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Monday, May 2, 2016
Bill Gates wants to raise capital gains taxes
Free Republic
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Not very popular amongst the Freepers. I say tax the crap out of corporations, and go easy on the individual. Nothing leftist about that. Why? Corporations overwhelm the individual. It used to be the case that the government could be run on taxation on imports. The idea of taxing entities, such as importers from foreign countries, is not much different from taxing corporations.
Freepers don't have their thinking caps on.
comment:
Not very popular amongst the Freepers. I say tax the crap out of corporations, and go easy on the individual. Nothing leftist about that. Why? Corporations overwhelm the individual. It used to be the case that the government could be run on taxation on imports. The idea of taxing entities, such as importers from foreign countries, is not much different from taxing corporations.
Freepers don't have their thinking caps on.
Why do these so-called conservatives, who plan on helping Hillary, get a pass?
They want to be considered pro-capitalism, pro-freedom; but if you are that, then why be against Trump?
Do they really expect anyone to believe them why they say that they will vote for Hillary over Trump?
Why do you find so-called conservatives like George Will, who want to pull out all the stops in order to dump Trump even if it means electing Hillary ; and then not find them when it was time to deep-six Obama?
Who are they trying to kid?
Do they really expect anyone to believe them why they say that they will vote for Hillary over Trump?
Why do you find so-called conservatives like George Will, who want to pull out all the stops in order to dump Trump even if it means electing Hillary ; and then not find them when it was time to deep-six Obama?
Who are they trying to kid?
Obligatory, 5.2.16; On the themes of the blog
This is a type of post that once again states my original purpose here: to figure out what the heck has gone wrong with this country. But now, more than this: as it appears to me to be a case of what's gone wrong throughout Western Civilization in general.
A continual theme here as well is the saying that "the truth is a slippery thing". This is particularly important to note when the subject matter is of such vast scope. It is beyond the capacities of just one individual to understand what has gone wrong in all of civilization. But it may not be too ambitious to say that finding the truth should be the beginning point. However, there aren't many of these out there that I can tell. Most people will say they are for the truth, but does that make it so?
The blog initially explored topics in which I had already made a determination. Yet hasty conclusions do not a truth make. It is almost as if I have to back up and start all over from the beginning. It wasn't political, nor material, but a spiritual problem I found. At least, that's where I think I am at this time.
Certain things didn't play out. Cold fusion was explored, but that seems to have hit a dead end again. Rossi's device didn't seem to work out. He gets accused of fraud, but what if he's innocent? I decided long ago to stop following that, and followed Kirk Sorensen's work instead. There are other things in the works that I follow as well, but as of now, nothing besides fracking seems to be working and producing at this time. Not saying that it couldn't, though.
Who I conceived of being the bad guys seem to be winning a lot of the battles. How do you know who the bad guy is? Some of the guys who seemed like good guys are now looking like bad guys. That theme about truth being slippery strikes again. If you don't know who to trust, then what? Where do you go for the truth? Can you depend upon anyone, even your own self?
Troubling questions, these are. Answered, they must be.
I do not trust the left wingers. They lie. But they are not alone. I think a number of others who I believed to be good guys seem to have a credibility problem.
I've gotten on Limbaugh's case because I think he loves money a bit too much. That seems to be another theme. A foundational type of theme. Money is a corrupting influence. If you can get free from the dollar sign, the credibility factor goes up a notch. Liberals love their money, perhaps even more than the conservatives, because the liberals are primarily materialistic. But that doesn't free conservatives from that influence. Conservatives give lip service to the spiritual, but how sincere is it?
Those who are willing to die ( or suffer ) for what they believe have more credibility than those who must be paid for their support. Yet this is not a determinant of what is truth. Only the truth of what someone believes and to what degree. If money is required, then the sincerity of those who required it can be questioned. If blood is shed and the faith kept, then the sincerity of that sacrifice is not likely to be questioned.
History matters too, but there is hazard in that. The victors write the history books. Little remains of defeated and lost causes. The victors will try to erase any memory of what those defeated were like, and if they were persuasive in any way.
An example in the field of energy was with the molten-salt reactor. Once that was defeated politically, it was nearly forgotten. It is now being remembered, but that remembrance has not brought triumph. The same could be said of cold fusion. Can the defeated remain defeated? One must take care not to be defeated then.
This reminds me of another theme. Being right isn't enough. In Aesop's Fable, the lamb always loses the argument with the wolf. In this world, force has the better of any argument. There can be no force greater than God, but if you don't believe that, then what? We are all merely wolves and lambs.
