In this episode Mark and Bob tackle alternative energy.  Since the advent of the eco-hippie during the 60's, they have relentlessly pursued program after program whose sole aim is to get our economy to stop using petroleum.  Now hey are using the war against islamo-facism as a pretext for imposing their agenda.  The oil-haters amongs us have latched on to ethanol as the heir apparent to "big oil."  In an unholy alliance of interests, the Eco-fascists are teaming up with America's corn farmers to foist ethanol as the most viable alternative to oil.  Bob and Mark discuss the various proposals and point out what is hype and what is promising.  Just to prove that they are unbiased, this entire podcast was fueled by ethanol.

Page 10 of the Democratic Party Platform mentions the use of switchgrass and other farm products to produce ethanol

Chemical properties of ethanol

Popular Mechanics has a really good article that compares the viability of various alternative energy sources

Another good article about alternative energy from an engineering society

This is a rundown from the Electronic Green Journal

The Tesla Roadster- you've got to see this

Obama's "Energy Security is National Security" podcast

Brazil is not energy independent because of ethanol

A comparison of various fuels with gasoline

Pump problems with E85

Pigou Tax, A google search will turn up more links, but these will get you started:
http://www.econlib.org/library/enc/bios/Pigou.html
http://canadianeconoview.blogspot.com/2006/10/to-pigou-or-not-to-pigou-part-1-with.html
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/10/pigou-club-manifesto.html

Links not mentioned in the show:
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/ethanol_pr.html
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/myths.html

http://www.domesticfuel.com/

http://www.ethanol-gec.org/winter2000/winter0020.html

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17578

Once again Mark and Bob throw caution to the wind by turning on the microphones and just talking.  The conversation starts with the current North Korean nuclear situation and in a chain of tangents, end up rolling out their plan for the upcoming '06 Congressional elections.  Bob gives a rather interesting theory regarding the causes of the situation in the Middle East that is, like always, a must hear.  Mark would like to apologize for all the sniffs that made it into the show.  He was fighting a head cold and sniffing had become unconcious and no amount of Herculean editting could remove it.

KCRW's Left, Right, and Center

History of the Korean War (this really is a must read)

Hugenot persecution

The Hippie Killers experiment by just turning on the microphones and doing a bit of free-form conversation.  They talk about:

*Mark and Bob's disgust with the Republicans
*Clinton's melt-down with Chris Wallace
*Assigning blame for 911 is a waste of time
*Capitalism is not really a system
*Creating large voting blocks is just as corrupting of politics as Hippies think  money is
*Hippe revisionism not withstanding, the Iraq war was not just about WMDs
*Breaking your enemy's will to fight is the only true path to victory
*Hippies have no conception of how to handle physical force
*Mark asks for help with video podcasting

Progressives, especially the moonbats, are pretty loose when it comes to using the term fascist.  Now they have worked themselves up because Bush has started to refer to our enemies as Islamofascists.  We discuss the meaning of the label fascist and discuss how completely appropo the term Islamofascist really is. This show is chock full of the complete irreverance for hippie sacred cows that you have come to expect which turns a fairly dry topic into an informative and entertaining conversation.  Be sure to follow the link below and check out the new 'blog that Bob has been working on.

Robert Paxton on NPR's Talk of the Nation

Cato Article

Reclaiming The Issues: Islamic Or Republican Fascism?
by Thom Hartmann

Harry Dexter White

The Venona Project

Fascism Anyone? by Laurence W. Britt

An alternative interpretation of the Common Characteristics

Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco

Government data on Union Membership
Census
Bureau of Labor

Our NEW blog

The progressives are in a wealthist lather over Republican attempts to repeal the Estate Tax.  Bob and Mark use the arguments of one the internet's most popular progressives, Jack Clarke, to show how support for the Estate Tax is really nothing more than envy-fueled revenge.  Far from actually serving its purported purpose of fairly redistributing wealth, the Estate Tax is actually a wealth destroyer, which serves only to increase the distribution of poverty.  Mark also goes off on a quick diatribe about the concept of "giving back" in a pay-as-you-go society which shouldn't be missed.


