Notre Dame: Symbol of a Failing Culture – LewRockwell

Friday, April 19, 2019

People without history have no context. They are unstuck in time having to relearn lessons which our ancestors built monuments to remind us of what we’re capable of for better or worse.

While the French government took years to raise €12 million to renovate Notre Dame despite having the highest tax rate in the world, private donations to rebuild it topped $1 billion in the first 48 hours after the fire was put out.

This is gratifying in a way that is almost beyond words. And it makes a mockery of the statist arguments for government to replace private charity and private property.

Source: Notre Dame: Symbol of a Failing Culture – LewRockwell

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Yeah, “private charity” could NEVER ever replace Gooferment “services”.

Argh!

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Podcast Episode 224: The Constitution and Executive Power | Brion McClanahan Author & Historian

Friday, April 19, 2019

A leftist professor wants to limit executive power. This should not be news in the Age of Trump. Every leftist wants to do that, but this leftist might be slightly different. Professor Julia Azari wrote a piece for Vox arguing that the Constitution doesn’t do enough to limit executive power and suggests amending it to do so.

Source: Podcast Episode 224: The Constitution and Executive Power | Brion McClanahan Author & Historian

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We need to reign in the Executive.  The problem is NOT BHO44 or DJT45.  The DOWG weren’t perfect and they didn’t do enough to prevent the President from becoming a King. Or worse, a Deity.

I think of how some of my Depression Era relatives “worshiped” FDR and the fights when certain uncles who were war vets pointed out his flaws (i.e., women), claims that just weren’t true (i.e., he saved us from the Depression), and “conspiracy theories” (i.e., he caused Pearl Harbor; he led us into war; he was a socialist that gave away the world at Yalta).

Maybe that where I get my “suspicion” that ALL the Conspiracy Theories have a grain of truth at the core AND SOME even are true!

Argh!

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GOLDBUG: Seems real simple!

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Goldtradewar

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A look at what was saved, what was lost in Notre Dame fire

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Source: A look at what was saved, what was lost in Notre Dame fire

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If “we, humans” were smart everyone would be looking at their “national treasures” and see what need to be save.

I’d start with the soon to be aborted babies — much more important than “mere” “art” — but that’s just my view from the cheap seats.

I’d pray for any religion that wishes ill or celebrates the misfortune of others.  I’m sure it won’t happen but if I was an Islamic Leader, then I’d say shame on those who “celebrated” the fire.  If nothing else, it’s in poor taste and sure to bring about strife.

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” — Buddha

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Eric “Nuke ‘Em” Swalwell Wants To Take Your Guns And Jail Anyone Who Resists | Zero Hedge

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper on Sunday, Swalwell – who last year joked about nuking gun owners who refuse to give up their firearms –  discussed his longstanding proposal to ban so-called ‘assault weapons.’

Source: Eric “Nuke ‘Em” Swalwell Wants To Take Your Guns And Jail Anyone Who Resists | Zero Hedge

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I foresee a real messy “civil war” if they try.

It’s a “hill” that many, if not all, gun owners will die on.

We all know that without “gun control” genocide would be impossible.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” — apocryphal unsourced quote attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

It just can’t happen without a lot of bloodshed.

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Silver versus Debt, Delusions and Devaluation | The Deviant Investor

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Silver prices are too low based on five decades of history and via comparisons to national debt, the S&P 500 Index and gold. Expect silver prices to rise far higher in coming years as the over-leveraged financial system resets and rebalances.

Source: Silver versus Debt, Delusions and Devaluation | The Deviant Investor

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Seems unavoidable.

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My Money, My Choice: Remember Taxation Is Theft On April 15th | Zero Hedge

Monday, April 15, 2019

Abolish The 16th

Defenders of the IRS often espouse the fallacy that taxes are how we pay for a civilized society. If it weren’t for the government, who would pave the roads? Who would educate the children? Who would confiscate your earnings? But here’s a better question, one that suits the state much better: If it weren’t for the government breaking your legs, who would give you a crutch? That’s the real nature of government; it’s not the benevolent force out to do good that some statists believe is the case.

Source: My Money, My Choice: Remember Taxation Is Theft On April 15th | Zero Hedge

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Real simple — Abolish The 16th — recognize the mistake and fix it!

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Prior to 1913 No One Paid Income Tax. Why Now? | | Tenth Amendment Center

Monday, April 15, 2019

Of course, those receiving and benefiting from these programs will defend them.  But the fact remains that tax monies provide largely government jobs, which are almost entirely consumption jobs (jobs that consume the production of society but produce little consumable).  Such jobs cannot produce for public consumption a potato, a carton of milk, or even a can of hair spray.  They bring another person to the table to eat, but not another to produce something to eat.

Source: Prior to 1913 No One Paid Income Tax. Why Now? | | Tenth Amendment Center

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Seems like we need to get back to “lean” Constitutional activities and cut the warfare / welfare state down to a much more manageable size.

Regardless of who’s in charge — the Democans or the Republicrats — Gooferment just gets bigger and bigger.

No new programs, no new taxes, and an ongoing program of 1% annual real bottom line cuts.

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Google, Mozilla Blacklist Gab’s ‘Dissenter’ Free Speech Browser Extension | Breitbart

Friday, April 12, 2019

Both Google and Mozilla have banned Gab’s Dissenter.com extension from their browsers’ extension stores. Dissenter’s mission is to bring a free speech comment system to every site on the Internet.

Source: Google, Mozilla Blacklist Gab’s ‘Dissenter’ Free Speech Browser Extension | Breitbart

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I like and use this extension regularly.

I wish I could find out when some one comments on my blog in dissenter.

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Expert: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over their Lifetime

Friday, April 12, 2019

Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime, costs American taxpayers about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steve Camarota says.

Source: Expert: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over their Lifetime

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This is a direct consequence of the welfare state.

“We, The Sheeple” need to end welfare for everyone — including Crony Capitalists.

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