POLITICAL: Negative rights are the only rights we have?

Sunday, April 24, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/walter-e-williams/rights-vs-wishes/

Rights Versus Wishes
By Walter E. Williams
April 20, 2016

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Here is what presidential aspirant Sen. Bernie Sanders said: “I believe that health care is a right of all people.” President Barack Obama declared that health care “should be a right for every American.” The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: “Every person has a right to adequate health care.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his January 1944 message to Congress, called for “the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.” And it is not just a health care right that people claim. There are rights to decent housing, good food, and a decent job, and for senior citizens, there’s a right to prescription drugs. In a free and moral society, do people have these rights? Let’s look at it.

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So how is that “right” to “affordable care” working out for you?

I have no obligation to pay for anyone else’s “stuff”.

Argh!

A “positive” right to something implies that someone must provide it.

In nature, everything has a cost. Even “free health care”.

http://tomwoods.com/d/bernie.pdf

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SURVIVAL: This super experienced guy goes … and nearly dies!

Saturday, April 23, 2016

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/04/19/tv-crew-saves-castaway-after-spotting-him-on-deserted-island-h/21346472/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&intcmp=hplnws

TV crew saves castaway after spotting him on deserted island: ‘He was ready to die’ 
Inside Edition JOHANNA LI
Apr 19th 2016 5:44AM

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Shearman said that the man, whom they later learned was named Tremine, was out fishing one day when he decided to venture off his boat in search of better oysters. He was told that the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands was only inhabited by a small aboriginal group, and would be a more interesting area to fish.

Tremine, a roofer from Borroloola in northern Australia, is an experienced hobby fisherman and often takes short camping or fishing trips. But he didn’t anticipate the conditions that day. Shearman said Tremine told him that he left his boat and took a wrong turn after a couple hours of digging for oysters.

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After 60 hours without water, this guy was a mess and near death.

How many of the ‘survival rules’ did he break!

Maybe they should be codified so that we “experts” don’t fall afoul of them?

First rule, is remember “Murphy’s Law”. And, it’s like the Law of Gravity. It’s always operational.

It’s a dangerous world out there and puny naked humans shouldn’t forget that ONE FACT!

He was almost a “Darwin Award” nominee; let’s not have others!

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GOVERNACIDE: Aghh, bureaucrats are just that!

Friday, April 22, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/22/dashcam-video-shows-fla-deputies-debating-whether-to-rescue-girls-from-stolen-car-in-pond.html?intcmp=hpbt3

The bureaucrats did a “great” job!

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POLITICAL: The Israel Lobby?

Friday, April 22, 2016

http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-642-the-israel-lobby-what-it-does-and-how-it-works/

Ep. 642 The Israel Lobby: What It Does and How It Works
18th April 2016
Tom Woods

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We are supposed to believe that the network of organizations promoting a particular view of Israel and the U.S. relationship with that country doesn’t exist, and that anyone who says it does is a crank and a hater. Yet it’s precisely the network of organizations that would call such a person a hater that we’re talking about in the first pace. Grant Smith joins me for a rational discussion of this inexplicably sensitive issue.

About the Guest

Grant F. Smith is director of research at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.

Book Discussed

Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America

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Basically, I don’t understand anyone who doesn’t have sympathy for Israel after the Shoah considering American actions before it (i.e., rejection of the Saint Louis; the anti-semitism of the US State Department; the failure of the executive to order the US Army Air Corp to stop the trains; the failure to inform the American people of what known facts when it was happening). 

That being said, not all the Israeli and USA interests are ALWAYS aligned.

It was an eye opening podcast that exposes how much the Israeli Gooferment manipulates the USA Gooferment to its benefit.

Argh!

Entirely too much Gooferment is my bottom line.

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We are supposed to believe that the network of organizations promoting a particular view of Israel and the U.S. relationship with that country doesn’t exist, and that anyone who says it does is a crank and a hater. Yet it’s precisely the network of organizations that would call such a person a hater that we’re talking about in the first pace. Grant Smith joins me for a rational discussion of this inexplicably sensitive issue.

About the Guest

Grant F. Smith is director of research at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.

Book Discussed

Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America

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INSPIRATIONAL: Ev’s cardiologist wrote a book

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Alone in the World: Stories of Complex Human Relationships

“My world crumbled, a stable, happy and peaceful life disintegrated in to millions of pieces- from a man I became a patient”. These were the words of one of my patients who suffered an unexpected heart attack.

The pain and sadness hidden in these words permeated into the core of my consciousness and my professional evolution- from a physician to a healer began. The Hippocratic Oath is taken by all physicians. In the original form, it requires a new physician to swear by a number of healing gods. The concept of healing is deeply embedded in the Hippocratic Oath.

This book reflects my journey to help patients heal from the ravages of disease.

About the Author

Ashok Kumar, M.D., is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and a clinical cardiologist at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He lives with his wife and is in private practice with his daughter who is also a cardiologist.

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He’s a great guy. He told me that he’s donating all the profits.

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MONEY: TDBANK launches an expensive and slow PayPal competitor

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

http://view.e.tdbank.com/?qs=859baa97e49b3782d53acd89cee5a052785361738a875abf9111a8482c546426dbc352c59b5fc2cab663db28a15525083d55787279596536c2866d63492b6973f3e47bb6a8bc4021

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With Person-to-Person Payments, you can send money to anyone in the U.S., directly from your TD Bank account. 

