{"id":11907,"date":"2010-01-20T05:03:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/20\/balik-bastan-kokar\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T05:03:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:03:27","slug":"balik-bastan-kokar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/20\/balik-bastan-kokar\/","title":{"rendered":"Bal\u0131k ba\u015ftan kokar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bal\u0131k ba\u015ftan kokar<\/strong> is Turkish for "The fish stinks from the head."  Quite apropos of the Obama administration the corruption, incompetence, and stupidity of which boggles the mind. <\/font>He's done everything wrong.<\/font><\/a>  But there is hope: Obama's fiscal irresponsibility and liberty-destroying socialist malfeasance has suffered a massive rebuke in, of all places, the People's Republic of Taxachusetts.<\/font> Here<\/font><\/a> are the precinct-by-precinct statistics of Brown's win over Coakley in the Bay State.  (Perhaps it should be called the Pay State.)  The results for Cambridge precinct show a whopping 84% for Coakley (DEM) and a paltry 15% for Brown (GOP).  No surprise there, of course.  You know what Cambridge is home to. <\/font><\/p>\n

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By the way, I loved my years in Boston-Cambridge.  Boston was my Mecca, the hub of the universe.  But I was a young guy, liberal as the young are wont to be, who hadn't yet thought hard and long and in an experience-informed way about political and social questions.  I owned nothing and I paid no taxes.  Quite the contrary: I received food stamps.  I was scraping by on a very low stipend in a very expensive city.  So I applied for, and received, public assistance.  I had no qualms about doing so at the time.  The food stamps allowed me to quit my awful and dangerous job as taxi driver.  (The only thing worse than a Boston driver is a Turkish driver.)  I used my time well and kept my nose to the philosophy grindstone.  But the point is that I was able-bodied and should not have been allowed on welfare.  Welfare programs breed dependency and lack of self-reliance, among other ills — which is not to say that there should be no such programs.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bal\u0131k ba\u015ftan kokar is Turkish for "The fish stinks from the head."  Quite apropos of the Obama administration the corruption, incompetence, and stupidity of which boggles the mind. He's done everything wrong.  But there is hope: Obama's fiscal irresponsibility and liberty-destroying socialist malfeasance has suffered a massive rebuke in, of all places, the People's Republic of Taxachusetts. Here are … Continue reading “Bal\u0131k ba\u015ftan kokar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,316,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}