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“I let my goals / commitments dictate my actions.” — Hal Elrod Achieve Your Goals Podcast #74
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Stunningly simple piece of advice.
Wish I’d heard it decades ago.
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FROM FACEBOOK
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Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
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Hmm, not so sure that “poor stay poor, the rich get rich” is accurate here in America. There are economic studies that show tremendous movement between the financial strata. WHile there are some people who are born poor and die poor, but that’s not cast in concrete like in some countries. And, rarely does a “family fortune” survive three generations.Also, how does one explain the immigrants from Asia and India who arrive with nothing and wind up with thriving businesses in a few decades. #Tom Woods
http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-298-income-inequality-non-solutions-to-a-non-problem/
Ep. 298 Income Inequality: Non-Solutions to a Non-Problem
4th December 2014
Tom Woods
Nineteen ways income redistribution harms society.
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Jim:
I was listening this morning about the Guv pontificating on enforcing Federal Pot laws.
Maybe at ‘Ask the Guv’, someone should ask him where in the Constitution’s enumerated powers, the Federal Gooferment gets to “regulate” drugs.
“We, The Sheeple” learn nothing — not from VietNam, not from Prohibition and on and on.
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I wrote this week’s KONK Life column yesterday. Got it out a day early. Don’t know where the energy came from.
The title is Portugal The Blueprint.
Portugal legalized drugs in 2001. All drugs. Even the real bad stuff like cocaine and heroin. Fourteen years later, the results are amazing. Drug problems significantly down in every area. Jails closing because there are not enough criminals to occupy them.
You will find the article interesting. Perhaps something the U.S. should consider.
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I am a little L libertarian and completely agree with ending the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”. It’s a MEDICAL problem; not a legal problem.
My exemplar is Prohibition that created organized crime. (We got Prohibition because women regained the right to vote, but that it another rant.) Once Prohibition was repealed, there is no violence between Budweiser and Miller employees. And, “organized crime” had to move on to other prohibited substances.
Remember why Prohibition was repealed? Jury nullification.
Prosecutors could get a jury to convict any one on booze arrests; that’s why they had to get Al Capone on Tax Evasion.
So regardless of what the Gooferment, the politicians, or the bureaucrats say, American Juries can put an end to this nonsense all by themselves. No victim; no crime. Sorry. A juror doesn’t have to explain or even talk; just vote “not guilty” and this house of cards will come tumbling down. Argh!
What does an out of work Columbian or inner city drug lord do for a living?
AND, furthermore, the FDA should be in an ADVISORY role.
Leave “drugs” to the medical profession and people to figure it out themselves.
IMHO,
fjohn
p.s., I’ve left NJ because I couldn’t afford to die here. With no kids, the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee would tax my estate 30%. Ask the Guv why it’s OK to rob the dead?
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/walter-e-williams/white-privilege-2/
Intellectual Dishonesty
By Walter E. Williams
June 2, 2015
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President Barack Obama’s stance, expressed in his 2014 State of the Union address, is that the debate is settled and climate change is a fact. Obama is by no means unique in that view. Former Vice President Al Gore declared that “the science is settled.” This “settled science” vision about climate is held by many, including those in academia. To call any science settled is sheer idiocy. Had mankind acted as though any science could possibly be settled, we’d be living in caves, as opposed to having the standard of living we enjoy today. That higher standard of living stems from challenges to what might have been seen as “scientific fact.”
According to mathematician Samuel Arbesman’s book, “The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date,” many ideas taken as facts today will be shown to be wrong as early as five years from now. Arbesman argues that a study published in a physics journal will lose half its value in 10 years.
Many academics know that to call any science settled is nonsense. But their leftist political sentiments and lack of academic integrity prevent them from criticizing public officials and the media for misleading a gullible public about global warming.
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I can always count on Professor Wilaims educating me.
I never had heard about the “Half-Life of Facts”.
As a fat old white guy injineer, “facts” were always “facts”.