Links
Jack Clarke- #46 Attack on the Estate Tax: Right-Wing Lies and Greed in Plain Site

Estate Tax Spin

Repealing the Federal Estate Tax

Joint Economic Committee Study on the costs of the estate tax

In this episode Bob and Mark discuss RFK's Rolling Stone Article where he riles the moonbats up with his conspiracy theory that the Republicans stole the 2004 election in Ohio for Bush.  Well the Hippie Killers hail from Ohio and won't stand idly by and be a silent member of their grand conspiratorial fantasies.  THK presents RFK's arguments as understood by one of his heartiest supporters, Shelly from Citizen Against Lies, an upstanding member of the Progressive Podcast Network.


Links

RFK's Rolling Stone Article

Citizen Against Lies Podcast #56

The DNC's report on the 2004 election

Farhad Manjoo's article in Salon

Mystery Pollster analysis of RFK article

In this episode Bob and Mark respond to an audio clip made by Jay from Best of the Left Podcast.  Jay and Mark had exchanged a few messages and Jay said that this clip lays out his rationale for supporting a progressive state.  Naturally, THK does not agree and they go on to tell you why.  Mark goes off on a few digressive expansions about the anthropology of groups and the Platonic Republic fallacy which he feels undergirds progressive assumptions about how the world works.   

Mark has also finally figured out how to use the software compressor better so this should be the best sounding episode yet.  THK apologizes for rolling out this episode a little late.  There were some hosting issues with Libsyn that took a little longer to work out than expected.

Links

Best of the Left Podcast
{note:  I can no longer find a link to the original show that I pulled this audio from.  It was titled "Hope in the Darkness".  I believe it was released on the week of June 19 to the 23rd, but I'm not positive.}

Our Myspace

WMDs are found in Iraq but the "Bush Lied" crowd doesn't care.  Plus we decide to trash the 5 minute limit, too confining.  The Hippie Killers have got to be free to be us baby; long-winded and self-amused.

In this episode we discuss the hippies new attempt to shirk the negative connotations that they have created for the term Liberal by co-opting Libertarian.  We also discuss another Jack Clarke clip, this one about how Bush's tax cuts are "stealing" from the poor.  In our last segment we discuss a brief clip from the Cato Daily Podcast talking about Al Gore's new movie "An Inconvenient Truth."  It's a short episode but it's cram-packed full of little golden pearls of dharmic insight.


Links
Libertarian Democrat
   Daily Kos' attempt to define it
   Samizdata's rebuttal

Description of an article in the Washington Post


Jack Clarke

Just how progressive are the tax burdens?

Income distribution is not as static as the progressives portray it

Cato Daily Podcast Pat Michaels

The Democrats roll out their "New Direction" platform.  This is a rebranding of their "America Can Do Better" platform.

http://www.democraticleader.house.gov/press/releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=1628

A congressional committee attempts to raise the minimum wage.

We discuss Jack Clark's, from Blast the Right, praise of Bolivia's decision to nationalize their Oil and Natural Gas reserves. Then our sites are turned on to the speech that United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown made on 7JUN06.

It's a short show, but there's alot of interesting ideas.  There's a really good rant against cultural relativism about 25 minutes in, and Bob proposes a new franchise scheme that should give you something to think about.  


LINKS
 Jack Clark
The UN speech

Today we discuss the hippie conceptions of activism and compassion.  Recently we found a locally produced hippie podcast.  They attempt to take us to task for some off-handed remarks we made about how hippies use activism to force their morality on everyone.  Naturally we applied THK ju-jitsu to their arguments and left them in a quivering lump of virgorously refuted gratuitous assertions.  We extend the conversation by examining another clip that details what we believe to be the driving force behind alot of hippie "activism", the compulsion, borne out of uncontrolled empathy, to "do something" for those presumed to be less fortunate.

