Atlas Shrugged: The Mocking

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Money For Nothing

Many thanks to the people who pointed out this:


Events

IHS [Institute For Humane Studies] 50th Anniversary Dinner
Washington, DC
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Invitation Only

6:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. Dinner
Black Tie Optional

IHS supporters, alumni, faculty, and friends are invited to join the Institute for Humane Studies as we celebrate our 50th anniversary with a gala dinner in Washington, D.C. The evening will include remarks and stories from notable friends of IHS, highlights of special moments in our history, and a spotlight on new initiatives to boost our liberty-advancing impact.

Invitations to the gala have been mailed to IHS supporters, friends, alumni, and faculty contacts. If you are interested in attending this event and did not receive an invitation, please contact Ashley Schiller at 703-993-9228 or aschiller@ihs.gmu.edu.

Program
Remarks - Charles G. Koch, Koch Industries, Inc. & IHS Chairman

Tribute - Walter E. Williams, George Mason University

Stories - A Parade of IHS Alumni

Emcee - Megan McArdle, The Atlantic

Sponsor Levels
Baldy Harper Sponsor ............................................................. $25,000
Table for ten, VIP seating, ten tickets to VIP reception

F.A. Hayek Sponsor ................................................................ $10,000
Table for ten, premium seating, five tickets to VIP reception

Milton & Rose Friedman Sponsor .............................................. $5,000
Table for ten, priority seating, two tickets to VIP reception

Ayn Rand Sponsor ................................................................... $2,500
Priority seating for five

Adam Smith Sponsor ............................................................... $1,000
Priority seating for two

Patron ticket ............................................................................. $500*

All sponsors have the opportunity to be listed in the program.

*A special rate is available for IHS alumni:
$20 for alumni who are still undergraduate or graduate students
$35 for alumni who are within the first five years of graduating (2007-2011)
$100 for alumni who graduated more than five years ago (graduated prior to 2007)

Honorary Host Committee
Helen Harper, Larry Harper, Barbara Keith
Children of IHS founder Baldy Harper
Leonard P. Liggio
From Baldy’s right hand, to IHS Distinguished Senior Scholar

Charles G. Koch
Friend of the founder, supporter since 1964, current IHS Chairman

Jerome M. Fullinwider
Longest-serving IHS Board member

Ethelmae C. Humphreys
Supporter of IHS, with the late J.P. Humphreys, since 1966

James E. Bond
First student fellow at IHS, first alum professor

Dr. Walter E. Williams
Long-time friend of IHS at George Mason University

Dr. James M. Buchanan
1986 Nobel Prize winner & speaker at IHS 25th anniversary gala
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“Liberty is a necessity rather than a luxury, and we can ill afford to be without it.”

– F.A. “Baldy” Harper, IHS Founder


When the Koches are your benefactors there is no end to the wingnut welfare that will pour into your pocket. And all you have to do is sell out your fellow man!

Judas was born far, far too early. If Judas Iscariot lived now he would have a fellowship from the New America Foundation, and a sinecure from the Institute for Humane Studies, just like little Miss McArdle. Forty pieces of silver? That's ridiculous when you can make 400 or 4000 pieces of silver!

Give up everything and follow Jesus? Why? He and his followers were nothing but looters and moochers! Do unto other? Why? It just encourages the lice to keep sucking off of the producers!

Instead we should all get paid lots and lots of lovely money to shill for polluters, to undercut democracy, to screw over anyone and everyone unlucky enough to have been born poor. So what if people die? They should have thought of that before they became poor!

Fortunately for Megan McArdle she will never be poor. She can always find someone to pay her to lie, shill, propagandize, sell out---you get the picture.

The same people who whine and cry about paying taxes are raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars for cranking out fake scholarship and opinion. And to top it all off, they want respect as well. They want professorships and top media jobs and comment sections full of sycophants. And since they can't get them honestly, they'll get them dishonestly instead.

9 comments:

Mr. Wonderful said...

One of the Seminars and Conference topics, under the somewhat hilarious heading "Careers in Liberty," invites young liberty-loving types to "explore how libertarian principles apply to journalism."

How condemnatory do you think these humane studiers would have been, during the USSR, regarding a course inviting young communists to "explore how Soviet principles apply to journalism"?

Apparently the strategy of the IHS is to repeat the word "liberty" so many times on their web site until it sounds absurd and loses all meaning. It works!

Clever Pseudonym said...

There is nothing remotely "humane" about these tw*ts.

atat said...

Who can we get to emcee this thing?
Do we know any Libertarians with a really grating voice and an embarrassingly awkward physical presence?
How about the cooking blogger from the Atlantic?
Perfect!

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Apparently the strategy of the IHS is to repeat the word "liberty" so many times on their web site until it sounds absurd and loses all meaning. It works!

Same thing for the word "freedom", as used by the Koch-created astroturf group "The Tea Party".

Thank you, corporate media, for helping to catapult their propaganda.
~

Ken Houghton said...

"Forty pieces of silver? That's ridiculous when you can make 400 or 4000 pieces of silver!"

*Sigh* Thirty pieces of silver. Op cit. Matthew 26:15, echoing Zechariah 11:12-13. (Never let it be said that the Disciples didn't try to echo the Minor Prophets.)

I met a few people from IHS a while back. They know the evidence--even when it doesn't support their statement of principles. This puts them one-up on many of their peers.

Susan of Texas said...

Thanks, Ken.

What do these people say when someone asks them about that evidence? Do they just shrug or argue it away?

Batocchio said...

Holy crap, those donor levels are real.

That page serves as this week's sign of the apocalypse.

But remember, McBargle isn't a Koch shill. And libertarians aren't Randroids. It's terribly uncivil to suggest otherwise.

Susan of Texas said...

I am sure that she is proud to be a Koch shill, to know that she is backed by great power and wealth, and that their wealth will trickle down on her.

modulo said...

I'd like to think that if I was a ruthless individualist with money to blow, I would be able to spot a low-middlebrow con job when I see one.

This idea is perfect McCardle: blow thousands of dollars to hear mediocrities thereby assuring oneself that one is also not a mediocrity.

Influence bought: none.

"The once-in-a-lifetime experience of meeting Walter E. Williams and one of the Koch brothers will be described for you on the card underneath your plate. Please enjoy the complementary champagne!"