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Friday, May 23, 2014
Nation-State Democracy and Nice Things
Why do incumbents get reelected? Because people think they represent their local interests. And that is why we can't have nice things like representative democracy. Throw in the nation-state's proponents using gross simplifications like "village" and "community" to push its meddling, giving us the illusion that one-size-fits-all solutions are viable, and we will be forever saddled with a idiotic Congress.
Government "Solutions," Part 2
Government "solutions" are new problems in cheap disguises.
The chief reason that government fails is: it violates the "nonaggression principle."
Solutions are infinitely better, if they are achieved through voluntary exchange, cooperation, and just plain volunteering. Government solutions are poisons: mandates, regulations, "laws."
Name your elixir, but they are pretty much the same thing: libertarianism, anarchocapitalism, anarchy, voluntaryism.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Plausible JFK Theory? Part 3
SPOILER ALERT
I really suggest watching "JFK: Smoking Gun," before learning too much about what the documentary offers. If it proves to be just a bunch of falsehoods and amateurish stupidity, then at least it is entertaining. The #1 reason to watch a movie: entertaining escape.
Here is the gist of the movie:
I really suggest watching "JFK: Smoking Gun," before learning too much about what the documentary offers. If it proves to be just a bunch of falsehoods and amateurish stupidity, then at least it is entertaining. The #1 reason to watch a movie: entertaining escape.
Here is the gist of the movie:
Monday, May 19, 2014
Wondernine 2.0
"Wondernine 2.0" on fledgling sister blog The .35 Caliber Solution.
I read gobs of articles about the miraculous 9mm round in the early '90s, albeit the majority were in a Handguns or Guns & Ammo 9mm one-off magazine, so the validity of the arguments were tainted by a need for conformity and esprit de cartouche. For a short time, everyone was on board with theadvantages of the parabellum. The U.S. military had adopted the Beretta to conform to NATO standards and to replace the old warhorse that "technically" had not been manufacturer for the military since 1945 (but had "technically" been "remanufactured" for decades). U.S. police departments had finally "caught up" with "some" European police departments by switching to autoloaders predominately in 9mm. Concurrently Glock burst on the scene with marketing schemes that included strippers and generous trade in programs (that made Glock the biggest gun wholesaler of firearms for a while).
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I read gobs of articles about the miraculous 9mm round in the early '90s, albeit the majority were in a Handguns or Guns & Ammo 9mm one-off magazine, so the validity of the arguments were tainted by a need for conformity and esprit de cartouche. For a short time, everyone was on board with theadvantages of the parabellum. The U.S. military had adopted the Beretta to conform to NATO standards and to replace the old warhorse that "technically" had not been manufacturer for the military since 1945 (but had "technically" been "remanufactured" for decades). U.S. police departments had finally "caught up" with "some" European police departments by switching to autoloaders predominately in 9mm. Concurrently Glock burst on the scene with marketing schemes that included strippers and generous trade in programs (that made Glock the biggest gun wholesaler of firearms for a while).
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Plausible JFK Theory? Part 2
My Frame of Reference for "JFK: The Smoking Gun"
I do not have a unique frame of reference for analyzing or forming an opinion about the Kennedy Assassination, especially for my age.
I'm sure I heard something about it, while still in high school. Well, maybe. The 20th anniversary of Kennedy's death would have been the year before I started high school. But I digress.
I distinctly remember sitting through Oliver Stone's "JFK" with friends in college. It must have been during the first few days of my final semester of my senior year. I'm sure I had plenty of time for entertainment, because I was only taking two classes and doing a pretty poor job at my second internship.
I found the Oliver Stone's version of the events to be quite compelling. Though I was quite irritated with the use of a composite character by the name of "X" played by Donald Sutherland. That story-telling tool negated from the believability of a grand government conspiracy in my mind. BUT the behavior portrayed by Joe Pesci playing Jack Ruby made the possibility of a group of conspirators, though bungling - as opposed to a lone Lee Harvey Oswald - appear undeniable.
After watching (or maybe before) Oliver Stone's "JFK," I bought the Groden and Livingstone's High Treason. I thumbed through the photos, started to read it, and then put it down. Maybe I just didn't want the drama or consistency of Oliver Stone's treatment to be sullied. Maybe I wasn't that interested.
Then sometime in the next few years, I picked up a copy of Don DeLillo's Libra. I only made a few pages into that novel, and then I was done with the JFK Assassination for a few years - or a couple decades.
My general concern with our over-reaching federal government - illustrated by the Fast and Furious and Benghazi scandals and the Snowden NSA revelations, among many other transgressions - combined by Netflix's streaming of new JFK conspiracy documentaries piqued my interest again about one of the two biggest (alleged) government coverups during the twentieth century (The other being Pearl Harbor).
"Dark Legacy" alleged George H.W. Bush's involvement in the Kennedy Assassination in ways that I forgot, because I did not find them that compelling. But it was intriguing that Bush appeared to be a CIA operative in the 1960s, even though he later claimed that before becoming CIA director that he had never been "employed" by the CIA. Combine that revelation with the truth about Obama's mom's CIA connections and you've got a regular old Illuminati-like cabal. But I digress, again ... and I don't even think I finished that documentary. Was it too implausible to digest?
So finally, through Netflix's see-into-your-soul-and-know-what-you-want-next algorithm, I ended up watching "JFK: The Smoking Gun."
