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The Saner Side:2016 Libertarian Presidential Politics

28 Sunday Feb 2016

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By now even a blind and deaf man knows an election is brewing – the stench is overwhelming. The same old stupidity is on display from the two major parties. Under the watchful eye of the globalist banking masters the arrogant entertain the ignorant. Big statements and big promises for small minds. T’was enough to make a fish stare.

Team Democrat is preparing for the coronation of Her Magesty, Qween Hillary. The esteemed Mrs. Clinton soundly defeated the Old Commie Coot in South Carolina. Bernie should count himself lucky he hasn’t been found dead in a state park.

The Republican clown show rolls on. Donald Trump now looks so dominant the corporate handlers are considering a little science fiction in order to keep things interesting until the convention.

In three paragraphs I’ve just given the Republicrats more recognition than they deserve for their collective efforts over the past four decades. In terms of civil society they just don’t matter. Nothing they are or offer favors the free people or the notions of happiness and freedom.

Alternatives do exist, of course, for those still dedicated to the system. The Libertarian Party represents the biggest and best substitute for the lies and deceptions of big two. Theoretically the LP is the only viable option for Constitutional fidelity. It has but two drawbacks. First, at this late hour, it is pointless. Getting 1 – 2% of the popular vote is a lost cause, however noble. Second, the LP stands for organized government, albeit a smaller version. Government is never a good idea and it never stays small – consider our grand experiment of 1776. Still, if I voted, I would probably vote Libertarian.

The LP hosted a debate last night. I didn’t watch and I can’t find (easily) any transcripts. The best I could (easily) come up with is a record from the Massachusetts debate from last November. For laziness sake I’ll just focus on the first question: the role of the President and the roll of America’s military.

For comparison purposes remember that the Dems and the GOP view the military the same way. For them it is both the best way to forcibly advance the financial interests of their masters and the ultimate tool to silence dissent. Dems see it also as a jobs program, Republicans as a jingoistic rallying cry. All of this is fake. The last Republican candidate with any actual military service, Hon. Ron Paul, was effectively ridiculed out of the party.

The libertarian position is different, seeing the military for what it really is – a violent last resort against invasion, with not much legitimate use beyond.

Front-runner Gary Johnson did not attend the Mass. debate. His stance however mirrors those articulated. Also, winning the LP nomination is akin to winning the Par Three contest before the Masters. It’s fun but doesn’t count for the Tournament.

The military role …

Steve Kerbel answered: “As we all know, we should not be the police of the world. As we all know, many of the problems that we’re facing is because we intervened in other country’s sovereignty and so we need to stop doing that. And so, the way we do that with the military is that you start cutting expenses right off the bat.”

He concluded, “So, you know, it takes a reduction. It takes a focused effort. But it has to be towards liberty and staying out of everyone else’s business. That’s the best way to save money.”

The modern military costs A LOT of money. It takes money (from us) to make money for the Banksters (at our expense). Darryl Perry took Kerbel’s reduction concept further:

“In regards to how big should the military be, there should be no standing army. So ultimately, we would get to a U.S. military of zero people.” I’ll wait a second for my Republican readers to put their heads back on …

The standing army concept was greatly feared by the Founders. They wrote and rallied against it. The appropriation text of Article One of the Constitution was drafted to limit the existence of the military. Outside of wartime this is how the Old Republic operated for 150 years. Somehow, except for those wartimes, things were fine.

Marc Feldman continued: “The goal in my administration is to bring power back to the individuals. Admiral Mullen, retired former member of the joint chiefs said that we need to address the number one national security issue for the United States which is our national debt.”

These are all admirable and sane, if unpopular opinions. That, in a nutshell, is the LP – sane but far outside the mainstream. Such opinion is dangerous to the moneychangers. They stand to lose their lifestyle of easy domination if ever freedom and responsibility return to politics. Those who stand to gain the most, the American people, sadly just aren’t that interested.

My interest here is purely academic. For those involved just remember there are always other, better possibilities.

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Is Our Children Learning?

24 Wednesday Feb 2016

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“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” So inquired President select, George W. Bush to a crowd in Florence, South Carolina, January 11, 2000. The politicians obviously are not learning. But is … are the children? A new international study doesn’t look too good for youngsters in America. The study is massive, 384 page PDF download but here it is.

The 2015/16 Index of Freedom  of Education concentrates on the availability of “non-govermental” education. The rankings are deeply hidden, starting on page 315. The mighty United States, which ever one knows is the freest place on Earth, is in a tie with Hungary for 17th place. Who knew Hungary was the co-freest place on the planet.

This study is concerned with educational opportunities outside of the mainstream of “public” “schooling.” That would include private schools, charters,community, parochial, family schools, tutoring and home schooling. Most global education studies center on proficiency in one or more subjects. The U.S. does poorly in those too. I didn’t bother to look up any of those. Just Google, “where does America place in … reading, math, science, etc.” and you will be unpleasantly surprised as to just how poorly our schools do in any given field. I think we place outside of the top 20 in just about any category. Frequently American students are the only ones who can’t find America on a map. They also have trouble spelling “America” and can’t count high enough to cover all 50 States. The problem runs from elementary school through high school and even to the university level.

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As for free choice in education, the Catholic Register sees a worldwide issue.:

Each country’s ranking depends on four differently weighted factors: the legal possibility to create and manage a non-governmental school; whether it is publicly funded, and if so, which pre-specified costs that funding covers; the net enrollment rate of primary education; and finally, the enrollment rate in non-governmental schools as a percentage of total primary education.

Ireland came in at number one. Were it not for American homeschooling, which typically ranks highest in any rankings, the U.S. would have come in worse than 17th. Most students in America are forced to suffer twelve plus years of prison-like “public” indoctrination. After all that many cannot read. Most that can read only at a 5th grade level.

The Register gets it:

Thomas Jefferson over two centuries earlier:

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by the forcible transportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

And perhaps a little more surprisingly, with this Jeffersonian affirmation by the Democratic Party National Platform, which declared (as late as 1892):

We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children as an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government.

How times change!

For most of human history, prior to the twentieth century, children were either educated at home, in church, or in small and independent local schools. Many never made it past what we would call the 5th grade but at least they could read (without wasting seven more years). What changed?

During the late 1800s, as larger and more complex government was beginning to grow like kudzu, and as the industrial revolution was taking off, business and state leaders saw an opportunity. They institutionalized education in order to control what was taught and, ultimately, to control society. To paraphrase George Carlin they wanted obiediant workers just smart enough to fill out the forms and run the machines and just dumb enough to keep taking the status quo. That’s exactly what they got.

Today schools, especially in America, what little or nothing to do with education. They raise children into subservient adults who will pay taxes, watch television, and look forward to social security. It’s not just the schools.

Almost all children are bright and inquisitive by nature. They want to learn. Learning is fun. They question everything. How many times has your child asked you, “why?” You did that too, if you recall. Then sadly, after just a few years, most start to turn into zombies.

Ours is a silly culture where people start absentmindedly at screens most of the waking hours. It’s a sick and dying culture where every form of sin is on display and openly celebrated. Many parents cannot educate their own children because they themselves are not educated. Their too busy with triviality anyway.

Enter the government. How convenient that benevolent old Georgia or California or New York offers free daycare and schooling for the kids. We get what we pay for. It costs nothing and it is worth nothing.

Those government schools waste so much time taking attendance, monitoring water fountains, locking down for nothing, promoting football and other bullshit it is no wonder they can’t teach Johnny to read. He doesn’t need to read to work for corporation X, sit in prison, or collect welfare. It’s part of the plan.

There are plenty of exceptions but they are just that – good apples in a rotten lot. Given the wicked nature of the system, there is no point in reforming it. Reform after useless reform is constantly foisted on the dumbed down public: Deweyism, the Frankfurt school, the new school, charter schools, head start, no child left behind, common core. None of it works.

Abolishing government schools entirely would be a good start but only a start. The whole state needs to be abolished so people can be free to spend their time and money with their children effectively. Those who care will have to step in and step up to do the teaching. Fortunately, with modern technology, this is easier than ever before. A free, world class education is readily available online for any who want it – from phonics to calculus.

Have you heard any of the morons running for president talk about this? Of course not. They may pay lip service to education but they will continue to keep things as they are.

We as adults must change. People must stop wasting time chasing raises, getting tattoos, watching television and loafing around. Spend time with your children. Show them by example what decent educated people do with their lives.

The alternative we are experiencing has nearly destroyed is. We have sacrificed multiple generations on the alter of statism. This is a sin worthy of the millstone. When will we learn?