A continual theme here as well is the saying that "the truth is a slippery thing". This is particularly important to note when the subject matter is of such vast scope. It is beyond the capacities of just one individual to understand what has gone wrong in all of civilization. But it may not be too ambitious to say that finding the truth should be the beginning point. However, there aren't many of these out there that I can tell. Most people will say they are for the truth, but does that make it so?
The blog initially explored topics in which I had already made a determination. Yet hasty conclusions do not a truth make. It is almost as if I have to back up and start all over from the beginning. It wasn't political, nor material, but a spiritual problem I found. At least, that's where I think I am at this time.
Certain things didn't play out. Cold fusion was explored, but that seems to have hit a dead end again. Rossi's device didn't seem to work out. He gets accused of fraud, but what if he's innocent? I decided long ago to stop following that, and followed Kirk Sorensen's work instead. There are other things in the works that I follow as well, but as of now, nothing besides fracking seems to be working and producing at this time. Not saying that it couldn't, though.
Who I conceived of being the bad guys seem to be winning a lot of the battles. How do you know who the bad guy is? Some of the guys who seemed like good guys are now looking like bad guys. That theme about truth being slippery strikes again. If you don't know who to trust, then what? Where do you go for the truth? Can you depend upon anyone, even your own self?
Troubling questions, these are. Answered, they must be.
I do not trust the left wingers. They lie. But they are not alone. I think a number of others who I believed to be good guys seem to have a credibility problem.
I've gotten on Limbaugh's case because I think he loves money a bit too much. That seems to be another theme. A foundational type of theme. Money is a corrupting influence. If you can get free from the dollar sign, the credibility factor goes up a notch. Liberals love their money, perhaps even more than the conservatives, because the liberals are primarily materialistic. But that doesn't free conservatives from that influence. Conservatives give lip service to the spiritual, but how sincere is it?
Those who are willing to die ( or suffer ) for what they believe have more credibility than those who must be paid for their support. Yet this is not a determinant of what is truth. Only the truth of what someone believes and to what degree. If money is required, then the sincerity of those who required it can be questioned. If blood is shed and the faith kept, then the sincerity of that sacrifice is not likely to be questioned.
History matters too, but there is hazard in that. The victors write the history books. Little remains of defeated and lost causes. The victors will try to erase any memory of what those defeated were like, and if they were persuasive in any way.
An example in the field of energy was with the molten-salt reactor. Once that was defeated politically, it was nearly forgotten. It is now being remembered, but that remembrance has not brought triumph. The same could be said of cold fusion. Can the defeated remain defeated? One must take care not to be defeated then.
This reminds me of another theme. Being right isn't enough. In Aesop's Fable, the lamb always loses the argument with the wolf. In this world, force has the better of any argument. There can be no force greater than God, but if you don't believe that, then what? We are all merely wolves and lambs.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Drilling holes in steel
In order to use a steel container for distillation, will need to drill some holes for the steam to escape. Here's how to do this.
For liberals, two plus two equals five
Liberalism is all about arguing against reality. Take something which should have no controversy in it at all, and liberals will find a controversy.
For example, men can be women, and women can be men. However, such a thought cannot be, unless those who utter it have lost their minds. But that's liberalism for you. If Bruce Jenner wants to be a girl, and a daddy too, why, what's wrong with that????
Another example is this notion of equality. The main problem with liberals, though, is that they think you and I are equal; they themselves on the other hand, are special snowflakes. As everyone knows, the snowflakes are not to be offended. The snowflakes cannot be challenged. The snowflakes cannot be contradicted. If you commit such an offense, be aware that hell hath no fury like an offended snowflake.
Bill Whittle once wrote an essay called Tribes, in which he described two different Tribes in our culture today. One tribe, known as the Grays, are the ones in which two plus two equals four, and that's it. The other tribe, known as the Pinks, can have two plus two equaling any doggone thing they want. If they cannot get it, then they will raise hell until they do get it. After 9.1.1. Whittle said, the nation went Gray. Since then, we have gone Pink. We have gotten so pink, that Lenin may be blushing out there in the afterlife.
We're the country that landed men on the moon, but we can't get a man into orbit these days. In engineering and science, two plus two always equals four. It is a Gray thing, not a Pink thing.
Once upon a time, we believed in progress. We still do, only thing is that the kind of progress today isn't progress, unless it is the progress of a fatal disease. We're going backward, and calling the backwardness "progress". Going to the moon, therefore, was progress. Failing to graduate engineers and scientists, on the other hand, gives you only the kind of progress that can declare AGW as a science to be taken seriously, whilst at the same time forbidding any kind of activity, such as implementing the molten-salt reactor technology that could actually solve that problem, if that problem indeed existed.