There are certain absolutes in this world: π, ℊ, 𝑒, and lying politicians.
There are certain moral principles: The Golden Rule (i.e., do unto others), the Zero Aggression Principle (i.e., don’t hurt people or steal their stuff), and Karma (i.e., what you do, comes around back to you).
There are a lot of “theories”. For example, Evolution, Conspiracy, and Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change,
Personally, I have always used the DIKW (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) paradigm to understand the world and structure my memes accordingly.
Note that “facts” don’t appear in my paradigm because, for the most part, when people tell me “facts”, they are not very absolute.
In my mind, “facts” are “information” subject to verification and testing.
Thanks for Professor Williams educating me that there is no such thing as “settled science”.
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Peanut Butter Smell Test for Alzheimer’s
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An ingenious group of researchers at the University of Florida discovered all we may need is some peanut butter and a ruler.
Considering that the left side of the brain primarily processes what we smell through our left nostril and the right side of our brain covers the right nostril and Alzheimer’s strikes the left side more than the right, what if you performed the following experiment?
Close your eyes and mouth and breathe normally through the nose. Then close one nostril and hold a foot-long ruler out from the open nostril. After their eyes, mouth, and one nostril were closed, the container of peanut butter was opened at the bottom of the ruler and moved closer 1 cm upon each exhale until the person indicated that they detected the odor. Then they repeated the whole procedure again using the other nostril.
In the normal elderly controls, they smelled the peanut butter as soon as it came within an average of 18 centimeters, which is about 7 inches from either nostril. And in the right nostril of Alzheimer’s patients was about the same, 7 inches. No difference, but in their left nostril, only 2 inches. The peanut butter had to get all the way up to 2 inches before they could detect it through their left nostril. And this happened every single time, left nostril impairment of odor detection was present in all the patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease.
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You can bet I’ll be testing myself with peanut butter.
Amazing that these folks came up with a cheap and easy way to dispositively test for the disease.
Truly inspirational.
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Commemorating the 71st Anniversary of D-Day and the Museum’s 15th Anniversary
In fact, the institution we now know as The National WWII Museum was once dedicated entirely to the story of D-Day in Normandy. With founder (and noted author) Stephen E. Ambrose at the helm, it opened in June 2000 in New Orleans—home of shipbuilder Andrew Higgins, whose production of the amphibious Higgins Boats led Eisenhower to describe him as “the man who won the war for us.” Now 15 years later, The National WWII Museum is one of the most popular museums in the world, and home to historical collections and scholarship that span the entire scope of America’s WWII story. The Museum is also a center for ongoing research and outreach, innovating every day to reach students, teachers, veterans, and visitors like never before.
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I wonder how many people will remember the slaughter on the beaches.
And this was against a weakened Germany that was bled by their Russian disaster.
How was history changed by this blood letting?
And blame it all on Wilson and FDR.
Argh!
Also “We, The Sheeple” have learned nothing from all these wars.
Seems like a good anniversary to bring all the girls and boys home now.
Requiescat In Pacem
Dona Nobis Pacem
Let’s not forget!
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SECOND AMENDMENT
‘Covering Guns’: Columbia University’s ‘workshop’ for journalists far from objective
By Dr. John R. Lott Jr. Published May 29, 2015 FoxNews.com
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Columbia University would never sponsor an event funded by the National Rifle Association. What’s more, the idea would seem especially outlandish if most of the speakers at the event were NRA supporters.
Yet, gun control advocate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his gun control group Everytown are now funding a two-day workshop in Phoenix on Friday and Saturday sponsored by Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. The event will bring together journalists from around the country to learn about “covering guns and gun violence.”
Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center, claims that there is “no party line” and calls the workshop “very balanced.”
But gun control advocates make up 15 of the panel’s 17 experts. Aren’t journalism schools supposed to teach journalists to present both sides of a story? Why doesn’t Columbia feature other speakers who argue that people should be able to defend themselves with guns?