Links

Radio WC

Cronkast

A brief update on our status plus an interesting clip from The Adam Corolla Show.

In this episode we turn our sights on the latest example of rampant hippieism, Jay Bennish. We may not always address current events in the most timely fashion, but what we lack in speed we make up for in depth. Eschewing superficial analysis we bring you longer excerpts and discuss the issues. While most commentary has been directed at his Bush is like Hitler comments, or hippie indoctrination in the classroom, we focus mostly on his comments about terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Like most hippie positions, they do not stand up to any amount of reasoned critique. So join us as we deconstruct another batch of addlepated hippie assertions.

Linknotes:
The full Jay Bennish audio
Bush's State of the Union speech, 2006
History of the Middle East (Israel/Palestine)
UN GAR 181
Armstice Lines
Shahada and the weaponizing of Palestinian children
SIPRI report

Linkography:
The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz
The History of Israel from The Rise of Zionism To Our Time, Howard Sachar
Palestinian Media Watch
UN GAR 3379, Zionism is Racism, the hippies have been against Israel for a long time
Bennish Commentary:
Michelle Malkin, with transcript
Walter Williams, col 1, col 2
Thomas Sowell

Bob and Mark discuss a few different topics. Mark talks about his recent employment situation which has given him new insight into why Japanese companies, in America, have such a greater competitive advantage than their American counterparts. They also discuss the origins of the Dick Cheney was drunk meme that's been going around. Bob brings up an article by Paul Krugman about where the productivity increase has gone. This leads into a discussion about how statistics are used in a rhetorical manner in order to further the hippie agenda which can only be attributed to a conscious desire to deceive the public.

Links

Meme
"Was Cheney Drunk?", by Lawrence O'Donell
Arianna Huffington on the Cheney coverup
Lawrence O'Donell on Hugh Hewitt
Lawrence O'Donnel bio
Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick (in case you don't know already)
"Graduates vs. Oligarchs", by Paul Krugman
"The 25 Fat Years", by Pete DuPont
"Musky Income Myths",by Alan Reynolds
"Ignoring income inequalities", by Donald J. Boudreaux
"Productive inequality", by Walter E. Williams
The Laffer Curve

In episode nine we address the sine qua non of hippyism, reverence for the 60s. No one charactersistic better defines a hippie than their total fixation with this decade. We found a clip from an Ur-Hippie, Socialist Steve, who sets out a fairly common, to the point of cliche, argument for why the 60s where so great. Naturally we couldn't disagree more and end up turning a 5 minute clip into a full show. Join us as we do what we do best, hippie-bash.

Links

Illegal immigration and border security have become controversial issues recently. In this episode The Hippie Killers discuss the issue and hopefully give listeners some new perspectives. The issue is a big one so it has been broken up into two parts.

In part one Bob and Mark examine why illegal immigration is a problem and look at a proposal for fencing off the border with Mexico.

Show Notes:

Stats for Illegal Immigrant numbers
Pew Hispanic Center

Center for Immigration Studies, The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, Fiscal Findings

The Inside Scoop, Mark Levine

I finally looked up some info about the illegals paying taxes. Here's an article about it that should be a good jumping off point.

Mark screwed up. It was actually Prop 187
History of how it died

Mexico is complicit with illegal immigration

The Matricula Consular Card

Mexican Military incursions on to US soil, Link 1, Link 2, Link 3

The Reconquering of Aztlan

The True Enforcement and Border Security Act, proposed by Duncan Hunter
The Ammendmendt that Duncan Hunter got passed in the House


Which Way to LA?, Monday, November 14, 2005
Is it Time to Fence Off the Border?

Scooop Radio, the show I excerpted is no longer on the net as far as I could find. It aired on 12DEC05 if that helps you out any.

