Monday, September 25, 2017

Monday, September 25, 2017

SILICON VALLEY IS FAR TOO POWERFUL: Defining crony capitalism. When innovative startups become extremely successful and profitable, the trouble often begins.  It begins with a protection racket that involves buying political influence to "protect" their success and morphs into a corporate culture that demands group think on the part of their employees.  We saw this recently at Google which fired an employee for criticizing employment practices of the company deemed to be politically incorrect.  Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Therefore these companies that are a part of the Silicon Valley cartel and their ruling oligarchs have to be reigned in to protect the capitalist system.  VDH has identified an important issue for the Trump administration to pursue.

HISTORY DISTORTED AGAIN BY DEMOCRATS:The faux posturing by millionaire athletes is faux. The problem with lying is the truth is out there and nowadays there's always someone who will bring it to light.  Once and for all it's the Democrats who supported and fought for slavery over many years.  Once and for all it's the Democrats who have gotten us into all those destructive wars over the years.  Why don't Republicans point this out more often?

NBA COACH AS SJW:POPOVITCH IS NBA MOST SUCCESSFUL COACH:That doesn't prevent him from commenting on politics and current events as an expert as well. Since he's looked up to as a father figure by many of the players in the NBA his comments here are not productive.  He's clearly a Progressive who voted for Obama and Hillary.  He seems to be unaware of the long time goals and objectives of Progressives and Socialist to create discord and chaos in society as a means to effect the change Obama spoke of in his first campaign for President.  He's also seemingly unaware of the growth of the Administrative State, the chaos on college campuses, and all the other hallmarks of the collapse of structure and order going on in our society today.  His diatribe is that of a man who has been in a highly compensated position in the entertainment industry for many years and is simply unaware of the sources and consequences of these changes.  Part of his diatribe was a defense of those who support the racist claims of the BLM movement.  While he alleges to understand why those who voted for Trump did so, he wonders how they (voters for Trump) must feel now after his first nearly year in office. This position clearly misreads why people elected Trump in the first place.  His is a ridiculously naive presentation by an out-of-touch liberal leading from his sentiments.  Here's an analysis from Ben Shapiro:

But don’t worry, Popovich isn’t the divisive one, even though Popovich endorsed Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling for the national anthem long before Trump addressed it.
There are a bevy of problems with Popovich’s perspective here. First, talking constantly about race does not alleviate racial problems — it exacerbates them. That’s why polls show consistently that race relations were better before President Obama took office: by elevating racial discourse back to the center of our national consciousness, we reopened wounds that had been healing. And the notion that being born white in the United States represents an unspoken privilege is unsupported by data. If that were the case, Asian-Americans would not be the highest-earning group in the United States; if that were the case, single white mothers would be better off than married black parents (they aren’t, by a long shot); if that were the case, we would expect to see white life expectancy continuously rising, rather than falling again. Judging people’s circumstances based on color rather than actual individual background is racism.Finally, connecting all of this with Charlottesville rather than a natural backlash to the cultural warfare waged against patriotism by the hard-core left is myopic at best.But at least Popovich continues to win brownie points with the leftist media.

HOW THE DEEP STATE/ADMINISTRATIVE STATE WORKS.PRETTY grimm stuff.

THE FACTS ARE THE FACTS:The sports protests are a farce. The progressives are wrong again. Cops are victims, set up by race mongers.

LIBERAL FOOLISHNESS ON LIBERAL CAMPUSES: Going to take a long time to unravel this mess: Of much more interest than this particular "news" item are the responses.  Here you find many, many disgruntled alumni of many liberal campuses recording their displeasure with what's going on in these schools.  Unfortunately the rot is advanced.  Seems this all started with Affirmative Action (AA) in the '60's and the admittance of under-qualified blacks to these schools who to accommodate this cohort were required to lower standards and even create studies (gender, sexuality, etc.) that functioning 8th graders could pass.  Ward Connerly, a former University of California Regent warned of this effect many times.  He was adamantly opposed to AA and he is black. I believe it was his contention that overmatching students in schools did them no favors and led to higher dropout rates, failure rates, etc.  He was ignored by other Regents and the result we see in these schools, and many others throughout the country, in the form of silly courses that require no effort to pass.  Welcome to equal outcomes.  Welcome to Socialism.

HERE'S THE REAL ANSWER TO KAEPERNICK ET AL:The race baiters, i.e., Sharpton, NCAAP, are winning. And the rest of us, particularly the cops, are losing.  These demonstrators and their enablers are all brain-washed zombies doing the bidding of the race mongerers who are in it for the money.  More unrest means more money from the timid politicians, corporations and so forth.  This is all bad news for the country.  It has zero to do with Trump.

