Systemic Sanity  (because)

Systemic Sanity's New Site
This blog has moved.  I am now blogging at http://rodneyjowen.wordpress.com/
I intend to keep this blog open as a reservoir for archived work.  Please visit the new site to see what's on my mind.

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Posted by Rodney Owen at 6/19/2009 12:37 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The New American Auto Industry
I can envision Ford being the Harley Davidson of the auto industry, the last great American Motor Company. But upon further consideration, Ford may be the big loser in the end, simply because they did all the right(?) things.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 6/4/2009 11:08 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Logic of Human Action
Human Action is our means for reaching the desired end. But is it always rational?
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 4/20/2009 10:31 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Hope, Greed and Fear: The Psychology behind the Financial Crisis. From Knowledge at Wharton
To explain the current economic crisis, the world of finance has a particular lexicon -- including, for example, credit default swaps, mark-to-market and securitized subprime mortgages. Psychologists, on the other hand, might use very different terms: hope, greed and fear. This is from the "Knowledge at Wharton" website from the Wharton School of Business.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 4/20/2009 9:57 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Conscience of a Classical Liberal
I have over the years considered myself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. My positions have changed over time but mainly to the extremes at the edges. In other words I have become even more fiscally conservative and more socially liberal over time.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 3/15/2009 2:30 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
ImmiGREAT from Bureaucrash
This is a re-print of information available at our friends Bureaucrash. I had to share this because I think it is crucially important, and because I couldn't have said it better myself. This typifies the way I think about immigration.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 12/11/2008 9:47 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Let 'Em All Fail
Please steal my money. I only had to work my ass off for it. Take it and build bombs that destroy ancient civilizations and kill innocent people. Be sure and give some of it to your cronies and supporters. Send some to foreign countries too, please. You can even spend more than you take, because I’m sure I’ll have more to offer you later. In the meantime borrow from other countries, maybe even some of the ones you give my money to. You’ll have to pay them eventually because they have big guns also. Just come back and ask for some more. It’s OK. Really, it is. I don’t need it. It’s only money. If I run out I know you’ll be there for me.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 12/5/2008 4:01 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Economic Crisis, and some options
We all need to start thinking, listening, talking, writing, and whatever else to get ourselves out of the financial mess our leaders have gotten us into.  Juan Enriquez and Pop!Tech are offering a good start.  Follow the link below and watch the video.  It is sobering to say the least.  Above all it is a good start.

Click: Juan Enriquez

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Posted by Rodney Owen at 10/29/2008 1:36 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Alfred E Newman for President
Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds.
Oh lord, yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away.
They only started the war.
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah.

Time will tell on their power minds,
making war just for fun.
Treating people just like pawns in chess,
wait till their judgement day comes, yeah.

Now in darkness world stops turning,
ashes where the bodies burning.
No more War Pigs have the power,
Hand of God has struck the hour.
Day of ...
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 10/28/2008 3:39 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Georgie, Fannie, Freddie, and the Hen House
The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is nothing if not complete proof that the good old US of A is a socialist country. But let me modify that, a National Socialist country.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 9/9/2008 4:29 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)