MONEY: The “Secret Sauce” = Stable Currency

Monday, September 5, 2016

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept16/Byzantine9-16.html

The “Secret Sauce” of the Byzantine Empire: Stable Currency, Social Mobility
September 1, 2016
How did Byzantium endure for 1,000 years after the fall of Rome?

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A stable currency. When the Empire devalued its currency for the first time in the 13th century, it triggered a long-lasting loss of faith in the currency. This devaluation was the beginning of the end, as the Empire never recovered its financial footing.

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Well, the USA certainly missed the boat on this one. The US$ has lost 99% of its value in the last 40 years.

How do we turn that about?

It’s easy. END THE FED!

The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.

Tie the value of the dollar directly to gold and silver as the Dead Old White Guys had in the Constitution. (They knew the ravages of “paper money” inflated by bankrupt Gooferments.

Will we?

I doubt it.

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GUNS: “SIX TIME weapon offender”?

Sunday, September 4, 2016

http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/08/29/carry-thugs-like-will-shoot-making-eye-contact/

Why Do I Carry? Because Thugs Like These Will Shoot You For Making Eye Contact
Posted at 11:30 am on August 29, 2016 by Bob Owens

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Both are repeat gun offenders, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson confirmed, and both were out on parole at the time of the killing.

Speaking about Darwin, Johnson said he is a six-time weapon offender who was jailed in 2013 for six years for another gun crime but released on parole in February.

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Excuse me, “SIX TIME weapon offender”?

Are you kidding me!

On parole.

Argh!

If I was President, then I’d direct my Attorney General to report to me on how many “felons in possession” were put in jail last month!

We have quotas for traffic tixs, why not for gun crimes.

Instead of hassling honest gun owners, let’s get the dangerous felons off the streets.

Let’s start protecting the public.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Funny when the liberal media can not “steer” the conversation

Saturday, September 3, 2016

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2016/08/28/joy-reid-planned-parenthood-not-eugenicist-organization

Joy Reid: ‘Planned Parenthood Is Not a Eugenicist Organization!’
By Nicholas Fondacaro | August 28, 2016 | 11:01 AM EDT

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But Aguilar would not let the facts rest. He brought it up again the next chance he had, and argued that it was a double standard that Clinton’s willful associations were not being scrutinized the way Trump’s were. “You’re mentioning a dead person for many decades,” Reid spat in frustration while trying to move away from Aguilar. As he started to talk about Planned Parenthood Reid tried to shut him up, exclaiming, “Planned Parenthood is not a eugenicist organization!” Reid followed up by claiming that Aguilar was somehow being “incredibly offensive.”

Shouting that a guest is being offensive to her seems to be a defense mechanism designed to keep facts that are damaging to liberals a secret. She did the same thing almost a month prior when she shouted down a guest for “inventing” the fact that there are roughly 33,000 missing e-mails from Clinton’s private server. She shouted the guest down saying, “You cannot say things — You’re putting out incredibly inflammatory information.”

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Planned Parenthood is an organization that’s a parasitic virus on the population.

Margaret Sanger was a racist and Planned Parenthood is a continuation of her work.

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HEALTH: Colon Cancer — get your colonoscopy. NOW!

Friday, September 2, 2016

https://www.care2.com/greenliving/solving-a-colon-cancer-mystery.html

Solving a Colon Cancer Mystery
By: Dr. Michael Greger
August 26, 2016

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Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States after lung cancer. The rates of lung cancer around the world vary by a factor of 10. If there was nothing we could do to prevent lung cancer—if it just happened at random—we’d assume that the rates everywhere would be about the same. But since there’s such a huge variation in rates, it seems like there’s probably some external cause. Indeed, we now know smoking is responsible for 90 percent of lung cancer cases. If we don’t want to die of the number-one cancer killer, we can throw 90 percent of our risk out the window just by not smoking.