IS THE CANADIAN HEALTHCARE MODEL THE ONE?: It is according to this writer. Could he be right? There are questions.  There is no discussion of the general impact on taxation in this article therefore its presentation is incomplete.  There is no doubt that the HMOs are adding to the cost of medicine in this country all the while attempting to control costs.  But, as doctor cousin John says medicine for profit may just be the problem since healthcare costs are often uncontrollable and largely random.  Maybe what's called for is a national referendum on whether healthcare is a right or not.  Once this question is answered going forward with market based- healthcare or socialized healthcare would be possible.

PROGRESSIVISM VS CAPITALSIM:This author reflects my views on Progs vs capitalism. It should be noted that Capitalism has been compromised to some extent by Big Government and that any comparison between Progressivism and Capitalism must take this into consideration.  The Regulatory State negatively affects Capitalism by severely limiting competition and thereby disrupting free market prices in many cases.  This fact artificially drives prices up and then protects that pricing from the natural market forces representing an important cause of inflation.  Inflationary pressure then results in the FRS artificially meddling with the price of money to control the inflation which leads to further meddling at the first hint of deflationary forces.  We then have the buildup of debt by the government in the interest of an attempt to prevent economic stagnation and in the Misean sense the elimination of malinvestments.

COLLUSION BY BIG BANKS:The connection between Obama and large, large banks is not good.Problem is this is a long term problem because these lefty organization have built-in cash flow with which to disrupt commerce and the operation of free markets.  Not good for long haul.  It's all about the transformation of the US that O talked about before he was elected in 2008.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

PRODUCT OF FREE MARKETS:Amazing comparisons.

HURRICANES AND MONOPOLIES:Why some Floridians are still without power.

HORRORS! SPEAK TRUTH BE VILIFIED:
DEAN AT SAN DIEGO LAW EXPRESSES HIS SUPPORT FOR “DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION” BY MAKING CLEAR THAT “diversity” doesn’t include different ideas, and conservatives aren’t included.
I’m happy to see that Larry Alexander, despite his sin of promoting bourgeois virtues like hard work, got a letter of support from numerous colleagues. The dean, meanwhile, should be sent for remedial lessons in the enlightenment tradition, and in common decency.
Alexander’s colleague Tom Smith adds:
The point is, a man or woman should be entitled to express him or herself in the public prints without having a Dean rain down a ton of politically correct nonsense on his head, for heaven’s sake. Especially on one, i.e. Larry, who nearly put this law school on the map. And also, I just have to say, what Larry is calling for (get up in the morning, go to your job, don’t take drugs, don’t have kids out of wedlock, etc., etc.) is rather in line with traditional Catholic teaching, is it not? So if someone says something that is “loudly dogma[tic]”, to coin a phrase, in a newspaper, or at least is consistent with that dogma, he runs the risk of being shamed by the administration of a nominally Catholic law school? That just ain’t rat. Larry of course is not Catholic, he’s a secular Jew, but he’s advocating things that are absolutely in line with what a good or even just sort of good Catholic person would do or practice.
Yes, you’d think that Alexander’s law school dean — who, frankly, I’ve never heard of — would be a bit slower to condemn the most famous and celebrated scholar on his faculty. Well, you might think that, if you hadn’t been paying attention to academia the last few years. And nominally Catholic law schools are pretty nominal these days.
Plus, from the comments: “The Dean’s ignorant response has disgraced the school. His letter, in effect said, ‘shut up, you might discomfit the poor darlings.’ Lawyers have to bring dispassionate judgment to the most troubling human issues. By publishing such a patronizing view of USD law students, he suggests they are not emotionally fit to handle the profession for which they train.”
If deans can’t bring more adult judgment than students do, why have deans? And, frankly, if law students can’t handle an oped about bourgeois values, how are they to be trusted — as lawyers are — to protect clients’ lives, property, and liberty with no more than their own ability to think clearly and express themselves persuasively?

THOROUGH LOOK AT DEEP STATE MACHINATIONS:This link, studied in detail, offers many answers about what's going on with the Meuller investigation et.al.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:tThe PC culture leads to chaos. Here's the evidence.

WORTH A READ:No surprise that Dems are big spenders.

COOL RECIPE FOR GREEN BEANS:

Green Beans with Tarragon and Toasted Walnuts
Yield: 4 servings
INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup walnut halves
1 pound fresh green beans, ends removed
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh tarragon (not dry)
1 1/2 tablespoons walnut oil
PROCEDURE
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put about 2 quarts water in large pot on high heat. Spread nuts on rimmed baking sheet and roast until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Watch carefully because nuts burn easily.
2. Add green beans to boiling water; add about 1 teaspoon salt. Boil until tender crisp, about 6 to 8 minutes depending on size and freshness of beans. Drain and place in bowl. Add tarragon, salt and pepper. Drizzle with oil. Toss.









Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

LOOKS LIKE COMMON SENSE PREVAILS:Predictable and fair.

RACISIM CHARGES IN ENGLAND. TOO:The usual:liberal politicians are two-faced.Sara Champion is a Tory. And worse in Sweden. A crises is looming over Europe.

SERIOUSLY RACIST BLACK MAN:This dude's got hangups.

MULTICULTURALISM AND MARXISM:The war against Marxism was never concluded. From 2006 Gates of Vienna.

GOOD ANALYSIS OF CURRENT CORRUPTION:It's all about the size of government and the creation of the Federal Reserveplus the17th Amendment.

VON MISES KNOWS:And yes, it is a difficult read but worth it.

GEORGE WILLS'S DISAPPEARANCE: 40 years in Washington's enough!

PRAGER ON CONFORMITY:The essence of Political Correctness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6od22xgVoPolitical Correctness

ANTIDOTE TO CULTURAL MARXISM:This man has the answer to defeat this scourge. Step by step Professor Jordan Peterson demonstrates how to defeat the Political Correctness, gender identity cultural Marxists who now control the agenda at universities across North America.  His book is a must read: "Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief"

WHAT'S WITH ISIS CURRENTLY?:Lest you think things are calming down.

THE "NEW" CLINTON FOUNDATION GIG:Obama being the "Cashing-in" phase of his presidency.None of these pigs (and their enablers) have any shame.  The system IS rigged but don"t expect anyone, including Trump, to do anything about it.  Too much money, created by the ever-generous FRS, in playing the game.









Friday, September 1, 2017

Friday, September 2, 2017

CRITIQUE OF UTUBE VIDEO ON FED:
Generally a good explanation, but a few mistakes. The interest on the government debt purchased by the Fed is paid back to the treasury, for example. But most of this is accurate. The Fed is not a private institution. GE and Apple are private. Technically the Fed has shares issued to other banks, but that doesn’t make it “private.” The Fed’s Board of Governors is a federal agency. The member banks are granted membership under that agency. That is the source of their monopoly power. Congress (supposedly representing the people) can get rid of the Fed with a stroke of a pen. Wilson said in 1917 that the Fed was the worst mistake he ever made because it put a lot of power in the hands of a few rich families. It was a deplorable exercise in extra-Constitutional excess. He had no right to create the Fed and give it the power to print money. If the central banks were truly private (not protected by law / regulation), then they would have competition. Others would have the right to print money (and we would not accept paper money with no value, so the free markets would choose the appropriate medium of exchange). The central banks are protected by the government (and subsidized by the tax payers) and have huge power granted to them by the governments. The government controls the coinage so it can tax everyone. It's all about control. The state is no worse the the mob. The state rules by violence/force. And if you don't believe this, then try not paying your income tax for a few years and watch what happens - they throw you in jail. No corporation or bank has that power. Banks and the Fed are not to blame. Blame the people who created the laws/regulation that gave the Fed it's monopoly power. So many people don't understand fractional reserve banking and the Fed. Anywhere there is a major problem in banking, healthcare or education, you can find the government behind the problem. There is no such thing as a natural monopoly. All monopolies are created by the government directly or indirectly. The Fed is one of the worst monopolies of all

EVERY YOUNG ADULT SHOULD BE TAUGHT THIS:Instead students are taught by Bill Ayers clones.

EGADS! THE LAW PROFESSOR SPEAKS:Speaks with forked tongue, may be more like it. Sheer hypocrisy.

LENGTHY ARTICLE ON CAGW CONTROVERSY:At a minimum skepticism is recommended on the subject. Proof is not in yet that it actually exist.

EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON CRIME:From the always reliably insightful City Journal.

DARTMOUTH AND THE IVIES SOLDIER ON:Cross this one off the list.

WHY TRUMP WON:Beginning of major change is the answer.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI:An explanation of DAWA and the Muslim objectives in US and Europe.It's all invidious and supremely dangerous if left unchecked.  Karl Popper, author of the Open Society, is her inspiration for dealing with Islamism.  He said:Popper writing in 1945: “If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”  HERE is what touched off the discussion of DAWA.

STEVEN HAYWARD REVIEWS FDR AND RR COMPARISON:Mostly comports with Folsom, Powell, Schlaes analysis.Admittedly FDR is a complex study. But what goes unmentioned is the duration of the GD and the incredible roadblocks put in the way of a recovery by FDR and his Brain Trust of Harvard professors.

BEWARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS:Cesspits of Communism, especially on the West Coast.

CHARLOTTSVILLE EXPLAINED:It's about this simple.

GOOD LORD!:Corruption, corruption, liars and fools.  These people have no shame and what's worse there are people (voters) out there who don't either.  These so-called reporters are simply news-credentialed members of the Democrat Party with bi-lines provided by fake news organizations.  What's worse, they're all getting wealthy off this scam.  Disgraceful at a minimum.