Exile of Justice: Snowden Offers to Return for Fair Trial

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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Three years ago Edward Snowden worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency. Alarmed by the NSA’s massive invasion of privacy and violation of civil liberties he leaked thousands of pages of classified information about the program to the public. His revelations were really nothing new; anyone with both eyes open could have learned the truth about the spy agency’s sinister agenda nearly twenty years earlier. They watch and listen to everything and everyone constantly. It’s conceivable that even as I type this article an NSA computer is dissecting it. Certainly within minutes of my official posting the electronic analysis will be completed. The whole thing will be archived. If the computer senses a threat, I will be passed on to human analysts.

Most of these people spend their days on Facebook or playing video games. Usually they miss alerts. That’s good when it comes to dissenting bloggers, bad when it’s ISIS. However, if a human verfies a possible threat, an investigation may ensue.

Again, if the danger is real and the investigative methods legal, it is a good system. There are plenty of real bad guys out there. As for the method, most electronic gathering is accomplished via open air interception. Anyone with a good enough scanner can capture a host of free floating transmissions. If you want your communication secure, either encrypt it, mask it, or don’t transmit it.

Snowden discovered that when open intercepts aren’t enough the government will illegally wiretap and spy as necessary. The illegality comes from a lack of warrant, lack of probable cause, and a total absence of oversight.

Acting as a whistleblower he disclosed this scheme to the public. As thanks the American redneckery and law and order, evangelical types branded him a traitor; the government declared him a fugitive. He now lives somewhere in Russia.

His choice of refuge turns geo-politics on its head. Thirty years ago Russia was a communist dictatorship that kept the people in line through spying and intimidation. Back then America was a freer country, a proud defender of the rights of the citizenry. Things change.

Snowden faces prosecution and assured imprisonment for decades should he return home. Yesterday, via video, he told a group of New Hampshire based libertarians he is willing to come back and face the music – conditionally. “I’ve told the government I would return if they would guarantee a fair trial where I can make a public interest defense of why this was done and allow a jury to decide,” he said.

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The whole affair is pointless to begin with. Three years later nothing has changed. No tangible evidence of damage to national security has manifested due to the leaks. Another holder of classified information, who leaked the same, is a leading contender for President. The people, most of them, never heard Snowdon’s warning in the first place. Those that heard forgot having more important things to attend – television, tattoos, football, etc. The NH libertarians are part of the .003% that get it. They represent a statistical outlier, an anomaly not worthy of official consideration. The NSA spies on, unhindered.

If Snowden ever returns and is prosecuted, he WILL NOT receive a fair trial. Such things simply do not happen in 21st century America. In fact, the American courtroom is the last place one should expect to find justice. No one gets a fair trial. Most don’t get a trial period. Snowden knows this. Thus, he lives abroad.

He and his attorneys have explored a plea deal with the feds. Most criminal cases end in pleas rather than trials. This is because people understand the system is so corrupt, it is usually better to accept a shorter jail term by coping to lesser charges. There have been exceptions. I recall a woman in Alabama who, faced with criminal tax charges, took the IRS to court and won. James Trafficant did the same thing in the 1980s. Both were plain lucky.

Snowden is looking for something different. He asks that his trial be conducted according to the Constitution. The Sixth Amendment requires: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury … to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.” It mandates due process of law. That will not happen.

The particular charges are tantamount to Treason, one of the three specifically enumerated crimes in Article One of the Constitution. I’ll give the government that solid ground.

An indictment against Snowden has already been issued by a federal grand jury. Such juries used to be an independent check on prosecutorial misconduct. Today they merely indict as ordered by the U.S. Attorney, being no more than a tool of the DOJ. Defendants do not have a say in the process and the government can present any information, true or false (frequently lies) anyway it wants. Thus, fairness has already been compromised.

The Fifth Amendment mandates Due Process and prohibits double jeopardy. Rest assured that if, by odd chance, Snowden beat the charges, the government could then charge him with something else. Or, they could declare him a material witness, enemy combatant, material witness enemy, leprechaun or any other term(S) they make up and just imprison him. Just because they can. They could also just kill him without pretense or explanation. Just because.

In between the grand jury’s lapdogging and the double jeopardy potentially lies the trial. At trial the government controls everything. They get to present any type of evidence they like, often as a surprise to the defense. The defense is discouraged from attacking said evidence even when it is demonstrably false. The judge will move heaven and earth to keep defense friendly information out of the show. Occasionally defendants try to put the government on trial too. Judges, being government agents themselves, try to stop this. Remember, Snowden could bring in thousands of pages of documents damaging to the state. His ultimate argument could be that even if he technically broke the law, he only did so to expose worse behavior by the feds, thus he is really innocent and should be acquitted.

