Comments for Kejda Gjermani

Comment on Visual Stream of Consciousness by Desiree

Desiree — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:52:31 +0000

What a handsome dog and beautiful girl. And how sweet you saved this dog!!

Comment on JihadwatchWatch: Robert Spencer’s amorous flirt with European Fascism by Oh for...

Oh for... — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:16:07 +0000

This is pathetic. I’m sorry, but it just is. When someone thinks any stick will do, he’s apt to pick up a boomerang. What make it worse is that you may make good points and then piss them all away on this junk.

Take this:

“Who has heard of multiple unaffiliated organizations by the very same name operating within the boundaries of a 10,908 km2 region”

Well, that’s easy enough. Anyone who has ever seen “Life of Brian”. The reason that the jokes about the Judean People’s Front/People’s Front of Judea got so many laughs is that people recognise the syndrome.

Or this…

“out of giving public speeches trying to convince Muslims that their religion is indeed inherently and incorrigibly violent and supremacist and that they better get consistent in taking seriously any and all genocidal verses of the Qur’an ”

First of all, that’s a matter of opinion. Unprovable. You provide no links, no evidence, that Spencer does incite Muslims to practice the most violent aspects of their religion. Further you go on to complain, a few paragraphs later, that his comment about the VNN would exonerate the FPO, and therefore he should be supporting the FPO… projection much?

For the record, I happen to think that Fjordman and GatesOfVienna are fascists. However, that’s a severe charge, and it’s one came to by carefully thinking things over and doing my own research, not by listening to the high-octane ranting of a blogger.

The worst you can charge Spencer with is that he should do some more research on some of his colleagues. Well, fair enough. Your chum Charles Johnson has come out for the Hitler sympathizing Nation of Islam. So I guess we should consider you A-OK with that sort of thing?

Girl, you’re young and foolish. Take some time to learn and grow up a little, and become a bit more aware of your own fallibility, and show a little more compassion and mercy. You will be a far better person and a far better writer.

Comment on A Lower Manhattanite’s Take on the Cordoba House by mesh(igje)tar

mesh(igje)tar — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:59:33 +0000

Ndoshta te takon t’i besh duva Islamit, se Tirana ate fryme ka, por nuk e di se cfare te mire ka per te sjelle nje xhami tjeter ne varrin masiv te ish-dy kullave binjake.
Te uroj te blesh nje kuran e ta lexosh prej fillimit ne fund se sa dashamires e modern ka qene zanafilla e Islamit.

Te uroj nje jete te gjate ne vendin e “qafireve”.

P.S.

Shof gjithnje e me shume se fara e mbjelle ne kohen e xhaxhit, me se fundi pruni frytet e veta, nje prej te cilave jeni edhe ju znj. Gjermeni

Comment on Waterloo’s Larry Smith and his disciples: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Arthur

Arthur — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:08:48 +0000

I want to reiterate some of the previous comments – Larry’s strengths are in his passion for teaching the basics and getting first-year students interested and motivated. Your nitpicking on whether fire services should be government-owned or if it is subscription to fire services that should be mandatory shows how you’ve missed the point of his lectures. His response to your bone to pick about drug patents (“disinterestedly replying that those were all fine alternatives”) was completely appropriate and should have revealed to you the introductory nature of the class. There are good reasons why Larry doesn’t teach higher-level economics – maybe you think he’s not qualified enough, but the stronger reasons are comparative advantage and opportunity cost (which, by the way, are the basics of economics that he teaches so well).

Comment on Rome Didn’t Fall in a Day: an analysis of Western Europe’s cultural demise by Waki

Waki — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:00:50 +0000

Honestly, there are so many other ways to disguise yourself and conceal a weapon that are equally threatening, and even harder to recognize. I.E if you are wearing a wig with sunglasses and/or fake facial hair. You can always wear a big enough of a jacket to conceal a weapon just as effectively as a full body scarf. And I don’t understand how you would find a head scarf disgraceful, I would imagine that as respectful for a women to respect herself like that, of course only if it is because she wants to, not because of other pressure, which unfortunately it typically is. I honestly don’t love the Burqa, but I can respect it. Still, I can see how one may feel threatened by the full body cloak, but I don’t think one should be so paranoid…..

Comment on About by Dritan Kardhashi

Dritan Kardhashi — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:31:19 +0000

Greetings…,

The information is very interesting. I would like to find more materials about this. I don’t know why this is kept hidden from the people, and not mentioned in our history. It seems that someone is interested to keep this hidden from the public for certain reasons.

Thanks again

Comment on Waterloo’s Larry Smith and his disciples: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by psvt

psvt — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:44:03 +0000

I really think you’re looking at Larry through a purist libertarian lens rather than what he actually is – a fairly mainstream left-leaning free market supporter. There’s not much that’s controversial in his lectures.

