I actually gave a presentation a few weeks before election 2016 "What were the Founders thinking"? I ended off claiming we do not live in a Capitalist society. If not Socialism, it is Socialistic.
My other idea is to write a book called "Unraveling of a Republic".
5,000 year leap sets forth that the Constitution implements a govt with very limited authority, focused on an economic system that govt stays out of. Constitution lists about 20 things under federal authority. Anything else, says the 10th amendment, is under authority of the States.
All three branches have shredded the Constitution. "Land of the free?" A joke.
Let's say you buy a car and sign to make payments for 3 years. Midway, you get a note from the bank that you have to pay an extra year of payments. Crazy?
The states signed the Constitution. That's our contract. You can't change it afterward, unless you follow the process for change. But the presidents (think Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, etc.), Congress, and the courts have all grabbed power that is not theirs. Time or situation doesn't change the agreement made when the original States signed the Constitution.
Yesterday I received the college of engineering newsletter from my alma mater, the University of Washington. In the newsletter, the college dean states that "Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a critical component of engineering excellence". The newsletter describes a suite of required engineering college courses -- a course on diversity in society, a course on race, a course on justice and DEI in engineering, and finally, a course on sex gender and harassment. The courses were developed by the Associate Dean of DEI, Karen Thomas-Brown (a Karen with a hyphenated last name!), who is also the lead for the college's Office of Inclusive Excellence. These courses will probably replace traditional engineering coursework (like how to build bridges that don't collapse, or planes that don't crash). The "woke" are hard at work destroying the engineering profession! I feel like I am living in the "End Times" described by the Bible preachers. I hope Bill, Joel, Tom, and Dan, and the commenters to Bill's columns, can help me prepare for and survive the coming Crash.
Academia in America billed as a place of higher learning where the student graduates poorer and dumber. The student enters male and female and leaves confused as to their gender and how they are to reply a crushing debt.
The best decision I have ever made was sending both my children to private school from kindergarten to college for one and kindergarten to the age of reason for the other. Both children have the ability to use evidence and reason to make an informed rational decision. Both own their own businesses, both understand the way of the world, while their friends actually believe theirs free money to be harvested from the government if they only vote for the right politician.
I come here most days to be exposed to wisdom far beyond my years and am never disappointed. Seems we all know what is wrong, but how to fix it? Beats me, for I search for truth daily and it is scarce as hens teeth. I feel a quickening in the air but know not it bids good or evil. I know what evil looks like and it seems to pervade our government. As you all say, it is easy to define the enemy. What is missing is what do we do? There is a question of oil and gas. There is more than enough for 300 years, but we can't use it because it creates carbon. If we stop breathing, it will reduce carbon. If politicians quit flying their jets all over, it will reduce it also. There are all kinds of ways to reduce carbon. Our bodies are carbon and I think that the govt. is looking to reduce the number of bodies for their decisions do not bode well for our future. I know that among us we will find the answer we seek. I think we can start with Bill's idea.
Jackasses, with no ill will toward the equine type. Just sayin'
"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." Proverbs 29:2
I see a lot of mourning in our country's future. The reason has much to do with our leaders, but even more to do with most of the people in this country. I predict they will get the government they deserve. Unfortunately, so will the rest of us.
Your essay today takes me back to a day in elementary school. We were at recess and the teacher decided on that day that she was going to orchestrate how we chose teams. Mind you, we had been choosing teams on our own since the third grade. However, for some reason on a crisp fall day in the 6th grade this teacher decides to govern how we choose teams for some flag football. The kids she chose as captains were not fit to do the job they were given. They chose ridiculous teams. So after the teacher left the area we revolted. Told the kids they were dumb and picked the teams using our elected captains who we knew would do the job right. We as voters just need to step up and say this is ridiculous when the candidates are put before us and pick people who are capable and willing to do the job right. We can learn a lot about politics and human nature and what is best for groups from observing elementary schoolyards. Jackasses.
