And defend yourself.  Do not get others to defend you.  Trust God.  And be afraid, very afraid, if you prefer Government to God.

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Jesus on Business & the State

Jesus presents a problem to anarchists.  He is harsh on business, easy on the state.  But he continues God’s uninterest in kingship.

But wait, wait...  Doesn’t the Catholic Church have a feast of “Christ the King?”  You bet, started in 1925.  Like, yesterday, in Church time.

“God and King” starts with 1 Samuel 8, which gets emphasized in 1 Samuel 12.  It is an amazingly direct, clear, unambiguous lesson: God does not want us to have a king.  And “no king” in Greek is An+ archy.

So far so good, God is on our side.

But that does not mean God does not want government, since God specifically gives Moses laws to live by, rules of personal conduct, in effect, government. Fear of God and love one another is government enough, as Jesus reiterated. There is much to study and learn from those laws, which sound horrid from the outside but are remarkably good in practice.  (Talk of killing malefactors in law and action in practice are two different things.)

But against God’s advice, the Jews insisted on a king, and the Jews got a Kings, good and hard, just as God promised.  AS God promised, when the king thing went bad, God would not hear the cries of the Jews.  It got bad, Jews cried.   Read Samuel forward. Eventually, Jeremiah and Daniel and others start prophesying a Messiah.  Where did the idea the Messiah would be a king come from?  Jewish aesthetical imperatives?  Who knows?

  

The Messiah arrives. So is Jesus Christ the King?  Pontius Pilate asked Jesus this question directly:

Matthew 27:12-14 12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.

So far, on this point, Jesus is not talking, according to Matthew.

John 18:33-37 33 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?

34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?

35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?

36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

The Dominicans have an argument strategy: seldom affirm, never deny, always differentiate.  They may have learned it from Jesus.  Jesus denies nothing.  In this case he affirms nothing either, at least in regards to what Pilate asks.  he does differntiate:  His kingdom is not of this world.  He says he came to be called king, so he could witness to the truth to the world that his “kingdom” is not of the world.  So for all practical purposes, within the concerns of Pilate and Herod, Jesus is not a king.

And this from Mark 15

2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto them, Thou sayest it.

3 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.

4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.

5 But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.

6 Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.

7 And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

8 And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.

9 But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

10 For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.

11 But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.

12 And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?

Here after asking jesus if he is king, and getting no affirmation from Jesus, he goes to the Jews and asks what is to be done “unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?  It is clear to Pilate it is not Jesus who says he is king, it is the Jews.

As clear as it is in 1 Samuel 8, it is clear here Jesus will not accept being king on any human terms, and if he is a king at all (for to be king would be  every bit as condescending as any other role for God) it is in heaven.  So we come back full circle, the Jews are to depend on God, not a king.  And as if to remind the Jews of their disasterous history with Kings, Pilate posts “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews” on the cross.  Scandalous!

But note overall, how Jesus deals with the kings, their representatives, the state.  The Jews wanted Jesus to be a king, to lead a rebellion, and of course win.  The rebellion part is what Pilate worried about.  But Jesus did not rebel.  Neither Pilate nor Herod had anything to worry about.  Because as St Paul says, the powers that be are ordained by God.  yes, they are wicked, but we all knew that before we insisted that God give us a king, a demand we renew every election.  As Emma Goldman said, society gets the criminals it deserves, and I would observe, especially when we elect them.  (Goldman also said if voting changed anything they’d make it illegal.)

Now let’s look a how Jesus treat business people.   At the beginning and the end of his ministry, he violently clears the businesspeople from the Temple Precincts (at least once, probably twice http://www.teachingtheword.org/articles_view.asp?articleid=64842&columnid=5446).

Now they were just providing a service, exchanging money to pay the temple tax and selling livestock to people who would prefer to buy that for sacrifice at the last minute than haul someting all the way from Nazareth, let alone Syria.