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But you would think that Columbia would have the gumption to at least use basic journalistic practices of fact checking and teaching journalists to see both sides of an issue when they offer a workshop.
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Seriously, have you ever seen the state of “Journalism” today?
Columbia is partially responsible for that state.
Common sense demonstrates that “good guys with guns” stop “bad guys with guns”.
And, when there is a defensive use of gun, it rarely gets any media attention. If no shots are fired, there will be NO coverage at all.
The Dead Old White Guys must be rolling over about this issue, as well as some others (i.e., fiat currency; Gooferment Skrules; FED; Federal “special militias” that is the various Federal “police” agencies; federal asset forfeiture; “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”).
The RIGHT to Keep and Bear Arms is the platinum standard for Liberty.
All you have to do is ask candidates one question. “Where do you stand on guns?”
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https://www.facebook.com/AAAMidAtlantic?sk=app_234658916574732
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LIFE IS JOYOUS. IT’S MESSY. IT’S SURPRISING. MOSTLY, IT’S YOURS.
THROUGHOUT IT ALL, THERE’S ONE NAME YOU CAN COUNT ON, AND IT’S PRONOUNCED TRIPLE-A. SHARE YOUR AAAHH! MOMENT AND YOU COULD BE A WINNER. IT’S EASY.
Just click ‘Enter Now!’ below to get started. Upload a photo depicting your favorite AAAHH! Moment – good, bad, funny – it’s up to you! Next, add a clever caption, fill in the remaining fields, click ‘Submit’ and you could win cool prizes like free gas, theme park passes or free movie tickets!
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SO I did.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), they never gave me a chance to capture my creation.
I was going to send to my “usual suspects”.
IT would have had their logo on it.
SOOoo they missed a chance to expand their “mind share” and possibly their market share.
Dumb!
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I heard a sad tale of woe.
Fellow did his “own” will with Legal Zoom.
When I was told that the son had the original will, I just KNEW there would be trouble. Most attorneys INSIST that you leave the original will in their vault for safekeeping.
All was fine and dandy until he “corrected” it.
Note that if he had NOT had the original, he couldn’t have spoiled it.
Now the fun begins.
It may be that the fellow that died will be declared “intestate” (i.e., no will).
And the state law will divide his assets.
Probably not the way he planned.
AND, for sure, there will be extra costs (i.e., legal fees, court fees, insurance bond, extra lawyer, billable hours).
ALSO, if he had NOT screwed it up, his son could have been the executor and “saved” the 15% fee. Now that’s up for grabs.
Getting your will done by a good lawyer is NOT that expensive and certainly not as expensive as a mistake.
Argh!
No one to blame but the fellow who thought he knew what he was doing.
Argh! I hate when “amateurs” try and do “brain surgery”. It’s a common thing on Wall Street, but didn’t expect it of this individual.
[Note to self: Remember this blog post.]
“Yes, the advice of an attorney costs more. But eighty percent of people who fill in blank forms to create legal documents do so incorrectly. Are you going to beat the odds? Are you willing to take the risk?”
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HOMELAND SECURITY
FBI flying surveillance aircraft over US cities; planes traced to fake companies
Published June 02, 2015
Associated Press
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The surveillance flights comply with agency rules, an FBI spokesman said. Those rules, which are heavily redacted in publicly available documents, limit the types of equipment the agency can use, as well as the justifications and duration of the surveillance.
Details about the flights come as the Justice Department seeks to navigate privacy concerns arising from aerial surveillance by unmanned aircrafts, or drones. President Obama has said he welcomes a debate on government surveillance, and has called for more transparency about spying in the wake of disclosures about classified programs.
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Sorry, but every American should be hoping mad about this.
No one knew about it or admitted it until Drudge broke the story about “mysterious planes”.
And why hide the FBI affiliation?
Everything else has logos on it, except for unmarked police cars which is another topic.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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