I got an email from one of the investment gurus, Jon Markman, a couple of days ago. He was touting Moderna pharmaceutical company as a great buy based on the success of the mRNA vaccine platform. There is a bunch of future vaccines based on the tech in their pipeline. Anyway, I find it fascinating how on the one hand a guru fixates on the profit potential, but misses the boat on liabilities. I track the negative news on the mRNA platform. As a former computational chemist in drug design, I canβt help but be interested. Plus, there is a huge disinformation campaign about it hiding the negatives taking place. SADS, or sudden adult death syndrome, weird long clot formation, increasing numbers of young adult heart related deaths, and now data on stillbirths rising sharply (https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/board-certified-obstetrician-cries-156) all are developing stories actively being suppressed. Iβd hate to follow along with Markman and get blindsided by a huge lawsuit and stock crash. I think this goes along with the struggle of voters to get unbiased full information and contributes to the βNothing I do changes anything, so why voteβ idea. Then again, maybe we havenβt had a harsh enough lesson by Mr. Market to stomp out apathy.
Hereβs a simple way to promote sensible democracy: everybody gets to vote, illegals, foreign tourists , grade school children βand as many times as they want whether in person or by mail
But to have your vote count, proof of a current year tax payment will be required for any local, state or Federal election in which you want your vote counted
The last throws of the American Empire, no different than the last days of Rome before it rose united at the point of a sword as the Roman church. God in his mercy created a church from the most vile, perverted people to thus far grace the planet. If you believe God had anything to do with the Roman church, I have a bridge in NY for sale and some FTX shares for sale.
This election cycle was truly biblical. A read through the book of Samuel paints the picture of America. The people (Jews) were guided by a system of judges these judges were directed to seek wisdom from Torah, and make all judgements based on what was prescribed by the same.
The people desiring to put their collective thumb on the scale of justice, demanded a king be set over as the final judge. The story goes, Samuel tells this to God, He in turn provides the outcome of their desire for a king. The king would take the best of their crops, money, collect their daughters into his service (harem), and his sons into his army. All around this was a bad idea, the people did not listen. God is grants His children freewill. They chose Saul a man of the people a chicken in every pot.
In the short time Saul is in power everything warning God provided came true, Israel was at war, and loosing badly. The people were none too happy, the King decided he was more important than God.
God decided it was high time Saul be cut off from power.
This time around God instructed Samuel to pick the youngest child from the house of Jesse. David or more properly Dowd was chosen King by God. Samuel related Dowd was the kind of man all future kings should be modeled after. As history goes some kings were good and others terrible, in the end Israel destroyed themselves, free will is a bitch. However Israel has been given a second chance, God loves them as a people based on promises made to Abraham.
We in USA are not so lucky, God is not going to save us from ourselves accept possibly to save those from Israel living within our nation.
The next time you hear some Statist lecturing us Plebs on how vital it is to preserve our democracy think about this quote from Judge Andrew Napolitano: "Democracy does not ensure freedom. It ensures the confiscation and redistribution of wealth."
You read my mind when you stated: "I support closed borders and enter only by visa and permission and anyone who overstays visa is deported immediately and barred from ever returning again. I support work visas for latinos. I support giving citizenship to anyone from any country who serves in our military honorably and no nefarious intention like sleeper cells for terror. And I support the Flat Tax. No More Loopholes. Set the rates, fix them. Pay the tax. Move along. DEDUCTIONS. Legit charity non profits not these bogus programs or BLM. And ONE home mortgage. Primary mortgage you must reside in. Don't live in it? Use it for vacation? NO DEDUCTION. PERIOD."
However, I'd much rather have a Constitutional Amendment stipulating the Federal government must have a balanced budget (with suitable exceptions e. g. war but only if authorized by Congress)
Lacking this restriction allows our elected representatives to borrow from unborn taxpayers to effectively buy votes by providing all manner of pork to the respective districts. There are simply too many people frolicking in the Federal trough. We desperately need more wealth-makers; not wealth-takers.
This post, at its core, is about how misrepresentative our representatives are of the American populace. It would be hard to disagree with that.
The thing is, has this really changed much since the country's founding? For most of United States history, a political office has required wealth and power. Main street jobs generally offer neither. I searched a bit, but I'd like to know whether the composition of the House or Senate has drifted toward or away from a cross-section of the American population.
Thank you Bill and Joel.
I actually gave a presentation a few weeks before election 2016 "What were the Founders thinking"? I ended off claiming we do not live in a Capitalist society. If not Socialism, it is Socialistic.
My other idea is to write a book called "Unraveling of a Republic".
5,000 year leap sets forth that the Constitution implements a govt with very limited authority, focused on an economic system that govt stays out of. Constitution lists about 20 things under federal authority. Anything else, says the 10th amendment, is under authority of the States.