Now it was not an issue with money exchanging or the temple tax, since Jesus himself paid the temple tax, and took care of Peter’s tax too.  And it was not a problem with the sacrificing, it was a problem with the location.  Business people had spread their markets into the temple precincts.  They got beyond their proper place.  

What a stark contrast!  The state murders an innocent Jesus, and he submits.  Some business people set up shop outside their proper place, and Jesus lays waste their operations.  Why the difference?

Because the state is ordained by God, and its role is punishment.  Business is natural and good, and needs curbing if it goes inappropriate.

So in summary, the state is there to punish us, in the measure we look to the state to “fight our battles” for us.

Business is a natural and good phenomenom, and is directly ruled by God, who He himself will punish if business steps out of line.

Taxes are part of the state apparatus, which even Jesus paid, but not without a miracle.  So it is with us.

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said "Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."  But he would, wouldn’t he?  And the IRS engraved it on their headquarters.  But they would, wouldn’t they?

No, taxes are the punishment assessed for rejecting God.

I think I have this right.

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Israel's Strict Control Laws

Except where their most valued resources are at risk.



In USA we make schools gun-free zones, which accomodates people who've been drugged to do things they would not normally do.

Israeli field trip!

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The End of Hong Kong?

China has an intellectual property rights (IPR) campaign ongoing that I believe is very ill-advised.  As an entrepot, Hong Kong excels by being an honest broker for China.  What China wants, Hong Kong is delighted to serve its most important customer.  Now Hong Kong too seems to be getting on the IPR bandwagon.  If the United States is any indication of where IPR goes, then Hong Kong is headed toward disaster.

Let's go back to the beginning. Hong Kong and USA were formed at the same time by the same people: laissez faire adepts on the fringes of Britannia, the world's sole superpower at the time.  In USA it was outright rebellion, in Hong Kong, it was a matter of necessity.  Short of suitably English civil servants, the Crown appointed Scotsmen to run the Island the Emperor ceded to the Crown.  Those Scotsmen were heirs to a philosophy regnant in the new USA, ancient ideas communicated by Moslems to the Spanish Scholastics, up to the French philosophes, and over to Scotland.  That philosophy flowered in the USA and Hong Kong, Holland and Switzerland, about the same time and eventually a variant in Singapore a century or so later.

Now this philosophy is not "British" indeed it never took hold in the UK.  It is not "Chinese" either.  Since it is based on freedom, it is universal.  Hong Kong is what Aquinas calls an "accident." The right people at the right place at the right time with the right idea.  Over time, the United States drifted away from its original moorings while Hong Kong has remained fast.

Why did Hong Kong work?  In history, when there is too much government chaos follows, and people escape to anarchy, where there is order out of chaos.  Hong Kong is an example of order out of chaos.

In the USA IPR was introduced over the objections of Americans by that defender of the small guy, Thos. Jefferson  He was the first patent examiner of the USA.  Of course, the revolutionaries in USA wanted nothing to do with the rotten system of patents and copyrights and trademarks from the old country, which benefitted the rich and powerful.  Thos. Jefferson lobbied for a difference in USA constitutional law that he presumed would be a good thing, and that is in USA patents would be issued to teh inventor as opposed to Europe, which is first to patent.  Theoretically this shift would be revolutionary, giving power to the small independent inventor.  In practice it has been a mess, to the point where the recent change in USA law now has the USA laws mimicking the hated European system.

What Thos. Jefferson missed was the inherent flow in "intellectual property rights" and that is it depends on violence to maintain.  Fifth parties must be taxed by fourth parties to pay third parties to enforce rules on second parties who may have infringed on first parties putative rights.  In practice people adapt to fighting each other over "intellectual property" instead of building market by serving customers.  The difference is profound, and we can go through USA industry by USA industry and see where IPR reigns, our industry is dying, where it is no where to be found, we thrive.

Fashion and architecture we excel, medicine and automobiles we are falling behind.

While an absence of intellectual property rights regime is natural so needs not be argued for, arguments against IPR are widely available.  I can send some wonderful .pdfs to anyone interested, and I recommend the book listed here as a start.