Pay rent, split a dinner bill, or send a gift with ease with Online Banking.
See how easy it is to make a payment.
Send money now
Explore the benefits
Access Person-to-Person Payments by logging in to Online Banking – an easy, secure way to:
Send money. Pay anyone with just an email address or mobile phone number.
Request payments by text or email.
Include an e-card or personal message!

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Interesting?

Paypal is instantaneous in its P2P service and free.

So why would you come to market with a competitive service that is slow and costly? (1 day xfer for $7 and 3 day for $1)

Makes NO economic sense.

And how is that TRULY putting your Customer FIRST?

TD would have been better striking an affinity deal with PayPal.

https://www.paypal.com/

If you want to try it, you can send me money … free! https://paypal.me/reinkefj

Reminds me of when Soupy Sales 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales

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On January 1, 1965, miffed at having to work on the holiday, Sales ended his live broadcast by encouraging his young viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents’ bedrooms and remove those “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their pants and pocketbooks. “Put them in an envelope and mail them to me”, Soupy instructed the children. “And I’ll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico!” [20] Several days later, a chagrined Soupy announced that money (mostly Monopoly money[21]) was unexpectedly being received in the mail. He explained that he had been joking and announced that the contributions would be donated to charity. As parents’ complaints increased, WNEW’s management felt compelled to suspend Sales for two weeks. Young viewers picketed Channel 5. The uproar surrounding Sales’ suspension increased his popularity. Sales described the incident in his 2001 autobiography Soupy Sez! My Life and Zany Times.

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Laugh!

My line would be “I’ll send you a post card from Aruba!”

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SECESSION: An idea who’s time has come

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/jack-perry/end-not-near/

The End is Not Near, It has Begun
By Jack Perry
April 15, 2016

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People have this idea that the United States must remain united. Why? Many regions have different interests. Like a relationship that went sour, this federal government thing was nice when times were good, but we need to move on. We need to see other people, or rather, see different flags flying above our state capitols. We’re different people now. That’s not a bad thing, it just means we need to stop trying to pound every square and triangular peg into the round hole. The federal government cannot administer this entire country anymore. Look at Detroit. Look at the blighted areas of every major city. Not to mention the aggressive nature of the federal government in terms of cataclysmic wars it starts all over the planet.

Soon, it will become apparent all over America that the future for them looks like Detroit. Detroit was the first sign of the terminal illness that will fill the federal government. In time, regions will learn they need to break away for their own survival. Political ideology will not sell people on secession. But half the supermarkets empty and the other half on fire will. 

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It happened to the USSR. And, it will happen to the USA.

The current 18T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with will assure it’s demise.

If “We, The Sheeple” were smart — but then they wouldn’t be sheeple — they’d be hold the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats feet to the fire. Spend less; do less. More freedom; less laws, regulations, and diktats.

End the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”. End the Crony Capitalism! End the overreach of the Gooferment into every facet of American life.

You made bad choices, we’re genuinely sorry, but it’s not “our” problem.

Tough love!

No more Gooferment programs that make infantile helpless human beings who think everyone owes them something.

Life is tough. It’s even tougher when you depend on the Gooferment!

Argh!

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RANT: Why is Tax Day April 18?

Monday, April 18, 2016

http://www.efile.com/tax-day-deadlines/#april-18

Why is Tax Day April 18?

The regular tax return filing deadline is April 15. However, due to the Washington D.C. Emancipation Day holiday being observed on April 15 instead of April 16, 2016, Tax Day is on the following Monday.

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Doesn’t anyone else see the irony of Federal taxes being delayed by something called “Emancipation Day” in the “District of Corruption”?

Argh!

Tax Day and Election Day should be the same day.

Or even better. Tax Day is the day BEFORE Election Day!

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GOLD: What are your “savings” worth?

Sunday, April 17, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/jack-perry/praise-penny/

In Praise of the Penny
By Jack Perry
April 14, 2016

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Consider this: If I back my dollar with gold, there are only so many dollars I can print because gold is a finite thing. No one will be able to accumulate too many of those dollars because, sooner or later, they’re going to have to part with them if they want to eat. But if I can print unlimited cash, unbacked by anything, I’m not even limited by the supply of paper! I can use a computer to say, “There! I just created ten billion dollars to issue to Slob Junction Central First National Bank!” After all, hey, we’re going to electronic transfers and people are saying we don’t even need the fig leaf of paper money to hide the fiction of the currency. Therefore, people can hoard immense sums and when there’s a shortage of available currency because it’s being hoarded, they just print more. Or open up a computer program and create more out of thin air and electrons. Same thing. That’s what creates “income inequality”, not wages.

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It’s no secret that I’m a gold bug.

When the <synonym for excrement> hits the fan and the Gooferment can pay its bills, guess what will happen?

Of all the “fun things” that might happen, the one that worries me most and that I have personally seen is INFLATION.

When the value of paper money or “electronic dollars” goes into the toilet, I bet a roll of nickels will be worth something. Never mind an ounce of silver or gold.

Remember that’s what many USED to be.

Twenty dollar gold piece had real value.

Argh!

“We, The Sheeple” are so dumb.

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MONEY: Sovereign Debt Threat

Saturday, April 16, 2016

http://www.jasonstapleton.com/sovereign-debt-threatens-new-global-depression/

Sovereign Debt Threatens New Global Depression
By Jason Stapleton –  Apr 13, 2016

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Today we’re going to have a critical discussion about something you won’t hear about in the news. I’ve been tracking several issues that will likely have a direct impact on your life over the coming months and years. We start in Japan.

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Review your history lessons about the Weimar Republic!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic 

And just think about the the current 18T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with!

Argh!

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