All three branches have shredded the Constitution. "Land of the free?" A joke.
Let's say you buy a car and sign to make payments for 3 years. Midway, you get a note from the bank that you have to pay an extra year of payments. Crazy?
The states signed the Constitution. That's our contract. You can't change it afterward, unless you follow the process for change. But the presidents (think Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, etc.), Congress, and the courts have all grabbed power that is not theirs. Time or situation doesn't change the agreement made when the original States signed the Constitution.
Yesterday I received the college of engineering newsletter from my alma mater, the University of Washington. In the newsletter, the college dean states that "Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a critical component of engineering excellence". The newsletter describes a suite of required engineering college courses -- a course on diversity in society, a course on race, a course on justice and DEI in engineering, and finally, a course on sex gender and harassment. The courses were developed by the Associate Dean of DEI, Karen Thomas-Brown (a Karen with a hyphenated last name!), who is also the lead for the college's Office of Inclusive Excellence. These courses will probably replace traditional engineering coursework (like how to build bridges that don't collapse, or planes that don't crash). The "woke" are hard at work destroying the engineering profession! I feel like I am living in the "End Times" described by the Bible preachers. I hope Bill, Joel, Tom, and Dan, and the commenters to Bill's columns, can help me prepare for and survive the coming Crash.
βOffice of inclusive excellence β?! What is the world coming to!
Academia in America billed as a place of higher learning where the student graduates poorer and dumber. The student enters male and female and leaves confused as to their gender and how they are to reply a crushing debt.
The best decision I have ever made was sending both my children to private school from kindergarten to college for one and kindergarten to the age of reason for the other. Both children have the ability to use evidence and reason to make an informed rational decision. Both own their own businesses, both understand the way of the world, while their friends actually believe theirs free money to be harvested from the government if they only vote for the right politician.
I come here most days to be exposed to wisdom far beyond my years and am never disappointed. Seems we all know what is wrong, but how to fix it? Beats me, for I search for truth daily and it is scarce as hens teeth. I feel a quickening in the air but know not it bids good or evil. I know what evil looks like and it seems to pervade our government. As you all say, it is easy to define the enemy. What is missing is what do we do? There is a question of oil and gas. There is more than enough for 300 years, but we can't use it because it creates carbon. If we stop breathing, it will reduce carbon. If politicians quit flying their jets all over, it will reduce it also. There are all kinds of ways to reduce carbon. Our bodies are carbon and I think that the govt. is looking to reduce the number of bodies for their decisions do not bode well for our future. I know that among us we will find the answer we seek. I think we can start with Bill's idea.
Jackasses, with no ill will toward the equine type. Just sayin'
Don Harrell
"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." Proverbs 29:2
I see a lot of mourning in our country's future. The reason has much to do with our leaders, but even more to do with most of the people in this country. I predict they will get the government they deserve. Unfortunately, so will the rest of us.
With a number of companies proposing layoffs tohelp their bottomline, how can we get the broke federal government to begin layoffs?
Your essay today takes me back to a day in elementary school. We were at recess and the teacher decided on that day that she was going to orchestrate how we chose teams. Mind you, we had been choosing teams on our own since the third grade. However, for some reason on a crisp fall day in the 6th grade this teacher decides to govern how we choose teams for some flag football. The kids she chose as captains were not fit to do the job they were given. They chose ridiculous teams. So after the teacher left the area we revolted. Told the kids they were dumb and picked the teams using our elected captains who we knew would do the job right. We as voters just need to step up and say this is ridiculous when the candidates are put before us and pick people who are capable and willing to do the job right. We can learn a lot about politics and human nature and what is best for groups from observing elementary schoolyards. Jackasses.
I got an email from one of the investment gurus, Jon Markman, a couple of days ago. He was touting Moderna pharmaceutical company as a great buy based on the success of the mRNA vaccine platform. There is a bunch of future vaccines based on the tech in their pipeline. Anyway, I find it fascinating how on the one hand a guru fixates on the profit potential, but misses the boat on liabilities. I track the negative news on the mRNA platform. As a former computational chemist in drug design, I canβt help but be interested. Plus, there is a huge disinformation campaign about it hiding the negatives taking place. SADS, or sudden adult death syndrome, weird long clot formation, increasing numbers of young adult heart related deaths, and now data on stillbirths rising sharply (https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/board-certified-obstetrician-cries-156) all are developing stories actively being suppressed. Iβd hate to follow along with Markman and get blindsided by a huge lawsuit and stock crash. I think this goes along with the struggle of voters to get unbiased full information and contributes to the βNothing I do changes anything, so why voteβ idea. Then again, maybe we havenβt had a harsh enough lesson by Mr. Market to stomp out apathy.