But the Chinese need no argument, because in their historical experience they have seen the effects of such control.  The Han and Tang dynasties were relatively free, creativity and invention flourished.  Under the Yuan and Qing, the benefits of invention went to the conquerers.  Chinese invention suffered.  Yet art and literature was not held back, so that flourished in spite of the occupation.

Under the Communists, by virtue of their de facto freedom, China is now flourishing again.  It is clear the leadership has no interest in being the factory floor and back room for Nike and Tiffany, China desires to be Nike and Tiffany.  But must not confuse cause and effect.  It is not IPR that makes those companies great, it is marketing.  I would urge China to eschew IPR.

IPR is contrary to Hong Kong DNA.  Sure, Hong Kong should become the world center in licensing and managing IPR where ever it rears its ugly head.  Why not?  And sure, protect your brands, etc when selling into an IPR regime.  But for Hong Kong itself, abjure all IPR.  Stay the best marketers and managers in the world.  Never let violence be the basis for law.  Stay free!

Hong Kong is the last best hope for all people who desire peace and prosperity.  It is what Ireland was to Western Christianity, when all was looking dark the culture had receded to a few monasteries in Ireland, from which it returned.

There should at least be a robust conversation about a change that has sound profound effects.  if the people of Hong Kong were to study IPR in the USA closely, they would find no more clear and present danger to their independence, peace and prosperity.  Watch out!  Regardez! Be afraid, be very afraid!

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Israelis Love Iran

Now this is the Christmas spirit...

http://www.israelovesiran.com/

Look here...

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Funny

From Lewrockwell.com


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Freelance Designers

Here is another source of freelance designers, named, naturally,

http://www.freelancer.com/directory/freelancer.php

Add that to 99designs.com

and mechanical turk...

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All Hail Sailing Over the Fiscal Cliff!

There will be no deal.  Right now it is championship wrestling, with people acting however they want, because the outcome is already set.  Before the election they did the budget deal that needed to be done to buy more time, keep the game going longer.  The game is credit.

This is not about money.  It is about the "full faith and credit" of the USA.  To keep the game going longer, we need to improve our credit with the rest of the world.  Here is what was necessary:

1. Prove the state can crush government unions.  Done (see Michigan).

2. Cut defense budget.  Baked into the "fiscal cliff" dive.  Starts January 1.  Happy New Year!

3. Raise taxes.  Baked into the "fiscal cliff" dive.  Starts January 1.  Stock market'll rally, dollar will get stronger, housing prices will go up, things will look better.

But the longer term result will be we'll fall farther, harder, faster when it does crash.

Or we will go to war to change the subject.

This is tradable.  Just watch your customer base.  Do they get their "money" in the form of credit from the state?  If so, keep looking, move on to customers who actually produce something people actually want and need.

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Why I Love America

White people...

And People of some African heritage....


And Arab-American


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New Profit Center for Customs Brokers, Freight Forwarders

More on Panjiva, Zepol, PIERS, ImportGenius and so on... precipitated by a note from the ether:

Hi John,

Thank you so much for sharing with me the information. 

In your blog - 

http://hbhblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/zepolcom-importgeniuscom-piers.html

"You can buy the info from Customs at $100 per day also, or  roughly $2200 per month.  Nothing special or secret, anyone can do it.   Zepol will sell it to you, all prettified in a lite version for about $250 per month, pro version $500 per month and enterprise version $833 per month.   Either way, at those prices it is better for you to go to Zepol than US Customs.  (If you want the info, I say you are delusional if you are seeking it.)"

Th link you have for the Customs data is no longer active. Do you know where I can find it?

Thanks.

M

M,

The link to buying customs data on steamship manifest is dead, and I cannot find a new link.  At the same time that link is dead, somewhat limiting competition in this already crowded field, we have this:

Among the companies that provide this information service are the Journal of Commerce's PIERS database and Ealing Market Data Engineering Co.

You can also try the American Association of Exporters and Importers in New York.

