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24, 2008 1950 was a hard year. My father died and my mother was left with two small children. She was a "housewife" and had no particular marketable skills. She also didn't have any family who could help her much. She was a recovering alcoholic and suffered from severe depression. Not a pretty picture. This, of course, was long before the social workers, welfare, food stamps, WIC, or any of the alphabet soup government offices and "programs." All she had was her faith in God and her children, the few friends who stood with her, and the understanding that it was her responsibility to raise her children and get on with life the best she could. So, the winter of 1950 found us all staying with a friend's family in a small Southern California desert town. Not the rich and beautiful part, but the dirt road, snowed in, wood stove outback of the Morongo Valley. There was no telephone or reliable transportation. (Read the rest here)
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Commentary on The News 16 - 22 November, 2008 Liberty appears to be hard-hit this week, again. What we must remember is that we have not exactly been "free" for the last eight years, or much longer than that. But this time, the loss appears to be sinking in; something that a lot of us have hoped for - so it is time to make lemonade out of a lemon! Monday
(D-64): Warning Ah, but we have a solution! Imbed the magnetic strip (actually, an RFID chip) on your finger or your hand or wrist; and tattoo your password on the inside of your eyelid! But until Big Brother "solves" this problem for us, be very, VERY careful about how you use important things! Mama's Note: This isn't new, of course, just getting more sophisticated as technology improves. I take care of this the old fashioned way... I carry cash and don't use an ATM, ever. (Read the rest here)
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Bill Curtis' squad had started out as just two friends getting ready for uncertain times. That was back in the Nineties, after Waco. It was just Bill and his friend Denny Powell. One buddy team. Friends in high school, both of them were now veterans. They'd come home after Desert Storm and left the rapidly downsizing military -- Bill had been Army, Denny had been a Marine -- to take up wives and civilian careers in their native home, Double Springs, Alabama. Now they each had teenage sons, two of whom also shouldered weapons in the squad. That was the way it was with militia, a confluence of like-minded friends, bolstered by family. There were folks who allowed themselves to be paralyzed by fear of linking up with others, worried (and not necessarily irrationally) about federal snitches, provocateurs, or just garden-variety nut-burgers. (Read the rest here) Sample of another chapter of "Absolved" An
appropriate response And while I'm glad the standoff ended peacefully with an appropriate response, and that responding officers showed such restraint, tell me they would have held themselves back once in position around one of our houses. Tell me the flash bangs and the gas grenades wouldn't have been used to flush us out, and that positioned snipers wouldn't have taken us out should we so much as twitch while stumbling blindly and retching our way to air. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Psychiatrist,
psychoanalyze thyself – why is net surfing addictive but power lust
isn’t? Long
before the advent of electronic media people read newspapers and magazines
and novels and essays and poetry and treatises and long letters from friends
and loved ones. They were continuously hooked on to the printed word for
hours. Ms Nadeau herself may have been continuously hooked on to the printed word for hours, reading textbooks about psychiatry and clinical obsession and epidemiological studies on addiction while in school. Could it be that she is addicted to reading? Or could it be that she is addicted to the government tax money that pays for her epidemiological studies on addiction? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Domestic
Violence Industry: Racist The Family Place, an abuse shelter in Dallas, recently placed race-baiting advertisements on local buses. The ads depict a smiling African-American girl crowned with a tiara who innocently predicts, “One day my husband will kill me.” Barbara Kay of the National Post charged the ads were “outright lies.” Dallas Morning News columnist James Ragland labeled them “shocking and biased.” Journalist Helen Smith called them “very disturbing hate speech.” And Elizabeth Crawford, president of African-Americans for VAWA Reform, denounced the bus placards as “sexist and racist.” The Family Place -- funded to the tune of $2.9 million a year and whose director receives an annual compensation package that tops $163,000 -- receives much of its funding from the federal Violence Against Women Act. (Read the rest here) External
Articles But even if the recent warming trends were shown to be largely of our own doing, there's more reason for celebration than the panic that we're witnessing. Warm worlds are cheerier, healthier, more secure, and better able to support a richer and more abundant biosphere than cold ones. On land and in the oceans, life thrives in the green equatorial and temperate zones, not the icy higher latitudes. A warmer world would transform the vast wastes of Siberia and northern Canada into forests, gardens, granaries, and habitats, opening up huge areas to accommodate the growing population that some view as a blight, and bring water back to such regions as the Sahara and Middle East, that were once verdant. So, if human activity is capable of making a measurable difference, one would think that a good policy to adopt would be to help things along by using the abundance of energy that the world offers, to increase wealth and living standards generally, and enjoy the environmental benefits. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute I am afraid I am convinced that the hope of ever again placing on government this discipline is gone. The public at large have learned to understand, and I am afraid a whole generation of economists have been teaching, that government has the power in the short run by increasing the quantity of money rapidly to relieve all kinds of economic evils, especially to reduce unemployment. Unfortunately this is true so far as the short run is concerned. The fact is, that such expansions of the quantity of money which seems to have a short run beneficial effect, become in the long run the cause of a much greater unemployment. But what politician can possibly care about long run effects if in the short run he buys support? My conviction is that the hope of returning to the kind of gold standard system which has worked fairly well over a long period is absolutely vain. Even if, by some international treaty, the gold standard were reintroduced, there is not the slightest hope that governments will play the game according to the rules. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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