Here is another quite interesting post on the changes in society being pushed by the WEF. Very philosophical post. https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/physicals-virtuals-machines-and-overlords
Hereβs a simple way to promote sensible democracy: everybody gets to vote, illegals, foreign tourists , grade school children βand as many times as they want whether in person or by mail
But to have your vote count, proof of a current year tax payment will be required for any local, state or Federal election in which you want your vote counted
Hi Jimm -
Been saying this for years. No pay taxee, no cast votee...
That's racist!!! (Not really)
Yep.
The problem isn't with the Constitution, Joel. The problem is with those who doin't adhere to it.
The last throws of the American Empire, no different than the last days of Rome before it rose united at the point of a sword as the Roman church. God in his mercy created a church from the most vile, perverted people to thus far grace the planet. If you believe God had anything to do with the Roman church, I have a bridge in NY for sale and some FTX shares for sale.
This election cycle was truly biblical. A read through the book of Samuel paints the picture of America. The people (Jews) were guided by a system of judges these judges were directed to seek wisdom from Torah, and make all judgements based on what was prescribed by the same.
The people desiring to put their collective thumb on the scale of justice, demanded a king be set over as the final judge. The story goes, Samuel tells this to God, He in turn provides the outcome of their desire for a king. The king would take the best of their crops, money, collect their daughters into his service (harem), and his sons into his army. All around this was a bad idea, the people did not listen. God is grants His children freewill. They chose Saul a man of the people a chicken in every pot.
In the short time Saul is in power everything warning God provided came true, Israel was at war, and loosing badly. The people were none too happy, the King decided he was more important than God.
God decided it was high time Saul be cut off from power.
This time around God instructed Samuel to pick the youngest child from the house of Jesse. David or more properly Dowd was chosen King by God. Samuel related Dowd was the kind of man all future kings should be modeled after. As history goes some kings were good and others terrible, in the end Israel destroyed themselves, free will is a bitch. However Israel has been given a second chance, God loves them as a people based on promises made to Abraham.
We in USA are not so lucky, God is not going to save us from ourselves accept possibly to save those from Israel living within our nation.
We did it to ourselves.
The next time you hear some Statist lecturing us Plebs on how vital it is to preserve our democracy think about this quote from Judge Andrew Napolitano: "Democracy does not ensure freedom. It ensures the confiscation and redistribution of wealth."
You read my mind when you stated: "I support closed borders and enter only by visa and permission and anyone who overstays visa is deported immediately and barred from ever returning again. I support work visas for latinos. I support giving citizenship to anyone from any country who serves in our military honorably and no nefarious intention like sleeper cells for terror. And I support the Flat Tax. No More Loopholes. Set the rates, fix them. Pay the tax. Move along. DEDUCTIONS. Legit charity non profits not these bogus programs or BLM. And ONE home mortgage. Primary mortgage you must reside in. Don't live in it? Use it for vacation? NO DEDUCTION. PERIOD."
However, I'd much rather have a Constitutional Amendment stipulating the Federal government must have a balanced budget (with suitable exceptions e. g. war but only if authorized by Congress)
Lacking this restriction allows our elected representatives to borrow from unborn taxpayers to effectively buy votes by providing all manner of pork to the respective districts. There are simply too many people frolicking in the Federal trough. We desperately need more wealth-makers; not wealth-takers.
I think Tom is right about keeping the bulk of your wealth in gold bullion and watching and waiting.
This post, at its core, is about how misrepresentative our representatives are of the American populace. It would be hard to disagree with that.
The thing is, has this really changed much since the country's founding? For most of United States history, a political office has required wealth and power. Main street jobs generally offer neither. I searched a bit, but I'd like to know whether the composition of the House or Senate has drifted toward or away from a cross-section of the American population.
Agree 100% except the part about praying.
Yes, the new America βGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, your Damned Jackasses!" And they all lived happily ever after...