I do agree many students are so enamoured with him that they don’t challenge him, or question his insights, and he can get it wrong — witness his dislike for social/communications technology for the past 13+ years, I remember 12 years ago in class he was ranting against this, and he continues to this day, yet companies like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc continue to rise.

That said, he understands macroeconomics at its core a lot better than most professors — it’s about the world as it is, and the hard choices we can make to improve it, not some abstract ideal about the free market vs. statism.

“Keynes was all for entrepreneurship, but entrepreneurs to him were little more than beasts of burden to be exploited by the statist puppet masters of the economy. His economics is bullshit: nothing but unsustainable middle ground between communist central planning and free enterprise.”

You really, really don’t understand Keynes, if that’s what you think. His whole purpose was to explain how the economy works in the presence of money, as opposed to a barter economy. And that the effect of sticky prices and credit/debt and can lead to overall depressed demand and thus unemployment, which prior economic systems deemed to be impossible. Just look at the current financial crisis — the Hicks IS-LM model which was a formalization of Keynes has been the most reliable predictor of the liquidity trap conditions we are in globally.

Larry trusts in Keynes because he has been the most accurate guide to our life and times for the past 70+ years. Yes, it has been modified and changed (i.e. Friedman monetarism) and abused (i.e. deficit spending even in boom times) over the years, but nothing in the field of economics comes close to policy guidance.

“Externalities find no room to emerge when third parties at risk can flex their transactional muscles to guard themselves from the eventuality.”

This is utter poppycock.

Comment on About by Dritan

Dritan — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:05:17 +0000

Pershendetje zonjushe. Po kerkoja ne internet, pikerisht per kete teme dhe me kenaqi shume artikulli tuaj. Do te kisha deshire te dija dicka me teper dhe ndoshta nese do te kishte mundesi ndonje pike referimi ku une mund te gjerj ndonje material rreth kesaj ceshtjeje. Adresa ime elektronike eshte: andaluz28@gmail.com

Faleminderit
Me respekt

Dritan Kardhashi Gjirokaster

Comment on About by Kim

Kim — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:14:24 +0000

Hello,

I was hoping you could give me some more information on the Jewish population in Gjirokastra. I am currently in Albania, working on a project to create a museum for the Gjirokasta region. We have a section on faith and religion and we are hearing for the first time that there was a significant Jewish population.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Kim

Comment on Robert Spencer’s Connections: The Serge Trifkovic File (Srjda Trifkovic) by Hate Blogger Robert Spencer Attacks Interfaith Leaders, Imam Mohamed Magid and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick | StraightRecord.Org

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:12:07 +0000

[...] has linked to sites promoting the designated terrorist organization MEK. Spencer is a denier of the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Bosnians during the Serbian war on Bosnia in the early 90’s. Spencer is a supporter and friend of [...]

Comment on Oops!…They Did It Again by Cushman

Cushman — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:22:23 +0000

Are you being sarcastic? After all, it was the Serbs who conspired to be violent.

Comment on Waterloo’s Larry Smith and his disciples: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by asdf

asdf — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:45:28 +0000

“I am still waiting for Larry’s own input. I sent him the link to this post, but don’t know if he’s gotten to it yet.” He talked about it in class i’ll write it if I have time.

Also anyone got advice for the bonus assignments? Where are past finals and notes?

Comment on The Very Best of Albanian Music by Rich

Rich — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:36:54 +0000

“I have no idea how this amazing music managed to make it out to the public.” Well, as soon as it made it out, everyone associated with it was severely punished, starting with Todi Lubonja.

Comment on Waterloo’s Larry Smith and his disciples: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by a sensible guy

a sensible guy — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:38:45 +0000

I think you guys are getting it all wrong.
Sure, many of his arguments are far-fetched..but still, that’s cuz he’s doing an intro-level course!
His way and methodology of teaching is such only because he wants people to look at economics in a different way than other people do it. He doesnt wanna make it boring!

How true his arguments are is debatable..the point he wants to get across is basically the dynamics of the subject. Some of you who’ve commented here who’re doing their PhD and masters, who didn’t understand and appriciate that, well..I’m sorry for you guys.

He is brave in what he talks about, and his thoughts support a certain view of economics.

Students love him, and love his ways. Most of the people taking his classes are mathies, or for from engineering or from the sciences. And to get hundreds of people to love economics, is a big deal.

Critics and loudmouths will be everywhere.

Comment on Robert Spencer’s Connections: The James Jatras File by George

George — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:02:01 +0000

I do not know why you show a Greek coin when you try to talk about “Albanians” being indigenous to Kosovo. Just face it – you were not indigenous and you got there by illegal immigration. Kosovo is Serbia!! In any case, in Greek mythology, Dardanus (????????) was one of the sons of Illyrius. So perhaps Greeks have more right to be there than Muslims Skiptars??