There’s an even bigger variation around the world for colon cancer. It appears colon cancer doesn’t just happen—something makes it happen. If our lungs can get filled with carcinogens from smoke, maybe our colons are getting filled with carcinogens from food. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Limpopo sought to answer the question, “Why do African Americans get more colon cancer than native Africans?” Because colon cancer is extremely rare in native African populations, more than 50 times lower than rates of Americans, white or black.

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My maternal grandmother died of colon cancer … painfully. My Mom had a near miss that required some surgical brilliance that gave her another 10 years of a pretty good life. I’ve recently had yet another colonoscopy that revealed some suspect tissue that has to come out. AND, I am following up aggressively.

Since it’s a “silent killer” that has no external symptoms until it’s too late, you have to be the Captain of your health are team. 

Yes, it is — without a doubt — the most disgusting test to prep for. I do mine without anesthesia by personal preference. (I like to limit the things that can go wrong.) It’s no more painful than a case of constipation!

AND eat your veggies.

Please don’t ignore this blog post.

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GUNS: The medals in six consecutive Olympic Games were an “inconvenient truth”?

Thursday, September 1, 2016

2016-Aug-31

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/no_author/muzzled-rio/

Muzzled!
By Joe Bob Briggs Taki’s Magazine
August 27, 2016

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SAN GABRIEL, Calif.—Only two athletes in history have won medals in six consecutive Olympic Games.

Only two.

Let me put this in perspective. There are about 13,000 Olympians, both summer, and winter, during each four-year cycle. Since 1896, when the modern Games began, there have been 184,869 Olympians. So we’re talking about something that happens .001 percent of the time, which is just one click above…never.

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The other six-in-six Olympian is a woman from Southern California. She should have been asked to carry the flag at the closing ceremonies in Rio. I have nothing but respect for Simone Biles and her five medals in gymnastics, but this sixth medal in six Olympic Games was not only a once-in-a-century achievement, it was also accomplished by a 37-year-old woman who was fighting injuries, who was struggling against decades of sexism in her sport’s Olympic organization, who has to train by herself while raising a 3-year-old son, and who had to learn a whole new sport halfway through her medal run because the Olympics decided only men could compete in her preferred event.

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The liberal media is so biased AGAINST guns that they have perverted their value to humanity.

“God made men and women; Sam colt made them equal.” — Unknown

We’re the weakest, hairless, and in some ways the stupidest animal in the food chain.

And, guns make us safe from the predators — both four legged and two legged.

(Some of the two legged ones are politicians and bureaucrats who kill us.)

So how do we change the current “thinking” — or lack there of — on self-defense and the RKBA?

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TINFOILHAT: There’s a log tradition of assignation by US Presidents

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/jack-perry/martyrdom-mary-surratt/

The Martyrdom of Mary Surratt
By Jack Perry
August 27, 2016

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Look here, Mary Surratt was sentenced to death with no appeal possible. Her lawyer managed to obtain a writ to stay her execution and give her a retrial in a civilian court. But—get this—the President of the United States overruled the writ and sent Mary to the gallows. Seems they were in rather a hurry to murder the woman so they wouldn’t appear to have made a mistake. Or, perhaps, to justify themselves as absolute authority. Mary was executed to make sure the government was not embarrassed. People say, “Hey, we were at war! The president had been assassinated! People were scared!” And so that is an acceptable reason to murder an innocent woman? That’s a good reason to refuse the honor the Constitution that supposedly was the highest law of the land? People will say, “Well, that was the past! We’ve learned from that mistake!” Have we?

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So, BHO is just following in a long line of killers.

I didn’t know that this poor woman was “railroaded”.

Somehow this small “factoid” wasn’t in the history books.

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RANT: Social Security Disability is a joke

Monday, August 29, 2016

Here’s a personal rant.

From PERSONAL experience.

Social Security Disability pays a maximum of a little over 1k$ with a five month “waiting period”.

She earned about 4k$ and paid Soc Sec’s taxes on that.