Team America, Tom Tancredo and Bay Buchannon, be afraid people, be afraid

Minuteman Project

Patrick Haab’s Citizen’s arrest

Bush’s and Vincente Fox’s comments about the Minuteman
Minuteman accused of detaining a border crosser
The US Border Patrol agents support the work being done by members of The Minuteman Project

In part two of episode eight Mark and Bob look at some more proposals for securing the border and curbing illegal immigration. These proposals include, Bush's Guest Worker program, calls for increasing development aid to Mexico, and changing the fourteenth amendment. They wrap it all up with a quick summary and their own reccomendation for the problem.

Show Notes:

Bush’s Guest Worker proposal

Social Security Totalization

Vincente Fox on Jim Lehrer

All Things Considered, Strange Bedfellows Join Forces on Immigration Bill

The Free Speech Show, Immigration Issues pt 3

Source for the discussion of the Fourteenth Ammendmendt

An article discussing the Hayworth Bill
Text of the Bill

In this episode, The Hippie Killers talk about the assault on the Second Ammendment and the erosion of the individual right to self-defense.

Links
Miller Case
Emmerson Case
Canadian drop in gun suicides but increase in hangings
UK violent crime stats
Univ of Florida study Kleck and Gertz on self-defense use of a handgun
Self-Defense: An Endangered Right (cato)
Wiki-pedia article on the militia
Militia Act of 1792
Rany E. Barnett "Saved by the militia"

Of Further interest:
THE TRUTH ABOUT GUNS, CRIME AND VIOLENCE

I've reposted episode six after re-editing it. So if you couldn't stand listening to the horrible quality it's all better now.

Today Bob and Mark discuss the Living Wage movement. Across the country Hippies have mobolised on a municipal level to pass Living Wage legislation. The Living Wage is basically a mimimum wage that is arbitrarily set to match what a single wage earner would need to earn in order to support a family of three or four at the poverty line. We excerpt a a fairly common argument for a living wage from Jack Clarke's podcast, Blast The Right. This show is a little long, because Mark once again over-researched, but is chock full information and the unique Hippie Killer commentary you've come to love. As you would expect, The Hippie Killers do not support a living wage, or minimum wage for that matter and they tell you why it's a bad idea and present alternative ideas if you absolutely must enlist the State to satisfy your urge to help the poor. Plus Bob goes on an anti-poor rant that you won't want to miss.

Links to info mentioned in the show:

We apologize for the crappy audio in this episode. Mark discovered, too late sadly, that he had some bad settings in the editing software that caused it to be rendered pretty awful. Won't happen again.

Bob and I would like to wish you and yours a very special Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays if you've got a stick up your butt, to everybody.

In this episode Bob and I get a little loose from the booze and spell out what our basic principles are. We ran into some interruptions and when combined with the booze, we got very tired. And yet because we love you, we still put out an episode. We hope you enjoy it.

In this episode Bob and Mark comment on the recent Delphi bankruptcy filing, the neverending push for national healthcare, and the damage wrought by the idea that higher education is the best meal ticket. With all the abuse of hippies you've come to love.

Show Notes

Paul Krugman OpEd
Screw shooters are a dime a dozen
The economy is dynamic
National Healthcare will not fix the automakers problems
Outsourcing overseas leads to increased jobs at home
Recommended reading on economics

Nationalized Healthcare has not gone away
Free healthcare is not really free
There is no healthcare crisis
Hippies just don't want to pay for medical insurance
Mark:"You're never going to get anything out of the government that you couldn't provide better yourself"
TANSTAAFL
More book recommendations
THK put forth a modest proposal to solve the healthcare crisis

Commercial Break

OpEd "Colleges can't expect K-12 to do it all"
The Ohio Board of Regents study of Ohio's incoming freshman
Most people shouldn't go to college
Our education problems are the result of pushing uneducable students through the system
Graduation or enrollment quotas can only lower standards
It's not the job of higher education to bring students up to a high school graduate level
"Student Anti-Intellectualism and the Dumbing Down of the University"
Let's lower the bar until x number of people meet the standard
There are some states that are pushing to end remedial education at Univeristies
The hippies have turned education into vocational training
A higher education is about developing higher reasoning skills
60% of Ohio's high school graduates go onto college, that's insane
Walter William's Oped
"Today's College Students and Yesteryear's High School Grads: A Comparison of General Cultural Knowledge"
Hippies have perverted what an education is supposed to be in order to further their political agenda


