Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World?, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Why is liberalism failing? Several causes, said Putin. Among them, its failure to deal with the crisis of the age: mass and unchecked illegal migration. Putin praised Trump’s efforts to secure the U.S. border:

“This liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population. … This liberal idea presupposes that … migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants have to be protected.”

Source: Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World?, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review

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I like Pat on a “common sense” foreign and domestic policy.

I wonder if the “culture war” is lost?

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Democrats are having a socialist moment, but it won’t last :: Jeff Jacoby

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Socialism is profoundly at odds with the American experience, and always has been. The Mayflower passengers who settled in Plymouth sought to build a socialist society avant la lettre, one in which, as Governor William Bradford later recounted, there would be no private ownership of property and “all profits and benefits” were to be part of “the common stock.” The settlers wanted a system in which everyone would work for the common good, and there would be no inequality of wealth. What they got was a painful lesson in socialism’s failures, with rising levels of hunger, corruption, and persecution. Only after the colony reversed course in 1623 and established private property rights did its fortunes change for the better.

Source: Democrats are having a socialist moment, but it won’t last :: Jeff Jacoby

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Every time “socialism” comes up, think “Mayflower Compact”!

Every time Communist Bernie Sanders or the other “Socialists” promise free stuff, think “North / South Korea”, “East / West Berlin”, “Venezuela”, or genocide!

Argh!

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Fed Up with Facebook? Here are 6 Alternatives – Make Tech Easier

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

So, you’ve finally had enough of Facebook – privacy issues, time drains, relationship-straining political debates, and all the rest. Still, social media is a valuable tool, so what are your other options?

Source: Fed Up with Facebook? Here are 6 Alternatives – Make Tech Easier

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Best way to get the big techs under control!

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Taylor Swift ‘Sad and Grossed Out’ by Big Machine Acquisition – Variety

Monday, July 1, 2019

Taylor Swift has described herself as “sad and grossed out” by Scooter Braun’s acquisition of Big Machine Records, which holds the rights to her entire catalog up through 2017’s “Reputation,” calling the deal “my worst case scenario.” Swift said she was shocked to first learn of the transfer of her work through news accounts Sunday morning. Braun declined Variety‘s requests for comment.

Swift posted her impassioned reaction in a Tumblr post, which reads:“For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums.

Source: Taylor Swift ‘Sad and Grossed Out’ by Big Machine Acquisition – Variety

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Sounds like Scott Borchetta as evil as any record executive industry could be?

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Acosta Tries to Embarrass Trump, but the President Had the Perfect Retort

Monday, July 1, 2019

“No, not at all,” Trump shot back. “I don’t really care about offending people. I sort of thought you’d know that.”

Source: Acosta Tries to Embarrass Trump, but the President Had the Perfect Retort

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Pretty funny zinger.

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A Not-So-Modest Proposal, by L. Neil Smith

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Basically, it will be a felony for any Congressional candidate (for example) to accept campaign contributions money from outside his or her Congressional district. Similarly Senatorial candidates may not accept money from outside their state. And, possibly most important, Presidential candidates may not accept money from outside the United States.

Source: A Not-So-Modest Proposal, by L. Neil Smith

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I like this idea!!!

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Report: Food Freedom Flourishes in Three States with Government Regulators Out of the Way | | Tenth Amendment Center

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Food freedom flourishes in states where government regulators simply get out of the way. The proof is in the pudding – the and cakes and the bread and the raw milk.

According to a recent Forbes article, hundreds of local business have sprouted up across three states that have passed food freedom laws in recent years without a single report of foodborne illness.

Food freedom laws exempt small food producing businesses from onerous regulations and licensing requirements. These businesses can sell directly to the consumer from a home, farm or ranch, as well as at farmers’ markets and roadside stands.

Wyoming enacted the first such law in 2015. The expansive law even allows poultry farmers with fewer than 1,000 birds to sell chicken and turkey, along with products made from their birds. It also authorizes the sale of raw milk, rabbit meat and most farm-raised fish.

Source: Report: Food Freedom Flourishes in Three States with Government Regulators Out of the Way | | Tenth Amendment Center

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Let’s get the Gooferment out of the way and we’ll all be better off!

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Kentucky black vulture damage: Protected birds are terrorizing farms

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Black vultures are multiplying in Kentucky, and their greater numbers have made them more desperate for food – even if it’s alive

Source: Kentucky black vulture damage: Protected birds are terrorizing farms

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More Gooferment stupidity!

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How a Native American reservation got ensnared in border crisis

Saturday, June 29, 2019

When President Trump proposed a barrier along the southern border with Mexico, a Tohono O’odham elder famously declared that the tribe did not understand the concept, having no word for “wall” in their native language.

Source: How a Native American reservation got ensnared in border crisis

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Sorry, I feel bad what happened to your people, but you lost. Yes the “great white father lied”; but he’s lied to us “white folk” too. Reference social security . Unfortunately “might makes right”.

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

The issue us settled. Sad as it is, it’s over.

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Teen leaps out Chick-fil-A drive-thru window to save boy who is choking on a seat belt inside a car | Daily Mail Online

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Despite his nonchalance immediately after the fact, Simmons admitted that ‘I do feel like a hero’ and said he’s ‘still kind of shocked right now myself that all this has happened.’

Source: Teen leaps out Chick-fil-A drive-thru window to save boy who is choking on a seat belt inside a car | Daily Mail Online

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Chick-fil-A stories always disprove the narrative that these are hate-filled people.

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