Such argument leads to potential jury nullification of the specific law as applied to a specific defendant. This is not a theory but an ancient design, a final check against corruption where the entirety of the legal and factual circumstances are left to the enlightened determination of the jury. Judges will defy the laws of physics to try to stop this from happening.

Then there’s the jury itself. Ages ago juries were a collection of intelligent men who were peers of, actual friends of the defendant. Being his friends and knowing his character they could weigh the presented evidence against their knowledge, thereby forming a reasonable judgement.

Today elaborate safeguards are in place to ensure jurors have never heard of the defendant let alone be his friends. The government wants dumb submissive jurors who will easily go along with what they’re told. Modern society makes this a given. A jury is usually nothing more than twelve stupid, poorly dressed, uninterested saps who may just as well be assembled of random midnight Wal-Mart shoppers.

This is the program to which Snowden would return. Sad, yes. Comical, perhaps. Fair? Anything but. Luckily, modern Russia is a pretty nice place.

 

 

 

Suffer the Banksters

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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The American government is owned by bankers and operated for their good.I don’t mean your friends at the local credit union. I mean the central banks and their criminal associates. They are charter members of the Big Club that owns the country, most of it. They want it all, everything we have including our very lives.

Yesterday I blasted the GOP for their support of drafting women to fight for corporate profit. No entity profits more off of war than central banks and their commercial minions. They want all our children in servitude.

They also lock people up for civil debts despite a supposedly absolute legal ban on debtors prisons. The banks have U.S. Marshals hauling people into court in handcuffs and forcing those people, at gun point, to sign onto repayment plans for allegedly delinquent student loans. For now it just student loans. Maybe tomorrow it will be credit cards and mortgages too.

The shame of this is double. The illegally arrested poor are likely in court due to default judgments in cases they knew nothing about until they were arrested. Most of these cases probably suffer from a total lack of evidence. Also, these loans were of money created out of thin air. It cost the banks and the government nothing to create this fiat. Repayment, however, requires years of work. This is little more than slavery. That’s what they want – a nation of slaves.

Years ago they did away with high denomination paper money. Actually, they did away with money altogether. Now they’re targeting the $100 Bill. This is the next step towards eliminating cash completely. This will force everyone into the banking system and give the criminals total control over the monetary supply.

They want your money, your daughters, your lives. In 1836 Andrew Jackson allegedly said of the Banksters, “You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.” He was a man of his word. We desperately need that spirit again.

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Absolute Failure

17 Wednesday Feb 2016

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I don’t watch political debates. It’s not that I don’t like being lied to while a hoard of morons cheer like drunken sheep. I don’t like either. I’ve watched these things before, many of them, on television. I’ve been to more than a few in person. Only once – at a live Senatorial debate – did I ever hear something that I agreed with and respected. And that was a simple, one word answer.

My objection stems from economical consideration of my personal resources. I don’t waste my time on hours of pointless stupidity that be surveyed the next day through transcripts and video clips.

First, a quick word about that one word answer. In 2003 or 2004 (I think) I ventured down to a GOP “Christian” Coalition debate between several candidates for Georgia’s then open U.S. Senate seat. The moderator asked the assembled men if they supported President Bush’s plan to offer amnesty to illegal aliens. Johnny Isaacson, the man who eventually won election, gave a rambling political answer that put half the audience to sleep. I can’t remember if he said yea or nay. Next, Mac Collins explained for several minutes his deep rooted connection to Georgia. ‘I worked the Georgia clay with my own hands,’ and so forth. Again, no cogent answer. Then Herman Cain answered with a simple “no.”

Such simplistic honesty is exceedingly rare during debates (in all of politics too). Usually candidates try to one up each other while trying to tell the people what they want to hear.

Sometimes politicians stumble upon or march straight into dangerous and frightening territory. Such was the case at the recent Republican debate in new Hampshire.

In respnse to a question about the Selective (Slavery) Service, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie expressed verbal support for drafting our young women into the military. If silence is consent, the other pitiful candidates concurred with the deranged threesome. Only Ted “carpet bomb” Cruz dissented. His objection stemmed from old-fashioned chivalry which I agree with. However, he’s as big a warmonger as an. He would have no trouble marching our sons off die fight and die for the banks, just not our daughters. I have no use for any of these degenerates.

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As Rothbard wrote in 1973, “Conscription is slavery.” His concern was that conscription is a 100% tax on a man’s life. It is. It’s also terrible for other reasons. It allows commanders a degree of recklessness regarding martial strategy. If you get all your men killed more can just be called up to replace them.

