Ord-Eldorado

Denne artikel fra Washington Times er måske ikke sindsoprivende interessant i sig selv, men den anvender nogle ord, som er ganske interessante:

"Planners": Ja, planlæggere. Lad os skrive det med stort, Planlæggere. Dem, der ordner plan-delen af blandingsøkonomien, altså selvfølgelig planøkonomien. Planlæggere. Det må vi bruge noget mere.

"Green-collar jobs": Tilsyneladende job i den "grønne" sektor, altså hvor man arbejder med "bæredygtig" energi. Gudskelov står ordet i citationstegn. Men det er nu nok et spørgsmål om tid. Endnu et ord til klimaforrådet.

"Anti-tax crusader". Genialt. Det lyder som noget a la Ragnar Danneskjöld i Atlas Shrugged. Gid der var flere af dem.

Den kapitalistiske spåkugle forudsiger...

...at hvis butiksdøden indtræder efter jul som følge af reguleringskrisen, så vil man opleve et folkeligt oprør under overskriften: "Vi vil have statsgaranteret julegavebytning!".

Glædelig jul.

Christmas as we celebrate it today is a 19th-century American invention. The freedom and prosperity of post-Civil War America created the happiest nation in history. The result was the desire to celebrate, to revel in the goods and pleasures of life on earth. Christmas (which was not a federal holiday until 1870) became the leading American outlet for this feeling.
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All the best customs of Christmas, from carols to trees to spectacular decorations, have their root in pagan ideas and practices.
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America's tragedy is that its intellectual leaders have typically tried to replace happiness with guilt by insisting that the spiritual meaning of Christmas is religion and self-sacrifice for Tiny Tim or his equivalent. But the spiritual must start with recognizing reality. Life requires reason, selfishness, capitalism; that is what Christmas should celebrate — and really, underneath all the pretense, that is what it does celebrate. It is time to take the Christ out of Christmas, and turn the holiday into a guiltlessly egoistic, pro-reason, this-worldly, commercial celebration.

Leonard Peikoff: Why Christmas Should be More Commercial