Wow.  Customs is scrupulous in not showing preference for the services of private companies.  I wonder who decided to give private companies links from a government website to private companies.  It must be very valuable.  It must be a real disadvantage to ImportGenius, Zepol, Panjiva, etc.

http://www.iealing.com/en/index.html seems to be a freight forwarder offering the trade data as a loss leader to drum up logistics business.  

Now my objection to pursuing this data is, as I have said before, that the premise in seeking it is faulty: that knowing your competitors is an advantage.

1. Your focus should always be on your customers.

2. All you need to know about your competitors you will hear from your customers.

If anyone can tell me (the sites that sell data make no worthwhile claim) a use for this data that I have not thought of I’d be delighted to hear.

And nosing around I found another company offering trade data, this one seems to be offering what I teach in my classes.  http://www.veritrade-analytic.com/ ... it looks like what I think the data should be used for.

Searching I found something is did not know.  From USCustoms:

https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/285/~/importers---confidential-treatment-of-vessel-manifest-data

How can I prevent information about my import activities from being disclosed to the public?

According to privacy statute, 19 CFR 103.31 (d), the public is allowed to collect manifest data at every port of entry. Reporters collect and publish names of importers from vessel manifest data unless an importer/shipper requests confidentiality.

The importer can submit a letter via email (privacy.cbp@dhs.gov) by Fax (202)325-0152/0154 or by mail (address below) to the Privacy Branch requesting that their company name not be disclosed on the vessel manifest. The confidential protection is valid for 2 years, after which time a renewal is needed. 

Well, any Freight Forwarder of Customsbroker worth his salt will offer their clients the service of maintaining the confidential protection every two years, for a fee of $75.  Even a small customs broker with say 100 clients would add $7500 every 2 years to the bottom line.  A big company with 10,000 clients would be adding $750,000 for a procedure that can be automated.  Well, it seems this will kill these data collection sellers since the data they sell will get progressively worse.

In the meantime, Freight Forwarders and Customsbrokers should get business offering this new service and pick up a new revenue stream.  

And I want a thank you note for pointing out this new profit center.

And there is still time to make money off brokering hiding importers.. or misleading them.

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No American Job Ever Goes Overseas

I've been making this point for years: no American job ever goes overseas.  What happens is USA economic policies cause US Industry to build their next modern plant overseas.  It is not a question of taking a meat cutter's job and giving it to a meat cutter overseas. The new factory overseas cutting meat has no meat cutters.  (From Mish)


Where for workers once assembled cars in USA, Ford workers feed robots in Turkey. No American job ever goes overseas.  Those workers would have lost out anyway.

What we need is more economic freedom so more small business can grow and we can still have butchers cutting up more wholesome cattle for the USA specialty market.

Following the USgovernments ag policy of "get big or get out" small farmers were being destroyed since the only legal slaughter house for small farmers was in Oregon.  To keep slaughtering expensive, the feds would prosecute, and settle out of court, cases of private slaughterhouses "polluting."

The only way to handle pollution is through property rights.  As it is now, we end up with pollution institutionalized when the feds get involved.

But in the face of this attack on small business and independent butchers, farmers came up with mobile slaughter houses.  Make a stupid rule, and people will get around it.

Watch Mobile Slaughterhouse Helps Wash. State Farmers Meet Demand for Local Food on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

Time to return to property rights and freedom, so we can get americans working in new and old jobs again.

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Why No Why?

After we murder 20 school kids, why are we not allowed an answer as to why?

I have a unique suggestion: if we commit a murder, our medical records become public domain.

We know we design drugs to get people to do things they normally would not do, and a common thread is these shooters are heavily medicated people.  This would be a valuable line of inquiry, but there are very heavy penalties for revealing anyone's medical records. The Aurora theatre killings happened months ago, and we still know nothing about the shooter, or the Phoenix congresswoman shooter or for that matter the Columbine shooters.  But they all one one thing in common: those drugs.

