I've Summed it All Up
For those of you who don't have time to read the entire Claire Berlinski oeuvre, I've managed to condense everything I believe into a six-minute segment on Secure Freedom Radio. Fast-forward to minute 43. For those of you who don't even have time for that, here are the highlights:
- Catch me on Ricochet
- Economic freedom is moral
- Pay more attention to Turkey
Green Claire Berlinski is a little bit like Claire Berlinski on Twitter, but better for the planet, in some undefined but very spiritual way. I'm working on making my opinions leaner, meaner and Greener still. I'll have them boiled down to three minutes by the end of the week.
Those of you who are not yet advanced enough to appreciate this level of environmental awareness may of course still opt to kill a tree. Don't feel bad about it, though; as you can see, I'm rapidly offsetting the damage.
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May '10
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Claire Berlinski. The Reader's Digest Edition.
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You'll have it all boiled down to three minutes by the end of the week? May I remind you, my dear friend Green Claire, that this very Friday you and I will be sitting down in front of television cameras for a full 35 minutes?
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Not to worry, Peter. Green is the kind of brand that may be adjusted to any circumstance. We'll explain that no native California fish were harmed during the filming, and all will be Green. (I mean, obviously, if we weren't talking, our first impulse would be to fish them into extinction, right?) The main thing is that we repeatedly describe what we're doing as Green and insinuate that anyone who doesn't do what we want them to do is bent on killing the fish. Just stay on message. Buy my book or the fishies die.
Jun '10
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What is freedom without social mobility? Not much. And to have any kind of social mobility, based on merit, you absolutely need economic freedom. There's no other way to succeed as an individual. You might "succeed" as a communist apparatchik, and move up the ladder, but not with your individuality intact. There's no loyalty test in a free market. The test is, can you do it, or can't you?
May '10
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"Claire Berlinski of Ricochet.com"
We're moving up in the world... or Claire's moving down.
So you want to go green? Save a tree? Let's see if Peter can perform the interview and quote your book without any notes.
Jul '10
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Those of you who are not yet advanced enough to appreciate this level of environmental awareness may of course still opt to kill a tree
I'm an ultra-conservative. So I prefer bludgeoning otters.
Baby otters.
May '10
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I do a lot of traveling and, like Claire, am bemused at the signs in the hotels. Reuse your towel or the planet dies. Let's see... I had to get in an airplane to get there, use plastic utensils to eat with because of some Islamic whackjobs, and drive to the hotel in my rental... but fresh linens are killing the planet. Sigh.
Jul '10
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He said "Islamic whackjobs"! He said "Islamic whackjobs!"
Holy Mother of God, I hope Bloomberg doesn't get hold of this.
May '10
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Would that be the Transfat, low-salt whackjob, Kenneth? Or his network?
Jul '10
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EJHill
Would that be the Transfat, low-salt whackjob, Kenneth? Or his network? · Aug 31 at 3:13pm
Go ahead and mock, bigot.
You've got some serious re-education time in your future.
May '10
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My wife and children call me "the first in line to be hung."
Aug '10
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"Pay more attention to Turkey"? Well...OK. But as one who has paid attention to it and Brazil too, I'd have to say Brazil is by far the more remarkable. What has Turkey done? Not behaved TOO psychotically for a Middle-Eastern country. Yay, Turkey! But Brazil has gone from an oil-importing small economy with a money-burning sugar-to-alcohol sector to an oil-EXporting large economy, plus it seems to have dealt with the pension crises that may yet dog the U.S.
Jul '10
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Yeah. Brazil.
How many super-models has Turkey produced?
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The Turkish-Brazilian nuclear fuel swap deal with Iran got my attention, but not in a good way.
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Kenneth
Holy Mother of God, I hope Bloomberg doesn't get hold of this. · Aug 31 at 3:10pm
In fairness to Bloomberg, I suspect they'd censor your comment on the grounds that it's offensive to Christians, too. As a member of the remaining monotheism, I'm not offended myself, but I do think it's nice to be polite.
May '10
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Claire, don't worry about Kenneth's comments. They're biodegradable and compostable, if you know what I mean.
Jul '10
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Claire Berlinski
Kenneth
Holy Mother of God, I hope Bloomberg doesn't get hold of this. · Aug 31 at 3:10pm
In fairness to Bloomberg, I suspect they'd censor your comment on the grounds that it's offensive to Christians, too. As a member of the remaining monotheism, I'm not offended myself, but I do think it's nice to be polite. · Aug 31 at 5:01pm
I'm honestly not understanding your rebuke. Please elucidate.
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The reference to the mother of God would be considered profane by many Christians. I'm fairly certain Bloomberg's style sheet would militate against its casual deployment. The phrase has passed into common usage, but I'd prefer not to use it here myself--I'm enamored of Ricochet's commitment to scrupulously polite language. That said, I may be entering the territory of prissiness on this one, and besides, I'm Jewish, so perhaps not really the authority on the subject. What do Christians think?
Jul '10
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Claire:
- I found EJHill's original post quite humorous and playful, so I responded to him in that spirit - playing upon his political incorrectness.
- The formulation of "Holy Mother of God" is a common ejaculation of surprise or alarm among Catholics - Irish Catholics in particular. It is used for comic timing, as in,"Holy Mother of God! Grandma fell down the church steps and the whole parish saw her underwear!" This usage is similar to the Jewish comic usage of the ejaculation "Oy Vey!"
- I have never met a Catholic who was offended by the humorous usage of that phrase. Indeed, at a coffee-klatsch with a Parish Priest, the usage would be met with an indulgent smile by the Father.
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Sounds reasonable enough to me, Kenneth. I'm sold.