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Recarving Rushmore
Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
By Ivan Eland

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Highlights

* U.S. presidents who are regarded highly by historians, journalists, law professors, and the public often fare poorly when we consider the ill effects of their policies or their unfaithfulness to the Constitution. A new ranking of the presidents—one that focuses on how effectively they advanced peace, prosperity, and liberty within the limits of their constitutional powers—virtually turns upside down those rankings that praise a president because he was a charismatic leader, a good manager, or served during a time of national crisis. Figuratively speaking, Ivan Eland’s Peace, Prosperity and Liberty (PP&L) rankings show that recarving Mount Rushmore is long overdue.

Testing out Flock and its integrated blogging feature.

Avrich Interview

Here’s a good drawing of the inter ventricular septum, which is what ruptured in David’s case

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The man who dropped the bomb on Japan recently passed on into that black infinity that he sent so many innocents to. He took full responsibility for the bombing , so would he take the same responsibility if it turns out that it was a war crime? Interesting question. One man has the moral reasoning ability to determine if he performed an unjust act by pulling the triggger. More than 100,000 people perished that day and the weeks and months that followed. If the blast didn’t vaporize you then the radiation poisoning surely did. The bombing was unnecessary ans Japan was about to surrender. So was it a war crime? I think so.The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima.

“At the heart of the failing of our rich and bloated society is lack of democratic control of the economy. Sure, we can elect useless politicians, but we have no say as to what or how we produce as a society.
Anarcho-syndicalism seeks to overcome this most basic of failings, by striving for a society based on democratic control of the economy. We seek a society based on workers’ control, under which the economy is seen both as a means of fulfilling our collective and individual needs, and ensuring that everybody has a say in how society is run. Until that time comes, we may be getting richer as a society every year but, under capitalism, that simply means producing crap to make the rich richer, in a society deprived of any real humanity.”

The truth is junk sells, and all the more so if it’s shiny! Thats at all levels. Materialism is a disease that is progressive and destructive. It is a circle that eats it’s own tail or falls into itself.

CBC.ca Arts – Old China bulldozed amid rapid building boom

This is a symptom of a new pace in a society that wants progress at any cost. The cost are high because if we do not take enough time to look behind and treasure the past we are bound to experience and suffer the same effects of our mistakes again and again. The comparative cost of building a building and preserving the past is indeed high on both sides but it is more important to keep our ancestor’s burying grounds, and such things that are buried in the past, safe from the greedy wrecking ball. There is much to be learned from discoveries such as 700 ancient burial sites on a construction site in China.

“All democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it; none but the republicans and mugwumps know it. All the republicans are insane, but only the democrats and mugwumps can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”

Mark Twain
–What Is Man and Other Philosophical Writings
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Whether the dems or the gop notices it, I hope the American peopla can see it. Our leaders are insane. They have let their self interest override their commitment to the people for whom they serve. This lust for power and its evil companion greed has led our leaders to the brink of the abyss. Both for themselves but also for the end of humankind. It can happen to us. We must learn to live in peace with a cooperative institution based on fair and equal rights for all men.

Illuminati News: The Marijuana Conspiracy – The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal

Pretty good reading about the real reason pot is illegal.It is outlawed on the basis of mind altering potentials of the weed. That which is percieved as mind altering.