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Too Much
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012Author: James the Wanderer May 7, 2012 This starts as a tale of time, several decades, and gradual overload. What applies to houses applies to governments….. My house was built in the 1920s, when things were simpler and houses were built reasonably. It is a fairly small house, my lot is about 1/10 acre, and [...]
Debt as an Operating System
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012Author James the Wanderer My parents and grandparents went through the Great American Depression of the 1920s- 1930s. My parents were then children, and suffered somewhat; of course, when there was food at all the kids got their needs met first. And my grandparents became quite resourceful in staying fed / clothed / sheltered; on [...]
Operation Phoenix Chapter 6
Thursday, August 25th, 2011Chapter 6 “Well as long as nothing major goes wrong, we’re out tomorrow.” Gary had arrived at Lynn’s about 7PM with Eric and Lynn’s portions of the supplies he had purchased over the last two days. “We bought 15,000 ounces of gold today. Weight’s going to be a problem though. We’re talking about half a [...]
Party Loyalty
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011Author Tony De Maio I had an interesting revelation the other day. I sent one of my liberal friends some humorous bumper stickers concerning the present administration. She fired back a rather hostile e-mail informing me that she was an Obama supporter, and I knew it. I wrote back and told her that I used [...]
What Happens If…
Sunday, September 26th, 2010Author Kurt Let’s play a little game shall we? You’ve probably played it before as a kid, and perhaps even as an adult if your job requires active thought on your part. Let’s play “What happens if….?”. Rules are simple, answer with honest thoughts, not what you think people want to hear. You don’t even [...]
Titanic Forces Part 3
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Author David W. Franklin SELF-DIRECTED QUESTIONS and ANSWERS What are the probabilities that your conclusions are wrong? My Answer: Based on mathematical principles, The Supreme Law of Economics, and the reliability of History and Cycles repeating for reasons of similar cause, I would say the probabilities of being wrong are less than 15%. The mathematics [...]
We Don’t Have To Practice Being Miserable
Monday, December 14th, 2009Author Linda Brady Traynham Leftists have said censoriously for years that all of us are only one catastrophe away from being homeless, which is absurd. Most of us are no such thing, although it is becoming less so with each new tax and every additional regulation and restriction and every drop in the value of [...]
Expedition to Australia
Sunday, December 6th, 2009Author Tony De Maio Several years ago, the Ford Foundation decided to send a mission to central Australia to assist the Aborigines with medical care. They searched in vain for a person with a background in the language and also a medical background to head the mission. Finally, the foundation decided to get someone who [...]