THE DAY IS COMING WHEN YOU MIGHT SAY WHY DIDN'T I DO SOMETHING TO PROTECT AGAINST THIS PICTURE.:
Meanwhile, the engine of real income/wealth expansion, productivity, has faltered:

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Sunday, August 27, 2017

A VERY GOOD CONCEPT:Premium mediocre cuts a wide swath in American life, to be sure.

EVEN IN THE BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY:The beat goes on and worse by the day. Our children face dark times.

SOMETHING UPBEAT, FOR A CHANGEA lot like Schylur's was for diabetes.

LIQUIDITY TRAP:Yep, I get it. Now why can't Noble Laureate economist (say Krugman) get it.?

DELUSION AND MADNESS:JimWhelpley's contribution to wisdom was that book.

NEW LEFT VS OLD LEFT:Hayden and company were still dreamers.And they went on to academia where the begat this current crop of anarchists.  The left doesn't know when to stop.

GREAT TALK BY KENNETH MINGLE:Great thinker. Where we are in history.

GOTTA LIKE THIS ATTITUDE:Rebuke of John Danforth and WSJ. They still don't get it.Conventional, traditional Republicans still don't see themselves as part of the problem, but they are.  They are by and large, get-along, go-along types who want to compromise every issue until the solution satisfies no one.  They think that is a solution.  In reality that is just kicking whatever can down the road until a crises solves the problem.  Principles are to these types, malleable, flexible and compromise able.  So we have a 20 trillion dollar debt hanging over the heads of our children, we have terrible race relations, and we have a dysfunctional political class looking after themselves instead of those they represent.  Welcome to the world of dependency, welfare and discord.  Can't go on.  Won't go on.

MORAL PRESIDENCIES?:VDH talks about Trump and the moral presidency. Makes good sense.

REFERENCE THE HOUSTON FLOOD:It's always about the perverse consequences of government action.

AMAZON FIRE TV STUFF:Maybe Brad can explain all this for me.

RACE DISCUSSION'Why Trump is winning the race and PC wars.

CONCISE SUMMARY OF SWAMP FOREIGN AFFAIRS:Thirty years of disaster via the establishment in Washington including, importantly, the press.Oo wonder Trump was elected!

POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE INFORMATION:This Merller investigation smells worse and worse.

Monday, August 7, 2017

Tuesday, August 7, 2017

SOME OF TRUMP'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO DATE:Impressive considering Democrat B.S.: All this is a nightmare for libs.  Good. They have earned it.

EGADS, 1984 ALL OVER:This ia scary stuff. Big company mind control is no better than state mind control. Having just finished a book about the Krupp family company in Germany, the parallels between Google and Krupp are eerily similar.  Best not to forget the Krupp Company became one of the biggest and mostt enthusiastic supporters of the Hitler regime.  The mind-control of their employees was total.  In fact they were a mini totalitarian state within a totalitarian political system.  And therein lies the danger.  The Krupp company trained and prepared its hundreds of thousands of workers for the Hitler totalitarian death machine and eventually even ran work concentration camps as evil as the camps run by the Nazis. .Follow up item.

SOWELL VS, GALBRAITH:No contest. Galbraith is in over his Harvard head.

CONRAD BLACK ASTUTE ANALYSIS:The peaceable civil war is here. Now what?

DEEP STATE DESCRIPTION:Loosely defined this is the problem. "They know best."

THE FUTURE OR A JOKE:Who knows this could be the answer to the FRS and its continual failure.

VIVE LE DIFFERENCE:ANSWER BEING MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT, TAKEN AS A GROUP.

NOT AGAIN AT YALE:Will they never learn to stop beclowning themselves at New Haven?

OH SURE, IT'S DISCRIMINATION:Not! It's really just politics and bullshit.

ZOMBIE COMPANIES:Japan is falloff them. Equals sluggish growth at best.

NOT NEWS BUT STILL DISTURBING:This author has very real credentials. Very disturbing.This analysis is one I have believed for some time, i.e., that Obama's election (twice) was very suspicious, considering his lack of qualifications and experience.  It and he had to be orchestrated by powerful forces which we know for certain included George Soros.  Once in office Obama's team successfully seeded all Federal agencies with extreme leftists and the result, finally, was Trump whose election at the very least stopped the runaway train.  All those extremists are far from expunged from office so what we see is a desperate rear guard fight to preserve their gains.

WHADDAYAKNOW A CORRUPT MEDIA:These folks need to start over. Corruption turns on itself.Mollie Hemingway  is a bright,uncorrupted reporter  who's unusually perceptive.  Fox News see this and is including her in their nightly news program with Bret Bair. Here\ she exposes the media's technique in covering democrat party people caught in compromising situations.  Witness Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton.