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November
19, 2007 I’ve decided that some of more subtle commentary on the news needs to be changed. It is just with the arrival of November that I’ve started commenting on the insane number of news stories about the 2008 Presidential elections, but “Homeland Politics” is just too tame. Henceforth, I shall now call this my “Massa-wannabe” section: all these folks, for whatever reasons, just wanna be “Massa” for four years. Here it is, 11-1/2 months to go, and I’m sick of the whole thing. It really is a shame that most of them have passed on their dubious genetic heritage to a new generation or two: why do we let these people BREED? Secondly, (although closely related), there are too many people that I want to label correctly as “thugs” to reserve this word for those whom I once kindly referred to as “Congress-critturs.” Fortunately, my younger son came to my rescue, pointing out that his new Webster’s had a list of animal group names in back. I found that the proper name for a group of baboons is a “Congress” and how true THAT is. Hence, my new section on “Baboons” will entertain us all with the antics of that strange breed of DC-dwelling criminal class (as Mark Twain aptly recognized them) and I can now use “thug” for other vile forms of life. We start on a very sad, even depressing, note: Stupid
government tricks: As far as I am concerned, this is the top news item this week. Once more (something very similar happened to a barter group in Colorado in 1985), the FBI and other govgoon groups have taken the law into their own hands and made a mockery of freedom of trade and association. If past history proves a guide, the Liberty Dollar is now a footnote in those history books. The Ron Paul connection is a happy side-benefit from the viewpoint of the thugs who ordered this. (Read the rest here)
Thanksgiving
for Thought Crime Thankfully, America the beautiful isn't a totalitarian state where expressing forbidden opinions can get us first persecuted, then prosecuted. Thankfully, the land of the free doesn't use tortured confessions as proof of thought crime. Thankfully, the home of the brave has patriots willing to stand up for her Declaration and Constitution. All of this may be changing, though. In our post-9/11 New American Century, our leaders seem hell-bent on turning our home into their Homeland. King George Bush would likely be somewhere between impeachment and imprisonment, were it not for a Cowards Congress that bows down to him. When we voted in Democratic legislators a year ago, we expected them to stand up to this newfangled "unitary executive." Our elected representatives have failed utterly to oversee him, though, and those of us who once thought that they would now look and feel like naïve fools. (Read the rest here)
Massive
Human Rights Abuses in the Name of Stopping Abuse Remember Colleen Nester? She was the forlorn New Mexico woman who claimed she was being harassed by TV talk show host David Letterman, who was allegedly beaming mental telepathic messages and using televised facial gestures. Under New Mexico law, harassment is a form of domestic violence, so Ms. Nester was granted a restraining order. Yes, really. Domestic violence is defined so broadly these days that just raising your voice is now considered grounds for state invention. The mere allegation of abuse invites a draconian response, requiring the man to vacate his home and avoid any contact with the woman or even his own children. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf is now teetering on the edge of the abyss, just as I predicted in the spring of 2007. He was pushed there by U.S. policy, and worse yet, his country is armed with nukes. To prevent the Pakistani Supreme Court from declaring him ineligible to serve another term as president, a role he won last month in dubious elections, the autocratic Musharraf has declared martial law and ousted the Supreme Court’s chief justice. Although President George W. Bush has asked Musharraf to set an end date for the state of emergency, to hold elections, and to give up his powerful position as head of the armed forces, Bush has continued U.S. aid and recently described Musharraf as an ally America needs in order to fight al Qaeda. These signs of continued U.S. support have emboldened the spent Musharraf regime. Although Musharraf has set parliamentary elections for January, 2008, they will hardly be fair, unless martial law is lifted prior to the plebiscite. Meanwhile, the Pakistani population smolders with anger against the unpopular dictator, and in Pakistan’s northwest, Islamic militants are ascendant. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation Today I received my fourth-quarter 2007 Anti-Money Laundering Training Program notice. After my "mandatory" compliance, I must agree with everything stated in the "training" through the Compliance Attestation System. Although the manner and frequency of this forced training has changed somewhat, it is still required or else, this since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act. Every quarter, "new and improved" subject matter is presented, and many times "case studies" are a major part of the indoctrination. This quarter was no different. The most recent mandatory training concerning "Terrorist Financing" began with this statement: "The United States passed the USA PATRIOT Act to ensure that combating the financing of terrorism and anti-money laundering were both given sufficient focus by financial institutions." I don't mean to quibble, but that statement is a bit misleading. Focus is one thing, but in this case, any individual not complying with the government mandates is threatened with fines, suspension, prison, or all of them. In other words, do as you are told and spy as you are told or else! (Read the rest here)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute Creative destruction (Joseph Schumpeter's phrase) occurs when innovations — new technologies or business models — demolish the capital structures of well-established industries, industries that have lost the ability to satisfy the urgent wants of consumers. This process can happen almost over night, such as when the vinyl record industry collapsed in the wake of digital music. Or, the process can slowly run its course, similar to the decades-long crumbling of a building's foundation. Here the process is akin to the way moss attaches to surface imperfections and degrades — over decades — the strength and resilience of concrete. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles On the October 21 edition of the CBS news show, "Sunday Morning," there was a segment on the history of the Maytag washing machine company. The company began producing washers in 1907 in Newton, Iowa. This week, the last floor employee at the nearly deserted Newton facility will be permanently laid off. Newton and Maytag have divorced. Reconciliation is unlikely due to irreconcilable differences. The brand will bump along for a while longer. It may even recover its lost profitability. But it is now owned by Whirlpool, which bought the Maytag company in 2006 for $1.7 billion. The show interviewed workers who had been with the company their entire adult lives. Their careers are over. They will soon be facing the harsh realities of a retirement based on fixed incomes and rising prices. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
On November 2, 2007 the US House passed a new mining law that mandates a 4% gross royalty on existing mines and an 8% royalty on future mines on public lands. The royalty, if imposed, represents expropriation over and above the corporate income tax mining companies presently have to pay. It also represents the common view that the proceeds from mining — or any other endeavor for that matter — if carried out on public lands are the property of the general population. In other words if a miner goes to the effort of looking for, finding, developing, and producing copper in Utah, everyone in Florida is entitled to the fruits of his labor just because people in Florida happen to live within a political area that also encompasses the mine. This argument sounds awfully like slavery to me, although it represents a belief system that is generally left unquestioned. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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