We know we have done much work on these drugs and mind control, so it would be interesting to study what treatment these people got and the results.    It is becoming ever more clear medical records secrecy is not to protect patients but protect the state.

We need independent and widespread research on these gunners.

We know the factory model of schools is probably the worst system imaginable.  We profess children are our most precious asset, but we send them off to factories to be processed, have certain "treatments" applied so we can have certain outcomes.  I know about this because I have a masters in Ed Admin.  Well, when we set something up like that, a gunman can come in, take the factory over, and apply his treatment, mass murder.

If children were our most important asset, why do we put them in one place where we can do much harm with much ease?  We do not leave a back window on the safety deposit room at the bank.  But if we were to design schools commensurate with the value of our children, our schools would look like Fort Knox.

My grandmother taught twelve kids in eight grades in one room in Montesano, Washington and one of her students went on to become the first woman chief of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Now this is not to say boutique schools founded around learning styles would stop the problem, it is only to say we'd have better educated kids.  For in 2006 another one of us with trouble in mind murdered some Amish kids in a one room schoolhouse.  We keep his medical records secret.

When we cannot know anything as to the why we do these things, we settle for the simplistic argument over guns.  We can argue all we want about whether spoons make us fat, but the fact is there is far much more involved.

A few days before the Connecticut murders, one of us confronted another deranged shooter at an Oregon Mall.  The bad gunner killed two and was confronted by a good gunner, and armed citizen, at which time the bad gunner killed himself.


Our president represented us as lachrymose.  Why do we act as though this is a tragedy outside us and incomprehensible when is it our doing?    One thing we can be assured though, is we will never get an answer as to "why?"

If we deregulate medicine, there will be more people offering more and better and cheaper ways of dealing with mental problems.  But we need medical records to prove it.

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Four Tape Guns

A while back I had to replace a tape gun, and found it had been changed for some reason.  Tape guns now feature a "safety device" that makes using a tape gun slow, awkward and dangerous.  The safety device, naturally patented, keeps the cutting edge of the tape gun receded until you make a final, awkward twist, which brings out the cutter for a moment to do its duty.  That motion is fraught with slippage and danger which can lead to an injury, with a tool for which I've had a 40 year history, and never an injury.

You see that flange out to the farthest left in the picture?  That is dual purpose: 1. it press down the tape as you dispense, and 2. when you press it further as you end your taping run it extends the cutter to cut the tape. one used to tape with one hand and press the tape down with another, while deftly folding the tape at the corners for a professional seal.  Perhaps the new (to me) design is good idea, but a disaster in execution.  In practice it slows down the taping process, it misdirects tape, it makes a mess and can cause injury as one tries to adjust to the awkward requirements of the design.

So I have been looking far and wide for a replacement, one without this new feature.  As I look I am suspicious as to why this new feature exists.  It certainly cannot be market demand.  All vendors note their tape gun "meets OSHA standards."  O dear.  Did someone game the system by designing a tape gun with a patented feature and then make it a OSHA requirement that it be used?  Sounds very likely. I could find nothing on the OSHA site s to the history of this standard, but we've seen this kind of mischief before.

So I went to craigslist thinking perhaps some old-school warehouse shutting down would have some for sale.  I found a fellow offering 4 for $20.  Wow! they are usually $30 each.  And his came with tape preloaded, usually about $4 a roll.  Deal!

I was worried when I saw them because they had the flange, but the cutter is never retracted, so the flange serves no purpose and it can be removed.  I was amused that these guns were branded a large company who no doubt bought a massive run of these only to learn they were not OSHA standard.

The toy industry destroyed the second hand toy trade in USA by regulations, but I think this tape gun business is to small to be outlawed.  I am glad of that.  In any event, these last forever, and you need only replace them when they get lost, or run over by a forklift.  I've got four now, and they are mine!

But why do we need an OSHA?  think of all that time talent and treasure that could be working in the free market!  it was the republican Nixon that gave us the DEA, EPA, OSHA and so many other of these deleterious agencies.  Republicans adore big government and waste, fraud and abuse.

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