POLITICAL: We need immigrants; not welfare takers

Saturday, October 8, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/10/nick-giambruno/migrant-catastrophe/

Doug Casey on the Migrant Crisis
By Nick Giambruno
Doug Casey’s International Man
October 6, 2016

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Doug Casey: I’m all for immigration and completely open borders to enable opportunity seekers from anyplace to move anyplace else. With two big, critically important, caveats: 1) there can be no welfare or free government services, so everyone has to pay his own way, and no freeloaders are attracted 2) all property is privately owned, to minimize the possibility of squatter camps full of beggars.

In the absence of welfare benefits, immigrants are usually the best of people because you get mobile, aggressive, and opportunity-seeking people that want to leave a dead old culture for a vibrant new one. The millions of immigrants who came to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries had zero in the way of state support.

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I think this is essence of a little L libertarian’s look at “immigrants”.

The USA needs that “fresh blood” of all those coming here for the correct reasons.

And, we can use energizing all the “welfare farmers” by eliminating Gooferment welfare for citizens and immigrants!

Argh! 

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POLITICAL: Have to assume that HRC has Parkinson’s disease

Friday, October 7, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/10/no_author/hillary-parkinsons/

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More circumstantial evidence that HRC has Parkinson’s disease. How can this be ignored?

This is very troubling. (If true? But should be very straight forward to determine with an independent health exam. In the interest of fairness, both candidates should submit to one.)

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LIBERTARIAN: The Libertarian mistake

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/10/02/defense-gary-johnson/

In Defense of Gary Johnson… But Bill Weld is a different matter.
by Justin Raimondo, October 03, 2016 

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Gary Johnson, in spite of himself – and in spite of the sinister Weld – may wind up stopping Hillary Clinton from taking the White House. And that, my dear readers, is a lesson in the truism that one’s actions are likely to have all sorts of unintended consequences. If Weld thought he could throw the election to Hillary by joining the Libertarian ticket – over the objections of a great many horrified libertarians – he may be proved laughably wrong.

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Such a shame, because this could have been the election that put the Libertarian Party on the map. Instead it’s the laughing stock.

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RANT: Sam Colt makes the old equal to the young

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/09/no_author/home-invader-smashes-70-year-olds-head/

Resident with Cane Shoots Home Invader Dead
By Bob Irwin AmmoLand.com
September 30, 2016

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Deputies found that a 48-year-old intruder had broken into a home and attacked a 70-year-old male resident with a bamboo stick and a hockey stick. The victim suffered a severe head injury but was able to shoot the intruder in the chest with his .38 caliber handgun.

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Every household should be “suitably equipped”!

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SOFTWARE: New release of Portable Software/USB for Windoze

Monday, October 3, 2016

https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/editorial/?source=psp

Portable software for USB, portable, and cloud drives

Brought to you by: chriswombat, critternyc, markomlm

Editor’s ReviewRead User Reviews

PortableApps is an open source, application launcher that you install directly to your USB or cloud drive and use on any PC. You can download hundreds of portable applications from the PortableApps integrated directory, like Firefox, Skype, and more. This means you take your browser with your bookmarks and extensions, your office suite, your photo editor, your music collection, your games, your development tools, and more with you everywhere you go. And because everything stays on your drive, every PC becomes your PC. Additional features include integrated backup, interface themes, a search option, support for personal files, favorites and more. 

PortableApps.com at a Glance

It took a few minutes to install the PortableApps Platform, and several more to install six apps including ClamWin, Firefox, GIMP, KeePass, Skype, and Stellarium. To start, we launched the heavyweight GIMP without a hitch, while each additional app opened just as quickly. The idea of carrying apps around on a USB seems plausible but the idea of loading the PortableApps Platform to Dropbox, or the like, seems like an even better idea. So, without further adieu, consider trying the PortableApps Platform, especially if you’ve been thinking about the best way to take your apps for a joy ride. 

Product Details

Here is a detailed breakdown of PortableApps’ features: 

  • Take your apps everywhere—PortableApps lets you carry all your favorite apps on a portable device or cloud drive and use them on any PC.
  • Use a portable device, cloud directory, or local drive—The PortableApps Platform comes with a smart installer that easily installs your environment to a portable device, a cloud drive (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.), or a local PC, so you can safely back up data to the cloud.
  • Quickly find and install apps—PortableApps has a built-in app store that lists apps by category, title, or new and recently updated so you can install the apps you want with just a few clicks. And there’s no download limit.
  • Easily organize apps—Grow and organize your app collection with folders that group them automatically or as you see fit. Pick favorites and have the menu learn what to keep up front and center. Or use the search to find what you’re looking for.
  • Easily update apps—When a new security fix for your browser is released or a new feature in your favorite game is available, the PortableApps Updater automatically lets you know. Just click a button and the updates are downloaded and installed without messing up your settings and saved files.
  • Personalize your app menu—With a dozen bundled themes, each with a rainbow of color selections, the PortableApps Platform lets you pick a different look every day for months and never have the same menu twice.
  • Take your fonts along too—The PortableApps Platform supports the ability to carry fonts on your portable device and use them with your portable software without needing to install them on the local machine.
  • Advanced Features—The PortableApps Platform has the power and the options to work the way you want. And if there’s something we haven’t added that you’d like to see, just ask in the forums. We add new features every month!

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Always handy for when you have a windoze box to work on.

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ECONOMICS: Four reasons for a dim employment forecast

Sunday, October 2, 2016

http://larrysummers.com/2016/09/26/men-without-work/

Men Without Work
09/26/2016
Over the weekend, the FT published my review of Nicholas Eberstadt’s important new book Men Without Work.  

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I think this is likely a substantial underestimate unless something is done for a number of reasons.  First everything we hear and see regarding technology suggests the rate of job destruction will pick up.  Think of the elimination of drivers, and of those who work behind cash registers.  Second, the gains in average education and health of the workforce over the last 50 years are unlikely to be repeated.  Third, to the extent that non-work is contagious, it is likely to grow exponentially rather than at a linear rate.  Fourth, declining marriage rates are likely to raise rates of labor force withdrawal given that non-work is much more common for unmarried than married men.

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This is a really dismal view of what’s in store for the men of the future.

As well as for the uneducated, or those who can not generate value.

Sad. 

Everyone better be teaching their children to be entrepreneurial.

Argh!

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INOVATION: Neat — a riding suitcase

Saturday, October 1, 2016

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/introducing-the-ridealong-suitcase-for-adults/

This could be very useful for getting around airports by seniors and the handicapped. I know that they have “mobility services” but they are few and far between. As well as not always available.

Funny the things that are invented just a little too late. I know someone who could have used such a decade ago.

Oh well, better late than never.

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