“War is a racket,” wrote Smedley Butler. They are generally fought for nefarious reasons having nothing to do with domestic security or tranquility. In a decent and morally sound country there should be no shortage of men volunteering to defend the homeland if actually threatened. The country’s government that resorts to drafting men is up to no good. That country is headed into darkness. A country that drafts women is an absolute failure and does not deserve to exist.

At the GOP insanity show Martha Raddatz of ABC News noted that Army and Marine chiefs had just told Congress women should register with Selective Service as men do. She then asked, “Many of you have young daughters. Senator Rubio, should young women be required to sign up for selective service in case of a national emergency [?]”

Here follow the entire answer of Rubio, Bush and Christie (transcript by cnsnews.com):

Rubio responded: “Well first, let me say there are already women serving today in roles that are like combat, that in fact whose lives are in very serious danger. So I have no problem whatsoever with people of either gender serving in combat, so long as the minimum requirements necessary to do the job are not compromised. But I support that. And, obviously, now that that is the case I do believe that selective service should be opened up for both men and for women in case a draft is ever instituted.”

After this, Rubio made some statements about the need to reverse the weakening of the U.S. military.

Raddatz then put the question about women registering for the selective service to Bush.

Raddatz: “Gov. Bush … Do you believe that young women should sign up for selective service—be required to do so?”

Bush responded: “I do. I do. And I think that we should not impose any kind of political agenda on the military. There should be—if women can meet the requirements, the minimum requirements, for combat service, they ought to have the right to do it, for sure.”

After this, Bush made some statements about the need to strengthen the military.

Then Raddatz asked Bush a follow-up question about his statement that he supports having young women sign up for the selective service. This led to an exchange between her and Bush.

Raddatz asked: “Tell me what you would say to American people out there, who are sitting at home, who have daughters, who might worry about those answers?”

Bush: “Why would they worry about it?”

Raddatz: “–and might worry that the draft is reinstituted?”

Bush: “Well, the draft is not going to be reinstituted. But why—if women are accessing—”

Raddatz: “But you can just do away with it?”

Bush: “No, I didn’t say that. You asked the question not about the draft, you asked about registering. And if women are going to be supporting– ”

Raddatz: “You register for the draft—if it’s reinstituted.”

Bush: “But we don’t have a draft. I’m not suggesting we have a draft. What I’m suggesting is that we ought to have readiness being the first priority of our military, and secondly that we make sure that the moral is high. And right now neither one of those is acceptable because we have been gutting the military budget. We also need to reform our procurement process. We need to make sure that there are more men and women in uniform than civilians in our Defense Department. There’s a lot of things that we need to do to reform, to bring our defense capabilities into the 21st century and I am the guy that can do that. That’s why I have the support of generals of admirals of 12 Medal of Honor recipients and many other people that know I would be a steady commander in chief and rebuild our military.

Raddatz: “Thank you very much.”

Gov. Chris Christie then stepped into the discussion to give his answer to the question.

Christie: “Martha, can I be really clear on this, because I am the father of two daughter—one of them is here tonight. What my wife and I have taught our daughters right from the beginning: that their sense of self-worth, their sense of value, their sense of what they want to do with their life comes not from the outside but comes from within. And if a young woman in this country wants to go and fight to defend her country she should be permitted to do so. And part of that also needs to be a part of a greater effort in this country. So, there is no reason why one young woman should be discriminated against from registering for the selecting service. The fact is we need to be a party and a people that makes sure that our women in this country understand anything they can dream, anything they want to aspire to, they can do. That’s the way we raised our daughters and that’s what we should aspire to as president for all the women in our country.”

Where to start, where to start?

Christie, all 400 pounds of him, wants to save women from discrimination. Isn’t that nice? A young woman’s worth comes from within. The draft comes from without, from Washington, from overweight, hairbrained idiots like Christie. Discrimination from criminal slavery is a good thing, it should apply to all.

Foamio is at least honest that this is about the draft, if ever reinstituted. “Obviously” it should be open to all. All except the well connected, bankers, and politicians, of course.

Bush seemed to take issue with the actual draft. “Well, the draft is not going to be reinstituted.” Really? Then why not abolish the Selective Service altogether? 

“Why would [the American people with daughters] worry about it? This smug stupidity is why I can’t watch debates nor support these candidates and their government. My answer to Bush’s question is simple (and likely beyond his comprehension). I have a daughter. I love her more than anything else in the world. I will not have her coerced into fighting for a corrupt, evil government and its Satanic globalist masters. I am willing to die and to kill to save her from such a fate.

The Bush family has a century long history of war profiteering. It started with Sam Bush and the War Industries Board of WWI (war for corporate profit). Sam and his banker son, Sam, continued the tradition in WWII (war for corporate profit). In WWII, a direct extension of WWI, the Bush men bet on both sides (a practice perfected by the Rothschilds).

President George Bush the 1st, former head of the Machiavellian CIA, wasted no time making war on Iraq (war for corporate profit). President George Bush the 2nd continued that war (for corporate profit) and launched another in Afghanistan (war for corporate profit). 

These wars killed and mained scores of millions of people. They were also the lifeblood of armorment companies, investment bankers and central banks, along with parasitic beaurocrats the world over. I do not wish to see Jeb or anyone else continue this never-ending cycle of death and destruction.

Those in attendance at the debate did not share my sentiments. That rabble of fat, ignorant, sickly looking heathens cheered the notion of enslaving women to government service. 

The Democrats offer nothing better. Their words are usually different, their dastardly deeds the same.

Dragging women into combat for corporations will be the coup de grâce of the old, dying Republic. It will see us from pathetically defeated to utter ruination.

Friends, do not partake of this madness; fight it.

 

Eternal Dissent: RIP Antonin Scalia

14 Sunday Feb 2016

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Yesterday Senior Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at a resort in Texas. So passes the last originalist champion of the old Constitution.

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Scalia was recognized, even by his detractors, as perhaps the most intelligent, well reasoned man ever on the Court. Frequently his words, majority or minority, were the only ones worth reading in opinions. His dissenting opinion, often all alone, was legendary.

Political speculation abounds regarding his potential replacement. Obama or the next President will fill the now open seat. However, this man’s legacy and position are irreplaceable.

Thank you and God rest you, Justice Scalia.

 

No Debate

11 Thursday Feb 2016

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I haven’t wasted any of my time watching the Presidential debates this year. After each one, usually the next day, I catch snipetts of the various lies told. It all seems scripted, routine and disingenuous to me. They all talk about themselves, each other, more wars we won’t win, and how the government can help us.

One thing no politician since Ron Paul has mentioned is the dreadful state of the economy and how the government helped it get that way.

A few months ago, against conventional wisdom, I said we were moving into a recession. Now people are starting to agree with me. Analysts, pundits, economists, bankers, even Janet Yellen are now muttering the “R” word. Week by week the chatter intensifies. Week by week the measure of everything, except gold, falls. I’m sure at least one rodent candidate must have said something but none of them can say anything substantial.

They can’t and they won’t because they do not understand what is happening and because they are part of the problem (they and their corporate masters).

All economies move in cycles, expansions and contractions. In a free market, absent central banking and government interference, corrections (recessions and depressions) fix themselves in rapid fashion. Only central planning can slow or intensify bad times. In the early 1920s America experienced a severe depression; it lasted a year, yielding to “roaring” good times. Another depression struck in 1929. This time, aided by the unholy alliance of the Federal Reserve and the Federal government, the bad times lasted about 15 years.

Back then there was an economy to recover. Today America is a hollow shell of debt, entitlements, and gambling. The Alliance played its perhaps final, ultimate hand in masking the 2008 financial crisis and recession. Nothing was actually fixed. In fact things are worse now than they were then. Day by day the unraveling becomes more tangible. We’re about to enter uncharted territory that the experts say could destroy the economy (the same experts that helped get us here). A recession may be the best, mildest outcome. What comes after recession? Depression? Total collapse? A dark age?

Still the lying election rats say nothing. In there defense there isn’t much to say. Or do. It would be best to allow whatever scenario is coming just play out. Then we could rebuild. However, something tells me the charletons will try to make things just a little worse if they can.

Have fun watching the next debate.

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Pointless Predictions

10 Wednesday Feb 2016

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Way down here in Dixie it snowed a few weeks ago. It was a lovely, brief powder dusting that lasted half a day; I wrote about it. Then, the next week, we were back in the 70s.

I declared winter was over. After all this is the South and it felt like spring.

Yesterday it snowed again. What do I know?

Similarly predictions and declarations are flying around the 2016 Presidential election both from Democrats and from Republicans. Not from the candidates themselves, per se. They just keep on lying, podium pounding, and reciting lines provided by their handlers. America does not run on Dunkin; America runs on BS.

Some of the lesser hopefuls are dropping out – Paul, Christy, Fiorina, et al. That happens as the bankers narrow their choices. The pundits say the people make the choices. They say a lot of things. From the left and from the right come predictions of triumph, doom, concession, etc.

Right now the hubbub surrounds Trump and Sanders based on events in New Hampshire. That is subject to change as we move deeper into the year. None of it matters. For arguments sake let’s suppose the election comes down to the wild-haired Business Tycoon and the wild-haired National Socialist. What’s the difference? What’s the big deal? Haven’t we seen this all before?

In 2000 the people and the Supreme Court decided (with the bankers’ blessings) a tough talking businessman was needed to save us from the deprivations of his predecessor. Whereas the predecessor expanded the scope of government, doubled the debt, and bombed foreign places where America has no interests, the cowboy businessman further expanded the government, doubled the debt, and bombed foreign places where America has no interests. Oddly, the names and same families from yesteryear are again front and center in this year’s election. The bankers are not very imaginative. That, or the country has degenerated to the point that this is all we’re left with. Could be both.

In 2008, amidst pomp about hope, change, diversity, and other BS, a limp-wristed, suedo-intellectual socialist was chosen to save us from the malpractice of the cowboy. He’s not quite finished with his second term but the results are in: he has expanded the government, doubled the debt, and slings bombs all around the globe. Notice a pattern?

It does not matter who the next chosen “leader” is. The Donald, Bernie, Hillary, or Foamio will give us more of the same. I know the television and tattoos crowd is all bent on the DNC/GOP thing but history shows these to be nothing more than superficial labels.

The only kind of man who could possibly make a difference is someone who would come from the Libertarians, the Independents, or the pages of a novel. That man (he would necessarily have to be a man) would fight the bankers, shrink the government, cut the debt, and stop the wars. That would fly in the face of everything the Satanic interests hold dear – it will not be allowed. Such men are not popular with the afficinados of fantasy football and cheap beer. See Ron Paul’s experience for proof.

In a way these predictions are not so off base. Spring always follows winter so I will be proven accurate in the end. Some fool of a criminal always creeps into the Whitehouse so the pundits’ political predictions are kind of accurate too.

Let me make a political prediction. The next con artist President will expand the war, double the government, and bomb the debt. Something like that. What do I know?

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The Way It Is

03 Wednesday Feb 2016

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It’s raining this afternoon; it’s a little humid and there’s not much of a breeze. A foul odor has settled in the lower airs. At first I thought about the stink from the old paper mill which I have not smelled in a while. Then I remembered that they adopted the process of scrubbing the fumes as to eliminate malodorous contamination.

“Whence came this stentch?” I asked myself. Then I remembered the quadrennial election this year. Ahhh. On wings of the media the sour notes of political abscess drift in from Iowa and New Hampshire. I would much rather smell the paper pulp cookoff.

The only halfway decent candidate dropped out today. Though a mere shadow of his father Rand Paul would make such a better President than any of the other trash as to make a comparison pointless. This is my academic observation only. The foolishness concerns me, personally, not at all. Those who are concerned, the television and tattoos crowd, simply would not tolerate a man honestly preaching even a modicum of freedom. Dr. Paul may now return to the Senate where he can at least object on the record to the Imperial advance.

I think the establishment has picked Herr Rubio as their man [SIC]. The masses are split as follows: Trump for the big government loving warmongers; Hillary or Bernie for the other big government loving warmongers. For a picture of how any of these saps will play out as Chief Executive just recall the days of the last four Presidents.

James Ostrowski just posted part three in his short series on progressivism and the GOP. I like his description of the GOP in a nutshell – a shell of a party full of nuts. Reminds one of the Democrats. Some still think the Republicans somehow stand for limited government and a little personal liberty. Then again, some (adults) still believe in Santa Claus.

Outside of factional political fiction important things are happening in America – exciting things!

The government’s military, having killed or crippled so many of our young men, now wants to make young women register for the draft. If successful, then modern feminism and communism will have succeeded in repealing the last barriers of social injustice and in destroying the last vestiges of sanity in the smoldering remains of Columbia. Talk about progressive!

I can just imagine my little girl telling me, “Daddy! I get to go fight somewhere you’ve never heard of so bankers and criminals can make more money!” I can just imagine the cold, empty pain I’d feel. I can just imagine driving a fuel truck down to the local recruiting office. God bless America! Land of the free.

One horrible phenomenon drives another drives another in the land of the flea. Jack Perry does a great job attempting to explain why so many teenagers and young people in our great nation are committing suicide these days. What do you call a culture where death is a seemingly better alternative to daily life? A culture of death? Yeah!

Many younglings, having narrowly escaped the abortionist’s knife, emerge into a world of constant violence, war, sadism, oppression, depression, recession, and shallow stupidity. Many can’t cope. Many die. Have you heard even one of the presidential rats mention this once? Of course not. That would take away time from attacking each other and promising lies they never intend to fulfill. The public seems cool with it so I won’t take this any further. Just something to consider if the TV happens to break and thinking be forced by inconvenient necessity on atrophied minds.

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If your daughter doesn’t get drafted to make the world safe for moneychangers and if she doesn’t kill herself, then she may find herself in a college class. There she will be instructed in the art of nothingness by some pitiful, hoplophobic moron. Academia used to educate the young on the larger facets of humanity and the universe. Today, in America, they feebly pass on the blittering fears of smaller minds.

A student at a Georgia college was recently forced out of a class by a shrieking idiot instructor because the student was carrying a gun. Professor Wimpy was frightened by the presence of an inanimate object and reacted like a panicked rabbit confronted by a wolf.

Similar cowardly fascists across the country are trying to ban open carry in all places – Starbucks, Kroger, and especially in schools.

It mattered not that the student in Georgia was a police officer and in uniform at the time. What mattered were the teacher’s tiny feelings. The college has since apologized (skirting the matter of the underlying blatant illegality) and welcomed the officer back. If they were honest they would just refund tuitions and close shop. Word has it the instructor has been institutionalized. Home of the brave.

I hope you get more of a chuckle out of all this and less of a shiver. Just because the inmates are running the asylum doesn’t mean we have to go in and join them. That’s really the way it is.

 

Terrorism, Good and Bad

31 Sunday Jan 2016

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I was born, ages ago, in the great state of Mississippi, then part of the Union known as the United States of America. Things were different then and there. It may be forgetfulness or romanticism but, I swear, it was better. Now I truly appreciate what Meatloaf was saying: “It was long ago and it was far away and it was so much better than it is today.”

In a sense things are not all that bad these days. The sun shines, women are pretty, and life goes on. In another sense things, especially things political, have gotten so bad as to be downright comical. If laughter is the best medicine, we are in great shape. But the humor is dark and the joke is on us. Daily we are presented with situations to sober the mad hatter. A recent paradoxical example:

Last week government troops violently and lethally put down a political protest in Oregon. A small peaceful group had gathered at a vacant federal facility to denounce and expose government corruption. Things like that happen in a free society. Some protests are more welcome than others. This particular protest was doomed from its beginning. The protestors were mostly white men, Christians or pseudo-Christians and all carrying firearms. Their very nature exemplified the three cardinal sins of statism. Their actions amouted to herasy.

The media described these sinners as a “militia.” The priests in D.C. and the sycophantic chior declared them terrorists. As terrorists they were dealt with.

LaVoy Finicum, nominal leader of the “militia” was shot dead even as he tried to surrender. A video of the execution is available. Ammon Bundy and six members of his “clan” were arrested immediately thereafter. Will Grigg offers a sane account of the incident. According to witnesses, just like Han Solo, the government shot first. Kind of like, exactly like, Waco and Ruby Ridge. Lesson: the government suffers no critics; these kind of terrorists are not tolerated.

Meanwhile, during the same week, President Obama planned a visit to a Baltimore mosque. Obama’s father was a Muslim. His brother is a Muslim. He’s slipped up before and claimed to be a Muslim. Quacks like a duck and all. Normally a Muslim going to a mosque isn’t news. It’s to be expected. Except this particular Muslim supposedly takes a hard line against terrorism and this particular mosque is a hotbed of terrorism. Then again, all terrorists are not equal.

One B. Soetoro explained, concerning the upcoming visit: “By the mercy of Allah, the merciful, no mercy shall be shown the infidels. The [American people] shall convert or die. We will kill their men, rape their women, rape their children, and rape their goats. Allah Akbar!”

The Islamic Society of Baltimore is run by and a part of the Islamic Society of North America which is closely connected to known terrorism plots. Several of these plots have resulted in the deaths of American citizens.

“Terrorists” who oppose the Satanically corrupt government are killed or jailed. Terrorists who kill American people are graced by the President. Right is wrong and wrong is right. This madness was inconceivable in Starkville around 1980 but ordinary these days.

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The cult of modern government is synonymous with terrorism. Support one and you aid the other. Both hate you. Remember this the next time some smarmy bastard weasal of a politician asks for your vote, all ye infidels and militiamen.