The Real Deal: September 2017

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Sunday, September 17, 2017

real deal on horrible people...

Who heard the nasty little squib Nathew Hutin slag off the new Prime Minister of New Zealand by saying she knows nothing.
Tell me how someone who has been a member of parliament for three terms can possibly know nothing?
thats just balderdash and hutin knows it.
she was elected to do something and not just make up the numbers like the nonentities from the national party.
the only thing he knows is to creep round rich people in the hope of some of it rubbing off.
he should get a real job and cut the crap.

Friday, September 15, 2017

Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill. real deal on language...

Listening to Daniel Dor on Saturday Morning with Kim Hill.
Dor is another academic who does no appear to know what he is talking about and prefers to complicate things rather than simplify them.
He also supports gnome chumpsky who had some nasty little ideas that he tried to foist on the world as fact but never succeeded.
Chomsky had an agenda which was to tie the study of linguistics up in such a knot that ordinary people could not unravel it but the kernel was that if language was innate then so were other things like soviet communism.
yes indeedy.
Well human language like other things in the evolutionary scheme of things was an accident.
When humans became erect the hyoid bone evolved into an anatomical position where it held the tongue in such a way that it could produce phonemes and not just noises.
Language evolved when the human brain not only acquired the capacity to name objects in reality but to negate any assertion.
As Bertrand Russell averred any proposition is always a question and one word is sufficient to be a proposition.
So while the ignorant can gasp at the 125 words that eskimos can use to describe snow the most important thing is to be able to say no it is not that one.

Thus any mystery evaporates.
There is no deep structure here.
What is most important about language is what we say.

Everly Brothers - Love Hurts

Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie

the only inevitables
all governments tax to the maximum they can get away with.
pre fiat money and computers the computations were highly guarded secrets of the monarch and his officials.
now the information is available to any one with the requisite education and desire to know.
In New Zealand the government has been in power for nearly 10 years and have an extremely close association with the monetary AUTHORITIES.
The incoming government is not going to do anything stupid or precipitate.
The incumbent national government are accusing the challenging labour party of a future tax and spend policy that will bankrupt the country.
that is so much piffle and an invention by the australian pr firm crosby textor who specialise in advancing unprovable arguments especially to confuse ordinary people about money and taxes and try to scare and alarum them.
the thing is that Labour is going to be the next government.
whatever policies they may advance now will be costed by the treasury and measure against future growth and earnings and there will be no wild spending.
National is tired and moribund and caught up in arrangements that need to be reviewed and altered and unnecessary experiments in health and education ironed out of the system.
The environmental issues are going to have to be addressed sooner or later and it is better if it is sooner.