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I do not have a unique frame of reference for analyzing or forming an opinion about the Kennedy Assassination, especially for my age.
I'm sure I heard something about it, while still in high school. Well, maybe. The 20th anniversary of Kennedy's death would have been the year before I started high school. But I digress.
I distinctly remember sitting through Oliver Stone's "JFK" with friends in college. It must have been during the first few days of my final semester of my senior year. I'm sure I had plenty of time for entertainment, because I was only taking two classes and doing a pretty poor job at my second internship.
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After watching (or maybe before) Oliver Stone's "JFK," I bought the Groden and Livingstone's High Treason. I thumbed through the photos, started to read it, and then put it down. Maybe I just didn't want the drama or consistency of Oliver Stone's treatment to be sullied. Maybe I wasn't that interested.
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"Dark Legacy" alleged George H.W. Bush's involvement in the Kennedy Assassination in ways that I forgot, because I did not find them that compelling. But it was intriguing that Bush appeared to be a CIA operative in the 1960s, even though he later claimed that before becoming CIA director that he had never been "employed" by the CIA. Combine that revelation with the truth about Obama's mom's CIA connections and you've got a regular old Illuminati-like cabal. But I digress, again ... and I don't even think I finished that documentary. Was it too implausible to digest?
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Plausible JFK Theory? Part 1
I finished watching "JFK: The Smoking Gun" yesterday. It presents a compelling theory explaining the inconsistencies in the official Warren Commission story and counters some of what is generally accepted among conspiracy theorists.
I found some of the information about frangible ammo a little misleading, but I do not believe that those "errors" give sufficient grounds to negate this "new" theory.
If I only had this movie as a reference for the theory it presents, then I would find the theory to be even more plausible than those theories that focus on the "grassy knoll," LBJ, George H.W. Bush, etc.
Though the theory presented in this movie does not seem to have gotten a lot of press (or I have been living under a rock without MSM), I feel that it is worth looking further into, especially since it points to a growing problem that we have in our country, in a round-about way.
The documentary is currently available on Netflix.
Next in Series: Plausible JFK Theory? Part 2
I found some of the information about frangible ammo a little misleading, but I do not believe that those "errors" give sufficient grounds to negate this "new" theory.
If I only had this movie as a reference for the theory it presents, then I would find the theory to be even more plausible than those theories that focus on the "grassy knoll," LBJ, George H.W. Bush, etc.
Though the theory presented in this movie does not seem to have gotten a lot of press (or I have been living under a rock without MSM), I feel that it is worth looking further into, especially since it points to a growing problem that we have in our country, in a round-about way.
The documentary is currently available on Netflix.
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Next in Series: Plausible JFK Theory? Part 2
Monday, May 12, 2014
Statute of Limitations on Administration Corruption?
What is the statute of limitations on Federal Administration corruption? The Obama Administration seems to think - or at least, wants to get away with - crimes that have been committed in the recent past, BECAUSE they have devised their own impromptu statute of limitations.
"What difference does it make" that the Administration is responsible for deaths, as long as they are before an election and serve the Greater Good?
It is coming to a point where Federal "officials" could be subject to arrest in component states of these united States, BECAUSE the Administration feels fit to snub its nose at the separated powers WITHIN the Federal government.
"What difference does it make" that the Administration is responsible for deaths, as long as they are before an election and serve the Greater Good?
It is coming to a point where Federal "officials" could be subject to arrest in component states of these united States, BECAUSE the Administration feels fit to snub its nose at the separated powers WITHIN the Federal government.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
NPR Versus Ruger
Tom Gresham interviewed Mike Fifer of Ruger at the NRA show for his Gun Talk podcast (4-27-2014 Part A).
During their discussion, it came up that Mike Fifer had done an interview, and that NPR had later taken that interview, inserted its own interviewer's questions, and had published the interview as its own.
A side-by-side comparison of the real interview and the "manufactured" interview , I hope, will be very informative.
During their discussion, it came up that Mike Fifer had done an interview, and that NPR had later taken that interview, inserted its own interviewer's questions, and had published the interview as its own.
A side-by-side comparison of the real interview and the "manufactured" interview , I hope, will be very informative.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Civil Rights Versus Tyranny (Correction)
Moms Demand Action Ignorance is about to lose the Facebook "like" race to a pro-gun news site. LOL. And a hardy-har-har for the fact that the "official" Everytown For Gun Safety "likes" have been cut down to a realistic 37, from the borrowed number that was originally showing in its retreaded Moms Demand Ignorance page.
The Truth About Guns on Facebook.
The Truth About Guns @ TheTruthAboutGuns.com
Correction 5/2/14
Apparently I was wrong. The "real" Everytown for Gun Safety has over 300,000 "likes." But it is just about impossible to find on Facebook. Weird. Bloomberg, Moms Demand Action, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and Everytown for Gun Safety appear to have a social-media mess. More on this later.
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| The Truth About Guns: 156,300 likes vs. Moms Demand Ignorance: 157,200 likes |
The Truth About Guns on Facebook.
The Truth About Guns @ TheTruthAboutGuns.com
Correction 5/2/14
Apparently I was wrong. The "real" Everytown for Gun Safety has over 300,000 "likes." But it is just about impossible to find on Facebook. Weird. Bloomberg, Moms Demand Action, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and Everytown for Gun Safety appear to have a social-media mess. More on this later.
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