So, if it was a real “insurance  company”, then that “policy” would have been terrible.

A true disability policy would replace the lost earnings.

The victim in the morality play is screwed. 

And, everyone should NOT depend upon it for anything but “chump change”.

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RANT: Louisiana Officials Demand … … and those demands should be dismissed immediately

Sunday, August 28, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/daisy-luther/stop-self-reliance-immediately/

Louisiana Officials Demand That Self-Reliant Locals Stop Surviving the Flood Without Permission
By Daisy Luther DaisyLuther.com
August 27, 2016

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“So as we are headed back home from the River Center in Baton Rouge volunteering our nursing services Dawn and I have come to the conclusion that neither of us WILL EVER volunteer or donate to the RED CROSS. The Red Cross basically takes over the shelters and starts refusing clothes, donations and various volunteer services UNLESS they are previously contracted. So what does that mean….well, 60 boxes of doughnuts were discarded this morning becuase the delivery vendor was not in contract, hot meals were refused becuase the entity providing wasn’t contracted, and medical supplies including medications were trashed for same reason. Clothes that were “donated” needed to be left on the street unless they were “furnished” by Red Cross. As of tomorrow, the shelter we were at will be completely over taken by the Red Cross other than the medical area because they couldnt have the actual room since LSU has a contract with state to provide medical care. Its sad when the military police were helping to “protect” the medical areas from the red cross when there are so many other issues at hand. Anyway, next time to want to donate or volunteer your services, do your homework.”

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Sorry, but “neighbors helping neighbors” is the best fastest most cost effective help that can be delivered.

And, “We, The Sheeple” need to wake up — Gooferment is the problem!

http://preparednessadvice.com/self-sufficiency/youre-right-to-fear-government-interference-during-emergencies/#.V8HWT5MrLsn

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TINFOILHAT: What is the FDA and various politicians role with EpiPen?

Saturday, August 27, 2016

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/25/epipen-price-increase-mylan

US healthcare
Opinion
For my daughter, the EpiPen is a lifeline, not a luxury
Liz Richardson Voyles
Thursday 25 August 2016 12.22 EDT Last modified on Thursday 25 August 2016 12.36 EDT 

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The disgraceful 461% increase in the price of this vital medication is a symptom of a system where corporate greed takes precedence over public health 

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This month, pharmaceutical company, Mylan, crowed that they smashed second-quarter expectations; with earnings of $2.56bn, up 8% from the year before. Their CEO’s salary has ballooned 671% over the past eight years. The corporation was able to accomplish this in part, because they are the maker of a medical device called the EpiPen, which delivers a life-saving drug to stop an anaphylactic allergy attack. The company has raised the price of this medication 461% since 2007. Mylan’s latest announcement – that it would offer various new pricing concessions to families on lower incomes and those who have to pay out of pocket, cannot alter this stark fact.

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Now before we take the “capitalist pigs” out and lynch them, can we make some inquiries?

1. Is this the only epi pen on the market?

2. Is it patented? If so, how many years left?

3. How is the FDA involved in this process? How much did / does Mylan spend on regulatory compliance?

4. Has there been any “political” involvement?

5. Does a corporation have to “justify” it’s prices? (In a truly free market, the “invisible hand” would prompt supply from competitors very quickly!)

I’d like answers before “we” “hang” them!

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INTERESTING: Do planning boards keep up with technology?

Friday, August 26, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/08/25/mathmetician-solves-puzzle-parking-lots/

AUTO TECH
Mathmetician solves puzzle of parking lots
The Sun
Published August 25, 2016

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All planners need to do is place the bays at a 45 degree angle, which cuts down the turning circle required and therefore needs a smaller access lane, freeing up more space for parking.

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I find this fascinating.

Large?

Peplos Republic of Nu Jerzee has some HUGE ones.

I’d imagine that this would be an easy update.

Wanna bet that it’s not permitted by zoning codes!!!

Argh!

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