I've been watching the culture go through its yearly Thanksgiving activities; food, "what I'm thankful for", black Friday, and, the "anti-shopping/boycott such and such/materialism is bad" backlash. Something wasn't sitting well with me about it all ( Read more... )

The champions of Quantitative Easing, and the idea of loose monetary policy are Scrambling to find a justification for exploding income equality that points the finger at anyone but themselves.  Their alternative explanations are of course, contrived, evolving from tortured logic, and making mountains out of molehills.  Such as blaming the minimum ( Read more... )

So last night I was having a conversation with a woman about a little problem she was having with some other people.  I suggested that a certain course of action she had planned on taking in dealing with those people was manipulative.  She, rightly asked me point-blank; "Am I a manipulative person?"

This sent me down a rabbit hole of thoughts of ( Read more... )

Firstly, there is no QE3.  Not in the sense of some sort of continuity of program.  Its not a sequel, its a completely different animal.

In scope, "QE3"  Differs from its predecessors in that its open ended.  The fed plans to buy MBS's PAST the time that the "economy turns around".  Additionally we're talking about WAY more "printing".  QE2 was ( Read more... )

I've been listening to the typical pre-election banter concerning the upcoming US election, and it occurs to me that Americans of conscience face a tough, and ugly decision in the coming months.  I thought I might offer a perspective that I really haven't seen addressed ( Read more... )

Army training manual on "Civil Disturbance Operations"

Everything you could want to know on how to disperse both hostile, and complaint crowds

How do I put this delicately... Depending on your degree of confidence in the Military's motivation and interest in peaceably and lawfully as possible, dealing with a "Civil Disturbance" You may want to read ( Read more... )

Recently here http://www.facebook.com/shannon.moore.5099/posts/199633946830821

I ended up in a conversation about the merits of a strong central government Vs a weak one that promotes the individual rights of smaller governments.  Unsurprisingly, I liked ( Read more... )

O.k., time for some gallows humor.

What will you do when the zombies go on the warpath?  (note I did not refer to the presence of zombies in a future tense)  This interactive map covers cemeteries, gun stores, army depots, and "danger zones". You can put in your address, and a little placeholder of a person with the ever-necessary pump action ( Read more... )

I froze when I discovered this.  There is a safe, reliable, relatively clean form of nuclear energy.  Thorium reactors.  Apparently the world has plenty of thorium.

There's one problem with thorium, at least according to some people.  You can't annihilate whole countries with it.

Yep, right around ww2 they were talking about nuclear power.  Thorium ( Read more... )

Or Blackwater...

Since we've "withdrawn" from Iraq, we've left a lot of military contractors there.  As Libertarian as I am, SOME things should be the purview of Government; the military, fire departments, etc.  Anyway, we left the contractors behind, and they are busy, busy, busy, "winning hearts and minds".  Apparently by doing random drive-by's ( Read more... )