To get molten-salt reactors and space travel, you need two plus two to equal four. When it is otherwise, you get liberalism. When you get liberalism, you lose it all. It is just a matter of time.
For example, men can be women, and women can be men. However, such a thought cannot be, unless those who utter it have lost their minds. But that's liberalism for you. If Bruce Jenner wants to be a girl, and a daddy too, why, what's wrong with that????
Another example is this notion of equality. The main problem with liberals, though, is that they think you and I are equal; they themselves on the other hand, are special snowflakes. As everyone knows, the snowflakes are not to be offended. The snowflakes cannot be challenged. The snowflakes cannot be contradicted. If you commit such an offense, be aware that hell hath no fury like an offended snowflake.
Bill Whittle once wrote an essay called Tribes, in which he described two different Tribes in our culture today. One tribe, known as the Grays, are the ones in which two plus two equals four, and that's it. The other tribe, known as the Pinks, can have two plus two equaling any doggone thing they want. If they cannot get it, then they will raise hell until they do get it. After 9.1.1. Whittle said, the nation went Gray. Since then, we have gone Pink. We have gotten so pink, that Lenin may be blushing out there in the afterlife.
We're the country that landed men on the moon, but we can't get a man into orbit these days. In engineering and science, two plus two always equals four. It is a Gray thing, not a Pink thing.
Once upon a time, we believed in progress. We still do, only thing is that the kind of progress today isn't progress, unless it is the progress of a fatal disease. We're going backward, and calling the backwardness "progress". Going to the moon, therefore, was progress. Failing to graduate engineers and scientists, on the other hand, gives you only the kind of progress that can declare AGW as a science to be taken seriously, whilst at the same time forbidding any kind of activity, such as implementing the molten-salt reactor technology that could actually solve that problem, if that problem indeed existed.
To get molten-salt reactors and space travel, you need two plus two to equal four. When it is otherwise, you get liberalism. When you get liberalism, you lose it all. It is just a matter of time.
Obligatory, 5.1.16; Not so random thoughts in the morning
This post may be a rather somber one, so be forewarned. If that kind of thing is not your cup of tea, then leave now. I'd rather not bother anyone unnecessarily. Yet, I think being bothered a bit is not necessarily such a bad thing. But if you can't bother about being bothered, then you might want to go someplace else.
Right off the bat, I am feeling my age. Just five and a half years ago, I was in much better health than I'm in now. Back then, I'd get to feeling bad for a few days, and that was it. Now, it seems like the normal thing to be battling one ailment or another every single day. It makes me want to reflect upon the end, if you catch my drift.
Life is short. Once you see an end to it all, you may want to get things in order. However, while things are still good, and you have your health, getting things in order may be the last thing on your mind. I know that has been true for me, anyway.
One thing to do is to clear away old grudges. How many times have I heard that "life is too short for grudges", only to turn around and start nursing one. My last grudge was against my Mom for what she said to me. This wasn't terribly long before her death. I had barely reconciled with her when she died, and I still felt the sting of what she said. Now it seems not to matter at all, and it even seems silly to have felt that way anyway.
But that grudge was nothing in comparison with one that might have gotten me killed. If that sounds melodramatic, perhaps it is. Especially for a character like myself, who could have been conjured out of the poem by T.S. Eliot. It was a sexual rivalry of sorts, two dudes squaring off because of a girl, and I backed down. But not without some very bad feelings. I have never said this before, but murder entered my mind. I don't know about him, but it did seem like for awhile there that I was getting death threats. As a consequence of this, I bought a pistol. Never before had I felt like I needed a gun, but if the right circumstance had occurred, I just might have used one. That circumstance may have been just a hair from occurring.
What about now? Well, that was perhaps the most bitter moment of my life. I had to swallow it down, but it was bitter as gall. After all these years, I'd still like to get even with that dude, but it may be better to just forget about it. Life is getting short for me, sure enough. I don't have time for this.
If anyone is reading this, what do you get from it? Maybe most people who read it may get a small bit of entertainment value out of it. It is so exciting, some may think. Others may think it rather amusing. Still others may be horrified, yet they won't look away.
I have tried on this blog to give my thoughts to whoever may listen. But that is not the road to popularity. In the final analysis, there doesn't seem to much you can do about the bad things in the world. In the end, maybe you can do something about your own messes.
That is all.
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