Lost Civilization

Reformation Day My Butt. Doctrine Doesn't Matter!

Understanding E = mc2

via energytribune.com

A brilliant and succinct way of understanding how our civilization is going to survive, or not survive with regards to its energy needs in the coming years.

Sinners in the Hands of Libertarian Taskmasters

Imagine, hypothetically, that all sin is permitted, and that 100% of govt. is supported by sin taxes.  

Everything you need to understand the healthcare debate

Muslim Demographics. Call To Action

Implied by the film's "the call to action", here are a few strategies that ought to be implemented:

1. Increase the fertility rate.   Convince Americans that it is a patriotic duty to have more babies. 
2. Open our borders to self-supporting latinos and non-muslims from Europe, Africa and Asia.  
3. Evangelize in the Muslim community.  Obviously, this call to action is for Christians.   
4. De-secularize society.  Promote religious schools, religious hospitals, etc.  One thing that we know is NOT a good idea is to entice Muslims to be more like us (secular).  Muslims view secular as a weakness and it just encourages them.  
5. Eliminate the welfare state as fast as possible so that the costs and responsibilities are carried by the individual and not by society generally. 
6. Privatize everything. A truly capitalist society cannot be taken over by authoritarians.

How God conducts warfare... Numbers 10:35-36

The passage in Numbers concerns the carrying about of the Ark of the Covenant, which apparently was the cause of much fear among Israel's enemies. The point of having such a fearsome preemptive weapon was to avoid violence, not to create it. Specifically, passage says:

35 Whenever the ark set out, Moses said, 
"Rise up, O LORD! 
May your enemies be scattered; 
may your foes flee before you."

36 Whenever it came to rest, he said, 
"Return, O LORD, 
to the countless thousands of Israel."

What's especially interesting here is the prefigurement of Christ who at first Rises up to scatter God's enemies, and then afterwards Returns to His people.

Things you can do when you decide to "go Galt"

To really understand what "going Galt" is you have to read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.  

• Reduce the size of government... drastically
• Balanced budget amendment
• Support business's right to succeed or fail without intervention.  No bailouts.  No incentives of any kind.  No price supports. 
• Deregulate specific industries such as utilities, energy, medical, and insurance
• Tax reform.  Eliminate confiscatory taxes, especially on business.  More reliance on consumption taxes and import tarriffs.  Less reliance on Income and Death taxes.  
• Tort reform.  Eliminate 
• Immigration reform.  Secure the borders.
• Reduce entitlements and convert them into refundable tax credits

1. Home Schooling
2. Taking care of you own parents in their old age
3. Saving and investing in hard assets like land, gold, and companies with lots of real assets and earnings.
4. Working off the grid.  
5. Bartering where possible
6. Generating your own energy
7. Growing your own food
8. Replacing your TV with Internet
9. Replacing your phone with Skype (encrypted)
10. Resolving not to buy health insurance - invest the savings and borrow in an emergency.
11. Arming yourself

Socialist Rendition of the 23rd Psalm

The government is my shepherd: I need not work.
It alloweth me to lie down on a good job;
It leadeth me beside still factories;
It destroyeth my initiative.
It leadeth me in a path of a parasite for politic's sake;
Yea though I walk through the valley of laziness and deficit-spending, I will fear no evil, for the government is with me.
It prepareth an economic Utopia for me, by appropriating the earnings of my own grandchildren.
It filleth my head with false security;
My inefficiency runneth over.
Surely the government should care for me all the days of my life,
And I shall dwell in a fool's paradise forever.

"Government can fix healthcare" Bombarded by idiots who keep saying that.

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Think Again. Is "Net Neutrality" good for us?

Supposedly "net-neutrality" legislation takes authority away from Telcoms and other providers of Internet bandwith who might wish to discriminate against certain types of traffic, especially traffic from services provided by their competitors.  The legislation therefore sounds like it's promoting the principles of democracy and freedom, but think again.

"Net neutrality" is not the freeing of Internet pipes but rather the de-privatization of Internet pipes.  The freedom to communicate and to offer Internet services will, under net-neutrality, be subject to the authority (some would say the whim) of the American federal government. Net-neutrality exchanges the risk of capricious action from a Telcom and replaces it with the risk of capricious action by the government.  Another way to look at it is that net-neutrality is the socialization of the Internet.  If you like socialism, you'll like net-neutrality. 

Opponents of net neutrality are ones that see a benefit in private property and competition, who think that it brings ever increasing supply (of bandwidth) at ever decreasing costs and with ever more types to choose between.   The pessimists among them say "Choose your enemy... a Telcom that might want to throttle the bandwidth of competitors or a government that might want to throttle the bandwidth of detractors."  The optimists among them say "Competition among private operators is the only way to preserve the freedom of speech the Internet once promised."