Links for further interest
Delphi
George Will column
John Jordan column (he's pro Union)
James P. Hoffa column

This link will take you to a site that has some details about the ongoing movement for National Healthcare

This is the text of the Oregon initiative that went down in defeat in 2002


Bibliograhy
Economics in One Easy Lesson, Henry Hazlitt
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
In Defense of Global Capitalism, Johan Norberg
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein

Recently I had a life changing experience that I just have to share. I was listening to hour two of the November 16th, 2005 episode of Free Talk Live. Ian, one of the hosts, posited that intellectual property rights are bad for consumers because they limit consumer choice thereby inflating the price of goods. Furthermore, I learned that these government created rights are used solely to enrich the rights holder at the expense of the product consumers.

Needless to say I was floored, just as I am sure you are too, by this economic insight that I had never considered. This revelation has inspired me to create my own podcast in order to do my part in fostering consumer choice.

We call it The Hippie Killers Talk Live and here�s a link to a clip from our first show. We hope you enjoy it.

Libsyn doesn't allow you to associate more than one podcast per post. So here's part two of Episode three for your edifying enjoyment.

We're back after a brief hiatus. We decide to talk about the Iraq war and end up making such a long show that we had to break it up into two parts. Bob and I hope you find our conversation as engaging as we obviously did. The Hippie Killers fully endorse the objectives of the WoT and believe that it's important not to lose sight of our goal during the Hippies' full-court press to discredit the Bush administration for political gain during the 2006 mid-term elections.


Part One
We thank some listeners
Bob is Podcasting ignorant
How the Hippies use Vietnam as a model
Negative bias in Iraq reporting
It's not really the Iraq War anymore, it's the Occupation of Iraq
Hippies are only anti-war because they are anti-Bush
Are combat deaths really worse than the deaths at the hands of a despot?
If a government is a non-Hippie government is an illegitimate government
Hippies doesn't like America to exercise its power
Hippies are not ideological when they pick political leaders
The terrorists are not guerillas
Mark defends the Clinton administration for treating terrorism as a criminal matter
Hippies are never going to quit until America is Socialist
Bob posits a connection between Libertarian isolationism and Hippie pacifism
We finally get back on topic, successes in Iraq and how the media mis-report them
The insurgency is not a popular movement
Bob clarifies what battalion readiness, as it applies to the Iraqi forces, means
Mark has an interesting hypothesis about the biased Iraq reporting
An exit strategy operates from the assumption of surrender
Michael Goldfarb on Politics of Culture talking about the American failures in Iraq
Whenever an empire collapses, in this instance the USSR, there is a reorganization of geopolitics
Mark destroys the idea that it was a mistake to disband the Iraqi Army Regulars
Mark goes off on Hippie intellectual conceit
Appeasement is always the answer when Hippies are confronted by agressors


Part two
No conflict is like the preceding conflict
Mark thinks that the Hippies really didn't stop the Vietnam War but Bob convinces him that they did

Is an insurgency primarily composed of foreign nationals really an insurgency?
American forces had to deal with the Werewolves in defeated German, should we have declared WWII unwinnable?
Fortress America, no Battlefield America
If the Iraqis pick another leader like Saddam we'll kick him out too
There's never been a war between two free countries
Hardcore Hippies are even whackier because of their marginalization
Bob explains why the military as a whole is primarily staffed with minorities, but the combat arms are more reflective, demographically, of America
Mark is a patriot
al-Zarqawi is no Ho Chi Mihn
Did the French Resistance blow up French schools and hospitals in their fight against the NAZIS?
Final thoughts



Other links of interest

Hillary Clinton against an immediate pullout in Iraq
John Coles' post on the Murtha resolution
Oxblog's take on the Murtha resolution

For some of the successes in Iraq reconstruction click here
Bob's stats on the Iraq military status come from here